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About Me

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My Blog

Monologue aboard the Number 8

Guy gets on the 8 this morning in Old Town outside the plasma donation center.  He is dressed in gray jeans, a gray pullover, wearing daggy black sunglasses with a chain around the back of his he...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:44:00 GMT

Dialogue aboard the Number Nine with bonus limerick

Man and woman board the Number 9 in Old Town, exhibiting all signs of a classic pimp-whore relationship. They sit in the sideways seat immediately in front of me (I am sitting in the very back seat on...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:08:00 GMT

"LOOK ELSEWHERE," a swell design blog

that I found because they featured on this page a neon-on-world-map piece that my beloved fly bitch created some years back: You Are Here - Heather Gonsior, 1993, neon-on-map I do miss that...
Posted by on Wed, 28 May 2008 14:05:00 GMT

More shit about me and E.M. Cioran

Tim Midgett thinks that I am not as good a guitarist as Jimi Hendrix.This French Language blog used my old watercolor of Nietzsche discussed so interminably in prior posts here.  People really seem to...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 09:43:00 GMT

Wino Appreciation Day

Sign taped to the door at Every Day Wine:      
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:31:00 GMT

Dialogue aboard the number 8

Gentleman 1 from the back of the bus, exuberantly, slurringly, maybe crazily: Driver, open up the door and let this man off the bus! Many passengers look around, looking somewhat worried. Gentleman 2 ...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:24:00 GMT

Relationship between E.M. Cioran and Marilyn Monroe?

Why does the photo below grace so many multimedia pages on the Project Cioran website?  Great photo, but what's going on?   I get the familiar feeling that I'm missing something obvious.
Posted by on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:57:00 GMT

Soup cart exchange

I was buying lunch soup from John at the 5th & Yamhill soup cart just now when a woman, about my age, wearing a long grey cloth coat and a black knit cap, shouted accusingly from behind me, "I thi...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:38:00 GMT

More remarks made on the way to the grave

An exasperated exclamation from my delightful shopping companion today, upon seeing a brand new photo-book on Fugazi by Glen Friedman at Reading Frenzy: "These guys really just sit around all day jerk...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:56:00 GMT

Philosophy profs like movies

The comp copies of the issue of Philosophy Now containing my old painting of Nietzsche, as discussed in my last mcbloggy post in this neighborhood, arrived from London yesterday.  They did a nic...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:20:00 GMT