Road Trip
“,,,we don’t have a map yet. This could be a major set back seeing how EVERY road in England curves, loops, and snakes it’s way in random unintelligible patterns of abstract M.C. Escher art.”
April 29, 2008
April 22, 2008
Epitaph
“It’s one of those epitaph quotes that are amazingly contrived but you secretly hope you’re family will spring for.”
April 19, 2008
The Ever-Curing, Ever-Powerful, Beauty Of The Lakes. (Or How I Learned To Re-Love England)
I love the compartmentalization of it all, as if every blade of grass or mossy path should have it’s own prescribed partition. It’s O.C.D. paradise.
April 17, 2008
Maude
I’m sitting on the train directly across for a woman who is the spitting image of Maude. It’s very exciting.
April 10, 2008
Simon Armitage
“On the other hand, sometimes it’s somebody else. Those mixed-up days when it’s easier to spot yourself in a crowd than recognize yourself in a mirror.”
April 8, 2008
Amsterdamn It!
Some stories are just better told in person…
April 5, 2008
The Weather
“What I would describe as a slight rattle they describe as this severe shaking that woke them up, scaring the (take your pick of expletive or euphemism) out of them. Honestly though, it was like someone’s bass amp was turned up too loud. If in bed it would have felt like one of those 25-cent massaging bed things in cheap motels…”
April 2, 2008
The Other Woman (or Burgled)
“To this day when he hears a little engine whizzing by his lips instinctively frame the shape of her name, and that shape into a smile. “
Burgled (or The Other Woman)
“Yes, two locks ARE necessary! This is Hull where even the water is hard!”