WHY DON’T YOU? #257
Monday: Why don’t you stop, drop, (ROCK STEADY), and roll, and listen to everything that Aretha Franklin has ever done? I don’t recall the chain of links (see what I […]
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WHY DON’T YOU? #252
Monday: Why don’t you create a private park in your yard? Now, this suggestion obviously has prerequisites, but by all means turn your balcony into a park. Turn your living […]
CUERNAVACA: Past Lives, New Lives, Other Lives, Better Lives
In this bizarre post, read about me becoming increasingly suspicious of and enraged by a volcano I believed to be personally victimizing me. Later I come face to face with my soul’s doppelgänger. It was an absolutely normal day.
WHY DON’T YOU? #248
Monday: Why don’t you get yourself an absurdly big table to use for folding laundry? The themes of my life last year were: adhesives and excavation. I learned how to […]
WHY DON’T YOU? #245
Monday: Why don’t you go watch a meteor shower? The Geminid Meteor Shower was last night and I only saw a single one but it was absolutely wonderful! Ever since […]
WHY DON’T YOU? #242
Monday: Why don’t you teach yourself a new skill that isn’t esoteric like a dead language and actually useful like drywalling? I’m a sucker for learning things I really don’t […]
WHY DON’T YOU? #240
Monday: Why don’t you learn more about an artist that you just know you can’t stand? I’ve spent most of my life disdaining modern art. I’ve softened to abstracts, but […]
MEXICO CITY: Queen of the Gays
Why do anything less? Life is not something you can save up like it’s money in a bank. Use it or lose it!
WHY DON’T YOU? #238
Monday: Why don’t you clean a room so thoroughly that it startles you? You feel so at peace when your heart races at the sight of what appears to be […]
WHY DON’T YOU? #237
Monday: Why don’t you stop daydreaming about a project for dozens of years and just do it? Now I’m not the right person to be giving this kind of advice […]
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