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2010.09.06: Ah, the earnest hours
2010.09.04: Four years ago today...
2010.08.24: The importance of the drawer
2010.08.24: Thanks!
2010.08.20: Huzzah and so forth!
2010.08.16: "The Test"
2010.08.05: The Suck
2010.07.16: Well, I know what to make of it
2010.07.10: Callooh! Callay!
2010.07.08: How dare you speak to me of The Crunch! You know nothing of The Crunch. You've never even been to The Crunch.
2010.07.02: Behold, the bald-headed man who had no oil has become the owner of jars of sweet myrrh.
2010.06.29: Greetings in the name of He With The Healthy Pantaloons!
2010.06.28: You're Not Hungry, You're Just Naked
2010.06.25: Incidentally
2010.06.25: Part Three: Fiction
2010.06.23: Part Two: Friendship and Love
2010.06.21: Welcome to the snake farm, baby!
2010.06.16: What do I feel like communicating to my vast readership?
2010.06.08: Don't shirk the work
2010.06.06: It's quiet. Too quiet.
2010.06.03: 'Kay, I've got one!
2010.06.01: It's important to keep good records
2010.06.01: Pardoned
2010.05.28: And Then...
2010.05.27: Someone explain this to me
2010.05.26: Fine and dandy
2010.05.25: Footnotes
2010.05.22: Yeah, that guy.
2010.05.20: Cetacean religion
2010.05.18: Set building
2010.05.14: Th' brutaliciousness!
2010.05.13: We happy few, we band of buggered
2010.05.12: Risk
2010.05.07: Have fun storming the castle!
2010.05.03: Nerves
2010.04.28: Mid-afternoon Cubicle Thought Immediately Prior to My Fifth Cup of Coffee
2010.04.27: Ebb!
2010.04.19: Com barne, ye trillithe castike
2010.04.16: Beyond the edges
2010.04.13: Angels of Monday
2010.04.09: I'll have a pint of dihydroxyphenethylamine and a cookie
2010.04.06: Well, that was cool
2010.04.05: Grandpa, why are there people?
2010.04.01: My contribution to the spirit of the day was to spurt blood all over the kitchen floor at 3AM while slicing aged Gouda
2010.03.31: I have a theory about that
2010.03.29: Eeeeargh! My brain! Niiice.
2010.03.25: Oooo grindy grindy grind!
2010.03.22: So-so
2010.03.18: God damn it
2010.03.09: Yes? Yes.
2010.03.08: The defining characteristic of FutureHuman!™ is perfect teeth
2010.03.04: Holy crap, it's ~~Thursday~~ ~~Friday~~ Saturday
2010.02.25: Ten solar days and you're on your way home!
2010.02.22: Zoom, if such onomatopoeia can be applied to something intangible that isn't actually going very fast at all
2010.02.17: Mmmm....meat.
2010.02.12: How hard is it, really?
2010.02.11: Imported chips and packets of cheese!
2010.02.08: Love! Explosions! Transsexual hijinks!
2010.02.04: Where the hell have I been? I was worried sick about me! I'd better have a good explanation, mister!
2010.01.08:
2009.12.29: This post has been cancelled...
2009.12.28: Well, that's that then
2009.12.24: And now, the Merthyr Tydfil Burly Men's Chorus shouts "Away in a Manger"
2009.12.22: Crisp and energetic panties, all in a bunch
2009.12.22: Orchid and Orange (II)
2009.12.21: Have you ever had a song stuck in your head?
2009.12.17: Surf's up, space ponies! I'm making gravy without the lumps!
2009.12.16: Is There Anything
2009.12.14: Just over the hill
2009.12.13: Do you see any coffee?
2009.12.12: Mmmm...mimesis...
2009.12.11: I AM THE CHEESEMASTER.
2009.12.10: What Do You Do...¹
2009.12.09: One Side of a Telephone Conversation Overheard Through an Office Door
2009.12.08: Ways To Tell About Your Head
2009.12.07: Testing *tap-tap*
2009.12.05: What is this new clusterfuckery?
2009.11.24: POD person?
2009.11.20: Randomly chosen poem from the Late Tang period
2009.11.18: You really have to want to write for writing's sake...
2009.11.16: Digging out
2009.11.13: Arrrr, me synapses are stuffed with cotton and glue!
2009.11.11: I have been cluttered my whole life¹
2009.11.10: Discombobulatory meanderings
2009.11.09: Yay, timely head-bashing!
2009.11.07: It's Carl Sagan's birthday
2009.11.06: Terrible Poetry Jokes
2009.11.05: There will now be a brief pause...
2009.11.03: White noise
2009.11.02: It was a dark and stormy festival of crap, Part 2: The Crappening
2009.11.01: "Dear Francis: Jesus is a childish myth, the dagos are ruining England, Bill sucks, and I'm banging the help. Cheers, George"
2009.11.01: An experiment in synergizing my social media platformization buzz streams
2009.10.30: Hurtling toward the weekend, slouching toward Gomorrah, traipsing on the outskirts of Sodom, and so forth
2009.10.29: It was a dark and stormy festival of crap
2009.10.28: And what about those of us who dwell in cavelike isolation? Huh? What about us?
2009.10.27: Or, I could think of it this way
2009.10.26: "A 55,000-Word Blog Post"
2009.10.23: Homosexual descriptors, circa 1935
2009.10.22: Stay on target...stay on target...
2009.10.21: THINGS TO DO TODAY
2009.10.20: When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like an uncommon connective tissue disease
2009.10.16: Sing with me now!
2009.10.12: The best sentence about roadside vegetation you'll read today
2009.10.09: Wait, cork board?
2009.10.08: Must...reach...writer...utility...belt...
2009.10.02: The Amazon of used books
2009.09.29: Three things I have thought about and dug this week
2009.09.28: Effective...well tolerated
2009.09.26: I have fixed the site
2009.09.25: Life...
2009.09.18: Crap.
2009.09.18: Sir Francis Hinsley on America
2009.09.17:
2009.09.16: On The Asking of Favors From Established Writers
2009.09.13: Jim Carroll, 1950-2009
2009.09.09: Hey look, it's Jonathan Ames
2009.09.07: I await the results of my NEA grant application
2009.09.05: War
2009.09.04: You know you want one
2009.09.03: Some days
2009.09.02: Hello piece'a chicken...whass happenin, boy?
2009.09.01: Bit of a mind flip
2009.08.28: Shoes of the future...trousers of the past!
2009.08.27: Remember Buggerly's?
2009.08.26: Reeesource!
2009.08.25: They played evil psychiatric banjos
2009.08.24: Magic Does Not Work
2009.08.22: Keyword Rorschach
2009.08.21: "Hypothesis" up on Thieves Jargon¹
2009.08.18: "...scarcely human orchid of a woman"? Who even thinks like that?
2009.08.13: I have no idea
2009.08.12: Excellent!
2009.08.07: All these people have awesome spaces
2009.08.06: Damn it
2009.08.06: At the moment, this is my favorite thing. EVER.
2009.08.06: Remember that 50-cent 1984 edition of "Goodnight Moon" you saw at the Goodwill last weekend and thought about buying for your kids but didn't because you didn't have any cash on you?
2009.08.04: Arrogance is sneaky
2009.07.27:
2009.07.25: Feel what it would be like to have a zombie suck your peepers out?
2009.07.24: I call it percolation, but this swamp-thing metaphor is better
2009.07.23: Todo es fiesta y diversión hasta que alguien mete la cabeza en una vasija sumeria de 3.600 años de antigüedad
2009.07.19: No, it's not mescaline, it's something else¹
2009.07.18: Music
2009.07.16: It was all going so well until the cyborg gigolo showed up...
2009.07.09: From the horriffic depths of magenta squalor--much like a bile duct, actually--he glares upward and goes eep
2009.06.29:
2009.06.24: The Big Idea
2009.06.21: Oh, sigh
2009.06.15: The dreaded hole between editors II
2009.06.11: I had a post
2009.06.06: Cratered
2009.06.02: If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need aftershave
2009.05.28: Influences
2009.05.27: Material
2009.05.26: Exciting Thing #2
2009.05.25: Exciting Thing #1
2009.05.22: This is a bad review
2009.05.21: Absent Without Explanation Guy is absent without explanation
2009.05.14: Where We Met
2009.05.12: Ode to Rubber
2009.05.12: Retreat!
2009.05.10: IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEONE GETS THEIR HEAD STUCK IN A 3,600-YEAR-OLD SUMERIAN POT
2009.05.03: The best laid plans of mice and men often explode and shower you with human and rodent viscera
2009.04.30: Jia Dao bumps into the Governor
2009.04.27: Plug
2009.04.24: What's on my mind?
2009.04.23:
2009.04.17: Ever have a day...
2009.04.15:
2009.04.13: Back your stuff up
2009.04.13: Some nights
2009.04.11: Sorry to bother you this late at night, but it's pouring rain and my car broke down. Can I use your toothbrush?
2009.04.08: Give me a happy day, a basket of peaches, and sex
2009.04.06: Li Shangyin
2009.04.01: Today's random fact about cathedrals
2009.04.01: 300 Tang poems
2009.03.31: In my head there is Tango
2009.03.27: Is this supposed to be funny?
2009.03.27: Bai Juyi!
2009.03.26: Bite they little heads off, nibble on they tiny feet
2009.03.21: wack·y
2009.03.17: Well that was all good fun, and we all had a jolly good laugh
2009.03.16: And now: some random Burroughs for you¹
2009.03.15: But the room is on fire...
2009.03.14: Not quite blocky but not exactly a fount of genius either
2009.03.09: Psychological discipline? I am so screwed.
2009.03.07: More free things to read
2009.03.07: Hugos!
2009.03.07: A random piece of Tacitus for you
2009.03.02: Character research
2009.02.25: This website, summarized:
2009.02.24: It's fine to have a muse, but you ought to have a plan for when she's off having a cigarette somewhere
2009.02.20: The power of second-person compels you¹
2009.02.19: Ends and beginnings
2009.02.17: This, which is not to say that thing over there
2009.02.17: Speaking of clichés...
2009.02.15: Seeking input
2009.02.10: Good lord, what a mess
2009.02.05: For those of you following via Atom
2009.02.03: Art is...
2009.02.01: Whither thinly-sliced dead trees of a speculative nature?
2009.01.31: Which means you're buggered
2009.01.26: Can't be arsed
2009.01.22: Sound of brain! Listen:
2009.01.17: Loud! Sparkling! Vaulted!
2009.01.13: Excerpting myself
2009.01.12: Reading to write
2009.01.06: Or perhaps this:
2009.01.02: Really? Huh.
2008.12.25: Ain't nothing like the real thing, apparently.
2008.12.24: 877 words!
2008.12.23: Grinding into life
2008.12.18: Jotting down
2008.12.14: Why write?
2008.12.12: I believe...
2008.12.08: Brain! Or not.
2008.12.07: Ceci n'est pas une new post
2008.12.05: And then, and then he was all like pew-pew-pew!
2008.12.03: Aye, and it doth confound our merrymaking.
2008.12.02: Shoulder Work Ahead
2008.11.28: And 'is guts were all stopped up, loik 'is 'ead!
2008.11.25: Mister Spigot, need I point out to you where your deficiency lies as regards landing the role?
2008.11.17: Well, isn't that just fucktacular.
2008.11.11: I seen a gliding hogfish once. Never flying. Not...actually flying.
2008.10.31: Gay zombie art porn!
2008.10.31: Sneezgasm!
2008.10.24: I want to trace across the firmament, a glowing ball of flame...a testament to our godliness and piety!
2008.10.22: Trike trickery
2008.10.20: Well, you know how it is...
2008.10.10: One of the reasons the late Queen Mother was so beloved was that she spent the last decades of her life in a benign alcoholic haze.
2008.10.07: Whenever bicycles are broken or menaced by International Communism, Bicycle Repair Man is ready!
2008.10.06: Dream a little dream
2008.09.30: Austin!
2008.09.23: David Gessner on writing and practicality
2008.09.23: Also, go read...
2008.09.22: Spencer Dew's Songs of Insurgency
2008.09.19: Have you ever crunched the last tiny pieces of ice at the bottom of a gin and tonic only to discover they were actually bits of ground glass?
2008.09.17: Speaking as a member of the Stock Exchange, I would suck their brains out with a straw, sell the widows and orphans, and go into South American zinc.
2008.09.15: Neat ideas
2008.09.14: Ladies: may I introduce to you the man who prophesied that a German monarch would soon embroil this country in Continental affairs!
2008.09.11: Lots of shouting going on.
2008.09.09: Underground Voices
2008.09.08: HST on writing for a living*
2008.09.08: Also, on an entirely unrelated note...
2008.09.03: Soooo...
2008.08.29: Even more words I'm appreciating, 'cause it just won't stop.
2008.08.27: No, actually, I didn't. But thanks for asking.
2008.08.26: An assemblage of words which I find aesthetically pleasing and sad.
2008.08.25: Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy.
2008.08.22: Alan Moore on plot and cleverness
2008.08.22: Aww...shoot.
2008.08.20: Now, I'm not going to say a trip to our dairy will cure you, but it will give hundreds of lower-paid workers a good laugh.
2008.08.18: Argh! A tranquillizing dart fired by the cowardly BBC health department dogs...they've done filled me full of chlorpromazine, damn!
2008.08.14: So anyway, I said to her, I said, they can't afford that on what he earns, I mean for a start the feathers get up your nose, I ask you, four and sixpence a pound, and him with a wooden leg?
2008.08.04: Still more sentences I like, in an entirely different month
2008.08.01: Underground Voices
2008.08.01: The dreaded hole between editors
2008.07.29: Th' mightee flambé o' the soul
2008.07.15: What? Good heavens!
2008.07.03: Please stand by...
2008.06.24: Crashing
2008.06.21: Hey, groovy
2008.06.20: Dribble, dribble, dribble
2008.06.18: Bad habits
2008.06.16: A bunch of sentences I like, on yet another day
2008.06.13: SPD
2008.06.11: A question of ego
2008.06.11: And they're off
2008.06.09: How the weekend went
2008.06.05: It's not ironic
2008.06.02: Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold everything
2008.05.28: Oh, bloody hell
2008.05.27: Stephen King: imagination and new things
2008.05.26: Best author's note ever
2008.05.23: Another sentence I like, on a different day
2008.05.22: A conversation with Ray Bradbury
2008.05.21: Arrr, the piddling output
2008.05.19: Got virus?
2008.05.19: A sentence I like today
2008.05.16: Out of character
2008.05.14: Operating the funhouse
2008.05.13: Joyce Carol Oates on writing characters
2008.05.12: Yes, I know
2008.05.09: Talking about talking
2008.05.07: First person and the dangers of suckage

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