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Sunday, January 7, 2007

LIBERALS' WAR ON GOD!!!

Made you look! If you know me (I'm a member of the still-to-be-formed Rainbow party, which is so left it's right), a rant with this heading would be highly uncharacteristic. If you believe liberals have declared war on God, sorry I've wasted your time. I'm afraid that California's Santa Ana winds... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 1, 2007

The Sweets (flash fiction)

She liked to fill the coffee filter full to brimming with sugar, brew it and then bitter it up with a spoonful of coffee grounds. He had a sweet tooth, too, and though her cooking—particularly her elaborate preparations of crepes, ganaches, tarts and brules—was legendary, often he would excuse... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 29, 2006

Feminism is a dirty word. . .

and, oh, how I love dirty words! I am living in the ancestral home as a pert divorcee (I like to mask my feelings in those kinds of flippant terms. Actually, I am back at my parents' house in the middle of what has been and continues to be a soul-searchingly painful end of a marriage and a... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

What to do with Percy?: Tribute to a David Hockney Painting

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, by David Hockney *Note: I am a cat-lover, and no animals were harmed in the writing of this piece. Mr Clark: I’ve arranged for Percy to be stuffed when she dies. I’ve got an appointment with the best taxidermist in town, one Dr. Felix Zeichler. I met him at the... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Little Stalks

Alone with my poems I arrange the flower stalks of words in such a way that my mother-in-law says, “This daughter will always take care of me” and my man exclaims, “What surprising fireworks lie between the unexplored thighs of this woman’s mind!” And I say little, as the work of my hands is... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

A very happy un-Christmas to me (in which I whine for a moment)

So, 5 things have put me in a cynical mood about the holidays this year. 1. I just saw a flash-animated ad in which the participant is supposed to be having fun by playing the part of an elf flogging a fat and shirtless Santa Claus. We are invited to "make Santa's belly pink." Surely this ad is a... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 8, 2006

Writing prompt

A creative writing teacher at the institution of higher learning where I work gave her students, working on poetry, this injunction: "Write something scary." I want to try it. Care to join me? Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 4, 2006

Cornbread (a word or two from the town Jezebel)

My daddy always said, “You do what puts the cornbread on your plate.” Well, I got cornbread aplenty, molasses, too. And meat most days a week, ham slices thicker than a man’s wrist. Yeah, I eat real good. See, I was born knowin’ how to put cornbread on a plate, purt near. I seen men turnin’ their... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, November 27, 2006

I made the fireworks

Let God claim the night, limp piece of construction paper pinholed with stars that made Greeks sprawl like kindergartners playing at dot-to-dot puzzles, naming constellations, finding solace in their thrice-flawed deities I made the fireworks But you knew that, didn’t you? Those nights you mouthed... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

What are you listening to, rock fans?

I have been listening to so much music lately, delighting in the fact that there are a lot of groups out there who really put effort into crafting meaningful and impactful lyrics as well as making a cool soundscape. In some cases, I'm a late adopter, getting into bands 3 to 10 years after all the... Sign in to see full entry.

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