writing

the weblogs

current weblog · 2010-2011

ferris wheel on fire

A weblog of sorts.

archive weblog · 2001–2006

hit the groun runnin

A weblog, sometimes with a photo, or video.

travel journals

bombay · circa 2000

It's Just Like
Not Being There

"I don't wanna brag and boast,...but being in Bombay is like butterin' your toast."

india & thailand · november '98

November

"Everybody is in the most amazing poses: folded and layered bodies, legs sticking out, husbands tenderly caring for their wives (for a change)."

other pieces

The Greatest Night of My Life

by a young tomato picker

"I was only 13 but I knew that Diane was putting on makeup badly. Red stripes on her cheeks, blue streaks on her eyelids... Diane was the ugliest woman I'd ever seen and she was even stupider than she was ugly."

Pygmalion

painfully indulgent

"From my humble beginnings I've managed quite a bit. The first book I ever read was the paperback treatment of the movie 'The Jerk'..."

The T hree Manifesto

by Eben H. Carlson — droppin bombs

"The 'metaphor' we slice this sucker with is the sell out, which is exactly why we're so rich (yes, you're rich) and why we're so impoverished."