The Irish Chronicles (Revisited) February 24, 2009

Realized I had a LiveJournal once and that it’s still up. Very different format. However some stuff to preserve. Read through some of my first travel writing, Ireland two years ago. My first experience abroad anywhere. Lots of stuff I didn’t write about but what was written is interesting to look back on. So I’ve [...]

An Image from Faust February 22, 2009

The play was called Doc Faust! A Wild West Musical. Myself as Doc Faust, the snake-oil salesman, Erik Moody as Mephistopheles or “Memphis” for short.
Looking to practice with Robber & Thief for the show on March 5th, spending time with Vanesa, reading Moore’s Principa Ethica in between taking calls at work, reading about Elizabethan Theater [...]

Your Small House on The Adriatic February 18, 2009

as a metaphor for my happiness,
no ideas
but in things so far away they are barely to be seen,
collected with an eye to the past
a pocketful of shells at the end of a long summer
whose days were indeterminate.
Your small house on the Adriatic—
if it even exists—where it is always summer, or at least the winter
is filled [...]

The Image of a Car February 18, 2009

How it comes to you one morning
cleaning out a closet, or in a darkened theater
just before the lights come up,
this distance, this sense of time getting on.
Stranded and in motion, we’ll wake up some day,
all the nights before forgotten, we’ll turn old pictures over,
read the names on the back and wonder:
whose faces were these? What [...]

Roadtripping With Aphrodite February 17, 2009

“This is freedom” I say, holding the steering wheel
we’re going 75 down I 70,
the car seems just about to shake,
Aphrodite just smiles. The whole ride I’ve felt like
I talk to much. She offers a happy silence
eyeing the line between the plains and the sky,
unfolding the liner notes on the
Van Morrison’s greatest hits cassette
she handed me [...]

To My 18-Year-Old Self February 16, 2009

For someone who asked me what I would say to my 18-year-old self:
First of all, I would not change anything.
I am indebted to my existence so far for what I have learned and cannot be certain that I would be at the same spot if even the slightest decision was made differently. The same should apply, [...]

Please Forgive Me for this Meme February 1, 2009

(In case anyone was suffering from the delusion that this website was anything other than a “weblog” this entry should snap you back to reality.)
Here it is, the “Sixteen Things You Didn’t Know About Me” meme in all it’s splendor:
1. I have never read Mary Shelly’s Frankenstien cover-to-cover, the two or three times I’ve attempted [...]