Oracles: Part I

Snake man awakens like anybody else and faces the day. He says, "May it be an inoffensive day." His heart is neither especially heavy nor light. And as the fog of slumber burns from his mental landscape, the coffee maker sings a promising song in the green-tiled kitchen. Cream and sugar - that's his way. And Snake man lives alone, so he puts on yesterday's slacks, then a moderately clean shirt - it's his most comfortable shirt. Now it's time to part the curtains. "Hello sssssssssunrise..." The joke of life is on Snake man, but Snake man is in on the joke.

They Conduct Heat

Sometimes I make form-fitted tin foil shoes for Eleanor to wear.

Culture Fail

Tomorrow we're having a big party for Eleanor's 3rd birthday. We've rented a city park, bought enough cow meat to feed a small nation, and will soon begin constructing the world's largest fruit salad. And earlier today I rode out to Walgreen's for some party favors & saw the image you now see above - some kind of in-store display for facial creme. "Good god," said I, and snapped a foto that rendered the neo-minstrel blond into a white flash cyclops.

Bison Language Fail

My friend Sterling once told me that it's impossible to convey in words the significance the bison skull holds for the Plains Indians. It's something like life-god-sustenance-survival-hope-existence-emptiness-death-genocide-decay-oblivion-evil-sorrow-rage all upon the altar and all in one flash that enters the eye and tears down through the chest, gut and out the bottom of the feet clear through to the center of the world's red hot mystery.

Rough Trade

Five Things You Wouldn't Expect A Cartoon Tiger To Say:

(5) "Your account balance is past due."
(4) "Rough trade is better than no trade at all."
(3) "Welcome to the terrordome."
(2) "Hegemony."
(1) "There ain't no life nowhere."

Black Lodge

I was recently asked to drink beer and read poetry at the Black Lodge...so I did.

Two Points

"...All human interpersonal behavior represents blends of two basic motivations: the need for control (power, dominance) and the need for affiliation (love, friendliness). Persons interacting with each other continually negotiate two major personality issues: how friendly or hostile they will be with each other, and how much in charge or in control each will be in their encounters."

- D.J. Kiesler (from Contemporary Interpersonal Theory & Research: Personality, Psychopathology, & Psychotherapy)