head!

That’s the last word I’m going to write this year.
When I was younger, marveling at the hippies, there was a popular commercial on all the FM stations for a shampoo called Head.
Head shampoo is squeezy, so clean and easy the natural thing to do.  I know my hairs would rather have organic lather so I [...]

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ugh

Isn’t that such a lovely word — ugh.  It looks like the last part of a word lopped off, the guttural punctuation of a much longer thought reduced to its barest necessities.  Even when that final h would normally go silent or become transformed (as in either through or tough) it manages to catch itself [...]

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poetry friday: an original

From Rachel I discovered from Gwenda (and she got it from…) the idea of posting the first line of the first post for each month during this past year.  After pulling these lines I thought “perhaps there’s a found poem in all this.”  That’s what I get for thinking.
I’ve made only a few edits for [...]

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poetry friday: the poetry of robert yamashiro frost

Facebook is an interesting phenomenon.  People from the past suddenly materialize.  Names and faces you haven’t thought about in forever… requesting friendships and sending messages, with little notes, just like back in grade school. “Will you be my friend?  Check one:  Yes.  No.”
This week I learned that a good friend of mine from high school, [...]

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comic book superheroes and the fourth estate

(Doing a bit of housecleaning on the computer and stumbled onto this previously unposted bit.  I have no idea what set this off, though I do freely admit to being loopy at the end…)
There is no way on this great green planet of ours that I’m the first person to make the observation that a [...]

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death to the titular mouse

So I’m reading the PW Children’s Bookshelf and there’s Matthew Broaderick, still looking like Ferris Bueller, next to Kate DiCamillo in a publicity photo for the release of the movie The Tale of Despereaux.  I really have no desire to see the movie, and would have ignored the press release generally, were it not for [...]

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poetry friday: sinterklassgedichten

Somewhere in my family tree, back about 17 generations or so, there’s Dutch blood.  I never really felt like anything more than an American mutt until my first trip to the Netherlands and then, wow, did it hit me.  It wasn’t necessarily that I looked like these people (though natives did keep stopping me for [...]

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what’s in a name (like mine)

A few weeks back on the school forum a lot of us were talking about the famous and infamous people we shared names with.  Generally, the less common your surname, the greater a chance you have of being unique.  Then again, there can be enough people with the same name that you could be classified [...]

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poetry friday: self-indugent nonsense edition

In my early teens growing up in LA I couldn’t wait to have a car so I could go exploring.  Public transit sucked, and getting around on a bicycle, though liberating, was dangerous.  I was too young to actually appreciate how much better getting around by bike was until I had a car at my [...]

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goth icon exposed as fraud!

Sometimes I think my desire to write tabloid headlines is a missed calling.  Or is ti even a calling at all?
So over at Children’s Illustration they stumbled onto a post over at BoingBoing, which discovered this little tidbit on a site called You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice, which I am now passing along to you, [...]

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two down, two to go

Well, technically there’s some end-o-semester paperwork to deal with, and a bit of reading to do before the next residency in January, but, yeah.  Half way through the MFA. It’s a little weird to think I’m only 13 months away from being done.
And then what?
So Suze asked me how it felt and, honestly, this felt [...]

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