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Black Eyes Made Natural

After swimming in an ocean of cocktails, in a dark corner of a dive bar, she looked at me and said, “I couldn’t get a tattoo, I don’t think I can think of something I’d like to have forever.”
The sun pierces the sky as a crow caws in the distance.  Echo.  Echo.  Silence.  Far away, [...]

Dangerous Disguises

You look so young, you look so bright, you’ve just got to stay with me… this afternoon.
Cool air blows down between the gleaming buildings on seventeenth street as the thick angry sea colored sky parts as if before Moses and reveals the lances of light that I so love.  It’s between buses and the smell [...]

Shaking Like a Dog Shitting Razor Blades

The last day of the Mishka sale (50% off) is upon us, and as my coworkers line up to run the Bolder Boulder (and I attempt to recover from a painful incident with some delicious dairy: tastes good, but the body doth protest) they dropped yet another discount code (”TWITTER” for an additional 12% off).  [...]

Pocket Full of Awesome and the Dark Cloud

His pockets are filled with a mixture of lint, gumballs, some strong rubber bands (good for shooting things with), a little pen knife (because it makes him feel like a grown up), one bent Topps baseball card (Ricky Henderson), and he’s scrambling through the creek in a small suburban park with a stick, trying to [...]

In My Chamber Napping

It was with some resignation that I found myself journeying out north of Leeds.  I hadn’t envisioned my life taking such a turn.  Why it was only last year when I found myself teaching at the Royal College of Surgeons in Oxford.  Hadn’t I put in enough time, barking instructions to ill equipped young men, [...]

Everybody Gots to Get Paid

Feel like a sellout cause you’ve got a job?  Don’t beat yourself up too much.  Everybody’s got to get paid.  Tupac wrote music with MC Hammer… no joke.