Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Cripple’s Haiku

Sloth breeding boredom, I dream of adventures past. Fuck I am restless.

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Regarding This Past Saturday

My hope is that this adequately explains my absence over the last couple days without having to go into any excruciating detail concerning the second panel.

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We go in Together

Another candid shot from awhile back. These two were looking longingly at the Merry-Go-Round on the Mall.

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At Least a Couple of Leagues Under the Sea

True* story: The late Jacques Cousteau was my great-uncle and on several different occasions invited me along on his expeditions. We would drink mojitos after each dive to celebrate that day’s discoveries.

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Memorize Your Lines

The District Metro, despite all of its annoyances, has truly spectacular architecture.

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Play the Next Track

My frequent artistic collaborator, Adam Morse, and I have finally launched a project we’ve been cooking up for some time now. Play the Next Track is a back-and-forth collaborative creation of digital pieces based on a particular song. We’ll be updating it with a new chapter on the tenth, twentieth, and thirtieth of every month.

Potty Mouth

There’s something that has recently started bothering me: When one so eloquently says “I have to take a crap.“, they aren’t taking anything. It’s actually quite the opposite; they are giving something. Even if one were to treat “crap” as a verb rather than a noun (such the dual syntax of “run”), it would be [...]

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There are No Parades to Rain On

Memories of a gray Sunday; puddle-jumping, fresh coffee, blankets on the couch, sunshine and rain competing for our attention.

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Catch the Invasion Fever

Walking down my street with Sara yesterday, I commented on the beauty of my neighbor’s dogwood tree. “Isn’t the dogwood native to Asia?” I asked. “I don’t know,” she said, “we had a dogwood festival back in Tennessee. I don’t think there’d be a festival for a non-native species.” At which point I yelled “Kudzu [...]

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Battles afar

I just caught an unhealthy bit of “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” on television and, surprisingly, the final battle brought up some introspection on the nature of intelligent life. Here we are on our planet waging war after war rather consistently since the inception of civilization – I wonder if elsewhere, in galaxies far, far [...]

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