in which I go running in 104-degree heat
(an essay against conformity).
in search of lost time: a quick look back.
'apparently i am married to playwriting.'
snotty postscript: in which i finally get in the ring with the mollydooker.
cease-fire.
in which i pop the cork on my consumer outrage.
the beef ribs episode (a dana & sarah story) ...
a strange breed ... 'dangerously close to prostitution' ...
baxter's bender & waiter's disease ('f**k food') ...
another dirty little (not-so) secret.
'you've got all the whine you need' ...
the commonest job there is ... waiting & writing ...
a personality test for customers ...
and a dirty little secret about wine.
to retrace, then ('what the hell was i thinking?') ...
the show fails to go on ... a near mutiny ...
'first you have to teach them what civil means'...
trust as a foreign country.
violent delights: amy tries to kill herself ...
'she was mad as hell at that boy' ...
something i shouldn't say...
('now she knows how far down it is') ...
frisbee as elegy, frisbee as life.
'by that measure, they are remarkable creatures' ...
the holy theater of choosing an advisor ...
('an audible gasp from across the room') ...
kenny's nervous breakdown ...
('how do you spell excruciating?') ...
new-teacher palpitations... some enduring treasure.
'ridiculous, disorganized lunacy' ... the binder bind ...
a three act play about the civil war ...
erect & double-breasted ('they are so immature') ...
'your own work badly'.
maui mouillé ('you worry 'bout the rain') ...
kenae arboretum & the road to hana ...
lost in haleakala ('travel means getting lost')...
my new tattoo ... or maybe travel means forget
collapsing borders, vicious (bi)cycles ...
vermeer at the rijksmuseum ('chasing electrons')...
me & vinny van gee: 'a consolatory art for broken hearts!'
'one of the most hideous buildings in the world':
gaudy gaudí & sagrada familia ('not even close to done')...
lijsa teaches me to relax ... 'help us, santa eulália' ...
'though i look right at home i still feel like an exile'
a five-part memory.
cutting to the chase ... saturn on my back...
LA to NC by air ... 'momentum that will not stop'.
(Same Same But Different)
from austin, los angeles & san francisco ...
through navajo & hopi country ...
to cambodia, indonesia & laos ... and back.
'toward the clear light of awareness'.
'i drew the map, but you plot the course'.
a correction
diver
'rest in peace, teacher'