Oprah blames the kids

Oprah obviously didn’t watch Season Four of The Wire.
In an interview in Newsweek’s January 8 issue (out January 1), Winfrey discusses building her $40 million Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls school in South Africa for impoverished teenagers, and more:
Oprah also knows that some people will complain that charity should
begin at home, even [...]

Just what a revolutionary costume has to say

On the back end of the Xmas Xtravaganza here. While I am accomplishing some long-delayed organizational tasks and setting up the new blog, I’ve logged more time on the goofing end of the scale, catching up on my reading, whipping through the Netflix queue, and staying up till all hours just because I can, [...]

Poetry blogging: anywhere I went I could sleep

Stars Inn
B Northcut
holiest
of fragile potential
for the word
for the law
for the lawn mower repair
on this afternoon’s carport
they come here to die a little
greasy sacrament
incense of stale exhalations
stare at the pool outside
“a view of the ocean”
he chuckles,
elbows,
intimate
she stirs her coffee
and takes herself
out the narrow window
musing,
“us in it for as much as this we are a fucked-up buncha [...]

The New Package, a blog about The Wire

As previously hinted, we got us a new blog. Indeed.
The New Package, a bunch of bloggers sitting around talking about the best show on television: HBO’s The Wire. Check it out, yo.
All in one place:
Athenae
Racy Mind
Ashley Morris
Ray in New Orleans
Nancy Nall
possibly, Scout Prime.
And me.
As many of you may know, the fifth and final season [...]

and here I thought I was finally invited to the cool party…

I seem to have been swept up in some vast convoluted ….. web.
Or… is it a series of tubes?
The nothing-if-not-generous Mr. Swift unveils his insidious plot:
I think this round-up reflects what is best about the blogosphere — that it gives so many talented people a chance to express themselves and makes it so much easier [...]

Slow and sunny

Productivity has fallen precipitously around here today.

peace

wishing everyone a peaceful, sane day.
xoxo

Sweeping the kitchen floor on Xmas eve

Nothing like getting a Christmas Eve FedEx with not one, but two, mix CDs to make you feel loved. Gracias, M.
It’s as if you know me!

Scared for my life!

Sunday morning comin’ down video: you got more out of it than I put into it last night