April 14, 2024:
When did she stop laughing?
Listening to music?
Dusting the house?
Cleaning cigarette ashes from the dashboard of her car?
"I'm more isolated now than I've ever been. And I'm not depressed at all."
April 13, 2024:
Market Street.
Very beautiful — very beautiful — mid-twenties brunette, stops, smiles big, eyes locked. But her face drops. He hurts her feelings by not responding, in part from confusion why she was about to enter the Crazy Horse, in part from truly dire depression, in part from heroin addiction deliberately cultivated.
Market Street, San Francisco, 1994.
April 12, 2024:
Insightful strategy, undercut by routine.
$10 is not a microdonation.
- April 11, 2024: Hospitals.
- April 10, 2024: Doctor Arrogance, MD.
- April 9, 2024: Mark: Before you go, do you have time for a question?
- April 8, 2024: Whole Foods, NPR, Davos-light.
- April 7, 2024: Marin County mantra of the 1990s.
- April 6, 2024: Hip length white hair, very straight, slumped in her waiting room chair.
- April 5, 2024: Would I go there again?
- April 4, 2024: Her box of cast-aside objects.
- April 3, 2024: "I sincerely believed you had no sense of rhythm."
- April 2, 2024: Would she have liked this music?
- April 1, 2024: BoHo hipsters.
- March 31, 2024: "You've mellowed," she said in her mincing way...
- March 30, 2024: "I've become and old lady!"
- March 29, 2024: Is it appropriate to be angry about events from so long ago?
- March 28, 2024: "They're always going to need airplanes."
- March 27, 2024: First generation of shows for grown-ups.
- March 26, 2024: "What are you doing for your birthday, Mark?"
- March 25, 2024: The stress of lies.
- March 24, 2024: Misplaced loyalties.
- March 23, 2024: Old meets new.
- March 22, 2024: I was sincerely and intensely grateful for her outrage.
- March 21, 2024: The first meaningless Stones album.
- March 20, 2024: The sardonic intelligence behind the silliness.
- March 19, 2024: I'm workin' so hard.
- March 18, 2024: He was a great person and a fun songwriter.
- March 17, 2024: The band posturing at being that band.
- March 16, 2024: It's a weak album.
- March 15, 2024: Adolescent certainty versus an album that requires adult ambivalence to parse correctly.
- March 14, 2024: "Who's the chick on the cover?"
- March 13, 2024: Exile is the Stones' gospel album.
- March 12, 2024: Outside, but still in.
- March 11, 2024: Elderly in camo fishing cap, head down, asleep on his own arms.
- March 10, 2024: The ride through Trolley Square is pure Disney.
- March 9, 2024: Great certainty in greater error.
- March 8, 2024: The AI opponent is a one-trick pony.
- March 7, 2024: "Sorry!"
- March 6, 2024: Transit worker on the platform.
- March 5, 2024: Tina Tats with long yellow braid...
- March 4, 2024: Girls on the platform, magenta streaks, purple highlights, green and yellow streaks on black.
- March 3, 2024: Johnny Attitude, arm over seatback, fingers twitching, projecting impatience.
- March 2, 2024: "I remember one time the trolley stopped really hard."
- March 1, 2024: Google Pay versus Apple Pay, who will win?
- February 29, 2024: Leap... into the future!
- February 28, 2024: The piece is about the cost of the labyrinth on the narrator's capacity for goodwill —
- February 27, 2024: "He's over there, with the other unix."
- February 26, 2024: I remember those birthdays.
- February 25, 2024: Old meets new.
- February 24, 2024: Old meets new.
- February 23, 2024: Wagner, Mann, Nietzsche, Mercedes.
- February 22, 2024: He took two days off.
- February 21, 2024: In that fucked up situation in that fucked up house with that fucked up woman I loved for a time...
- February 20, 2024: Morgan AC20, OxBox, ProTools.
- February 19, 2024: Wheelchair rally, three sticks of three...
- February 18, 2024: Boycott, or strike?
- February 17, 2024: Junior hits his snare differently than dad.
- February 16, 2024: They don't loosen until "Dazed and Confused".
- February 15, 2024: Sharp and cold.
- February 14, 2024: Retribution, for perceived lèse majisté.
- February 13, 2024: Coke and potato chips.
- February 12, 2024: I live across the street from a physical rehab facility.
- February 11, 2024: The vicious guard dog.
- February 10, 2024: I'm in the desert.
- February 9, 2024: Lanky bearded jogger in the parking lot.
- February 8, 2024: Number 36 concentrates on her practice.
- February 7, 2024: Willie Nelson in wheelchair.
- February 6, 2024: How lucky do you have to be to have The Beatles walk in and say they don't like your tie?
- February 5, 2024: Four-point-eight miles, the second half in bright sun without shade.
- February 4, 2024: Starving chihuahua.
- February 3, 2024: Rude-ass sorority queen with her feet on the seat.
- February 2, 2024: PJ bottoms; white bikini top against burnt brown skin.
- February 1, 2024: Two dudes cleaning hotel windows with multistory poles.
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