- I have removed from my TV’s preset channels the one for CNN Headline News. It is lost to the vortex of the trivial and tawdry, and I can’t be bothered to keep clicking past it. Nancy Grace and Glen Beck simply suck. And what happened to the premise of Headlines? Talking heads are not the same thing.
- I find I write best and with most alacrity with music playing. Lately, my best and favorite music is the soundtrack from the movie Garden State. Wonderful. I recommend it for the ills that ail the writer and poet.
And if you took to me like
A gull takes to the wind,
Well I’d a’ jumped
From my trees and,
I’d a’ danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would a’ fare well.…
I’m looking in on the good life
I might be doomed never to find
Without a trust, or flaming fields
Am I too dumb to refine?— When You Notice The Stripes, The Shins
- I hear dead people. I have their voices in my dreams.
Metaphor
Surely some revelation is at hand.
Metaphor 
great song! it’s actually called “new slang” though.
Yep, in my ongoing quest for shady parking and clean restrooms.
It’s clear to me, Kyle. You’re going ’round the bend.