“Arpeggio. Fuck nut.”
April 02, 2012, 11:37pm
Notes on my phone I don’t remember taking:
Eleven-year old brother just got Facebook.
March 05, 2012, 6:21pm
“You look like an old man,” he says, lying there. He leans back, squints, and sighs. “You still look like an old man.”
February 29, 2012, 11:27pm
I’m allowed to revel in the existential, near-Faulknerian perfection of this headline, right?
Reblogged from Julie Klausner.
February 24, 2012, 2:15am
Phaedra and peers.
February 23, 2012, 1:58am
Scraps
Mom said I’d throw up if I didn’t swallow my cold medicine fast enough, so I’d sit in front of the cap of syrup for up to an hour, until I threw up anyways from anxiety. Then she’d get mad and I’d throw up again.
When she takes pills, she puts them far back on her tongue and throws her head back in conjunction with the swallow of water. In imitation, Baba rolls his eyes and starts jumping around, throwing his head back in fits. “Geese,” he says, jumping, “used to flop their heads like that when they were sick. It was not a good sign.”
Baba photographs his Christmas gifts, two books and a movie, and emails his friends, “My kids think I need spiritual food.”
Baba says, “The problem is, Mom thinks I’m a Republican and she’s a Democrat.”
“You’re both Republicans.”
“No, I’m socially liberal. I’m center-right.”
Baba walks to the dining room. “She is becoming more and more like her mother. I am not looking forward to the future.”
Mom says, “I was more attractive than him, at the time.”
December 28, 2011, 10:16pm
At a bar, the boyfriend of an acquaintance asked, “Analytic or continental?” and I should have said, “Hm, I bet you’re analytic because it’s so masculine,” only I said, “Continental,” with an apologetic eye roll, because who cares!
November 30, 2011, 1:21am
“I think I have a good personality.”
— Mom
November 09, 2011, 2:27am
[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
NOMADS BEHIND THE SCENES, sometime last spring
I miss this!
Reblogged from GROUP THERAPY.
September 27, 2011, 3:05am
At a reading
- Poet 1: The funny thing is, Poets & Writers did that article on 9/11 writing and there were no Muslim perspectives. I remember I was shopping around a book with a Muslim protagonist and editors would tell me to make it more Muslim.
- Poet 2: Oh yeah, like more foreign-Asian.
- Poet 1: And I was like, I don't know, I sort of have a Muslim main character.
- Poet 2: They meant more Kite Runner.
- Poet 1: With like, mahjong and spice markets.
- Poet 2: Mangoes, man, mangoes.
September 18, 2011, 8:54pm
