Archive for August, 2011
Floating
Dreams from the Malaria Pills (Turner) Forward Operating Base Eagle, Iraq This time it’s beautiful. He’s in the kelp beds somewhere off the California coast, floating where green leaves touch the sun, as if he’s disentangled from thought itself, as if the mind has come this far, up from the depths to release him to […]
Big City Pride
The Pride Festivals I attended before this weekend were literally walled off events. The festival would rent part of a city park and surround it with chain link fence, then plaster the fence with signs. You couldn’t see in or out. These events were trying to carve out a safe space and do a little […]
Comments Housekeeping
I’ve switched to Disqus for comment management here. Until all the comments originally made in the old system finish importing into Disqus, comments on old posts may not be visible. Give it a day or two before you start emailing me about problems with comments showing up.