Thursday 28 August 2008

Requirements for Becoming the POTUS

From Wikipedia:

Article Two of the Constitution sets the principal qualifications to be eligible for election as President. A Presidential candidate must:

  • be a natural-born citizen of the United States;
  • be at least thirty-five years old;
  • have been a permanent resident in the United States for at least fourteen years.
It's so easy.

Tuesday 26 August 2008

A New Location

Live and love. Everything is loss and gain Everything we gain is in a lost moment. Every second we gain is instantly behind us before we even know we ever had it. Tick tick tick. Tock.

Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time. August becomes September, I get older.
(so do you).

Classes start and books get printed trees are felled, for the yellow pages and the white pages and the purple green pages. Phone calls are made. AND SUDDENLY oceans of chemicals in the bleaching process. Oceans are chemicals in the bleaching process.

They're bleached like bones.

The story of Gram Parsons; a make-shift cremation. His music didn't burn like that. Or maybe his music burned like that.

They're giving it away.

Thursday 7 August 2008

I want to write.

I want to write a story about my last job and my crazy emotional(!) experience there. I want to not forget about wanting to write about my job.

In gr. 11 my teacher wrote a note that said he hoped I became a great writer. I kind of felt like because I didn't go to university I closed the door on that. (With some bitterness). But now I'm wondering why I haven't been a great writer. I can still write, I can still be great at it. Regardless of what "greatness" meant to me then or means to other people. I think I can get my head around this.

...Also a customer called looking for a book that we didn't have in stock. And then I google searched it, and it seems to be online in full text with google books. I don't know very much about this google books thing, but it seems interesting. I half wanted to call her back and tell her.

IT'S THURSDAY AT THE BOOK STORE!!1!

Conor Oberst cd
Nylon
Edinburgh
Living in a forest
Memphis
Young Folks

making art
publishing poetry paintings
texture

lush

Paul Simon graceland