brewers baseball and things

my girlfriend and i were gonna go to the montreal planetarium to be taken away until where we really are – floating in outer space….something i tend to forget. it’s 20 bucks a ticket which seemed reasonable when i considered two pitchers of beer can be the same and then things got even better, economically speaking….the botanical garden is free until may 1st and it wasn’t unt...

“so you wanna be a writer?” she said, the wind picking up a gust from some jet stream, “then you better be ready to be a rebel and write through the storms, no matter what.”

etymology inner-mission

origins of the word rebel – “to rise up against established authority,” them being the sheepish voices in my mind writing what everybody wants to hear and not what’s ...

how fake i’ve been all my life
all the personality phases
total acting
but being 100 percent that person, that actor and not knowing that i was acting and before i have time to call a psychiatrist to write me some untested prescription of some undiagnosed multiple personality disorder, i hear a new voice bubbling up inside me,
maybe it’s truly my own?
it w...

i was watching the canadians hockey game with my girlfriend’s father and his lady friend and the tv was beside the window and i saw a bright star to the right of the moon and said so and the lady friend francine didn’t say anything but then a few minutes later she read to me from her laptop that it was neptune and that it is the brightest star in the solar system, only the mo...

i’m in small town st. pascal, quebec visiting my girl friend’s father…we were walking yesterday up a mound or hill or probably part of the appalachian mountains the northern rim that really looked blue in the not too far distance and the st. lawrence river we’re east and so not only is the river wider, really wide, but salty which it isn’t in montreal and this changes all the...