Recent Blog Posts
Saturday, Sparks.
post a comment | posted Apr 27
Originally posted at a latenightcoffee production
What a day yesterday! It was my favorite kind of day. All kinds of activities lined up, but spread out in such a way that I was never rushing. A perfect day in a way. It certainly almost never works out so well, or for so cheaply. There's little to...
My Own Private Earth Day
post a comment | posted Apr 23
Originally posted at a latenightcoffee production
I awoke this morning tense. Must have fallen asleep before 9pm the evening before, spent the whole night waking up and trying to go back to sleep. Had a decent day at work and a decent day overall. You know: The Usual.I thought about cars today. No...
Ex-Pats
post a comment | posted Apr 4
Originally posted at a latenightcoffee production
Walking back from the Horse Brass with the roommates last night amid a cloud of second hand smoke and cracks in the sidewalk, the conversation still rolling, Natalie says, "When I was little I wanted to be an astronomer."I say, "I wanted to be an a...
Not-So-Recent Blog Posts
headphones
post a comment | posted Mar 25
Originally posted at a latenightcoffee production
Headphones are mostly right and always close to my head,Drum beats inside, stiff limbs out,Sound that I love, stay close,Charm me, bore me, be a woman.Charm me, charm me, charm me, be a woman.Tears are how you know you exist,Watery eyes, salty, flo...
a brief moment for consciousness
post a comment | posted Mar 19
Originally posted at a latenightcoffee production
Spurred on by the immense pleasure I took in reading "Proust Was A Neuroscientist" by Jonathon Lehrer, I picked up a couple more books on the subject of neuroscience.Right now I'm in the thick of "A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Ima...
Reason #758,339,875 I love Portland.
post a comment | posted Mar 8
Originally posted at a latenightcoffee production
The Portland Fiction Project's Debut Reading Event is happening this Saturday. All of the current Portland Fiction Project authors will read their favorite stories. The Fall Colors(myspace.com/fallcolorstheband) will play. Worksound is exhibiting "...
Road Fiction 102
post a comment | posted Feb 17
Originally posted at a latenightcoffee production
Suppose its mid afternoon and we go to a cafe. Suppose we sit across from each other at a table out front. Suppose we both sit cross legged so that our dangling feet are almost touching each other. Suppose that on this bright and bold shadowed spri...
Road Fiction 101
post a comment | posted Jan 30
Originally posted at a latenightcoffee production
An empty rural road beneath an unforgiving dark gray sky. A small man is hissing down the highway in his vehicle made for giants. He is alone on the road, alone in his thoughts and alone in his life. He hasn't seen another car for miles and he stru...
a first date
post a comment | posted Jan 20
Originally posted at a latenightcoffee production
I joined a fun little writing group. The second or third week in, I ended up writing this little story spontaneously. Everything in it is true, but its a mish mash of different stories threaded together."Let's get dressed up. You come over around 8...
sensory
post a comment | posted Jan 6
Originally posted at a latenightcoffee production
Walked to the library, dropped off my book.Walked to the bank.Walked to Sound Grounds, got some coffee.Sat and read my book for an hour.Finally picked my head up and looked around.A couple over there playing Scrabble on a travel size board.The old ...