Dames and Drinks the Best of 2011
It ain’t over till the sexy lady sips her Manhattan, Holy Headbuzz Batman! was it a good year for dames I’ll never see again and drinks I will remember for the rest of my life. The list of new bars on the map is a long one: New Orleans’ Checkpoint Charlies. San Antonio’s Esquire Tavern. [...]
The War Against Reality
Give me the dark, warm and buttery thick Give me whiskey in a glass, big chunks of ice Give me a snare and kick drum, and two sticks to fuse the gaps Give me palm trees at dusk, and a place from which to hear them Give me bloody death by arrows and knives and [...]
Omen & Belief
The display clock on the table reads 20:22, blinking in its precise green LCD manner, which somehow settles my nerves. I turn over and reach for my cigarettes. Lately waking up has become a ritual of smoke first, see if the girl was around after. Fine by her too, so far as I could tell. [...]
Signs of Summer
Young sproutlets of rice shooting out of their water bed like fields of hair implants amidst the circular reverberations of unsure dribbles of rain crawling down the greasy sky while dragonflies mate in midair, their wings crack in intermittent ecstasy as they jerk & twitter. Resolute bamboo youth careen skyward in thickets of emerald green [...]
