Monday, December 8, 2008

The Silent Dredge


i've been watching the Blue Planet series
it's the L word times 10
the best fantasy story ever
but it is fantasy
by omission it fails to illustrate
the depths of our injury to this teeming world
of creatures we think we create in our imaginings
but they exist in secret choreographs
breathing water with oxygen inverted
nothing new
living fossils in the air we can't breathe
under pressure we can't bear


artwork by Tiffany Bozic

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Nai Nai passed away

my beautiful feisty Nai Nai passed away at 95 years of age
on November 19, 2008
at home, surrounded by family




so classy!

Look at that stance. Maybe one day I'll inherit that.






Saturday, November 15, 2008

well, shit.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Thursday, November 6, 2008

leaf cups


terrible piece of news
israel bombed palestine
on the night the world watched
a black man become
the president of the
united states of america

terror of the question
death plots

"i lost weight. i bought weight."
i lost weight
i bought more weight
don't lose it again

the way you were before the way you were

pretty boy wants to be a girl
dressed up as a man
i'm sorry i wasn't a son

fibre of sensuality
of glass
*crush*
fiberglass



photo by Susan Araab

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

first we were scared

first we were scared



then we couldnt believe it!



what does it mean??
will the world be a better place?

Monday, November 3, 2008

streaks in the sky



there are streaks in the sky
vapor and clouds
polling time on the ground
i'm scared
but if the wrong guy wins
we'll move abroad, for real
sister said

battle in water
battle on land
secret fights in bedrooms
stretching of the heart


Sunday, November 2, 2008

hallowed night

stage 1 of Micah's Lucha Libre costume


cute cat


twin... uh.. i don't know






Victoria the Zombie Nurse
(and some kinkiness)













http://bassemah.blogspot.com/2008/11/happy-halloween.html

Friday, October 31, 2008

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

san felipe, mexico















sea of cortez

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

getting-by


Third Wave, collage on digital print, 2006
Brian Bress


it takes a lot of guts to create
it's so much easier to get by
what does it take to make [getting-by] generate creations

i want to be brave enough
a mass catalogue
hyperlink a geography of ideas referencing
ideas that reference ideas

my own dewey decimal system:
triggers for hallucinogenic epiphanies
systems of cute aesthetics
ways we tell nature to 'use the green'
domestication of savagery
alternate forms of parenting
childhood abuse and its relationship to empathy formation
imaginative implications of extraterrestrial exploration
feminist polyamory
etc etc etc
Why Why Why

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

i am from there


I AM FROM THERE

I come from there and I remember,
Born as mortals are, I have a mother
And a house with many windows

I have brothers, friends
And a prison cell with a cold window.
Mine is the wave, snatched by seagulls
I have my own view
And an extra blade of grass

Mine is the moon at the far edge of words
And the bounty of birds
And the immortal olive tree.
I walked this land before swords turned bodies into banquets.
I come from there

I render the sky unto her mother, when the sky weeps for her mother
And I weep for a returning cloud to know me
I learned the words worthy of the court of blood so that I could break the rule
I learned and dismantled all the words to construct a single one:

Home

Mahmoud Darwish



photo by Rosanna Salonia

Thursday, October 9, 2008

the frame shattered


the frame i put up last night came tumbling down of its own accord, from unfelt tremors and forces in the seemingly unmoving wall, and shattered into tiny pieces all over the tile floor.

Monday, October 6, 2008

otik is the best


detoxing sick in bed... but the dots always help.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Sunday, September 28, 2008

palin gets the witchcraft spirit cast out of her

jump to 6:58 if you don't have time to watch the whole thing.
this is nuts.

Friday, September 26, 2008

palin- jesus christ


this makes me speechless

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

i wish you way more than luck



Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship -- be it JC or Allah, bet it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles -- is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
...

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

-David Foster Wallace's commencement speech, Keyton 2005
full speech

art by Kelly McCallum

how long is now


if i throw up the bad will come out of me

if i throw out the good will come up

if i throw down the mess will spray out

next time i'll put my seed in you

next time now will be then
posting to your blog

thrusting to your post
your pics tell our secret

a secret everyone knows
the illusion of beauty

even if i sanction a lasting joy
it leaves

Thursday, September 18, 2008

warehousing

From Palestine Chronicle by Jeff Halper:

"If Israel can package and export its layered Matrix of Control, a system of permanent repression that combines Kafkaesque administration, law and planning with overtly coercive forms of control over a defined population hemmed in by hostile gated communities (settlements in this case), walls and obstacles of various kinds to movement, then, as Klein writes starkly, every country will look like Israel/Palestine: "One part looks like Israel; the other part looks like Gaza." In other words, a Global Palestine."

full article

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

second self

i lay my heart before you
second self
white yellow black black
leaning bending in
what did you say?
how does it sound?
abstract math is irrelevant
oliver tumbles
tabitha wonders