Writing about her experiences doing radio shows:
When the talk-radio host opened the phone lines, the very first caller would always say the same thing…”I am so outraged by this woman. She cannot weight 270 pounds and be healthy! You just cannot be healthy at that weight! It’s not possible!” Then, if […]
More archival footage. This photo is from when I stayed briefly (but not briefly enough) with my mother after moving back to Maine in ‘96. Me, my stuff and my cats were crammed into a tiny mobile home second bedroom. My mother took this photo while I was sleeping, captivated I’m sure […]
IV.There is being fat,and there is eating.There is eating, andthen there’s the food.There is fat andthere is agingThere is agingand there is disability.
None of these thingsare the same thingsthough they are used,often, interchangeably.Who did that?Who did that to us?And with each of these wordsis the word: ugly.Even with the wordeating, the word ugly is pairedby […]
“I wonder if anyone even gives a class on Milton anymore. Shakespeare I could see, Chaucer even, but Milton? I don’t think so.”
To which I mentally reply, thank gawd for changing ideas of what constitutes great litrachure.
You know that tired old saw about how everything’s bigger in the West? It seems to be true when it comes to signage here, from my observations driving around this fair city. So I offer you this first entry in the new subgenre of the “Things to Love About Albuquerque” feature. This […]
It’s been quite the hellish week chez Amy’s Brain; hence the lack of blogging, and just when I’d gotten so much better about posting something almost every day, too! Suffice it to say, there are plenty of posts rattling around the ol’ Brain, but I will start you off with something a bit less […]
Digging into the archives for this one; this is Lexi (on the left) and her cellmate Dulcey, as 10-week-old kittens. Dulcey has since gone on to that post-Earth haven for not-so-bright kitties, but I still miss her.
elementary adj : characterized by artificiality, lack of depth, aura, and interconnectedness with living be-ing; marked by a derivative and parasitic relation to Elemental reality
From Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language conjured by Mary Daly in cahoots with Jane Caputi.
The yearly tax season jaunts have begun, in the ongoing effort to pretend my girlfriend isn’t ignoring me when she is up to her eyeballs in other people’s 1040s. So I am off to Tucson. This photo is from the trip I took there last year which was an absolute blast, so I […]
How long will it be before a mainstream publisher allows an illiterate title into print? How long before the last few punctuation sticklers are obliged to take refuge together in caves?
So what I propose is action. Sticklers unite, you have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn’t have […]
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