but July is National Horseradish Month
also, it is 400 degrees in D.C. I am missing Saipan’s relative balmy summers.

102 degrees is what this thermometer says
four times that is how it felt

How I wish the Smithsonian’s Center for Short Term Phenomena were still in existence

(house, couch, stump, in Takoma Park)
there are so many neat things in the world to study
one or two of these things even involve squirrels

The Saipan soap opera lives on

(phone booth in paradise, Saipan)
you move away and still can’t move on, I tell you

cockfighting banned?
or
marijuana legalized?

update: I checked with NORML, the group that the Marianas Variety reported was coming to Saipan for their annual conference, to see if the newspaper report was correct. A NORML outreach coordinator told me that the group is absolutely not holding a conference on Saipan. In the o.c.’s words: “Our [...]

So I’m on the bus in Boston today, and this woman sits down next to me and starts asking about the weather. Is it going to rain tomorrow, she asks, and I tell her I don’t know but I think maybe it’s going to be hazy all week. Oh, she says, that’s good, [...]

Robots in Providence!

Milwaukee
this woman and her bird had just come from the vet

OK, my big news: the papers are signed, I have an agent for my book, and she’s awesome awesome awesome.
holy cow

thank you Bigfoot

My friends JCN and James and I used to have a website called
The Loo Review
we reviewed public toilets on the site
but it fell by the wayside a while ago

I’m going to resurrect my old friend in order to say
Thank You
to the people at the Vince Lombardi Service Area just over the GW Bridge
because they [...]

Sam Brownback, one of three Republican candidates for President who recently copped to not believing in evolution, has an op-ed in today’s New York Times about how his belief in creationism doesn’t totally 100% put him at odds with evolutionary theory.
boy, we sure are looking like a bunch of hayseeds here in the U.S., eh,
with [...]