OTC

peace haiku 37-43

get to get green with
deepest inhale let it out
push reset button

fog puddles cloud road
wipers distract more than clear
proceed via gut

bold enough to ask
play cute pry my deepest cut
you'll get my gross truth

don't cheat on someone
you care about when it's so
easy to break up

problem method do
adapt repeat ritual
solvent solution

my religion is
realism try to see
things as they are now

transcend every
minute perspective & be
all the connections

easter

in the easter egg hunt
of life some of the
chocolate eggs are
bunny turds

hippity hoppity

ray of apollo sunshine

i saw the band apollo sunshine open for toots & the maytals last night and i was completely blown away. they were excellent. they do what they want. they put out enormous energy. i would highly recommend listening to their music & going out to hear them play anytime you have a chance.

myspace/apollosunshine

"phyliss"

"today is your day"

bittersweet advice

make traps of
baking powder
&
powdered sugar

what i was doing when i was 6

happy not birthday jim reilly

today jim reilly should have turned 31. here's a picture i found yesterday in my old desk from when he & his friend rob (i think) came down to UNC from william & mary for a night to see his brother and i'm not sure why else. i remember i didn't go out with them because i had an english exam the next day. stupid.

here's a link to what i posted last year with some drawings he worked on. let's all work on peace this year, whaddya say?

new gig

i joined a band as a clarinet player!

best box ever

i found a box full of old vintage vantage shirts that i'd ironed furry buffaloes onto a few years ago. it's like a bonanza. the buffalo is in a different spot for every shirt, so it's the fro on the dodgeball kid's head, it's like a tattoo on the compton cupcakes one, gravity, it's not just a good idea, it's the buffalo, caucasia knows how to party with a dead buffalo with its legs up, you get the idea.

spare prayers

my friends from high school, Lauren & Ralph Bove (bo-vay) and their son Matthew could use some positive healing thoughts & prayers right about now.


(from Matthew's CarePage): "A little after his first birthday, Matthew was diagnosed with Hepatoblastoma, a very rare form of liver cancer. Although they lived in New York, his parents, Lauren and Ralph, decided to bring him up to Boston where he split time between Children’s Hospital Boston and the Jimmy Fund Clinic at Dana Farber Cancer Institute starting in February of ’06 until he was finally discharged this past November. In that time, Matthew underwent six rounds of chemotherapy and had 65% of his liver removed in order to fully eradicate the tumor in his body."


unfortunately they just learned through blood tests that Matthew is not really cancer-free, they're not sure where the cancer is now or how to fight it, they're in a waiting game until it gets more developed and doctors can do something about it, OR until there is a healing miracle and their little boy is rid of the cancer for good.


so if you're feeling lucky or have some extra prayers to give, please include Matthew Bove on your list of good vibe recipients, i know they would really appreciate it.

licensed to drive

i went to the dmv bright & early this morning to get a NC drivers license, all prepared to take the 25 question written test but they still had me on file from 4 years ago so all i had to do was read the top line on the vision chart & identify 8 road signs by their color and shape & take a new photo and 20 minutes later i left with my new license. sometimes things just work out.
and i am all the wiser for knowing things like
"Secondary roads" are roads where... hills are more likley to be more steep and curves are likely to be more sharp than on primary roads.

Unless otherwise posted, the speed limit in cities and towns is... 35 miles per hour.

If a vehicle sways freely, leans heavily to one side during a turn or seems to bounce continuously, there may be a problem with the... suspension system.