Friday, June 11, 2004

A Paragraph from My Cousin's Novel

Lately my cousin has been writing while under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. He says it frees his inhibitions. I tell him, write however you want, kids are going to buy your novels because you're famous already.

From Chapter 17

Sushi Jackson-Jones's body washed up on the shore in Santa Monica among the pier pilings and bums and hypo needles. A surfer found it, thereby launching the rocket the payload of which was the third-most-notorious murder case in Hollywood history. I never had much use for a nail clipper. The hammering, the hammering, the hammering of a boom economy. Suckers!

You can imagine what effect typing this claptrap has had on my poet's soul.

Tuesday, June 01, 2004

NE1 INO

Back from Mexico. Humbled in Iceland. Bumbled in Mexland. Looks like I went pink in my absence. And my sidebar prolapsed (it's down at the bottom) -- anyone know why?