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The Perfect Espresso Shot

I hate my espresso machine. For the past year-plus, I’ve been using a Krups XP4030 pump espresso machine, which is perfectly fine for occasional use (like Sunday morning lattes to be sipped whilst reading the New York Times), but really doesn’t hold up to daily use. After 10 months of daily [...]

Poetry Friday

TO THE LIGHT OF SEPTEMBER

When you are already here you appear to be only a name that tells of you whether you are present or not

and for now it seems as though you are still summer still the high familiar endless summer yet with a glint of bronze in the chill mornings and [...]

Poetry Friday

SEPTEMBER

I miss the tilt and racket of your face, the collapsing factories of your anger, the shoreline wearing your boas of foam— the steel mirror of your silence, your glass contingencies, in the night’s hold. I miss the morning’s coverlet of cloud, one gull flying east over the moving distances while closer in the [...]

Poetry Friday

I HEAR AMERICA SINGING

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, The boatman singing [...]

Poetry Friday, part 2 (for T.)

early morning bike ride

lamppost lamppost lamppost

changing of the lead between my shadow and myself

my shadow looks to be in better shape and currently has the lead

but i am catching up quickly.

  — justin.barrett

Poetry Friday (and it’s a doozy)

HEY ALLEN GINSBERG WHERE HAVE YOU GONE AND WHAT WOULD YOU THINK OF MY DRUGS?

A mouse went to see his mother. When his car broke down he bought a bike. When the bike wore out he bought skates. When the skates wore down he ran. He ran until his sneakers wore through. Then he [...]

Video Poetry (Please Hold)

TIM ARMSTRONG – HOLD ON

I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can. I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can. And if you choose to leave me, girl, I’ll understand I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can.

Just like the Mississippi Our journey [...]

Poetry Friday

MAY  

Let me look at those eyes. I want to know how you are. —Rainer W. Fassbinder

Look. May has come in. It’s strewn those blue eyes all over the harbor. Come, I haven’t had word of you in ages. You’re constantly terrified, Like the kittens we drowned when we were little. Come and [...]

Just another day ...

… and another birthday almost past …

I’m having a Douglas Adams kind of day; and while I know that 42 is the answer, I still don’t know the question.

Picked up the Surly from the shop today; getting it ready as a commuter bike … all I need now is the motivation to actually [...]

Video Poetry (Non-Blonde edition)

Two songs, as relevant in 2008 as they were in 1992 (when the album came out), if not earlier, when I’d see 4 Non Blondes playing at the I-Beam in the Haight.

4 NON BLONDES – DEAR MR. PRESIDENT

I’m looking outside of my windows The view that I see Is a child and [...]