hero talk

Chris Van Allsburg talk at the Tacoma Public Library last night made my heart tick a little nicer. He said that you have to practice writing and drawing. He said that good things take a long time, like 6-11 months, which is a nice thing to have confirmation of. And the best thing of all was this, "I created a story where nothing was there before." Quite possibly the best thing anyone has ever said about writing stories for children.

a girl in love

we've all got it

baby money

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/11/03/141943008/when-governments-pay-people-to-have-babies

instead of crying myself to sleep

movies I watched this week include.

you and me and everyone we know

let the right one in

locked inside, trapped inside this body

the ballad of fuck all

Oh will you come home soon
Come home soon and save me
I'm so bored

he became more silent

I asked her who she was talking about

and she said anyone but us.

I took him down the same path I had found that morning

and he said he didn't want just me.

We told each other to go away and never speak again

and we said nothing.

i have no where to go

I'm pretty sure most people are good at acting human, but the ones who are really good at it make it look so easy.

so beautiful, soo soo beautiful

mike swaney can you take me to barcelona

pretty lusty

You're the kind of monster that doesn't wait for the sheets to hit my skin, before you crawl out from under my bed. The circus red tips of the blossoms you spin are crushing and deadly and poison against the little pearls of wisdom you pretend. Listless in a sleep, purple hearts and softly weeping, baby breath against the truly white night, a little lonely only wandering then. I want to make you feel the pull. Tight little fists against your chest, but barely a thump to you. I'm kind of begging here, on my new knees, to be a something in your sleep that doesn't let you go.