The Tuba

Memorial Day, 2009

"Words on paper it just seems like something already spent. Like snow it's only snow while it's falling the next day it's something else."

--from "The Voices of Ghosts (Memorial Day, 1989)"

Today's Verse: 19 May 2009

Crackpot on a tether
Intones I'm loving it
Old dog lies unstill
Chews steady on tough dry past
See blind mice their naked feet
Nesting in the wall
Haven't eaten anything at all
Sleeping like there's no tomorrow
Crackpot's loving it
The kid's grown up
Consumed
Didn't want to be popular he thought
Can't help adoration
Real fulfillment's unseemly
Not that
Crackpot's cackling
Bring out the goats
Content friendly hungry
Days pass they die get strung up eaten
In the shade

This is a picture of me wearing my new cowboy hat in the kitchen.  We have a very small kitchen

Today I planted tomatoes and bought a cowboy hat.

Well well, it appears that Cathy Randall is to marry Robert Schainbaum.

The Chicken Tape version of "Changing Like The Moon" came up on my Ipod today, by the way, and, aside from the flugelhorn part, that is one killer track.

iAddictive

I just got an iPhone, and it won't let me stop. There really are apps for everything, and I must have more. I downloaded a Tarot app, since I need to be able to do readings anywhere for anybody. Or just look at the Fast Fun card whenever I want to.

We believe that today is the birthday of Mister Critters Petcenter.  Happy birthday Stephen; I wish I had a video shot out of a car window for you.