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On Anthropomorphism and More

— Words: Fire Truck, Purple, Ger, Goat The goat saunters by like a pimp in a cadillac — one touch look from a cop and they freeze in terror, but then they’re back to bizness as uzual. The life of the goat is driven by a raw spontaneity that has little human equivalent outside of: childhood, senility or mental illness — and perhaps those hippie free-spirits who dance around in fields all day or drop lots of acid.

Posted 26 March 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction § Exercises § Incoherence § Shorts ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

How to Hire a Translator in Mongolia — 3 Times (incomplete)

You push from your mind the ever-surfacing thought that her english is just a little too good to be working for some college student for $20 a day, let alone working as a Mongolian language teacher at SIT.

…After your week in the countryside—during which you simultaneously try to conduct interviews through confused translation, and try to win over your stand-offish translator, say that you hope she had some fun, that you enjoyed working with her .

Posted 07 March 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction § Shorts ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: ,

Random Incoherences

And I forgave him despite his lossinlgy end of days — it was too much for us to move on in synchrony, pulsing in the wake of each other’s acquiescence.

…Slot induced hypomanic imbalance reached pubnlic eyes and ears from a leaked Gnomegon memo, detailing the disturbingly high incidence of gambling and vending behaviors among veterans of the FEG (Forces Especial du Gnome).

Posted 24 February 2008 † Yuletide § Exercises § Incoherence § Shorts § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

100 Words towards a definition of Metal

Attributes: Molten, Brutal, Intense, Epic, Uncompromising, Fucking awesome, Distorted, Pummeling, Eternal, Loud, Grating, Polyrhythmic, Not lame, Absurd, Hilarious, Fun, Resonant, Primal, Destructive, Cathartic, Therapeutic, Wrathful, Emotional, HEAVY. Components: Guitar, Strings, Pickup, Amplifier, Electricity (lots), Bass Drum x2, Snare Drum, Hi-Hat, Crash, Drum Sticks, Metronome, Bass Guitar, Strings, Pickup, Amplifier, Ear, Brain.

Posted 14 February 2008 † Yuletide § Shorts ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

100 Words: Hair

These states also elicit divergent reactions from the very hosts that spend hundreds of thousands of hours diligently growing filaments. Upon encountering a hair in one’s food, it is considered acceptable to raise hell But hair has bacteria Doesn’t it?!

Posted 13 February 2008 † Yuletide § Shorts ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

You were the one who _______, who _______, who _______. She sings the old songs, _______.

You were the one who played safe, who kept cool, who made peace instead of war.

Posted 25 January 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction § Shorts ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

14 Pieces of Music, 14 Lines of Text

Ear to thorax, hearing the sounds from a world to which we are outside, I know the essence of life and its living…. Unabashedly, we look into the furnaces that forged this people from the ore of time in the bowels of the earth, in all our glorious good and hideous evil.

Posted 21 January 2008 † Yuletide § Exercises § Multimedia ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

Mongolian Night Hypertext

Mongolia, land of the clear blue sky, transforms at night; her blue skies fade to reveal the blackness of empty space, punctuated by the glow of distant stars .

Posted 10 January 2008 † Yuletide § Multimedia § Shorts § Writing ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,

The Steppe at Night

I stood outside the doorway to our ger, toothbrush hanging from my mouth…. Mongolia, land of the clear blue sky, transforms at night; her blue skies fade to reveal the blackness of empty space, punctuated by the glow of distant stars.

Posted 09 January 2008 † Yuletide § Shorts ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Delgerhaan

The motorcycle’s lone headlight danced its way across the steppe; I leaned back, resting my hands on my knees, and gazed up at the endless starry dark. My stomach full of боодог (boodog, Mongolian roasted goat), сүүтэй цай (suutei tsai, milky tea), айраг (airag, fermented mare’s milk) and архи (arhi, vodka), I smiled at the uniqueness and beauty of this experience, and drank in the Mongolian night.

Posted 07 January 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,