Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Unofficially But Unmistakably

"Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant - if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely dreamt that she was able to fly. The baby stood her ground like an angel. She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs."
-J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Restricted Number

Two cycles, so I answer
Strangest prank call.
Southern drawl.
"you don't know who this is, do you?"
"not when I'm sleeping"
"I'll give you a hint. what's the craziest thing you've done in the last six months?"
Um. . .'bury' my dad who was shot six times?
And I was in the middle of an exceptionally interesting dream too.

Saturday, July 01, 2006

"Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing."
~Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close