February 2012
22 posts
“Oh God, why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without...”
– Johnny Depp as Paul Kemp in The Rum Diary
Variations on the Word Love (by margaret atwood)
This is a word we use to plug holes with. It’s the right size for those warm blanks in speech, for those red heart- shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing like real hearts. Add lace and you can sell it. We insert it also in the one empty space on the printed form that comes with no instructions. There are whole magazines with not much in them but the word love, you can rub it all...
Nicky Croon & The Swingin' Richards!
If you are in portland, please go see this for me so I can live vicariously. It’s a dreamy Rat Pack Tribute as sung by BFF Kimberly’s husband and back-up-dance’d by other BFFs….YES! Tickets here.
