My impassioned review of Quentin Tarantino’s magnificent “Inglourious Basterds”.
My impassioned review of Quentin Tarantino’s magnificent “Inglourious Basterds”.
Dear Kiri,
Even though I’m not a Breeder your blog about contemplating life while pregnant spoke to me on a lot of levels.
I thought about my friend Wendy who was murdered, and how horrible it was for her mother to lose her daughter so suddenly and brutally.
I thought about my mother, who could have just as [...]
A short zombie story inspired by Franz Kafka, my Prague homeboy, and written for the www.RedRoom.com weekly blog competition.
My reflections on Miep Gies’ death as well as Wendy Soltero’s would-be 32st birthday.
Many of the things that I did in the Naughts Decade. I probably left out a bunch, but anyway.
When I first moved to Europe going on seven years ago I was bummed that I felt they didn’t really celebrate Halloween, American style. Dressing up, spider webs, pumpkin carving, creepy music, Trick-or-Treating…Halloween was always my most favourite holiday. I love costumes and basically will use any excuse whatsoever to dress up. Movie premieres, themed [...]
Here in Europe we have this amazing cream called Bepanthen that is phenomenal for healing wounds without any resulting scarring. Doesn’t matter how you got the wound, scrape, burn, but if you use Bepanthen on it you absolutely will not scar. I got to thinking that maybe forgiveness is like that cream. If you don’t [...]
Dear Mr. Swayze,
Your death comes in the wake of many other wonderful people, and yet I feel more saddened by yours than any of them. I’m almost surprised by all of the emotions your passing has evoked in me. I’m not sure if it’s because my grandmother also passed away from pancreatic cancer. I think [...]
Eight years ago two planes flew into New York’s World Trade Centers killing thousands. I remember my then-boyfriend waking me up to tell me what had happened. It was 8am in California and so I laughed at the news, thinking that someone had pulled a Fight Club and destroyed two empty buildings. When he reminded [...]
Dear Senator Kennedy,
My heart goes out to your family and everyone touched by your passing. The world will not be the same without you.
I was not alive when your brothers were assassinated, but in spite of that I have always felt a vacuum where their lives were. It was a vacuum you did your utmost [...]
Written on a postcard made out of the “Me & Bobby McGee” sheet music:
P!nk cries on stageJust like you,Weeping, wailingHer pretty heart out.
Where a Jack Daniels stamp could go it says:PragueJune 11, 2009I wrote this watching P!nk’s concert, and immediately afterwards she dedicated a bunch of songs to you. How weird is that? Wendy, did [...]
This episode, “Forever”, was even worse than the last one, in terms of the tears spoutage. And look at the dates: It aired almost 2 whole months later. I wasn’t watching it back then, but for the Buffy fans that must’ve sucked. To be left with such a tragic ending and then wait so long [...]
Written on a postcard of Alex’s childhood home in Annandale, Virginia:
There is too muchof youfor comfort.
Where a stamp could be affixed by a father’s anger:Walking awayJanuary 29, 2009So abandon you he did.
Written on a box car train postcard featuring a sleeping bag, tinned beans and the blur of a passing landscape:
There’s not enoughof the good kind of youfor comfort.
Where a stamp could be affixed by a mother’s tears:On the way from here to somewhereJanuary 29, 2009Would going into the wild help?
Intuition Matters
Thank you, Kiri, for this provocative post and the reminder that childhood lessons are some of the most important.
I certainly know that rumbly churny tummy feeling that is a sure sign something is amiss. For me, my natural intuition was scrambled by trauma and afterwards I would get that “off” feeling all the time. Crippling [...]
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