tag:dvsjr.com,2007-08-30://2 2010-03-02T09:11:20Z Wherein our hero battles the forces of commuting, technical support, rabbits and squirrels in his garden, all while maintaining his disguise as a mild mannered IT director for a great metropolitan design firm. Movable Type Publishing Platform 4.0 tag:dvsjr.com,2010://2.70 2010-03-02T09:10:58Z 2010-03-02T09:11:20Z

Because my daughter's eighth-grade teachers Are having what is called an "in-service day," Which means, in fact, an out-of-service day, She is spending this Friday home with me, So I get up in time to take us, On this...

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By Charles Bukowski each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand...

dvsjr ]]> tag:dvsjr.com,2010://2.68 2010-02-13T10:39:36Z 2010-02-13T10:39:57Z

It was darker then, in the nights when the cars Came sliding around the traffic circle, when the headlights Speckled with rain traveled the bedroom walls and vanished; when the typewriter, the squeaking chair, the slow voice of the...

dvsjr ]]> tag:dvsjr.com,2010://2.67 2010-02-09T14:00:34Z 2010-02-09T14:01:05Z

They could pump frenzy into air ducts and rage into reservoirs, dynamite dams and drown cities, cry fire in theaters as the victims are burning, but I will find my way through blackened streets and kneel down at your...

dvsjr ]]> tag:dvsjr.com,2010://2.66 2010-02-07T23:39:54Z 2010-02-07T23:40:13Z

The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor, when I found myself in the L section...

dvsjr ]]> tag:dvsjr.com,2010://2.65 2010-02-06T06:46:47Z 2010-02-06T06:47:07Z

See how the first dark takes the city in its arms and carries it into what yesterday we called the future. O, the dying are such acrobats. Here you must take a boat from one day to the next,...

dvsjr ]]> tag:dvsjr.com,2010://2.64 2010-02-06T04:59:51Z 2010-02-06T05:00:10Z

I need her to fly home, safely. Please. Thank you. - Posted from my iPhone...

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If you have an Intel processor Mac, are running Snow Leopard 10.6, and use the mac download utility Speed Download (version 4) be sure to switch Safari 4 to 32 bit mode. (To do this get info on safari...

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- Posted from my iPhone...

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- Posted from my iPhone
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In the chest in the heart was a vessel was the pulse was the art was the love was the clot small and slow and the scar that could not know the rest of you was very nearly perfect...

dvsjr ]]> tag:dvsjr.com,2010://2.60 2010-02-01T04:43:56Z 2010-02-01T04:44:14Z

"The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean...

dvsjr ]]> tag:dvsjr.com,2010://2.59 2010-01-31T11:05:29Z 2010-01-31T11:05:48Z

The lilacs are fading; their petals are falling. The ants have crawled into their holes. The children are restlessly tossing their beds. The horses are chasing their foals. The dark, oh the dark, flies upon us so fast. The...

dvsjr ]]> tag:dvsjr.com,2010://2.58 2010-01-25T07:03:41Z 2010-01-25T07:04:00Z

I'm sitting here reading the paper, feeling warm and satisfied, basically content with my life and all I have achieved. Then I go up for a refill and suddenly realize how much happier I could be with the barista. Late...

dvsjr ]]> tag:dvsjr.com,2010://2.57 2010-01-18T03:36:30Z 2010-01-18T03:36:50Z

- Posted from my iPhone...

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- Posted from my iPhone
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Who could need more proof than honey-- How the bees with such skill and purpose enter flower after flower sing their way home to create and cap the new honey just to get through the flowerless winter. And how...

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