crabapples

recent excitements

2011-08-24T22:06:00.005-04:00

lightning

frenetic/static

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democratic crabapple

2011-07-24T22:21:00.006-04:00

mathematics of a mediocracy

dominated by the lowest common denominator

childhood

2011-06-30T22:34:00.010-04:00

tomboy kid

"a dress is something you put on a wound"

pubescent tomboy

"a bra is something that separates you"

adolescent tomboy

"a period is the unstoppable stop"

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hubble pummel

2011-05-17T21:41:00.002-04:00

ageless mind-blow

primal; scream

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photo taken from the Hubble Telescope - please click the image to see more detail - you won't be disappointed

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magic of word + action

2011-05-15T13:47:00.006-04:00

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abracadabra

appropriately addressed contrition

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extreme

2011-04-28T15:53:00.004-04:00

Butterfly Effect by Nathan Selikoff. 2007.

strange attractor

the forecast changes like the weather

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on self-annihilation

2011-02-25T07:01:00.005-05:00

human acclimation

climate change accelerator

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crabapple for jared's train ride

2010-10-01T14:47:00.005-04:00

pterodactyl screams

hulking self-birthing

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drawing by hayes roberts

always crabapple

2010-07-28T17:39:00.003-04:00

can of worms

don't start or don't stop

crabapple to keep on track

2010-07-07T13:10:00.001-04:00

ISO

friend who has tick of clapping once and loudly

After Tom Paine's Pigeons by Thomas Devaney and Sparrow

2010-05-09T11:09:00.004-04:00

tea party

as if

oh,

2010-05-08T21:50:00.005-04:00

extreme persistent wind

s p a c e b r a i n d u s t

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in honor of my mom's 70th bday

2010-04-07T08:55:00.004-04:00

l o v e

bio * logic

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some people's crabapple

2010-02-13T12:33:00.002-05:00

ostensible humility

pretentiously unpretentious

mid-life crabapple

2010-01-11T15:36:00.003-05:00

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"I"

! W. T. F. ?

overwhelmed crabapple

2009-10-19T21:56:00.003-04:00

chinese finger trap

paralysis by ambition

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photo taken from web

new paradigm crabapple

2009-07-17T08:59:00.002-04:00

milky way

so now what

a religious crabapple

2009-07-02T22:51:00.002-04:00

standing corrected in retrospect

i used to think a crazy person knows they're crazy

evolution crabapple

2009-06-08T01:51:00.004-04:00

the human tail

snost!

the After France crabapple:

2009-04-30T14:40:00.006-04:00

taste bud

[evolved] overkill

crabapple inspired by jared

2009-03-25T19:36:00.001-04:00

"perfection"

red herring

mulled crabapple

2009-02-08T17:47:00.003-05:00

almost real

"not really"

unintentional

2008-11-29T21:32:00.002-05:00

intuition

think your self

Cue anniversary crabapple

2008-11-07T10:29:00.003-05:00

dog

walk my representation

Age Old Enlightenment

2008-10-26T13:59:00.003-04:00

Golden Age Prerequisite

Golden Rule

octo crabapple

2008-10-06T22:30:00.003-04:00

chromatophore hue

? "default" = "true" ?

little bang day crabapple

2008-09-09T23:27:00.005-04:00

a slight turn of events

[anti]revelation

street crabapple

2008-08-24T22:13:00.002-04:00

philly points

driving with boxing gloves

tutorial crabapple

2008-08-20T06:50:00.001-04:00

an article can make all the difference

[the] concrete is [the] metaphor

a crabapple for jared on his birthday

2008-06-16T19:32:00.003-04:00

water (love)

the time before you thought

the i'm-deliquescing crabapple

2008-06-08T22:24:00.002-04:00

mirage

clarity in delirium

crabapple du jour

2008-06-06T07:16:00.002-04:00

seeking the truth

reading between the lies

heather's crabapple

2008-06-05T22:17:00.003-04:00

deep wink

mind f*#(k

curses:

2008-05-30T00:38:00.005-04:00

unbearable nausea

haunted by own idiocy

unbearable hilarity

sic personal mime

end of may crabapple

2008-05-27T23:56:00.002-04:00

market labels: "disposable"

flagged for obsolescent convenience or convenient obsolescence

may crabapple

2008-05-21T22:26:00.001-04:00

fake world

it's the thought that counts

revealing (freudian) crabapple

2008-04-26T17:19:00.003-04:00

slip

is my ego showing?

a little spring crabapple la la la

2008-04-09T14:37:00.003-04:00

Critical Mass

reality is democratic

some crabapples from winter

2008-02-23T11:39:00.007-05:00

real love

thanks for accommodating my reality

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identity crisis

too many options

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humanity for dummies

guerrilla lovefare

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life's gentle arc

event uality

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we're screaming on the inside

2007-11-17T22:12:00.000-05:00

coprolalia trigger

"whatever you do, don't"

true moment in another day

2007-11-17T22:10:00.000-05:00

momentum of obviousness

"what's the mystery club about?"

a true moment in my day

2007-11-01T20:42:00.000-04:00

match or concentration

"what's that memory game called...?"

*thanks to joyce

strings abound

2007-10-30T01:33:00.000-04:00

hidden messages 4 U

more where that came from

that's it

2007-10-19T23:56:00.000-04:00

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i'm going to invent the first pocket Validator

in fact, i just did.

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lately i've been thinking

2007-10-08T00:06:00.000-04:00

about what Niels Bohr said, reportedly in reponse to questions on the nature of language in 1920:

"We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections."

though it seems his point here is as much about our perception of materiality/corporeal/"deep reality" as [about] language - no there there until measured (interpreted/communicated) et cetera.

anyway, this goofy Borgesian notion crossed my mind - wouldn't it be a gas if my entire history, as i assume it, has been a direct result of or response to this statement.

"i'm not sure i know what i'm talking about" she sd. again.

**photo taken by one of my parents. both take credit. i once remembered but now i don't.

crabapple # ___

2007-09-02T00:07:00.000-04:00

potential

reconciliation w/demons

magnetic

2007-08-25T15:01:00.000-04:00

more

there

here

now

must

crabapple # ?

2007-08-21T22:30:00.000-04:00

so what

so we're all bumped up against the big bang

on the fire escape

2007-08-10T19:16:00.001-04:00

F I R E

E S C A P E

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more,

2007-07-27T22:36:00.000-04:00

assignment

a letter is a ratio

guillotine

weight off yr shoulders

decay

sweet surrender

a few more crabapples

2007-07-14T02:08:00.000-04:00

sage & mugwort

smoking my sweetmeats

signage

frozen bee under brush

one day

as in someday

tevatron pinata

candy matter!

IC 1805

2007-05-11T00:25:00.000-04:00

image by matt russell

heart nebula

do what you must

eternal duh

2007-05-06T10:34:00.000-04:00

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the reason i chose an image of the fluoxetine hydrochloride molecule for this 'crabapple' is (circle one or more or not):

1. obvious in the design sense
2. obvious in the random sense
3. absurd in the non/sense
4. funny in any sense ie smelling, haha
5. too convoluted

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hypotheses

2007-04-06T00:57:00.000-04:00

blurred with yr sublime

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latest crabapple

2007-01-16T23:16:00.000-05:00

joker's wild

like a simile

x's birth[ing]day crabapple

2006-12-30T09:16:00.000-05:00

S.O.S.

saviour's elf

what my 8-ball sez in the desert: an example of fun

2006-12-15T14:33:00.000-05:00

WARNING

don't let fear navigate

what my 8-Ball sez during unusually warm weather

2006-11-30T23:34:00.000-05:00

"Consolation comes from unexpected sources."

*a stranger with down syndrome came up close to me in the theatre lobby earlier tonight & we talked a bit, faces very near. "your hair is messy," he whispered and smiled. hugged me, laying his head on my shoulder. i hugged back.

what my 8-Ball sez

2006-11-12T15:46:00.000-05:00

"forecasts indicate that your aversion to all religion
may soon be used against you"

as planned

2006-11-12T12:41:00.000-05:00

less politic, more po-em

day (night) of the dead...

2006-11-02T18:46:00.000-05:00

thanks to everyone who came to the Poetry Project to hear me read a few nights ago. had a great time...

almost bday crabapple

2006-10-23T18:26:00.000-04:00

fence made from the tree of knowledge

intrinsic barrier

pre-plutonian consideration

2006-09-11T23:51:00.000-04:00

Then all shadows disappear, the foreshortening of perspective disappears, and all proofs become white-- a disagreeable fact: for this strange region would have been marvelous if reproduced with photographic exactness. It is but a group of hollows, craters, circles, a network of crests; then, as far as the eye could see, a whole volcanic network cast upon this encrusted soil. One can then understand that the bubbles of this central eruption have kept their first form. Crystallized by cooling, they have stereotyped that aspect which the moon formerly presented when under the Plutonian forces.

- Verne's Round the Moon

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly, grim, and ancient raven, wandering from the nightly shore.
Tell me what the lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore."
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

- Poe's The Raven

(brim gestre, heath)

get out of here

2006-08-29T16:31:00.000-04:00

oxymoronic

proscription for "avant-garde"

[post]oxymoronic

"traditional avant-garde"

[oxy]moronic

"post-avant-garde"

post card

2006-08-26T21:37:00.000-04:00

project with heather radawski's [under]painting (untitled). text from sky journal - from sea

another true story (software installation circa 1999)

2006-08-26T20:47:00.000-04:00

Welcome to The Universe setup program.
This program will install The Universe onto your computer.
It is strongly recommended that you exit all windows programs you have running.
Click next to continue with the setup program.

[cancel]
Are you sure you want to exit The Universe?

true story

2006-08-22T19:08:00.000-04:00

if a tree falls in the forest

what did the coprolaliac say to the paranoid schizophrenic?

a late summer crabapple

2006-08-13T23:11:00.000-04:00

anachronist

cicada

i thought today that maybe...

2006-07-29T17:21:00.000-04:00

wit

successful fallacy

something from a couple years ago

2006-07-24T23:07:00.000-04:00

       word I('m forgetting

       forget information
       regarding definition
       like ambiguity
       regarding gratification
       disregard semiosis
       like "come back
       from the light
       /dark canal"
       need context
       like : here
       che guevera
       insist
       never remember
       how it's said
       how it's done
       like that zapping and solving

**If you're really that upset about what's going on, which I doubt, go blow something up. Organize a group of people to block a freeway during rush hour. Go hand out information leaflets on your lunch hour to people on the streets, do something that has some impact beyond your own quiet little upper middle class white college educated coterie faux radicals whose self-inflicted impotence has doomed them to continually spewing a bunch of crap like "Poets against the war," to cite a perfect example of preaching to the choir someone else has already brought up, which only serves to give the talk radio and FoxNEWS talking heads more examples of ineffective dumb liberal nonsense to point at and ridicule. ~ Jason Quackenbush on the Buffalo Poetics Listserv 7/23/06

current holographic insistences

2006-07-15T21:43:00.000-04:00

The final problem of intellection is this: you cannot rape yourself mentally, for thought creates its own shadow, blocks its own light, inhibits direct vision. The act of intuition or self-illumination can come only through a partner-object like a host in parasitology. - L Durrell, Nunquam

It is the theory that decides what can be observed. - A Einstein

User's Manual for Nouveau Jersey

2006-07-04T18:50:00.000-04:00

1.
Assume entitlement;
we get what we act like we deserve

2.
Money buys good taste;
judge its aesthetic by how much it retails for

3.
Be a willing victim of fashion;
wear your heels to the matinee

4.
Be sensible;
buy everything on sale

5.
Exhibit sensibility;
buy everything on sale and mention it

6.
Give nothing for nothing;
generosity is a compromise of values

7.
Eat as many samples as you can at Whole Foods;
saving a buck is a virtue

8.
Narcissism is survival;
desperately make everything about you

9.
Be sure they notice your car;
use your horn

10.
Be gauche;
it’ll startle people into giving you what you want

11.
Smiling is a sign of weakness;
look annoyed with your eyebrows raised in all public places

12.
Everyone takes advantage of you;
suspect each so-called friend.

13. [edit out?]
Don’t look strangers in the eye;
they might oblige your fantasy and rape or murder you

today's crabapple

2006-06-21T16:11:00.000-04:00

reinforce

romanticize exotic

2 proposals

2006-05-31T13:01:00.000-04:00

penultimate postmodernism

loathing my self-consciousness

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ultimate postmodernism

disgust with the loathing of my self-consciousness

wish i heard in sermons

2006-05-21T11:02:00.000-04:00

blow up

“due diligence”

1tp du jour

2006-05-04T13:13:00.000-04:00

in-joke

"where's cognito?"

Today's 1TP

2006-04-27T15:32:00.000-04:00

ubiquitous

here's the sign you've been waiting for

buy the bumper sticker

crab samples

2006-04-03T00:40:00.000-04:00

i've not been writing creatively much for quite awhile except for these small crabapples i call one-thot pommes.

funeral

sharpening gaze

arrogant

never looking up the pronunciation

chinese finger trap

playing the victim

nouveau riche

do they even know what this means

perpetuation of perpetration

accuse the accuser

tar baby

self-inflicted negotiative disaster

swiss cheese

high risk bi-polar

salut

occupy them increments

lingerie poems

“inaccessible” “obscure”

gut hole

memory solace

411

2006-04-02T11:51:00.000-04:00

people have inquired
& thus

unsure how to go about this but steps...