EVERY MORNING NOON AND NIGHT

THIS GIRL IS SICK SEND HELP

SMALL PHOTOS OF SUCCULENTS GRAFTED INTO APRICOT TREE

IS THERE ANYTHING THIS MAN CAN'T DO

Noted polymath Connor O'Sullivan levitates in Shanghai. February 2011. photo: David Nichols

I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU BABY GIRL

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PLEASE ADVISE

WHEN I WAS TWENTY NINE IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR

1930's Kay Kraft guitar, now passed down 4 generations of my family.

YOU GOING TO GO ON A LONG JOURNEY

You going to go on a long journey.
You going to travel across the pond
and have plenty of children.
And everything you think about today
is not going to end up being
the way you think of it.
The cross you bear
is the cross you choose to bear.
--Mother Catherine Seals

TOP 3 SENTENCES OF THE YEAR 2010 FROM MY LANDLORD LOL

It's that time for year end lists. This one is inspired by the timely arrival of an effusive christmas card from my landlord, who I enjoy greatly even with his frequent use of LOL, whether in emails, in person, or putting pen to paper. I present to you, decapitalized and out of context, the top 3 sentences of the year 2010 from my landlord. LOL

3. share the winnings LOL

2. love you guys! but i'm not sure who is who LOL

1. yes I will be gentle LOL

CASSETTE TAPES: SET ADRIFT ON MEMORY BLISS PART ONE

>when my family went to africa to visit my brother, we got to his village on the last night of ramadan. After 2 days spent in airports in 4 countries, crazy taxis and a taxing cross desert off-highway bus ride, we arrive. It being the last night of ramadan; the party goes all night with the sounds of drums and dancing echoing across the sub-sahara. Come the middle of the night, I am having trouble sleeping due to jet lag and this incessant drumming when I hear this wild nearby chorus of brays and begin to rise. Tiptoe-ing from my cot out the door into the moonlit courtyard I then peer over the courtyard wall. The drums had worked a group of local donkeys into a knot of ravaged fornicating beasts. Oh how my eyes grew as there were at least 15-20 donkeys circling in this fucking frenzy. What a racket. I tried to wake my family to show them but nobody was having it so I did the only thing I could think to do and that is record the audio on a cassette tape. (now lost.)

--toby