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Though I feel like the good things are spiky and fleeting and don’t seem to turn into greater momentum… and I’d like to have a day job and I’d like to have a dating life with some nerdy woman or ...

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So Friday, in the middle of helping a friend from NYC who lives in SF now play a show in Utica, the car my pop and I share died, throwing my mom into a conniption about how I don’t make any money...

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I don’t like when facebook tells me it’s one ex-girlfriend’s birthday and that an old crush has a new boyfriend at the same time. I have some momentum on some things… maybe, anyway, with my writi...

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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> We won honourable mention!

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1.) On my left hand, the thumb is double-jointed and I have a birthmark shaped a bit like Australia that is almost invisible unless I have a tan. 2.) Similarly, I am intensely left handed. I am a...

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A year since The Dairymaster finally gave up the farm and let opendiary opendie its opendeath and a year here on the prosebox. It’s not the same as the old place, it’s a lot less conducive to int...

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For those of you who aren’t also my friends on the facebook or the twitter, I’ve changed my icon on here to the cover to my small poetry collection so that you could check it out! I had nothing t...

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I dunno. I just wanted to share my joy here! The small press arm of the best arts cafe in Utica, the Tramontane Cafe, released my first slim little poetry chapbook… the first physical written thi...

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Whenever Rod Stewart comes on the radio when I'm driving, I leave it on until it's done, even though I fucking hate Rod Stewart. But my ex-girlfriend's dad loved it and... even though he passed a...

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The pop song was literally wrong, of course, they all are. It was correct, however, as a metaphor as only the really good ones are. It does rain in Southern California and even when it does, it r...

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I've finished four supplemental chapters for my "bigfoot in LA" book wrote a bare-bones draft of over the winter, fleshing out the pacing and better developing the antagonist character, as were t...

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Just ran into a lady I thought I had a spark with, out on a date with a guy much thinner and with a better earning potential than me. It's my most recent ex-girlfriend's birthday, too. None of my...

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The application for the Amtrak Residency thing asks for a writing sample. Any opinions on what I should submit? Anything you remember from the OD old days or stuff I've shared on facebook or ...

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So, I have one good night and today my ma lies to me that adult protective has been called on my dad recovering from surgery, blames it on my friends and then eventually admits that it was all a ...

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Went to a burlesque show tonight. It was themed to a movie by some people I used to work for, donated some dribs and drabs from my parents' attic from those days to help them make more money at t...

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I'm now trying my best to actually take advantage of the prosebox format and I've shuffled my journal out into poetry, idea barrages, song parodies and a catch-all for life stuff and other kinds ...

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Yeah, so my dad is recovering from having a... bi-ventricular synchronizer and internal defribulator put in, in a hospital in Utica. It is like the logical extreme of the pacemaker and they had t...

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Ah, this is gonna take some goddamned getting used to, isn't it? Hi. I'm Mike. I'm still a little young but I'm getting old. I've lived all kinds of places and I've done a lot of things but now...

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