Most positive attribute: Good listener Least positive attribute: perfectionist Accomplishment you’re most proud of: Most negative life event: The time at school when there was no toilet paper How you handled this event: With my hands Most positive life event:…
Day: April 8, 2015
Don’t Look Back
To the press-drop coffee machine on the top floor, to the garbage man alone at home, to the faux leather couch on the side of the road, to the neo-theory student banded waist-high on a map that can’t lead her…
Shakespeare
the earliest memory I have of god is of a pastor who was saying how his friend told him “the bible, thank you, is a great piece of literature” and so the pastor thwarted him in his prayers because literature…
Shells
This place is simply used. Like a shell, our cosmic bastion has run dry of the things we need to survive. The future we feared is present and simultaneously future as well. It seems a disgrace that we could call…
Witch of Newdath
First week in Newdath and standing in line at the Mini-Discount. I can afford two bowls of instant noodles, I have change for three, but tax here is unnatural. This guy, something particularly broken in his bobble-eyed stare, keeps cutting…
Closure
“The lamb gaped its lower jaw slackly over the unsuspecting children to vomit on them its bad luck.” –M. John Harrison, The Luck in the Head. The knapsack is swollen, sopping. Its cornucopia? The heads of secrets that could…
Pablo’s Prayer
My father was a thesaurus and my mother a dictionary. I spilled from their pages with all their words and the words of my ancestors in an inky black soup of memory and meaning, most of which I still don’t…
In-N-Out Comes To Oregon
In-N-Out, a burger joint well known to California natives, will be opening a new location in Medford later this year. This particular restaurant will pave the way for the franchise in the state, but it is already causing some concern…
Back on Board: Greg Louganis
New York, 1994. Greg Louganis, arguably the most successful Olympic diver in the modern era, shocked the world when he sent this message to the opening ceremonies of the gay games; “Welcome to the Gay Games, it’s…
Basketball and Volleyball Moving to Ashland High School
The McNeal Pavilion gymnasium at Southern Oregon University is scheduled to begin remodeling shortly. Demolition is expected to begin in August with construction beginning in the fall. The project for the actual gymnasium coincides with the development of…