Archive for October, 2004

monthly moth

Friday, October 22nd, 2004

October's moth: Lesser Spotted Desk Moth.

yes she did

Thursday, October 21st, 2004

Teresa Heinz Kerry apologized to Mrs. Bush for her coments on Tuesday: "I had forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a schoolteacher and librarian, and there couldn't be a more important job than teaching our children." Good enough. Or is it? Mrs. Heinz Kerry hasn't quite completely pulled ...

no she didn’t

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP: You'd be different from Laura Bush? Teh-rey-zah Heinz-Kerry: Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, ...

harvest time

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

The grist of labor turns; Love's hope burns An arc around the mill. Some wheat may spill From time to time And tragic rhyme Is dusted on the floor. Pay no heed, for at the door Are workmen and a wagon. They pause to drink the harvest flagon. They laugh, and stack their wain with flour And pay us in an ...

the making of “harvest time”

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

This is just a single stage in a production process which literally took years.

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Saturday, October 16th, 2004

Two fevers, two minutes, two helix' hopes, two choices, too many promises too quickly broken, two tragic heroes too many (et tu Brute?) to taste my own bitter tongue, to trust you to begin again. Two years later, two saner heads with two more strands of gray hair are too sad to speak, with two point two billion seconds to spare. © 2002, Joel Helbling. All rights ...

i think that’s mine

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

I was on the phone, waiting for my sister to finish her sentence so I could pause the conversation and tell my guest there was some grub on the stove. It was simple fare: whole wheat spaghetti with some concoction by Paul Newman for sauce. "Hang on, sis, I got ...

coming back from wichita

Saturday, October 9th, 2004

I recorded and mixed a rendition of k-sra's Wichita, performed by John of Belfry, The. The recording seemed to go ok, but I think when I mixed it I stirred it the wrong way.

the love life of joel hoagland (page 8)

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

That Sinking Feeling I look back, down my outstretched arm, at the pale, cold and delicate hand of The Girl, and feel an ache inside. She clutches closed her black wool overcoat with her other hand, haphazardly concealing the satin nightgown underneath. Her winter boots beat their own otherworldly ...