July, 2010

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a toenail glued to a fingernail

running his finger down the space where the tatami mats didn’t quite touch was a ...
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He found himself carrying the heaviest orange in a chariot made of ...

he was out in the field in front of his barn, in front of his ...
2010-07-30 | adam |  1 comments
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Graphite Challenge

Names of restaurants Bill ate in during the Graphite Challenge race::::  December 23rd-  Chinese Paint Boar, ...
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the waiting room

the bag was full of tickets…filled to the brim…overflowing on the Pacific side…this was a ...
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1+1=333,333.333

except in certain times of uncertainty   
2010-07-27 | adam |  1 comments
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try softer

 a goat carrying a toyota.       
2010-07-26 | adam |  2 comments
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You absolutely must throw a coin in the ...

When she was younger, she dreamt of owning a motorcycle.  When she owned a motorcycle, she ...
2010-07-25 | adam |  1 comments
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kaminari kamo

it was really hot today.  how hot was it?!?  it was sooo hot, ducks were laying scrambled ...
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You can't eat a mountain

A lot of ants are going to be calling in sick for work tomorrow!  
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THE RIVER OF MOUNTAIN DEW and THE DOG WHO DRANK FROM ...

The dog was a hunter of cats.  The river was a hunter of oceans.  They ...
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A small, grimy office with a magician, a water cooler and a fish print taped over the cracked window. ...

I never reached my destination that day.  It had snowed in the desert that morning.  With minimal ...
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Olives from Space

Shouldn’t we start planting trees on other planets before we move there?  Have some astronauts ...
2010-07-20 | adam |  1 comments
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there is no such thing as an organic ...

she deleted the paradoxical electronic mail about an ecologically friendly toothpaste      
2010-07-19 | adam |  2 comments
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GOLDEN TRANCE

we have been driving around for hours listening to some late night radio station playing ...
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CROW SEA

the feathers of a thousand and one crows washed ashore and provided bedding for a ...
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again

you walk into a familiar place that you haven’t been to in awhile (4 months)…you ...
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can opener

i once saw a guy open a beer bottle with his teeth.  i never saw him ...
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THE CASE OF THE CATATONIC TOAD

there was an ivory button, a shard of coke bottle and a pink ribbon tied ...
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cutting fingernails with the wind

Candy apple lipstick on the watermelon phone are all you can smell when you put ...
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i can help you, i don't work ...

i didn’t vote for you…but i like your shoes…do you want to trade?  
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gasoline snakes curled 'round barbershop ...

anything filled with liquid (YOU) is affected by the gravity of the moon.  as she gets ...
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When building something, it is crucial to leave at least one part ...

…for example…the train station that I am currently constructing has no rails or tracks for ...
2010-07-09 | adam |  1 comments
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Vanilla Bean Candle

One of the advantages of burning a candle at both ends is that it will ...
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For as long as I can remember, I have had ...

Crawling through the traffic of shopping carts and baby strollers at the mammoth supermarket, I ...
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"She is the president of a small ...

…that makes packages for other types of packages…let’s say you needed to ship a 3-ton ...
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WAXY

Titles of Books in the Train Engineer’s Bathroom:::   1)Sugied Cypress Window Pane  2)Beeswax Cream Furniture Polish  3)Air-Dried   
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isogu koto wa arimasen

if you break an ichi-man-en note on a stick of chewing gum, you better chew ...
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taiheiyo

“You already know the answer to every question you ask.”  “What do you mean?”  “You know what ...
2010-07-03 | adam |  3 comments
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shoga hyoga

ginger glacier.  it’s a film about…about…well, basically it’s just a 90-year film about this massive ...