Ira

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mission drive within everything

please tell me everything, this means you, I am hungry and also

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second innocence

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October 26, 2006

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• "Do Not Cheer, Men Are Dying," Said Capt. Phillips, In The Spanish-American War
• "I love you." "I know."
• *ify! FAQ
• 1.) Everything is beautiful; 2.) Except me (idea)
• 1/0
• 10 commandments for intellectual independence (idea)
• 69 Love Songs
• 8 Days Wonder (place)
• A Book about Me, by Me Myself (thing)
• A Boy's Guide to Neoteny (poetry)
• A Child's View of the Army (idea)
• A dozen ways to disappear (idea)
• A few crucial things about Conrad (person)
• A fool's right to his tools of rage (person)
• A guitar is easy in his hands / so is an airplane / so is a pen (person)
• A hundred visions and revisions (idea)
• A long talk on the beach that answered nothing (idea)
• A love poem scrawled from one stranger to another
• A message from sensei (idea)
• A Pause in Conversation (idea)
• A pep talk for your penis (idea)
• A person of touches (person)
• A pig, in a cage, on antibiotics (person)
• A Song of Patriotic Prejudice (idea)
• About some girl (person)
• Advice for a geek in a pool full of sharks (idea)
• Advice for dealing with children (idea)
• Advice my father gave me before I left for college (idea)
• after the therapy (idea)
• Alan Partridge
• Alice without opening her eyes says You have to stop crying you are shaking the bed. (person)
• All I ever wanted to be (fiction)
• all sounds are good sounds (idea)
• All the gold you can eat (person)
• Altered Scale (thing)
• alternative gender (idea)
• An 80 year-old's view on Racism
• An easy way to make not-so-good food much better
• An Infinite Number of Monkeys (idea)
• And then I will just slip away (idea)
• And would you do this thing for me? Land softly, yeah, land softly
• Andy Kaufman
• angel
• animal boything (person)
• Anna and her Mother: spinning me in circles (fiction)
• Anodyne (thing)
• Anonymity, privacy and E2 (idea)
• Any minute now, you will go blind (person)
• Any song can be a love song (idea)
• April 8, 2005 (idea)
• Are you okay? (idea)
• Aria Di Mezzo Carattere
• Around nine PM my heart was breaking so I went to bed early to listen to it happen. (thing)
• Art is the lie that tells the truth (idea)
• As Colossal City Sleeps (place)
• As if either one of us were happy (person)
• As you wish
• AS220
• assonance (idea)
• At the front with Dylan's army
• AudieMcCall
• augmented second (thing)
• August 19, 2004 (person)
• August 23, 2003 (idea)
• August 26, 2004 (idea)
• August 3, 2004 (idea)
• Augustine
• autism
• Autistic guy on the city bus (person)
• automatic thought (idea)
• Available Rooms
• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Bad posture (idea)
• BadMojo
• Basic plots (idea)
• Be yourself (idea)
• Bebop blues (thing)
• Because it all burns up (idea)
• Because we are all real people, and none of us is innocent (idea)
• Because: Context is not important. Because: My life is one long series of contexts. (place)
• beeramisu (recipe)
• Before Sunrise (thing)
• Before Sunset
• bewilderbeast
• Big Brown Lets Bubbles Down (fiction)
• Bitriot
• Bitten to the quick (thing)
• bittersweets.org
• Black barbershop (place)
• Black on black crime (idea)
• Bleeding on paper (thing)
• Bless your brown eyes smiling (person)
• Blueberry Boat (thing)
• Bob Dylan
• Boo, age two and a half (person)
• Botox (idea)
• Boxing Day (idea)
• Brighten a worker's day in a wholesale store (idea)
• bring sunlight (person)
• Bringing it all back home again
• Brooklyn girls (idea)
• Brought down as White, kept down as Black, brought up as None, left with me (personal)
• Bubbles and the 99 cent Epiphany (fiction)
• Bubbles Meets the Prince of Darkness (fiction)
• Bubbles Runs the Voodoo Down (fiction)
• Bubbles Takes a Magic Carpet Ride (fiction)
• Bubbles, Baked and Fried (fiction)
• Bubbles, Biff and Binny (fiction)
• Bubbles' Trip To See the Doctor (fiction)
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia! (idea)
• Buy the rumor, sell the fact (thing)
• By The Light Of The Silvery Moon (idea)
• C-Dawg
• CAIR statement on the events of September 11, 2001 (idea)
• Calvin and Hobbes
• Calvinball
• Camille Paglia, date rape, and me (idea)
• Can I go back to sleep now? (idea)
• Can't we all just get along? (idea)
• car alarm
• Carl and me (person)
• Categorised recipes
• Cheap brandy makes me love you and vomit (idea)
• Chelsea (person)
• child sexual abuse
• Childhood memories (idea)
• Children with Emerald Eyes (idea)
• children's emotional needs (idea)
• Children's recipes (idea)
• Chinese chess
• Chinese restaurant (thing)
• Choose your words carefully; now throw them away (idea)
• Choosing Love
• Christmas Truce 1914
• City of Souls I
• cliffdiving lessons (thing)
• cold air, warm skin
• Cold cereal (idea)
• cold women, kept safe (person)
• Compassion (idea)
• Completely implausible circumstances, even by comic book standards (idea)
• Conrad wants to know what I have been dreaming. This might get complicated. (person)
• Contradictory proverbs (idea)
• Control room (thing)
• Conversation I overheard in the bookstore 5 min before end of my shift
• Cook's Helpful Advice
• Cookery
• Cooking for two (person)
• Cool Hand Luke
• cootie catcher (thing)
• Copyright Compliance Help Offered
• Covered in snow (place)
• Cruyff turn (thing)
• customer : good dad (person)
• Cut and paste writeups (idea)
• Dammit Doll (how-to)
• Danny's Song (thing)
• Database Lag-o-meter
• David decides to fall (fiction)
• Dawn was a lucky time to give birth (person)
• Daylogs are brilliant and marvelous, and overall, completely priceless (idea)
• Debris (an ode to Johnny Goodyear) (idea)
• December 18, 2004 (idea)
• December 5, 2004 (idea)
• Defending yourself with a hardcover book (idea)
• defenestrate (idea)
• Depression is a good thing (idea)
• Desperation is the mother of insanity. (idea)
• Devon
• Diary of a Cereal Killer
• Different reasons (thing)
• Disneyland in the rain (fiction)
• Disobedience (James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree)
• Dissed by a five-year-old (idea)
• Ditch your tone phone. Go rotary! (idea)
• Do blind people dream? (idea)
• Do not blame me, Miss Gorgeous, if I regard you with suspicion (person)
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five? (person)
• Do You Speak English?
• Do you start feeling, ever? (idea)
• Do-It-Yourself Depression Control (idea)
• doggles
• Don't be sexy. I said stop that.
• Don't give up (idea)
• Don't kill yourself until you've completed the checklist (idea)
• Don't node drunk (idea)
• Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
• Don't want to be lonely no more (idea)
• Doreen (person)
• doyle
• Dream Log: April 8, 2005 (person)
• Dreamer
• Dressing up in a chicken suit and running around the golf course (idea)
• Duck, Duck, Goose
• Dulce et Decorum Est
• E2 Editor Doc
• E2 is unfriendly to new noders (idea)
• E2 is unfriendly to New Order
• E2 Lullaby
• E2 Prose Writers Group
• E2 Translators
• Ear training : interval identification
• Early, before our hands knew what to do (idea)
• Early, before our hands knew what to do (place)
• Editor Log: August 2004 (idea)
• Editor Log: February 2005 (idea)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnet XLIII
• Elmore Leonard's ten rules for crime fiction (idea)
• Emergency Landing (winter) (idea)
• emits showers of sparks
• English teacher wisdom (idea)
• Ephram's timely escape (idea)
• ern
• Escaping the Monotony of Daily Life in a Fishbowl (idea)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (review)
• European-American: Label-politics for the bigotry connoisseur (idea)
• Evaline
• Evaline Turns the Worm (person)
• Even though I sleep terribly with another body in the bed
• Everyone Poops (idea)
• Everything Document Directory
• Everything Finger
• Everything is a Family (idea)
• Everything is love, love is everything
• Everything is true and nothing matters (thing)
• Everything User Search
• Everything's Most Wanted (Archived)
• Everything2 as a 300 pound kitten (idea)
• Everywhere Is Kitten Trouble (thing)
• extreme ironing
• Fairy Tales
• fall asleep without thinking of monsters (idea)
• Falling in love with strangers (thing)
• Falling Leaves (idea)
• Falling out of love with friends (idea)
• Fan mail (thing)
• February 11, 2003 (idea)
• February 12, 2004 (idea)
• February 12, 2005 (idea)
• February 16, 2005 (idea)
• February 17, 2005 (idea)
• February 18, 2004 (person)
• February 19, 2004 (person)
• February 28, 2005 (place)
• February 3, 2005 (person)
• February 4, 2005 (person)
• February 6, 2005 (idea)
• Fenchurch
• Filmmaking terminology
• Final Fantasy IX vs. My Chair
• First night jitters
• First They Came (thing)
• Five minutes of forever (idea)
• Flowers for Al and Don (idea)
• folk music
• For a boat of white bone, and we three
• For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes. (person)
• For fuck's sake (idea)
• For my last trick, I made her disappear (person)
• Forgiveness (idea)
• found tape (person)
• four-leaf clovers (thing)
• Friends who need you, and how not to deal with them (idea)
• fundamental attribution error
• Galileo's Finger (idea)
• gear catalog collage. it's a love poem. (idea)
• Generic stand up comedy routine
• Getting to know you noders fucking sucked
• Ghosts I have known (person)
• Gianfranco Zola (person)
• Gifts we already have (idea)
• God is everywhere (idea)
• God is Still Speaking, (thing)
• God Made Man Because He Loves Stories (idea)
• Godzilla (idea)
• Gone in Sixty Seconds 2005 - Theatre Quest Entries (idea)
• Gone in Sixty Seconds 2005 - Theatre Quest Entries (thing)
• Gone in Sixty Seconds 2005 - Theatre Quest Entries (thing)
• Good practical jokes (idea)
• Good reasons to leave my computer-centred world alone (idea)
• Grab my hand
• Grave of the Fireflies
• graveyards make me wet (person)
• Green Wing (thing)
• Guns don't stop dictators, people stop dictators (idea)
• Hairy armpits on women are attractive (idea)
• Halspal
• Happy Pizza (thing)
• HATEDOME (idea)
• Hatshepsut
• Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? (idea)
• Having the courage to be an absolute nobody (idea)
• Hayao Miyazaki
• He gave her a daisy (idea)
• He makes me feel alone just by being there (idea)
• He Really Wasn't That Great (idea)
• He's having a vasectomy (thing)
• Hearts are funny, fragile, things (idea)
• Hello, my name is... Would you like to have sex? (idea)
• Helping your kid brother die (person)
• Here is Today! Here is Morning! Hello Hello Hello Here I Am! (person)
• Hey, baby, wanna do some tea?
• Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
• High school doth make cowards of us all (idea)
• High school doth make cowards of us all (idea)
• His ex-wife was so frigid, her clitoris was only the tip of the iceberg. (person)
• Homosexuality as a sin (idea)
• Homosexuality as a sin (idea)
• Hope Flowers School
• Hospital Food (thing)
• How about that local sports team?
• How children draw (idea)
• How did I get here, Sarah? (place)
• How do you make a life matter? (idea)
• How I fell in love with Alice (person)
• How I invented Anna and made her a character in all my stories (person)
• how i learned to love my peanut allergy and an elephant named bessy (idea)
• How I rescued a squirrel from drowning (idea)
• How it feels to be interviewed (when you know the answers)
• How Jenna Jameson Saved Christmas (place)
• How Kissing Was Discovered (thing)
• How not to beat Jet Li's kung-fu style in "Fist of Legend" (idea)
• How the heart really works (thing)
• How to avoid people whom you don't like talking to
• How to avoid saying, "I love you" (idea)
• How to begin poetry (idea)
• How to build a maze for your cat (thing)
• How to calculate the day of the week for a given date
• How to comfort someone whose parent has died (idea)
• How to cut a hole in a postcard large enough to walk through (idea)
• How to get a girl's attention (idea)
• How to give a hug
• How to jump into a pile of leaves (idea)
• How to kill your mates on Everything2
• How to listen to the stories that cats tell us (idea)
• How to love someone who is mentally ill (person)
• How to make a tuna salad sandwich (idea)
• How to overcome fatigue (idea)
• How to pack someone out of your life
• How to prevent an oncoming sneeze (idea)
• How to read to a child
• How to say "I love you"
• How to speak to someone in a noisy room
• How to teach art to a four-year-old (idea)
• How to walk past someone you work with in the hallways at the office
• How to watch the stars from a secluded island
• How to write poetry (thing)
• Huddled around the story as if it were a fire (idea)
• Hugging trees (idea)
• Humane Society
• husband-and-wife play (thing)
• I am a rape survivor
• I am a son of the South
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability (idea)
• I am thankful for the ocean eyes of Shaymus (person)
• I am uglier than you imagine (idea)
• I am worn out with the beauty of the most trivial things (idea)
• I assumed we would not even be friends (person)
• I can see the evening stars (thing)
• I can think of worse things than to die like a dog
• I Can't Make You Love Me (thing)
• I celebrate myself, and sing myself, (idea)
• I come to you, defenses down
• I cough up butterflies
• I dance with ghosts (idea)
• I don't have any secrets. Now ask me if I have any lies. (idea)
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am (idea)
• I fear I will be nothing (thing)
• I had a party, you were not invited, here are the pictures (idea)
• I had forgotten the bear's name, and could not find my way home to the Thousand Acre wood (idea)
• I had forgotten the bear's name, and could not find my way home to the Thousand Acre wood (person)
• I had forgotten the bear's name, and could not find my way home to the Thousand Acre wood (person)
• I have a dream
• I have a punklin and you don't (thing)
• I have a Shaymus and you don't. (person)
• I have this problem with saying "no" to people (idea)
• I just need a hug, is all
• I kissed her in the hair (idea)
• I love her backwards (idea)
• I love riding the subway on Valentine's Day (idea)
• I love you, darling (idea)
• I may dream in technicolor, but I trip the fuck out in old-school black and white
• I must die or be better (idea)
• I never learned to dance (idea)
• I once had a cavity (idea)
• I only dance when my feet are on fire (idea)
• I pray to God I can find the other sock (idea)
• I require unrequited love for emotional survival (idea)
• I saw everything arrange itself backwards; I liked it (idea)
• I sincerely hope you have one of these somewhere in your life.
• I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
• I suggest you dance. If you need a reason, I'm sorry. (idea)
• I think I know that I am almost always afraid. (idea)
• I used to be racist (idea)
• I used to think of marriage as a plate-glass window just begging for a brick (person)
• I want to be a muse
• I want to be alone until God rips a rib out of my chest and makes me a woman (idea)
• I want to put my hands there too (idea)
• I was my mom for a while (person)
• I was only following orders
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• I wish I loved the human race (idea)
• I would do that for you (idea)
• I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky (idea)
• I wrote you a letter on the bus back from the city, but that's a different kind of weary
• I'd like some dreams too (idea)
• I'm a crazy old lady whose ex-husband bought himself a Soloflex for my birthday (person)
• I'm afraid, I thought, I'm too afraid to jump, I'm a coward, and at that moment I jumped
• I'm afraid, sometimes, at night (idea)
• I'm dreaming it so it must be true
• I'm nobody! Who are you?
• I'm not racist but...
• I'm scared to death of what havoc he could wreak in my life (idea)
• I'm such a small thing and the sky is so big (place)
• I've got a page one story buried in my yard; I've got a troubled mind (person)
• iceowl
• icicle
• Ico
• Ico (thing)
• idiots abroad (thing)
• If class conflict is inherent to society, then so too is revolution (idea)
• if i never saw you again (idea)
• If the universe breaks my heart (idea)
• If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character (idea)
• If you're feeling disillusioned, find a 9-year-old (person)
• If you're going to speak archaic English, use it correctly!
• II-V-I progression
• ILU ATST IH8U (idea)
• Impersonating someone famous (idea)
• in cities not our own (idea)
• In Defense and Exhortation of E2 Fiction
• In the dream he laughs and says, You thought they were graceful on the ground (idea)
• In the maze of my mind, some paths cannot be backtracked (idea)
• In the real world, it is almost always women and not men who are waiting under windows (person)
• In timeless valleys full of stars (idea)
• INFP
• inner ugliness (idea)
• Interlocking hearts (place)
• International Assholes' Day (fiction)
• Intimacy on the ward (person)
• Into My Arms (thing)
• Is file sharing theft? (idea)
• Is spanking really child abuse? (idea)
• Israel/Palestine: Hopes for Peace (idea)
• It all fits together like a jigsaw (idea)
• It was a dangerous, stupid infraction and I deserve the ticket (idea)
• It's a jailbreak; we're free.
• It's all happy endings and meaningful conversation until someone gets hurt (idea)
• It's all in God's time (idea)
• It's always a good idea to tell people you love them if you do (idea)
• It's better to have loved and lost (idea)
• It's better to have loved and lost (idea)
• It's my birthday and I'll refuse to drink if I want to
• It's the cracked ones that let light into the world (idea)
• It's turtles all the way down
• Jaffa Cakes
• James Wong Howe (person)
• Jane
• January 10, 2003 (person)
• January 13, 2005 (person)
• January 15, 2005 (thing)
• January 20, 2004 (idea)
• January 30, 2005 (idea)
• January 7, 2004 (thing)
• jessicapierce
• Josephine, The Dog-faced Girl (person)
• July 4, 2004 (person)
• July 5, 2002 (thing)
• July 8, 2005 (place)
• June 16, 2001 (idea)
• junkpile
• Just a word before tomorrow (thing)
• Just because I'm black doesn't mean I can rap (idea)
• Just kiss her (idea)
• Just world hypothesis
• Katie P. (person)
• Keep this in mind (idea)
• Kick The Can (thing)
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Kind words beat upvotes and C!s every day
• kindred spirit
• King-Cat Comics and Stories (thing)
• Kiss (thing)
• kiss, even (person)
• Kissing a man all over his face (idea)
• kissing in public (idea)
• Knowing your brain is about to grow outward, a flower in full bloom (idea)
• Krazy Kat
• l'esprit d'escalier
• Ladies and gentlemen, I play piano, but god is in the house tonight. (thing)
• Last Letter, First Letter (idea)
• Laughing on grass (idea)
• lay vs. lie
• Leaves Fall And Sink (idea)
• leaving out parts of the truth. you have to. (idea)
• LEGO
• Leslie Cheung (person)
• Lest Ye Be Vexed (person)
• Letter to baby, from mama (idea)
• Letter to the Editor of WomenCentral@microsoft.com (thing)
• Liberty Heights (thing)
• Life in still water
• Life is material; you just have to live long enough to figure out how to use it (idea)
• Life of Pi
• Life, no road signs (idea)
• Lightning Crashes (person)
• linguistic imperialism
• liontamer
• Listen, boy. Everyone is their own kind of ninja. (person)
• Long after bedtime I will wake up and sit crosslegged watching you. It is your fault for having your face. (person)
• Look at me mammy I'm dancin I'm dancin (person)
• looking-glass self (idea)
• Lord of All Hopefulness (thing)
• Love for animals is often a substitute (idea)
• Love is more complicated than Quantum Mechanics (idea)
• Love That Dog (thing)
• Love your enemies (idea)
• lovejoyman
• Lucyboo
• Lydian b7 (thing)
• Madison (thing)
• Maggie's Sabbath (person)
• Making lunch for a loved one (idea)
• Manifesto of the Monster Raving Loony Party (thing)
• March 1, 2005 (idea)
• March 11, 2000 (idea)
• March 11, 2002 (idea)
• March 17, 2003 (idea)
• March 22, 2004 (idea)
• March 22, 2004 (person)
• March 23, 2005 (thing)
• March 24, 2004 (person)
• March 25, 2002 (idea)
• March 3, 2005 (idea)
• March 7, 2005 (thing)
• Marion and Geoff (thing)
• masha
• Massage tricks and tips (idea)
• May 13, 2004 (idea)
• May 27, 2004 (idea)
• May 28, 2005 (idea)
• May 3, 2005 (person)
• Maybe because we like to cry. Maybe because neither of us can believe. (idea)
• Maybe grief expects poor nutrition. (person)
• Maybe it's bad manners, but you still can't buy my baby (idea)
• Maybe Yes, Maybe No (idea)
• Memoir of a Well-Intentioned Man (fiction)
• memory is (idea)
• Merhan Karimi Nasseri
• Mexican jumping beans
• Mind racing, a while back
• Minor Blues
• Minor British Political Parties (idea)
• minor scale (thing)
• Miscarriage (thing)
• Mitzi
• moloch36
• Monkey Brains Love Spaceship Rumbles (idea)
• Moons is good for eatin (person)
• Mordechai Vanunu
• morning pages
• Move, and pretend you're still breathing (idea)
• Mozilla Firefox
• Mulierosity (definition)
• Music isn't free
• my best Patrick (person)
• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good
• My dizzying valleys (idea)
• My friend has just broken up a marriage (person)
• My God, it's full of stars (thing)
• My grandmother and I traveling in time (essay)
• My heart melts in the rain
• My Husband is a Spaceman (idea)
• My Name Is Quizro
• My real life, burst into the proper colors (person)
• My regret sits on the floor like someone else's polaroid photos
• My Snuffleupagus smells like CK One. This does not disturb me. (person)
• My stuff is everything and baby can't touch my stuff (idea)
• My werewolf faux pas (thing)
• National Day of Silence
• negative nodevertising (idea)
• Neko Case
• New Year's tradition (idea)
• Nick Berg is Our Son (idea)
• nick can write love poems again (idea)
• No less a man (idea)
• No one can be unhappy with a fresh box of crayons
• No one is illegal (idea)
• Nobuo Uematsu
• Nodes which sarcastically argue a point in order to make the other side look foolish are funny (idea)
• None of These Kids Gets Hurt. (idea)
• Nonsense and the lovely, more of the parcel (idea)
• Nonsense and the lovely, part of the parcel (idea)
• Not wanting to sleep so the next day won't start (thing)
• November 23, 2004 (idea)
• November 27, 2004 (idea)
• November 6, 2001 (idea)
• October 10, 2003 (idea)
• October 13, 2001 (idea)
• October 23, 2003 (person)
• October 29, 2004 (idea)
• October 5, 2004 (idea)
• October 8, 2004 (idea)
• Oh, did you learn to play chess after YOU dropped a barbell on your head, too? (idea)
• OK, so I'm a fuckup, and it's Tuesday (person)
• OK, so I'm a fuckup, and it's Tuesday (place)
• Old video games don't die (idea)
• On becoming a parent (idea)
• On the beach, by myself. How it turned out. (place)
• On The Hour
• On Writing (thing)
• One day I will step out of my body and burst into bloom (idea)
• Online Community Dynamics
• origami throwing star (thing)
• Our Mollusk (idea)
• Overused chord progressions
• Paint Me the End of an Era (idea)
• Parable of the Good Samaritan (thing)
• Paradise Lost (person)
• Pasta Recipes
• pentatonic scale
• Perfect moment : 5 (place)
• Philosophy won't keep you warm at night (idea)
• Phoebe's Songs
• Piccadilly Circus to Victoria Station (place)
• Pictures of blue Amy (person)
• Piercisms Generator
• Plastic Jesus
• Plato on Soul Mates (idea)
• Platonic Life Partner (essay)
• Playing 'Name that driver' to kill time and stay awake (idea)
• Playing in strip ponds (thing)
• Playing rough on the bed (idea)
• Please tell me everything, this means you, I am hungry and also (person)
• Pleiades (thing)
• Poem for a Northside girl (idea)
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like (idea)
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like (thing)
• Poke, poke, tickle (idea)
• postcard fiction
• prison rape (idea)
• Proper acoustic guitar care (idea)
• Prosenoder's Cup 2003
• Prostitution (thing)
• Prostitution (thing)
• Psst! Johnny likes Jenny! Pass it on! (idea)
• pukesick
• purple_curtain is an undead brain-eating zombie (person)
• questions to ask of friends and lovers (thing)
• Quieting a crying baby (idea)
• RACECAR
• Racial amalgamation, racism, and pride (idea)
• Racial Tolerance (idea)
• Random acts of kindness
• Rape committed by women (idea)
• Rape committed by women (idea)
• Raymond Carver
• Receiving compliments (idea)
• redheads (person)
• retard (idea)
• Revelation of the Lamb in Four Parts
• Revelling in bitterness (idea)
• reverse culture shock (idea)
• Revising Prose (thing)
• Rhythm changes
• riverrun
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• Romeo and Juliet
• Romeo and Juliet had it easy
• Romeo and Juliet I.I
• Rudy the Stamp Dancer (person)
• Salvation for modern Dads (idea)
• Sandy (person)
• Satan shoots and... Jesus Saves! (idea)
• Saturday night, the words falling from her lips (idea)
• Sauce Recipes
• Save Me (idea)
• Save us from the horror of dull dead trees: a marathon E2 Quest (thing)
• screwing it up for Anna (person)
• Scriblerus
• second innocence
• See Jane. See Jane run. (person)
• self absorption (thing)
• self-esteem
• Self-fulfilling prophecy (idea)
• Send me the pillow, the one that you dream on
• sensei
• Sensei and stuff
• Sensei's recipes
• September 11, 2001
• September 21, 2002 (person)
• Sex Games (idea)
• Shaun of the Dead
• Shaymus is older than I thought he was (person)
• She bruised her knee. This is how we met. (person)
• She calls him Sugarcane. He calls her Hurricane. (idea)
• she gave herself that holocaust haircut. cinnamon colored clippings cover the motel bedspread like sprinkles. (person)
• She has trouble acting normal (idea)
• She is stupidly keeping herself a secret, when I know she has sparkly things to show me
• She left these broken things (thing)
• She sang of fantastic green islands, and sparkling fish, never telling that she haunted the waters (idea)
• She sketched on paper napkins (idea)
• She Walks in Beauty (idea)
• She was never mine. I always shared her. (person)
• She was so pleased to learn that she was right (idea)
• She wears her failed relationships like a shield (person)
• Shopping with Susan (idea)
• Siblings forever (idea)
• Silent Night
• Sing a Song of Sixpence
• Siobhan
• Sitting inside a snowglobe (idea)
• Skin hunger
• Sleeping with a shooting star (idea)
• Slidewell
• smile lines (idea)
• Smoking cigarettes on a roof in the middle of winter (person)
• Snow like fire
• So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish (thing)
• So much it scares me (person)
• So this one-legged man walks into a bar (person)
• Society for the prevention of Haikus
• Soldier, soldier won't you marry me
• soliloquee
• Some observations on getting a girlfriend
• Some of our best friends are three minutes long (idea)
• Some people break so easily (idea)
• Someone's gotta do the happy (idea)
• Sometimes it's not political correctness, just respect and caring for others (idea)
• Sometimes the apathy she saw made her want to curl up and cry (idea)
• Sometimes, all you can be is a friend
• Sonnet LXXVI
• Soulmates who will never ever meet again
• Soup Recipes
• SpaceShipOne
• spider camp (place)
• stand/alone/bitch
• Station 37 (place)
• Steady these hands these hands steady these hands (person)
• Stealing Comfort on the Bus (place)
• Still dreaming (idea)
• Stop running
• Stratagem of the Empty City (thing)
• Stretching your lungs (idea)
• Studio Ghibli (thing)
• Stupid people (idea)
• Suicide prevention
• Sunflower (thing)
• Supervixen (person)
• Surf's Up (thing)
• Surf's Up (thing)
• Swedish, in one word (thing)
• Take life by the hand (idea)
• Talking like a pirate is fun but annoys people
• tandex
• Teach your million tiny babies to parasail (idea)
• Teacher burnout (idea)
• Tell me a story
• Tell me a story about being really alive (idea)
• Tell me a story about being really alive (idea)
• Tell me a story about trains
• Tell me about your secret places
• Tell me of the nature of love
• Telling Anna you love her the first time (idea)
• Temple Grandin (person)
• That whole bedroom thing wouldn't have happened if you hadn't tried to explain Quantum Physics (idea)
• That's not love, it's F major (idea)
• That's what I want to be too, frankly (idea)
• The "A Hard Day's Night" Chord - Rock's Holy Grail (thing)
• The agony of birds (idea)
• The ambiguity of chord naming
• The Artist's Way
• The benefit of the doubt (idea)
• The benefits of myopia
• The Blind Men and the Elephant
• The Boatman's Call (thing)
• The boy who cried censorship (person)
• The color of the universe is beige (thing)
• The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation (idea)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (thing)
• The Day Today
• the death of a child (person)
• The defining quality of the most beautiful things in the world (idea)
• The difference between desire and being desired (idea)
• The E2 Backstory
• The E2 feline conspiracy
• The easiest way to find it is to stop looking (idea)
• the easy maneuver of winning Conrad (person)
• The Everything People Registry
• The Evil Overlord list
• The Eye vs. The Look! Life Saving Information Contained Within! (idea)
• the fact that
• The Five Basic Responses (thing)
• The Flying Scotsman (person)
• The fragility of friendships (idea)
• The Gap Game
• The girl wants something harder
• The girl who could cry flowers (a parable) (idea)
• The good, the bad, and the skinny on hugs (thing)
• The Harriet Tubman Offense (idea)
• The healing power of touch (thing)
• The Hong Kong story (thing)
• The horse that freed the slaves (idea)
• The Incredible Hulk (person)
• The Japan Times, e2, and sensei
• The Kingdom of Loathing
• The Knight, The Princess and the Love Potion (person)
• The Lady, or the Tiger?
• The Langley Schools Music Project (review)
• The Last American Virgin (thing)
• The lonely ones will find each other by the heat of their bodies (idea)
• The Lovecraftian compulsion to keep writing even as one is being devoured
• The Meaning of Liff
• The Messiah on Mott Street (thing)
• The Monopoly Game: Anger, suffering, and betrayal (idea)
• The one that got away (person)
• The Peach Garden Oath
• The Perfect Puppy
• The picture she drew in my notebook (idea)
• The Power of Nightmares (thing)
• The power to break a heart (idea)
• The Prevalence of Suicide in Hong Kong (idea)
• The principles of nuclear weapon safety and meeting girls are remarkably similar (idea)
• The problem with nodes condoning drugs (idea)
• The Robot (person)
• The romance of the permanent resident (person)
• The sad thing is, if you get her you'll be sick of her in a year
• The saddest adventure I know (idea)
• The seven basic conflicts (idea)
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The six rejections game
• The Spanish Inquisition Sketch (thing)
• The Streets (person)
• The Swimming Hour
• The swing and the death of an old man (person)
• The Thanksgiving Curse, or, how we keep almost getting killed. (idea)
• the thoughts of a deaf person (idea)
• The Three Men I Admired Most: Manhattan, 9/11/01
• The Tornado, or, how we almost all got killed. (idea)
• The two-hour hug (thing)
• the tyranny of lost loves (idea)
• The Ugly Duckling
• The Universe intended for us to have biscuits (idea)
• The Very Lonely Cat (idea)
• The waves are laughing (idea)
• The way things have always been done (idea)
• the wild flamingos of my Oklahoma trailer park paradise (place)
• The world breaks everyone
• The world is warm and likes having us in it
• The World's Shortest Horror Story (idea)
• The Zada Project (person)
• The Zombie Survival Guide (thing)
• There are places in this world where mundane, forgotten things have learned to weave their own magic (person)
• There is good country music (idea)
• There was this one great night at Alice's house, (place)
• there's a spider in my keyboard (idea)
• There's no reason to leave this poem alone (idea)
• There's no room in my life for anyone to stay (place)
• These are the memories I never had
• These people are not your friends (idea)
• They all look the same (thing)
• They leap just because they can, out of joy (idea)
• Things I need to tell my teenaged daughters about boys (thing)
• Things nobody tells you about the south pole (place)
• Things on which you can make a wish
• Things to do, if you are hard-core (idea)
• Thinking that the wisteria is making me homesick (idea)
• Third Wheel (idea)
• Thirteen (person)
• This is a pleasant fiction, isn't it? (idea)
• This is a satire about the SATs. You might find it humorous. (idea)
• This is as real as magic gets (idea)
• This is getting over you (place)
• This is why she stays (idea)
• This isn't Vietnam, man. This is Jazz; there are Rules. (idea)
• This Land is Your Land
• This ocean is angry but I might live through it (place)
• This should make you very quiet (idea)
• This wordplay bullshit
• those whose lives you impact seldom remain in yours (idea)
• Through this warm electricity I will give you bark branches and leaves curling upward into a safe sky (person)
• Throwing sparks, growing dahlias (idea)
• Til I Die (thing)
• Tilly and the Wall
• Time Heals All Wounds
• Tired, Hungry and Full of Life (idea)
• Tits on a keyboard (idea)
• To all the cold people who want to be warm again (idea)
• To Kill Yourself with a Cannonball (idea)
• To node one thing beautiful every day
• Toaster (thing)
• Tolerance (idea)
• Tolerance (idea)
• Torturing your Sims (idea)
• Touch not, lest ye be touched (idea)
• tragic but brave (idea)
• trash jenga (thing)
• Treme
• Trey Newberry (person)
• Trivial Pursuit, the battle of the sexes, and one very smart little cookie (person)
• True love happens (idea)
• truths, rearranged (person)
• Try not to look into my eyes (person)
• trying to manage grace in the most graceless moments (idea)
• tuesday
• Tunnel in the Key of G
• Turn the other cheek (idea)
• Twelve bar blues
• Twenty-three good things about pickles and dirt (idea)
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (thing)
• Two dogs (idea)
• Two stick figures leaning towards each other, heads touching (person)
• U.S. considered nuking the moon (idea)
• U.S. Diplomat Ann Wright's letter of resignation (thing)
• U.S. Diplomat John Brady Kiesling's letter of resignation (thing)
• Uh, are you looking at my joystick to impress her, or are you just an asshole? (idea)
• uncool (idea)
• Up and In Heat (place)
• upnod (thing)
• Usergroup Lineup
• Using a Jedi Mind Trick on State Troopers
• various stages of undress (idea)
• Veni, Vidi, Exii (idea)
• Venice by night
• Waitin' for a Superman
• wake (person)
• Waking Life (idea)
• Waking Life (idea)
• Waking Life (review)
• Walking avenues of glorious distance (idea)
• Walking Man, An Annotated Index
• Walt Whitman (idea)
• Want (the state of not having her) (person)
• Wanting to shut up forever (idea)
• We are all linked in our loneliness
• We can meet her for you wholesale: a dreaming girl's singularity (idea)
• We didn't cross the border; the border crossed us. (idea)
• We don't write poetry because it's cute
• we keep moving (idea)
• we lose weeks like buttons, like pencils (idea)
• We Met in May (person)
• Welcome to the world (idea)
• wertperch
• Wet T-shirts and hot summers: a fifteen year old's definition of love (thing)
• What a Wonderful World (thing)
• What do you do? (idea)
• What I wrote when I was missing David (idea)
• What is it like to menstruate?
• what she kisses twice (idea)
• What the hell is wrong with society today? (idea)
• what the kids did for love: (idea)
• What to do with a dead horse (idea)
• What's the matter with kids today? (thing)
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it (idea)
• When again between cities was comfortable and right (idea)
• When being chased by CIA trainees, don't mention Belgium to the waffle house physicist (idea)
• When I asked Anna to marry me (idea)
• When I was ten years old (idea)
• When people say "All-American", they seldom mean me. (idea)
• When the aliens attack my workplace, I'm going to be so damn READY (idea)
• When we finally fall, it will be fast and sure (idea)
• When we were little kids, running (idea)
• Where are all the women with abysmal self-esteem? (idea)
• Where is the Christian outrage? (idea)
• Where the cats live
• Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
• whiskey tango foxtrot, over
• white poppy (thing)
• Who to send presents to, and when.
• Why am I dancing alone? (idea)
• Why bert hid the moon (idea)
• Why don't you dance? (thing)
• Why I became a writer (thing)
• Why is this lying bastard lying to me? (idea)
• Why strapping buttered toast to a cat's back will not produce infinite power
• Why the willow weeps (idea)
• Why the world is more beautiful with a creator (person)
• Why your balls seem to cringe sometimes (idea)
• witchiepoo
• Women you know you should just walk away from (person)
• Work within the limitations of the medium (idea)
• Would you mind terribly if I kissed you now? (idea)
• Write what you know
• Xer than Thou (idea)
• XWiz
• Yellow Hair of Mockery (place)
• Yesterday I kissed the girl I love
• You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
• You are not special. You will die here, too. (idea)
• You are precious to me. Did you know that? (idea)
• You can do anything (personal)
• You can get to my heart by making me cry (idea)
• You don't know what you have until it's gone (idea)
• You lack the fire
• You love these machines. These machines are dead: a love story.
• You think time is moving fast now, just wait til you're 26 (person)
• You too can spend four years
• You're dripping liquid sex into my Cherry Coke (idea)
• You're so funny I think I'll kick your ass (idea)
• Your angel stayed long after everything else was gone (person)
• Your Nodeshells
• Zhuge Liang