dream

Soirée.

May 6, 2012

An afternoon nap dream: It is night. I stand outside a mountaintop villa. Parts of the villa hang over the slope and are supported by broad stainless steel beams. The walls are mostly floor-to-ceiling glass, and reveal a well-lit, simple modern interior. No one is inside. The hosts, a married couple of bankers, had given [...]

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Predator.

February 12, 2012

Yesterday some friends asked if I would babysit their cat for roughly one year while they’re in Europe waiting for the furor surrounding their thrill-killing and bank robbery spree to die down. I politely declined, but offered to look around for potential can-openers. So, if anyone’s interested in hosting an unassuming and fairly well-read cat [...]

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A brief moment of panic.

December 4, 2011

A recent dream: I am working on a laptop. Several windows are open, the topmost of which is a letter of resignation. Clicking on another window reveals a website for an apartment rental agency in some faraway place. Clicking on another another window reveals a listing of full- and part-time night jobs in the same [...]

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Protected: T.L.G.W.L.M., part two.

November 6, 2011

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Another place.

October 6, 2011

A recent dream: It is night. I am in a basement. Two men and a woman are seated at a nearby table and seem to be making a plan of some sort. I approach the table and recognize them: it’s Donna Hayward, James Hurley, and FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper. I’m in an episode of [...]

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Protected: T.L.G.W.L.M.

August 4, 2011

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Got nothing.

August 1, 2011

Last night’s dream: I am sitting in the audience of a comedy club, something I have never done in real life. It is the last night of a three-night amateur competition. They announce that a particular contestant has dropped out of the competition. The competition must’ve somehow been points-based, because they then announce that it [...]

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Anachronism.

May 27, 2011

A dream from this afternoon’s kinetic napping action: It is nighttime. I pull into the driveway of my grandmother’s old house. The garage door is open and the overhead light is on. The water heater is out of place; it’s right in the middle of the garage. I get out of the car and have [...]

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Non sequitur.

December 15, 2010

A not-too-recent dream: It is late in the movie. I am dying of something that was presumably revealed earlier. I sit in an office writing a letter of resignation, trying to get everything taken care of before it’s too late. I realize that this is doing nothing to prolong my days, and that someone else [...]

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Five Years!

September 1, 2010

Today is the fifth anniversary of my very first journal entry. When I first started blogging, I dreamt of being that daring, edgy writer whose ideas would grab a tragically dull world by its lapels, punch it in the face and knee it in the groin. I was going to change everything. In commemoration, here’s [...]

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“You just can’t let anything go, can you?”

May 23, 2010

One of last night’s dreams: I am at a grocery store in Virginia with The Mole and Dr. Hmnahmna, presumably getting sundries for the Great Turkey Fry. We are at the end of a short line, waiting to check out at a customer service counter because the regular checkout lines are packed. The line is [...]

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