Follow the Lighted Promenade

My favourite words: thunderstorm gloaming equatorial dazzling euphonious travel tintinnabulation resonance valley autumnal effluvium luminous cumulus hinterlands collossal wilderness copse I went camping over the weekend, to beautiful Wyalusing State Park in western Wisconsin with Sarah and Evil Lucas. It was nice to get away, though I'm really not burned out with school yet. I'm having a great time of it, actually. Sarah Mean and I are going to Galena next month, to see the fall colors (and a bunch of damn, stinking ass yuppie tourists - I'll spit on them all). Fall is the season of lights, fall is the season of travel. Happy birthday Leonard Cohen - the bard of mordant humour turns 70. Tonight I embark. My cat barfed on my dirty clothes. copse blazing glow vastness Add more words.

Turning parasols and skirts billowing with wind... Just a quick hello...I am teaching again, and having a wonderful time. I've not been writing as much, but I've a vision of vineyards and a truck with no radio, and the lights of a city spilling across a valley - so I shall. Roger Waters just released two new songs via his website, www.rogerwaters.com . Check them out - they are self-parodying on a grand scale, tuneless, overblown, but still somehow moving. One, "Leaving Beirut," reads like short story. I've lost my political anger but not my resolve. I want to go camping. There is nothing like a river. Except for two rivers.