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What should I do?

We have these friends whom we've known for about five years; our daughters were born at about the same time (five years ago) and are really close. They're good people, but they have this one peccadillo that's really hard for us to handle. It makes the relationship feel thin. And it will make my wife explode if it persists. What am I talkin' about?

Secrets.

Not just any secrets, ridiculous secrets about a particular subject: where ...

Well today, after over a year and a half of ownership, with hundreds of thousands of photos from my trip across the country, with one-hundred and twenty three pages of poetry, over fifteen short stories, one and a half plays, the beginings of a novel, and many many other fragments of writing; my laptop has crashed.

Let's put it this way; computers are pieces of crap. Most of them last for up to two years, then we have to buy another one (for laptops that is). I never go on any websites ...

Every now and then there are discussions here on the lit-net about song lyrics. I have always thought of most songwriters as poets in a way they just express their poetry in a different way from 'normal' poets. Will Oldham is one of my favourite songwriter and the title today is the name of one of his songs here is a small part of it:

Will you miss me when I burn
And will you eye me with a longing?
It is longing that I feel
To be missed or to be real
...

So I realised earlier I hadnt made an entry in a very long time. However any reader expecting any profound thought here will be sorely dissappointed I have no profound thoughts this is just another entry on life as it occurs in my little corner of paradise.


This past year has been really the best of my life. Everything seems to be going really well currently. I have a great girlfriend, I am healthy (other than a cough/cold) and I have a job that if I dont love at least enjoy ...

As I leave the pub
two ducks fly across the sky -
bow-tied gent walks by.