we did it, bought a new family truckster. a 2006 honda pilot, a vehicle with so many electronic doo-dads that i feel i'm piloting spacecraft from star wars. the stress of buying kinda put me off my feed for a few days. some friends told me they love buying new cars, but me, it freaks me out.

more on that later. in the meantime, feast yrselves on tom beckett's new poetry blog

and these beauties by jill stengel (esp. the third text) via chris murray

and tom orange's new blog ( i want to post something a bit later on the film lost in translation based on his critique) also found via chris murray