Parcel Day!

Nothing better than getting new pencils in the mail.

Brother Charger 22

This machine belonged to my grandmother, and is with me now. It works remarkably well, given its age and travel.

Spider-Knife

Does whatever a Spider-Knife does.

Spidey-Cat

Trying something here. This is only a test. And a kitty.

Tweety

Have succumbed to the Twitter bug; I can be followed at @AAxline.

Another happy parcel day

This arrived in this morning's post.

First Edition 1984 hardcover, includes fake author photo of "Richard Bachman" on dustjacket rear flap. Very cool.

aja

Happy parcel day

Ordered from Leonard Shoup books in Ontario.

A great copy of a great book. Hardcover, published in 1981.

aja

Conversation in the Courts of Chaos Automat

"Who is the hero of this story?" she asked.

"That's for the author to say," he replied.

"But... that's you," she argued.

"Hardly," he said, finishing his sandwich.

"Well if not you, then--"

"Are you going to finish that?" he asked.

"My sandwich, or my sentence?"

"Let's resolve the more important of the two first," he smiled.

She sighed, and pushed her plate across the table.


aja

Late summer night

It's in the dying light of a late summer evening when you become aware of the blood of your life moving like a river, and it runs over stones you thought you'd buried, stones which have been uncovered by the flow of a lifetime, polished smooth stones that give your blood a sound as it pours over them, a sound that is as uniquely yours as your DNA, a sobbing, laughing, white-raging melody that tells the story of madness and love that exists every moment that you choose to live.


aja

Serve the Queen

I'm not going to serve the Queen today
I don't think she'll miss it anyway.
The sky is too cloudy and moody and gray
So I don't think I'll serve the Queen today.

I won't be serving the Queen today
The eggs are all off and the milkman's away.
Her door is still closed just why I can't say
But I will not be serving the Queen today.

aja