Who would have thought a day in Santa Monica would actually be somewhat fun (just kidding, beach denizens of Santa Monica!)? We decided to postpone our plans to drive to Joshua Tree…

October, 2007 Harmful or harmless, careful or careless. Snakes wrap themselves around withering branches on rotting trees. Coiled like lovers who never know coldness. It came again last evening, or the one…

We here on the Avenue have taken to a new game of late. I guess it isn’t technically a “new game,” because there is a really in-depth Wikipedia entry devoted to it,…

It’s time for me to take a break from dice games and alcohol, and focus on writing something that is both compelling and humorous. After all, I want your brief visit here…

Each night brings another chance to make it all right. Sing songs of long walks and a caroling princess in white. Sightings of smiles are rare these days. That’s what makes this…

My brain is barely functioning today. If I turn my head too quickly, I can feel fried synapses rattling around in my skull like burnt light-bulb filaments. I guess it’s a good…

I have a relatively uneventful week ahead of me. On Saturday I finished an exercise I was working on for a potential employer, and now I’m anxiously waiting to find out if…

I am already getting the feeling that the next four days are going to produce uninspired posts as I wrack my brain leading up to the annual Friday Top Ten of Halloween…

I’ve been trying to live without drinking cola for the past two weeks. There are two reasons for this. One is because I am lazy and don’t want to go to the…