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Jessica Barksdale Inclan's Blog
July 3, 2009
- One of my favorite movie lines come from Ghostbusters (the first one. Really, I draw the line there). Dr. Peter Venkman returns from yet another ghostbusting mission, and his secretary Janine Melnitz replies to something he says, "It's a sign."Dr. Venkman says, "Yeah, a going out of business sign."Then the EPA shuts them down, ghosts take over Manhattan, and the ...
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July 2, 2009
- Last night was the old friend, girl party in torn up house night. Some of my old pals came up to sit with me in the empty house, arranging all the food near the lava rock fireplace. We ate, drank champagne, and then took the tour around the dangerous kitchen. My contractor asked me to let no one in there due to deadly consequences of nails, but I went ahead and did the evil thing and let ...
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July 1, 2009
- Yesterday in the slightly cooler weather, my intrepid mother and I set out to look at cars. No, not for me. I am happy with my MINI, whom I have named Tiny (so original!). Tiny and I are happy, though I have begun to lust for a small pickup truck into which I can through bags of dirt, ladders, couches, and other dirty, large objects.But back to the adventure. We were looking for a car for ...
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June 30, 2009
- After the longest escrow I've ever lived through and the rent back from hell (involving at least one fake lawyer letter, not ours), Michael and I are free to start paying a mortgage and rent until the construction ends sometime in September and we move in. Demo of the kitchen and upper floor begins, with hope, Wednesday, assuming that the Oakland department of whatever it is issues the ...
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June 29, 2009
- One of the perks of having friends slightly older than myself is watching them live through life stages before me. It's like Cliffs Notes friends, a wonderful way to see what lies ahead on the life path. One of my friends used to have a habit of chancing upon something perfect and wonderful and would tell me, "After all these years--after a lifetime of searching--I have found the true, ...
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June 28, 2009
- Heat makes me angry. Wait, let me reframe. Bay Area heat makes me angry. There is no lovely air to support me during the heat, no azure sea, no pina colada, no air conditioning except in my car. I become a grumpy, sullen, migraine-y pain-in-the-ass kind of person, and the less I say to you right now the better.So let me plug my upcoming one month, bargain priced, fabulous online class. ...
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June 27, 2009
- My true belief is that a good writer can become whoever he or she wants to be. No matter you are a gay white male from Poughkeepsie. If you are worth your kosher salt, you can become an indigenous 12 year old girl from the inner Brazilian rain forest. Somehow, you've done your research, gone into the trance that is writing, and pulled from that great mind of creativity. There she is, in ...
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June 26, 2009
- I often think of the expression "failure to thrive." when my boys were babies, it was something that concerned me for about a second, but as they were clearly thriving--fat and sassy and laughing--I let go of worrying about this syndrome. Now and again, I would sometimes let my mind drift to the sad scene of disconnect between mother and infant, the baby and mother listless and ...
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June 25, 2009
- What I loved about writing poetry was that I was able to use images to create a small world that I didn't have to pull into a longer narrative or explain. I could show you the scene of my two boys making sand castles when they were almost "too old" to be doing that, boys who still liked to play together, who had a knowing of each other, a relationship that went beyond me, beyond their ...
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June 24, 2009
- A few times, I have set about to read a novel written in a language not my first. Every time I have engaged in this behavior, the process has been unlike any reading I have ever done, and I have read just about every kind of thing one can read. But in another language, I fall into another place with the novel. I am in a dream scape, a soft, foggy, unclear terrain, where I am wandering ...
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June 23, 2009
- Our strengths are our weaknesses. For instance, I am very generous--and I have often found myself in debt. I am very personable, and I've often been called loud. These things work, they don't work, and we have to make do with what we have or work slowly to mitigate the effects of our strengths and weaknesses in order not to be kicked out of every social group we inhabit.In recent years, I ...
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June 22, 2009
- Fighting the universe is damn hard work, mostly because it weighs so much. There we are, our tiny peon selves,pushing, pushing, struggling, trying to fix what the universe casually but with relentless pressure gives us."Here," the universe says. "Have a little of this."We look askance or in horror or in amazement or in fear. "No, thank you," we tell the ...
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June 21, 2009
- The last father's day I celebrated was in June of 1977, two months before my father died. I have a vague memory of sitting around the dining room table with him, opening gifts. Even though no one had told me the outcome of my father's illness--he was suddenly a skinny, frail man--I knew it was not good, and my child self knew that this celebration was different.He laughed, we made merry. ...
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June 20, 2009
- My youngest sister died in 1993, at the age of twenty-six. She had long suffered from diabetes, and finally, complications overtook here. For the first days of her hospitalization, I tried to figure out exactly what it was that had happened to her, meaning, I wanted to know exactly what had stopped in her body and why. The doctors could not really explain anything to me, so I took the ...
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June 19, 2009
- I am a proponent of all types of media. In my life, I've subscribed to all sorts of media: newspapers, book-of-the-month clubs, magazines, Netflix, journals. I've bought probably as many books as all of you reading this have, most of us able to fill our own libraries to the brim a few times over. I'm also a books-on-CD person and listen when I can't read.But recently, I felt that I wasn't ...
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