Ink Node: Dan Boehl

Self-Improvement

2009-06-29T20:32:05-07:00

The Facebook corporate office is on the edge of the Pablo Alto desert. 16 million profiles sit there, right on the edge of the desert. I wish all those people knew that. How close their cyberselves live to the desert. The kid president of Facebook closes his laptop at the...

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Self-Improvement

2009-06-29T20:30:39-07:00

Life is a lot like literature: you always know how it is going to end. Something to consider though, Texas is on the edge of a vast desert. In many ways it is the negation of people or persons. It is like a monstrous clap. It is an ocean. Just...

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Self-Improvement

2009-06-29T20:29:05-07:00

Jim called to talk to my boss, but she was meeting with the lawyers. He used to work here on the blond row, he said. People didn't think he could do it, but he could. His partner just died for no particular reason. The sadness was in his voice like...

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Self-Improvement

2009-06-29T20:27:54-07:00

My dad has an actual chance to change his life. It involves becoming a vocational teacher, which he has been doing on top of his regular job for 30 years anyway. My mom told me about it. When I talked to my dad, he said nothing about the offer, like...

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Self-Improvement

2009-06-29T20:26:05-07:00

Anna bought this dress, for all the weddings we have to go to. I was on the porch and the sun was coming down. This was December and I was in shorts. There was brush in the yard for the trash guys to pick up. You know what it's like...

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Self-Improvement

2009-06-29T20:25:06-07:00

It's snowing and people are yelling in the neighborhood. A lot of people in Texas have never seen snow, so you can imagine what it must be like for them. The flakes are those big, big ones. They don't lay and will be gone by morning, like a one night...

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Self-Improvement

2009-06-29T20:24:15-07:00

I was at a party with almost everybody in the world, or at least this part of liberal Texas: fat grandmas and grandpas bald with hearing aids, 13-year-old girls with sex growing in them, babies in light up shoes, and some parents that reminded me of friends. We won Pennsylvania....

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Self-Improvement

2009-06-29T20:23:18-07:00

I wish someone would bake me snickerdoodles. I wish someone would feel me inside of them like a disease. I have every love letter ever written to me. I have a couple pictures of naked girls they sent, too. Yesterday I felt like the cock of the earth, like the...

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Self-Improvement

2009-06-29T20:22:14-07:00

I can see myself becoming a Diet Coke drinker, looking forward to that popping sound like a kiss made before the kiss. It tastes like failure, it tastes like tomorrow. I'm becoming obsessed with laughter. I am keeping an Excel sheet marking an X next to everyone who I make...

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Self-Improvement

2009-06-29T20:15:59-07:00

Someone went on vacation to Austria, and came back here telling me she held snow. They don't understand snow here like they don't understand cicadas, but at least there are cicadas. One of them has a dog that carries cicadas in her mouth, the bugs just screaming and screaming.

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