Just a Bowl of Soup
She made the soup and had the thought that she probably experienced the same exact amount of happiness eating a hot bowl of soup on a winter’s day as a cavewoman. She felt accomplished by the smell of the broth …
2012: The Year in (a) Re(ar)view (Mirror)
December 3, 2011: We met in front of a coffee shop on Cortelyou, drove a van to Coney Island, and picked editors out of a hat in front of a boarded up building.
This is the last time I …
Perhaps It’d Be Better If This Were In a Sandbox
I’d been sleeping on a couch. It was the couch of another artist, a friend, the kind of friend who makes you want to think in star patterns that dance across galaxies and warm distant life forms that are impossible …
A Brief Report from the Future
Walking home from the office in winter, through this twilit outskirt with its brick facades and iron stair outrigging, it still sometimes thrills me, passing alone onto my street, to see the manatees with their comically small, officious briefcases patiently …
Our Forthcoming Almanac
The Trout Family Almanac is being hotly designed. What should you expect when you’re expecting our almanac? Here’s what we’re thinking…
Inspirations for the Almanac design (Words + Design):
- Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack
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From Coins to Kings
I met a young woman on the way, sundress, parasol, a daisy quite unaware of my beginnings. In piggy banks, in dresser-top jars my beginnings, overturning the thousandth nickel to workaday Monticello, and the thousand and first: Monticello! That mouth-shaped …
Unidentified
UFO, streak. Sasquatch, stroll.
A majority of flamingoes aren’t plastic.
Imagine the world a plum we could juice
every morning this century for the antidote
to time and space. Well, I’m on a bus
upstate just because
it’s Mothers’ Day, …
Excerpt: Neoastrology
If you were born in late December or early January, your Zodiac 2.0 sign is…
Monsanticorn, the Genetically Modified Soy Bean
You are a serious businessperson. You vote and wear pants.
Your horoscope for April, 2012:
Defy everyone and wear …
Talking Trout