Category Archives: Apartments & Other Domiciles

It’s Amazing

And she began to see: how we cling to fragile walls… this first home/body pounded and grown out of necessity, love. Biting love. Survival love. ~ Ishle Yi Park Spring 2004 was the worst season of my entire life. I’d … Continue reading

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The Exercise Videos of My Life!

I love going to the gym. I really do. I love the elliptical, and saunas, and steam rooms are pure bliss on Earth. I can spend HOURS there. But there are two problems with the gym. One is that, it’s … Continue reading

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To Be My Sunshine After the Rain

It began yesterday. My mother came home from Colorado for the last time. Meaning, the next time she or anyone from my family visits, they will not be going “home.” They’ll go to my place, or Robb and Amy’s. But … Continue reading

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The Straight-Edge Adventures Of Ford Fairmont

It happens constantly. People talking about cars, and admiring cars, and pointing and being all, “I’m gonna own that car one day.” And truthfully, I could not care less on my own end. But there was one car I had … Continue reading

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Sticker? I Hardly Knew ‘Er!

When I was quitting smoking, I gave myself a sticker on my Hello, Kitty calendar every day. Bear with me. Well actually no, that pretty much sets the tone for the remainder. But it was very nice positive reinforcement. I … Continue reading

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This House…Is Clean?

(And so the hauntings conclude (FOR NOW), not with a bang, but a whimper (TM my boy T.S.). So when I was living in my second Merrick apartment (the one before the current Levittown one), I remember trying to download … Continue reading

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Tweety Two And Tweety Three Want Seconds

You son of a bitch. You moved the cemetery but you left the bodies, didn’t ya? You son of a bitch. You left the bodies and you only moved the headstones. You only moved the headstones. Lies! Lies! ~ The … Continue reading

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And Vampire Makes Five

Okay seriously, I would really like to know why half the apartments I’ve lived in have been haunted? First in Oneonta, my apartment was haunted by a boy. The first night I spent there with The Ex, we noticed: a … Continue reading

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Bags Float

I’m an emotional person. I feel things and I need to be able to get upset and talk about how I’m feeling. I mean, that’s just…that’s who I am and I can’t change it. I don’t want to. ~ Felicity … Continue reading

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Why I Could Not Be Expected To Show Up On Time For Work This Morning

1. Chip disturbing sleep by somehow setting off alarm clock at 3 a.m. 2. Dr. von Rockenstein scratching at window all night like vampire brother in “Salem’s Lot.” 3. David Lee Roth airing call from casino owner, making me think … Continue reading

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