“Om Shan Tea! What an unexpected treat. I went with the idea that I would be one of several readers and it turned out that I got to feature. The place was full of tea drinkers but not many poets which worked out great for me. I never understood the attraction of the tea service [...]

“Well that was easy. 8 1/2 hours of driving and I’m back in Ocean Beach, OB, San Francisco style. That’s my hotel behind the coffee shop. You gotta love a cheap hotel at the beach with a great coffee shop next door that also serves food and beer. These shots are from the beach across [...]

“Last night in San Diego before I drive to San Francisco. Actually I leave in six hours: 3am Tuesday, March 30.
My Friend Robyn has set me up to read at Om Shan Tea in the Mission District on Tuesday night. This should be a great time, starts around 7:00pm. Hope to see you there.
Here is [...]

Hello Everyone,
I hope you are well and are in good spirits.
Puna Press is going to San Francisco for the WonderCon!
We are in the small press area table # 9.
The event is being held at the Moscone Center, April 2 - 4, 2010.
For this event we are releasing a new print.

Murphy is one of two dog [...]

“What a furious pace to the finish. I will need some distance and time to tell if this is as strong a piece that I feel it is. Showed it to my drawing group and my framer. That’s right, it’s already at the framer. Thinking of entering it in the Southern California Regional Juried Award [...]

“The final pen and the flow is good.”

Theda
©ted washington 2010

“I could make all sorts of excuses, like I’ve been doing gigs reading and performing with the band, like Pruitt Igoe is recording a new album, like I’ve been prepping tax records for myself and Puna Press, like I’ve been working a lot, like Puna Press is preparing to go to the WonderCon in San [...]

there is the absurd question of semantics
left
to wrestle with
limbs so lifeless
heavy tree branches
gnarly natural monsters
difficult wrestling
left
absurd to wrestle with the question of what is left
there
nude or naked in the muddied interpretations
of ideologies, communist/democratic/polka
dotted/
never powerful enough
to make a difference
bruised/battered/left to
lose form
or strengthen
or be difficult to distinguish
from any other abstraction
whereever you are
the world loves ideas because
the [...]

So I’m getting pretty used to not having a life…what with working a full time job M-F (and many Saturday school Saturdays) and taking three classes…I have time to hang Wednesday night (which I have designated my swim night and therefore sacred) and Friday night (open to whereever the most magnetic forces pull). Saturdays are [...]