Ted Washington
Theda
“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… Read More
Ted Washington
Theda, pen 4 first pass
“The final pen and the flow is good.” Theda ©ted washington 2010 Read More
Ted Washington
Theda pen 3 cont.
“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… Read More
Ola Hadi
Mud
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… Read More
Ola Hadi
Colorful Days
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… Read More
Ola Hadi
Gerunding Happiness
MY FAVORITE PARTS ABOUT BEING ALIVE TODAY signing up for a pool membership that scans my hand and makes me feel like I’m on The Jetsons fantasizing about long swims that start with a shock of cold water and slowly warm up to become meditative questioning whether empathy is more continuity or change, some internal… Read More
Ola Hadi
Stalker
A song is stalking me. About a week ago I was all kleenex and madness…and I asked my roommate Jason to play a song, any song… I was just so desperate for a distraction, something to get my mind off of things…and of all the possible permutations in the endless playlists one could rummage through,… Read More
Ola Hadi
night before valentine’s/bad breakup poetry
“That last half an hour of studying was fucking pointless.” I kept rereading about crimes against humanity and missing the subtle differences between various definitions and switching back and forth so frequently between that and writing really terrible breakup poety that at one point I was confused about what I was looking at, notes or… Read More
Ola Hadi
Purpose of Life
I just wrote a long blog about the purpose of life, at the repeated requests of a friend, and alas, the internet gods have destroyed it…I have no idea where it went. I was pretty happy with the original, and I have no time to rewrite it completely so this will be the purpose of… Read More