CIRCUSITCH

In Your Home

-Turn off equipment like televisions and stereos when you’re not using them. That little red standby light means they’re still using power – and that means a contribution to global warming.

Save water:
- turn off the tap when brushing your teeth.
- collect the water used to wash vegetables and salad to water your houseplants.

Out [...]

A guy wrote, “I want to open a book and read all night. I want to finish a book and need to reread it right away.”
I feel the same way. I have always felt like that, and I want to feel like that, and I love feeling it. I’ve always been doggedly loyal when [...]

We smoke pot for the first time. A first for me. You’ve done this before.
From across the room you gave me a smile. For a while we don’t exist as male and female. I can just breathe in the room. Your smile lights up the whole space.
“Shit.” You say.
“Shit,” I echo.
I’m lazy. I’m fucked. I’m [...]

Venice, July 07
Things have been going on since my last real entry:
a) My parents left for Hajj. The house is lonely without them.
b) I fainted at the train station.
c) I saw men fighting in broad daylight on the way to work. They had his nuts squeezed.
d) I rejected an offer from a company because I [...]

At night I like to be in my cramped balcony, looking out at the city lights. This is my time out, and I always spend them smoking. Cigarette butts are littered on the floor, where they mingle with dust.
The best cigarette is always with the thought of you. To be honest, I hardly thought [...]

Here is how it works: the more attentive he is, the less attractive he becomes.
You have to know a relationship is the last thing I feel like I need. Yes, at night, with the stars at the sky looking at me, I feel like I need a connection. But in the morning I wake [...]

Near Mt. Bromo, Indonesia
At work, the real part of my job is when I start Googling. Like other people on this world, I find google to be an amazing tool – a revolutionary presence that shares the same sort of importance with having a firstborn (‘what was your whole point of living before?’)
Only I [...]