Tag Archives: Walt Walker

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Posted on October 6, 2018 by pinklightsabre

Pouring boiling water down the sink drain to kill the fruit flies. The look of them in the dark as it spills through, this everyday violence. Remembering what my arm looked like when I cut it as a 5-year-old, running … Continue reading →

Posted in musings, writing | Tagged 1984, conditioning, Halloween, horror, Kavanaugh, Memoir, Rosemary's Baby, stream-of-consciousness, violence, Walt Walker, waltbox, William Pearse writer | 21 Comments

Gray of lake combined to sky, the same

Posted on May 20, 2018 by pinklightsabre

Through the narrow path in the nearby park, a semi-circle that crowns my walk, the trees are leaning in and damp with dew. It’s late spring now, past peak, broken petals brought down by an overnight rain. I come to … Continue reading →

Posted in prose, writing | Tagged consciousness, Memoir, mindfulness, nature therapy, pacific northwest, prose, short form, Walt Walker, William Pearse writer | 4 Comments

One Saturday in May, with ’77 million paintings’ playing

Posted on May 19, 2018 by pinklightsabre

The cottonwood started falling and now it feels like we’re in a snow globe that won’t stop. Charlotte and I went to the aquarium and looked at the octopus, its sheep eyes, the valves where the cheeks would be, opening … Continue reading →

Posted in music, musings, prose | Tagged ambient music, Brian Eno, Eno ambient, pacific northwest, prose, Seattle aquarium, short form, Walt Walker, William Pearse writer | 21 Comments

The end of nostalgia (no, not really)

Posted on September 24, 2016 by pinklightsabre

First I need to come clean and say I’ve got one more 90s piece I’m sharing tomorrow even though I said I wouldn’t. It’s told by a musician trying to make it in Seattle pre-grunge who left for New York … Continue reading →

Posted in music, musings, writing | Tagged 90s nostalgia, creative nonfiction, mark kozelek, Mark Linkous, Memoir, nostalgia, red house painters, Sparklehorse, the green study, Walt Walker, waltbox, William Pearse writer | 15 Comments

90s nostalgia: Walt Walker | Late night thoughts on a decade

Posted on September 23, 2016 by pinklightsabre

We are winding down a great week of 90s nostalgia, prompted by the 25th anniversary release of Nirvana’s Nevermind. I was hoping my friend Walt would come out of his box for the challenge, and he’s taken a pause from … Continue reading →

Posted in music, musings, writing | Tagged 90s dating, 90s music, 90s nostalgia, 90s TV, Cheers, MASH, Memoir, Nirvana, Nirvana 25 anniversary, online dating, Seinfeld, Walt Walker, waltbox, writing | 30 Comments

Just Like Billy Pilgrim’s Blues, Amsterdam

Posted on March 25, 2016 by pinklightsabre

I came unstuck in time again and reappeared 20 years later pawing the glass on some Argentinian steakhouse window in the Red Light district with a bull’s head in the window convinced I’d been there before. Two days in Amsterdam … Continue reading →

Posted in travel, writing | Tagged Amsterdam, Belgian beer, Bob Dylan, Brussels, Canned Heat, Despicable Me, drinking tips for teens, humor, Idiot Joy Showland, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Kurt Vonnegut, Memoir, Slaughterhouse Five, travel, Walt Walker | 5 Comments