Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Soggy fries

I walk through the front entryway of a hotel to the pool inside. Inside there is a clown standing in the water. He looks like a dishevled Ronald McDonald. His red hair is longer and frizzier and his clothes are looser and rumbled. The clown is complaining about the guys in the kitchen, who I can see through the open counter set into the far wall. He is saying something about how they better not mess up his order. I hear someone respond to him and look over to see the real Ronald McDonald standing at the edge of the pool talking to him.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Maybe Baby Mama Drama

Woman cutting up everything in her apartment with scissors. Across town, a woman gives birth but won't hand the baby to the nurse to cut the cord. Her parents try to talk to her but don't accept that she is gay, she wants her girlfriend to cut the cord. She stands up on the bed pleading her case. But when she gets down to leave, she passes out and they take the baby.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Abandoned office supplies

I throw a stapler and another small box onto the roof of an old house. They slide down and the box falls into a cardboard box below as the yard slowed floods. The stapler lands in the gutter.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Drafted

Riding bus through a military base, a colonel waves as we pass. Out the window I see helicopters with the front removed.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Set up by gangsters

Danny Devito is a mobster and accuses me of crossing him. Rizzo tries to give me cash but
I leave. I walk out of the bar to my car parked out back by the dumpster. My car door is open. A bunch of high school kids run up saying that a girl was raped in my front seat. There are muddy footprints. They put the car in nuetral and start pushing it out of the parking space. They put a girl in the front seat and demand that I take to her to the hospital. And I know I'm being framed.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Anything for a buck

A middle age, attractive woman is sitting in a richly decorated drawing room. It seems as though she is sitting on the set of television studio. She talks about the antique teacup she is drinking out of and then the rest of the set, calling the pieces by the name of the brand or designer. She is a former porn star doing a financial advice tv show.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

The body and the blood

In a dark cathedral at night lit by candles. A statue of Christ in an alcove is bleeding wine from its forehead and hands. A group of young women and myself take turns holding goblets up to catch and drink the wine.

Friday, January 4, 2008

Cast off

Walking through a deserted restaurant with another guy. Next to the building, we board a sailboat and start putting trinkets from the interior in our pockets. As I eye a golf club leaning against the wall near a bunch of rolled up maps, the guy I’m with indicates that people are coming. We hop off the boat and back into the restaurant hoping that they didn’t see us onboard. A group of men and women enter and I try to talk our way out of the place.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Burgess Meredith

I pull my car into a parking lot behind a dive strip club. I am there to meet a famous actor either Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone. I walk in the back door and into an empty room. The walls are peeling and chairs are stacked against a wall. I go down a hall past a bathroom with a rust stained sink. A naked woman walks past me and the hall ends in a large room almost filled with guys sitting on more of the same ratty chairs. There doesn’t seem to be many dancers around. I walk past the actor that played Rocky’s manager. I don’t know if I’m supposed to talk to him or not.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Waiting

I’m driving a U-haul truck with a bunch of stuff in the back. I’m not sure if I’m moving or camping, cause there is a tent set up in the back of the truck that I’ve been sleeping in. I get a call on my cell from Dave, I’m supposed to be at the airport to pick him up. I tell him I’m on the way. I’m parking outside of a regional airport, but I know that Dave is arriving at the Dallas International Airport. I picture him standing in the hot sun outside one of the terminals. Then I drive the truck out of a grassy field next to some woods and towards the road.