Interview with transgender scientist

These kids!

--So Melina, what does it all mean?
--I don't know...what do you think it means?
--Well, I hadn't really thought about it.
--You hadn't thought about it? How do you think that makes me feel? You come here and you ask me questions about my work and you hadn't even thought about it before!
--Well...do you consider yourself the voice of your generation?
--Do I what? Do you consider yourself the voice of your generation? Why are you asking me these things? Why do you come here?
--...I'm just doing my job.

Reflections on the Fourth of July

Long Beach:

Jamba Juice sees no

opportunity

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At night

let's put on five sweaters,

this beach!

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Anonymous account found scribbled in some diary in some attic, later retrieved in some garage sale.

E'ry child take care! For at the Lewis and Clarke museum you may learn how to live off the land and make peace and maps, so says the tour guide. "Here they slept, just like this, and here they made candles, just like this, only one wick per child please."

But, thinks little Betty, here they made nightmares and dreams. Little Betty is worried. Something is not right: that dog that was first there...

"What happened to that big dog?" says little Benny.

"Why's he not there?" chimes in little Sue.

We know there were bitter, hungry nights...

Oh child if only you knew that it couldn't be true!

What can this hard beauty make you do?