Friends, Family and Strays

Jun
6

Goodbye to Baby Godzilla

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Rohanon in typical sitting post with Chalar in background Our household has been still for a week now. I imagine its the same stillness and quiet after Godzilla leaves.

The city of course is never the same. At least until the next film when it is miraculously rebuilt. But when you watch Godzilla movies you’re not focused on the city. Godzilla’s personality is simply to big to allow anything else on the screen. And don’t give me the digital Godzilla, that phony coopted film with Mathew Broderick, I want the real thing because sometimes there is no greater joy than watching a man in a rubber suit knock down…

Sep
15

Dressing Room

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I have spent hours watching those I love attempt the word goodbye in various dress.

Dress it up in a cold place with pews not designed for reverence, where the staccato of the receptionist’s high heels against tile taps out the message that this is formal grief. Dress it for around the house, where nervous friends who don’t know, cannot know what to say flit between vegetable trays in the dinning room and drinks on the patio. Dress it down at a tea house as you watch Jasmine Dragon Pearls unfold their legs in scalding water and pretend that small…

Jul
4

Boom City

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These are the only moments that have felt real in the last 72 hours. I spent the weekend in between three semi-trailers at the back of a fireworks wholesale stand. During the day these trailers provide the only spot of shade and relative quiet from the hordes of patriotic pyros that swarm Boom City every year. The city is a place of gravel, dust and cardboard stands that springs up once a year behind Tulalip Casino. Out here on the reservation many of the stand owners, licensed and unlicensed alike, sleep in their RVs after selling well into midnight…

Angel Djambazov