1/2/90
This is a song we used to do back when I was still with the Orange Sunshine Band, called "Lost Looking for Bonsai"

1/16/90
You can't always detect the difference between 3.4 and 3.5, but you can always tell zero.  You never have a problem finding zero.

1/25/90
I pack this bag with all good things, then get out there in need of it all and forget what I have in my bag.

1/31/90
Please disregard the highlights.

2/6/90
If there's something wrong with your stomach,
there's something wrong with your head.

2/7/90
Maggie tells me I sat upright in bed and said "mental anguish."

2/20/90
Blow every note in your head.

2/26/90
J:  Opposites attract, they just can't get along.

3/5/90
The orchestra conductor coming onstage to meet applause, flat-footed in black shoes, walking forward between dancers.

4/16/90
The question isn't whether we're going to stop cutting old-growth forests.  It's when.  I say we should stop while there are still a few left.

4/20/90
strange attractors

4/24/90
The grass is knee-high and wet.  The toilet stinks.  Tapes I duplicated a week ago are sitting on the stereo cabinet unlabeled.  The knees of the only pair of jeans I can wear to work are thin, and I worry they'll break through before I get a new pair.  I'm out of lunch money and it's a week to payday.  I'm hooked on coffee again.  I haven't run in half a year.  When I get to spend an evening at home, as tonight with Elaine, I go to bed minutes after her, pass out with muscle cramps, wake in the morning unwilling to get out of bed and out of touch with my dreams.

4/25/90
Otto Rank:  people have to either repress or create.

5/4/90
Like being five pages into "War and Peace."

5/5/90
Oh god, not another epistolary cookbook novel.

5/14/90
Maps of places you aren't.

5/27/90
Faulkner.  He was my Coltrane.

6/21/90
Got to plant my roses, but I didn't get to see them bloom.

6/24/90
Next house get a spatula.

7/12/90
Sure you know the pillow game, you just probably call it something like else.  It goes like this.  I say:  Every pillow has a silver lining.  And you say:  Pillows are a girl's best friend.  And I say:  Speak softly and carry a very big pillow.  You say, good.  You pause for a long time, and I say, A pillow in time saves nine, and you say I thought that but I was trying for something better.

7/15/90
Hiker in lime-green tie-dyed leggings

Timber welfare -- paying them with your trees.

7/16/90
Blessed are they who remember
that what they now have they once longed for.

7/17/90
Support group for citizens of nonfunctional societies.

7/22/90
If you stop too quick, you'll eat your own dust.

7/23/90
Foxgloves, sweet peas, fireweed.
They all blossom at the same time.
How did they all decide to be the same color?

7/26/90
The way a cat helps you tie your shoelaces.

7/31/90
This is off his most recent album, which is called "Don't Hurt Yourself."

8/4/90
"We can no longer afford the luxury of individual conscience."

                                   -- Anthony Scalia
                                   For the majority

8/7/90
I'd put a list of what we need on the fridge, but the first thing we need is a fridge.

9/21/90
the karaoke President

9/23/90
Cultural notes, 1990:  cilantro in the chicken on a flight out of L.A.

9/29/90
Debugging technique #12 & 35:

  When being bitten, run through the list of items about which you said, "Now this may come back to bite me someday."

10/4/90
Do you remember feeling you could jump higher in your new shoes?

10/5/90
The smell of burnt bamboo.

10/8/90
My God, I got so bored, I had to read a BOOK.

10/14/90
And don't bring home any pennies!

10/19/90
Admit it.  You get more pleasure out of reading Whitney Balliet than you do out of listening to jazz.

10/24/90
Conversation with her was like my literary correspondence:
I had to pay the postage both ways.

10/26/90
"Music is a lot like politics:  it's too important to be left to professionals."  -- Michelle Shocked

10/31/90
Once you wear it for a costume, you can't wear it any more for clothes.

11/19/90
scaffolding for the miracle

11/24/90
The first song I heard on KBCS, while I was getting the rental car buttons adjusted, was made of steel drums and bagpipes.

This is for all epiphytes everywhere.

12/10/90
Like trying to tell when blue cheese goes bad.

12/20/90
No, one of the things I liked most about programming, and miss most about programming, is three guys sitting around with their feet up disputing what conjectures are logically supported by the evidence.

12/23/90
In the Beverly Von's, woman in black leather, with her cute blonde toddler son, also in black leather, buying champagne and diapers.