• The Sunday Poem: The Imaginary Playmate Speaks

    These days when I mope in the corner
    and look at him
                                  a GrownUp
                                                        a giant with big bad teeth
    I remember when the world was made
                                                                     of invisible putty
    shaped by stretching out a hand
    and more easily made alive
                                                        than dead.
                                           Especially when he mopes
    slumped in that chair glaring
    at a blank page or at nothing.

    I used to try to drag him outside
    and talk him into the tights & cape
                              or make him notice
    the waxiness in flower petals
                                                        the warts
    on a tree’s hairy toe
                                           the greenfingers
    of the rug lint             
                               that scratch the walls
    or even my dress, I made it myself
    out of dandelion mane and mud.

    but lately we just sit

    on opposite sides of the room             I wish
    I could be solid for just a bit
                 and stretch my arms!

    Can’t attract too much attention
                                                            to myself though
                              or he’d undo me with his eyes.

    He got the monster under the bed that way
    and the unicorn                          and also his wife

  • New t-shirt: Games Ate The World

    I tossed a new shirt design up on Cafepress. I figured, hey, it’s likely to be the poster for the PARC Forum talk, plus also it was the main cover for the Korean edition of the book. Might as well have it in some other fashion.

    Oh, and Alice: I specifically thought of you — there’s women’s styles. 🙂

    Edit: Well, there was drama. It got yanked from CafePress on Sunday, with trademark being cited. Today I got the official email confirmation that the images are OK — and people have been buying the shirts, so… go for it.