Whole Stuffed Camel
1 whole camel, medium size
1 whole lamb, large size
20 whole chickens, medium size
60 eggs
12 kilos rice
2 kilos pine nuts
2 kilos almonds
1 kilo pistachio nuts
110 gallons water
5 pounds black pepper
Salt to taste
Skin, trim and clean camel (once you get over the hump), lamb and chicken. Boil until tender. Cook rice until fluffy. Fry nuts [...]
Leaving Provincetown soon. For the holidays, that is.
and I’m about to do something that you might hate. I’m working on poems about the Fantastic Four. There’s a reason, a motive, a purpose. You must find the poetry in our heroes, and you must understand that the kernel of American heroes is identical to the kernel [...]
So. Today between bouts of hacking up black stuff, blowing my nose and cursing the fact that I got this cold without even making out with anyone, I began to think about this website. somniloquy.org is three or so years old. When I first started the site, its primary purpose was to act as [...]
English Genius You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 100% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can’t find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don’t. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you’re not afraid to use [...]
It’s August, so suddenly.
I continue to receive a ton of hits from people googling my name, presumably in connection with the Fine Arts Work Center. To protect my soon-to-be-good name (i.e., to avoid good writers reading stuff I wrote five years ago and thinking that I’m a hack who doesn’t deserve the fellowship I received), [...]