Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: April 2003

Jacob Lawrence, "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 39" (1938) — Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 39. The death of Toussaint L'Ouverture in the Prison of Le Joux, April 1803. This was a year later. He died of starvation, because "he didn't feel like eating." (1938)

Workbook: April, 2003

April 30, 2003: We're here to liberate your cube.
April 29, 2003: St. Peter's...
April 28, 2003: The gossip girls imply: life is for workbreaks.
April 27, 2003: The great thing is, if the earth moves...
April 26, 2003: As a child my neighbor was a Navy pilot who bombed North Vietnam.
April 25, 2003: I asked her, "Why did you move to San Francisco?"
April 24, 2003: Her equation of roommates with infantilism.
April 23, 2003: Cat, young and friendly, gray, patient with your childish clumsiness.
April 22, 2003: She collects words that begin with "P".
April 21, 2003: "But if you go carryin' pictures of Chairman Mao..."
April 20, 2003: Her life so centers on television...
April 19, 2003: When depressed:
April 18, 2003: Of course, there's more than one flavor of lie.
April 17, 2003: Her mother caught us dressing at 3am one morning after making love, stealthily, beneath the dining room table.
April 16, 2003: In 1963 my grandfather gave me a 41-year-old Peace silver dollar in mint condition.
April 15, 2003: Radio station on the morning commute, advertising a national call-in sweepstakes.
April 14, 2003: Your lover's jewelry...
April 13, 2003: He walks with raised elbows, as if they were resting on fence posts to either side.
April 12, 2003: I miss my friends from before she came into my life.
April 11, 2003: Bush administration officials have repeated for months that "Iraq's oil belongs to the people of Iraq."
April 10, 2003: Her reluctance to be alone with me.
April 9, 2003: She calls me her "almost perfect type."
April 8, 2003: Her first protest rally.
April 7, 2003: CubicleLand.
April 6, 2003: And of course it's night, and all you can think of is her.
April 5, 2003: The trauma she experienced when her father lost his job.
April 4, 2003: A very famous pop star booked our Studio A for a year, recording his next mega-smash.
April 3, 2003: She'd fuck people she didn't like, for instance at the US Festival, because they pursued her and she wanted to be rid of them.
April 2, 2003: Her dismissal of role-playing environments.
April 1, 2003: Advice on a new bike.