i kick the habit, shed my skin

i change what i can change (easily). i control what can be controlled (if it can be done obsessively). so the weight & the hair & the URLs & even the tongue ring are all meant as treatments for this paralysis which affects everything that really matters. also they suggest the appearance of agility, motions you’d imagine happening running with only toes touching the earth, yet made while sitting firmly ensconced on the same ass in the same chair in the same predicament, for years & years & still here, but if you can’t recognize me does that really matter? who is that chameleon-url’d girl?

it’s the same as it ever was, & yet (i assure you) different. not fundamentally, not yet, but not far from it.

so will you call me liz? ’cause i just hate karen. always have. fucking boring. klunky. not a lilting lyrical note in that name anywhere.

liz. not elizabeth. lizard. no music in that either but dammit it isn’t bland. it isn’t mouse brown & it isn’t matronly.

as for the rest? wait. & see, eventually, but waiting is what you can count on. waiting is. & it is assured. what it isn’t is patient, no. complacency barely exists anywhere in this tense presence you can’t see but may indeed imagine squirming in this chair here. but that’s another story entirely.

23 responses to “i kick the habit, shed my skin”

  1. liz

    so not done

  2. dan

    so cool…

  3. liz

    so broken. must go home now.

  4. dan

    Just a little wide (like by 2/3 in IE6.

    Waiting is…

  5. Linkmeister

    You promised not to do this again until June!

  6. drublood

    call me slow, but I JUST figured this out yesterday. hahahahaha

  7. j. brotherlove

    Great googly moogly!

    You make it tricky to saty loyal, don’tcha? I really like this layout, though. So… beige? When you ditch it (in like six weeks?) I might snatch it up.

  8. liz

    it will be much easier to follow now that i haven’t physically moved the site, i just parked this domain on top of the other one so they peacefully coexist, more or less.

  9. Le salami est �pic� (stacey)

    Dirty girl Liz, hiding sexual come-ons in your comment box in another language. I like it.

    This is a beautiful site. I like the name Liz, and always have. It slides off the tongue nicely, feels good to whisper it…

    And your “screwuppage alert” is sheer genius.

  10. lynn

    omg i love this… love it

  11. Anonymous

    wow! i love this! this picture- the one at the beach… i can remember the first time i saw it many, many months ago.

    do whatever it is that you need to do to survive, right- LIZ?

  12. nicole

    oh…and that was me up there.

  13. duncan

    alligator lizards in the air.

    wow. skin. lizard. metamorphing.

    digging it.

    oh, and

    this

  14. vince

    OH my goodness… Changes scare me, but this is beautiful.

  15. V.

    Oh. You’re here now. Is it good for you yet?

  16. liz

    oh my yes.

  17. krix

    oh good grief.

  18. liz

    but you don’t have to change your link. it works on the old URL still. it’s almost june.

  19. liz

    i tried to wait, honest i did

  20. skits

    Then, Liz it is. And it IS beautiful over here. :)

  21. Gety

    Fuck The Lyrical Lizard he is coping Critical Knowledge

  22. r@d@r

    really, the improvement is vast. vast, i tell you.

    we simply must come up with a new game to replace the musty old polls. perhaps you could figure out how to code a nice little java applet or flash program for boggle? or jenga? or scratch ‘n’ sniff?

  23. r@d@r

    oh my god — “waiting is”? are you quoting the caleban in “whipping star” by frank herbert? because if you are…i am genuinely going to have to lose it, right here, right now.

    extra benadryl for me tonight, THAT’S for sure… . . . . . .

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