#113 – canon i560 printer (working fine)
After a brief hiatus…gar•baj is back! And since I seem to have about as much trouble paring down my prose as I do purging …
27 Mar
#112 – a tray for carrying a person
#112 – a tray for carrying a person
This is the first guest post on gar•baj. Or rather – I am posting, but it is the first guest piece of gar•baj. I offer …
23 Mar
#110 & #111 – laundry, laundry, two bags full
#110 & #111 – laundry, laundry, two bags full
This is the last load of laundry I took to the Laundromat. Lined up here, ignominiously, on my front steps. Ten, count them…TEN giant contractor …
23 Feb
gar•baj # 109 – a couch
gar•baj # 109 – a couch
For gar•baj # 109, I offer the world a couch. Not this rather dramatic one. I’ll get to that one in a bit. This one …
18 Feb
#108 – paradox
#108 – paradox
So I offer you, at long last, as gar•baj #108…the gar•baj paradox. Or rather two gar•baj paradoxes. The first one goes something like this: I …
11 Dec
#107 – charity
#107 – charity
I have done a lot of whining on gar•baj about my abomination of a fixer- upper house. How it has sucked me dry of money …
04 Dec
#56 – #106 – clothes & me
#56 – #106 – clothes & me
Clothes and me have always had a pretty testy relationship. Because of clothes I threw tantrums and fought with my mother (what I wanted …
13 Nov
#29 to #55 – gar•baj goes epic (or contents of overstuffed basement shelf numero uno)
#29 to #55 – gar•baj goes epic (or contents of overstuffed basement shelf numero uno)
So it’s time for a change. gar•baj has been dribbling along at a rate of about one piece of gar•baj a week. At this rate …
13 Nov
#28 – green suede rocker
#28 – green suede rocker
I offer you, as gar•baj #28, this green suede rocking chair. It’s modern, it’s comfy, and it’s pretty darn clean for being half white! This …
16 Oct
#27 – contents of my pen drawer
#27 – contents of my pen drawer
I offer you, as gar•baj #27, the contents of my pen drawer. You know the drawer I’m talking about. Everybody has one. It contains not …
04 Sep
#26 – bottle of blue
#26 – bottle of blue
I offer you, as gar•baj #26, the view from my porch on this perfect day in Philadelphia, which I have trapped in this bottle of …
01 Sep
#25 – bubble spa pro
#25 – bubble spa pro
Along with gar•baj #25 – I offer you Lena’s 1st, 2nd, and 3rd laws of gift-giving, gar•baj-style : 1. do not give a gift that …
18 Aug
#24 – the girl with the dragon tattoo
#24 – the girl with the dragon tattoo
I offer you, as gar•baj #24, this almost brand-new, bestselling novel by the deceased Swede Steig Larsson, called The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I …
01 Aug
#22, #23 – his and hers assorted pouches and purses
#22, #23 – his and hers assorted pouches and purses
I offer you, as gar•baj #22 and #23, two lots of mostly leather, made in Asia, purses, pouches, wallets, and eyeglass & cigarette cases. Except …
26 Jul
#19, #20, #21 – Bear’s crates
#19, #20, #21 – Bear’s crates
Last Wednesday, at around 3:15 or so in the afternoon, our dog Bear lay down his head one last time and died. He left these …
16 Jul
#18 – monopoly
#18 – monopoly
Gar•baj began with this game of monopoly falling on my head (see History – or how it came to this). I offer it to you …
04 Jul
# 17 – wood (or what remains of six trees)
# 17 – wood (or what remains of six trees)
I offer you, as gar•baj #17, the mutilated remains of six tall trees that grew in our backyard, unsuspecting, right up until yesterday. Yesterday the …
01 Jul
#13, #14, #15, #16 – irony
#13, #14, #15, #16 – irony
I offer these four pieces of gar•baj as the first in a series entitled GET REAL! A New Home Economics for the Modern Boy & …
27 Jun
# 10, #11, #12 – a tank top triptych
# 10, #11, #12 – a tank top triptych
For pieces of gar•baj #’s ten to twelve, I offer you this tank top triptych. These date (like ob•jay de gar•baj #2) from the …
26 Jun
#6, #7, #8, #9 – a depilatory quartet
#6, #7, #8, #9 – a depilatory quartet
I offer to the world, as gar•baj six through nine, four de-commissioned weapons from an unholy war between a girl and her hair. What follows …