Things to Do in 111-degree Heat

Finish Ernest Hemingway’s Garden of Eden, easily one of the strangest and kinkiest novels in American literature.

Finish Jim Thompson’s The Nothing Man, easily one of the most cynical and depraved novels I’ve ever read.

Write a Gore Vidal-like political essay called “State of Oregon.”

Make a cold lentil dish.

Check for beavers in the local creek at dusk.

Read poem I composed at my uncle’s graveside service.

Drink a beer in an Oregon Tavern Age joint.

Nap outside.

Daydream.

Talk on the phone to someone who lives at the ocean.

Watch episodes of Gilligan’s Island.