and we walk into the night, she and i and he and them, and we talk of the world before us while a wino pisses along the curb and stumbles across a sewer grate. she hands him gummy bears and he tosses them up into the air and we all scramble with our mouths open. she says to me, while eying him, i’ve given up this thing for something else entirely and i pat her on the head while french poodles nip at his heels. they all dance obscenely but we get a riotous kick out of it while wet nurses jiggle their way into the start of another day.
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on demand water heating
Nortiz
You need a 2.5″ gas pipe to be routes to this thing. About 1 min for water to get hot from tap. Cost is roughly in the $2000-4000 range.
HERE ARE TOP SIX REASONS FOR GOING TANKLESS
(NOTE: Noritz does not manufacture electric tankless water heaters.)
Endless Hot Water
No Storage, No Shortage
The most popular advantage of tankless water heaters is that you will never run out of hot water. This is because tankless water heaters heat water on demand, and that means no storage or shortage of hot water. Imagine the luxury of always having hot showers or filling up a Jacuzzi hot tub and still having endless supply of hot water for the rest of your household needs. It’s about time your home had equal supply of hot and cold water.
Higher Volume
Hot Water For Any Size Home
Tankless water heaters are capable of supplying more hot water than traditional tank-type water heaters. With Noritz features such as Quick-Connect and Multi-System, our tankless water heaters can meet any hot water demand of today’s homes.
Clean Water
No Dirty Tanks
With a tankless water heater, water is heated as it passes through the unit so you will never have to use hot water that has been stored in an old rusty tank. As the years pass by, traditional tank-type water heaters start to rust and build-up scale inside the tank, which is where your hot water is being stored for use.
Space Savings
Flexible Installation Options
Compact in design, Noritz tankless water heaters can be installed virtually anywhere. Compared to traditional water heaters, one of the most obvious differences is its small size. Our tankless water heaters come in models that mount on the wall, inside or outside. This eliminates the bulky tank that requires much more space.
Energy Savings
Lower Water Heating Costs
With a Noritz tankless water heater, you’ll save energy and thus, money. Our on-demand systems require no pilot light and can save about half the cost of your current water heating bill since there is no re-heating of water as with traditional water heaters.
Lasts Longer
Durability
Noritz tankless water heaters are extremely durable, lasting longer than traditional tank-type water heaters, and requiring little maintenance over its lifetime. Noritz wants you to feel comfortable with our tankless water heaters so we back them with one of the best warranties in the industry.
i will not
i no longer dream, i weep.
she comes to me in the night, she stands rigid, afraid. she no longer knows how to look at me. sometimes.
she says, sometimes i breathe and i can almost smell you, the way you would when you came out of the shower, clean and freshly born and i’d want nothing but to feel that coolness, to feel clean and new in your arms.
and i interrupt her, but i’m not clean anymore, right? what’s your fucking point? i crush the pencil in my hand, rip out another another page.
no, she says, you are not clean. she touches my brow, you’re drowning and i cannot find you. she kisses my temple, looks me in the eye. i will not.
heist
you dirty fucker, why don’t you get to it, what are you fucking waiting for?
and i told him the time had to be right, the money wasn’t there yet, the teller wasn’t ready yet, there were too many people looking, waiting, i tell him anything to get him to calm down, to keep him from ripping his hair out, from ripping the seams off the leather seats.
but the truth was we were waiting a really long time for her and still, nothing. she must’ve known with her lunatic brother on board that this was going to happen sooner or later, and sooner was better before he lost his shit.
i was just losing my nerve.
the rift
and here, here we were, how has it been? to begin again, out there, in the dusk of fall. sitting on the porch i see the chalk lines my daughter has left: tales of anger and boredom: she is her father’s daughter. such rage for all of four. who am i, who am i, i’ve lost her, i’ve lost him, adrift. i am adrift. i am the rift, i am the absence of all that you were.
money scramble
it has been miles since I’ve written: miles since I’ve engaged with the process long enough to produce something substantial, perhaps even meaningful.
it feels as if it has been weeks since I’ve seen the sun even though I’ve stared straight into it from behind dust thick blinds. I am blind and wounded and beyond repair.
I tell her in the dark: when we come into money it’ll be easier. I whisper, it’ll be hard at first, but you’ll be better off.
Scrambling in the pale light she asks, what does that mean? What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
imaginary linger
He says to me in the dark,
(always in the dark when he is closest to me, ghost hand well placed on my desk, a mouth full of ashes beside my ear, he says,)
I don’t know what’s worse: that it was all in my imagination
or that you still linger in mine.
weeded
Weeds have taken over his life, they’re everywhere, in his yard, in his mind, in his teeth. The dentist peers in, fingers the gumline, sticks in his fist, tugs the front row. He laughs, well what can I say, your gums are lousy. My neighbors argue midday into the street, she says to him, I am disgusted with you, I can’t even look at you; and their dog squats over my curb and we all watch helplessly. Even now, any random phone call brings it all to a head.
vague meat
spent, he lies and tells you where he’s been. nowhere special, she says, and lies, lazy hand across his forehead. i’m so thirsty, you tell him. he laughs at me. she told you to say that, didn’t she. i told him nothing, she says, drapes a hand across your shoulder. i shudder and push down the hunger to rip them all up.
something like this, all day long.
Top 10 Bizarre Body Mods
Top 10 Bizarre Body Modifications
Published on August 17, 2008
[This list contains text that some may not consider family friendly] Many of us have had piercing in the ears and probably quite a number of us have piercing in other less common parts of the body, but there are some people who have outright bizarre piercing and other body modifications. It was certainly not an easy task to find “safe” pictures for this list – but I have done my best!
10.Branding
Human branding is the process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention that the resulting scar makes it permanent. This is performed using a hot or cold iron. It therefore uses the physical techniques of livestock branding on a human.
9.Subdermal Implant
A subdermal implant refers to a kind of body jewelry that is placed underneath the skin, therefore allowing the body to heal over the implant and creating a raised design. Many people who have these implants use them in conjunction with other types of body modification to create a desired, dramatic effect.
8.Earlobe Stretching
Most people can stretch to at least 2ga (1/4″) and still have the tissue return to normal when they remove the jewelry, but there really are no guarantees. Don’t stretch your ears unless you are certain you’ll be okay with it forever. Once the elastic limit of the skin has been passed, or a large amount of additional tissue has been built up, the hole will not close again completely. A person who is either obsessed with stretching their piercings, or with showing off their many stretched piercings, is known as a “Gauge Queen”. Some wear this term with pride, others use it derisively.
7.Tongue Splitting
Tongue bifurcation, or tongue splitting, is a type of body modification in which the tongue is cut centrally from its tip part of the way towards its base, forking the end. In most cases, the split is created through scalpeling or surgical laser. Self modifiers often choose to achieve a split by gradually tightening nylon bindings inserted through an existing tongue piercing over a long period of time. This method is long, arduous, and requires a high pain tolerance.
6.Tooth Filing
Tooth filing is a form of body modification in which people file their natural teeth to create a desired look or shape.
5.Tightlacing
Also called corset training and waist training, this is the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset to achieve extreme modifications to the figure and posture and experience the sensations of a very tight corset. Those who practice tightlacing are called tightlacers. Some tightlacers call the corsets they wear training corsets.
4.Pearling
This is the practice of permanently inserting small beads made of various materials beneath the skin of the genitals–of the labia, or of the shaft or foreskin of the penis. As well as being an aesthetic practice, this is usually intended to enhance the sexual pleasure of partners during vaginal or anal intercourse. The practice seems to have been fairly common across world cultures and is still done today. You can see a VERY Not Safe For Work image here.
3.Corneal tattooing
Eyeball tattooing has been around for a long time; in the 19th century it was commonly used to correct cosmetic defects in blind eyes. The procedure can be performed with traditional tattoo needle or a syringe. The eye is simply held open while the pigment, which is the exact same type used in a regular tattoo, is injected into the eyeball.
2.Anal stretching
The process of anal stretching is a lot like earlobe stretching, except you don’t wear the “jewelry” around the clock. Like stretching a piercing, it involves slow and increasingly larger play over an extended period of time. The image above is for “tools” to aid in this modification.
1.Extraocular Implant
The implantation of jewelry in the outer layer of the eye, this is one I must admit I had not heard of. Apparently first done in the Netherlands, it has come to the US. According to Dr. Christopher Rapuano, a corneal surgeon at Philadelphia’s Wills Eye Hospital, “You can think of it as crazy. I mean this is invasive surgery where you are cutting the surface layer of the eye open to put a little piece of jewelry in. The first time I read about this I said, ‘Oh, my God, who is doing this?'” The safety of this procedure will have to prove itself over time, since it hasn’t been performed on many people, but the possibility for infection and complications is definitely there.
Bonus Pierced Glasses
James Sooy and Oliver Gibson have come up with Pierced Glasses – the most minimalist eyewear since the Pince-nez was invented in the 1840’s. I would not have believed this one if I had not seen it with my own bespectacled eyes.
Notable omissions: penis splitting (try finding a SFW image for that!)