2008

I can say with absolute sureness that 2008 was the best year of my life so far.

My <3 Belongs to Brautigan

"A Correction"
Cats walk on little cat feet
and fogs walk on little fog feet,
Carl.

Grandfather Quotes of the Day

So who wants to hear about the dirty puppet show I went to?!?

(reading the label of a bottle of scotch)
Oh look, it says 'remember to drink a lot.' Oh wait no 'responsibly.'

Jolly Holiday

I had intensive dreams last night. I got kicked out of a camera store for starting a dance and singalong party to Can't Take My Eyes Off You when it played on the store radio, I tried to go to Israel but first had to dig out the entrance to Israel (because you know they put all those styrofoam blocks in front of it for security reasons) with the guards all standing guard pointing their guns at me, I went into a store to try to cheer up the storeclerk after there was a murder in there but the storeclerk ended up acting crazy and frightening me away, and I encountered a whole assortment of people from my life both past and present.

This has been a very successful winter break so far. Southold is kind of depressing these days, not like the Christmasses of yore, but the gang has retained its classic sense of humor which is keeping Regiftmas* enjoyable. And sustainable!

*All presents this year come from basements, storage closets, etc. That way Christmas doesn't cost (much) money and does not generate (much) waste. And is easier than last year's make all the presents Christmas.

You folks may have white Christmasses back in the good old bay state, but over here on this Island paradise we have green grass and blue seas. I thought perhaps what with the entire country being covered with snow these days we might finally have a white Christmas in Southold. I thought wrong.

RICHARD BRAUTIGAN MEETS THE CARTER FAMILY???

"Wildwood Shadow"
He taught me to love him
and called me his flower

An old woman clutches a bagful of groceries
to her chest. A loaf of white bread sticks
out the top. She has forgotten to put her
food stamps away. They're still in her hand.





...HELLO WORLDS COLLIDING. Not that this poem especially resonates with me or anything. But I mean, two of my odd fixations in life coming together in one?

Oh jeez

I am not just on west coast time. I am on west coast insomniac time. Dangit.

SOOOOO today we spent some quality time at the state police barracks (OKAY DOES THIS NOT TOTALLY REMIND EVERYONE ELSE OF AGE OF EMPIRES?? JUST ME?? WELL FINE THEN) after getting into a liiiittle car accident.

Seeing that cement barrier come closer and closer and then slam up into it and then bounce into the other side....that. was crazy.

But in the words of my darling J
AT LEAST WE'RE ALL ALIVE
GOOD THING EVERYONE IS ALL ALIVE
THANK GOD WE'RE ALL ALIVE

The police officers did not take pictures with us EVEN AFTER THEY PROMISED US.

We are never civilized humans in our interactions with the law.

Love Song #1

Bej: I, I have no homosexual tendencies
Ale: Bej that’s what Ti said and he is a psychic
Bej: He did observe my behavior
Ale: I mean you and El together do have some like weird energy
Be: Bej if you need to come out to anyone I’m here
Bej: Be
Ale: Oh my god Be observes you too!
Bej: If you were in a block of ice like trapped and frozen and not dead I would get an ice pick and save you
Ale: That’s really romantic
Be: If you were trapped in lava I would cool that lava, burning lava, and then chip it away
Bej: That’s like an added level. Okay if you were in an ice cube at the bottom of the ocean, a big ice cube, big enough to fit your whole body,
Be: Okay
Bej: An ice block. I would save you by getting a submarine and dragging you up from the depths. I would be that guy.
Be: Bej, if you were trapped in a magma block in the center of the earth, I would get a pterodactyl and fly into a volcano and get you out
Bej: Wow thanks that means a lot. Be, if you were in a different dimension, like in a prison of demons who were holding you there, surrounded by like fire, interdimensional fire, which is different than regular fire, I would swim through that lake
Be: Of fire
Bej: Of fire, and fight the demon army, and then pick the lock on your cell door, and then time travel back to when you were kidnapped so that you wouldn’t even remember it happening
Be: Aw that’s sweet
Bej: I would do all that for you
Be: Bej, if you were captured by Arthas,
Bej: The Lich king?
Be: The Lich king
Bej: The Lich king himself
Be: The Lich king himself. I would level myself to level 140 – instantly. And I would fight him off [this gets too geeky and WOW inspired for me to understand here for a bit] And I would heal myself
Bej: No
Be: All at the same time in the name of Lich
Bej: Anna and Alex have no idea what you just said
Be: And then I would give you a level 120 character so we could walk around and rule the world of warcraft. Together.
Bej: Wow
Be: Like brothers. We’d rescue each other.
Bej: If you were walking in a field, a green field, green grassy field, and you fell down among a family of bunny rabbits, I would walk over to you and pet those bunny rabbits, and take your hand and walk out of the field, together.
Be: Bej, if you were in an egg in a triwizard cup
Bej: yeah
Be: I would fight that dragon and that basilisk
Bej: Would you use your broomstick? For me?
Be: I would say accio firebolt and I would come and get you because there would be two demons, two beasts so foul, defending you because you’re that precious
Bej: awww, man. If I was a vampire and you moved to Washington, like your smell would be irresistible to me but I wouldn’t kill you, I would just talk to you about how we should not be together, but stay together
Be: Camaraderie
Bej: Yeah
Be: Friendship
Bej: Friendship
Be: Brotherhood
Bej: Brotherhood
Be: Bej, I love you man.