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I slipped and had two shots of tequila and a beer at a birthday party last night. It seemed like the sociable thing to do and it endeared me to my hosts. I now have an open invitation to dinner and this guy wants me to take out his 20 year old niece, who looks like a supermodel if her photo is anything to go...
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I was walking back from the gym a couple days ago. I saw a kid trying to push his big-ass 80s era sedan by himself out of a left turn median while in the midst of what passes for rush hour traffic around here. A past version of myself would have kept on moving, and minded his own business.

For reasons unknown, I felt compelled...
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Neither a tooter of blow nor feng shui devotee, neither a Jimi fanatic nor prisoner of vanity; I see a woman who lives in a house full of mirrors. She's little more than a mystery. That I feel no connection to my reflection is strange enough, but looking at myself look at myself unto infinity is really a bit much. Strangest of all, you could...
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Not far from here, a vigorous one hour hike if you like, there lies a cave with a genuine hermit residing within. He's kind of odd, alien even. Which is saying something, given that my own sensibility is hard for some people to live with. When exploring the high desert alone, you tend not to welcome crossing paths with human beings.

Resembling an older, taller,...
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"Don't know what I want but I know how to get it".


When I was 16 years old, I got busted shoplifting. Did I ever tell about you this? I don't remember. Anyway, I got stupid, careless. The store detective wrote in his report that it appeared I wanted to get caught. The merchandise was a cassette of Highway To Hell by AC/DC, which would...
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Been limping around for two weeks since my catastrophic session at Reed Park Skate Court.
The scar on my temple doesn't look like a railroad track, it's tough-looking yet oddly stylish. There was a time when something like that would have greatly upset me, but I find myself grinning at the sight of it now. I credit the Tao. It could be another week before...
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Hey there!

I found a trombone, minus the sliding tube thing, in a dilapidated hardshell case held together with duct tape, lying in the gravel on the shoulder of a dusty back country road. I whipped it out and held it up to the light, as I am often wont to do when I find shiny golden things in my path.

I didn't get any...
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Quietly and unwittingly, I've become sort of a mascot for the gym I frequent.

I don't bench the most weight or anything. I just sweat, a lot.

I spend about three hours a day at the gym. Which, I'm told, is overdoing it.

I don't do much socializing, yet people tend to want to talk to me. Under any other circumstances women usually ignore...
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I pulled a gray hair out of my ear - which is a rare event, but not wholly unexpected.

I passed my reflection in the window of a parked car on the side of the road. Something stopped me in my tracks. I stepped backward in slow motion. A replay; so I could look at myself again in reverse.

I saw myself levitating inside an Iridescent shell, with fireflies, and... tiny bubbles floating out all around me. Heat shimmered off the surface intensely, giving...
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