man, what a slow SG day. where is everyone?
i had a fun time on my evening walk just now. i was walking thru the dog park by the river, headed to the store for soymilk and having The Cure blasted into my head with my mp3 player. it was dusk, the sky that deep shade of blue right before all of the light is drained and you see the stars. there were fireflies all around. i looked up and saw about half a dozen bats flying around in what seemed ordered chaos. dipping and diving, climbing and swirling and swooping. i suppose they were using the relative open space above the dog park to rid the area of those bothersome mosquitoes and such. it was just amazing standing there and seein them flutter by, sillohuetted against the darkening sky, like little bits of myth made manifest right in front of my eyes while Robert Smith sang of Bloodflowers in my ears. i remembered a game we used to play as kids in TX. wait for the bats to come sort of near you, then toss something up in the air about 30 feet. the bats will 'hear' it and swirl around the object as it falls to the ground. we used to stand there with fishing nets and net them as the tennis ball we used for this came close enough. ugliest little things you ever saw. so after ogling at them, we'd lift the net and they'd sort of spring up and vanish against the backdrop of the dark trees. anyway, i picked up a small rock and toosed it up, and what do you know, about 3 of them swooped in and around it as it fell into the grass. i felt like a 9 year old kid again for a moment, amid the bats and dusk and the fireflies. quite possibly one of very few perfect moments in the last few years of my life.
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this camping trip may be some fun, yeah?
those in and around Alexandria needing a ride let me know and we'll work it out.
not much else to report at the moment, so sod off and get some camping gear, ya wanker.
-pb
music: social d
book: still life with woodpecker, tom robbins
i had a fun time on my evening walk just now. i was walking thru the dog park by the river, headed to the store for soymilk and having The Cure blasted into my head with my mp3 player. it was dusk, the sky that deep shade of blue right before all of the light is drained and you see the stars. there were fireflies all around. i looked up and saw about half a dozen bats flying around in what seemed ordered chaos. dipping and diving, climbing and swirling and swooping. i suppose they were using the relative open space above the dog park to rid the area of those bothersome mosquitoes and such. it was just amazing standing there and seein them flutter by, sillohuetted against the darkening sky, like little bits of myth made manifest right in front of my eyes while Robert Smith sang of Bloodflowers in my ears. i remembered a game we used to play as kids in TX. wait for the bats to come sort of near you, then toss something up in the air about 30 feet. the bats will 'hear' it and swirl around the object as it falls to the ground. we used to stand there with fishing nets and net them as the tennis ball we used for this came close enough. ugliest little things you ever saw. so after ogling at them, we'd lift the net and they'd sort of spring up and vanish against the backdrop of the dark trees. anyway, i picked up a small rock and toosed it up, and what do you know, about 3 of them swooped in and around it as it fell into the grass. i felt like a 9 year old kid again for a moment, amid the bats and dusk and the fireflies. quite possibly one of very few perfect moments in the last few years of my life.
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this camping trip may be some fun, yeah?
those in and around Alexandria needing a ride let me know and we'll work it out.
not much else to report at the moment, so sod off and get some camping gear, ya wanker.
-pb
music: social d
book: still life with woodpecker, tom robbins
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So, I haven't talked to you in forever...you should give me a call sometime. Are you gonna come visit Texas in July like you said you would?