a few days ago I had to go to the doctor after a vicious attack at the prison.
(sounds pretty exciting, eh? not so. I was actually "attacked" by an icy sidewalk. it was, however, vicious indeed.)
anyway, let it be known that, for the next few weeks, there will be icy sidewalks all over the damn place.
& kids--if I have one piece of...
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(sounds pretty exciting, eh? not so. I was actually "attacked" by an icy sidewalk. it was, however, vicious indeed.)
anyway, let it be known that, for the next few weeks, there will be icy sidewalks all over the damn place.
& kids--if I have one piece of...
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...then something interesting happened.
I can't remember what it was, but it kept me from committing suicide...
I can't remember what it was, but it kept me from committing suicide...
tororo:
"....Frankly, I can't remember if we committed suicide that night, or not" (Borges)
Seriously, I like it when interesting things do happen! My main issue for now is precisely a lack of interesting things happening. What was it? was it good to eat?
Seriously, I like it when interesting things do happen! My main issue for now is precisely a lack of interesting things happening. What was it? was it good to eat?
took little niece (6-year old drama queen) & little nephew (8-year old video-game addict) to the park today.
the park in question is pretty much nothing but grass , with a little concrete-lined crick running thru a corner of it. (It's across the street from what is now a Middle School, but was my High School approximately 12 thousand years ago. when I was in...
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the park in question is pretty much nothing but grass , with a little concrete-lined crick running thru a corner of it. (It's across the street from what is now a Middle School, but was my High School approximately 12 thousand years ago. when I was in...
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great article from the always-excellent Jim Knipfel in NYPress this week:
they'll murderize ya fer a dollar!
a quote:
Hell, when I was a kid, if there was absolutely no chance that a toy could maim or kill you somehow, that toy wasn't worth shit.
We scraped our knees and elbows, played with matches, tore our clothes, got in horrible fights, played in abandoned factories,...
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they'll murderize ya fer a dollar!
a quote:
Hell, when I was a kid, if there was absolutely no chance that a toy could maim or kill you somehow, that toy wasn't worth shit.
We scraped our knees and elbows, played with matches, tore our clothes, got in horrible fights, played in abandoned factories,...
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sign I'm getting older:
surfing around on the internet earlier (something I don't do very often) with realplayer playing in the background on random shuffle.
the drive by truckers "Let There Be Rock" came on & I (of course) turned it up & started to air guitar.
I got winded halfway thru.
a bit later tom waits' "Make It Rain" came on & I settled...
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surfing around on the internet earlier (something I don't do very often) with realplayer playing in the background on random shuffle.
the drive by truckers "Let There Be Rock" came on & I (of course) turned it up & started to air guitar.
I got winded halfway thru.
a bit later tom waits' "Make It Rain" came on & I settled...
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morgan:
Really, I wish prison was meant for reform and change, and not just to house criminals. But as it stands now...you're right, prison is an awful place to be.
This guy deserves to be there though. I hope he stays there for a long time.
This guy deserves to be there though. I hope he stays there for a long time.
morgan:
great lyrics! thanks for sharing 'em.
oy.
monday morning, & I'm drunk.
first: feeling guilty because I've gotten a number of lovely emails & letters from friends that I haven't gotten around to answering (yo, Tororo--soon)
which is weird, because writing is what I do, is what I love to do, is what I LIVE to do--
but I just can't do no more.
more later.
monday morning, & I'm drunk.
first: feeling guilty because I've gotten a number of lovely emails & letters from friends that I haven't gotten around to answering (yo, Tororo--soon)
which is weird, because writing is what I do, is what I love to do, is what I LIVE to do--
but I just can't do no more.
more later.
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tororo:
Yo, rats'!
tororo:
Of course I've lots more to say... but
a) I just read in a row both the poem you posted in my journal AND the one you posted in Morgan's, and i've been struck mute by their awesomeness
b) I thought it was fashionable to post just a single 'yo, rats'!" as a comment; Isn't it what you Americans use to call "cool"?
a) I just read in a row both the poem you posted in my journal AND the one you posted in Morgan's, and i've been struck mute by their awesomeness
b) I thought it was fashionable to post just a single 'yo, rats'!" as a comment; Isn't it what you Americans use to call "cool"?
RIP
HST
HST
part of an email sent this morning:
anyway: last night:
in the first couple of hours I was a part of a group of officers to do a shake-down of a unit.
a unit isn't usually shaken down unless something serious like a rash of stabbings or a tip-off of a gang war or some such.
in this case, an inmate (apparently) fell off the...
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anyway: last night:
in the first couple of hours I was a part of a group of officers to do a shake-down of a unit.
a unit isn't usually shaken down unless something serious like a rash of stabbings or a tip-off of a gang war or some such.
in this case, an inmate (apparently) fell off the...
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(experiment from a couple of days ago to transcribe a dream--or rather, that efferevescent portion retained upon waking--into my Palm Pilot):
Dream-thing
Columbine style situation
herded into a classroom with a hell of a lot of scared students
savage but strangely sympathetic pair of gunmen
they are laughing but scared
long & ragged dark hair
beards?
They ask a question
might have been
Who wants...
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Dream-thing
Columbine style situation
herded into a classroom with a hell of a lot of scared students
savage but strangely sympathetic pair of gunmen
they are laughing but scared
long & ragged dark hair
beards?
They ask a question
might have been
Who wants...
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tororo:
Heh heh! Muttering darkly and oiling your rifle... I can't say why, this line conjures up in my mind the image of Clark Ashton Smith, who used -or so I have read - to live in a (log?) cabin in some wild area, somewhere in California, while he was writing The Empire of the Necromancers or The Abominations of Yondo.... I was precisely re-reading The Empire of the Necromancers some days ago, and Smith's fin-de-sicle prose was making me grin like a Cheshire cat!
And you know what? I love this piece!
And you know what? I love this piece!
it's been awhile.
haven't been on the computer much, except for email.
I've been plucking away at the guitar, making glacial, incremental progress--last night I, don't ask me how, slept on one of my fingers wrong--one of the IMPORTANT ones, it turns out--& it just won't move the way I ask it to & just sits there, throbbing.
started my fourth year at the Prison....
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haven't been on the computer much, except for email.
I've been plucking away at the guitar, making glacial, incremental progress--last night I, don't ask me how, slept on one of my fingers wrong--one of the IMPORTANT ones, it turns out--& it just won't move the way I ask it to & just sits there, throbbing.
started my fourth year at the Prison....
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tororo:
Cats are the best.
jes' need to vent for a paragraph or 2.
in every job I've held (& there've been more than a few) one (cliched) constant has been that "the job wouldn't be too bad if it weren't for x"--with x standing for a group of people with whom one has constant contact & dealings with.
in various food service or retail jobs it was "customers". in...
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in every job I've held (& there've been more than a few) one (cliched) constant has been that "the job wouldn't be too bad if it weren't for x"--with x standing for a group of people with whom one has constant contact & dealings with.
in various food service or retail jobs it was "customers". in...
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tororo:
Long time no post, uh? I hope it's not weird shit that's snowing around you right now, and you'll enjoy a very white Christmas (or at least a black & white one? if not a J&B one?)
takeshi21:
Happy New Year!
I've missed regularly reading your journal entries. Always fascinating.
I've missed regularly reading your journal entries. Always fascinating.
got an 800$ traffic tonight.
eight hundred dollars.
(was I drunk? you might ask. well, yeah, kinda, but that didn't enter into the proceedings.)
the citation was, in fact, for lead-footing it at 35 mph. in a 25 mph. zone.
the cop was somewhat sympathetic & wrote on the ticket that I was actually doing 30 mph.
which brought my ticket down to:
eight hundred...
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eight hundred dollars.
(was I drunk? you might ask. well, yeah, kinda, but that didn't enter into the proceedings.)
the citation was, in fact, for lead-footing it at 35 mph. in a 25 mph. zone.
the cop was somewhat sympathetic & wrote on the ticket that I was actually doing 30 mph.
which brought my ticket down to:
eight hundred...
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orchid1:
Wow. I'm sorry, if you have the coverage but didn't have the proof does the ticket still stick?
Catch it, Rats!