April 2008
Election 2008
- me: can you think of a reason not to vote for mccain?
- Danish: yes, he might be running against the first viable black candidate, he said "bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb iran," he thinks staying in iraq for 100 years would be okay, he will probably die in office and who knows who his running mate will be, he calls asians "gooks," he was held in a vietnamese prison camp for years and is probably mentally damaged
- me: but, like, a real reason?
“When as a very young man I found myself the editor-in-chief of National Review, I realized two things. One, that if I had been ten years older my colleagues might well have declined to rally around a magazine of which I was to be editor and sole owner - traditional professional resentments are not felt toward people who are much younger and are fit objects for patronizing - and two, artists are worse, but intellectuals are often bad enough, and what it comes down to is this - that concerning certain things, everyone is inaccessible to reason, and the trick is to find out what those things are, and simply accept the given in the situation. Russell Kirk, for instance, must not under any circumstance be asked to review a movie or a television show, and to suggest to James Burnham that he read a particular book is almost to guarantee that he will not read it; that kind of thing.”
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WFB, Cruising Speed
While sex isn’t everything, it is something. When it’s not around you look to see if maybe it’s on your computer. When it’s lying in your bed about to say something completely insane about the motivation of the Israeli citizens building settlements on Palestinian land, you have to ask yourself: At what cost?
http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/in-which-we-request-that-you-not-tongue-our-balls/
CHINNING AGAINST A DARK SKY
CROSS FIRE
This is the second day without anyone.
I am chinning against a dark sky
to strengthen my arms.
A picture of everyone I love passes thru me.
No clear light streams thru this cell.
There’s no dawn.
What have I gained
by lying in this abyss,
waiting for the masonry
to show a little slit
for my soul to get through?
- Joe Ceravolo
from here
He Said It
- Ted: do you get a bonor ribbing me about my emotional life
- me: i'm just trying to protect the next girl you fall asleep on during sex
- Ted: ha
- that's happened three times this year
- a sign?
- first time
- i woke up above the sheets with a condom on my dick
- the second time i woke up above the sheets with a condom on my dick
- the third time i woke up above the sheets without shirt and without recollection of the journey to this unknown basement apartment in the burg
e-mail i once forced rachael to write to some girl i went to coffee with
Hey,
I’ve been meaning to write you for a while. Last week when we had coffee, I left with a lot of things to say. Here are some of them:
1. I feel weird that your dad was the captain of the exxon valdez, i don’t mean to be judgmental, but those seals didn’t deserve to die
2. I think that you’re pretty, maybe not totally my type, but i could get used to it
3. It was more fun than I could have imagined, and yet strangely unsatisfying. What did you think? I often wonder how I come across in first moments of intimacy
4. I just wrote a chapter in my novel about Milwaukee. You are from Wisconsin, so I’m going to have to say that you inspired a lot of the best material. What I’m saying is, I’ve immortalized you in the greatest piece of fiction ever written.
6. I was wondering about what you told me about your parents, about being neglected and stuff. Frankly, as I told you, I can sympathize but I can’t really identify. I was wondering if you ever thought about divorcing them, like Macauley Culkin did.
7. Do you speak any other languages? Usually I like to know that about a person upfront. Once I started flirting with this chick who spoke Portuguese, it was pretty sweet but it didn’t materialize. I mean, do you speak Portuguese? No, of course not. Why would you.
8. But, like, do you speak French or anything?
9. I kept this blog for a long time, you might have read it. Anyway, I feel pretty distant from that time in my life now. I used to write a lot of stuff about politics, and sometimes about TV shows. now, i don’t care about much of anything except that new shwarma place on meeting street and keeping my head above water. It’s strange how much things change in a matter of months. But who I am talking to, you know that.
10. I just got into the New School MFA program, I’m scared about going. What do you think you’re going to do after college. People pretend that they hate that question, but I don’t think anyone does. As our coffee date showed, people LOVE to talk about themselves, you know?
ok, i love you. or, i could.
alex
Now those are quality emotions! I think we can all be proud of the man, or lack thereof, that I was in 2005. And wow, posting it on the Internet. I have only gotten more mature since then.
It’s times like these when you realize no matter how much of a fuck you are, your parents will still probably get you something for your birthday.
Play
me: i wonder what their sex is like
Becca: hairy
