The big trip is imminent. An all night trek across NJ and PA to that little hell of economic disaster that spawned Swanny. All to pay homage to Peach and let the newt meet the 'rents and see some old friends meet some new relatives and snag some Darvocet.
Got back in touch with an old friend after many years last night. It was through another friend. Who knew that such connections would even exist? And why is Band-Aid playing Do they know it's Christmas?
So many people to see. How to pack it all into roughly 48 hrs onsite? And what to do about exes who want to meet the newt? This is the trouble with staying friends with ex-lovers. Well, one of them anyway. I'm sure it will all work out.
If not, there's Darvocet.
14 July 2009
13 July 2009
No one likes us. I don't know why.
The train she ees not coming. One just blew by at about 60 and it was funny watching people jockey for spots to get on a train that was obviously not stopping.
I've been following Cory Booker on Twitter. He's the mayor of Newark. He unseated an old-school, Democrat machine politician with hope and a non-partisan platform of using whatever ideas work to help his beleagured city. I liked him during the campaign even though he's a damn dirty Dem. He is I think the kinda politician this country needs. The kind who are trying to solve problems logically without resorting to partisanship and rancor. I support him and will continue to do so. I pray he does not let me down.
Well, fuck. It looks like I will be staying late today. Thank you, MTA!
Yesterday, the newt and I walked about 3 miles down the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail from Yorktown Heights and then back. I am paying for it today. It's a great walking trail. Well it's not a trail per se so much as a paved path through the woods and neighborhoods running from Westchester all the way down into Manhattan.
Fucking train is now here. Bound to be crowded. Oh joy!
I've been following Cory Booker on Twitter. He's the mayor of Newark. He unseated an old-school, Democrat machine politician with hope and a non-partisan platform of using whatever ideas work to help his beleagured city. I liked him during the campaign even though he's a damn dirty Dem. He is I think the kinda politician this country needs. The kind who are trying to solve problems logically without resorting to partisanship and rancor. I support him and will continue to do so. I pray he does not let me down.
Well, fuck. It looks like I will be staying late today. Thank you, MTA!
Yesterday, the newt and I walked about 3 miles down the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail from Yorktown Heights and then back. I am paying for it today. It's a great walking trail. Well it's not a trail per se so much as a paved path through the woods and neighborhoods running from Westchester all the way down into Manhattan.
Fucking train is now here. Bound to be crowded. Oh joy!
10 July 2009
I'm a wheel, I'm a wheel. I can roll, I can feel.
Yay! First Friday off under the new system of summer party rules at work. Yeah. I'm loving it!
Taking vitamins on an empty stomach is always a challenge. Generally you'll go through a period of feeling like you'll hurl. I kinda like this time. If I parlay it right it's remniscent of the early stages of an Oxy 40. Sure that's as far as it really goes, but beggers cannot be choosers and if I can fool myself into thinking a buzz is coming it's better than nothing.
Now to decide what to do with a pretty day. Even if it is a bit cool. Beach or trimming the hedges, returning the cable boxes and mowing the lawn? I think we all know the answer.
Taking vitamins on an empty stomach is always a challenge. Generally you'll go through a period of feeling like you'll hurl. I kinda like this time. If I parlay it right it's remniscent of the early stages of an Oxy 40. Sure that's as far as it really goes, but beggers cannot be choosers and if I can fool myself into thinking a buzz is coming it's better than nothing.
Now to decide what to do with a pretty day. Even if it is a bit cool. Beach or trimming the hedges, returning the cable boxes and mowing the lawn? I think we all know the answer.
09 July 2009
I'm the dandy highwayman that you're too scared to mention
I may eventually get used to it but the damn moon still freaks me out. I woke up to heed nature's call last night and the light pouring in through the windows echoed the cold arc of the spot and I braced myself for the flashbangs and the men in black.
"This is it. They've come for you, buddy boy," I thought as I fingered the Trooper and peeked around the corner of the sill. These fucks would not take me without paying a price, goddammit. But there was no rotor wash, no fast ropes hanging down and no laser sighting dots playing across me.
It was just the moon, big and bright hanging above us like a Xenotech in the sky. Fucking wasn't even full yet!
My paranoia notwithstanding, the moon still freaks me out.
"This is it. They've come for you, buddy boy," I thought as I fingered the Trooper and peeked around the corner of the sill. These fucks would not take me without paying a price, goddammit. But there was no rotor wash, no fast ropes hanging down and no laser sighting dots playing across me.
It was just the moon, big and bright hanging above us like a Xenotech in the sky. Fucking wasn't even full yet!
My paranoia notwithstanding, the moon still freaks me out.
08 July 2009
The circus boy is feeling melancholy
I do love Olly for having introduced me to Belle & Sebastian. I may not love a lot of their stuff, but what I do love is almost transcendent. I say as I annoy the woman next to me by wiggling my butt in time with the music. She gives me a dirty look, but I just shrug.
I tweeted last night about the familiarity that the internet and specifically social networking sites breed. It was prompted by my commenting on an old college pal's wife's Facebook about someone's taint. I thought briefly, this is wildly inappropriate. I don't even know this woman! But then I realized, I would have made the same joke in person, so it's pretty much who I am.
The concern was not really for the person but for how their friends and their friends of friends actually would perceive it. I would hate to put someone in the position of having to defend my insanity. That's hardly fair to them. But on the other hand, I defend my friends all the time. But no one really seems to be assholes so I don't have to do it nearly as often as one would expect. Who are these respectable people and why on earth are they friends with me, right?
The issue was resolved for me when I posted a version of this on Facebook and the woman in question pointed out that we had indeed met in college but that I was clearly too drunk to remember it!
I tweeted last night about the familiarity that the internet and specifically social networking sites breed. It was prompted by my commenting on an old college pal's wife's Facebook about someone's taint. I thought briefly, this is wildly inappropriate. I don't even know this woman! But then I realized, I would have made the same joke in person, so it's pretty much who I am.
The concern was not really for the person but for how their friends and their friends of friends actually would perceive it. I would hate to put someone in the position of having to defend my insanity. That's hardly fair to them. But on the other hand, I defend my friends all the time. But no one really seems to be assholes so I don't have to do it nearly as often as one would expect. Who are these respectable people and why on earth are they friends with me, right?
The issue was resolved for me when I posted a version of this on Facebook and the woman in question pointed out that we had indeed met in college but that I was clearly too drunk to remember it!
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