It is a difficult time for someone like me. Yea, yea, you can fill in the simile. I don't mind (most of the time. . . too much) because I am someone with a strange sense of humor. I like to poke fun of things, but the acceptable targets are very limited right now. I feel like someone who wants to break into comedy in Iran. You can call it "toxic humor" and I won't mind. . . usually. But the stakes are running high, and I don't know if I have enough capital to stay in the game.
When I was a teenager, I was standing in small patch of lawn in a trailer park talking to my friend's neighbor, a tall, thin man who worked as a musician at a theme park. He was a strange cat, I have to say, and a bit fascinating. As we stood there, he started laughing, and when I asked, "What?" he pointed to a pile of dog shit on the ground between us. I could never figure out what was funny about it, but I never forgot the moment, either. I remember it vividly five decades later.
I think he might have smoked marijuana, but I don't know.
The postmodernists learned that language controls thought and not vice-versa, so they have become masters at changing the language. They are the best phrase makers since the Nazis. You remember them. They hated the Bohemians. The Weimar Republic had decadent art. It wasn't a fair fight. The artists all ran away. In France, it was a different story.
I feel like I'm a comedian trying to break into the business in Alabama. All the material is there, but the audience looks confused.
In the story, it is rumored, Roy Moore says, "Well, you know. . . sacred cow makes the best hamburger." I don't know that for a fact. . . .
That's all I got, some opinions and a couple observations, served on a little wry. Let's see what today brings.
hehe. i laughed. :) good stuff.
ReplyDeletei got a text from the guy i loved in high school and beyond - the one i was always most myself with - even during all those awkward years. perhaps because we were both sort of awkward. cool but awkward.
the text came in last week - i was sick and not responding to much of anything. last night he texted me again - "call me" - wtf i thought - does he have to tell me? anyway i called him. and he starts with
"every time i hear X "year one" i want to call you ..." blah blah blah. he says - "i'm pulling into the house now - and no one is home so I can talk ..." i'm thinking - after all these years you still can't talk to me on the phone with your wife in the house?" wtf. dudes are strange.
yeah he's the one i made an entire cassette tape - both sides - of that song - playing over and over and over - yeah he's the one last time i wrote about here said "the only thing my wife and i have in common is we both like beef jerky"
anyway we were catching up and laughing hard at our current silly life stories - laughing is important in a lasting relationship innit?
so he's laughing really hard at something i said and he says - not to me - "yeah, yeah i'm fine" and comes back to the phone and says "mb thought i was having a heart attack" and we laugh some more -
imagine - his wife confuses hard core laughing with him being in distress. we didn't say that out loud but could "hear it" in the continued laughter.
he says "well what's more likely will happen - is i'll die jacking off in my office upstairs..." to which i respond "that's doubtful, i just saw an article today that dying during sex is not likely ... " and offer to text the article.
after he laughs some more he says "yeah but those people aren't stressed...."
anyway - there probably isn't a point to this for anyone. but the cafe is always a good place to share sth. shit that happens.
i like the texture of language.
i bought a photograph last night online. a photograph by a National Geographic Photographer - it's from 1967 and is of two children who look like they are floating - on a high country road in Basque country.
i have no more wall space but i love it.
He'll die wishing he could jack off. Nature's logic.
Deletethis one..
ReplyDeletehttp://time.com/3393856/the-photo-that-made-me-william-albert-allard-pyrenees-1967/
he's having a "flash sale" whatever that is but seems very popular with photographers on the world wide web or social media places like insta-face.