January 2012
15 posts
WatchTraveling With Charley
I am standing in the back of the Portland, Oregon home we have been invited to stay in- the owner of which is Charles’ 2nd cousin, Jon Graber, and his wife Terry, who are “brewmasters,” brewers of beer, and people with very fine taste in many things. I am inhaling one of the few cigarettes I have been allowing myself lately, and observing things such as the ice on top the...
“Who doesn’t like to be a center for concern? A kind of second childhood...”
– Johnny Steinbeck, Travels With Charley
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My travels with Charles. He doesn’t know how to spell travels. Apparently, me neither. We’re doing our best to put the videos in chronological order, but that also means that you have to go to the least recent post to begin.
Charlie and I stopped to talk with a couple guys with a big cross in their arms the other night on some other street in New Orleans after the Sugar Bowl. How do the even get permission to do what they do, I don’t know. But my conversation was awesome. Guy was really kind, what I liked most was how much we got to talk about him, and where he’s coming from. He said it was a lady,...
“How’s It Going To Be” - Third...
Took my first shower of the trip this morning. Charles called me gross for it, but I’m thinking
I’m on a road trip, and even were I not, this would of been about the time when I’d take one, gross or no,
so he can be Mr. Clean all he wants. The shower tally is Charles 4, me 1. Had an odd experience though, using this shampoo for dry, coarse hair it says, which I don’t...
Checking My Bank Account Today
Me: Uh...that's weird, I don't remember withdrawing at an ATM on Bourbon St.
Charles: You don't!? Oh...okay! Mystery of where that $20 went now solved. You didn't lose it. You spent $20 more than you brought with you.
Me: Really.
Charles: Yeah! We had to get home!
“Charley dog has no nerves. Gunfire or thunder, explosions or high winds leave...”
– From John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley. Day 2 of trip.
my father always talked this chalk about giving the classic “one-hundred and ten percent” when he was going through school. Then I found his report cards. I’ll let them speak for themselves.
Ope, someone is too cool to stay after-school.
wow. that teacher seems so…”nice”
though, how much is he helping himself, if he’s getting candid this way
...
Found this in the attic too
I always thought I hated travelling.
Bring on the coldies, Vancouver, here I come.
Let it be known I still have my reservations!
This is my father, with some woman that is not...
this was a shocker to find in the attic. man Pops, watch those hands
December 2011
24 posts
I went looking for this, and I found it! My old roommate Ryan Parks, I, and Jacob Graudin (all depends on which song) made a few Xmas tracks last year…it was my first time doing something like it, was a lot of fun. “Christmas Song” is my personal favorite, seeing as its drunken (I am, anyhow), but Ryan would probably direct you over to “Once In Royal David’s...
How Katie Cross Graduated Me
Good Morning from the Lovegoods
“Coming Down” - Dum Dum Girls
...
Me: You like those flowers over there? Funny all the colors still in December.
Meme: Yeah, I like 'em. Real purdy, 'dem.
Me: I'll steal them for you sometime.
Meme: Alrighty Mr. Don't let the cops know though.
Melvin was eating a pressed flower just now. Sounded very crunchy.
Songs I’ve Been Obsessed With/Evoke Memories...
The Young and Well-Rested (As The World Purrs),...
Brien notices that Melvin is sleeping, causing a desire within Brien to nap alongside, yet Katie is home; what is there to be done?
Brien thinks to serenade Katie to sleeptime herself, so he and Melvin can be alone.
His plan successful, he ponders what how to ditch her, decides to move her someplace else so as to not disturb the cat of his dreams…
…who he paws his...
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#5 Urban definition for "poochin" - not to be...
which is gross and you should not look up. I went searching for this word because I was thinking of a poochin stomach, one pokin out, you know, and dictionary.com said it was not a word. The protruding stomach was the 1st definition I found (after unfortunately blundering upon ‘pooching’ that is), so mission accomplished, but this alternative is absolutely noteworthy:
5.poochin
3...
“he only, very early in the morning,
rose with his gun and went outdoors by my...”
– John Berryman, Dreamsongs #145 (via alyoshasdream)
couldn’t stop myself.
“More and more, the desire grows in me simply to walk around, greet people, enter...”
– Henri Nouwen (via exceptionallyread)
laurenesegarra:
hai i’m twenty years old today :3
Today was my mom’s birthday too. And my manager’s at work, who kinda looks like my Ma. Hfff. Happy to all these three people, I don’t even know this one but she lives around town I think
How To Commemorate The Last Day in Salt Peeples...
November 2011
27 posts
The Remodeled 'Ancient Highway' Brien Made for...
How Brien Curbs His Love When Katie's Not...
My Raymond Carver collection has gone missing, or has run away from me. I came home from the library, to a peg missing on our porch, the very peg my bike was locked to. Guess what:
It’s a time like this I am comforted by the Lutheran messages I’ve been going to on Sundays, where the wrath of God is told, His massacres, His firing of cities, by the minister, and when finished,...
Songs I’ve Been Obsessed With/Evoke Memories...
Today Meme
There’s this thing, sometimes I think it is sad, but most of the time I think it is beautiful and wouldn’t change it if I could, and it is the way I think almost everything she does in her old age is endearing or cute or funny and I record so many instances in different ways, either like this, on this blog, or on material pieces of paper, stuff like that, just like her journal she kept...
“Well, I guess I better go to the bathroom. Nobody’s going for me.”
– Meme
Meme: Hey, are you gonna eat that pineapple stuff?
No, I don't think so, would you-
Meme: YESSS yes I would. Gimme.
topographe:
that awkward moment when you hastily choose a topic for a research paper and skim through sources for an annotated biblioraphy
and then get down to actually writing the thing and realize the topic is WAY more complicated then you originally envisioned
and you’ve got a million different JSTOR windows open and five different places marked in different books and
you know you’re...