Nov 8, 2008

10:25.08:130

The yellow buzz of electricity that coughs through the phone lines- a painful reminder of just how much distance our voices have to carry

10:24.08:129

Still struggling with our weakness' and inabilities, though looking forward to small victories, we pushed on through the marshes and tired banks of mud.

10:23.08:128

And here a blown-out video of Thompson's fat, lisping son whining about their great deals, and closing with a laughable, although admittingly catchy jingle: "My dad thells Cadillacth...and unleth you are having a heart attack...come thtep through the door of Thompthon's Cadillacth and more."

10:22.08:127

The pacific-gray tinted blue of her eyes- the rarest of colors- found but once a year during the autumnal equinox deep on the horizon off the coast of Big Sur.

10:21.08:126

Upon reaching bottom and noticing for the first time that I was wet with perspiration, she pulled the bottom of her dress and patted down my cheeks and forehead.

10:20.08:125

She is plugged in and illuminates my journey.

10:19.08:124

...but I will use your colors as a crutch against the failability of my words.

10:18.08:123

Looking out my window, once transparent and now opaque with night.

10:17.08:122

There are words we dare not speak; we need not speak them now.

10:16.08:121

I then stood up and told them to thank me because when on their death bed filtering memories like silt through a river mouth, they would, no doubt, bring up this evening and laugh like children at the image of an orange moon as big as the autumn sky and a crazy young chap grabbing his balls like a saddle horn, crowing behind them.

-From a seven page autobiography found rolled into a child's metal thermos picked up at an estate sale in northern New England. Author Unknown.

10:15.08:120

Caught between a burp and question Albert Ibis asked the lovely young lady to his left for an 'Auuuuuughhhhhsprin'.

10:14.08:119

I could start with my being fired from my first job at Nabisco Foods, inc. where I was creating new molds for their animal cracker cookies to which I added anatomically correct genitalia.