AUTHOR.CALHO: If I didn't write it, I would be hitch hiking cross country to Maine and then Alaska in that order. While taking frequent breaks to spread leaflets. And sit in diners. And write on things because I wasn't at a computer. I may still do that in a few years. Writing this also helps me forget about and better understand the limitations of being human, and keeps me busy enough to allow me no free time to burn the world down.

THEMATIC.ABOUT : Collapse often. The things that hold people together and hold them apart and scatter brains. The things that make thoughts go boom. The things that ooh and aah and [expletive deleted]. Sometimes poking around the margins where responsibility ends and the only one to look to is the Original Equipment Manufacturer and say "but, I already pressed 9 for more options and the menus are exactly the same. Can you just replace it?" The answer will be: "please hold." Sometimes hanging out in dark corners. Sometimes following the train tracks. Looking for ways out and ways in and all the while sharing the things seen and heard and done and drawn and written and scorched and healed and teased and caged and dreamed along the way.

5/30/14

Dear (_____)

Dear chips ahoy,

What happened guys?  Your cookies were practically perfect.  Holding them halfway under the lip of a cup of milk for between nine and ten seconds gave them the perfect amount of saturation... the maximum milk without losing the structural integrity of the cookie itself and dissolving the bonds between component flavor crystals.

You've changed.  You've tinkered too much.  Holding your entire cookie under milk has no effect.  Maybe in the pursuit of the perfect flavor... the perfect crystal nugget lattice... you've created a cookie impervious to milk.  How?  Why?  Half the fun was seeing how close I could get to perfect without pulling back half a cookie and the rest of it settling like fish food to the bottom of the cup.

You took a great thing and perfected the greatness out of it.

boo on you, chips ahoy.  I boo you, sirs.

Sincerely,

a former addict
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