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.

9/6/16

Dear (_____)

I understand how you can view the end credits of Nicholas Offerman's American Ham as a straw man American white out dream.  I see myself inside it too, colorless.  I saw it as freedom to be masculine and delicate and colorful and meat eater and every now and then you have to pee where you are going to.

I saw it a bit differently.  How many ways can a flapjack be turned before it burns?  It was a good conversation for it's brevity.   I wish we could have talked longer to suss more tiny waves out of a fabric that was thicker than I thought it would be.  I wanted you to enjoy it for its face value.  The question in my lap is now why you took it to other dimensions.

Regardless, your opinion will not diminish my love for Nick or the end credits of American Ham.  I will not stop being curious in the meantime.

Sincerely,

a Comedian
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