about listening to conversations is hearing the notes and seeing the sheet music.
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.
Showing posts with label the best thing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the best thing. Show all posts
6/10/18
1/9/18
The Best Thing
about the screaming argument that starts with "I'll get dressed when I'm dead!!!" and "I don't fucking feel like it today!!!" and "Well, neither do I!!!" is that it sometimes ends with high fives all around because you've managed to agree on something unanimously and that something just happened to be: getting dressed sucks and yeah people should be a lot less fucked up about nudity, but they aren't and we can't kill them all so we'll get dressed and file our grievances under artistic differences or something, and it's a starting point to key the rest of the day.
11/18/17
The Best Thing
about realizing your sense of humor is directly tied into the belief or disbelief in the supernatural and ghost stories are ghost stories as the starting ground and the turn of the gate always jams backward and that is unfair and that realization nudging you toward a shelf of acceptance... no...
about realizing your sense of humor is uncommon is that they (some) will laugh with you. Others will allow it. Some of the caucus will grip their sides with glee. Others will hold their chins and wag their horned heads. And they all will be there to see you.
about realizing your sense of humor is uncommon is that they (some) will laugh with you. Others will allow it. Some of the caucus will grip their sides with glee. Others will hold their chins and wag their horned heads. And they all will be there to see you.
10/10/17
The Best Thing
about not having your wisdom teeth removed is that the pain stops around 29 and if you chew gum with too much vigor part of it will get caught on a shard of berg and when you pull it forward with your tongue there will be a strand that you will tongue while you scrunch up your nose figuring out by touch where exactly it is because the last thing you want is to brush your teeth in the morning and have grainy chewing gum melding with the paste/saliva froth and you can laugh at 32 that the only hassle will be that.
9/8/17
The Best Thing
about the days that nearly run you into the ground at the end of the week is hanging up your truck keys for a while, knowing the engine block outside is ticking sighs of relief, sink washing your groin and slipping into the freshest loosest pajama bottoms you've got, rolling a thunderous spliff, and pouring a two cube three finger whiskey, knowing that you made it to the end of another one with a little luck and a lot of skill.
8/26/17
The Best Thing
about remembering that you forgot to put the beans on the stove after midnight has come and gone is that you are probably going to be awake for another three hours anyway and it's not too late to sit up and wait for your warm midnight snack in a bowl.
6/29/17
The Best Thing
about being alive and unmedicated yet is being able to feel the highline and know that laughter coming out of your face is a part of the genuine and honest to goodness you and it is lovely!
3/11/17
The Best Thing
about not joining the 27 and under club is
to show that celebrity and savant and prodigy
are not
the only unstoppable engines that are beautiful
worth the salt of tears.
to show that celebrity and savant and prodigy
are not
the only unstoppable engines that are beautiful
worth the salt of tears.
3/2/17
The Best Thing
about the right ear piercing is that you learned how to pierce ears and made your left ear to match and you can remember one of the best gifts you were ever given was the gateway.
1/25/17
The Best Thing
about the strange weather in December and January has been all of the still winded rainy days and foggy nights to wander through among the beasts and shades while penning brief letters to the immortal snow dragon, Ueklaraoq.
10/10/16
The Best Thing
about having a good cry, regardless of what its ends are, is that you had it on a Sunday and by Monday's scheduled demands your eyes will be back to a stoic neutral.
8/20/16
The Best Thing
about Xbox Live is that every now and then someone blurts out (during a first person shooter round table sniper match when everyone has run out of ammunition and they are hunting each other in dark corners with melee weapons) "you'll never kill me alive!"
"Yep, that's kind of the point" I think to myself wiping snot from my nose after doubling over on my couch with tearful laughter for several minutes. I know what they meant to say. What they did say was the toast of the evening.
"Yep, that's kind of the point" I think to myself wiping snot from my nose after doubling over on my couch with tearful laughter for several minutes. I know what they meant to say. What they did say was the toast of the evening.
3/12/16
The Best Thing
about being in the kitchen is being in the kitchen with you because you know that times been rough and i can not play a duck and we are still the head hunters too! F---. Being in the kitchen with you is.
1/16/16
The Best Thing
about contract work, mercenary work, is that whatever the outcome when it ends well it is for everyone's benefit. The merc gets their life changing bounty. The job gets their goal fulfilled. It is a common symbiosis, but the joy of its moment is rare, difficult to come by, and hard to find, to boot. When it gets nailed down, you feel it in your bones for days. It's like infinite gummi bears and christmas light chandeliers all packed in to a handshake.
12/31/15
The Best Thing
about age is that as you trade indestructibility for time faster and faster, your tolerance for pain increases at a symmetric enough rate to allow you a buffer of months, sometimes years, to change just enough to continue living, exploring, and modifying against and with the ever changing world around you.
10/23/15
The Best Thing
about Pittsburgh, after the shimmering emerald castles of summer fade, is the mass of gold and bronze and shining yellow and burned jade flags waving across the hilltops in autumn. I wish I could stop my truck in traffic, get out, stand in the bed and take panoramic photographs for you.
9/3/15
The Best Thing
About living with a kitten is that you only get to sleep a few hours at a time, regardless of what's going right or wrong within your own head.
8/24/15
The Best Thing
and most frightening thing about having a kitten is that you sometimes cannot tell if they are dead or simply sleeping. The kick thrash of panic when they do not stir after you kiss them and put your ear on their belly to listen to them digesting and they do not wake is blown hard and wild by the whip crack of relief when they open their eyes, take a wide yawn, knead the bedsheets like they're rolling dough about to make "biscuits and gravy" and go back to sleep.
7/30/15
The Best Thing
about weighing yourself multiple times a day and writing the numbers down upstairs is that you can better track what is happening inside you by their footprint and raise a food militia/coup before it escalates to the colors of defense condition numbers.
6/19/15
The Best Thing
about working in the rain is the simultaneous shampoo to get the saw dust out of your hair.
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