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And our friends are all aboard, many more of them live next door
Louise died on 4/20. I used to wonder if she got some sort of post-life personal satisfaction from that; I hope so, because you'd like someone to get some kind of benefit from it. Last year my dad died on 6/9, so now I've been wondering if it's just a thing in my life where the people close to me are going to keep dying on meme-related memorable ( Read more... ) -
This scene ends badly, as you can imagine
2023 was an annus horribilis, or possibly just an anus. I can't think of a damn positive thing to say about it. I can't think of anything about it in broad strokes except all the shit that happened! Most of the last six months are just awkwardly compartmentalized away in some dark and spider-ridden part of my brain; at some point I'm going to have ( Read more... ) -
Locking eyes, holding hands
To start off, I had NOTHING to do with Pope Benedict dying. I want to make that clear from the beginning. But it made me think about how that lady tackled him at Mass, and how when telling me that story, I learned about the Swiss Guard playing pickup basketball with the Legionaries of Christ.
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Trading swigs from a bottle, all bitter and clean
I had all this ambition of doing a real entry, and then things went a bit to shit. I'm tired all the time. The house still floods. Work is bad. Everyone around me keeps having medical crises. Big things, and little things-- my mouth feels constantly raw at the edges, and the skin at the corner of my lips keeps splitting and not healing in sync, ( Read more... ) -
Ra Ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine
The cicadas of Brood X are here, though it keeps throwing me off because I'm used to cicadas in general showing up in July and August rather than May. Cicadas are associated with mid to late summer in my mind, the noise of them and the way they just sorta drunkenly bumble through their business. Having them here now in May just adds another level ( Read more... ) -
The way somebody comes back, but only in a dream
Recently I was in bed, warm and comfortable, and then sat up in a panic because I remembered that I'd scheduled a donation pickup for the next morning and they always show up at the crack of dawn to collect in my neighborhood so I had to get up and handle it NOW.
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There will be feasting and dancing In Jerusalem next year
What a weird fucking year this was. It doesn't even feel possible to eulogize it, not the least reason being it doesn't feel safe to assume it'll die properly, or at all. I've seen horror movies; I know how this shit goes ( Read more... ) -
God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel
This has been a terrible week of epic proportions and I don't want to write about any of the things that have actually happened, so I won't ( Read more... ) -
Cross the water and home through the town
I think my garbage disposal is broken, or it leaks and I can't figure out why. (This is a lot like everything else going on in my life right now.) So this morning, instead of calling the plumber and doing something about it, I left my kitchen scattered with all the things I'd had to pull out from the gross crevice under the sink, took my purse, a ( Read more... ) -
Raise my hands, paint my spirit gold
I've been in Orlando for the past couple days, drinking and eating my face off with eramundo, kaitou1412, and flidgetjerome. Most of the time was spent happily screaming about what made us angry in the Harry Potter franchise (a lot!) and drinking around the world in Epcot. It was lovely. I always forget how nice it is to spend extended amounts of time with people I like. You ( Read more... )