Two Awesome Things...

1. Christopher Walken

2. Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven

....combined you get a gem of recorded sound.

-Ciao

People Are Always Asking If I Know Tyler Durden

Meeting someone new is a very curious thing. We pass by, or come in contact with hundreds of people everyday, but meeting someone can sometimes change your life in ways you never realize until it's too late.
Tonight, came in contact with two completely different people under very different circumstances.
The first was in Steak and Shake. This guy was either naturally very friendly or not all there upstairs to whatever capacity. He just kept saying hi how are you to ever living soul who came within a ten feet of him. He would try and strike up a conversation with said person until the next person walked in. I was in a rut at the time so I couldn't not properly appreciate the man's kindness.
The second came as I was walking into target after I had my dinner. There was a dude walking out of target wearing what looked like runner's shorts and a jersey, both were red and so that struck me as well. He also looked like he was carved out of wood with his muscle tone. as I was walking past he stopped and said "Nice shoes, I like them." He had a high raspy voice. And odd encounter by all accounts. memorable none the less. I haven't recieved a compliment in some time, certainly not from a stranger. Given my lack of friendly contact lately these two people really stuck out to me today. However, I will more than likely forget about them in the next few days. Such is life.
I had one friend in Columbus, until 4 days ago. I only met her through my job and only really became friends with her after she quit. We had a sexual relationship going. it was strange and based on a lie. That lie being that she was in it only for the sex. It was faulty and exploded in my face. I'm having a hard time coping with the loss. I didn't know her all that long, so why do I feel like I just got dumped? I was in it for the sex but also the companionship. It's a funny thing meeting people.... you never know how much they will effect your life. This girl, the most profound way she changed my life in the present was remind me just how lonely life can be. Thanks for that.

-Ciao

Diversion

Insulting Amory Brown


Yesterday, I insulted Amory Brown
I did,she was my friend
and I let her down.

She was the quiet sort
her thoughts consumed her minutes
observing but never talking.
I'm sorry Amory Brown.

She would often recite
"I don't know"
But Amory Brown knew
She just didn't like questions

Isolated by design
Amory Brown didn't have friends
being alone brought terror
nope, she had letters.

Transcending written Intent
I bulldozed solitude
ended up inside
then I knew Amory Brown

Souls differ from magnets
Those unalike, repel
Amory Brown was polarized North
I am very southern.

it's been said of Amory Brown
getting close is asking to be pushed
I got inside
And wasn't so much pushed but launched

She prospers in her deepest fears
writing to no one and no where
For us, none remain but a few pages
Because I insulted Amory Brown.

Groan Inaudibly If You <3 Zombies!

Comics are good for the soul and bad for the bank account but somehow it all evens out in the end. So I dropped an unwise amount of my hard earned wages on multiple collections of sequencial art in the last 24 hours. Got myself totally hooked on one hell of a Zombie story. played catch up on some other series that had holes in my collection and picked up some new stuff that just plain rocks. At comic the comic shop http://www.alteregocomics.net/homepage.html there was a signing and a sidewalk sale going on. And with my partner in all things geek I went to talk, buy, bitch about, and browse comics. It was truly and excellent time. Tonight the geekery continues with Ben off playing some Star Wars RPG and me blazing through the trades to catch-me-up on the "Walking Dead". Yeah I read the first 3 which accounts for the first 18 issues. If you have any interest in comics, zombies or, god love you, both pick up these books they are incredible (if you like all those things and are a single woman in your mid 20's we should hook-up).

-Ciao

It Was Passed, Deceased, Bereft of Life, An Ex-Fish!

You know whats fun? Dead fish. Why? Because females of all ages are terrified or disgusted to the core just by the sight of one and males of all ages totally dig grossing the girls out. I realize this makes me, what, four? I had fun though, because all of the ladies I work with were squirming from a fish in the Museum's Aquarium that had moved on from this mortal coil. They drafted me to get it out and give it an unceremonial burial in the porceline-lined lake of La Toileta. But before I did that I had to give the poor thing a New Orleans styled Funeral march around the museum succeeding in thoroughly mortifying young children and adults alike. Don't judge me because I get bored.

-Ciao

Yet Again.

Everyone has really great friends. The ones that get you, the ones that you can talk to at the spur of the moment and will have wanted to talk to you about the same thing. The story of my life is that I have either moved away from them or had them move away from me.

Now I've written about this sort of thing before on my last Blog but I made the mistake of saying I felt like I didn't have any friends thus insulting the ones I actually did have. The reality of life is that I have what I call "Single Purpose" friends. Everyone has these as well. I have friends for art stuff, friends for nostalgia purposes, friends at work, friends for geeky stuff, and until recently a friend for sex. The problem is that these friends are exclusively for those things and those friends who could be more live somewhere else. So here in town all I have is my "work friends". We're friendly at work basically because we have to be. No one wants to not be friendly with their co-workers it makes work more work. Right? I couldn't hang out with them outside of work mostly because their older and married and all that. The others are just too different from me in all the ways that would matter. I'm comfortable with all that. At the end of the day though I go home and do very little if anything. See, I'd be sad about it all but I've become so used to this that I've become callous to the idea of making new friends. I just don't feel like making the effort. Recent events that brought on this post have made me even more so. I guess the good news is that I get to visit some of my friends this coming weekend, so for a few days I can forget all about the the ideas presented previously.

-Ciao