Georgia's song (meaning Georgia wrote this)

soccer joke.

I thought this video was excellent:

Spread love

the burning hearts

"If it be your will,
if there is a choice,
let the rivers fill,
let the hills rejoice.
Let your mercy spill
on all these burning hearts in hell.
If it be your will
to make us well."
-l. cohen

When your eleven-year-old niece tells you you're awesome, you don't argue.

all I want from life is to live in ireland

Great Moments In 20th Century Television

"Yeah I'm callin' you a liar, motherfucker, cause you ain't tellin' me the truth!"

austere, I mean eau claire, wisconsin

a dying ember

When all the moments warmly stored within your winter shed
are cast across the landscape of your mind
in a flurried snowfall
every memory a snowflake
a warm crackling cinder turned cold by the wind
you will see your memories melt before you as they touch
their concrete death.

"You came to me this morning
and you handled me like meat.
You'd have to be a man to know
how good that feels, how sweet.
My mirror twin, my next of kin,
I'd know you in my sleep.
And who but you would take me in
a thousand kisses deep?"
- LC

Dead people in my dreams and people I am dead to. Running backwards. A la recherche du temps perdu.
Cheers to friends that have gone away. And apologies to those I've gone away from.

If only life were not an ocean whose relentless tide serves to scatter us across its boundless face and submerge us, solo, within its dark depths.

Life is the struggle of drowning.

My mom only gets one shot at being a mom. My sister only gets one shot at being a sister. My brother, only one shot at being a brother.

And so on and so on.

I desire to make them feel special.

Great Moments In 20th Century Literature

"Joy and sadness come by turns, I know now. Beauty and bravery make you sad, Sharon's bravery and my aunt's bravery, and victory breaks your heart... It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh." - Walker Percy

Obama should introduce a bill that raises only Donald Trump's taxes.

I would laugh for the rest of my life.

I heard my new niece's voice for the first time today.

Apparently my nephew walked into a room, saw her naked, and said that she has a weird wee wee.

Today had two nice things.

An orange-red leaf carelessly descending slowly over twenty-five feet of asphalt, with the blue lake far behind.

Georgia and I doing the Monster Mash in the kitchen while listening to Bobby "Boris" Pickett's unsurpassable recording of the classic track.

My second niece was born today.

I love her.

If only that was worth more than it is.

It may have been the fault of bad refereeing but it's still a delight to see Chelsea fail.

Stewart Lee's Equation

C = TM + GWBB

Great Moments In 21st Century Journalism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19959565

Shocking.

Of Things I've Written

My favorite one lately:

"If the northeast section of San Francisco is Norman Rockwell's Freedom From Want, then the Tenderloin is Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son."

"But there is no role. That is illusion placed upon me by other people. I have no illusions about who I am. As a writer interested in wordsmith, what I gain spiritually can only help me and my writing or topics of my writing. But I have no role, no role at all. I am on no mission. I am what I am, and I write what I write." - Van Morrison

True story

Once, a two-year-old said to me, "Fuck you, nigger."

And life meant something.

Great Moments In 19th Century Literature

"There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius. When you know and when you love you shall suffer still. The day dawns in tears. The luminous weep, were it only over the dark." - Victor Hugo

Great Moments In 21st Century History

In the front yard I placed a sign advertising marriage equality and supporting the vote against a proposed same-sex marriage ban in Minnesota.

That sign was stolen.

What a free country.

Today I saw a sign as I passed a house near a college campus. Propped up on the lawn of this house was a large sign with the words "21 TO DRINK 18ish TO STAY OVER" painted on it.

"Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis"

What a world...

Anders Breivik receives 21 year sentence.

The last time I mattered...

ireland please (and another person)

Great Moments In 21st Century Literature

Do you see the subtitle?

"How Faith, Hard Work, And Humility Brought Me From The Streets To Salvation"

There goes my autobiography.

Great Moments In 20th Century Literature

"What if you never cast a shadow or rainbow of your own, but have only caught those cast by others?" - Wallace Stegner

You see things. Your eyes work. And then one day they don't. All the sights ever sawn disappear, all the knowns ever knew implode. All the beliefs ever believed, even those embraced by the whole of the heart, torch and incinerate like leaves burned upon a fire.
You start a bonfire in your backyard and watch your children as they light the things that mean less than Men (and Women). Watch them grow as the flames, jumping and dying, burst back and forth in issues of impotent joy and despair. A child's name lingers in your heart for years. But a heart ends, like any street.

Life doesn't amount to anything more than a good laugh. And then the silence.

The state of missing where you are not...

Great Moments In 21st Century Television

"They say people who kill themselves never regret it."

Great Moments In 20th Century Television

Richard Herring: "Less is more."
Stewart Lee: "No, no. Less is less. Literally, on this occasion."

España y Portugal (Part 1)

Life Matters

I showed a video of several kittens meowing to a kitten that was resting on top of me. It disturbed him. He looked around the room in search of the kittens making the noise.

Great Moments In 21st Century History

Actual headline: "Florida lifeguard fired for helping drowning man"

Insert spit-take here.

Great Moments In 21st Century Television

"True or not, Eddie, when a man wets his end in Nebraska pussy his life is changed forever."

I'm convinced that Gavin Newsom will eventually be president.

Great Moments In 21st Century Television

"I jumped out and pranked him... to death with a tire iron."

Advice on what to listen to...

Never Let Me Go by Aretha Franklin.

My mother asked me if I had heard the new cover version of Prince's "Kiss" done by Maroon 5.
I said that I had not, but that I probably would not like it.
Then I said, "Prince reigns."

Ha ha.

Georgia told me that there are 3000 things in the world.
She told me that a world plus a world equals 6000.

Van Morrison asked for "dreams that never end."
The true nightmare is a dream that can't come true.
I awake from such a dream and feel my heart being carved into a square, which is a totally useless shape for a heart.

"Many men have loved the bells

you fastened to the rein,
and everyone who wanted you

they found what they will always want again.
Your beauty lost to you yourself
just as it was lost to them.

Oh take this longing from my tongue,
whatever useless things these hands have done.
Let me see your beauty broken down
like you would do for one you love.

Your body like a searchlight
my poverty revealed,
I would like to try your charity
until you cry, 'Now you must try my greed.'
And everything depends upon
how near you sleep to me.

Just take this longing from my tongue
all the lonely things my hands have done.
Let me see your beauty broken down
like you would do for one your love.

Hungry as an archway
through which the troops have passed,
I stand in ruins behind you,
with your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps.
I love to see you naked over there
especially from the back.

Oh take this longing from my tongue,
all the useless things my hands have done,
untie for me your hired blue gown,
like you would do for one that you love.

You're faithful to the better man,
I'm afraid that he left.
So let me judge your love affair
in this very room where I have sentenced mine to death.
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
that he's shaken from his head.

Just take this longing from my tongue,
all the useless things my hands have done,
let me see your beauty broken down,
like you would do for one you love.
Like you would do for one you love."

– Leonard Cohen

Je ne parle pas français, mais...

Really?

"Gay community: stop hijacking the civil rights movement!" - Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr., former President of the NAACP Iowa/Nebraska conference

Really.

Somewhere in the Republic of Ireland, a library book, checked out in 1932, was returned to its library a few days ago.

In a word: quaint.

I'm back in the U.S.A.

It'd be harder to hop a dandelion than it would be to write a good script for Hollywood.

Here I am, sitting in a hostel in Dublin, Ireland, looking up the location of Davy Byrne's, a famous pub, and over the hostel sound system comes a Talking Heads song between Red Hot Chili Peppers and some unknown British song.
The lead singer of Talking Heads name is David Byrne.

What a world.

I wrote a new love song... This time in English.

If the towering clouds above you

should one day be too heavy,

if the roaring, rushing river

should one day breach the levee,

well you´ll have no need to fear,

darling ease your worried mind.

Cause no matter where you are girl,

I´ll be right behind.

(chorus)

Right behind

right behind

all you have to do is turn around.

Right behind

right behind

Right behind you dear is where I can be found.

If the ocean that we sail on

should try to come between us,

if the forest that we walk through

should become a fiery furnace,

you´ll have no cause for panic,

darling calm your frightened mind.

No matter where you go girl

I´ll be right behind.

(chorus)

I´m not trying to stand in your way

and I don´t want to block your view.

You can roam the whole world over

and my love it will stay true.

I can catch you if you fall,

and you can rest your tired mind.

The only thing I´m asking is

let me stand right behind.

(chorus)

And so I go waltzing Matilda.

"I loved you for a long long time,
I know this love is real.
It doesn't matter how it all went wrong,
that don't change the way I feel.
And I can't believe that time's
gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of.
There ain't no cure,
there ain't no cure,
there ain't no cure for love.

I'm aching for you baby,
I can't pretend I'm not.
I need to see you naked
in your body and your thought.
I've got you like a habit
and I'll never get enough.
There ain't no cure,

there ain't no cure,

there ain't no cure for love.

I see you in the subway

and I see you on the bus.

I see you lying down with me,

I see you waking up.

I see your hand, I see your hair,

your bracelets and your brush.

And I call to you, I call to you,

but I don't call soft enough.

There ain't no cure,

there ain't no cure,

there ain't no cure for love.

I walked into this empty church,

I had no place else to go,

when the sweetest voice I ever heard

whispered to my soul:
I don't need to be forgiven
for loving you so much.
It's written in the scriptures,
it's written there in blood.
I even heard the angels
declare it from above.
There ain't no cure,

there ain't no cure,

there ain't no cure for love."

-Leonard Cohen

and then there was Lincoln...

There was me sitting underneath bright fluorescent lights. My mother asked me: "Stephen, are you going to bed?"
I replied, "No."
And she said, "Okay. Well good night."

Austin in 6,000 words or less

san diego (and a series of failures)

Today I made my peace with the city of San Diego and said my goodbyes. I kayaked along the coastline and met with creatures that exist in a different world. Fish, sea lions and dolphins. Kelp of extraordinary length. There is mystery and majesty both frightful and awe-inspiring still alive in the water.

But I returned to land.

I will take three things away from this place.

1. sailing

2. on land, sitting in the grass, I saw two young men sitting about ten feet apart from each other with their legs open wide. They were lobbing a tennis ball back and forth in the air attempting to hit one another in the testicles and laughing about it.

3. A group of three girls, approximately 15 years of age, were standing behind a car in the parking lot. Two of the girls were holding up a towel as their friend changed between the towel and the car's trunk. Her clothing was momentarily removed and the towel slipped. A part of her body was exposed. At the same time a sports car with tinted windows was driving by. The car stopped, the window rolled down. A man no younger than 25 made a sly sexual comment to the young girls, then rolled his window up as the car departed. The girls were disgusted and laughed, "Gross! He just said something so gross. Does he even know how old we are?"

San Diego, like much of this world, is like a beautiful hollow crystal. So wonderful to touch and hold but there is nothing on the inside.

That's all that I'm taking away from this place.

Rush Limbaugh should be beaten with an aluminium baseball bat wrapped in a condom.

"Now I'm out of prison, I got me a friend at last,
he don't steal or cheat or drink or lie.
His name's codeine, he's the nicest thing I've seen.
Together we're gonna wait around and die."


I feel like sailing into oblivion across an ocean of pills.
I feel a true hatred for everyone, and upon its arrival I realized that I should not be allowed among the living.

what a waste (of water)