Her smile might be the best thing I've ever seen.

Aw man.

The pajama pants I bought in France just ripped.

I remember the feeling of her feet upon my feet.

What I wouldn't pay to feel that once more...

Sigh.

There are few things finer than having someone nice to talk to at this hour.
Or simply to be by.

Marta Gomez's recording of "Cielito Lindo" is just about one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

It sounds like a sorrowful sigh sent out across an amber sea, as the sun is setting.

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"Una flecha en el aire,
Cielito lindo, anzó Cupido,
y como fue jugando,
Cielito lindo, yo fui el herido.

Ay, ay, ay, ay.
Canta y no llores,
porque cantando se alegran,
Cielito lindo, los corazones."

There are times when I'm listening to "Brand New Day" by Van Morrison and the breadth of that song is so vast, like the shadow of a voluptuous cloud caressing the land below itself, that I can't even remember how brilliant Astral Weeks is.

Incredible. To me, anyway.

Great Moments In 21st Century Journalism

"El Mundo Deportivo: 'Ten percent of Messi is worth a hundred of most players.' Sport: 'To the semis!' They say, 'Messi fit is the best player in the world. And the second best player in the world is Messi half fit.' And so on and so forth, El Pais even suggesting this week that one day Barca will win a game simply by fielding a cardboard cutout of him... Don't know. Hasn't worked for Torres." - Jamie Richardson

It disgusts me to no end to see Louis C.K.'s face everywhere in this country and on every channel when Stewart Lee exists.

Louis C.K. is so blatantly awful and Stewart Lee is, in no hyperbolic sense of the word, a genius.

I wonder what idiotic, uncreative painters were popular during the time period that Van Gogh was working.

What America means to me...

Charlton Heston is famous for lifting a rifle and exclaiming, "From my cold dead hands!"

Charlton Heston is also famous for playing Moses in The Ten Commandments film.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the commandments that made it down the hill with Moses was, "Thou shalt not kill".

Heston is an asshole and I need to talk to someone that recognizes what I'm saying because right now I'm surrounded by small-minded Minnesotans and lacking in clear-thinking friends...

When the only thing you're good at is words, it's infinitely frustrating that words cannot encapsulate how much you love someone or her daughter.

I met my soul mate once and I knew it.

It's impossible that the poets were writing of a different feeling.

Or am I just dumb?

Interesting Moments In My Life

I asked my Filipino friend about the Maguindanao massacre and she said she didn't know much about it... I realized it wasn't just an American thing to try to forget about the horrors that occur in one's country.

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I proposed again.

I wish her heart knew I was serious (and took me seriously).

Great Moments In 21st Century Journalism

"I'm a vegetarian but I eat bacon!"

Kind, cute guy that works at the liquor store...

Sometimes I wish I was gay because I would've gotten laid about a million times more than I have been.

I miss getting laid.

Rocco wants me to move back to Iowa City... I don't have the heart to tell him that I couldn't do it.

When I was visiting him at Thanksgiving I saw her driving.
It was painful.

As Paul Simon sang, "A bad day's when I lie in bed and think of things that might've been."

And they're all bad days more or less.