Hobo + shanking. The total saturated fat content of my friends. Making fun of jesus. Nubia. Touching other people inappropriately and getting away with it. Irreverence. Delicious in its various incarnations. "Mmmmmmm" in its various incarnations. Liberty. Oh, and being able to fly around the room like a deflating balloon. Man I fucking love that. Little toys that do stuff. Playing the guitar, but only kind of, with like one string and it sounds like crap. Righteous fury about stupid shit. Craving justice like ice-cream. Reading a book when I'm falling asleep and I've forgotten what I just read so I read it again, and then I realize I still don't know what I just read, and then trying one more time, realizing I was thinking about something else and still don't know what the paragraph says, only then realizing I'm too tired to be reading and falling asleep. Nightime + beach. Eerie silence. Giggles. That thing people's eyebrows do when they're wryly amused. The extraordinary violence of old cartoon characters. Places I'm not supposed to be late at night. The taste of the morning mist at 5:17am. Only when I've remained awake to savor it.
A catalyst.
Somewhere, at this instant, someone is dying an unjust and ignominious death. This may be their only epitaph.
I refuse to bow to the idea that one's interests, what one likes, or dislikes, defines their worth. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I really honestly don't watch very much TV. TV is a valid cultural vehicle, and I'm probably missing something important, but I can't summon the will to give much of a fuck about that.
constantly. thirstily. I go aimless when I haven't had something worth reading in too long.I should write the way I read.
Christopher Moore, Neil Gaiman, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Terry Pratchett- These people are not my heroes, but I was thinking about them all when I wrote this however long ago that was. People I admire, I suppose. I feel kind of dismayed that they're all men, but I wasn't considering that at the time.I don't really believe in heroes. I like the idea, but only in a conceptual way. I'm not even sure I know how to 'have' a hero, or if I did, if I'd want to. I keep wanting to be my own hero. Maybe that's the problem.