ob version 4.0

once upon a time

sean and i were running the same software

"original badboy"

version 3 point something

now it's version

4.0
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it's a gentler
more stable operating system
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happy birthday

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste

remember what peace there may be in silence

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons

Speak your truth quietly and clearly

and listen to others

even the dull and the ignorant

for they too

have their story

humping the american dream.consume-murder-ism

i mean really people...

the american dream - transparent before us

repugnant and shallow and self-absorbed

mitigated by dollars not sense

the american dream is a disease friends

walmart is a symptom

this is not freedom

cousin mason

"that's my cousin" emily says

"baby mason"

and he's cutting teeth

and kinda unhappy about it

so everybody made their cheer up baby face

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and eventually

mason made faces back at them

heaven lost an angel

heaven lost an angel

and i found her

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now please lord

take her back

some assembly required

went to staples

for a filing cabinet

for all our shit

but

came home with the espresso mail center instead

much sexier than a filing cabinet

and a little cheaper

let me tell you why

it's a little cost saving idea called
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED

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we wanted the cabinet thingy we saw in front of us at the store
not this cardboard box
with a million unassembled peices
crazy instructions


three million fasteners

goddamn recipe for a cerebral infarct

even the voices went away for a little while

as my head threatened to explode

as i work i'm swearing quite a bit

even more than usual because working with tools is just like that

and sweet emily - who never repeats my explicatives - repeated every one of them for a little while - even the more creative flourishes - i had to censor myself and gosh that's not easy

notice the nest she's built with our tools

finally- hours later

with emily's help
and diana's unconditional unvexing support
we got it done

and then
the voices came back worse than ever


and they were laughing
and they were singing

some assembly required - some assembly required
lalalalalala

hairy cuts are sexy

locks of love - LOL

diana

diana diana

has the gorgeous long hair

and a giving spirit

she found out about

Locks of Love

our mission

to return a sense of self, confidence and normalcy

to children suffering from hair loss

by utilizing donated ponytails

to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics

for financially disadvantaged children.

and she decided to donate

it wasn't easy

for diana

who has always had long hair

and was kinda anxious about the whole idea

and it wasn't easy for Lisa "Zaza"

owner of

creations of clarington

in bowmanville

905 697 3760

who cut hard

for an hour and change

hey

did i mention this twilight thing

it's a really big deal

bre went last night - we're all going tonight

anyway

when the cutting

was finally done

this pile remained

just from layering and thinning

and the end result

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is definitely cute

with a side order of sexy

and i'm hungry for seconds already

monkey love

monkey man

monkey man

come down from that tree

spread my legs

like wings of love

and put some monkey inside of me

it's like living with a two year old

this

is a boobah nest

a circular formation of stuff

carefully placed

and then she sits in the middle of it

like a control center

and arranges

rearranges

and organizes all her treasures

in accordance

with her whims

some days
she wants to sit at the table
and the two of us
we work together
she on her pictures and notes
me on this blog entry
what are you doin she asks when i take her picture
and i tell her

let me see it she says

i want to see it

please

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you see

nothing makes her happier

than seeing pictures

of herself

and her stuff

guess what

chic chick

chicken butt

chicken butt and nothing but

peck her here

peck her there

pecker in your underwear

under where

under what

pecker peck her

chicken

butt

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a sweet jimmy original (c) 2002

now matters

sometimes
i feel like

these are my last days

that the proverbial end

is near

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not

in an out of control

weepy fear invoking hopeless prozac kinda way

-
in

a gentler

more profound way

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and i find it

strange

how benign

and quietening it is

to feel

the thready pulse of now

give way

to a vacuous sense of entropic impermanence

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that's all i wanted to say

about that

happy happy day?

sweet jimmy's got a tip for you boys

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let's say the pms has got good hold of your old lady

she's wound up tighter than a rusty nut

working a million days in row

finishing her university degree

raising a two year old

and thinks you're an asshole most of the time

throw a happy happy day party for her
get her a gift

(probably best to avoid sex toys

but do plan on putting out that night

and bring your A game)
something chocolate

flowers balloons

give her a kiss
and

hope for the best

The newest Twilight adventure

it was grey wetish and cool right from the start

the smell of futility was in the air

but i mentioned before

this twilight thing

it's a pretty big deal

sacrifices must be made

so the bre and i and a couple of her friends

(originally 6 wanted to come only 3 were allowed)

headed for the city

(again)

i drop the kids at the much music

6 hours before event time

where they huddled on the street beneath tarps

with hundreds of other fans

optimistic

smiling

warmish

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i went foraging for parking

and urban culture

then i got hungry

had a burger and a beer

at the black bull

a bar

established on queen street since 18 hundred something

and that's where the old lower canada charm ends

the place is really no big deal

just old

breanna called and when i got back to them

spirits were fading

the faces had changed

the cool dampness was setting in

and misery was flirting her flirty flirt

then the much music people took the tarps away

and it got quite a bit colder

even hot chocolate couldn't save the day

almost four hours in

we were homeward bound

that last two hours

promised to be far too unpleasant for them

and a consensus was reached

at home

we turned up the heat - ordered pizza - and watched it all on tv