domingo, noviembre 30, 2008

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


sábado, noviembre 29, 2008

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

viernes, noviembre 28, 2008

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

miércoles, noviembre 26, 2008

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
-
and eventually
mason made faces back at them

martes, noviembre 25, 2008

heaven lost an angel

heaven lost an angel
and i found her
-
now please lord
take her back

lunes, noviembre 24, 2008

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
-
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

domingo, noviembre 23, 2008

hairy cuts are sexy

sábado, noviembre 22, 2008

locks of love - LOL

diana
diana diana
and a giving spirit
she found out about
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.
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
in bowmanville
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
-
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

viernes, noviembre 21, 2008

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
-
you see
nothing makes her happier
than seeing pictures
of herself
and her stuff

jueves, noviembre 20, 2008

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
-
a sweet jimmy original (c) 2002

miércoles, noviembre 19, 2008

now matters

sometimes
i feel like
these are my last days
that the proverbial end
is near
-
not
in an out of control
weepy fear invoking hopeless prozac kinda way
-
in
a gentler
more profound way
-
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
-
that's all i wanted to say
about that

martes, noviembre 18, 2008

happy happy day?

sweet jimmy's got a tip for you boys
-
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

sábado, noviembre 15, 2008

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
-
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