June 2009
50 posts
“A lot of times I wish I had big painterly European emotions, unapologetically vibrant and dramatic, instead of small, hardy Nordic ones, wandering the wastes and dying before they get anywhere.”
—More brilliance from DC Pierson, on location in the City of Angels.
“On the drive out to the beach we pass several things that prove that Google is both good and bad. One is in Venice, an austere little building labeled the Institute Of Jurassic Technology. The next is near Redondo, a Roundtable Pizza whose marquee reads “I LOVE YOU WONDERWHEEL.” Now we could easily Google these things and we would, with truly astounding quickness we take for granted, be provided with probably very simple answers about what these things are and mean. But then we would be robbing ourselves of the image of a little shack-laboratory in Venice run by a disgraced paleontologist filled with dioramas of T-Rexes piloting backhoes and helicopters, or the image of a sad and mostly crazy middle-aged Roundtable Pizza owner-operator who, as his wife has withdrawn further and further from him (and further and further into her affair with the hot-shot night-manager of the CPK ASAP across the street) has started to develop a very real, very dangerous romantic obsession with a carnival ride down at the boardwalk. (I realize both of these mental images center around sad little men. But let’s be honest, on their way to the really dangerous crazy stuff, sad little men do some pretty hilarious shit.)”
—DC Pierson, reporting live from LA
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“Congratulations, Scorpio. You’ve reached the end of the Big Squeeze. You’ve served your time in the bottleneck. And so I invite you to relax your pinched expression, loosen up your puckered expectations, and let the Season of Experiments begin. According to my projections, you will soon be receiving a host of invitations to wander into the frontier with your raw sense of wonder turned up all the way. Please research each invitation thoroughly before choosing. When you’ve decided which adventures are most likely to enhance your understanding of the art of liberation, dive in.”
—Scorpio Horoscope for week of June 25, 2009 (http://www.freewillastrology.com)
Today, I am a Dog
I found myself, today, speaking to myself as if I were a dog. Let’s go boy, I said. It was the only way to get out of bed. I called, c’mon boy, when the shower had gone on long enough, and I took myself for a long walk. If it weren’t for my leash, I don’t think I’d be out today at all.
Today I am a dog, and it’s raining, and I’m soaked and I’m just not smart enough to know that this isn’t some sort of punishment.
(c) 2009
