Lolita, Alyosha, and Holden hated Franny and Zooey because of their arrogant intellect

I've decided that I am going to start writing again. It has been some time since I have bought a pad and put pen to paper. I used to write quite a bit of poetry and the occasional screenplay. I took a break from scratching because I write for my profession, though I do not count it as real writing. It is glorified copying and pasting. I got the itch because there are a lot of difficult ideas I would like to explore, with one of them being what it is like to grow up close to "raceless" in a race fueled country and the absurdity of people's views when occluded by it.

I need to get a writing book! That is today's goal.

When Patulousness Becomes Petulant

My pathos plant is not sprouting new leaves but is instead growing longer and longer and longer and longer. If it gets any longer I'm going to have to wrap it up in a turban and man would that be silly! I want new leaves so it looks a little more respectable in its orange swan planter, which is the cool word for pot. I mean for fuck, I am the partner of a gardener. I don't want to bring horticultural shame onto our house!

Did I mention I am a self described world bonsai champion?

Wow, I have Nina Simone too! That makes me sensitive, see?

Men who like, more than anything, to point out their "intellectual, masculine, worldly" bent by casually but repeatedly noting that they are Hemingway fans are the same as men who think Cool Water is a good cologne. Unremarkable. Usually that is all they have in their literature or fragrance collection. Some say there is there is no accounting for taste. They are right. Rarity and charm, however, are a different story.

It is amazing what some people fall for.

AMPERSAND YOU ARE OLDER!

WOOO HOOO!

It is Amps birthday today and, oh man, the plan is fantastic.

1. I will get home early and take a nap. Oh to sleep, to dream, to drool, to toss, to turn, to beach! I also think I am due for a dirty dream this nap. Its been a long time.
2. I will wake up, shower, shave so I am Chloe kissable, groom, put on clothes, and run out to get a card for &.
3. I will come back wrap the gifts and complain that, "THE CATS ARE FUCKING UP MY WRAPPING!" As if I can wrap. Though I can rap or as I like to say, "throw down." I bust like an like an AK-47 and then "get straight and meditate like a Buddhist." No, I lied, I'm not much of a rapper either. Luckily I'm a good boyfriend and I can cut some rug or I would have no talents!
4. Then I will see where Chloe is with moving toward readiness in an unobtrusive fashion. Tonight Chloe is getting together, at home, with one of her friends to talk for a while about personality testing and stuff. It is amazing how interesting Chloe's friends are. They are all really unique and very nice. I want to stay out of the house so they can JUST BE but alas, I can't sleep in my old bed anymore. What is a boy to do? In a few words, be "subtle, solemn, and silent as a monk."
5. Then when we are both ready we will head off to pick up the one and only Snads w/o Moe a.k.a. the funniest woman from SD ever w/o Moe. Hopefully we will roll over to Jitters at around 8:30 to meet & and friends for a night of cabaret watching.
6. After the cabaret we will be off to Ground Zero to out dance the mutha fuckin floor. Hopefully by then Amp will be drunky so we can make him do his thang in a dance line. Think Soul Train but without the soul or Don Cornelius.
7. Lastly we will drop off Snads and then go home to get some well deserved rest.

SO FREAKING FUN!

Ever since

Ever since the election I have had a very serious head. I think because I was disappointed by the results and scared by the growing US trend of peace and stability by firepower, some things that I used to be able to laugh with/at have become far more dire, costly, corrupt, sinister, loathsome, bigoted, and deadly.

It is no fun at all.

I am totally joining...

THIS!

Berlin

I want to go back to Berlin. I have been thinking about it all day.

Uneasy as a Wednesday morning

I woke up this morning really really really anxious. You know like stomach turing, wanna be sick anxious. I have no idea why. I have the urge, for the first time in a long time, to buy a pack of smokes and hit the good'old tikki bar to drink heavily.

I have also been thinking about getting my X-Mas shopping overwith this week. I just may. My family is not hard to buy for at all. My pop likes pens, my mom likes anything, and my brother likes anything odd or iPod. OH and Chloe and I are going to go shack up in a Victorian hotel for our gift to ourselves. I can't wait.

Have you seen the Kafka???

3 day weekend

We had a three day weekend and had a very good time with family. It was nice to be home once again but I think we need a weekend here soon. The coming one looks good. All we have to do is birthday party it with my friend Ampersand and then we are totally free.

BTW still bored at work, my cell died, and I am tired.

Bored

I'm bored and have nothing more to add.

Moving

My friend Ampersand said he wants to move before Chloe and I do. He wants to work abroad. I suggested Rhode Island.

Godspeed to you, from me, the boy with a king-kong frown

My dear far-continent-traveling friend and his little family are going to be moving to Chicago in the coming weeks. I am very happy for them. I have seen them buy a house, deal with law school, get a dog, and have a tyke all at the same time. Madness! Since I have no family where I live, less lil'C, my friends are my replacement. I am going to miss them, though I will see them from time to time. I hope the best for them. The city is very lucky to be getting such fine people and good friends.

Good luck R, M, W, & M.

I think the curtains are closing on the MSP stage. It is time for the cast to move on.

BS ALERT

This is my director's new plan for our department:

1. Better Service orientation
   
2. The fostering of Simplicity
3. A movement towards Synergy

Right, let me make a plan for creating service oriented simple synergy. Huh???

Management geekdogs!!!

NASA love Rainman!

Hmmm. Interesting.

To be loved, be lovable

I have to say that every day I am more humbled by, amazed with, interested in, addicted to, mad about, comforted by, and attracted to Chloe. I love you darling. I don't take a second with you for granted. Awwwwwwwwwwww!

Sunday

I'm looking forward to Sunday. It is one more day closer to me quitting my job.

Eureka!

I was thinking...when you fall, is that just gravity catching up with you? If so, gravity is hot on my heels!

Strangeness in the Proportion

Why does every indy pop/rock band that has a bit of trippy booming melancholy have to be compared or likened to My Bloody Valentine. I mean how 'bout Jesus and Mary Chain or Sisters of Mercy or The Damned or I dunno, Depeche Mode or Bauhaus or The Velvet Underground or Love and Rockets or Ride or the bands on 4AD? If they sound like MBV, they sound like MBV but sometimes a band sounds nothing like MBV. I think music reviewers need more benchmarks for comparison!

But maybe I'm just complaining for no reason because didn't Elvis Costello say something like "writing about music is like dancing about painting?"

IM convo with my buddy Eve

Eve (4:34:33 PM): some dumb bitch sitting in the cube across from me has been giggling incessantly all day
Malcolm (4:34:42 PM): my god
Malcolm (4:34:47 PM): there is nothing funny about today
Eve (4:34:52 PM): and then she said to another dumb bitch on the phone
Eve (4:35:08 PM): oh, that's good. i really respect john kerry for conceding and not dragging it out
Eve (4:35:13 PM): respect my ass
Eve (4:35:33 PM): clue fucking less
Eve (4:35:40 PM): we are doomed!!!!
Eve (4:36:02 PM): write about me on your blog
Eve (4:36:28 PM): your near homicidal friend, teetering on the edge of rage-induced insanity

Eve RULES!

Well it looks like today

G.W. Bush may have been elected President for the first time.
Another four years of increasingly dirty air, sold souls, and pre-emptive bombs and bullets.

International

Politi-quotes from my friends in Mumbai and Ireland...

"Down with bozo whose name rhymes with TUSH."

"I think you guys (and the rest of us) just aren't lucky enough,
politically... four more years.... sounds creepy."

"... think you had better pack your bag!!!"

"I can understand ye're politicians .. they're wrecking my head and I'm not even from the States! ... and I heard on the news how they are both spending 4 million a day on advertising ...that was 8 days b4 the election ... that's 64 million!! .. what I could do with that????? MAD! MAD! MAD!"

VOTE!

Hey!

VOTE VOTE VOTE!

Voting stops hair loss!*
Voting ends famine!*
Voting helps you lose weight!*
7 out of 10 American singles view voting as their number one turn on!**
Men who vote are bigger than average!*
Voting makes your breasts larger!*
Voters are better in bed!*
Voting helps you live longer!*
Voting helps you quit smoking!*

So what are you waiting for???

Oh and if your hopeful goes bust there is this.

* Results may vary.
**Not verified.

The theme song for today...

is MANILA.