JB
This is hereby to certify that you are strong and mighty. And yet caring and gentle. The approach to people disgruntled is beyond compare and more than fair. Your style? Trailblazin'. Your musical tastes...entirely old school.
If cloning were legal the government, albeit clearly informed of your every whereabouts, would have contacted you some time ago to make this world a better place. What they are waiting on would be an inquiry for another time when life aint so dire.
Please remain focused. We the people are here to congratulate you on being a member of a superior race.
Thank you for your attention to such matters.
Sincerely,
The General Public
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
my dog franco
Sputtering in a maroon Hyundai XL, 4 speed stick going South on 495 the car gives out and breaks down between exits. It's cold and dark. I am ill prepared on many levels for the journey and walk the length of the road...grumbling toward the Gawds. North and South.
Soon enough a hero arrives in the form of a state police cruiser but this vehicle starts out 50 yards ahead in the break down lane, lights a-flashing, backing up at 40miles per hour. I begin to feel a bit uneasy.
The cruiser comes to an abrupt stop about 15 feet away and the trooper eyes me closely.
"Whatchew doing baw?"
I turn North and pointed up the road aways.
"There's a Hyundai that done bit the dust sir back yonder. I'm leaving my buddy's and heading home for the night."
"You can't walk my highway! Step toward the vehicle son and spread 'em!"
The officer stormd out of the vehicle and approaches briskly and firmly searches all my pockets.
"You got any drugs? Weapons. Pens to stick me with?"
Having just raided the supply closet at school, there were pens and pencils of many variety in my side pockets. Some high class Bics.
The officer draws paydirt holding a clump of pens and 2 sharpened pencils out.
"What's these for baw? You gonna stick me? You was gonna stick me...weren't ya?"
"No sir. The implements are for random notes and lines of poetry. Thoughts that come when you aren't looking."
After a firm examination and exchange my dog Franco allowed me to remove my hunched over limbs from the vehicle but I was not allowed to turn around and face him.
He paced 10 feet behind. Back and forth.
"I see you again this evening and you'll be spending the night in jail. You understand baw?"
I guess who had any other choice.
He left and soon enough I began walking every inch of that very same road still grumbling about civic service. The sun had set and without gloves and a hat I was doomed and condemned to a frequent series of chills.
Cars and trucks passed in intervals and other times the road was dead quiet save for my boot scuffs kicking up soft pebbles. Sometimes I would watch where the pebbles landed in the road.
I passed by a call box and hesitated. What if there was a way I could catch a ride to the bottom of the next exit? Gas stations on either side. There had to be a pay phone. Maybe I could leave a message? What if my dog Franco responded to this very same call box? I'd sure be in trouble.
Are you prepared to spend a night in the clink where it's too warm and probably somewhat quiet with lotsa friendly people?
Less than ten minutes later I had travelled a less than impressive distance before it was the state police again. Lights flashing. Sirens whooping. My knights in shining armor. Thankfully it was not Franco.
"What's this all about son?"
"My car broke down back aways. I'm attempting to get to the next exit. Hit a pay phone and call it a night."
"Seems you've met an officer of mine in your travels?"
"Yes sir, I have."
"What occurred during this meeting."
"Sir?"
"What took place during this encounter?"
I looked into the eyes of a man who was an officer of the law standing to the side not 5 feet from where I stood in the breakdown lane watching me intently.
"I was put against the cruiser. Searched and told to disappear."
"I see. So you mean to tell me if I were to radio this officer he would tell me the same tale word for word?"
I nodded losing eye contact.
My dog Franco could not have forgotten? Less than a few minutes ago?
I waited for a while. Traffic began to pick up for some reason approaching the midnight hour and the officer waved us off the shoulder onto the pitch-black landing.
"If I were to put you in that cruiser and drop you the 2 and a half miles to the Hopkinton exit, would I see you again this evening?"
"No sir, you would not. I'll most certainly disappear..."
We rode in silence in the cruiser to the spot. From the darkness in the back of the cruiser emerged the bright lights of two gas stations gleaming neon product. I was deposited to the edge of the parking lot as the cruiser swooped in and re-entered route 135 with a squeal.
I went to the pay phone with the glob of change packed from the Hyundai and left a message for my sleeping mother who would not be back in that end of the house until mid morning. It was only a tiny ranch but she was a sound sleeper for a tiny stretch.
After loitering a bit in Cumberland Farms weighing option on the Hostess pies I decided it was time.
Soon before I knew it I was back upon 495 a prisoner to the ravaging winds with only pens and pencils to save me. I didn't even have any paper.
I would walk 500 miles only to walk 500 more. Sure as the floodgates open I was come upon by my dog Franco. Who could believe in a lady luck?
He pulled into the breakdown lane abruptly right in front of where I stood sans lights and any sound save for the tires on the sand.
"Thought I told you to disappear...baw?"
"Sir, I have no one to call. I'm not sure what you want me to do? I left a message for my mother but she's long since sleeping. My Hyundai broke down right around the Marlborough exit. What do you recommend?"
"I recommend some manners baw! I think I'll get a conference going to see what to do with the likes of you. It's a Federal offense to be pulling on that call box son. You may just be going to jail afterall."
He started to walk back toward his cruiser before snapping his neck back in my immediate direction.
"Stay by the shoulder and do not move! I will strike you down!"
Serve and protect?
Within a few minutes of personal stew he was back.
"Officer Lawtight will be here within moments to deal with the llkes of you! Just sit tight!"
It was not right.What was happening? Three officers gathered in a huddle gesturing. Stopping only to gaze back at me sitting alone by the side of the road watching the world go by frowning back at me. The officers break squad and saunter slowly toward my place of residence among the rocks and pebbles. Their pressed uniforms uncreasing as the only audible sound without the threat of traffic which seems to come and go.
The good cop bends at the waist hands on his knees.
"This officer tells me you been a thorn in his side for the better part of two hours. What is it that you require?"
"A ride home?"
"Where exactly is home citizen? You aren't some kind of gypsy are ya?"
I shook my head from side to side trying to remain even keel after all this hullaballo. Reason and logic not applicable. Serve and protect. Lawful.
"So, you mean to tell me if I were to drop you in Bellingham we would be incident free for the remainder of the evening?"
"Ive been trying to say that for the better part of 2 hours now. Yes. I have no one to reach. My Hyundai broke down in Marlborough. I live in Bellingham with my parents of who my Mother is fast asleep and has been for some time. She gets up and sleeps on the couch but that isn't until my Father goes to bed and he's not even home. I know not what to do?"
The officers rehuddle and after some heavy nodding confer in the corner of a cruiser only to return moments later.
The good cop approaches once again and my dog Fredo and his new officer friend march toward their selective cruisers before disbanding without a word.
"I will drop you at the Dunkin Donuts on the corner of 126 because it is convenient. I do not want to see you again this evening. Is this understood?"
For the second time that evening I found myself in a cruiser not going to jail. Things were looking up.
It didn't seem as cold in Bellingham walking the 4 and a half miles toward Westersfield on my way home neither.
Soon enough a hero arrives in the form of a state police cruiser but this vehicle starts out 50 yards ahead in the break down lane, lights a-flashing, backing up at 40miles per hour. I begin to feel a bit uneasy.
The cruiser comes to an abrupt stop about 15 feet away and the trooper eyes me closely.
"Whatchew doing baw?"
I turn North and pointed up the road aways.
"There's a Hyundai that done bit the dust sir back yonder. I'm leaving my buddy's and heading home for the night."
"You can't walk my highway! Step toward the vehicle son and spread 'em!"
The officer stormd out of the vehicle and approaches briskly and firmly searches all my pockets.
"You got any drugs? Weapons. Pens to stick me with?"
Having just raided the supply closet at school, there were pens and pencils of many variety in my side pockets. Some high class Bics.
The officer draws paydirt holding a clump of pens and 2 sharpened pencils out.
"What's these for baw? You gonna stick me? You was gonna stick me...weren't ya?"
"No sir. The implements are for random notes and lines of poetry. Thoughts that come when you aren't looking."
After a firm examination and exchange my dog Franco allowed me to remove my hunched over limbs from the vehicle but I was not allowed to turn around and face him.
He paced 10 feet behind. Back and forth.
"I see you again this evening and you'll be spending the night in jail. You understand baw?"
I guess who had any other choice.
He left and soon enough I began walking every inch of that very same road still grumbling about civic service. The sun had set and without gloves and a hat I was doomed and condemned to a frequent series of chills.
Cars and trucks passed in intervals and other times the road was dead quiet save for my boot scuffs kicking up soft pebbles. Sometimes I would watch where the pebbles landed in the road.
I passed by a call box and hesitated. What if there was a way I could catch a ride to the bottom of the next exit? Gas stations on either side. There had to be a pay phone. Maybe I could leave a message? What if my dog Franco responded to this very same call box? I'd sure be in trouble.
Are you prepared to spend a night in the clink where it's too warm and probably somewhat quiet with lotsa friendly people?
Less than ten minutes later I had travelled a less than impressive distance before it was the state police again. Lights flashing. Sirens whooping. My knights in shining armor. Thankfully it was not Franco.
"What's this all about son?"
"My car broke down back aways. I'm attempting to get to the next exit. Hit a pay phone and call it a night."
"Seems you've met an officer of mine in your travels?"
"Yes sir, I have."
"What occurred during this meeting."
"Sir?"
"What took place during this encounter?"
I looked into the eyes of a man who was an officer of the law standing to the side not 5 feet from where I stood in the breakdown lane watching me intently.
"I was put against the cruiser. Searched and told to disappear."
"I see. So you mean to tell me if I were to radio this officer he would tell me the same tale word for word?"
I nodded losing eye contact.
My dog Franco could not have forgotten? Less than a few minutes ago?
I waited for a while. Traffic began to pick up for some reason approaching the midnight hour and the officer waved us off the shoulder onto the pitch-black landing.
"If I were to put you in that cruiser and drop you the 2 and a half miles to the Hopkinton exit, would I see you again this evening?"
"No sir, you would not. I'll most certainly disappear..."
We rode in silence in the cruiser to the spot. From the darkness in the back of the cruiser emerged the bright lights of two gas stations gleaming neon product. I was deposited to the edge of the parking lot as the cruiser swooped in and re-entered route 135 with a squeal.
I went to the pay phone with the glob of change packed from the Hyundai and left a message for my sleeping mother who would not be back in that end of the house until mid morning. It was only a tiny ranch but she was a sound sleeper for a tiny stretch.
After loitering a bit in Cumberland Farms weighing option on the Hostess pies I decided it was time.
Soon before I knew it I was back upon 495 a prisoner to the ravaging winds with only pens and pencils to save me. I didn't even have any paper.
I would walk 500 miles only to walk 500 more. Sure as the floodgates open I was come upon by my dog Franco. Who could believe in a lady luck?
He pulled into the breakdown lane abruptly right in front of where I stood sans lights and any sound save for the tires on the sand.
"Thought I told you to disappear...baw?"
"Sir, I have no one to call. I'm not sure what you want me to do? I left a message for my mother but she's long since sleeping. My Hyundai broke down right around the Marlborough exit. What do you recommend?"
"I recommend some manners baw! I think I'll get a conference going to see what to do with the likes of you. It's a Federal offense to be pulling on that call box son. You may just be going to jail afterall."
He started to walk back toward his cruiser before snapping his neck back in my immediate direction.
"Stay by the shoulder and do not move! I will strike you down!"
Serve and protect?
Within a few minutes of personal stew he was back.
"Officer Lawtight will be here within moments to deal with the llkes of you! Just sit tight!"
It was not right.What was happening? Three officers gathered in a huddle gesturing. Stopping only to gaze back at me sitting alone by the side of the road watching the world go by frowning back at me. The officers break squad and saunter slowly toward my place of residence among the rocks and pebbles. Their pressed uniforms uncreasing as the only audible sound without the threat of traffic which seems to come and go.
The good cop bends at the waist hands on his knees.
"This officer tells me you been a thorn in his side for the better part of two hours. What is it that you require?"
"A ride home?"
"Where exactly is home citizen? You aren't some kind of gypsy are ya?"
I shook my head from side to side trying to remain even keel after all this hullaballo. Reason and logic not applicable. Serve and protect. Lawful.
"So, you mean to tell me if I were to drop you in Bellingham we would be incident free for the remainder of the evening?"
"Ive been trying to say that for the better part of 2 hours now. Yes. I have no one to reach. My Hyundai broke down in Marlborough. I live in Bellingham with my parents of who my Mother is fast asleep and has been for some time. She gets up and sleeps on the couch but that isn't until my Father goes to bed and he's not even home. I know not what to do?"
The officers rehuddle and after some heavy nodding confer in the corner of a cruiser only to return moments later.
The good cop approaches once again and my dog Fredo and his new officer friend march toward their selective cruisers before disbanding without a word.
"I will drop you at the Dunkin Donuts on the corner of 126 because it is convenient. I do not want to see you again this evening. Is this understood?"
For the second time that evening I found myself in a cruiser not going to jail. Things were looking up.
It didn't seem as cold in Bellingham walking the 4 and a half miles toward Westersfield on my way home neither.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
I Hated Boondock Saints-Veritas (truth) and Aequitas (justice)
I was told by more than one person to watch this movie. That it was right up there with Pulp Fiction and The Departed as well as Reservoir Dogs in terms of must see's and cult favorites. Expectations were high but with the new random drug policies adopted by my medical company, I was not. Though it would not have made a difference.
This 1999 film is essentially about 2 Irish brothers who accidentally kill Russian mafia thugs. They turn themselves in and are released as heroes, even slapping fives with most of the police department as they mosey on out. They see this as a dose of serendipity and a calling by God and start knocking off mafia gang members one by one.
The movie is a story of good and evil and fraternal twins that set out to rid Boston of the evil men operating there while being tracked down by an FBI agent. Willem Dafoe as agent Paul Smecker was embarrassing on more than one occasion. I laughed out loud when it shows him attempting to figure out clues to the crime while being seemingly possessed by the sounds of opera and exhibiting signs of a serious seizure in the process. What his sexual orientation has as a significance to the story-line...you will have to take more than a moment to explain.
Don't cross the road if you can't get out of the kitchen.
David Della Rocco as the Funny Man' was atrocious and may want to think about starting small. Like maybe a school play. An elementary school play. One quote that was delivered in near Oscar form and fashion?
"Hey fuck-ass, give me a beer."
The Saints are sorta like 7-Eleven. They're not always doing business, but they're always open. And always smoking. It matters not that they are both a buck fifty soaking wet or that they have no means in which to acquire the heavy artillery to do the big business, they are seeking truth and justice and for that, even the mafia is no match.
God's will may be to have people think for themselves and question piss poor acting, of which this movie had a-plenty. There is even more than a cameo from Ron Jeremy, who thankfully, keeps his clothes on, as a pervert mafioso (big stretch) that visits the same peep show at the same time and get's popped by the saints. This movie is just plain bad anyway you slice it.
There were spots of this movie where I was actually intrigued only to be deposited back to reality when the Funny Man opened his mouth or viewing Smecker laying in bed with another man getting stroked like a Persian cat only to slap him upside the head and call him a "fag".
Did I miss something here?
The final scene with him dressed as a woman was priceless. I wasn't sure if it was a cult favorite I was viewing or scenes from Tru T.V., world's worst criminals. A "man" torn between the forces of good and evil. Wrong and right. Opera and cops from Southie.
One thing for sure...this film was beyond good and evil. Any further recommendations? When the credits rolled I remember remarking, "Hallelujah, Jaffar!" to no-one in particular.
Liberating, isn't it? Kind of makes me feel like River-dancing...
This 1999 film is essentially about 2 Irish brothers who accidentally kill Russian mafia thugs. They turn themselves in and are released as heroes, even slapping fives with most of the police department as they mosey on out. They see this as a dose of serendipity and a calling by God and start knocking off mafia gang members one by one.
The movie is a story of good and evil and fraternal twins that set out to rid Boston of the evil men operating there while being tracked down by an FBI agent. Willem Dafoe as agent Paul Smecker was embarrassing on more than one occasion. I laughed out loud when it shows him attempting to figure out clues to the crime while being seemingly possessed by the sounds of opera and exhibiting signs of a serious seizure in the process. What his sexual orientation has as a significance to the story-line...you will have to take more than a moment to explain.
Don't cross the road if you can't get out of the kitchen.
David Della Rocco as the Funny Man' was atrocious and may want to think about starting small. Like maybe a school play. An elementary school play. One quote that was delivered in near Oscar form and fashion?
"Hey fuck-ass, give me a beer."
The Saints are sorta like 7-Eleven. They're not always doing business, but they're always open. And always smoking. It matters not that they are both a buck fifty soaking wet or that they have no means in which to acquire the heavy artillery to do the big business, they are seeking truth and justice and for that, even the mafia is no match.
God's will may be to have people think for themselves and question piss poor acting, of which this movie had a-plenty. There is even more than a cameo from Ron Jeremy, who thankfully, keeps his clothes on, as a pervert mafioso (big stretch) that visits the same peep show at the same time and get's popped by the saints. This movie is just plain bad anyway you slice it.
There were spots of this movie where I was actually intrigued only to be deposited back to reality when the Funny Man opened his mouth or viewing Smecker laying in bed with another man getting stroked like a Persian cat only to slap him upside the head and call him a "fag".
Did I miss something here?
The final scene with him dressed as a woman was priceless. I wasn't sure if it was a cult favorite I was viewing or scenes from Tru T.V., world's worst criminals. A "man" torn between the forces of good and evil. Wrong and right. Opera and cops from Southie.
One thing for sure...this film was beyond good and evil. Any further recommendations? When the credits rolled I remember remarking, "Hallelujah, Jaffar!" to no-one in particular.
Liberating, isn't it? Kind of makes me feel like River-dancing...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
writer
Anyone looking for a writer? This cube dwelling, head set wearing, slobbering at the foot of absolute ignorants is for the birds...
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Thursday, December 10, 2009
सेंड इन थे व्हिते लैब coats
SEND IN THE WHITE LAB COATS. The walls are closing in. This creature is cornered. There is no recourse. It is the land of mis-fit toys for this here boy. The courtesy calls mount into all hours of the night. It is not right, this random drug testing. I could care less for a drink, give me a spleef!
What if the list, and it is a long laundry list, has been taken care of? Whose running this show anyway? I thought you couldn't say anything to a man who took care of his business?
All I hear is blah, blah, blah. What's up with these chinese symbols? Is everything amuck? What if I have eaten my meat and now I'd like some pudding?
Is there nothing sacred in existence at all? Anyone wanna dump some tea? Have you seen Atticus Finch?
What if the list, and it is a long laundry list, has been taken care of? Whose running this show anyway? I thought you couldn't say anything to a man who took care of his business?
All I hear is blah, blah, blah. What's up with these chinese symbols? Is everything amuck? What if I have eaten my meat and now I'd like some pudding?
Is there nothing sacred in existence at all? Anyone wanna dump some tea? Have you seen Atticus Finch?
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
NEW COMING
We have had computer issues along with some respite which has made for very little quality writing lately, above any note-taking of substantial value. I do aplogize...here comes the sun!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
COLUMBINE
I've never been to Jefferson County in Colorado, though one does not have to travel far outside the realm of possibility to understand unspoken law concerning the social outcast. Acne. Ill-will. Social status. Jocks. The subculture of cliques controlling all the action. Parading on Main Street, claiming territorial rights, as if by birth, based on a boyfriend or a designer pair of jeans!
The fateful morning Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarked on what may only be termed as the deadliest massacre for an American high school, I readied notes for my next class: Language Arts. We were to read an ancient Chinese tale about a magic cricket who, when making music, kept the evil spirits helplessly at bay. It was just after 11am April 20th, 1999. Little did anyone across the country realize what was about to take place. Regardless of specific demographics, wherever you happened to be at the time, whatever you happened to be doing, who would ever be the same? Students. Parents. Grandparents. Faculty.
Strangers from as many different backgrounds forced to face each other in the dark alley of the night.
Why had this happened?
I had been living up the street from my girlfriend who later agreed to be my wife. Later that evening in April, 1999, it must have been after ten, I sprinted 7 houses down through the vague clouds of darkness with burning tears streaming down. We sat in her bedroom, my head slumped in her lap, wondering just to what depths the human animal would descend...and for what~!
I shook and shuddered like starched linen in a twister, heaving uncontrollably. 24 injured. 15 students dead including a teacher, with millions of other lives forever changed. All in less than an hour! 11:19 am - 12:08 pm.
Now whatever your stance regarding gun control and/or video games, bullying, or medication, lets agree to just one thing: every individual deserves a fair chance in society.
If we ken agree to this we may part as friends.
"Life is a candle before the wind" -Japanese proverb
The fateful morning Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarked on what may only be termed as the deadliest massacre for an American high school, I readied notes for my next class: Language Arts. We were to read an ancient Chinese tale about a magic cricket who, when making music, kept the evil spirits helplessly at bay. It was just after 11am April 20th, 1999. Little did anyone across the country realize what was about to take place. Regardless of specific demographics, wherever you happened to be at the time, whatever you happened to be doing, who would ever be the same? Students. Parents. Grandparents. Faculty.
Strangers from as many different backgrounds forced to face each other in the dark alley of the night.
Why had this happened?
I had been living up the street from my girlfriend who later agreed to be my wife. Later that evening in April, 1999, it must have been after ten, I sprinted 7 houses down through the vague clouds of darkness with burning tears streaming down. We sat in her bedroom, my head slumped in her lap, wondering just to what depths the human animal would descend...and for what~!
I shook and shuddered like starched linen in a twister, heaving uncontrollably. 24 injured. 15 students dead including a teacher, with millions of other lives forever changed. All in less than an hour! 11:19 am - 12:08 pm.
Now whatever your stance regarding gun control and/or video games, bullying, or medication, lets agree to just one thing: every individual deserves a fair chance in society.
If we ken agree to this we may part as friends.
"Life is a candle before the wind" -Japanese proverb
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