This is just some stuff I've jotted down in my journal while killing time at different places:
My sister recently
referred to a sandwich as "dank".
She was talking about sandwiches that Laurie used to make us when we
were kids, so its not like she had just eaten a sandwich and was so overcome with
emotion that the word "dank" just slipped out. No, Emilie described a sandwich that she had eaten about 20 years ago, as "fuckin' dank". Emilie Susan Gooch - Summa Cum Laude,
University of Colorado.
They were pretty good, bean sprouts and brown mustard, big tomatoes etc. Still though.
They were pretty good, bean sprouts and brown mustard, big tomatoes etc. Still though.
There
is some dude at Piedmont that has called me "Brother" 3 times now; that's
every time I've talked to him. Except we've never really talked, it's just how he refers to me: "Thanks
brother" when I held the door for him, "Have a good day Brother"
when we made eye contact by the vending machines, "Wassup Brother? As he passed me on
his way out of the mens room (without washing his hands). Fat guy w/a ponytail, curly beard, sandals,
neon green backpack, always standing around next to the little bus-stop thing
that people have to smoke inside of but he doesn't ever seem to be
smoking. Looks kinda like the singer
from My Morning Jacket, I get the feeling he knows this and is cultivating the
resemblance. (Understandable, Jim James
is a handsome man). He seems like a nice
guy but it's weird having some post-adolescent hippy call me Brother in such a
flippant way. That's usually reserved
for religious weirdos or people I actually consider to be my Brothers. I know its just some friendly hippy-festival
shit - I remember doing it at the rainbow gathering. But in prison, or even in
my life before prison, it actually held weight if somebody you'd known for a
while started calling you Brother. It
meant something. But using it everywhere
- with everyone you see - kinda cheapens it a little. Maybe.
Maybe I'm the only one he says it to because I look a lot like his
brother who also attends PVCC. I could
be making some unsafe assumptions here.
