Nothing Too Sacred

June 27th, 2006General2 comments

Jesus is my coach.

I am currently in favor of the contemporary view of Jesus as your personal success coach and buddy. Like in the figurine above in which He’s taking the lateral while a little boy tries to wrestle Him to the turf.

If you make something or someone too sacred, they become this distant glowing figure on a mountain — unreachable and unattainable. In some ways creating that distance is a form of self-defense. It says that this thing is a dream and so it should stay a dream. Never touch, and never ask too much.

I used to think of writing as a sacred act. There was something glowing, magical and otherworldly about it. I had to be in a “state” to do it. But when it stopped being sacred and became a craft, the whole process suddenly became human. It was still magical and still surprising, but it was something that was in my grasp. It was present in my day to day life instead of being like an old bearded fellow on a cloud.

I like Boba Loca in Westwood a lot for very specific reasons. One is that it’s small and lively; two is that it’s usually cool inside. Three is that I think it’s a Mom-And-Pop place run by a family man with a wife and small child. I have deduced this by carefully examining the photographs on the wall.

So a lot of nights this summer, this is where I’ll be.

One last thing — I really want to start a book club. I need help though because my last attempt to start a club (an eating club) failed pretty badly. Even though I designed a logo and everything.

We could meet every week and talk about the book that we’re reading. Sometimes the book of the week could be a graphic novel. Sometimes it could be God of War on the Playstation 2.

Sometimes when we meet we could cosplay literary figures. I have an eyepatch so I could cosplay James Joyce. And in my book, Tifa Lockheart counts as a literary figure.

My thinking is that most of my friends enjoy reading the same books — anecdotal non-fiction like Blink, fun fiction like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Giver, and pornography like Hustler and Barely Legal. So why not get together and talk about them? And also get wasted?

Taquitos taste good.