The Blue Tunnel into the Afterlife

December 9th, 2007Blog0 comments

Currently Reading:

I’m still on a massive Vonnegut rush, and I’m now trying to read everything of his I haven’t touched yet. I’ve got around six or seven books to go, so I’ve got plenty left to do.

Not a whole lot’s been happening around here lately. I think as the holidays wind up everything else winds down.

I’m working on a new draft of one project, so that’s mostly on my mind right now. I just finished a one-act stage piece. That was a lot of fun to do. It begins and ends with crazy dancing. We’re talking Peanuts style, uninhibited wacky dancing, which is definitely the best kind of dancing. We’ll see what happens with it.

I also bought a pecan pie. This is my third favorite kind of pie.

My external life is pretty boring. But in my head I am dancing Peanuts style.

Bothered

December 4th, 2007Blog2 comments

The zoo is an awkward place to take your children. This is because there’s a lot of monkey sex going on.

If I had a pie chart of all the activities happening at the zoo, monkey sex would be a very large slice. It happens so frequently that you often hear parents explaining what’s going on to their children using awkward euphemisms.

The best one I heard was a mom who said: “Oh no, that monkey is bothering the other monkey.”

Sex might have once been fun for this woman. She may have been slim and cute out of college. Then she got married, squeezed out a couple of kids, put on a few pounds. Now when her hubby tries to initiate, she shoves him away and tells him to quit bothering her.

Once again, the zoo has forced us to confront the awful truth.

I collect lucky pennies. These are pennies that I see on the street that are heads side up. Tails side up pennies aren’t lucky. I have a jar of lucky pennies at home.

While I was eating a hot dog the other day, a lady walking down the street in front of me dropped a penny. It landed heads side up. I waited for her to disappear around the corner before I picked it up and pocketed it.

Her luck is now mine. I will feel terrible though if I somehow find out later that she got hit by a bus.

This Place is a Zoo

December 3rd, 2007Blog0 comments

The above is a photograph of an orangutan. He lives at the San Diego Zoo. At first we thought it was a sack full of orangutan hair collected by the zookeepers and temporarily thrown in the corner. Then we realized that the sack of hair was breathing.

His name is Clyde and he likes to sleep with a burlap sack over his head. Apparently animals love burlap sacks — the gorillas had their own burlap sack which they would play with, and the meerkats had one too. If you know any animals that are having birthdays, you can always get them a burlap sack.

I LIKE ANIMALS. Even though some of them are smelly. I like how their motives are very easy to piece together. I put a lot of thinking into human complexities. This is why I like the simplicity of animals. It’s a nice break.

The Mo`olelo Production of Cowboy — go see this! This is a very good production and is pretty darned close to my thinking of how the play should be. And the people putting it on are really great — that always helps too.