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burn shins bleed
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snicksnick - Up!
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i work with two rappers. this is completely unforseen, but i suppose not unwelcome. Augy is the driver, and his rap name is A.U.G. for Always Underground game. he is a bigger dude, about my height but maybe a deuce and a quarter. he’s pretty quiet and shy unless you joke around enough and talk about the sales manager.

Chango is the night duplicator, my replacement in the afternoons. Apparently Chango means ‘baby gorilla’ in Spanish - a nickname from his childhood. Now it is his rap name. A.U.G. and Chango have song called Underground Thugz. I heard it today. I’ve only seen Chango once, on my first day. Despite the fact that he has worked at this place for approximately four and a half years, he still doesn’t know how to do certain basic tasks like boxing, labeling, or even doing double passes on especially large orders. Lots of interesting things seem to happen to Chango. Friday was an especially nice day in the upper 60s and thought this has no obvious correlation to the fact that he called in sick with a twisted ankle, the duplicator i am replacing seemed to think differently. Today Chango called in to say he was going to be late because he had a flat tire in Paineville. perhaps this is a metaphor for his alleged swollen ankle, or perhaps it is true, i don’t know him well enough to judge. At this rate, I never well. Chango has a lot of flat tires.

*UPDATE*
crash poem.

This is what I got for my birthday. Made by my buddy Brian Stone.

An enormously gigantic version can be found here.

So I just found out today that The Shins played in Cleveland 3 days ago. I could have seen them for $15. Motherfucker.

Today I have entered a new phase in my life. Not only have I turned a whopping 23, but I started a really real world job doing video duplication. I am no longer in some sort of post-graduate liminal limbo. I’ve got something that will pay the bills, gives me health insurance and a 401(k). once i’ve paid off some of my debts, this will allow me to pursue whatever endeavors i choose to pursue in my spare time. Its a very nice birthday present.

other than that, twenty-three doesn’t do a whole lot for me.

Dear girl who I once knew,

It’s a shame we never hooked up. The Lord knows I wanted to. All those times we spent hanging out [with all that tension hanging between us] we should have done something about it. I used to look at your hair or your eyes or the arch in your back and want to hold hold hold you. I would think about what it would be like to wake up with your hair tickling my face, and I’d try to figure out how I would disentangle legs without disturbing you. Just breakfast and closeness. Those could have been good times. Then things ended, high school, college, summer vacations and we were left with no time for anything more than a wistful goodbye.

Of course you probably saw things a bit differently.

1. I ran my car into a tree.
2. WCSB is a helluva good college radio station. They stream too.
3. Come hell or high water, Glazen Creative will hire me.

Believe it or not all of these are related.

I was driving my reel to Glazen and listening to WCSB as I was exiting I-90 toward East 9th Street. I was braking around on the ramp when instead of anti-locking, as they are wont to do, my brakes anti-anti-locked i spun 90 degrees, slid toward the edge of the road and when I hit dirt I slammed on the brakes and swung the wheel, putting me back on course, albeit on the grass embankment. My forward momentum successfully distracted, my car merely slid down a bit and hit a tree. A small tree.

The net result, a ding on the side of my car, and alignment knocked out from here to the Lesser Magellanic Cloud.

Its a good thing this is the right time of year to be a Scorpio.
Its also a good thing I had a chat with Jehovah this morning.
I don’t necessarily know if it is a good thing or not, but my pact with the legions of hell might of had something to do with it as well.

the move went with relative ease [my mother helped - get it? hardyharhar] and now that i have a bookcase, all is tending toward well. tomorrow i start the job offensive.

been listening to a lot of Cypress Hill recently for some reason…

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I did my civic duty today. I vote with much more confidence than I used to. Probably because since the last time I voted I have become a much more political person [thanks, kate maich]. Although this was a local election for a place I will be living in for only the next three days, I have still lived here for 23 years or there/abouts.

I have more confidence in small-body elections, or they mean more to me because the folks elected are people I can literally call at home if I want to talk to them. The results are more tangible as well. A U.S. foreign policy only effects me tangentially, but community elections are about bread and butter. and party lines don’t matter so much in small elections. you vote for people by how well you like them, know them, and their standing within the community. its a popularity contest in strictest terms, but hopefully not like in high school.

go vote.

i am moving to cleveland. thus forcing myself to become gainfully employed. then, i will cease being that guy who lives at home with his mother. the apartment is known as an ‘efficiency’ which i believe is a synonym to microscopic. but it is all i need. apart from a job that is. but that will come.

what i am seeking is an environment that gives me enough stimulus to be pseudo-creative yet enough time to put that quasi-initiative to some generally obscure purpose. i will also be able to resume fencing, and said physical exercise is sure to help work off my overabundant energy supply. thusly i should be able to concentrate on doing what i want instead of frittering about like a mandrill antitranked on amphetamines.

i will also be able to indulge in my latent or rampant whichever nerdiness and play mad magic and/or goof off with various or sundry whichever oldtimey weapons.

then i should be able to rebegin pompous analyses of books, albums, movies -as well as useless philosophical navel-gazing redundancies, taking pictures, writing things, telling myself to take guitar lessons and pretending to be some sort of panachioso babe magnet.

things might return to normal around here.
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