Wayne Thiebaud, Roast Beef Dinner (Trucker's Special), Toledo Museum of Art
There past Sunday
I am telling you three times, don't holiday in Toledo to see the Museum of Art but if you're within two hundred miles, drive, go! go, I'm going back
Started snowing on way back from Toledo, by the time we drove to my son-in-law's grandparents for dinner solid four inches, by time we left six,
I thought, this is Michigan, they know how to plow roads,
no.
Michiganders fashion they can drive on unplowed roads,
no.
We had breakfast yesterday morning with Planet and Air at coffee shop next to the Jiffy plant
(photo by Earthgirl) (Planet
discovered all Jiffy products contain lard, biscuit lovers among you) at 730,
left at 815 thinking, once off state road surely I-94, the road from Detroit to Chicago, will be plowed, even with slower traffic no problem getting the forty miles to Detroit airport comfortably for 1130 flight,
no.
I saw a James Lavadour piece at Whitney past Fall, liked enough to remember, Tiichum, on loan to Toledo Museum of Art, each panel best guess two feet by three and stand alone piece itself, slayed me:
Proust just saw Albertine for the first time on a plane over Lake Erie yesterday
returning to - this line composed on laptop - inked and penciled -
until this sentence wonderful PACKED with dilemmas I'd rather wrestle than
forgetting when I stall on Proust forgetting as important as remembering
Some digifriend recently asked what double-album most thru and thru (also
If we were looking to buy near Chelsea Michigan - we are not looking to buy near Chelsea Michigan
we are doing reconnaissance for if and when we have grandchildren /
can imagine a day we can retire -
Jerusalem Rd, no, crap house next to a working lye field
W Summit Rd, no, old, creepy, cellar with former torture chamber vibe
- Cellars versus Basements: I never thought of difference until yesterday, I still thinking about today, it's more that dirt floor versus tiled floor, more later certainly, whether here or not TBD.
Cavanaugh Lake Rd, meh, plain but new redone inside, yard a cattail swamp
Hoppe Rd, no, charming but old, OLD! falling apart
Self-reminder: I hate - hate - tools, upkeep, harry homeowning, hate.
What I imagine The Committee for More Motherfucking Kibble doing as I type this now:
Nothing would sleep in that cellar, damp as a ditch, Bulbs broke out of boxes hunting for chinks in the dark, Shoots dangled and drooped, Lolling obscenely from mildewed crates, Hung down long yellow evil necks, like tropical snakes. And what a congress of stinks! - Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf-mould, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks. Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.
What better time to fly to Michigan then dead of winter, tomorrow even?
I get my giftmas present from Planet, dinner at Seva, tomorrow night!
We're meeting a real estate agent and looking at three houses tomorrow afternoon, I'm told!
Where these houses are in Michigan there is not a hill in two hundred fucking miles
My daughter won't be my age in 2052, we are ruled by sociopaths, world be gone
Purist democrat me, honoring losing 2-1 in honest elections against insurmountable odds
Nothing soon, is exploratory, my two who always out-vote me say
Tweeted yesterday re: Hilltop don't do no scheduled maintenance
sign of Hilltop's incompetence they haven't bought my ass out
Buy me out, please, even if it means I move to Michigan
This is why I can't use blogger as digital notebook no matter how much copy/pasting digital notebooks to blogger sucks, but at least I didn't talk about two of my coworkers here
who are what I wrote about in analog notebook last night
Out of nowhere this came into my head (today) yesterday:
Re: the photo in the above link - I walk at lunch, all around Georgetown, two homeless men working, both on west side of Wisconsin at M, one north side of M, other south, the shit they get instead of the coins and singles in your pockets, the fuck is wrong with people.
Yesterday was Tina Louise's birthday, famous to me and my generation of junior high boys for her being half of the crucial question: Ginger or Maryanne? plus
best TV's toggle from black and white to color
black and white "and the rest" color "the Professor and Maryanne"
I can't speak what's filler here, many of the posts I wonder fillerish to me I like best on rereading
You haven't noticed, but I've been posting fewer headlining birthdays of late
posting only those who still enter my consciousness on days other than their birthdays (though if
someone who only enters my consciousness on birthday but I've a post in pot bubblefarting
I can enter it as a bullet in a drive-by shooting)
Above by davidly thanks!
Daily clusterfuck this clusterfuck that, filler
- feature, not bug, remember those Catholic high school kids from Cincinnati, me neither -
Filler: daily motherfuckingdemocratting
Today's motherfucking Democrats ritual shaming of and forced begging forgiveness from a Democratic Muslim congresswoman who dared claim the lobbying joint AIPAC, get this, buys power
mention, filler?
I purposely did not say a word to the technicians at the glass shop
on Sunday when they replaced the shattered window to hear what they'd
say unprompted about the hole
Elkin's Bad Man: a novel for our time, capitalism, it's first mate consumerism, it's enforcer the greedherders - Bad Man's Leo Feldman, Franchiser's Ben Flesh, Dick Gibson's Dick Gibson, Bailbondsman's Alexander Main, etc....
The unseemliness of animal competition, the celebration of, the exhortation to, the holyness its held
The unseemliness of winning, the unseemliness of breaking even, the unseemly glee at cheating the losers
The animal animal unseemliness of daily life for those of us who doesn't think oneself an animal
the animal unseemliness of daily life for those of us who do
I'm a third in, Elkin has mentioned but only cameoed Freedman and Victman and Dedman
I've only had passing words and my first most positive report card with death threat undertones from Warden Fisher
I wear Earthgirl hats until temp and/or windchills in twenties
for that and lower
I've abandoned the digital tablets - nevernote, scribblener, donenote, wird - failed for reasons distinct and honest
Blue lighthouse now the daily tablet, and I've taken the abandoned yellow lighthouse out of red backpack and put it in black backback where blue lighthouse lives though as yet I've not yellow lighthoused since
