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A few things, just a few.
Sep. 20th, 2008 11:03 pmToday. for the first time since my surgery, a day short of two months ago, I had the motivation, energy, and lung capacity to ride my bicycle to work and back, a whopping thirteen-mile round trip. Also, since my surgery, I have lost twenty pounds, fat or muscle, I can not say. I do not recommend heart surgery as a diet plan. Most of my weight loss seems to have been the result of smaller portion sizes, since I didn't have the stomach for, nor the energy to eat much at all.
I started crying when I read the preface of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions to Jacquelyn the other day. Everything I read of Vonnegut's has an extra weight it did not have before his death. I am rereading Timequake right now, which is my second-favorite of his novels. I've almost lost it several times during this reread. If it weren't for the influence and imprinting that Breakfast had on me as a teen, Timequake would take the top slot. Both books are about aging and letting go in a way, but Timequake is really a farewell book. If I were his publisher, I'd release all further editions with Kurt's famous epitaph, "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." at the end.
A woman in my taxi told me that she wouldn't vote for Barack Obama because he was a black man and black men can not be trusted - that no black man ever did anything, no black man ever did what he said he would do, and all black men do is lie to get money or power or pussy. She said that even Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s accomplishments didn't mean anything because he cheated on his wife. "No good can come from a black man," she said, "I only trust white people. White people have discretion." The woman who spouted all of this racism was herself black.
Madison folk: go to Westgate Art Cinema's Classic Film Series. Jacquelyn, Ethan and I just saw After the Thin Man (1936) which was hilarious. In October, they're playing Psycho (1960), Ghostbusters (1984), Alien (1979), and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Tickets are only $5.00. Seriously, I can't wait to see Ghostbusters and Alien especially on the big screen.
I started crying when I read the preface of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions to Jacquelyn the other day. Everything I read of Vonnegut's has an extra weight it did not have before his death. I am rereading Timequake right now, which is my second-favorite of his novels. I've almost lost it several times during this reread. If it weren't for the influence and imprinting that Breakfast had on me as a teen, Timequake would take the top slot. Both books are about aging and letting go in a way, but Timequake is really a farewell book. If I were his publisher, I'd release all further editions with Kurt's famous epitaph, "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." at the end.
A woman in my taxi told me that she wouldn't vote for Barack Obama because he was a black man and black men can not be trusted - that no black man ever did anything, no black man ever did what he said he would do, and all black men do is lie to get money or power or pussy. She said that even Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s accomplishments didn't mean anything because he cheated on his wife. "No good can come from a black man," she said, "I only trust white people. White people have discretion." The woman who spouted all of this racism was herself black.
Madison folk: go to Westgate Art Cinema's Classic Film Series. Jacquelyn, Ethan and I just saw After the Thin Man (1936) which was hilarious. In October, they're playing Psycho (1960), Ghostbusters (1984), Alien (1979), and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Tickets are only $5.00. Seriously, I can't wait to see Ghostbusters and Alien especially on the big screen.
