Notes from a Friend's Town

1. He's a black republican in one of the most conservative states in the country (clearly below the Mason Dixon) & she's a California liberal who laughs at conservatives to make traffic less stressful. I'd put money on the expiration date of their dynamic, but that would be too easy. I'll report from the press box instead. 2. Lesson learned, kinda. In a fit of spring cleaning, I came across a old assignment that I never got clarity on. I need to get in touch with that professor but I've missed placed my old syllabus. 3. In the event I get these notions on paper & get some paper behind them, oh the impact they'll have. 4. Loose tea + cast iron tea pots = my latest interest. Loose leaf Chai in t-15 minutes 5. Sushi or middle eastern. Gelato or daquiris. short term returns or long term returns ± growth opportunity. Fresh or frozen. Curly or straight. Direct or mannered. Rhymed or un-rhymed. main focus or periphery. Colombian or Ethiopian. moment passed or ...

1. Tearing down the 'jects/creating plush holmes/ my circumstance is somewhere between Cabrini n Love Jones - Common I passed what was once the projects recently & they've been replaced with new construction described as affordable housing. Their predecessors lacked significant aesthetic value, even from the minimalist perspective. A rather bland composition of bricks, concrete, wrought iron & and steel. These older structures survived a hurricane & all that landed on shore with it as the remainder of the city was annihilated. The new structures are wood framed & non insulated but aesthically acceptable. I never called the structures home so I have no concrete understanding of how efficient they were at being called such. I just don't understand, outside of the obvious economic advantage, what the impetus was that justified replacing brick & mortar structures with wooden ones in a land that is not completely protected from being flooded once more? 2. The...

1. I'd really like to learn acoustic guitar & study Arabic. Summer's soundtrack may sound like unconnected noise but at least I'll now what it should resemble. 2. Finally caught Clooney in Up in the Air. The man is damn good. I'll leave the film geeks to elaborate on that more. The scenery was dull enough to make you focus on the story itself and it was done so smoothly. The film highlighted the personal element of the impersonal. 3. Non-Academic research interest don't always translate well into funded research. The lesson learned is substantive even if the grant isn't. 4. Once this health care bill hits the fan, as it will, there will be a strong bit of backlash. I don't want to prevent anyone from going to the doctor but the reality is being healthy cost money & the more the state covers, the more sway they hold in dictating public opinion & minimizing rebuke. 5. Distance = Comfort 6. Festival season is nearing & I'm ready to spend my...

Oft I wondered under the weight of dawn what held your gaze and feed your song where did your arms, tanned as a fawn did find themselves as the moon grew long. Of these simple mysteries my mind did score as a new days beginnings did spur my mind while eyes sat refreshed, fixed on the shore. In all these follies how quickly I forgot time, these simple musings no longer need bear their mass against my curl's dark home for as the morn was filled with care the noon anchored my mind to Rome her plans tis said found no filling in a day as I so gladly threw your shit away