Julia said to me:

“YOU ARE SO SANE IN YOUR INSANITY”

. . . which is certainly one way of putting it!

hey, not bad . . .

i’ve been doing this poll once a year for like seven or eight years lol

and:

thank you, sarah!

listen: as a younger man, i was a mess. i was emotionally volatile and chaotic. a few good women tried in vain to fix me when they ought not to have. bless them! and then one day, in my early thirties, i got over myself. suddenly i was a Good Boyfriend. for lack of a better word, i chose love. what else is there?? and so nowadays i come at the world with total sincerity, even if it hurts me, which it often does. and yet i cannot do it any other way. i am imperfect, to be sure . . . i am a fool. but i always do my best . . . !!!

THERE IS A SCENE IN PARIS, TEXAS

. . . where Harry Dean Stanton cleans and polishes everyone’s shoes in the middle of the night because he can’t sleep. In the morning:

I too do this. I just put on a movie and condition and polish everyone’s boots while they’re sleeping. It is meditative. I love it . . .

Behold, Monty’s newly polished footwear:

. . . wow!

MEANWHILE,
ELSEWHERE . . .

AND SO SAYING: bring me your leather and I will make it look like new. I can do boots, jackets, belts . . . yeah dude . . .

AND IF YOU’RE TOO FAR AWAY: I’ll make YOU do it! It’s important!!

I RECALL FROM LONG AGO . . .

Well!

GOOD-NIGHT ☆彡

LATELY . . .

attention hater’s: fyi….,..

SPARTAN (2004)

my father sent me this at two in the morning without comment (he is usually in an ambien coma at that hour)

to which i replied . . .

lol

siblings emmi and elliot

calling our bread “rubber” is charitable though . . . it’s more like sawdust and cereal box mulch emulsified with carcinogenic sugar glue