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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just
a package of socks, nothing fancy. Not dress socks, not those rainbow toe socks
I love so much. She gets me plain old white vanilla tube socks every year
without fail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That’s right: I can be anyone at all. I can
be a stranger. What’s stopping me? Why am I still being me? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And now I have a
question to ask you and I am hoping that you have an answer because it’s got me
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This question
requires a little preliminary background. Just a little; please don’t run away!
Please allow me to tell you a little about the place where I live…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In the place where
I live, we have values. We are very committed to these values. They are what
set this place apart from all of the other places. Our values are our pride and
joy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We value freedom.
Freedom in our choice of religion. Freedom in what we can say. It’s probably
not like that where you live and that’s okay. It’s only to be expected because
no other place is a place like the place where I live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beginning. The beginning is <a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/11/meet-your-heroes-ballad-of-ray-hill.html" target="_blank">here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This is the middle.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Go. Begin at the
beginning. That way, you’ll see the middle more clearly and anyway, the
beginning’s the better bit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Here in the middle,
we flash forward twenty years. Two decades since that dark parking lot with its
red bricks and its singing nuns and by now there are two things I have learned.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">First, Ray Hill made
the world a better world. No question. The world is better for his having been
here. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">He’s a hero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And second, you
should never meet your heroes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is a true story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I haven’t always lived in Houston, you know.
There was a time, many years ago, when I resided in a little Texas town known
as Huntsville. Population 20,000, give or take. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This would have been back in about 1995. I
was ten. Dad moved me and Antony up to this God-forsaken place so that he might
attend Sam Houston State University, which didn’t work out as planned and then there
we were. In Huntsville. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now, Huntsville is exactly one hour due north
of Houston and any way you slice it, it’s a town that is notable for one thing
and only one thing: It is home to the world-famous Texas death chamber. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Alright, now think about this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A triangle. A
dating meme. It’s probably sexist; I don’t know. I can never keep up with that
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And this triangle,
at its corners, it says, <i>“Smart,” “Sane,”
“Good-looking.”</i> At its center, it says, <i>“You
may pick two.” </i>The implication being,
I suppose, that every woman is dumb, ugly, or insane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Thus my warning
about it probably being sexist.<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But still, if we can
accept, <i>arguendo</i>, our probably sexist
triangle as holding some tiny grain of wisdom, a rule of thumb or kernel of truth,
then I ask you: Where does that leave me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Hmm?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It leaves me at a real
disadvantage, that’s where. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It leaves me two
corners shy of a full triangle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I jot down ideas on little scraps of paper. On envelopes.
Sales receipts. Business cards. The backs of checkbooks and in an endless trail of
notebooks. Folders and coupons and wine bottle labels, covered! I fill flash
drives and I email myself. Leave voicemails I never listen to. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The blog ideas pile up and up.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Out at Dana’s storage space, cleaning out my stuff, I see that most of what I own is my idea pads. There are stories and there are quotes and there are opening lines for things I never got around to writing.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Until now, I mean. Until this week. This is the week </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I’m finally going to get around to writing them.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It will go like this: For the next month, everything </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I post here will come from a single sheet of paper I covered in ideas back seven years ago.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I’ve got them all typed out below and I’ll change them into red after
I use them. See?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was this past Thursday, November 5, at
8:45 PM, to be maybe more exact than is necessary. I had just run three miles
and I was lying in my van in the Rice Stadium parking lot with my legs hanging
out the back door, and I was listening to Jenny Hval’s <i>Apocalypse, Girl</i>, which was my favorite album in the whole world
back in those days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And all I wanted to do at that moment was to
lie there and chill, listening to Jenny sing about Heaven and about wires and
cunts, but my friend, Aesop, was in the front seat, smoking a joint and
worrying about my dating life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I’m
worried about your dating life,”</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Don’t
be,”</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
I said. <i>“I’m not.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I wasn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div><a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/11/the-great-grim-reaper-challenge-of-2015.html#more">continued HERE »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003982716885685057.post-71847718450431669172015-10-31T14:56:00.000-05:002015-10-31T15:13:29.607-05:00West Gray Multi-Service Center Blues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This is not like
the stories I usually tell. There are no <a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/02/phantom-fins-of-pharmacology.html" target="_blank">monsters</a> here, no <a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/08/emergent-phenomena-exhibiting-novel.html" target="_blank">ancient cults</a>, no
<a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2013/07/hypnagogia.html" target="_blank">demons</a>. There <i>is</i> a whole lot of city
bureaucracy, however, and as some of us know, city bureaucracy can be nearly as
horrifying as the worst baddies the imagination can conjure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This is a story
about the West Gray Multi-Service Center. The Center looks like this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g3y_1oaoADQ/VjUaqXP7geI/AAAAAAAAPaQ/9q-KDrxXwe4/s1600/MMSC_Front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g3y_1oaoADQ/VjUaqXP7geI/AAAAAAAAPaQ/9q-KDrxXwe4/s1600/MMSC_Front.jpg"></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Or, well, it used
to look like that, anyway.</span></div>
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</div><a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/10/west-gray-multi-service-center-blues.html#more">continued HERE »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003982716885685057.post-31290464024819680632015-10-25T18:08:00.001-05:002015-10-25T18:09:19.111-05:00Free Bee Stings! (A Prospectus)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Careening. Yes, that’s it. I like the word ‘careening’
for this. I am a twin and my twin’s name is Antony and the two of us forever
risk careening off into literary cliché. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“I assume you know what I mean here. Abel and Cain? The
good son and the bad seed? Darkness and light? Yin and yang? Cage and Travolta swapping
mugs in that old action flick?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s a really well-worn trope. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“I’ve never liked cliché and I never wished to go
careening off into it. I never wanted it because it is bad: Bad to be only half
a person. Lousy to possess half a soul. To bomb science class while the other
one excels in it. To be the slightly-too-boyish sister of a slightly-too-girly
brother.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“I said ‘No thank you’ to that. Never out loud, of course
– that would be crazy – but in my life, my actions, my thinking? I said ‘No
thank you’ to that from the start…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“…and wound up constantly careening into bad twin
clichés. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</div></div><a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/10/free-bee-stings-prospectus.html#more">continued HERE »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003982716885685057.post-1002172560784985562015-10-19T19:38:00.000-05:002015-10-19T20:23:30.538-05:00The Heroine, Victorious<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I voted today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The sun came up
this morning and it was the first morning for early voting in Houston. And so from
my office on Brazos and Dallas, I walked the blocks all the way down to 1001 Preston
and voted. Then I walked back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It felt like some
kind of victory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div><a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/10/the-heroine-victorious.html#more">continued HERE »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003982716885685057.post-11937611552512379572015-10-11T14:27:00.000-05:002015-10-12T08:22:31.852-05:00D-I-V-O-R-C-E<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YbgkItTnkdQ/Vhq2la4mnqI/AAAAAAAAPUQ/54wcvBA4e3M/s1600/divorce1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YbgkItTnkdQ/Vhq2la4mnqI/AAAAAAAAPUQ/54wcvBA4e3M/s400/divorce1.jpg" width="400"></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This was the week when I got divorced. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div><a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/10/d-i-v-o-r-c-e.html#more">continued HERE »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003982716885685057.post-9565969993646726102015-10-04T13:30:00.001-05:002015-10-05T13:07:07.052-05:00Sleep Tight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Last week, the kids
got sick. Then they gave it to me and I got sick, too. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now, this
really never happens. I never get sick. I am immune to everything! But this
thing the kids found and dragged home last week, it even took me down. Our
fevers climbed so high that music turned architectural and our iphones looked
like blurs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What else
could I do? I tucked the kids into bed and I pulled up a chair and told them
stories.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I told
them stories I’d written (and some that I’d stolen) and I described worlds I’d
made (and some I’d visited), and I gave them the sorts of warnings that good
parents give their children at one time or another growing up.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One of
the things was a story and a world and a warning all in one. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is
how it went:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</div><a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/10/sleep-tight.html#more">continued HERE »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003982716885685057.post-43069480169599398862015-09-27T14:36:00.000-05:002015-09-28T08:13:54.858-05:00I Believe in Everything; Nothing is Sacred<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m-dWmZbP14A/Vgg5YnH5lEI/AAAAAAAAPPc/UFL63sjtX5E/s1600/tumblr_nlj0roKn6u1u180tko1_500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m-dWmZbP14A/Vgg5YnH5lEI/AAAAAAAAPPc/UFL63sjtX5E/s400/tumblr_nlj0roKn6u1u180tko1_500.jpg" width="132"></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Strangers send me messages. It happens all
the time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Every morning, I
wake. I stretch. Then I just lie there in the dark to see how long I can lie
there. In the dark. Lie there NOT checking my messages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s all about
discipline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sometimes I go a whole
minute. Sometimes two. I hold out for as long as I can and when I finally give
in, there they are. Sometime in the night, strangers have sent me messages. Again.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The people I know
hardly ever bother with me, but these strangers? They really seem to care. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Some are sending me
grammar corrections for the blog. Some just want to share the music they’re
listening to. Recipes. Rumors. Photographs to turn me straight. I get damned to
hell at least one time every week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">There’s an Elvis
impersonator in Ohio who links me to clips of all his shows and a girl in Tallahassee
needs help coming out to her mom. This one guy sends me pages and pages of angry
emails. Every day. Without fail. He calls me a slut and tells me I am going to pay
for what I’ve done. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Keep in mind these are strangers.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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</div><a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/09/i-believe-in-everything-nothing-is.html#more">continued HERE »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003982716885685057.post-8282792146078814452015-09-19T19:31:00.000-05:002015-09-19T19:50:39.611-05:00Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9eTKTHW-6IU/Vf37d-0bRhI/AAAAAAAAPNU/tC6Z7c64Ofs/s1600/4204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9eTKTHW-6IU/Vf37d-0bRhI/AAAAAAAAPNU/tC6Z7c64Ofs/s640/4204.jpg" width="640"></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Even though I know I
shouldn’t, I’ve started to worry about what my next girlfriend is going to like
about me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div><a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/09/jet-fuel-cant-melt-steel-beams.html#more">continued HERE »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003982716885685057.post-85158222026558069812015-09-12T19:04:00.001-05:002015-12-08T15:06:19.468-06:00Waiting for Alex Trebek<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">My great grandfather
– my father’s mother’s dad, who we call <i>“Papa”</i>
– turns ninety-three this week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I visit Papa a lot, every week in fact, which is a lot to visit a ninety-three year old great grandfather
who never speaks and rarely moves and only lives to watch a tv game show called
<i>“Jeopardy.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">He lies in a
hospital bed in his bedroom with three pillows under his head and the rose-print
bedspread pulled all the way up around his neck. And his body is so withered
and so thin that the bedspread covering him looks perfectly flat. He doesn’t even
make a ripple. So every week, when I walk in to visit him, he looks like just a
head sitting there on a pillow, all by itself, smiling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You can go ahead
and laugh but it is an unsettling sight to see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div><a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2015/09/waiting-for-alex-trebek.html#more">continued HERE »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003982716885685057.post-71418115960688060252015-09-05T13:08:00.001-05:002015-09-05T14:24:20.262-05:00Oh, Huma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I leave my cell
phone lying around a lot. I am told I ought not to leave my cell phone lying
around a lot but still I persist, which means I keep on doing it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I leave it right
out in the open where everybody can see it. I leave it right out in the open <i>so</i> everybody can see it. Face up on
conference tables during meetings. Next to the sink, at work, at lunch hour. Or
out on the coffee table when I have friends over. Or up on the hood of the van
while I am attempting to walk in a straight line for a police officer late at
night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And so forth. And
so on. Et cetera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E2l2DpWdOD0/VeIMtCjUFUI/AAAAAAAAPA8/GJtXE-oIdzY/s1600/streetcar-tracks-night-1-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E2l2DpWdOD0/VeIMtCjUFUI/AAAAAAAAPA8/GJtXE-oIdzY/s320/streetcar-tracks-night-1-2.jpg" width="320"></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This is not a good
place to be creeped out in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Many people have
been creeped out here before me, sure. It’s a cliché. But that does not help
when it happens. And it’s happened. Now. To me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I am all creeped
out in New Orleans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This hotel room is creepy
and the lobby is creepy, and I can’t find the man I came looking for. But I
can’t get drunk in my room, either. For me that is not an option. For standing
with one’s back to the wall – my back – and scanning for something to be creeped
out by is no way to get drunk. Not even in New Orleans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You know, a couple
times a year, I am asked to speak before groups of homeless youth. Whole rooms
full of homeless youth, even. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And usually, I’ll do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I am asked to speak
before rooms full of homeless youth because I am seen, in some quarters, as a
formerly homeless youth success story. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Yeah, I know. Me. A
success!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I am seen in these
quarters as a formerly homeless youth success story because <a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2013/02/evicting-dr-clitoris_11.html" target="_blank">I used to be homeless</a>. From the <a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2014/05/something-end-part-1.html" target="_blank">age of twelve</a> all the way to age eighteen, I was. But I am
not homeless anymore. Now I’m just <i>formerly homeless</i>. Now I’ve got somewhere to
live and two jobs and three academic degrees and a busload of kids and a blog
that gets dozens of page views a month. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A success. So today’s homeless youth obviously need to hear all about me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Reality
is a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.”</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
– Lily Tomlin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I cannot write today.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I cannot write
today and I will not write tomorrow and then I’m going out of town on Thursday,
so things are going to be pretty dead around here for as far as I can see. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
corners of the rooms were in all the right places. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was perfect, and perfect in more than just
a sort of <i>feng shui</i> kind of way. It
was home from the very first moment we laid eyes on it, which just so happens
to have been ten years ago this very day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Home. Like the place came with our memories
already inside it. A familiar scent we’d never smelled before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The perfect number of rooms. The correct amount
of closet space. Close proximity to all the right schools. The proper distance
from <a href="http://www.fascistdykemotors.com/2011/08/dana.html" target="_blank">Dana</a>’s work. And with newly installed energy-efficient appliances, to
boot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There was only one problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The price.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was too low.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
a voice said, <i>“I know you don’t approve,
but you’re going to need to just buck up.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I blinked and I peered out around my monitor,
trying to see who or what was speaking. Had I imagined the voice? What I finally
said was, <i>“Approve of what?”</i> but what
I was thinking was, <i>“How long have I been
sitting here? In this office? Looking at this porn? Have I always been here?” <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the voice said, <i>“Darnell and Damien and me,”</i> and it was my boss, Adri, who was
saying it. Right there. Tapping the heel of her shoe on the floor in that
annoying way she always did. That annoying way she always does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What I said was, <i>“Duh... Dar… Darnell?”</i> but what I was thinking was, <i>“Could I really have been looking at porn for
five whole hours?” <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was thinking, “<i>Is that even possible?”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Better and better,
then worse and worse. That is the way that it went. Maybe the way it always
goes, I don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But still, everything,
better and better, for years. I built the spiral staircase – finished it! – I spun it right up through where my childhood
bedroom had been. It blossomed up onto a landing above the old living room. I put
a garden in up there. A trellis with trumpet vines. A telescope so I could look
out across the harbor. Across the sky. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And of course by that
time, the entire west end of the house was different. New and improved. Expanded.
Remodeled. Remade in accordance with my dreams. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It was my life’s
work, this house. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I mean, flying buttresses.
I was going to have flying-fucking-buttresses! They were on back order, but I
was going to have them. Soon. Flying buttresses and an indoor swimming pool. And
a bowling alley. And a watch tower. And a mill tower. And a private theater for
movies and something called an <i>“upper
bailey,” </i>though I did not have a clue what an upper bailey even was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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