tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22358344527507461722023-06-20T06:08:20.024-07:00The July Project 2012Boog City Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01736859750137242913noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235834452750746172.post-32072354519402553702012-08-01T01:05:00.001-07:002012-08-01T01:05:45.753-07:00July 1<br /><br />Sorta, sorta sleep,<br />Fall asleep on uncleared bed sleep,<br />And when up, kinda,<br />Realize I haven’t said anything out lout yet,<br />So say aloud<br />“rabbits, rabbits, rabbits,”<br />to bring luck the whole month-long.<br /><br />July 2<br /><br />I test the 2-liter coke and pepsi family soda prices<br />Walking away from home,<br />Each time bringing a basket down the aisle,<br />In case the price is low enough to not care <br />about the prices I haven’t seen.<br />Duane Reade, $1.89 or $1.98.<br />Rite Aid, 2 for $3<br />CVS, 79¢,<br />79¢ for Coke family sodas two liters,<br />six maximum,<br />I buy eight, my walking maximum, <br />in two purchases at the self-serve.<br /><br />July 3<br /><br />sean and i finish writing the final state, washington,<br />in our states project <br />in time for us to arrive at my gristede’s market<br />at 20 minutes before midnight<br />so i can buy things to put on bread,<br />cottage cheese, natural peanut butter (without salt), <br />sugar free preserves (apricot and strawberry).<br />but all the doors are closed,<br />and me and a coupla other potential customers<br />are unsure what to do,<br />what’s going on,<br />as it’s 20 minutes before closing time,<br />and the lights are still on inside.<br />so i say “someone’s going to open this door,”<br />and begin pounding on the glass door with both my fists<br />like i should be yelling “elaine, elaine”<br />alternating fists, repeatedly,<br />until after a minute or so<br />a manager comes to the inside door,<br />reaches his right hand in and gestures.<br />i follow his hand to a sign,<br />“july 3, 8am-10pm,”<br />gesture sheepishly with my hands as go “d’oh,”<br />give a quick bow,<br />and then head off to<br />CVS,<br />79¢ for Coke family sodas two liters,<br />and open 24 hours.<br /><br />July 4<br /><br />July 4, 1976<br />missed going with my parents to see the tall ships in new york harbor for the bicentennial,<br />i think i was in summer camp.<br /><br />July 5, 1980<br />missed watching borg-mcenroe five-set wimbledon final, <br />the one with the 18-16 fourth-set tiebraker,<br />i think i was in summer camp.<br /><br />July 29, 1981<br />missed my generation’s royal wedding,<br />charles and diana,<br />i think i was in summer camp.<br /><br />July 5<br /><br />i remember to order from fresh direct,<br />hop online a little after eleven<br />screen shows how they’ve moved their order close-out time<br />back from midnight to eleven.<br />i knew that, i forgot, damn it,<br />another day with a little food.<br /><br />July 6<br /><br />i am still watching the movie honey<br />everytime it's on<br />one star review or not.<br /><br />July 7<br /><br />i told mom that<br />the girl with the dragon tattoo was premiering on cable tonight,<br />the american version,<br />in case she wanted to dvr it.<br />(her and my dad had seen one of the foreign versions <br />while staying with my uncle sollie and aunt carrie <br />in the bay area a few years back.)<br />"i'm not going to watch that tonight," mom said,<br />which i knew meant, "it's dark.<br />i wanna watch it during daylight."<br /><br />so i watched it because i wanted to watch it.<br />and when it was done<br />called my folks.<br /><br />"it's not as dark as they make you think," i told my mom,<br />and then i said to my dad,<br />"i mean, there's a bunch of nudity,<br />and an anal rape,<br />but it's pretty quick."<br /><br />July 8<br /><br />awake at 12:30 <br />to watch on dvr <br />if andy murray maybe becomes <br />first british man since 1936 to win wimbledon.<br />can't go online to avoid finding out what happened<br />or talk to people on the phone without first yelling <br />"don't tell me what's going on today in any sports event"<br />(i'm recording the met game to watch after the tennis).<br />so i write my searches and a question for my dad<br />down in my memo pad:<br /><br />—how many people minimum would you be able to have in the friends and family box?<br /><br />—how does the replay camera work at wimbledon? (you know, that weird simulation of the ball and the court.)<br /><br />—do they have tickertape parades in england for sports heroes?<br /><br />—(for dad) <br />murray is wearing ankle braces on each ankle<br />and low-cut sneakers.<br />why isn't he wearing hi-top sneakers and ankle braces instead? (that's what i did when i tore ligaments in my ankle<br />in high school <br />and continued to play on our basketball team.)<br /><br />July 9<br /><br />DVD Recommendation<br /><br />i'm assuming it's on dvd.<br /><br />just watched an ed burns film i hadn't heard of, <br />nice guy johnny, <br />from 2010. <br />big theme is dreams and do you stop pursuing them.<br />with a romcom nontraditionally tossed in.<br /><br />July 10<br /><br />i feel guilty<br />and a little less in the know<br />every time <br />i don't like tom waits<br /><br />July 11<br /><br />Subject: Re: Here's Patriots Owner Bob Kraft Helping His Girlfriend With Some Kind Of Weird Audition<br /><br />we should probably introduce her and her friend stacy kiebler to our dads since these ladies have a thing for old men. wither myra.<br /><br />the espys just put up the major passings of the last 12 months in sports, about eight names. it was a little weird today looking at one of them—myra kraft.<br /><br />July 12<br /><br />central park tickle me elmo's an antisemite <br />tickling my kosher friend's cute daughter<br /><br />July 13<br /><br />27 years ago today<br />me at live aid, the philadelphia end,<br />and led zeppelin's survivors<br />takes the jfk stadium stage <br />post-dead bonzo<br />with tony thompson of chic<br />and phil collins fresh from wembley <br />and the late, lamented concorde<br />drumming<br /><br />a section to our left,<br />maybe 20 feet away,<br />guy in blue gym shorts with white piping, <br />the classic gym class gym shorts<br />of the seventies and eighties,<br />with no t-shirt,<br />reaches his right hand down his shorts<br />and starts jerking off<br />vigorously<br />as he takes in the first sounds <br />of the reunited semi-led zeppelin.<br /><br />July 14<br /><br />i'm happy that it's over<br />this stranglehold of yours<br />how you don't call and you don't write<br />haven't connected in a fortnight.<br />but i count th eminutes to midnight<br />and then i seize the day<br />time to make something<br />time you go away.<br /><br />July 15<br /><br />ancillary fun with fact-checking<br />In checking how nonviolent was punctuated in SNCC, <br />I discovered SNCC's first chairman was Marion Barry.<br /><br />July 16<br /><br />did you watch<br />political animals last night?<br /><br />good, <br />but i lose respect for a political/newsy show<br />when the actor playing a reporter who won a pulitzer prize<br />can't pronounce pulitzer properly.<br /><br />July 17<br />my new doc made a horrible tradeoff<br />she needs her old name back<br />fast<br />it's almost as though her husband didn't want to<br />so much pass on the family name<br />but subject her to it.<br /><br />July 18<br /><br />sometimes when they<br />turn you down for a job<br />and say "we're going to keep your resume on file"<br />they actually do.<br /><br />July 19<br />cereal talk w/my diabetes nutritionist<br />of me needing more fiber to counteract the carbs<br />i don't want to sound like a pervert <br />but the button below her breasts is unbuttoned<br />i tell her, "i don't want to sound like a pervert,<br />but you have a button on your blouse unbuttoned."<br />she thanks me, <br />must know i'm a pervert.<br /><br />July 20<br /><br />where were you 43 years ago today<br />i say to my mother,<br />to set her up to tell one of her favorite stories,<br />the night of the moon landing.<br />"we were worried the floor would cave in on this end of the bungalow," <br />she said<br />"we were the only ones in the bungalow colony<br />with a tv that worked."<br /><br />July 21<br /><br />i don't keep doing so because i like you <br />but i do<br /><br />July 22<br /><br />each night before bed i update my filing system,<br />check the emails i sent myself the night before<br />listing one thing per email, one subject per email,<br />that need to be taken care of,<br />resending the ones unfinished to myself, <br />so they end up at the top of my inbox,<br />before the to me in my sleep emails <br />push them down a few rungs.<br /><br />July 23<br /><br />too fast<br />not furious enough<br /><br /><br />July 24<br /><br />savannah guthrie<br />has a freaking lisp. <br />they're kidding, right? <br />she's a poor, <br />child's version of meredith vieira.<br />i miss ann curry.<br /><br />July 25<br /><br />parents pick me up at train<br />arthur treacher's for dinner<br />2 pieces of fish and french fries<br />from a fryer that only fries<br />the fish and the french fries<br />and where the soda is unlimited<br />and they play good music on the p.a.<br />i've spent a few new year's eves hear by myself,<br />playing pop-a-shot in the gameroom,<br />eating fish and chips,<br />drinking diet cokes,<br />diabetic unfriendly cherry hi-c's,<br />and long calls with jill.<br /><br />July 26<br /><br />(sing)<br /><br />i wish that i was nicer when we drove around<br />but i knew what i was doing,<br />i still know just what i am doing<br />and i'm right<br /><br />July 27<br /><br />i like danny boyle movies fine enough<br />trainspotting was amazing<br />slumdog millionaire was good, but flawed<br />(almost no one's hooking up with the girl who hooked up with your brother)<br />but thes london olympics opening ceremonies<br />couldn't be slower,<br />they're just damn boring,<br />they shouldn't be boring,<br />they nee less filmed inserts,<br />and some director who's done <br />olt timey super bowl halftime shows,<br />the oscars, or the grammys.<br /><br />July 28<br /><br />call my niece michelle<br />tell her it's her dad's half-birthday,<br />that the only reason i knew is that first girlfriend's birthday<br />was his half-birthday<br />so it was always one of their birthdays<br />or half-birthdays<br /><br />July 29<br /><br />(sing)<br /><br />i got myself one of those salads<br />where they mix things in,<br />tomatoes, cherry ones, cucumbers,<br />and chick peas twice,<br />and hard boiled eggs twice, too,<br />with a raspberry vinaigerette<br />it tasted good, but they chopped it up,<br />so instead of chunks of egg,<br />they were diced real fine.<br />i went to one place,<br />when i did some longtime temp work,<br />they had cheese tortellini as one of the choices,<br />cheese tortellini, cheese tortellini.<br /><br />July 30<br /><br />i'm crying to step up 3 <br />and i could blame how sleep deprived i've been<br />and how it's feeding the mania that's still somewhere<br />but i won't.<br /><br />July 31<br /><br />it's hard when you're a sorta shut-in<br />and the soda runs out<br />but someone came to get copies of their play<br />as they don't have a printer,,<br />call them back,<br />"can you bring two two-liter bottles of caffeine free diet pepsi,<br />regular diet's ok, too."<br /><br />i got a soda delivery,<br />two 2-liters of diet pepsi,<br />they way i often do,<br />when someone comes to visit,<br />Boog City Eventshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01736859750137242913noreply@blogger.com0