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Oh, the French

Well, maybe it’s not fair to generalize. But I finished reading Michel Houellebecq’s collection of articles Interventions 2020, and it proved that there are some things that me and a crusty right-wing contrarian agree with. “The purpose of the party is to make us forget that we are lonely, miserable and doomed to death.” “What could possibly justify gathering together?” “…with age, the…

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On the A Line going home from work.

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I Might Like You But Leave Me Alone

I want to be left alone. I travel alone. I live alone (except for my cats.) As I get older, the more I don’t want to be around people. I live in the middle of Downtown LA, yet I make it my mission never to be in contact with anyone. I usually don’t give a fuck about this since it serves me well. I don’t have to deal with conforming myself to anyone’s expectations – it’s bad enough doing this…

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East Coast Trip

Thanks to radar and radio issues at Newark Airport recently, my flight home on Friday was cancelled. I did reschedule it for early the next day, but that meant I had to spend an extra day in Newark. This was a trip where I went to the Dark Force Fest in Parsippany, NJ, then went exploring through New England, mainly Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. With an Audi A4 Quattro that I rented, I drove…

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This Was 46

46. With the way things are now, I really had no desire to write about things, my life, whatever. As things continue on, I find myself feeling more fatalist? Nihilist? Well, hopelessness to the point of apathy, paralysis. What will happen will happen. We all die in the end, anyhow. Nonetheless, here is what has been happening as I have plummeted through my 47th year: I’m still mostly taking…

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I'm Sorry

No one reads me aside from some friends. Every now and then someone will stumble across my words, but I’m a bore so they immediately go away for good. Imagine my surprise when I see that someone spent around five hours reading a whole bunch of my shit throughout the years. Wow. I mean, I do have about 27 years worth of absolute bullshit and egomaniac blatherings on here, so it’s not like there is…

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3RA1N1AC, Come On Down

Why didn’t no one tell me that Brainiac were touring again? Oh, because I only know one other person who listens to them, and I’m really not on social media anymore. To be honest, this was probably more improbable than Unwound reforming last year since Brainiac’s lead singer Tim Taylor died in a car crash in 1997. When I saw they were coming to the Regent back over the holidays, I knew I had to…

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Why Does the Crowd Have to Pay?

Hearing politics getting thrown around during this fire is tired. I’ve heard Rick Caruso, Patrick Soon-Chiang, Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump all play the blame game. As irritating as it is, it’s not the thing that is pissing me off the most right now. While we all know the answer to this question, I don’t hear this being voiced at all: WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE TO CROWDFUND SOMEONE’S…

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Burning Down the House

Well fuck man. That’s about all I can say after the last several days. Absorbing all the information, looking at fire maps, seeing the videos, hearing the stories, listening to the blame game. I’m numb. We were told a life-threatening wind event was going to happen beginning Tuesday afternoon. I knew this, and I think a lot of folks knew the winds were going to be bad. We’ve all lived through…

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The Wide Open World

As I talked about in my thoughts after Berlin, I told myself I would get out of the house more often. Now is as good a time to start. I wanted to see Queer before it left theaters and saw that it was playing in the former Laemmle Sunset 5 theaters on Sunset and Crescent Heights in West Hollywood. Fuck. The time and money I wasted at that fucking Virgin Megastore during the early 2000s was…

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Hello 2025

I had a thought of going to Grand Park for the NYE festivities. It was a passing thought, a moment of psychosis really. It wasn’t going to be particularly cold, and there was going to be no rain. And as opposed to being at the first one in 2016, I live a few blocks away rather than having to get in from San Pedro. But I got ahold of my senses pretty quickly. The annoying thing about living at…

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Breaking My Addiction

I wanted to move to Downtown LA so I could utilize public transit more often, but the day I moved to my apartment the city announced it would shut down for COVID the next day. And just like that, we were shut down. Although everything has gone back to normal, I continued to drive drive drive mostly because it took less time than public transit. So I’d drive to the various markets I go to. One of…

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This Was 2024

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XXXMas

Today is Christmas. It’s weird because my family doesn’t gather for Christmas — we do Thanksgiving and New Years. And as an atheist, the day doesn’t hold anything significant for me. It’s a day off where most everything is closed, a more dull Saturday. And since I’m not a child, there are no presents. So yeah. Happy Christmas? Sure. Whatever. So to close out my adventures in Berlin, one thing I…

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Is It Gay Bashing If They Were Right?

“Every fag needs to have a ‘fag’ tattoo,” my tattoo artist Hannes told me during our consultation. Truer words were never spoken. Growing up I never really experienced overt gay bashing. During junior high school, I do remember people telling me that people were murmuring behind my back. But no one ever confronted me. It wasn’t until college in UCSB where one drunk asshole came up to me and…

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17 Days in Berlin

With this Berlin trip coming at the end of the year, it really came at a good time for self-reflection. Having made 45 revolutions around the sun, I’ve noticed the last ten or so have been really stagnant. Wake up, go to work, come back home, eat dinner, watch television, sleep, repeat. There might be some moments of disruption from this routine, but otherwise it’s the same mind-numbing…

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