Showing posts with label heck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heck. Show all posts

2.22.2012

Awful Masterpieces

These insomnolent nights of late (in advance of a decision about whether or not I am a suitable candidate to work at this stupendous job to which I have applied [and for which I have interviewed]) are giving me fallible impetus for cursing the epiphenomenal February cold with which I am an have been so grievously afflicted.
I just had a wonderful meeting (accompanied by Desmond and Ivor) with a former partner (you know, like a romanticality-type partner), and I am awed how nobody actually fits into any narrative. You know what I mean? There is always more to every seeming than is comprehensible. I'll explain by way of muddling everything.
The dubious dust-settling clarity that is alleged with hindsight is actually only masquerading as clarity; as "hindsight" is immanently temporal, then all that's happening is the birth of yet another knot.

[On that note, what'd be the word for greater/more/farther hindsight? Hindersight? Call the cops.]

New (re)visions and (re)versions exist only to justify whatever cascading consequence, unrelated agenda, or ambition (degree of fulfillment or folly regardless) that the perceiver perceives the need to perceive. The teller will call it "explaining," but it's only explaining the teller's need to a) explain, and b) tell you about it.
In preposterously crude terms: "Good Friday" wasn't always so good, but now it justifies Easter. Because of things that happened afterward, right? But what if we found out that some profane evildoer sought to perpetuate an as-yet-unspecified injustice by way of inverting the calendar, and that we're participating unwittingly with our half-conscious conceptions of time as we understand it?

"Well, heck," one might say. I would not have started reading this post in the first place.

I remember how Molly said, early in our relationship, to her frenetic boyfriend: "There is no finish line." She was and is absolutely right. I would even say that any conclusion drawn without a distinct timestamp is forgettably flawful. We could be right about one thing in 2012, yet be dreadfully mistaken at a future juncture. Look at building with asbestos, or Urban Renewal, or the Atkins Diet, or the illegality of once-treasured cinematic courtship rituals. What about when all of those tedious texter types have forgotten how to spell AND have developed arthritis in their thumbs?
So, anyway, the thing at which I was getting is that this tiresome apparatus of a "story" that we silly humans are so frequently (even unconsciously) attempting to make of our lives WILL OUTSMART US. Maybe after we’re dead, but eventually. As far as I've been able to construe it, living is a fluid empire.

1.05.2012

I Am Ebbing (Hear Me Ebb)

What is it a Whensday oh gee

I got my MRI results! No bad news equals good news. Good news equals jubilation!

Yet, I tire. I'm sure that we're in unrealistic proximity to the North Pole.

What to do? All sorts of people have all sorts of smug gratification upon seeing our struggles, and that is of no use whatsoever to me. This whole time, I've actually intended to solve conundrums rather than inciting them. I've tried, and I've failed, to exist happily with my family in Maine, and I've got to be honest about that failure.

Maybe this is what it's like to start up a cornershop that sees no activity whatsoever. Produce goes bad, freezers leak, the weather extinguishes tourist season, and everything that happens feel portentous. You (probably do not) know what I mean.

In twenty years, Maine should be warm enough to guarantee us eternal comfort if we get to that point without irreversible misadventure. But it's an ever-safer bet within this ever-deafening crescendo of urgency that we should just go and be someplace else.

Hey! I'll tack something onto this that's somewhat life-affirming soon.

1.01.2012

The 2012 Time Capsule

Desmond, Ivor, Molly, and I have been attempting all day to construct a time "capsule" in as much of a nod to sadly outdated past predictions of the future as a way to sanctify the mundane in our lives.


Trouble is that we've been mired in this bog/fog/clog all the livelong day. But we'll have something going soon. It's an issue of focus, even though none of us had a drop to drink last nite.


This all started with my rarely (if ever) satiable curiosity about what happens in unseen/unheralded places. This curiosity is what leads to the phone's being answered when, by all probable accounts, it's a telemarketer or some vile Newsmax survey taker on the other end of the line. As we now "own" this house, I've taken to "exploring" it freely, which is not to say that I'll ever do all of the exploring that I would like to do.


There's an area beneath our stairs, for instance, where nothing is, as far as we know, excepting an envelope of space confined by walls. i've been yearning to experience the majesty of that tiny, esoteric nook for quite some time.


Molly has humored me extensively through our 8.3 years together, indulging my off-kilter theories and flights of fancy without judgment. This time, however, required a bit of doing, as our place is a wreck with all of its wallpaper removed and such. In the end, it was our dear friend and next-door neighbor, Maggie Sutton, whose suggestion really optimized the adventure. I'll paraphrase: "It's okay, because no matter what you find, you can leave something behind. Et voila! The Time Capsule. Contents forthcoming.


Here we are:


* 1 compact disc (a mix that I assembled and named "Philomena" as part of a project in which the songs on a disc would define a person's characteristics)


* 1 necktie


* 1 pair toddler's underwear


*1 Lindt Chocolate Bar packaging


*1 Electrical Outlet Cover


*1 Experian Credit Report, vandalized by Desmond


*1 Hot Wheels™ Vehicle


*1 "Feel Good" Card about How to Make Your Life Seem Meaningful


* 1 AA Battery


* 1 Alphabet Block, with letters and shit on it


* 2 DSL Filters


* 1 Family Portrait by Desmond Gallaher (ink on paper)


We deposited these things, sans "capsule," despite having found NOTHING in that "hiding place." And we were thrilled at what these items might convey to their future finders.

Ahh.