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August 1, 2008

i know where the street sweepers sleep

You have to be in a city awhile to find that kind of stuff out. The hidden nooks, the unbuttered crannies. None of that has anything to do with this awesome graphic for a very strange lightbulb. Doesn’t have to. I have decided to forgo perfection and start being easy on myself. Throw out my tape measure and hope for the best. Stop hoping for the best and just give it a shot. Too many things don’t get done because I’m afraid I won’t do them right or well. I’m not talking parachuting either. I’m talking about trying to paint a watercolor of the telephone wires obstructing my view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Failure would not hurt. I sit at my window and watch the clouds change the color of the water and then my eyes settle on the crazy wires tethering my building to poles and more wires and my neighbors up and down the street. A world famous monument fades in the background as I consider the L-shaped spikes hammered into the wooden stanchion that allows a lineman access to the insulators. It’s a telephone pole. Easier to look at than the bridge in the distance. Nothing’s perfect. But things are going well. Sorry to scare you the other day.

5 Comments

  1. Hey Man, you are fuckin’ crazy.
    That is the best compliment I can think of.
    You’re the Cat in the hat with a stolen pistol.
    You’re Van Gogh on a motorcycle.
    You should fuckin’ run for fuckin’ president.
    You should start a fuckin’ religion – that would be sharp.

    Comment by Poll — August 2, 2008 @ 8:48 am

  2. 10 years ago, when Harley Davidson had their first week-long bash in Milwaukee (95th anniversary), a street sweeper sucked up a drink girl at 5 in the morning. She was slumped over on the curb and the driver mistook her for a bag of garbage.

    Comment by Lyle_s — August 2, 2008 @ 8:50 am

  3. Thanks Poll. And Lyle, I assume she died. Or is it like getting run over by the soft car wash scrubbies?

    Comment by Rolston — August 2, 2008 @ 10:14 pm

  4. Probably somewhere in between. She lived, which is awesome because now she’s the girl who looked like a bag of garbage.

    Comment by Lyle_s — August 3, 2008 @ 6:01 am

  5. and you’re not even a stoner.

    Comment by molly — August 3, 2008 @ 4:07 pm

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