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I haven't posted for a while because I have literally been on another planet where they have a different version of the internet, but I wanted to throw this up because it's the first time I've ever been involved in a photograph next to a giant-sized check. (It is an award for a screenplay I'm co-adapting based on my play.)

life is weird, dude

Life is weird, dude. You're born and you learn all this shit. You go through houses and apartments and the corners of people's attics and basements and you wake up the next morning. It's a trip and a half, man. You know? You go through shit you shouldn't survive and you do. You try to do things which are very easy and they're totally difficult. You grow up and make friends and think you know people and then suddenly you got a cell phone and six email addresses and you have no friends and you know no one. You think you know what you're doing with your life and then you don't know what the hell you've been doing. You lie to yourself and people lie at you. You tell the truth and it turns out to not matter in three years. You think about how people used to not live to be thirty. You think about how long you're going to live, and why. You eat and drink pretty much every day because what else are you gonna do. You try, you wish, you hope, and thus distinguish yourself from every other animal on the planet. You have a dream and a computer and you write stuff like this. You write in case it matters. You work because you gotta eat, see above, and you eat so you can live, in case in matters. You make it through bad days and they turn into good days and who is there to share it with you? That's all I'm saying. It's weird, dude.

paradox

The pleasure of writing creative dialogue continues to be the thrill of contradicting voices, describing co-existing difference in communal space.

new words for oh-nine

"GOODDAMNIT" (int) 1. What you say when something good happens to someone you know that actually really frustrates you.

"NAUTIOUS" (adj) 1. A combination of nauseous and cautious.

"POSTPHONE" (verb) 1. To use one's phone as a means for delaying communication with people and accomplishing as little as possible.

last night at the Bicycle Club

At 11:55 I walked past our Dragon Room one last time and out onto the Pavilion floor and I saw between the Pai Gow tables three of the other corporation bankers each carrying three big racks of chips and walking towards where I just was. You going in, I asked? Yeah, one of them said. I said good luck and walked back towards the Freedom Court.

El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles

The Angels won today.
"Angel" is a word that sells paperback books.
Angel is an X-Man with a very basic superpower.
Angel is one of the lovelier dealers at work.
"Angel" has a lot of associations.
Angel was a dude who strapped a lot of cell phones to his shorts.
Angels are the end of the world in the Bible as well as Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Angels are something in which one wants to believe...

confidence game

When discussing with women the whole male-female thing, "confidence" is usually a big word. Women like confidence. Confidence is attractive.

When observing male-female interactions and pursuits in bars/casinos/the sidewalk, it is apparent that confident people are douchebags.

True confidence, whatever that is, perhaps not a bad thing. But the performance of confidence by people who have been advised to show confidence, or are confident that confidence alone will advance them? Dude.

"I am confident that this is true. I am confident that your contrary opinion is wrong. I am confident that you want to be told what to do."

Screw confidence. That's all I'm saying.