The Big City

I saw a man read three books, all written in different languages, all at the same time. I saw a woman in crutches attempt conversation time after time after time. I saw everyone on a busy crosswalk anticipate the walk signal and a taxi driver who thought he could make the yellow. I saw an army of buses, enough to fill a football field, waiting to be used. I have been solicited for change by a woman whose hands were completely black from dirt. I have lifted thousands of boxes of reams of papers. I have emerged from a train station with teary eyes, tired from the altogether too idle tormenting thoughts of troubles, transition, detachment. I am still not someone new. This is a strange thing.

And so I saw a man, who was once a boy, start visiting Goldie's for Coronas every Friday night after work, saw the light wash away, saw the path to Heaven be lost for a few moments, saw him sublimate his needs to create and live and exist for another bottle, and just go ahead and put it on his tab please.

Things I like that a large group of people somewhere will probably hate

Things I like that a large group of people somewhere will probably hate are: video games (a select few), anime (again, a select few), Hip-Hop (not hip pop), death metal, altruism, a sense of efficiency that people might relate to communism, idealism, emotional singularities, the artistic value of the void versus the light, acceptance of post-modern art (even though, yes it can be pretty retarded), openness to the possibility or impossibility of God (or any deity or higher being for that matter), naive post-physical transcendence, being a moderate, intellectual elitism (I hate it myself), physical prowess (so, elitism in general, I guess), guns, sex, importance of aesthetics, the concept that humans would be better off operating as a single consciousness, advances in genetic research, off-color (offensive) humor, finding humor in gay jokes and other situations involving emasculation, supporting homosexuality, promoting psychotechno advancements that serve as ladders towards implausible societal advancements, hating language (an ironically complicated idea). . . The list goes on

Things I do like that people might like are: bratwurst, sauerkraut, garlic, rainier cherries, carne asada, kim-chi, spicy foods of all sorts.

Some other things I like that people might hate: SPAM, garlic, sauerkraut, kim-chi, spicy foods of all sorts.

It's late and I've been trying to write something substantial. I've got three windows open to online text editors on varios blog sites and another piece of paper in my lap that I've been tapping at for three hours.

I give up.