at fourfifty this morning he woke dreamthinking about waiting in line at a Taco Bell Driv-Thru

he was concerned about his ass swinging in trafficstraddling the public sidewalk

No sweat man

                  Theres no such thing as a pedestrian

I am frequently

Jah    How many times have you walked past other pedestrians

    Youre a big help   Thanks

Youre welcome

he ran a hot tub laid in it  closed his eyes

 

an enormous four-door pristine black pickup truck was ahead of him

its brightshiny silver tow-hitch unmarred

truck nuts  balls hung

                           Cute  A vanity vehicle

when the truck pulled forward he darted right around it parked in the lot at the rear

walking back he acknowledged the driver Youre welcome man of a bangedup multicoloured panels Ford Maverick that was behind him obstructing the rightmost lane of traffic

it smelled like weed

 

walking into the lobby he stood backhands in his pockets taking in the illuminated menu board above the service counter that he hadnt seen since his girls were grade schoolers

he crossed his fingers pinto beans were still a thing the seven-layer burrito

beans jah

seven layer nah

Chicken tacos

There Yasee  Cantina soft chicken taco

Anthere  See the Cantina chicken quesadilla

                                                 Wethinks yare intention is to doubledown

Donya think

                Jah

How can I not

Were celebrating

Iceland

they laughed

Taco mariachi asked          

    TACO

 

at fivefifty he got out of the tub

toweled dry

slipped into sweats

returned to the bedroom made the bed

laid down on it

his cats came in and laid with him on top of it

they fell asleep

Thursday,  22  1. 26

Iceland?  Or Greenland?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qWJa5iUzQM 

he picked him up from the airport a few days back

had been feeding his outdoor birds watering them scooping leaves out of the pool

since friend lived in the hills and he in town he asked if itd be cool he held onto his car the ten days hed be gone

it made perfect sense

Yeah sure. That’s a great idea.

Thaswha I thought

when he picked him up they went straight on to his place where he gathered his car and drove home

 

they met after the New Year at friends place in the hills in the forest

                                                                          convened for coffee edibles conversation

later imbibed Bruen  friend went with his sweet faggish concoction

                                                                           told him so

You think my drink is faggish?

Effete

         Fuckya

Surprised it hasnt rotted the teeth out of your head

I mentioned it to a couple of my homosexual friends an they thought it was faggish

                                                                                         Said theyd be happy to meet you

knew that would creep him out

Yeah. I don’t think so.

Too bad  Theyre awfully sweet guys

And you know them how, why?

Literary group

                  A heady bunch nevermind the pun

I have to ask

                When I had your car during your vacation . . . 

 

Yeah?

A friend burned me a CD

You have a player in your car

I do.

I played the CD in your car when running back and forth between our placescrazy to listen to music in a car

his face bunched up Crazy?

The cassette player in my car crapped out years ago  Had the radio disabled

                                                                                     I drive in silence

I can’t imagine.

Its nice  Can collect my thoughts

You like collecting your thoughts.

I do

 

You enjoyed listening again?

It was strange

 

 

There’s more to this.

There is

What?

Did you know you had a CD in the player

                                             Didnt strike me as yours

Maybe.

Wha the hell   maybe

                            Ya did or ya didnt

I think I knew there was one in the player.

    Wha was it

Was it?

The CD

I think I knew I had one in the player.

Yasaid

            Wha was it

You listen to music in your car

getting peeved I don’t know. What was it?

Stones

             It wasnt yours

No.

       Likely my girlfriend’s.

Your  Girl  Friend

                      Got to space them out buddy might give the wrong impression

Cant be givin the wrong impression she woudnt want ya givin the wrong impression

Shes said

Youll say you don know tha

She an I know 

    Get onboard

                         

1932,  reggaefriday,  9  1. 26

1337,  Thursday,  22  1. 26

Ohnoyadon

I do.

I did

        Huh

I didnt take all my clothes when I left home drove to Montana  Hadnt room in the car

Didn’t you buy a stationwagon?

I did

You could have stuffed everything you had inside.

I had art an books a stereo albums  Woud be workin on a ranch

                                                                       mused    Wonder wha my Maw did with my turtleneck dickies

I have two.

Thas unbelievable

                       Two from before

From last century, as you say? Yes.

Thas really cool

                  Ever wearem

Haven't in a long time. Usually during winter.

    Its winter 

Are you . .

. . Implying

Yes.

       I should take them out, launder them . .

. . Wearem

               Bet youd blow some minds

Its very cool

You think?

Arya listenin to my voice

                              Mines blown

So  fuckin  cool

Have someone shoot you shoot me a text

I could do a selfie

Nah kept it to himself  imagined her wearing only the dickie naked to the waist

                                                                       Nah  Need a witness

A witness?

Jah  Blow someones mind

                                 Itd be nice to know I have company

 

    Wonder wha my Maw did withem

1932,  reggaefriday,  9  1. 26

1237,  Thursday,  22  1. 26

was another either/or proposition that buddyboy could raise if he chose on anything he might consider  but didnt   hasnt  which is why as they occur to him he raises them

                                                                         colour him curious

    Really?

Real 

Why would you ask that?

I believe you know

                       If not

My incessant unquenchable thirst to examine question thoughts which appealhave occurred to me an offer them for others to opine

    Wear the skin

 

Skin?   Unbelievable.

Ya better believe it

                       You can argue your small sample size  disregard it coud be larger if youd ever reach out for the opinion of others

Youre desperately unlike me

Ive asked

             Lemme think      Two  five seven   nineten

                                                              Ive asked ten including me  eleven

Youre twelve

How many said skin?

Nine One declined  One said chinchilla

                                           But she said her grandmother had a chinchilla coat an on occasion woud let her wear it inside the house

It was so soft she said

    Whasay you

Chinchilla.

I woudave absolutely guessed thaswha youd say

Absolutely?

               Theres no suc . .

. . Youd have sex with a man

 

    See  There is absolutely

                               I absolutely woudave said youd say chinchilla because youre humancentric the world must revolve around Manunkinde

Every other living being is lesser

No.

Jah

      Maybe the question shoud have been is one dead human skin worth more than the lives of hunredtwentyhunredfifty chinchilla

My question wasnt flensing a live human killing a human for their skin

                                                                               Whereas

Its okay with you an one other in the small sample size to kill a lot of little animals because their fur is desirable    

1714,  reggaefriday,  9  1. 26

1148,   Thursday,  22  1. 26

he pinched himselffound himself sucking holding his breath at moments throughout Canada Prime Minister Mark Carneys address at Davos

    it disturbed him

he couldnt have agreed more

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/davos-2026-special-address-by-mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada/

2339,  Wednesday,  21  1. 26

writing an email to his nephew his nephews wife he signed off  smiles . . .

                                                                                looked up at the screen

Ooh eesh thas not good

he typed

           smiles  uncel Joe

laughed his ass off

                            Uncel  Ya kiddin me

he corrected it  uncle Joe

after sending the email he texted his brother his nephew his brothers son

  :  :  you realise how close “uncle” is to “incel”  one crazy vowel off

figured his brother could relate because he was evidently admittedly a Wordle fanatic played it on his smartphone

               You ought to try it. You have an Apple, yeah?

I do though Ive had my daughter dumb it down to requisites I find necessary on a cellphone

Requisites?

I understand thas more than five letters  Kind of like the three Rs we grew up with reading riting rithmetic

The thing makes calls receives calls can text receive text can take a pic receive a pic DONE

Yeah, but it can do so much more.

It coud if it wasnt neutered

Neutered.

Yasaid it brother

 

  :  :  Interesting observation. How’d you recognize that?

  :  :  Emailed your boy signed off uncel. Wasn’t a leap.

  :  :  And why are you likening uncel to incel?

  :  :  Last time you had sex?

 

  :  :  There is that.

  :  :  And you have a wife

  :  :  There is that.

  :  :  And my girlfriend moved to Montana . . . two years ago

  :  :  There’s that.

  :  :  See the relationship?

  :  :  We’re incels?

  :  :  Kinda.  At least I’m not in a relationship with an AI bot.

  :  :  I’m not either.

  :  :  I didn’t want to assume.

  :  :  Fuck you.

 

they were Irish twins                                  

2002,  Tuesday,  21  1. 26

1339,  Wednesday,  21  1. 26

he read religiously

hed encourage everyone to put their technologies aside for hours at a time every day and read

as a boy growing up in a household of eleven money was parsed by necessities

                                                                                     they did not vacation

if he wanted to go anywhere in the world or other worlds he read

if asked to identify himself he paired his name saying also he was a voracious reader

“The American Psychological Association warned in 2021 that over half of U.S. adults (around 53%) were struggling to focus for extended periods due to stress, burnout, or constant digital distractions.”

https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/why-nobody-can-read-anymore-1bb6a8331831

“54% of adult Americans [16 to 73] can’t read at a Sixth Grade level [went up one grade since he checked last year – although that percentage was 53%].”

https://www.barbarabush.org/why-literacy/

 

    correlation?

a friend irritates him

calls things a coincidence

he counters with serendipity

    coincidence is defined by Cambridge Dictionary “an occasion when two or more similar things happen at the same time, especially in a way that is unlikely and surprising.”

    serendipity “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.”  preferred it to Cambridges “the fact of finding interesting or valuable things by chance.” though liked that too

                     

 

a distinct correlation

0809preferred,  Tuesday,  20  1. 26

1243,  Wednesday,  21  1. 26

eloquent

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTvFnC-oFGw  (being called The Obituary of American Hegemony)

eloquent

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtG6-BVFboU

have to check here tomorrow after felon brays

1840,  Tuesday,  20  1. 26

HE BRAYED LIKE AN ASS  

1028,  Wednesday,  21  1. 26

The Power of the Powerless  Vaclav Havel  https://bruces.medium.com/the-power-of-the-powerless-by-vaclav-havel-84b2b8d3a84a

performance politics  https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trump-elon-musk-image-patel-maga-reality/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KFG9V6XGMQ1B8V2YF1WR6RCV&_kx=3PYJ2k4kfsFtgl4rFOemEfDPF8leniISgmSGZGiMm8M.U5D8ER

felons tone deaf slurry speech  https://newrepublic.com/post/205478/trump-davos-speech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_ticker_rss

    funny thought occurred to him  felon being called out by a carny

What are you talking about, you’re constantly sending me numbers, how aren’t you intereste . .

. . In equations

Ten to the twelfth power over Ten to the fourth equals Ten to the eighth. Let me sho . .

. . No thank you

                       Youre interested Im not

That’s ridiculous.

Its not

    You’re constantl . .

. . How frequently

                        When I do its completely random

Im sharing their symmetry  consecutiveness    Roundness

Frequently.

How frequent

Three four times a wee . .

. . I shoot you a random number

You say they’re random.

 

 

They are

 

Now tell me the last time I texted you an equation

 

 

    I havent

Last time you shared equations graphs Venns

                                                    Each  Every time we meet for coffee edibles conversation shoot pooljah

disgruntled showed on his puss Not every time.

    Every   Time

My point being is we share

You prefer I not text random numbers

                                          Happy to comply

But certain numbers words are too beautiful too appealing to overlook

                                                                          Hence     Why I share

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1818,  Tuesday,  20  1. 26

The Who by Numbers  In a Hand or a Face  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOGE4WslSY 

if not his cats liknowleum  occasional thoughts interrupt what-should-be pleasant shits

                                                                                              relieving his mind

relieving does not include his thoughts

he savors what he takes in

savors what he excretes

 

    this afternoon likely spurred by last evenings final episode of Dying for Sex he returns it appears in the rearview window passes through the glass sits harps from the backseatNever heard of a backseat driverShaddup  returns to the lies to the accusations of codependency  intertwined

                                                              weeds he hasnt been able to pullup  eradicate

Weeds

Is tha fair

 

he thinks it through

                         Fair

he didnt plant them

they seeded themselves

 

sitting on the pot he thought Pretense can only be retained when its rewarded

like treating a pet

so it remains obedient

remains willing to be restrained

walked on a leash

told  Heel

told  Sit

told  Rollover

                   You see how well Ive trained them

 

he prefers feral

                 prefers those who are who they are if they can be who they are who seek to please no one other than themselves

    if they choose to be generous

that generosity is not meant to become habitchualised

                                                            expected

grateful  one says Thank you

graciously  they reply Youre welcome

                                            not Youre welcome to plunder me

No

 

he pulls over

parks

gets out

opens the back door

                     Get out

    it slinks out

he gets in starts the engine gears to D goes off without looking in the sideview rearview mirrors

 

Pretense is only retained when rewarded

1357,  Tuesday,  20  1. 26

No   No

Don’t try an tell me what I said I know what I said.

Ya didnt say tha

                    After I called you out you augmentededited wha yasaid

Yasaid  Don’t let them hurt girls.  Them

                                               Curiously using a pronoun  Someone who adamantly refuses to call another by a pronoun they want to be called

                                                        Doncha think

Ohfuckyou.

Got your panties up in a knot cowboy

                                       Thaswha yasaid

Then you recalibrated

                            I do not want girls getting hurt.

That’s what I sai . .

. . After recalibrating after I called you out after you said Don’t let them hurt girls.

                                                                                       Whos them

Who you were talking about.

Jah

      Who

Them

Transsexuals

Yaoughta keep your mouth shutWittgenstein Know not Say not  No fuckin opinions Tell me all about the transsexuals youve talked withyacant

                                           Yahavent

Don let transsexuals compete in sports

Because on basis you an many others believe   Believe that typically boys are changing their sex for the purpose of excelling in whaever sports they want to pursue

                                                                Don letem hurt girls

Have you considered  at  all

                                   Don letem hurt boys

You're ridiculous.

Opposite side of the coin

No way tha thought penetrated your brain

Dichotomies abound baby

    Don’t call me baby.

Awright cunt            

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1323,  Tuesday,  20  1. 26

Kinks  Lola  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemG0cvc4oU