B-A-R-R-A-C-U-D-A
So I've recently been thinking about my youthful fascination with spelling. Around second grade, I was also interested in barracudas. However, my motivation was purely selfish, because whenever I looked up B-A-R-R-A-C-U-D-A in my world book encyclopedia, I would always anticipate that, this time, "barracuda" would be spelled B-A-R-A-T-T-A. Because we shared the first three letters of our names, then somehow we were connected.
It was the same way in sunday school, when spelling out J-E-S-U-S. I would get excited when the teacher would help us out with our "Jesus loves all the little children" collages. She would write the words out on the board for us to copy, and I would hope that maybe, just maybe, this time you would spell "Jesus" J-E-S-S-I-C-A.
nevada/california border.....
because he's so cute...
a lonely day at the coast
let's all be different together
damien jurado wednesday night. doug fir lounge. ruthie, peter, and i were sitting at our corner table, when we were approached by two guys that ruthie knew from the gillian welch show back in october. they sat with us for a while - all of us in our mid 20s, all recent transplants from somewhere else. the conversation was interesting for its predictability more than anything else: you know if you meet someone on the street and start to talk about the rise of fast food, you'll get a passionate anti-response. if you talk about cable tv or chickens or forests or salmon or film or politics, you know what the "correct" opinion is. and, as progressive as portland is, i don't know if i like this mass mentality so much.
today, i had to call a leather manufacturer and ask how many hides to order to cover a chair. i hate doing that, and i'm not really animal-rights anything, so i can only imagine how your hardcore animal-rights activists must feel. did this cow have to die in order for me to have leather on my couch? why can't their skin grow back like starfish? i don't like thinking that leather is made up of actual hides. when i called, the girl said that the cows for the shaker-ochre color have been running a little smaller than the cows for the coffee bean color, so i'll need to order an extra hide. THESE ARE ACTUAL LIVING CREATURES, "they've been running small". t-shirts run small. cattle do not. that's about as far as my soapbox goes today.
