the gathering

My cousin pounded each key of the piano while we, the family, gathered around the living room sitting on chairs and steps. I saw my aunt shed a tear and wondered why, but soon felt my own breath grow short as I glanced at the characters of my life. They stared quietly at the walls and furniture, their minds filling with memories of scraped knees, dead wives, and failed pies. The room filled with wrong notes, right notes, sneezes, sighs, and an itchy feeling that the last chord struck would never be heard again.

I, too, am an AMERICAN

Let me just go ahead and get this out there: I have ties to the socialist party but that's over, sort of.
I used to talk to Brian Moore on the phone while he was running for president, and I decided to see what he was up to these days. Believe it or not, he actually assigned me to be the socialist elector of my district. Anyway, this is old news but I just came across this video. When I actually got into the voting booth, I stared at the ballot for a long time then quickly voted for Obama, but I did feel a little guilt because I'm pretty sure I was the only member of the socialist party in Knoxville.

spread the wealth?

my buddy brian on colbert

PS: If you're reading this Jerod, just know that when you're gonna get wrinkles if you make lots of horrified faces and frown.

It's a tolerable day in the neighborhood, would you be mine?

For the first time, I'm a minority in my neighborhood. Hopefully, my lack-o-melanin doesn't draw attention. But seriously. I think living alone is going to save me from my parents. The only hard thing about living in a house is finding time to fill it with crap. If anyone has any crap they don't need, just toss it in my living room.

I don't think my teacher was actually in love with me (see post below). I think I just secretly want everyone to be in love with me.

Two great websites that I've found recently:
FASCINATING VIDEOS THAT WILL MAKE YOU SMART!!!!!!

Texts from last night (read this website when you have two hours to kill because you won't stop reading them)

Shoutouts to my dawgs playing in summer festivals and traveling around the world. I'm just gong to be alone in my living room practicing scales and praying that my tendonitis keeps its cool and that doing 5 crunches a day will be sufficient enough to keep Thad attracted to me. So if anyone is in the same boat as me and wants to occasionally meet up to play boggle (big boggle 5X5 board) or watch movies on my dad's netflix account or go jogging at night in the mechanicsville area.... well... call me.

my grade. look closely.