Into the Void

I harvested this lunacy out of several old datebooks that I threw away last week. The books were from the ’80s and I was undxed and possibly self-medicating through most of them. Pointless.

• “Gay, straight or Mummer?”
• Drive the porcelain bus.
• Country club for the exceedingly timid.
• Missionaries & Cannibals. This is a bar game we used to play. The rules are simple, the solution isn’t, especially when you’re in Jay’s Elbow Room getting hammered.
• Selective psychotropic medication – helps you forget only the things you want to forget.
• Beef Croquet. I guess you play with meatballs and a tenderizing mallet?
• The best part about eating cockroaches
  is that when you’re done you can pick your teeth with the legs.
• Book: “Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine!“- Works best on a V8.
• Living Color: “Time’s Up“
• Positive K – Nightshift – this was the first urban/rap/whatever song I ever liked. I was on my way home from working second shift and it resonated with me. I wrote it down in case I wanted to buy the album sometime. Apparently I didn’t. It’s not listed on Amazon.com, maybe it was local?
• Haverford College Quaker Collection
  Swarthmore 1815-1872 -> Pine Pt., Shakamaxon???
  This is where the records from Newton Meeting in Gloucester County, NJ wound up. Sometime I will go over and research. I am descended from Simeon Ellis, who married Sarah Bates in 1692.
• Chris Issak – “Wicked Game” How maudlin! Don’t know why I wrote this one down.
• Steve Reich & Double Edge – “Early Works” – Electra/Asylum/Nonesuch. – the odd thing is that after I wrote this one down, I carried it forward through two more datebooks. I must have really really wanted it. Ok, so I’ll add it to my Amazon.com Wish List.
• Revolution – 1967 – I don’t think I was referring to the song by the Beatles.
• Snooks Eaglin
• “I’ve been trying to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.” – G. Trudeau
• “Si Hoc Signum Legere Potes, Operis Boni In Rebus Latinis Alacribus Et Fructuosis Potiri Potes!” — If You Can Read This Sign, You Can Get A Good Job In The Fast-Paced, High-Paying World Of Latin!
• “Cum Catapultae Proscriptae, Erunt Tum Soli Proscripti Catapultus Habebunt” — When Catapults Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Catapults.
• “What if the human race always thought about their dignity?” No sex?
• Isolated Insolence.
• Delusions of Adequacy.
• “Mishaps are like knives, they cut us or serve us depending on whether we grab them by the blade or the handle.” – K.K. Note: Did you say that to me c. 1984? Leave a comment!
• Have a Coke and a struggle.
• Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs. I think I’ll update this one: Reality is for people who can’t handle psych meds.
• “A Guide to Rational Living” – Albert Ellis
• I’ve got PacMan fever – I wake up in the morning and eat myself.
• “I’ve given up on looking for Mr. Right or even Mr. Not-So-Bad. I’d settle for Mr. Tolerable.” — KK again.
• “Open your memory intake valves.” – Robin
• No Profanity/Profundity.
• No excuse for unwanted kids.
• POSSLQ: Persons Of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters. – The U.S. Census Bureau
• Did the Lost Tribe of Israel turn gay and die out?
• “It’s a wave!!” “It’s a particle!” “No, it’s a wave!!”
• Recreational diseases?
• Notice – Due to the shortage of robots some of our workers are human and may react unpredictably if abused.
• Hanging out with my cynical friends making nasty cracks about people who have aspirations of becoming chairman of the board.
• Northern New Zealand Sheep and Computer Company.
• “Hairy-assed double-breasted He-Man.” You know, I think my grandmother said that.
• What do you give to someone whose life is so miserable that material possessions are no consolation?
  1. A gun
  2. A divorce
• I’ve done all the required readings – I just haven’t taken the labs yet.
• Reality is a glazed doughnut without a hole.
• “Old enough to know how, young enough to still use it.” – Robin
• The paranoid delusion has replaced the deus ex machina.
• “I had a 10 last night – 8 drinks and a 2!” – Harry
• Frijid Pink – “House of the Rising Sun”. They stole it from The Animals who stole it from Bob Dylan who stole it from Dave Van Ronk.
• Air Force Chicken: wings and landing gear.
• Ghetto briefcase.
• I’m bisexual – I have to buy it like everyone else.
• Ion Bombardment Tube. If you sit too close to the TV, does the ionic breeze blow your hair back?
• “One good thing about jerking off – you don’t have to look your best.” – Steven Tyler of Aerosmith in an interview c. 1982
• Red Red Wine – UB40 – Hmmm, I don’t even know who UB40 are.
• Sarah Hardy – The Woman That Never Evolved. Is this a book or am I slamming Sarah?
• “Love affair in the abstract.”
• Reason to get married – so you have someone to babysit the kids when you have a date?
• Borrowed time: From whom??