Follow the Lighted Promenade

I didn't get to go camping this weekend. It was the Tippecanoe trip, the most important trip of the year, but it didn't disappoint me too much. We all get let down but we don't have to stay. Last night (Friday) I watched the Cubs win, watched an excellent Neil and Crazy Horse video, read "A Walk in the Woods" and then drank 2 Pepsi's. I was feeling very inspired and on a whim went down to Purdue (after Adam called) at about 10 o'clock pm. Listening to Radiohead's new album as I accelerated onto the 65 South on-ramp, I felt like I was just gonna explode with energy and optimism. I feel that lingering today. Adam and I went to Denny's and had a discussion that could have been lifted right out of Fight Club, tackling absurdly huge life issues over pancakes and orange juice. Profound. I deleted my last post because I felt it sounded overly whiny (indeed, it was written at 3 am) and that was not my intention. I want people to share my pa

Blech!!! I'm glad I don't feel like this all the time. Sickness is not fun, especially on test day. So if I stray off a bit, forgive me. My head's a scrambled egg. There is a lady with a bleached mullet sitting right by me. I should compliment her on it, but I think I'll abstain. "There comes a time when you're driftin' There comes a time when you settle down." - Neil Young I leave for Vermont, Boston, Cape Cod, etc...on Tues. The Great Summer Baseball Road Trip. Live in love. Dan

Today is the solstice, the longest day of the year, but there is no sun. I didn't get to take my morning ride to school, so now I am all keyed up and jumpy with no thought organization. I have three journals to do in the next hour and I am updating here. Good thing I'm so good looking, 'cause I ain't got much common sense. :) My friends Jeff and Tina are getting married tomorrow. It is awesome because they both annoy eachother but are so in love they can look past this. Jeff told me that he is excited to get married. I am excited for him. I've changed my password, so hopefully whoever was getting into my acount and sending inappropriate e-mails will henceforth be frustrated. He has turned me into a bit of a stud though, hasn't he? I can't even say the word "hung" with a straight face, and he apparently rattled it off rapid-fire. Hope you all enjoyed my very public tar-and-feathering. :) Sarah bought me a present for my birthday last

From Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Francis: Today's my birthday and my father says I can have anything I want. Pee-Wee: Good for you and your father. Francis: So guess what I want. Pee-Wee: A new brain. I hope you all can grasp the brilliance of this interchange. :) Today is my birthday. I hope to watch O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the best movie in ages, tonight. I don't have any real plans and that is cool. Last night, I went out with Leesa, Eric, Amanda, and her son Hayden. They bought me dinner at Applebee's (whose sign told me that I belong there) and I got four balloons and a sundae for my b-day. I betcha I looked even more cool than normal, holding my balloons with chocolate smeared on my face. We then went to see Molin Rouge. I thought it was wonderful - very colourful and different and really moving. I suppose that I am really a hopeless romantic at heart. Sad, huh? Don't cry for me, Argentina. Let's see...What has happened since I've l

Sorry. My last few posts have mysteriously vanished. I'm in the midsts of a losing streak right now, so they weren't that uplifting anyway.

Full of midnight and ghosts Hopeful dreams fade like searchlights on the coast I've loved a lot of people but I've loved you the most I feel the cold sand beneath me Full of midnight and ghosts I need a camping trip, bad. Where is summer? It feels like Marzo outside, blustery and empty, only now there is no promise of great things to come; this IS what was promised. Aspen, my one year old niece, is very sick. She has pneumonia and a throat infection, and yesterday her temperature hit 104.8. I feel so bad for her. She's so little and can't comprehend why she hurts. I watched "The Green Mile" on Saturday night, probably the best anti-death penalty movie I've ever seen. I never escape that one dry-eyed. And speaking of great movies, on June 12th, "O Brother, Where Art Thou" comes out. I saw it three times in the theatres and can't wait to see it again. I've been runnin' for all my years/ and I used to be miles ahead

I haven't posted in awhile. There's a certain darkness about things right now. It's not a depression, just a darkness. My friend Matt adequately described it as feeling "meek, dark, and drab." Sometimes you need to be something other than happy to break the monotony. The Cubs are in 1st place, winners of 10 in a row. That makes me very happy. Somnolence. The new Radiohead album comes out next week. I have heard it a couple of times and have been profoundly moved. All of my friends like them so at first I was reluctant to take the plunge, but I now see why all of my friends like them. Wilco's new one comes out soon, too. Lethargy. Look for my letter to the editor in the local papers soon. I basically sounded off on Mr. Bush's plan to drill for oil and natural gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. My friend Liz, who's a really great writer, also wrote (or is writing?) a column about that. Fight the power! "It's a perfe