once upon a time i wrote up this story in great detail, but it's lost to the fickleness of the internet by now.
Jeph Jacques is giving a talk at the Halifax library tomorrow. Did I ever tell you guys the story of the time I drove to Halifax and back in a week?
I call it the Moose Story. To tell the whole thing would take about 20 panels, so here's some highlights. Picture it, 1995.
It turns out Halifax is much further away than I thought. I had a paid week off from the produce warehouse,and a trip to visit my friend zorry fell thru, so I rented a car. I set up dates with a trans
girl in ottawa and a cute young guy in halifax and started driving. 4000 miles? 17 hitchhikers. one hash-laced cigarette in maine.
5 regional accents. one moose. two of those indian dumplings - samosas - from a street cart in halifax.
the ottowa date went great, the halifax one was a disappointment. then i visited my sister in new hamster and found out i might have ADHD.
i didn't find it online but i did find this journal entry from 14 years ago:
est - blogger recovered my last post; all it said was "test".
just stopping in to note that i had a houseguest this weekend. zorry, who was the boy from california in
"the moose story". it was nice for us both to have company. he has moved to his dad's in milwaukee where he has a job but
no social life. we drank, smoked, long pauses with little conversation. saw the bourne identify, a routine spy caper flick made
non routine by starring matt damon. he liked hollywood bar und filmverks. i had little to say, and i think i was kinda rude in not being very huggy-touchy-feely, since it's not a sex thing between us anymore -he's put on alot of weight and has a different body type than when he was 17. he's still somebody i care about and am close to, in our own male-bonding-much-left-unsaid kinda way.
i felt like i should let him know it's not him; i'm the same way around my family etc, just have a hard time expressing myself in spoken words instead of online. he seemed a lot more comfortable than last time he was here.
so it was a happy time for me, just to not be alone for a change.
posted Jan 27th, 2016 ( permalink )
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