Parenthetical Marks

 

My face just keeps getting more linear every year.

 

note: everything I say is in parentheses now.

double note: I was going to use a smiley photo, but I saw that I had something stuck between my teeth.

triple note: laugh lines are better than punchlines.

quadruple note: I’m living in linear times I guess.

quintuple note: the lines look like parentheses because they come from your parents … or something like that.

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notes to myself #47

You know how Mom used to push up and pull back her facial skin with her fingers and says she might get a facelift. 
You will do the same … and probably never will get one either.

Not Inconsequential Ordering

 

People who eat dessert first because they like it the best have no anticipatience.

 

 note: eating dessert first by rationalizing that you could die before the end of the meal is kind of pessimistic.

double note: on Planetross you can order whatever you like first, but you’re still going to get it in the same bag at the drive-thru window.

triple note: yes, I actually wrote “drive-thru” window. I can’t believe it either!

quadruple note: I should install a drive through window at my house. I wouldn’t have to clean up when people came to visit: how convenient!

quintuple note: on Planetross everyone chews everything 32 times: even ice cream.
… the ice cream isn’t very good really.

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notes to myself #45

When you go to Osoyoos for summer vacation as a kid, you will discover something amazingly delicious: licorice ice cream.
… and it gives you a cool black tongue too!!!!

Where Am I?

 

People usually can’t think straight when they have a cold.

On Planetross it’s the opposite: I can’t think in my regular round about way.

I’ll be back shortly.

 

note: I think I’m clairabouyant … I see a bath in my future.

double note: the photo is the view from the hotel window on my recent “business trip”. I some how feel like that at the moment.

triple note: being sick is like being a secret agent: it’s all undercover.

quadruple note: thanks for stopping in while I was a way.

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notes to myself #44

 Always pack tissue packages … not actually pack them! … just carry them around just in case.

Uncollective Thoughts

  

 

My mind is really scattered.

I must be paying attention to stay away.

 

note: I need to adjust my autofocus a bit better.

double note: if I’ve put any weird comments on your blogs, it’s because I’m out of allsorts still.

 

notes to myself #37

The ”Mickey Rat” t-shirt you order by mail never arrives. … but you do find one in a shop when you’re 35.

Worldly Things

 

I have many worldly things, but I want other worldly things too.

… maybe I should have said “more”.

 

note: “nether regional accents” are really funny!

double note: there is no love in the “neither regions“.

triple note: Earth is very worldly.

quadruple note: I bet if you dropped a water balloon on Earth from the moon nobody would see that coming.

quintuple note: is there an “otherworld wide web” in operation somewhere? … or haven’t they invented computers and stuff there yet?

 

notes to myself #36

When you go to Disneyland at 8 years old, don’t be so gullible on the African Safari ride.

Musical Interludeness

I listen to songs while driving from here to there and over there sometimes. I usually change them up semi-non-regularly and I realized today that … “Hey! I wonder if some of my now favorite songs actually have videos to them“.

So here are the official videos/live performances/someone’s video with the song put together for a  few songs that I think have clever lyrics … or just because I like them.

WARNING: one is sexually suggestive, one is faded, one has a showboating kid in it, one has a showboating guy in a red/green shirt (my guess is he’s the drummer), and one is someone’s version of what the video should be.

 

 

 

 

 

note: Bloodhound Gang, John Hiatt, Billy Bragg, Brendon Benson, and Jack Johnson are all welcome to play charity concerts on Planetross for … ever … or for charity … or some other good cause anytime. 

double note: I’ve put on 2 entries tonight … the other one is more original, but less musical. Sometimes it goes like that: sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes seems irregular sometimes … or always.

triple note: I would have included David Franj’s video for Oxygen, but there isn’t anything. Here is “God Only Knows” as a runner up:

 

notes to myself #35

All the songs you love between 1977 and 1984 … you will love forever.

A Bad Striving Record

 

We are always told to try and live up to our full potential;

… but what does potential have to live up to?

 

note: I’ve been navel grazing again.

double note: if I reached my full potential, I’d probably be the ruler of the known universe … or disappointed … or something.

triple note: “impotential” sounds like something I don’t want to reach for.

quadruple note: I’m sure if we all reached our full potential there would be another hoop appearing ready to be jumped through.

 

notes to myself #34

KISS eventually take off their make up! … and then they put it back on a lot later … but it’s still really cool!  You eventually go to one of their concerts too!
I won’t say when … it’s a surprise.

Considering The Trees

 

What type of ape did trees evolve from?

I forget.

 

note: are there “tree family trees“?

double note: is there a treehouse shortage for short ages these days?

triple note: if I could be any tree, I’d want to be a “trikor tree” … they seem to be popular with kids on Halloween.

quadruple note: I feel sorry for trees. They have to go through winter without all their clothes on.

 

notes to myself #32

When you are 9, do not do the Evil Knievel jump on your pedal bike with that big oak tree only 5 meters from your landing zone.

(I know it’s really Evel Knievel, but that doesn’t sound dangerous enough)

Leftovers

 

No one usually starts out making leftovers

… they just sort of happen.

 

note: I’ll be right over for leftovers!

double note: the meal had subtle leftovertones to it.

triple note: leftovers are usually “dishporportional” somehow.

quadruple note: leftovers sound like a socialist thing.

quintuple note: leftunders are just leftovers that nobody wants to eat.

sextuple note: “bereftovers“ is food taken home after a funeral.

septuple note: we didn’t have leftovers at my house … just 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th helpings.

 

notes to myself #31

A lot of things you don’t like to eat now, you will like later … except brussel sprouts … I don’t think we will live long enough to truly like them.

Wait A Second

 

Unused clocks are a waste of time.

 

note: I guess this one is a time piece.

double note: is watching the clock a waste of time?

triple note: “all the time in the world” would be a pretty big pile of watches, clocks, sundials, eggtimers, electronic stuff, cars, …

 

notes to myself #30

Your friends in High School are mostly idiots … but so are you … so don’t worry about it.