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this is the Somewhat Personal Spin-off Livejournal from the Mildly Well-Known Livejournal, the amazingly bad poetry journal.

Featuring conversations, imagined conversations, foibles, fables, parables, crushes, complaining, life as a single heterosexual male at 33 years old, vulnerabilities, vices, regrets, bitter love affairs, and eccentrics.

Former names for this blog:
"well if I was me, this is what I would do"
"just like in 'ghost'"
"eye-kissing, optical intercourse, or 'making eye babies'"
"you are no addition to a party"

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
- John Lennon

"You've got to laugh once a day. That's what I tell people. Remember a day without laughter is like a day without sunshine. And a day ithout sunshine is like -- night."
- Steve Martin, 1977

"Oh, mocking bird, have you ever heard words that I never heard?"
- Bob Marley, "She's Gone"

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."
- Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"

"You are not my typewriter
But you could be my demon
moving forward through the flaming doors."
- Wilco, "War on War"

"But it's not like life's such a vale of tears
it's just full of thoughts that act as souvenirs
for those tiny blunders made in yesteryear
that comprise Jacob Marley's chain."
- Aimee Mann

"The waiter took a deep breath. He didn't need to do this since his body was supplied with the peculiar assortment of gases it required for survival from a small intravenous device strapped to his leg. There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism, you have to take a deep breath."
- Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

"Guy goes to work eight hours a day, seven days a week. Gets his nuts so tight in a vice that he starts to question the very fabric of his existence. Then one day about quitting time, boss calls him in the office and says: "Hey, Bob, why don't you come in here and kiss my ass for me, will ya?" Well, he says to hell with it. I don't care what happens, I just want to see the expression on his face as I jam this pair of scissors into his arm."
- Tom Waits (as Homeless Veteran in "The Fisher King")

"Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass. When Winter came the Bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself 'I hope that busy little Bee will share some of his honey with me.' But the Bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease."
- Banksy

"Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is."
- Duke Ellington

"Many clapped. Some didn't. A few beasts hissed."
- JM Barrie, "Peter Pan"

"Aw, who needs her? Now I'll have more time to read things I find on the ground."
- Grandpa Abe Simpson

"You will bow down before me, Jor-El! I swear it! No matter that it takes an eternity, you will bow down before me!"
- General Zod

"I'm your density"
- George McFly

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