DELAYTEFUL!

B and Me

2008-05-15T20:25:00.000-07:00

Well, Hello There

2008-05-03T06:48:00.000-07:00

How have you been?

iOops

2007-01-17T20:53:00.000-08:00

iI iMade iA iMistake iAs iYou iProbably iNoticed.

iI iAm iSorry iMr. iJobs.

IPod, What's You Talking About?

2007-01-17T17:45:00.000-08:00

How does the world see you?
“Up The Neck” – Pretenders (in reference to my ‘stack of dimes’ neck, no doubt)

Will I have a happy life?"
“Smooth Death” – Danielson Family (I’m scared)

What do my friends really think of me?
“Baby” – MarchFourth Marching Band (tru dat; my friends are right on)

How can I make myself happy?
“Heartbreak Hill” – Emmylou Harris (I have always found solace where I am broken?)

What should I do with my life?
“Symphony #27 in G” – London Symphony Orchestra (I should be a G, shouldn’t I?)

Will I ever have children?
“Hold Tight” – Mark Geary (O-KAY!?)

What is some good advice for me?
“English Girls Approximately” – Ryan Adams (IPod, I’m a married man!)

How will I be remembered?
“Feeling of Falling” – Bonnie Raitt (Ouch)

What is my signature dancing song?
“Ventilator Blues” – The Rolling Stones (I’m getting old and out of breath)

What do I think my current theme song is?
“Not Far Away” – Yonder Mountain String Band & Benny Galloway
(A song about men working in a hole in a mountain with dynamite- D-A-N-G-E-R!)

What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
"Labour of Love" – Frente! (Ask Katherine about this)

What song will play at my funeral?
"Boy With The Thorn In His Side" – J. Mascis (Bitter Bitter)

What is my day going to be like?
"Factory Girl" - Whiskeytown (Pretty song, but could I get some love, please? Here's a line: 'I took this shift to be with her')

Nametag

2006-11-15T21:46:00.000-08:00

Rock Star Name (first pet-current street): Missy 227

Gangsta (favorite ice cream flavor-fav. cookie): Chocolate Coffee Sugar

Fly Guy (first initial of 1st name-first three letters of last): B-Per...this one cracks me up. I am such a B-Per.

Detective (fav. color-fav. animal): Blue Dog

Soap Opera (middle name-city name where you were born): Edward Willoughby

Star Wars (1st 3 letters of last name-1st 2 letters of 1st name): Perbe

Superhero ("The"-2nd fav. color-fav. drink): The Green Cola

NASCAR (grandfathers' first names): Eddie Ray

Stripper (fav. perfume-fav. candy): Right Guard Hard Strawberry Candy

Witness Protection (Mother and Father's middle names): Jay Katherine

I will officially change my name to one of these, if I receive 20 legitimate comments from 20 different people. I decide what constitutes legitimate.

Five Weird Things is less than Six Weird Things about myself

2006-10-03T18:26:00.000-07:00

(a) At some point in my early elementary life, I dressed as the Unknown Comic for halloween at school. A paper bag with eye-holes and a mouth hole. As you may suspect, a few classmates and teachers were perplexed. I abandoned the gear for my standby Frankenstein mask by the end of the school day.

(b) Have I ever told you about the time a mother and daughter saw the "We're Open" sign in my bedroom window which faced Lake Street (that great street)? I had come across this signage at Country Kitchen...anyways, this small family knocked on the door to inquire as to what was open. My roommate later wondered if I should have shown them around and sold some junk. They stood at the doorway, listened to my humble regrets, and returned to their station wagon, heads hanging, hands empty.

(c) Oh, another Halloween memory. I found the remains of a flower costume in Downtown Kent and added the petals around my poorly painted scary face and let many in the vicinity hear that "I am an angry flower!"

(d) I have to drink some sort of liquid every time I eat. Deal with it.

(e) I always "fix" my hair before leaving the house, even to go to the gym.

(bonus +1) WARNING: The following statement may make some readers wish that they had never continued reading....I will flip out, if I find a stray hair sprouting from my back or shoulders, demanding that it be plucked immediately! Sometimes, Katherine will pretend like she won't help, and I will nearly cry.

I would tag you, but you just yelled "The Price is Right".

this whole "desert island" thing

2006-08-23T20:39:00.000-07:00

a conversation starter, I know,
but shouldn't we carry these things around with us
in case we end up on that island.

books?

2006-08-09T20:23:00.000-07:00

1) One book that changed my life: I don't recall the name but it was a big book.
2) Read more than once: A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver.
3) Desert Island: Anything by Maj Ragain; a book, a poem, a phrase that won't let go.
4) Richard Brautigan makes me laugh.
5) Cry, Cry, Cry: A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis.
6) Wished I'd: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.
7) Book burning: The Artist's Way Yucky Yuck!
8) Currently reading for months in a row: Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez.
9) Meaning to read: Post Office by Charles Bukowski
10) Tag

photo booth

2006-07-18T19:52:00.000-07:00

If cool involves saying things like "Don't go empty-handed!", then I'm cool.

2006-05-30T19:54:00.000-07:00

Cool? Whatever

1.) I gave four buffalo wings to the Ramones.

2.) I gave a book called Jacob the Baker to Mark Bavaro.

3.) I once told some young high school kids in suburban Canada, "I'm a mute."

4.) I think that I could call Maj Ragain my friend.

5.) I stole beer from the basement of CBGB's. (cool if you all were like seventh graders.)

It's Tagedy

2006-04-20T15:27:00.000-07:00

In my ice box...{1}Milk for coffee and cereal and mac&cheese
{2}butter for bread and rice and mac&cheese
{3}water for humans and the dog
{4}soda,pop,cola
{5}ice cream in the freezer!
In my closet...{1}other people's old pants
{2}Boston Celtic Converse high tops
{3}binders of stuff, actually an odd amount of binders?
{4}word processor from college days, dirty
{5}socks
In my purse?...{1}don't have one
In my vehicle...{1}two basketballs which are not mine
{2}three back belts for lifting which are not mine
{3}three name tags which are not mine
{4}a picture frame which is not mine
{5}sun block spf45 which is not mine
On my Tivo...{1}Yesterdays Indians v. Orioles ballgame, I can just watch the first few innings and believe everything is OK!
{2}Campus Ladies, sitcom on Oxygen, I think.
{3}Six Feet Under episodes from when we had more stations.
{4}I nixed the Tivo suggestions, so we don't get anymore The Parkers.
{5}I think that In Good Company is still there.
Now you really know me, fully and exclusively. Take Care. Bye Bye.

I'm feeling quite lovely!

2006-03-23T15:36:00.000-08:00

People have been good to me. Thanks for the new comments.
There's no message behind the pink template currently being seen here.
Maybe it can be in honor of my four nieces and their wonderful mothers and grandmothers and probably their fathers and grandfathers and brothers too!
I'm rooting for Gonzaga and West Virginia tonight.
Who's looking forward to the Tribe's season? I think they'll be fun to watch again.
Maybe we can check the schedule for when they play in Oakland!

If you are a friend or a family member....

2006-03-22T15:13:00.000-08:00

who is awaiting a response, acknowledgement, apology, or just would like a "hello, how ya doin'?" please leave your name in the comments. I am in the process of getting my act together in regards to manners and politeness. Excuse the dust during construction. Thank you all!

Wind and the Hammer

2006-01-16T10:41:00.000-08:00

Katherine and I went to the Hammer Museum (the corner of Wilshire and Westwood) last evening to listen to David Foster Wallace read from his writings. The reading, coffee and tea were free. The crowd described by K. (at my request) as literary hipster. We skipped an early dinner to duck into the Hammer from heavy wind, which nearly wheeled a construction arrow of lights against the oncoming Wilshire traffic. The author read an essay about 9/11 from his new book Consider the Lobster. Wallace, I decided during the later part of the reading, is capable and infinitly brief in his writing, then polite and capable in the setting we attended. His writing doubles, triples upon itself with footnotes, appendix, parenthetical break within parenthetical bridge. I would not recommend his writings to the great majority of the readers of this blog. Do so anyways.

Tagtastic!

2006-01-12T14:46:00.000-08:00

Oh my gosh! I was very much hoping to finally be tagged. I don't have coodies (sp?) you know. Thank you, A DAY IN THE LIFE

Four Jobs I've Had in My Life
1. Skinny boy with a shovel in a freezer filling garbage cans with ice, which would later that night go into your coke as the Cleveland Indians lost another game at old Municipal Stadium.
2. Skinny boy with a football being told to "Get out of the way, Opie!" by Bernie Kosar during warm-ups for a preseason game at old Municipal Stadium.
3. Night Crew at both old Country Counters in Brunswick.
4. My Grandma Schmotzer always gave me money, whether I ran an errand or not.

Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have
Beautiful Girls
Raging Bull
Napoleon Dynamite
Easy Rider

Four Places I Have Lived
T-O-P-A-Z Lane in The Wick
210 Claver Hall Chestnut Hill, Mass.
That Great Street-Lake Street in Kent
227th Street (not Place)

Four TV Shows I Love To Watch
King of Queens
Pro Football
College Basketball
Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Four Places I Have Been On Vacation
The Mall of America
Provincetown, Cape Cod
Montreal
The South

Four Websites I Visit Daily
Yahoo Fantasy Sports
any day a beautiful change
a lover's quarrel with the world
{a swoop and a dart}

Four Favorite Foods
Pineapple fried rice
cheesburger with fries
ice cream
Dutch apple pie

Four Places I Would Rather Be Right Now
Basketball court
Raquetball court
Amoeba Records
With Troy, Lenny and Steve

Four People Who I Tag Next
Rebecca, katherine, D and M (how will the last two present their list?)

snowflakes

2005-12-01T20:13:00.000-08:00

Every Song a Day in December

I think there was something that I wanted to say

2005-11-23T08:55:00.000-08:00

it was only going to be one or two words. An abstract post maybe concerning family and the holiday. People were going to be like "huh?" But deep down inside they would be like "he really loves his family, and he's excited about the holiday, and he said it all in one or two words" Color pops into my head, but I don't know which color I was going to use. Maybe it's time to change the name of this blog.

don't forget the flowers

2005-11-12T11:19:00.000-08:00

I'm listening to Wilco's "forget the flowers"
with the gallop of Wright's "Autumn Begins in Martin's Ferry, Ohio"
in my ears. Katherine buries her head through the line.
Stones set on stones. There is never a score that matters.
I've held onto the ankle and been dragged through the yard;
I won't let go.

strolling the aisles

2005-11-09T16:08:00.000-08:00

at TJ Maxx,
I found plenty of shirts that I would never wear.

I said that I would

2005-10-23T17:03:00.000-07:00

eat a ham sandwich then
a peanut butter and jelly sandwich then
another ham sandwich then
an apple then a banana then applesauce
then yogurt then other things in our kitchen.
she doesn't even flinch.
I broke into song about our dog.
she lets me do anything.
now she is napping although she said naps will ruin her night sleep.
I haven't woken her.
the dog is sleeping too. (i didn't sing that)

overcast

2005-10-21T20:02:00.000-07:00

pencil drawings of the cast of Muppets
important dates in the life of Abraham Lincoln
the day you started to play basketball
the year every movie filmed
every birthday of every person
every wind on every road
every light in every sky
every height of every wave
every tooth in every mouth

pleasant sight of the day

2005-10-13T20:24:00.000-07:00

grown man vomit while swinging at the park
have a good night everybody!

i like to slap

2005-10-12T16:25:00.000-07:00

a spoonful of chunky peanut butter on my ice cream.
Today, I put butter in my coffee. We were out of milk. The french press coffee needs to come down.
So I resorted to butter, which I remember my grandparents using.
My Grandma Pershey made great rabbit stew. Sometimes, the rabbit was caught by my grandpa.
He didn't chase the rabbit down. He used a trap.
My cousin dated a guy who caught turtles for soup.
I caught a bunch of tadpoles once, but my friend's father got rid of them.
A member of our church was describing his pet tortoises mating (sounds and motions included).

possibly

2005-10-10T15:18:00.000-07:00

a straight black line on write paper
from front left to back right
the hint of light in that back right
not actually color, but you expect the light
and then squiggly lines at the bottom right corner
my signature, so you would know whom to give your money

Van Morrison was left off the boat

2005-09-24T20:35:00.000-07:00

so I went back and got him.
Never leave Van Morrison behind.

am I late or were you early?

2005-09-23T17:03:00.000-07:00

MLK, Jr.
Lennon
Hank Gathers
Raymond Carver
Richard Hugo
James Wright
Steve Melton
Janis Joplin
Jack Kerouac
Jimi Hendrix
John Coltrane
Gram Parsons

before it's too late

2005-09-16T19:24:00.000-07:00

Paul Simon
Willie Nelson
Neil Young (again)
Randy Johnson
Shaq O'Neal
Tim Duncan

If you didn't already have enough to do

2005-09-12T16:29:00.000-07:00

then here's one more to add to the list:
update blog name for link

in case you didn't know

2005-09-10T14:08:00.000-07:00

I just reviewed the schedule and it looks like
maybe 12 and 4. Super Bowl. Etc.

(actually, I didn't just review the schedule)

Media and Military Response to Disaster

2005-09-03T12:13:00.000-07:00

You can't save a life with a camera, gun or blog.

intraview

2005-08-23T08:41:00.000-07:00

I have a job interview this morning.
I'm thinking of all the wonderful traits which I will bring to this work,
and how to phrase all my weaknesses so that they sound like blessings in disguise.
Understatement rarely shines through. This isn't my favorite appointment.

He'll Bite Your Face Off (not really)

2005-07-22T12:38:00.000-07:00

This is our new dog...

2005-07-22T12:28:00.000-07:00

I don't know how to post pictures.

possible dog names:

2005-06-23T15:15:00.000-07:00

limekiln
june
sufi
olive
tattoo
trunks
soda
quince
pompei
mookie
nooch
crunk
petros

ohio directions

2005-06-17T08:11:00.000-07:00

A trip to Old Navy, crossing route 18
through Fairlawn into Medina County (windfall
and then into town), remembers driveways
into which I turned and doors out of which I walked.
At the corner where a field isn't
anymore, take a left. If you've been there,
you will find it.

The Blog You Save May Be Your Own

2005-05-03T22:17:00.000-07:00

but still, there are more fish in a cloudy pond;
so, on second thoughts, I am not going to save this blog
w/more straightforward posts.

mariah carey

2005-04-28T09:45:00.000-07:00

and rob thomas did not grow up together
like my wife tends to think.

find out where

2005-04-27T09:31:00.000-07:00

and what time.

this blog plans to move

2005-04-24T09:03:00.000-07:00

Its fences back with the addition
of Alex Cole.

whistled

2005-04-22T10:44:00.000-07:00

the theme to the Bad News Bears

shows

2005-04-21T10:14:00.000-07:00

on the satellite image

"I'm ironing"

2005-04-19T12:12:00.000-07:00

"But isn't that a sign that something is even hotter"

I'm eating

2005-04-09T21:50:00.000-07:00

david gets a kick

2005-04-07T22:28:00.000-07:00

-Out of Jeffrey holding the scooper for the ice and saying Jeffrey's gonna scoop us
-Calling Jeffrey and Armondo "Hickory and Dickory"
-Being called the third stooge

window

2005-04-03T21:50:00.000-07:00

was crawled through
years ago; not last week.
I don't hide away
anymore. I know better
how to be a guest
in this life; but I reflect
on that window sometimes.

in through the window

2005-04-02T20:40:00.000-08:00

I had left rashly
my friend's apartment
during the night.
drove an hour away.
wasted money on a hotel room.
dark drive it was.
when I cowered back,
the door was locked.
I looked through a window.
I tried and lifted the window.

apologies

2005-04-02T10:19:00.000-08:00

what cannot hold a name
can be held by a simple
touch of a key.
click and the blink is gone.

seckle pears, furthermore

2005-04-01T10:08:00.000-08:00

pears

2005-03-31T14:07:00.000-08:00

remorse

2005-03-29T23:15:00.000-08:00

When you cry after you've been sentenced
seems to be to late.
Somehow we must begin with sadness,
compassion based in feeling awful if violence
were undertaken.

the passion of the

2005-03-28T21:00:00.000-08:00

Blogger.
I'm having a bit of my own discernment lately.
I don't think that I've worked very passionately.
So there are some options.
But, I'd like to hear what you would like to see me be passionate about.

for Steven

2005-03-07T22:15:00.000-08:00

A donut (a donut with a hole), which you look through
and see the people whom you love
and are loved by.
{I have more donuts available; one for each of you}

dishes and sign

2005-02-07T10:44:00.000-08:00

Chores include: going to bank and the above mentioned.

gift riddle

2004-12-26T08:28:00.000-08:00

Terry Robeskie

pleasy excusy this breaky

2004-12-25T11:12:00.000-08:00

No awards today: Christmas pause.

pleasy awards #2

2004-12-23T18:05:00.000-08:00

Driving lesson #1; gas pedal to the metal.

2004 clone my wife pleasy awards #1

2004-12-22T20:28:00.000-08:00

Beetle by Lara's apartment.

scene from polish brothers movie

2004-12-21T22:40:00.000-08:00

Twin brothers/Carmax mechanic uniforms/grease stained shoulder blades/eyeglasses/in line at Burger King/co-worker drove with them on lunch break/stands back/ I stare like a child.

not ready yet

2004-12-20T18:43:00.000-08:00

To evaluate my prediction for the season.
Two weeks left.

circulation cut off vein

2004-12-19T14:02:00.000-08:00

My wife googled these words. I google my back.
What does she have planned?

Cold

2004-12-18T11:47:00.000-08:00

I wake up early and turn the heat on.

dance to your own

2004-12-18T11:41:00.000-08:00

Music; that's what happened last night.

19 1/2 inches

2004-12-14T21:39:00.000-08:00

I'm a fan of the short story.

check up

2004-12-03T13:55:00.000-08:00

I'm back to view declassified.

not watching tv

2004-09-15T21:05:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to post, but my wife is laughing at the sit-com.

your answer

2004-09-13T21:35:00.000-07:00

You either do or you don't.

whistle

2004-09-13T11:03:00.000-07:00

I can, but I won't.

i have no problem

2004-09-13T10:59:00.000-07:00

During a concert, but not during a movie or sporting event.

where i've been

2004-09-11T10:37:00.000-07:00

I've been to Texas before. At least twice.

final notice

2004-08-26T20:53:00.000-07:00

The reminder card for my scheduled diaconate duties arrived today.

update

2004-08-25T21:44:00.000-07:00

I just took a purple chewable vitamin.

from his lips to my ears

2004-08-24T22:09:00.000-07:00

When Matt talks about the movie Anacondas,
I hear Out of Kindness.

snack

2004-08-23T20:53:00.000-07:00

I want some popcorn. Let's see if I can get my wife to make some.
Don't be mad at me.

yarn

2004-08-22T15:17:00.000-07:00

While my wife knits, my mother tells me that she cries watching the Olympics.
She pictures herself as the competitor finishing the marathon.

third saturday

2004-08-21T20:21:00.000-07:00

I thought she said that her father did see her today,
but she said that he didn't come again.
I don't correct her when she says that this is the second
saturday in a row.

Cheesin'

2004-08-20T20:42:00.000-07:00

"It's when you smile real big and show your teeth."

both arms

2004-08-18T21:03:00.000-07:00

His nephew in one arm and his niece in the other, Matt is the strongman.
I envy his love and tell him that he has the smartest heart.

on the couch

2004-08-18T00:03:00.000-07:00

On the second morning, I woke with a stomach ache and moved to the bed.

something to yell

2004-08-16T21:28:00.000-07:00

Swing, Sling and Sing.
I miss writing down the steel framework of what's really happening.

prediction for my father who calls me eternal optimist

2004-08-13T23:48:00.000-07:00

Browns record 2004: 13-3, Super Bowl Champions.

my wife makes a mistake

2004-08-12T21:10:00.000-07:00

Philip Glass will not be on Last Comic Standing.

dusk

2004-08-12T21:04:00.000-07:00

Waiting outside the closed donut shop, the static of the payphone makes me feel like it is later.

weight

2004-08-11T22:19:00.000-07:00

Carol Bly's short story collection called Backbone (1985 Milkweed)
was in my hand when the nurse weighed me.

declassified

2004-08-11T10:10:00.000-07:00

Tetanus shot 8/11/04

resignation

2004-08-10T22:09:00.000-07:00

Someone got the month mixed up and put in his two week notice too soon.
I was able to grab the letter back.

morning routine

2004-08-10T10:49:00.000-07:00

A beetle crawled out from under the front section of the paper, as my wife read about the debate concerning the new American dietary guidelines.

twenty bucks

2004-08-09T18:37:00.000-07:00

My ma sent us another twenty dollars today. She says that she wishes that she could do more. We live from twenty to twenty. I have known this for a long time.

meetings

2004-08-09T10:25:00.000-07:00

I'm heading back to work today. My ear is ringing. My wife says that the florescent orange earplugs would have been difficult to pull off at the meetings.

heat my syrup

2004-08-08T12:51:00.000-07:00

Well, yes, if you don't mind.

french toast

2004-08-08T12:30:00.000-07:00

We left church this morning during the organ prelude.
Kewp is making french toast. She says that she should have used the french bread. The accident was not her fault.

good night

2004-08-07T22:27:00.000-07:00

Good night to everyone.