tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48884499870945199982024-03-13T10:49:30.842-07:00The Spanish ExileExiles End - July/August 2012Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.comBlogger714125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-49715876770203800892012-08-14T08:18:00.001-07:002012-08-14T08:18:05.848-07:00Thank You / Sign off<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you all of you who have shared the dizzying highs and terrifying lows of my expat life the last 5+ years, on both URLs. It has meant the world to me. But now i am home. I can call you on the phone and visit you! I'm also hoping my life will be a bit less frantic and exciting, (but i doubt it.) So i bid you<i> adios</i> and good-bye in blog form only. This is <i>The Spanish Exile</i>, signing off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-Jay </span>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-86111677168576002462012-08-09T09:01:00.001-07:002012-08-09T09:01:14.830-07:00Out of Exile<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">When I first came to this island</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">that I called by own name</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">I was happy in this fortress,</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">in my exile I remained</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">But the hours grew so empty</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">and the ocean sent her waves</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">In the figure of a woman</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">and she pulled me out to sea</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">When you come down to take me home</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">send my soul away</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">When you come round you'll make me whole</span><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;">send my soul away</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have successfully been Craptured back to CT. I woke up in my own bed in Ansonia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am a great deal disoriented from a lack of sleep, time change, soaring through the air at 700k and the negative effects being treated like cattle in Dublin Airport (they suck.) But i'll be fine. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I have come home. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">And you know it's time to go</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Through the sleet and driving snow</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Across the fields of mourning</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Light in the distance</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How i hate moving. I hate this fucktards i live with. There will be 5 people living here after i leave with on bathroom and you can't let the water run while your in the shower and you are only allowed to do one load of laundry per week between the hours of 23:00 and 12:00.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Someone asked me if i was going to poison them before i leave. I said i came to the conclusion that thier lives sucked ass so badly that it was crueler to let them live. In the end, i am not a humanitarian. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Got to bring drums to Mike's (ugh.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">And you hunger for the time</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Time to heal, desire, time</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">And your earth moves beneath</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Your own dream landscape</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Had lunch with Cara to say good-bye. She is moving in with her boyfriend. Great guy. Drummer. Sad to say good-bye to so many.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But mentally, i checked out in July. I am so done with this place. Spain is a disaster right now. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But it's been a fantastic adventure.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Drop stuff off for folks at J&J's. See Maria, Gøran and Carla. Then go home and pack and clean and await the Crapture, 12 hours from now. Maybne no sleep tonight. I don't care. I'll sleep in the airport.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But now, a last minute check of critical crap (medication) and then start lugging the drums down. I really need to learn how to play Kevin's bass. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Good-bye drums. You are beautiful and adored bashing around on you. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But i am happy. This is the right move for me. I don't see how i could grow here any longer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Packing..., waiting to be Craptured. So i guess this is good-bye...</span></div>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-6265013919790579002012-08-07T04:58:00.002-07:002012-08-07T04:58:18.721-07:00EXILE'S END<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2,047 days later...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I am coming home.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There were hugs and tears and people saying lots of sweet things about someone who i could only think resembled me but wasn't quite me. These people are family. I love them. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Much to do! I'll meet Cara for lunch at 15:15 and then much to do. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It all seems so surreal. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm not even sure i exactly grasp what that means. But i am excited. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5 years now this sight has been my journal, my record of all mine eyes hath seen. Thank you for sharing it with me. It means the world to me. Plus, i guess this means i know have experience in journalism, something i never aspired to. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Okay. Got to get my ass in gear. </span>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-26413557464342349242012-08-06T19:24:00.000-07:002012-08-07T04:29:31.457-07:00Route 666<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sies de Agosto, 2012, 16:58</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Google Maps tells me that from Madrid to Ansonia is 3, 666 miles. Ha! See, Satan is my Father. And if you had ever met my paternal grandparents, you never could have doubted. Bad people. The grass upon which they walked wilted. Scary, hateful, cold people.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I feel like it's a natural segway into the Republican Party, but i'm gonna classily walk away and not say anything derrogatory about Mitt Romney. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ha. That's what his Mom, Lenore, always says!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">People are saying such nice things about me. I can't wait to come home and be treated like crap again. My sister brought a 32 inch screen for my room up to Mum's. Thanks Mel! You rock. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Why do i have to clean? I have 3 cans of petrol. Can't i just burn down this place and take these morons with me?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">The Cercanias train has been paralyzed by several days of strikes. Madrid will be engulfed in chaos by November. Things are going to get hella-worse before they get better. And things will never be the same here. This is España's worst crisis since the Civil War (1936 -1939.) They are completely and utterly <i>fallado (</i>fucked.) </span><br />
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I have to return books to two academies mañana, get my clip on sunglasses from the eyeball place, clean, take clothes to be donated and then head to J&J in the eve to say good-bye.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Life is very odd. The Welsh Witch was busting my chops that i was going to a wedding where my date, a bridesmade and a third woman (who shall remain nameless) were all people i had slept with. But she then said if anyone asked me anything about my love life, that they'd ask if i had slept with her yet (bitch, for being right!) <i>Everyone</i> asks if she and i are a couple. It does get old.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The funny thing is that on the way home my friend, who shall also remain nameless (Maria had left on the 2:00am bus, we took the 5:00am bus) kissed me. It was all very innocent and quite cute. We snogged a bit. It was quite lovely. She had just concluded a long, complicated break up, and said that maybe if it had been a different time, we might have been together. And that was that. I was blown away. It was awesome. A lovely end to a perfect day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">i leave in 3 days! </span>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-73909345230048701752012-08-05T09:34:00.000-07:002012-08-05T09:34:25.342-07:00Scenes from a wedding<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">> Maria and i had a blast at the wedding. I'll post pics at some point. Right now i am in recovery mode and then must pack. It never ends. The place was almost two hours away in Ayllón. It was all old ruins of buildings and was stunning. The food was top notch. It was a wonderful day. Tim and Laura were so happy and had guests from all over the world. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">>Andy Murray wins the gold in tennis at Wimbeldon. Nice job, Great Britain. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">>The Paterno Family is appealing the NCAA sanctions against Penn State. <i>Give it up! </i>Joe Paterno was not great. He was not a saint. He cared more about the fucking football program than he did about a grown man forcibly fucking boys. Fuck you, Paterno Family. Joe Paterno was a monster and a coward for admitting nothing of his complicity before he died.<i> Shameful!</i> I intend to enjoy the next 4 years of seeing the PSU program gutted. I smile every time i see another high profile transfer out of PSU. I have a friend of a friend here who i unfriended from BookFace because she was always getting on her soap box defending Joe Pa and PSU. Fuck you, apologists. Fuck you, Penn State. You should be banned from NCAA Division 1 football FOREVER. If i never hear about Penn State again it will be too soon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And then something new begins.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I was married once (as you all know.) This is my first wedding since Sue and I got divorced. I didn't even realize that until 2 minutes ago. So obviously, things are fine. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Laura's getting married! I love her so much. In the end, i am a big mush. I am a big puddle of emotion. I love you all so very much. So here's my e-postcard of this moment. Besos.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Time to get all gussied up!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I am reading <i>The Rapture </i>by Liz Jensen. It's great. Haunting. Freaky. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In a merciless summer of biblical heat and </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake. Raised on a diet of evangelistic hellfire, Bethany is violent, delusional, cruelly intuitive and insistent that she can foresee natural disasters - a claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of doomsday delusion. But when catastrophes begin to occur on the very dates Bethany has predicted, and a brilliant, gentle physicist enters the equation, the apocalyptic puzzle intensifies and the stakes multiply. Is the self-proclaimed Nostradamus of the psych ward the ultimate manipulator, or could she be the harbinger of imminent global cataclysm on a scale never seen before?</span></span></div>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-9142667797357050082012-08-03T07:37:00.002-07:002012-08-03T07:38:26.927-07:00The Garden<br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">So much emotion. On both sides of the Atlantic. But what if i don't belong in either Europe or North America. What if i'm <i>incontinent</i>?</span></div>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-52998364553189990162012-08-02T06:25:00.002-07:002012-08-02T06:25:29.336-07:00The time of doing<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">13:26</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Not arriving. On our way back home.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How in the name of all that is unholy did i accumulate so much stuff? How i ask you? I will give away more clothes than i will bring home. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Details- I leave Madrid at 10:35 on August 8. I arrive at JFK at 19:40. Leave my house at 7:00, get to Mum's about 21:30. That's about 14.5 hours of transit. Ugh! But Carolyn and Sarah will be on the same flight. Hooray!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My last full moon in Madrid has come and gone.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Herd of Instinct - Herd of Instinct</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">USA! Now with healthcare, but soon without the Post Office. My Pop would be pissed. He was in the Post Office for years and years.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A week from now. at this exact time, i will be in limbo - not in Spain, not in CT.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Last night, the last Bender Tuesday, was crazy. Some of my students came and it was great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Aug 2</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I got about 2 inches cut off of my hair and i now look rather employable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Got to really get down to the nitty-gritty with cleaning today. And pack up all the clothes i'm going to donate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The big wedding is on Sat. Maria is my date. It will be a blast. American Laura is getting married. Well, i'll be damned. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-85620405393243893852012-07-31T06:40:00.002-07:002012-08-01T10:59:15.225-07:00Closer to Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><i>The Last Bender Tuesday</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">I'm getting closer to my home</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">-Grand Funk Railroad</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Alchemy - Dire Straits</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Alladin Sane - David Bowie</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Pack up the Plantation - Tom Petty</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Communique - Dire Straits</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Dire Straits - Dire Straits</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">+The US Postal Service is set to run out of money next year. That won't be problematic. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">+I am returning to my home continent in 8 days. The US government has not informed me that they have any problem with this, to date.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">+Much laundry done lately and i am now about to seperate stuff into 2 piles; a) what i will bring b) the much larger what i will donate pile. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">+Have not been sleeping well at all. My mind is tapestry of cobwebs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I said goob-bye to another student yesterday, one of my 1st private one's who refered me so many people. It was very emmotional. I think August will be a very emmotional month. Good-byes and hellos.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-40446697280957568722012-07-30T05:12:00.001-07:002012-07-30T05:12:57.468-07:00don't look back<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Books i read in July:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>First Blood</i> - David Morrell</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>The Naked Edge</i> - David Morrell</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>After the Apocalypse (short stories)</i> - Maureen F. McHugh</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Black Lung Captain (Tales of the Ketty Jay 2)</i> - Chris Wooding</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Savages</i> - Don Winslow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Logan's Run</i> - William F. Nolan</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Great lunch with Amanda and Ale. Sad to say good-bye to all of these people. But there's really isn't anything left for me here. It's time to bug out of here. The die is cast. There is no turning back.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-10446709370424024952012-07-29T03:51:00.001-07:002012-07-29T03:54:07.071-07:00Let the games begin...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">14:04</span><br />
<i>Creepy Bobby Wenlock </i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sabado</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;"><span class="inline-link" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: double; border-bottom-width: 3px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">If I were a rich man</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Yubby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dum.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">If I were a wealthy man.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I wouldn't have to work hard.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">If I were a biddy biddy rich,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Idle-diddle-daidle-daidle man.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I have a list of things to do the size of my schlong. Well, maybe not<i> that</i> big, but fucking long.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Clean. Pack. Sell drums. Get recommendations. Send CVs. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And i was looking at self publishing sites today. Maybe i'll just ePub it. It may be the way to go given the somewhat hard-hitting yet surreal nature for the novel. Time will tell. I could market it through Facebook, Amazon etc, The Fairfield Alumni Assoc., George Washington U Alumni assoc., viral porn sites. Stuff like that. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">On the thin ice of modern life</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Appears under your feet.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You slip out of your depth and out of your mind</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">With your fear flowing out behind you</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As you claw the thin ice.</span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm such a drama queen!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But seriously, my life is in total flux. Hence lsitening to a lot of Pink Floyd.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">A Life Within a Day - Squackett</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">Message in a Box (disc 1) - The Police</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">...Laid to Rest - Frequency Drift</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">The Final Cut - Pink Floyd</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19015278">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19015278</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Romulan proves once again that he is a horse's ass!</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Annie is born April 11, 2007. She is not my daughter but my life changes for the better.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Teaching in the MBA Program at the Universidad de Europea</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Playing in <i>From Lost to the River</i> with Tam and Pete</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Finished <i>Buying New Soul</i>, my fourth novel</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Seeing <i>Porcupine Tree</i> twice at La Riviera</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Atletico Madrid wins 2 Europa League titles and a UEFA Supercup</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Meeting Vicky (and hiring her as my editor).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Bender Tuesday</span></li>
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</div>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-14834604960929753332012-07-29T01:47:00.000-07:002012-07-29T01:47:34.732-07:00The M-Chip<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi8hfCUcqSHJhqgQbBu38Bndtks74zZ4dkOsCEMZhGjagS0VSrLwHvNQYC4e2pJAwF07aD2NLeGBB81N91AfSqTTto_YKMpPQn9VCvzSGzmuXsD9YTfXJlIg8IS431fX2Iza5oWaoseJE/s1600/M-Chip-7-for-PS2-GP-788xL-Video-Game-Accessories-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi8hfCUcqSHJhqgQbBu38Bndtks74zZ4dkOsCEMZhGjagS0VSrLwHvNQYC4e2pJAwF07aD2NLeGBB81N91AfSqTTto_YKMpPQn9VCvzSGzmuXsD9YTfXJlIg8IS431fX2Iza5oWaoseJE/s400/M-Chip-7-for-PS2-GP-788xL-Video-Game-Accessories-.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Mariah Scarey is the new American Idol judge. And just in time for me to return to the US. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Desperate times call for desperate measures. Henceforth, Apple Inc. and i are happy to announce our new prototype - <i>the M-chip</i>. Once you have one of these silicon buggers jammed into you cerebrum, you will no longer be able to watch such <i>moronic</i> shows as, <i>The View, American Idol, America Lacks Talent, Desperate Housewives, Charmed, etc., </i>or anything with <i>Tim Allen, Rob Schneider, Dana Carvey or Bob Costas. </i>The screen will just appear as psychedlic colors and all you will hear is Led Zeppelin, Rush, Pink Floyd and the Who. The New M-Chip: 1/3 Steve Jobs, 1/3 Aldous Huxley, 1/3 sensibility/. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So get your kids fitted with one today! Watch their grades go up, their setting of bugs on fire go down, and their sense of well being soar!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The olympics come to London. This is <i>Wenlock</i>, the official mascot. Yes, he looks like a penis, but then again this is the country that coined the words <i>wanker </i>and <i>wanking</i> (both of which refer to masturbation.) Still, i'm not sure a male member with lobster claws was the best choice to market a global event. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And just in case there was any doubt as to the phallic nature of this thing, here's Wenlock in a Union Jack condom (we don't want athletes in the olympic village going home with STDs, do we?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And it's expected to be so cold and dreary the next few days that many female volleyball players have said they might forgo the traditional bikinis. Hell no! That's going to put a real crimp in the <i>wanking</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">SO good luck, London. And thanks for reminding us that making fun of the English didn't end after 1776 and the War of 1812.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Soon to be over. It rained tonight for the first time since, ...i have no idea. May? Early June maybe? Something like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everything is surreal. Trying to settle your accounts in Spain is like trying to put a man on the moon. This is something Spain has never done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was at Dave's watching his cat, Spez, so no Internet there. She ate some plastic and had to have an operation 2 days before he left. She has a cone on her head but she is fine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's hot. So goddamned hot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think i'm losing my mind. Finally. Really. Totally. For good this time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dream so vivid i swear they were real. Until i realize they were with people from grammar school, high school, Fairfield (when we were still 22), old jobs, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And i am suffering a Welsh Witch hangover. I miss her. I'm somewhat haunted by what could have been. Now, i am normally one to just except things and walk away. It doesn't mean i might not pine over them for a bit, but i move on - just look at what transpired with Sue and i. There is a period of grief and mourning and then you get on with it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But at my <i>Good-bye to Me party, </i>her friend<i> </i>Carol<i> (</i>she is English of Jamaican descent so we always talk about Jamaica and have a lot of fun together.) She said "Jay's a great guy. Why don't you just marry him already?"<span style="background-color: black;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">I was fucking floored. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Her sister got married yesterday in York. She sent me a message saying they were at the wedding dinner and there was utter silence. And then someone asked "So are you and Jay a couple?" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Seems she's the only one who can't see it. But it doesn't matter. If she doesn't see it, she doesn't see it. Besides, i am leaving. And a 15 year age difference is a hell of a thing. I'll be fine. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">It's just the stress of leaving getting to me. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">UFO = Unlimited Freak Out</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Not to worry. The US has good insane asylums, so i hear. And i'll be helpful. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">"What size straight jacket?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: black;"> "42, sir."</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">"You look more like a size 40 to me."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: black;">"I like loose-fitting clothing." </i></span>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-45585417174328212022012-07-24T06:47:00.001-07:002012-07-24T06:47:52.408-07:00No Sleep<span style="font-size: large;">7:56</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Insomnia always makes me feel surreal. Haven't slept a wink and have class at 10:00.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Penn State got slapped hard by the NCAA. As well they should have been. Paterno is no longer the winningest coach. Now he is 12th after losing all their wins back to 1998. They will lose all their players (or key ones.) No Bowl games for 4 years. The program will be decimated. Good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">15:07</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think i slept an hour and 15 minutes. Ugh! So tired. One more class then maybe a nap at Dave's with his cat. Then BENDER TUESDAY. The spirit is willing but the flesh is O' so weak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-85471082960936035272012-07-22T19:07:00.000-07:002012-07-22T19:09:53.103-07:004:09<span style="font-size: large;">Night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hotter than hell. Again. Night time is the only cool time. This is the point in the summer wear it starts to wear on you. And tear on you. And when it's cool you dance in the streets</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can't drink too much water. It won't hurt you. Hydration is salvation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm gonna go soak my hair again and go to sleep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hasta mañana people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">- */^</span>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-90806262601996135112012-07-22T15:35:00.002-07:002012-07-22T15:36:08.192-07:00Good-bye to Me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i>Thousands of lemurs off themselves each year</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Great night last night. It was my </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Good-bye to Me</i><span style="font-size: large;"> party at Barbaroi. It was awesome. So many cool folks showed up to say goob-bye. They said some very nice things about me (of which i could only believe 12.3%.) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lots of prog rock - it was just great. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then i taught class. Then i had dinner over Monica (student) and Sergio's. That was really nice too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am a lucky man. Mañana; the big good-bye the Welsh Witch. My editor. My dear friend. Yikes. That's probably going to be a way emotional thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And a final Madrid edition of, Jaybo - Cat sitter. I will watch Dave's cat for the week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">16 days to go. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-80102701968702612842012-07-21T03:42:00.000-07:002012-07-21T03:45:04.971-07:00Thou Shalt Not Freak Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><i style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;">The Exile is over, five years have passed, and i am not saved. </span></i></li>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">So hot. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">I have lists within lists of things to do before i go.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Everything is the same but everything is different. I leave one group of friends in Spain and go back the USA. This time around i'll be writing a blog for them. How <i>strange</i> life can be. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;"><i>2.<span style="font-size: large;"> The law of </span></i><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;">exponential</b> <b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;">chaos </b><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic;">states that during a time very busy time things may exacerbate to the point of bedlam. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">The key at such moments is <i>don't lose your shit. </i>Try and keep some clarity. Latch on to the things that are stable and consistently are people/ideas that you keep close.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">3. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Fear is the mind killer - Dune</span><br /><span style="color: white;"> </span></i><span style="color: white;">Things rarely work out to be as horrible as you think they'll be. Just get on with it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">4</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Things might go sideways and seem bat shit, but the weird doesn't kill you.</span><span style="color: white;"> </span></i></span><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">You can laugh about it someday, because you'll live. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">5. </span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Everything like this has an expiration date.</span></i><span style="color: white;"> This too shall pass. It'll be over. And then you're on to the next big, new thing</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">And then that's it. You are through the wormhole.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">The only bad news is that then the whole process starts over. But it's a new start. And how many of those do you get in your life?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic;">I seem to get a lot of them. </span><span style="font-size: large;">My life has just been a series of re-starts. Am i fortunate? Cursed?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">No. I'm just me.</span>Seymour Butzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007871552323760428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888449987094519998.post-62516993042114452982012-07-20T02:42:00.000-07:002012-07-21T03:45:50.801-07:00Savages<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I finished SAVAGES by Don Winslow. It was great! An idealistic/California/hippie marijuana grower and an ex-Navy SEAL get forced to take on the Mexican mob. I'll watch the movie if i can find a decent copy. Fantastic writing. Very hip and mod. <i> </i>recommend it very highly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's 00:00 and it's 90F. I miss New England. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Listening to:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Clockwork Angels - Rush</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Shadows and Light - Joni Mitchell</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Raingods With Zippos - Fish</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Remain in Light - Talking Heads</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Closer to Home - Grand Funk Railroad</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More post-editing manaña. Mostly fact checking and adding of spanish characters, like this fellow; <span style="color: #3d85c6;">ñ</span></span><br />
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