I set this thing up a long time ago but have actually never written in it, or on it whatever you call it. My name is Rob but a fortunate dream I had one night changed all that and I was able to take on the moniker of “the party animal”. Besides the scientific biological sense I don’t think I consider myself an animal and I can’t think of the last time I threw or even attended a party. But…that’s my name…and so it goes. As the name implies, I do in fact wear a beard. This is a relatively new thing for me. Being in the hospitality industry i’ve always wanted to grow a beard only because I couldn’t. Now I can and I have. In general I wouldn’t consider myself a “bearded person” but I do have one…and so it goes.
I live in Colorado. I really don’t know why or how this has happened to me. I don’t remember even thinking of what Colorado was before I moved here, but I did. I also moved to Louisiana once…and Florida. To me now, that seems fucking weird. After high school I only, honestly wanted to work in the local plumbing supply warehouse making 7 dollars and hour. I couldn’t even do that right, and now I’m in fucking Colorado…and so it goes.
So apparently this May some people from a university in northern Colorado will decide that I’ve had enough education to be a bachelor. On May 12th of this year, as my girlfriend’s family and possibly my family looks on..I will walk across a stage and someone will call out my name and hand me a scroll. In that scroll will be nothing, but a few weeks later I will, in the mail, receive a document stating that I have acheived enough to obtain a Bachelors degree in Technical Journalism. As far back as 2005 and beyond now people will have and will say “oh great so you want to be a writer eh?”. I now pause to “obtain” a new fully-filled 12oz container of beer. ……for me to be a writer could not be farther from the truth. I can’t understand what people don’t understand about the fucking word “technical”???????????? Is Journalism only newspapers? I guess many think so. As far as hardcore journalism goes I would give it to newspaper people…no pictures, no makeup…no glory. As the godfather of Newpapers, and probably all of journalism says, and what a TV newsperson NEVER would..”comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”…Joseph Pulitzer..a long fucking time ago…and so it goes.
Lucero, which i’m listening to now and probably will forever, is the shit…and so it goes.
Now that this is really long and I”m drunk and typing becomes less a form of communications and more a puzzle I will divulge my true intentions of this random-ass….rant.
By now some will think…maybe he’s kinda good at writing..or maybe the fortunate ones..the ones that know better will think..he’s a fucking thief! Indeed I am..I have stolen something… I have stolen four little words that happen to be in succession that make something from nothing.
These four little words have changed the way I look at pretty much everything I see or read or hear. As trivial as it might sound, these are, for me, probably the four most important words in the English language.
For some strange, odd, weird, fucked up reason these four little words helped me realize the triviality of the whole fucking world…and so it goes.
It’s been quite a few years since I’ve read one of his books..probably at least 3 or 4 years. In the meantime I’ve read a few others. I’ve read 2 books by Joe Meno. His “hairstyles of the damned” seriously sounded like someone followed me around all through high school. Also that one weird guy..Chuck Palahniuk he writes some damn good stories. A lot of politics and textbooks later I finally decide on anohter of his books. It’s been years and I wonder if time will hold it’s own…and so it goes.
There are fucking brilliant people out there. But goddamnit if after years and years…fucking Kurt Vonnegut. I’m now reading one of his books written in the late 80’s. I’ve read all those other guys and was a little weary about ole’ Kurt standing up to the challenge since it’s been like 4 years since I’ve read one of his. These other guys seemed to have it going on..Or so it goes
I wasn’t sure how he would stand since starting to read younger writers more in-touch with my generation…Mr. Vonnegut would probably know more about being 31 years old in 2007 than I do..and he’s 85! I’m now reading ‘gelapagos’. Fucking genius!!!
I read “slaughterhouse 5″ about 8-9 years ago and that’s where I stole the phrase…” and so it goes”. I still think it is the four most brilliant words in English Literature. I’m not sure why but at the point I first read those lines…it changed the way I thought about everything…and so it goes.
So this is my first entry to my blog. While I won’t write often and for sure not this lengthy I have to say, If I were to ever come up with four words so definite in the English language maybe the whole writer thing would be for me. …..hopefully more to come soon. —-the party animal!
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