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You'll like Tacoma
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Posted by Cole Cosgrove @ 04:52:14 pm
He might have been the original Gritizen: Tacoma-born Richard Brautigan would have been 73 today.
Here's a Brautigan excerpt that NPR's The Writer's Almanac highlighted in honor of the day:
"The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, 'Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper,' and put the coin in my hand, but never came back."
So in honor of Brautigan, feel free to offer your own surreal ending to the phrase "The sun was like ... "
(Not that any of us around here would remember what the sun was like)
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I shall salute my worn copy of "Revenge of the Lawn" on the ol' bookshelf tonight.
Well, today at least, the sun was like the guy who says he's going to call but never does. And while you're sitting around, waiting for him to not call, you start thinking, Well, he did take every single dance class available, and not for the girls... So you write him off. And then he calls you, and you're mean to him, because he delights in waltzing and tap dancing, and you never really imagined yourself with someone with ultra-soft hands...
This has never happened to me, but I saw it on a sitcom or something.
This has never happened to me, but I saw it on a sitcom or something.
The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that God had stuffed unceremoniously in his pocket. Unfortunately it fell through a hole while he was vacationing in Southern California, and now all I see when I look at the sky is pocket lint...
Oh wow. I guess I didn't know Brautigan was from Tacoma. I hated him in high school because of Trout Fishing in America. My little 16 year old brain just couldn't take that book in the way it was intended.
Now, though...well, that's cool he's from Tacoma.
At this point, I'd love to insert an emoticon for sun. Alas, I fail at emoticons. Instead, please enjoy this syringe:
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Now, though...well, that's cool he's from Tacoma.
At this point, I'd love to insert an emoticon for sun. Alas, I fail at emoticons. Instead, please enjoy this syringe:
---(|||]==[]
Today the clouds got pissed at Niki for questioning the sun's sexuality (they're over-protective like that) and just started pissing on all of our heads.
The wind came in and tried blowing us all for a while, until the clouds convinced it that wasn't really helping the case...
(Also, I appear to have turned the weather into a snuff film. Something is wrong with my brain...)
The wind came in and tried blowing us all for a while, until the clouds convinced it that wasn't really helping the case...
(Also, I appear to have turned the weather into a snuff film. Something is wrong with my brain...)
The sun was like a huge, glowing sphere of hot gas. Most of this gas being hydrogen (about 70%) and helium (about 28%), with Carbon, nitrogen and oxygen making up 1.5% and the other 0.5% being made up of small amounts of many other elements such as neon, iron, silicon, magnesium and sulfur.
And I say, it's all right.
And I say, it's all right.
The sun was a mass of incandescent gas.
A gigantic nuclear furnace.
Where hydrogen was burnt into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees...
A gigantic nuclear furnace.
Where hydrogen was burnt into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees...
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