It’s all fun and games unless you have to catch a chipmunk in the morning and then you have to catch another at bedtime. That makes two in one day.

#photos #chipmunks

At 4:54 am this morning I was wide awake. 🙄

I woke up from one of those dreams that wake me because the story turned sour.

I was walking in an industrial area early in the morning. The sky was gray, the air foggy and misty. I was shuffling to meet back up with a group of friends that were having a get-together of some kind.

A car pulled up and an early 20 something boy got out. And then his girlfriend got out. As they were walking toward me a couple more 20 somethings appeared and drew closer, like wary insects knowing they’re about ready to feed.

I said to the first guy, “do you want the cash in my wallet” and he nodded. The dream fast-forwarded as they often do, and then I was laying on the ground. The latter three held my arms and legs while the first laid on his stomach beside me. Going through my wallet, tossing business cards and whatever aside.

Then he took my car keys and started taking the keys off, one by one. He motioned that I could keep my truck key and then laid the others in another pile on my chest, like he was going to keep them.

Then I said to him, “now you’re just fucking me.”

And then I woke up because I was done with all of that.

#dreams

Audio (MP3): 20180611 - A frantic game of animal tag

On this morning, the 11th of June I was greeted with a squeaky chipmunk in the basement just as I sat down with my first cup of coffee. It filled my heart with joy as the two H-Ks (hunter killers) and a lone chipmunk played a frantic game of animal tag.

A frenzied game of hide and seek if you will. Where if you lose needly claws hooked to hair trigger tendons pulled by honed muscles will rip into your hide and not too often let go. You’ll be lucky and kiss your mother if you narrowly escape with only a minor puncture wound.

Ah yes, the screams of blood filled, animal murder first thing in the morning.

And then as I’m putting the basement things back in order after I’ve caught and released the chipmunk, I hear Pearl in her litter box taking a shit. All the excitement and exercise must’ve got her bowels working.

💩 #cats #chipmunks #diariespodcast

Peeps, it might be gray outside but it’s also purple I you look in the right places. And bump up your photo’s saturation! 😉

#photos #flowers

Sara and I saw this organ at Ghoulish Mortals in St. Charles. I would happily trade my organ in for this guy, dust and all.

More on the Vox Celeste setting →

#photos #organs

I would like to work for the UPRR Signal Department just so I could manage the padlocks.

#photos #locks

I didn’t take nearly as many photos as I did for the Tater-tot Mixer but we still had 20+ people. Thanks to everybody for coming and the cards and the gifts!

And we only ate about a gallon of chili. Still not sure what to do with the other four gallons. 🤔

💝 #photos #xlvi

Don’t worry cats. I don’t have enough to do so I’ll go ahead and clean up your fucking puke.

#cats #xlvi

Hope you like the chili, peeps. The recipe came from an old hermit crab name of Chester Legume. He lived in the foothills of Arizona and was known to bite the tail off a rattlesnake if it so much as looked at him cross-eyed.

This is a 5 gallon pot so come hungry. 🍽

#photos #chili #xlvi

CNN’s Anthony Bourdain dead at 61

New York (CNN) — Anthony Bourdain, the chef and gifted storyteller who took TV viewers around the world to explore culture, cuisine and the human condition for nearly two decades, has died. He was 61.

CNN confirmed Bourdain’s death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide.

Bourdain was in France working on an upcoming episode of his award-winning CNN series, “Parts Unknown.” His close friend Eric Ripert, the French chef, found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning.

Holy shit, dude! 😳

I was really surprised when I saw the headline but then after it soaked in for a bit I wasn’t. He was a poetic rockstar, traveling the world, writing his craft, rocking the foodies. Digging up the real story on the people.

Seemed to me after listening to how he spoke on certain topics that he missed that checked-out, junkie lifestyle.

#rip #anthonybourdain