Sadly he never responded to my solicitation to help. 😞

Also, the barricades seem less ominous during daylight hours. I didn’t trust their nighttime chatter.

#photos #publicworks

How much fun would it be to have arms/legs as long as this dude?

I could prob reach out my truck window and smack people. 😉

#photos #spiders

😋 #photos #taters

Sara gave Maggie this rose on Sunday 🌹♥️ Because she’s the best.

Well, they’re both the best!

#photos #flowers

Peeps, I love piano that kicks in around 45 seconds so much.

ZHU’s gonna be at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago come October. 🎧

Also plenty more videos on the official site: zhumusic.com →

#musicvideos #ZHU

Peeps, wearing these sunglasses this evening made me kinda feel like I was from the future. I got them in 2003 or 2004 and this very well may be the first time I’ve ever worn them outside. Of course at one point I was drunk for 10 years so my memory from those years isn’t the best.

I should probably put them back on the shelf for another 14 years lest something bad happen to them.

#photos #selfies #fashion

Audio (MP3): 20180709 - Within a 10 block radius

So this past weekend I pulled into the gas station to get some supplies. It’s the weekend and it’s sunny so the gas station is plum full of cars. I pull up close to the building in an empty spot. It wasn’t an official parking spot but gas stations are free-for-alls when they’re busy. One guy had even parked right in front of entrance to the gas station so whatever.

I go in and get my supplies, wait in line for 10 minutes while Aunt Loretta picks out her Powerball numbers. My favorite thing.

Also, before I say anymore, don’t make this about you. Because it’s not.

I come back out, get in my truck, and am getting ready to leave when a guy, a big dude, tries to squeeze in between my truck and the gas station. Of course he could’ve easily walked around on the other side but no, he chose to squeeze through the narrow corridor between my truck and the station.

There wasn’t even a sidewalk there for crying out loud. Well, there was but nobody could walk on it with the ice machine, firewood, stacks of blue washer fluids taking all the walkway real estate.

So I’m sitting there close enough to literally touch him as he shimmies by. About a foot past my driver side window he starts shaking his head in what I can only assume to be judgmental disbelief that I had the ABSOLUTE NERVE to park where I did.

Shit like that gets on my nerves like you wouldn’t believe. I don’t do well when people judge me for situations they put themselves in to begin with. Like I’m somehow at fault because he couldn’t squeeze his 600 pound life through the two foot gap I left.

So then I yell out in all of my spiritual glory, “FUCK YOU” loud enough for anybody within a 10 block radius to hear.

He doesn’t turn around but instead continues toward the gas station door.

And then I realize that wasn’t another of my finest moments.

PS- I want to stress that I see this as something along the lines of me going into the Big and Tall stores and then shaking my head because nothing on the racks is in my size.

#socialproblems #diariespodcast

Audio (MP3): 20180708 - You cannot unbutton this jacket

Video (MP4): 20180708 - You cannot unbutton this jacket

Wherein fate is a miserable state, part 1 of 3.

Rivers want to roll downhill. You can put a dam up and stop their flow but their destination won’t change. They all dump into the sea. And eventually your dam will give out and then you or somebody else will build another dam but yet, still the river flows downhill. With all man’s technological marvel, water is what it is.

That’s abstract and non-personal but also a good pre-game show.

Because then there was that one time we were leaving a neighborhood Christmas party. As I’m walking down the sidewalk with family in tow, I slipped and fell on a patch of ice. I saw it coming like a slow motion horror flick. Time slowed to a near stand still and the whole audience screamed, “don’t go down there!!” But then I kept going toward certain doom anyway and gravity did its thing.

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It’s sunny, it’s Saturday, it’s spectacular.

#photos #flowers

Guys, I doubt if the “MINOR HOLIDAY Double bucket sale” at Super Target will last long.

Get yours before they’re gone.

#photos #target #july4th