new bedmate

i'm sleeping with a Giant Carolina Wolf Spider. I thought he was a hallucination or a tarantula but my good friend the internet made me doubt it because tarantulas don't usually live near here. last night for the 3rd time (at least) in the past few weeks i've woken up in the middle of the night to see a tarantula somewhere on the bed & i scream & or suck in air & jump out of bed & turn on the light & grab for something flat & heavy to kill him/shield myself & he flashes away somewhere so fast & when i work up courage to follow him where he sprinted to, he's vanished.


the dogs are no help, they don't even seem to notice. he's huge, like 4 inches wide looks like a serious tarantula in the dark. he can live for 3 years. if i die of mysterious causes like a heart attack in my bed sometime soon, this is why.

kittens & bears

i went down to the garage yesterday and there was a cat in there! it ran inside the basement when i opened the garage door & i didn't have time to find it or deal with it right then so i left the garage door open hoping it would find its way out while i was gone.

somebody's been dancing on my windshield

i'd heard noises down there the night before but just kind of ignored them thinking it was people banging around in the garbage cans out front because it was garbage night.

when i got back i heard it meowing from somewhere in the tower of cardboard boxes i have in the basement so i got a broom & got holden & nacho to go down with me to try to sniff the bugger out. they were pretty useless until they heard it meowing & then they went nuts barking and jumping towards it so i had to send them upstairs. it had a collar on saying its name was JIMICA but the phone number listed was out of service.

i called my landlady/neighbor to see if she knew anybody who had a gray & brown kitten with white feet but she didn't. she told me that she just got a call from another neighbor that a BEAR was seen walking down my street the night before. there's a lot of development going on in the area and you're not allowed to shoot bears in the city of asheville so i guess it's kind of a problem with bears coming into neighborhoods and eating dogs that bark and run up to them. so i need to find a way to make holden & nacho afraid of bears.

anyway i took the kitten jimica squirming in my hands door to door through my neighborhood & found his home across the street. the guy who lives there said he'd been missing for a couple days.

greetings from animal planet.

one saturday

here's one from my brother -

throw it in the ocean

piss it away

ny weekend recap

brett dennen + ALO @ the bowery


quisty & phess got pockets full of kryptonite


LIRR


lenny's indianhead in branford, CT


mom, bro & aunt jojo


drez, uncle tom & yours truly



bobby huntington & brother henry scout squirrels



the rascally scalawag

wet on arrival

JFK new york sat on the runway
2 hours waiting to take off
arrive in Cincinnati 30 minutes after
my flight the last flight
to asheville left. got hotel
voucher took Marriott shuttle
with 10 other people Delta screwed
one girl about 25 years old
trying to get to Memphis for a funeral
mother and daughter to Louisville
calling for substitute teacher for tomorrow
everybody trying to get home
check into hotel elevator to second floor
turn left to room card out ready to swipe
turn corner & there's the girl going to funeral
outside her room next to mine
with her rolling suitcase next to her
pants around her ankles
squatting in front of her door
peeing
i said 'oh!'
she said 'sorry' & scooted back closer to her door
i said 'that's okay'
she kept peeing
i swiped my door key card
& went in my room

love your mother this weekend

going to NY for mother's day & some ALO.

don't worry little brother henry, i'll be home soon

photos recentos 2

eight ball acid pocket

nasty

golf bags on the side of the road

bad nanny

i gleeked on a kid i babysat for and told him it was raining.

choc'laty chip cookies