Words, Man - Fucking Words

That's it. That's what I am all about.

Words. How they are used. How I use them. My worship is reserved for words that are used creatively in a way that I can truly dig.

"Future Regrets". This came from a commercial I saw today. Selling commemorative coins, believe it or not. The push was about avoiding blah blah blah and future regrets if you don't buy now.

Are you kidding me? Jesus Fucking Christ.

I have enough regrets. I have so many regrets I gotta lump them all together into one category called "Life Regrets" just to make them manageable.

Future regrets? Who the hell wants to think about that? I hope to fuck I am not laying the basis for future regrets right now - how crushingly awful would that be when the bill comes do?

Future regrets is a powerful phrase.

Still, I am not buying any commemorative coins.

Next topic: I just ordered a Stephen King book titled "11/22/63". The book is about time travel and tinkering with/changing the results of, the JFK assassination. King wrote the book in 2011. Allow me to explain.

I used to read King voraciously. Gobbled up every book he wrote for very many years. Then they became predictable to me. The characters bored me because I had seen it all before. So I stopped. Dropped Mr. King off my preferred authors list.

This book caught my eye many years ago. But I hesitated and hesitated and hesitated because I was burned out on Stephen King. Not sure what it was, but today became the day I pulled the trigger. Nine years later.

We'll see how it goes.

The description of King's writing in Amazon said his characters are typically "characters of good heart and wounded lives".

Wow, baby. That describes most of us. Most people are good, most people lead wounded lives. There are plenty of fuckfaced assholes out there who will rape your grandmother and eat your pets. But really, when you think about it, most people are small, leading small lives and just trying to scoop up a little happiness from time to time. And getting kicked around while they try.

"Characters of good heart and wounded lives".

Words, man. They shatter me. They inspire me. They make my life worth living when they are strung together in fascinatingly creative ways.