oh, it’s monsoon season.
in Funny Stuff, I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as Cause, chagrin, gleam, life, messes, MONSOON, monsoon season, pair, puddles, Pussycat, pussycat dolls, sky, slippage, song, tectonic plates, truth, ukelele, umbrella, way, wet socks, white dress, WORSE, yeah
I am not sure that you are aware of this, but it is apparently monsoon season in New York City.
Also known as: JESSICA, DON’T FORGET YOUR UMBRELLA AGAIN! SEASON.
Also known as: IS THERE ANYTHING WORSE THAN WET SOCKS? SEASON.
And yes, there is something worse than wet socks. But just one thing, really: socks that slip under your heels while you’re walking. Oh, just thinking about it makes me feel deeply uncomfortable. I’ve been known to flat-out throw away the aforementioned offending socks and buy a brand new pair while mid-errand.
And if you’ve ever experienced sock-slippage, then I think that you really cannot blame me at all.
But the sky has been downright torrential these last few days. Like the earth has been crying for water! so much now that the sky has gotten a suspicious gleam in its eye as it shows just how much water it can pour down when it wants to.
“Be careful what you ask for, cause you just might get it,” the Sky says to the Earth, shutting it right up. But only until Earth realizes that the Sky just quoted a Pussycat Dolls song and so the Earth starts to laugh. And there is nothing subtle about the Earth laughing. It’s mountains moving powerful. It’s tectonic plates jumping powerful.
So yeah, the Sky notices.
And then the Sky rains harder cause now it’s mad that the Earth is making fun of it (and a little embarrassed to be caught quoting the Pussycat Dolls, truth be told), and here I am: standing in wet socks and feeling like none of this is really my fault at all.
Such is life sometimes, friends; such is life.
We clean up messes we did not make; this is unfair.
And yet, others sometimes clean up the messes that we did make; this is also unfair.
And life is messy.
And sometimes you get wet. Really, really wet.
But you figure out how to wrap your ukelele in plastic so as to keep it safe and you figure out how to jump over the puddles and you realize a brand new connection with all the other people on the subway who also look like drowned rats (though they were smart enough not to wear a white dress, you notice with more than an ounce of chagrin) and you revel in being human and feeling and the fact that we all get wet sometimes and then we all get dry and you wouldn’t really have it any other way because if something was one way all the time then life would be boring.
And life is many, many things, but boring?
Well, never; never boring at all.
But anyway, happy monsoon season, guys.
Go out and celebrate by getting yourself a nice pair of rain boots.
somethin’ ain’t right.
in Funny Stuff, Loved Ones
as adoration, bake, baked goods, domicile, Domiciles, Duh, gotta, home, home today, house, Jess, kind, land, nonchalantly, pop, shampoo, somethin, stream, today, yeah
I get home today. To my Pennsylvania home, I mean. I’m sorry–domicile. My Pennsylvania domicile. Huh? Exactly. See, the other day I was talking to my pop. About New York. About how much I love it there. About what I eat when I’m there. Yes, he’s the kind who asks about all that kind of [...]
one of these days…
in Thoughts and Feelings
as direction, emphasis, everything, fiance, friend john, friend stefan, gig, human heart, kaylee, kind, love, one of these days, own two feet, quote, sidewalk, stranger, tonight, Tritone, way, yeah
Tonight, after our gig at the Tritone, I had two different strangers assume that two other people were in love with me. Score times two. Except that in both cases, no dice. Actually, one man shuffled by my wonderful and handsome friend John and I while we were talking on the sidewalk and told John [...]
ladies night out(almost).
in Loved Ones, photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as ahmanson theater, art auction, art piece, auction, auctioneer, Darby, introvert, ladies night, leave, life, lifescape, lyric, mustache, Ollie, poppies, time, while, yeah
“Ladies night out, guys!” I announced, as Darby and I were about to leave tonight. “No, it’s not,” Ollie immediately disagreed. “Oh,” I said, “Why not?” Looking at me like I had taken momentarily leave of my senses, he said, “Cause Googie (Lyric) isn’t going!” “Good point, Ollie.” I said, and then proceeded to tell [...]
(i’m not your)broadway baby.
in Thoughts and Feelings
as alliteration, broadway baby, broadway tour, change, cliche, comic, half, house, Jim Gaffigan, laughter, pause, phrase, phrase cards, remark, song, way, yeah
He used to call me his broadway baby and I didn’t like the way that sounded. Because the alliteration annoyed me and also, I was only doing a Broadway tour, mind you, and I didn’t want to pretend otherwise. He wrote me a half of a song once. Half of a song. That about sums [...]
conversing with cars and people.
in Funny Stuff, Thoughts and Feelings
as amish country, august day, Auto, car, cause mama, Draft, drop, horse and buggy, impersonation, mile, name, person, random conversations, reasonable person, roller, stranger things, style, twenty miles, way, whispery, wooden roller coaster, wooden roller coasters, yeah
Today my car was doing just fine, chugging away on this hot August day, when suddenly it was all, “I don’t really feel like blowing cold air on you anymore.” And I try to be a reasonable person, try not to demand too much of those around me, so I just rolled down my windows [...]
people talk and I get it. and here’s a song, too.
in Performance, Thoughts and Feelings, video
as chubby, chubby bunny, coke, dirty sock, drinking, eight months, festivities, jalapeno peppers, kind, neighbor, nervous laughter, nice guy, pepper, sock juice, someone, song, story, time, yeah
Tonight, I spent some time talking to a friend. He’s not someone I’ve ever been close to, but over the past few months, we’ve hung out a little. He’s a really nice guy and we ended up talking about my story. Now, I know I have a nice, long story that involves many wonderful and [...]
you make everything alright
in Thoughts and Feelings, video
as fluidity, happy song, perfect moment, plaid, plaid shirt, shirt, something, song, sweet song, video, yeah, you make everything alright
So here’s another song. And yeah, that new-to-me green sweatshirt is something I have a hard time not wearing lately. I’m like that, you know. Get something new and I want to wear it again. And again and again. A couple weeks ago it was this blue and white plaid shirt that a friend gave [...]
