John Cole Presents “Stories from the Road”

Another beautiful day here. Had an early lunch at Duke’s and then lazed around the room and beach all day. Have a pizza on the way because neither of us want to go anywhere and honestly I’m not sure I could pour Joelle into the car right now because she took an edible. So we’re just sitting here watching the Lord of the Rings (as Joelle called is, “the story of my people” because I call her a hobbit so frequently).

At any rate it is very nice here, a good place to visit, but not to live because the prices are astronomical, but I really do need to move somewhere near water, and I really like the pace people move around here. Reminds me of Puerto Rico.

It’s also just nice seeing what people can do in spaces designed for people and not fucking cars. It’s so god damned nice being abled to walk six blocks to a little store to pick up something and not have to worry about being run the fuck over. In West Virginia, you can’t do it because there are no sidewalks and no density to get nice things all together in one area. In a lot of other places, they just fucking choose not to. One of my favorite things about Germany was the fussgangerplatze (did I spell that right) where you could just go and have a whole day in the city and never deal with cars.

As a former West Virginia National Guardsman, the death of that young specialist is really really awful, and I am sure the response will be laboratory created to be the absolutely most destructive and divisive and eventually self-defeating thing to happen as possible. I don’t want to think about it, but I will say this- were I the commander in chief, before ordering a shitload of additional troops to the region, I would find out if this was a lone wolf or a network, I would find out if the intent was to bring more troops aka targets to the region, and all sorts of things before I would act in haste.

And it all feels so wag the dog. It’s so convenient every time his numbers go in the shitter someone ends up dead, and I hate myself for saying that because i remember Larry fucking Nichols and the Clinton Body Count, but it’s where I am with these fucking nazis.

Hope all is well and remember to call your loved ones and tell them Happy Thanksgiving.

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I did not get anywhere near what I wanted to do today, and am not making the progress I need to get going and may not leave on Monday. At any rate, the world is on fire and I am behind on what I need to do and would really just rather talk about this:

I want her to be my next door neighbor and best friend because I know she will have the same sort of crazy shit happening to her every day. I know in my heart she has flannel pajamas and an oversized robe and comfy slippers and walks around outside in them.

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Well, that was not so bad. I still feel like everyone else was more worked up than me. I just ignored every one else except the minister and the lady in the dress.

Also, I know they like to talk about liberal intolerance, but you will note that this atheist had not one, not two, not three, but four ministers involved. I’m glad you all enjoyed it. It was rather tolerable as weddings go.

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I’m having mac and cheese with stewed tomatoes for dinner. Well, it’s the bougie mac and cheese, you know, the shells, with that little packet of cheese/petroleum product instead of the dehydrated surplus government cheese powder. Because I am fancy like that. No I don’t know why I eat those together other than my dad ate it when I was a kid and now sometimes I do as an adult. I have no idea if this is a cultural/regional thing.

As to the dismal politics of the day, I have nothing positive to offer and no update on the voting because I remain convinced they will pass it in the Senate one way or another (these people have no souls) but I did think about it for a while today. What confuses me the most about these Republicans in red states is that they are not even remotely acting like the senator of a state that has needs and interests. Everything they are going is going to DEVASTATE their states.

Of all of them, Murkowski is the only one that makes sense. Of course she is an obviously horrible person because she KNOWS and has said how bad the bill is and how many people it will hurt, but I suppose she could make a shitty argument that all the good stuff Alaskans will get in the deals to buy her vote will outweigh the negative, so at least she is looking out for her state, something the others can not.

Instead, they like Stannis Baratheon, are listening to the ginger witch whispering in his ear and burning his child at the stake.

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As Betty noted below, these bitches are fighting like Jill and that Vand der pump lady and that awful Frankel woman, and it is right out there in public, and it is messy as fuck and getting messier.

Donald Trump could accidentally end up doing the funniest fucking thing that would actually probably be a service to the country and the world while also fracturing the electorate that voted for him. We’ll see.

In other news, Maxwell brought a live chipmonk that is now in locked in the downstairs bathroom while I corral Steve (have to find him first) and lock both cats in the room with me and then open up the door to the bathroom to let the critter find its way out the back door. Figured it could use a few minutes locked in a room to take a breather and chill the fuck out.

And no, there was no blood.

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