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I don’t know if I’m back or not.  It’s still too early to tell.

What I will tell you is that I have been and will continue to remove some posts from I&I.  Cleaning house, if you will.  Based on no certain criteria other than I said so.

In other words, if there’s something you’d like to use to blackmail me in the future, and it’s still here, you better copy and paste quickly.

I haven’t read anything in a really long time that has reached me as much as this did today. So, I thought I’d share.

war and peace
Charles Bukowski

to experience
real agony
is
something
hard
to write about,
impossible
to understand
while it
grips you;
you’re
frightened
out of
your
wits,
can’t sit
still,
move
or even
go
decently
insane.

and then
when your
composure
finally
returns
and you are
able to
evaluate
the
experience
it’s almost as
if it
had happened
to
somebody
else

because
look at
you
now:

calm
detached

say

cleaning your
fingernails

looking through
a
drawer
for
stamps

applying
polish
to your
shoes

or
paying the
electric
bill

life is
and is not
a
gentle
bore.

I can’t even begin to describe how much I love this video.  Thanks to Mr. Sheen himself for the youtube upload.

See if you can pick out Salt Lake City:

Sep 23 Boston, MA Tsongas Arena
Sep 24 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Sep 26 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Casino
Sep 27 Philadelphia, PA Susquehanna Center
Sep 29 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
Sep 30 Toronto, ON Air Canada Center
Oct 2 Chicago, IL All State Arena
Oct 3 St. Paul, MN Xcel Arena
Oct 5 Denver, CO Broomfield
Oct 7 Salt Lake City, UT E Center (I wonder where I’ll be…)
Oct 9 Portland OR Memorial Coliseum
Oct 10 Vancouver, BC GM Place
Oct 11 Seattle, WA Key Arena
Oct 13 San Jose, CA Events Center
Oct 14 Los Angeles, CA The Forum
Oct 17 San Diego, CA Cox Arena
Oct 18 Phoenix, AZ Arizona State Fair
Oct 20 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
Oct 21 Dallas, TX Nokia Theater
Oct 23 Houston, TX Reliant Arena
Oct 25 Atlanta, GA Gwinnett Arena