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So cute.!

Happy birthday!

Thanks for the add!

I can't remember how I found you, but after I requested friendship I saw the pics of your sleeve. I realized that I recognized you from the tattoo group. Your sleeve is phenomenal! I'm working on a pin-up rib piece now, and will be starting a 3/4 sleeve very soon.

Glad you liked my journal; it was a serious brain dump. Look forward to talking to you.

Wyoming is the last bastion of those who think progressive activity means a cattle drive. My years there (middle school through junior year in high school) were spent butting my head up against a wall of ignorance so thick it made Berlin's look like a picket fence. My political consciousness was just coming about at that time, and reading books by Eldrige Cleaver, Che Guevara, and Noam Chomsky made me a real favorite in my staunchly conservative high school. Our principal was an ex-CIA man and never missed an opportunity to fuck with me, and the cops were always lurking nearby. I suppose I contributed to my reputation as a blackguard and hoodlum by having a creative sense of fun, and I think some of my youthful indiscretions are a matter of state record. No matter. I got out, and reflecting on Wyoming now, I'm glad I was forced to live in a stew of such basely atavistic humanoids because, pessimistic as it may sound, it gave me a concentrated taste of the world by and large and taught me to pick my battles and be discreet in my doings. Well, I guess that last one hasn't really sunk in yet.

Jackson is actually one of the better places you could have picked to live in Wyoming. The countryside is fantastically beautiful up there (have you been to Yellowstone yet?) and there are at least a few people with neurons firing. I knew some beautiful girls up there as well, mmm. Do you snowboard? What took you to Wyoming?

Heh. You're welcome, but really, I didn't write it for anyone but myself. I had to write that. I had to get through that, and get it out in coherent form. It is only incidental, really, that it seems to be touching other people as well. THough, as I said to someone earlier, it is always nice to get the reaction "That sounds like my life!" or similar from people. It's always nice to know you're not alone in your insanity, ha.

I read an article just like that a while ago; It was about how the brain can read the word as a whole if all letters are in disorder except the first and last. It's completely fascinating...