Capriciousness: the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses, but then, no plan survives contact with the enemy, so just keep climbing that hill.
Author Archives: The Mark
Slow talker
Keep talking slow talker, I’m billing by the hour.
On the bus
I like twenty-five cent peep shows and I like to feel smart. I’m riding the bus and I think you’re awesome because when I shiver you ask me why I don’t own a proper winter jacket. The Italian man on the bus is holding a strange black plastic bag tightly closed with a white hair clip. He is flirting with the women in the ivory coloured wool jacket. “I run around False Creek, ten kilometres,” he says in his charmingly askew English and points out the window into the darkness. “Cool,” she replies. “Do you want to go to Metrotown on Saturday and get your picture taken with Santa?” He laughs and tells her about a cocktail he invented and then about a sommelier who keeps poking him on Facebook.
To do list
To-do: pick up dry cleaning. Ta-da: fall in love.
The Driver
Is the driver jealous of Mr _____? Is it because of the woman? Does the driver somehow know the woman? Is their relationship complicated?
Process
Grrr-argh
Horny and overcaffinated, don’t feel like doing pushups, walls pounding with AC/DC, will make a salad instead.
The upside
“The upside is that I’m getting paid a lot of money. The downside is that I’m slowly boiling to death.” — Lobster vs Bureaucracy the Musical.
Mustache!
Mustache!
How to live
He swept his hand through his long greasy hair and stared out the rain splashed window. “If something interests you, see where it runs. That is all, nothing more.”