Six Ones

About a month ago I was driving my motorcycle and when I came to a stop I glanced at the odometer, and it read 111111. That’s 11,111.1 miles driven. Amazing. What is the likelihood that I’d come to a stop when all the numbers are the same? It’ll be another 11,111.1 miles before I could do that again, and there’s a good chance I’ll stop at 222227 or something.

Which I suppose would be cool if you’re into the show 227.

Hey, girl.

Why are we being quiet?

So according to Davis Starks, who was last spotted in my Gmail junk folder, an extra inch in my pants would mean an extra number in my phone.

However, Raquel Price informs me that an extra inch would give my lady friend an extra chance for reaching her final destination.

Agree to disagree.

Study: April Not Necessarily the Cruelest Month

In 1922, T.S. Eliot wrote, “April is the cruellest [sic (?) (does WordPress's spell check really know more than the GPE (Greatest Poet Ever)?)] month.”

However, April 2008 was not a cruel month for mcaaron.com. I noticed this when I was recently curious to see what I had written on this site over a year ago.

April 2008 may have been my best bloggin’ month. You should go check it out.

In that same sentence, Eliot goes on to write:

breeding lilacs out of the dead land,

(something I have not done)

mixing memory and desire,

(something I have done)

stirring dull roots with spring rain.

(something I have not done)

If you look up MC Aaron on Google Images, this is the first image:

Oh, there I am. That reminds me, I need to get a watch. The good news is, five of the first eighteen images are of me or otherwise involve this blog.

So I just realized that WordPress probably spells “cruelest” the American way, with one L, while Eliot spelled it with two. Ironic, considering he only has one in his last name, when most Americans with that last name spell it with two (and two T’s to boot).

Except Elliott Smith spells his first name the last name way. Rather than Elliot. Which would still be two L’s.

For Sleeping, Forever Ago

Insomnia is the worst. I forgot that New York gives me insomnia.

I should’ve become a fan of Sleeping on Facebook. Then this wouldn’t be happening, and plus then people would know that I am the type of person who finds sleeping enjoyable.

So I have some MC Aaron-related news. I rapped on Sirius radio with my pal zimlinghaus.com. We did “Whistlin’”. It was wonderful.

Hmmm, what else.

All this BBQ action has prevented me from eating pizza. I didn’t come to New York to eat veggie dogs!!!! Do you hear me?!?!?!!!!!!!

I wish I had gone to Grimaldi’s and walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. Only one more day and it doesn’t look like it’ll happen.

I wish I knew what this emoticon was thinking.

Memorial Tutorial

What is up.

I am on assignment in New York.

Went to two BBBBQ’s today. Going to two more tomorrow and one or two on Monday, followed by a salmon dinner at my bro’s.

So what is up.

Tonight I went to a bar with a couple fellas and a girl (Amy) and they had Three Philosophers beer on tap. I told the guys I was gonna order us beers and I ordered “three ‘Philosophers.” The waitress asked if I meant a Three Philosophers for myself or three Three Philosophers. So I told her I was ordering three ‘Philosophers, with an apostrophe.

She understood what I meant but looked at me like I was being a dick.

What a whore. She would for sure sleep with anybody.

Then the Lakers beat the Nuggets and I decided I don’t get Kobe haters – he tries so hard and cares so much, which makes him fun to watch.

Finally, this kid Brendan said he’s looking into electrolysis for his neck hair because whenever he shaves his neck hair he cuts himself. It’s called e-neck-trolysis.

His other option is looking like this:

Gaby, I Advise You Not to Read This Until You Watch the LO5T Fina1e

How can someone claim to be a fan of LOST and yet state that they hated the season finale? If you’ve been watching five seasons of a show, and you’ve trusted the writers, how can you not like an episode that reveals a ton of shit? How can you say, They suddenly revealed all this shit, it’s weird. Or, I don’t like where the show is going. The show is going where it’s going. I never get when people second-guess this sort of thing.

Another thing about LOST is, I hear a lot of chatter in which fans try and figure out what exactly is going down. We are given a little bit of information about a character or something – not enough information to know what he’s about, just enough to pique one’s curiosity – and people make guesses about what this guy is about. Which is, obviously, what the show is leading you to do.

We don’t have enough information to know what, for example, is the exact deal with Jacob. Or with there being one dead body Locke and one living Locke who seems to have been at least partially inhabited by somebody whose name we haven’t been given who wants to murder Jacob. So I’ll just know what facts the show has given me and withhold any decision. I’ll think of some possibilities, but know that they are just that: possibilities.

It seems that a lot of people don’t like to operate this way – at least, a lot of the peripheral people I encounter. They like to make their best guess and go with that until proven otherwise. Essentially, they are going by belief over fact.

The majority of the country is probably like this. Which is why people are so into religion. Believing in God, that there is some mission, some deity that cares about what we do, it’s more comforting to most people than saying, That whole God thing is a possibility, but that’s all it is. We have no way of knowing any of this.

Being an agnostic is the way for me. But fuck labels.

Peace out.

These Birds Don’t Know What Time It Is

Every night around 10:30 or 11, a few birds start chirping outside my window. Aren’t birds supposed to chirp in the morning?

Somewhere along the line, these birds got mixed up.

Or maybe they know exactly what they’re doing. Maybe these birds are super bad ass, they chirp whenever they want.

Not to be confused with birds who shit wherever they want, which is all birds, at least twice a week on the hood of my car.

[Insert comment about shitting inside a bird's nest here].

Nut Order

These are the top ten best nuts, in order:

1 Almonds
2. Pistachios
3. Peanuts
4. Brazil nuts
5. Cashews
6. Sunflower seeds
7. Walnuts
8. Macadamia nuts
9. To be announced later
10. To be announced later