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It really is an easy job. The worst thing about it is having to wake up in the morning at 6:25 a.m. And if that’s all I have to complain about, I really have nothing to complain about. I do have to get to bed earlier than I did last night, or at least get back into the routine, which I neglected for the past two weeks

Mike has been outstanding filling in for Bill when Bill is on the road, and Bill is going to be gone for 2 weeks. Mike does have his beloved coming in for a few days, so I don’t know how that’s going to work out. We shall see…

So the United States has invaded Venezuela, taking out Maduro and his wife, and where the neighborhood bully is out on the same level as Russia and China doing whatever we want and by doing so it seems that Russia will be able to fully invade Ukraine and China will be able to take over Taiwan because if we can do shit like that why can’t they?

It’s probably going to be quiet here all week at the little fruit stand on Wednesday. I’ll be working at the major fruit stand all day, not my favorite, but it’s a small price to pay; it’s a good job that I have, and if I have to jump through hoops like that, then God damn it, I will.

I’m not sure if I ever followed that train of thought that I posted a few weeks ago about the first job and I had, and how easy it was for me because of the good graces of my mother. That set the tone for every job that I’ve had ever since.

I suppose on a large scale, I just never have taken any job that I’ve had too seriously, always hoping for either a revolution or something fabulous. Nothing has happened, but I have found myself in good situations with good people from Murdoch magazines to Skyline Studios to Right Track Studios to working for Arif Mardin and then Arista Records.

After Arista, I was at Staffmark and didn’t take it seriously at all, which they probably got tired of and showed me the door, which I had seen when I was walking through it. Then I wound up at Putnam Lovell AKA wanker banker, which is how I pronounced them in 2005, and I just started this here blog

And even though it was uptight and financial, I still didn’t take it seriously. Working for Wolff Olins is incredibly stupid, and my dedication to it was diminishing at best, and I still did not take the job seriously.

I suppose I should start taking this position seriously. What else do I have to do?
I enjoy the people I work with, they seem to enjoy me, and it’s a good position. If I have to work at the fruit stands headquarters for a few hours in the middle of the week so be it. I can do it, I’ve done it before, and I will do it again

With Mike around, I watched a lot of movies. I finished the first John Wick movie of all four of them. We watched The Lord of the Rings extended editions, we also watched The Dead Zone, and a few other things which escape me at the moment.

Last year, I discovered Labi Siffre only 55 years after he arrived on the scene. This song that got me was called bless the telephone which was quite touching and beautiful, and still moves me. I played that as well as the Hammond song by the Roches.

I sort of expected a road to Damascus moment with regards to Mike hearing this music and having him say oh my Go,d this is beautiful, what is this but it didn’t register like that at all if it registered at all.

Mike is a hip hop kid, and that’s what he knows, and he has taken to ribbing me about my Beatles infatuations.

There’s about two and a half hours left of my workday. I died for Monday, not bad for a return to work, people to come in, but didn’t stay long since there was nothing happening, and it doesn’t seem like anything is happening here at this fruit stand for the most of this week.

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A draft from January 4, 2025
Mary Louise Parker and Ben Affleck are a couple interviewing people for their NPR radio show and their stories of problems there is also a version starring Chloe Sevigny and Paul Mescal in Edinburg. Martha Keavney and I were supposed to be interviewed by Parker and Affleck in their big apartment on Hudson St in a reimagined Hoboken.

The reimagined Hoboken was familiar in parts and quite lush and verdant in other parts. It was a very nice place to visit but it was fleeting nonetheless.

That dream led into an office dream which had me wandering around an office where old friend Excer Rivera worked and I was running around desks and potted plants while trying to avoid Michael Burton from Burton & McGrotty and seeing Jim Lecovich a former co-worker from a financial management company I worked at.

These were vivid dreams I had on Saturday morning before fully waking up. It was a good rest. Friday was a fun day. Bill was bussing middle school skiers in North New Jersey. I went over to Mike’s crib in Jersey City. The whole thing was an experience. I was on the 87 bus from Hoboken terminal. It’s a meandering route that included a stop at Journal Square. The whole ride was about 30 minutes more or less.

It was easy to do and more than likely be done again. Mike’s apartment doesn’t have much by way of furniture but it is his first flat of his own and things will be happening piecemeal I think. Money is tight so he has an air mattress and that’s about it.

He’s a special kind of guy, that Mike. He’s enamored of Bill and myself, specifically our relationship. He’s never seen two geezers in a loving relationship like Ernie & Bert, I mean, Bill and me. And I’ve discussed our relationship with Mike. It’s good to have someone to talk to about such things even if they’re not in the relationship though I had certainly tried before.

Mike and I wound up taking various arty shots in the crib and that was a lot of fun. And other than that we just layabout chatting away the hours and waiting for a Lyft.

Right now Bill and I are watching Dont Look Back by D.A. Pennebaker, it’s a documentary on Bob Dylan’s tour of the UK in 1965. Right before he ‘went electric’. Bill never had seen it before and he did enjoy A Complete Stranger, the Bob Dylan loose biopic that was just recently released.

Timothee Chalamet plays and sings Bob Dylan in the flick and Edward Norton was great at portraying Pete Seeger. Bill and I watched a clip of Pete Seeger on America Now with Amy Goodman from a few years back on YouTube. I was impressed that Edward Norton had the sound of Pete Seeger’s voice down pat.

At some point I will show Bill, Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There which could be difficult to digest and I think Masked and Anonymous would be interesting for Bill to watch but it’s not streaming anywhere, at least not for free. I do have the DVD but ugh, who wants to plug in that device?