Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

I remember my comic strips being called "new wave." It bugged me.

What year is it in your imagination?

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!

The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.