Dream (bit of a joke that)

In this dream I had a big argument to prepare for in court.   At 7 am I learned the hearing was across town in an hour, when I had thought it was at 1 pm.  I had planned to use the time between 8 and 1 to do all my preparation.

Next phase:

Realized what I prepared wouldn't probably do, as it addressed not the legal case to be argued, but rather the general political situation.  I had planned to say: 

I think the voters are starting to blame the Republicans for the lack of bipartisanship in Washington.  And the voters want bipartisanship, because the economy right now is like a giant boulder.  No one party by itself can move the boulder an inch.  But both parties working together can budget.

"As the mister says "Who steals my purse steals gold -- who steals my name steals trash" or something" -- Walt Kelly

Further news from the bar:

I'm too chill to be from LA.

News from the bar (traveller's edition)

In San Francisco,
Bulliet is the bourbon of choice.  Even the guy from Bosnia has learned that, after only a month.

In Los Angeles,
people just want to be cool.

In San Francisco,
people want to be cool but pretend otherwise.

Self-Reliance

Overheard the other morning:

"You don't know me. I don't need anyone to open doors for me.  I'll kick the doors in.  Fuck you.  And fuck God."

Character description

Heard in a bar:

"He's like William H. Macy in Fargo, times a million."

2012 Reading

The Legend of Pradeep Mathew -- Shehan Karunatilaka
The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Panorama City -- Antoine Wilson
Gone Girl -- Gillian Flynn
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti -- Milton Rokeach
Lost at Sea -- Jon Ronson
The Vault -- Ruth Rendell
The Mountain Lion -- Jean Stafford
Colorado's Iceman and the Story of the Frozen Dead Guy -- Bo Shaffer
The Twenty-Year Death -- Ariel S. Winter
Parsifal -- Jim Krusoe
A History of the World in 100 Objects -- Neil MacGregor
The Piazza Tales -- Herman Melville
Tenth of December -- George Saunders
There But For The -- Ali Smith
Trent's Last Case -- E.C. Bentley
Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder -- Walt Kelly
The Ghost Map -- Stephen Johnson
Cassandra at the Wedding -- Dorothy Baker
The Expendable Man -- Dorothy B. Hughes
Ben Jonson: A Life -- Ian Donaldson
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Vol. II, 1941 - 1956
The Collected Stories of J.G. Ballard
Black Water Rising -- Attica Locke
How Should a Person Be? -- Sheila Heti
He Died With His Eyes Open -- Derek Raymond
Arcadia -- Lauren Groff
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door -- Etgar Keret
Talking Heads' Fear of Music -- Jonathan Lethem
The Best American Essays 2011 -- Edwidge Danticat, ed.
The Heart of Dankness -- Mark Haskell Smith
The Trail of the Spellmans -- Lisa Lutz
The False Inspector Dew -- Peter Lovesey
Leaving the Atocha Station -- Ben Lerner
Hons and Rebels -- Jessica Mitford
Wild Thing -- Josh Bazell
What it Was -- George Pelecanos
The Lifespan of a Fact -- John D'Agata and Jim Fingal
A Sight for Sore Eyes -- Ruth Rendell
Footsteps -- Richard Holmes
Purgatory -- Tomas Eloy Martinez
The Art of Fielding -- Chad Harbach
Pulphead -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Sisters Brothers -- Patrick deWitt
Stay Awake -- Dan Chaon
Death Comes to Pemberley -- P.D. James
Babe -- Robert W. Creamer