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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
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Easter 2009
Location: four hours ago, my couch eating cold cereal Mood: potentially sick Music: I like me so much better when you're naked
My birthday's this weekend but I've got more weddings to go to. Wedding season has begun again. So Heartgirl gave me my gift early.
LOGAN'S BIRTHDAY WEEKEND SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - APRIL 11-12 2009
Saturday, April 11, 200910:00 - Casa HeartgirlBreakfast by Heartgirl. I make the pancakes. She gives me presents: a good chef's knife and a bowl - cause it's about time, I guess. 13:00 - Intercontinental-Barclay HotelCheck in and have people call me, sir and Mr. Heartgirl. Walking distance to the joint that Leona Helmsley sued me over. Long story, I'll tell you about it someday (maybe). 14:00 - International Centre of PhotographyGet rained out so we just relax at the hotel. 18:00 - Smith & Wollensky'sOrder the fillet migion with Roquefort, she has the trout. Dessert is a coconut cake with vanilla ice cream. Note to self: Work out. 21:00 - Photography around Midtown East Sunday, April 12, 200911:00 - Breakfast at the Intercontinental-Barclay Hotel$65 for ok eggs benedict and coffee. Breakfast at Casa Heartgirl was better. 12:00 - Easter along 5th AvenueEvidently, during Easter, people put on all sortsa funny hats and parade about on 5th Avenue. 35 years and I did not know this. 13:00 - Crash other Expensive Hotels Heartgirl poses in front of a chocolate sculpture when a douche reaches over. just rips a piece of it right off and stuffs it into his pocket. 14:00 - West BranchOrder the cuban sandwich with fresh chips, she has salmon and a salad. Note to self: Really you fat bastard, work out. You're gonna be 36 soon. 17:00 - ChurchAsk for more days like these, if at all possible. Heartgirl catches me planning out a recipe during the sermon.  Today, spent the day running around looking for coin to pay my dentist and accountant, waiting in line at the bank, and trying to straighten out some mobile issues.
Days like the past weekend help me get through the rest of them.
 YASYCTAI: Plan a nice getaway, even if it's only in your head. Hopeful is good. (60 mins/1 pt) www.loganlo.com
Labels: birthday, Easter, grace, New York City, NYC
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Friday, April 10, 2009 |
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God the Car Salesman
Location: a green couch she hates Mood: optimistic Music: Hey, he said, grab your things, I've come to take you home.
Her: How can you believe in a religion where some people are saved and others aren't?
Me: I don't make the rules, I just try to follow them. Her: What about girls that are raped and killed for just being? And children murdered for being children, where's your god then? It's hard being a Christian in the big city. People look at you like you're nuts. They expect me to be or act a certain way. A weird form of reverse prejudice.
I doubt my religion alla the time. But I doubt it hoping, really hard, that it might be true. S'ok to doubt, I think. Everyone does it. Abraham, Mary, Thomas.
A girlie I dated once called religion: a nice fairy tale. But fairy tales, and most religions, tell you that if you're a good guy, you'll do fine. Like god is some sorta used car salesman you gotta bargain with just right to get the best deal.
Unless I'm reading it totally wrong, what I believe seems to say that if you're a good guy, you still get screwed. In fact, the gooder you are, the harder you get screwed. Consider:
- John the Babtist did everything right and got beheaded.
- Job did everything right and lost everything, everyone.
- Peter, the head of the first church, was crucified upside down.
- Mary, essentially a 16 year old kid, is a virgin and gets knocked-up only to live to see her son get killed as a criminal (I sorta feel she got screwed the most).
- Joseph finds out that his first born son isn't his either.
- Jesus did everything right and gets nailed to two planks of wood.
So what's the point of even trying then? I dunno. I also don't know the answer the questions above. I'm not a theologian. Not anything, really.
But maybe we should go do good, not cause there's a reward for our work in the end, but a debt we owe for our chances in the beginning. We owe it to the aether.
Her: I don't think I need god. I'm a moral person. Me: But we're still just people and people fail all the time. I wanna believe in something bigger than my own imagination. Something bigger than my own strength of will. What the human heart, if afforded one wish, truly wants is a do-over. A chance to get those chances again. Spring, Easter, it's all about rebirth. S'why we got all the pansy coloured egges. All about the do-over. My year always starts in Fall, yeah. But something about Spring, makes me hopeful. Happy Easter for those of you that read the same book as me. For those that don't, hope the sun is sunny where you are, you've got someone hot to make out with, and there's something grand on cable for you to watch. Actually, if you read the same book as me, I wish you the last three also. YASYCTAI: List the good things you've got. (60 mins/2 pts) Labels: church, dialogue, discussion, Easter
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