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The Brother’s Wisdom
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“Driving past a crowd holding vigil in front of the apple store I am struck by the idea of Steve Jobs not as a visionary or great mind; but as the false prophet of disposable consumerism. That the collective has decided to bestow him the memoriam of a hero is sad and most accurately details why the 99% will fail in their occupations.”
we’re all fighting double digit inflation
STREETWISE!
Recognize.
I watched this on VHS. On a VCR plugged into a TV with something from Radioshack! With the man who made it happen. Wierd.
Occupy the 99%.
Respect.
Streetwise.
Freeez, that’s how I learned my vowels.
Is the end? Are you my friend?
Popcorn Love. But it’s more than that to me.
It’s more than that to me.
Goodnight, Tevatron.
Yesterday was an ending in American high energy particle physics. I sat with my brother and my friend, drank rum punches, and watched the live stream of the shutdown on a lap top along with about 3000 other people throughout the world.
Oh, the memories, the science, the particles… what a good time it was.
After it was all over, my friend ordered shots and we toasted Fermilab and the great work they’ve done for 25 years. We decided the only thing sadder than watching the particle beams shut down and the current leave the magnets was some recent video of Chimps released into the outdoors for the first time in their lives.
RIP Tevatron, yesterday was the end. But tomorrow, tomorrow will be a new beginning. For something. Else. Hopefully having to do with particle physics.
it is not yet named
you are, now, i don’t know. maybe 16? maybe 17.
months.
i loose track and i don’t like to count.
you’re 24 pounds and some number of inches and there are percentages of the population that are taller than you and there are percentages that are not. you like to slam your face into metal and drink water from pools in the asphalt. you like tow trucks and tractors and guacamole. you gave your mom a kiss for the first time today by trying to bite her nose. besides this and this, this is your favorite song:
you like to hold the phone up to your ear and nod your head and smile behind your sucker as you listen to this song about your brother being kidnapped, even though you don’t have a brother, anyway not one i know about. and about your dad being murdered and you leaving, going east… it’s not too relevant, i guess, to you, not right now and probably not for the foreseeable future, but…
i like to think that you have a sense of the journey you’re on, already having begun, the adventure that you’re facing, the fact that it keeps moving forward and a year and a half ago you were a lump laying in a field in vermont looking at blue sky too far away for your eyes to see and now you are, all of a sudden and surprisingly unexpectedly, a person.
and everything’s in front, there is no backward. things have yet to be named and the morning is still a surprise. one day, soon, it will be 27 years ago that you remember something, which, having happened, you regret. but that day is not yet here and i, for now, learn from you. remember from you. and try so hard to let the mistakes i have made fade.