I lived in Newport beach for two years when I was 19-20 and fresh out of boarding school. I followed a girl out there and lived with her gay brother once she went back to the East Coast. I could never really connect with the SoCal mindset. I always felt like a stranger and like there was something I just wasn't getting. Needless to say it was an ongoing adventure...the few friends I had out there were really friggin' characters...including a gay buddhist monk(No Shit). I know where the courts in Laguna are...that place really is amazing, but full of nastiness. There was a cool little bookshop back in those little stores in the small downtown area...I used to do poetry jams with the gay monk.

Now I am 30 and working in an Agency in White Plains and for the most part, my life is nothing like I pictured it as a young, crazy poet surviving in SoCal for a bit. Ah me.

I just blogged in your blog, sorry, was feeling inspired.

I don't know you, other than through this, but you seem better and your face looks more peaceful in those pics. Soak up the sun and time with Baby Bungle...and the small freedom that you've earned. It's all that makes it worthwhile.

PoCho Pete Out!
PoCho Pete | 06.07.07 - 9:40 am | #

as i recall this was a heck of a read. i probably have recommended it before...

stand before your god by paul watkins

http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Befo...y/dp/ 0679759417
deion | Homepage | 06.07.07 - 9:42 am | #

low-budg

that's soooo SO-CAL

right along with

the ush (usual)

and other truncations. oh they kill me. that's how come i starting pedaling "AWS" but nobody is getting hunge on board with that.

go fig
pbdotc | Homepage | 06.07.07 - 10:36 am | #

I would ditch the Tuesday-Thursday projects and just hang out with Baby Bungle. You both look happy in those pics.
bc ny | 06.07.07 - 1:15 pm | #

you look so content--we are all jealous
Dipak | 06.07.07 - 8:05 pm | #

Those photos are too darn adorable. I just finished The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley. Story from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy who becomes a pawn in a love affair. Very British. Or Stop-Time by Frank Conroy, an even better one. Very American. Both good coming-of-age tales.
Christina | Homepage | 06.07.07 - 10:56 pm | #

i just found one in an old box of Udub stuff - 'pumpkin' by timothy kreiner. i'll try to scan that shit and send it to ya soon. think this is him? http://greenbelt.ucdavis.edu/kreiner.htm
vic | 06.07.07 - 11:35 pm | #

fuck it, just read Catch-22 again. Always good.

Baby Bungle looks great, as do you. Get that 'stache on, son.
Joe M. | Homepage | 06.08.07 - 12:06 am | #

If you're looking for some reading material, check out my blog:

http://quinnmedia.blogspot.com/

I write posts about being a Red Sox fan in New York.

And about being a trivia maven at a Red Sox bar in New York.
.The Omnipotent Q | Homepage | 06.08.07 - 1:31 pm | #

HANS! I, TOO, WILL BE ON HIATUS!
Joe M. | Homepage | 06.08.07 - 3:00 pm | #

aws! are you switching jobs? stuytown is just not ready for the sight of two moustachioed hunks running a baby fighting league in the oval.
hans | Homepage | 06.09.07 - 12:28 pm | #

baby verbungle is good for your health.
q.w. shnausenbongle, md | 06.13.07 - 7:11 pm | #

Once again, anyone posting with the name "The Omnipotent Q" on this site is a fraud. I do NOT promote my site here.
John | 06.22.07 - 1:56 pm | #