Chamblee54

Thank You Note

Posted in Library of Congress, Undogegorized by chamblee54 on January 15, 2021


This note was written by voice email. I dictated a series of emails, and now this is being edited into a semi-coherent whole. Stream of consciousness is more fun to write than to read. This will double as a blog post. Simiilar messages were sent in 2018 and 2019. Pictures are from The Library of Congress. These images are men who fought in the War Between the States.

I’m going to send you a thank you note. I got a calendar. There’s no pictures to comment on, but there is there a nice traditional calendar. Each day has annotations of the sunrise, and sunset, and moonrise and moonset. The appearance of the stars and of the garters and the various conundrum of rectilinear pacificity is in the invisible footnotes. This is what you should expect from a funeral home calender. I was in the parking lot of Kroger, waiting for my brother to do his shopping, while I dictated this.

I’ve just discovered there is a limit to how many words you can dictate into an email at one time. That’ll be handy to know. Part two will be getting back to the calendar from a funeral home, with the traditional notations on it. It’s kind of cool I mean yeah like it’s a traditional calendar, I can you know tell when the suns going to come up and go down. It’s very efficient. If you turn it over, on the back of June is July, on the back of May is August and so on and so forth. It’s going to be a handy item. The calendar that I’m really fond of using for my day today jottings …

Comes from a restaurant called El torero, which is a basic your basic Mexican carry out joint. A little bit overpriced, but it’s dependable. You call them, tell them what you want, and they never screw up takeout orders. It is the replacement for el Toro, which seems to have disappeared into the restaurant rabbit hole. The el Toro on Buford highway is long long long gone in the gentrification push of that highway. It is there sorely missed because they were it was like it was good basic food. …

The legend is that El Toro was owned by a wrestler named El Mongol who is kind of silly because he was supposed to be from Mongolia and he came over on a rice boat. The fact is he was from Mexico and his real name was Raul Molina. People for the come over on rice boats from Mongolia don’t know typically open Mexican restaurants. His his kids went to my high school. I think one of them passed away a few years ago but I haven’t had much much in contact with them over it but I never did have any contact with them. But getting back and getting back to my present afternoon in the Kroger parking lot I’ve been reading this book by …

I’ve been reading this selection from a story called the wild boys by William Burroughs. and even though and I suspect it’s written by the cut up method, and no, this this letter was not composed using the cut up method, although I can see how you might think that. That cannot be ruled out in the air during the editing process. Getting back to the wild boys it is really it is it it’s kind of difficult. Boroughs can be difficult, but you have to read it you have to read it slowly and consider that it’s not supposed to make sense, and just enjoy the words for what they sound like. Someone said his books are one long hallucination. What they saying goes beyond the traditional pedestrian meaning of the way books are written, and get into the Burroughs alternate route …

OK this is the last chapter of the story I’m going to take all of these emails and edit them when I get back home and that’s gonna be the end of this. I’m gonna send it off and you know it’s just a beautiful day here you know it’s nice and a little bit cool and it’s sunny the sun is out we haven’t had our winter storm for this year yet and hopefully we won’t have one on me usually if we’re gonna have some spectacular winter nastiness it comes in January and we’re halfway through January now and we had it hasn’t hit maybe we’re just going to have to I’ll be happy with that.

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