prague luck is green here i am. just saying hello. 020806 ... outer mongolia by way of roswell hello 020807 ... silentbob "you've never even been to prague." "oh, i've BEEN to prague....well i havent 'been to PRAUGE' been to prauge, but i know that thing...that stop shaving your armpits, read the unbearable lightness of being, talk about how bad american coffee is thing" 020807 ... unhinged over fifteen years ago, at easter time the second time in my life i ever got drunk, everywhere i looked my genetics smacking me in the face. i had a sorespot for kafka back then, there is a restaurant geared towards tourists that we ate in where he supposedly worked and lived, upstairs. since then, there have been many floods in the city. the face of europe has changed. it is in the midst of changing again, russia closing in on their once soviet brothers and sisters. i went there in the spring. there was beautiful yellow forsythia all over the countryside. the exchange rate was almost 40 to 1. you know, back then, when i had hope for the future. 140717 ... unhinged how_to_hustle_like_a_communist beer vending machines in the airport 140717 ... raze in another timeline, i grew up here and never learned to speak or write english. if that version of me met this one, we'd be strangers to ourselves. maybe i'll get the chance to soak my feet in the vitava river someday while sipping a pale yellow pilsner. i wonder if it'll feel like coming home in some indescribable, bone-deep way, or if i'll just be a tiny tourist in a city three times the size of my own. 220331 ... kerry i hope you do go someday, raze. i've been twice. the first time was with a guy i liked more than he liked me, and we only ate potatoes and drank beer, and i hitchhiked for the first time. the second time was eve's birthday and she was pissed i'd already gone without her. she fell asleep on a bus wearing a tutu. 220402 what's it to you? who go blather from