tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29348784945493915142024-03-13T01:44:57.963-07:00standardkinkThe Writing Portfolio of James Bezerrajameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05182341275876898767noreply@blogger.comBlogger3018125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-79236952008267812272024-02-08T16:07:00.000-08:002024-02-08T16:07:00.127-08:00Captain Space Pirate, Adrift<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Adrift</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e892a1e-7fff-ecd3-6174-e7cc97d6140d"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate is adrift out past Neptune. His holds filled with pilfered energon of the wrong formulation to power the ship. The crew went quiet when the engines went quiet and went quieter still when the lights went dim. This is not a proud day for Captain Space Pirate. </span></p><div><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-57067106557559442042024-02-07T16:09:00.000-08:002024-02-07T16:09:00.136-08:00Captain Space Pirate, Leaves<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Leaves</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-bf1c7be8-7fff-a9ef-30dc-0f573b128134"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, freshly docked, ordered a round for his crew and for the briefest of moments thought that he registered in the eye of the bartendress a glint of recognition. By the time the steins were filled, their ship was already pulling away from the airlock.</span></p><div><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></span></div></span></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-1167655593769137532024-02-06T16:07:00.000-08:002024-02-06T16:07:00.136-08:00Captain Space Pirate, Moon<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Moon</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e5da07b9-7fff-b911-d9f7-ff96b03430a0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, finally in orbit of Venus, learns for the first time that the planet Venus has no moons. Quietly he gives the order to the Weapons Bay to power down the very expensive Moon Blaster 7000. Down the narrow steel hall from the Weapons Bay he hears a disdainful chortle from one of the crew. Probably Sven.</span></p><div><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div></span></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-80122346668636301992024-02-05T15:56:00.000-08:002024-02-05T15:56:00.130-08:00Captain Space Pirate, Traumatized<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Traumatized</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d070ec0a-7fff-1573-1378-8217576ddfbc"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, never one for routine maintenance, has not been inspecting the seal on the helmet of the suit of his new parrot and so suffered the entirely preventable trauma of watching Archibald expire while reconnoitering the hull of a freighter out past the Galilean moons.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div></span></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-52062131348865529972024-02-04T15:56:00.000-08:002024-02-04T15:56:00.247-08:00Captain Space Pirate, Eroding<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Eroding</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-83917f32-7fff-2e2a-b377-a6a47deaece4"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate finds solace in a single pink grain of sand he found on the floor of his cell. Licked his finger and pressed it to the grain of sand. Held his fingertip just beyond his nose. Wondered from where in the solar system such a grain would have come. Wondered how it had made it to this cell. On whom? And what their fate might have been. He rolls the grain between his thumb and forefinger, eroding it into just a pink nothing. </span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div></span></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-85552923996925552532024-02-03T15:54:00.000-08:002024-02-03T15:54:00.129-08:00 Captain Space Pirate, Son<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Son</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e3c1cc1-7fff-a1f2-cae9-113ab233a2d8"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate powers down the ship into the shadow on the dark side of the moon, hiding out from the Rangers. He glimpses his reflection in the porthole window as the sun crests below the curve of Kepler Crater and his aged face reminds him in his memory of his father and how once as a boy he told his father that one day he could become a Ranger and how his father had grinned a grin that exposed the glimmer of his big gold tooth as he said, "No my son, you will not."</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div></span></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-87678016282523692722024-02-02T15:53:00.000-08:002024-02-02T15:53:00.132-08:00 Captain Space Pirate, Gardener<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Gardener</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-1f767b1b-7fff-bba3-9d9b-42ae768f6741"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate is alone in his stateroom when from the small safe once intended for the sealed orders for captains of the Fleet, he removes the dog eared paperback he'd taken in the last moments before sealing the airlock on that doomed research station in orbit of Callisto. His bookmark patient. As they watched the burning hull of the station fall toward the orbit of Jupiter, Sven had asked him why, amongst all the expensive research gear they'd not had the time to take, he'd wasted one of his hands grabbing a book, and a book about gardening no less. Captain Space Pirate, whose fingertips - when young - had once known the wet texture of soil, fixed his eyes on the receding research station and pretended not to hear.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div></span></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-47909637484891978012024-02-01T15:51:00.000-08:002024-02-01T15:51:00.147-08:00 Captain Space Pirate, Boarding<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Boarding</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-9f9c01f0-7fff-3205-ed50-24254f072fc0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, on the bridge, receives the distress signal of a colony ship seven weeks out of Europa Base and eagerly orders his boarding party to arms.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div></span></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-73098151349315757282024-01-31T15:50:00.000-08:002024-01-31T15:50:00.130-08:00 Captain Space Pirate, Gaze<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Gaze</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-33c41c54-7fff-405d-b850-946904c7742e"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, who lives among the stars, still - in quiet moments - gazes out the pothole at the more distant stars and still wonders what it would be like to live among them.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div></span></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-40310975452633718622024-01-30T15:49:00.000-08:002024-01-30T15:49:00.129-08:00 Captain Space Pirate, Mutiny<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Mutiny</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f82a6a32-7fff-5635-20d6-de8f0ed87644"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Captain Space Pirate, always weary of mutiny, closes the airlock before Sven makes it back up the ladder.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-33356475183949855602024-01-29T15:48:00.000-08:002024-01-29T15:48:00.142-08:00 Captain Space Pirate, Beyond Pluto<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Beyond Pluto</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-357d540a-7fff-685d-4860-8422b45e1ba5"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, evading two Ranger Cruisers by pushing out past the moon Hydra, accidentally and forever unknown to anyone, becomes, for the next seven years, the human who has traveled the furthest from the planet Earth. He is apprehended when, terrified, he circles back toward Pluto. </span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div></span></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-80214681249476163632024-01-28T15:46:00.000-08:002024-01-28T15:46:00.128-08:00 Captain Space Pirate, Bloody Booty<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Bloody Booty</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-bc18a969-7fff-9a96-a354-f0f2d0424582"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, befuddled, explains to the Rangers that he does not know how that crate of energon cells bound for the Triton Moonbase ended up on his ship. Or why it is so bloody.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div></span></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-1210473400227503112024-01-27T15:43:00.000-08:002024-01-27T15:43:00.128-08:00Captain Space Pirate, Galley<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Captain Space Pirate, Galley</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-b80ec842-7fff-242f-ae3d-ce6bae9036ee"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Captain Space Pirate, insomniatic in the galley hoping to find food he had not found when he'd looked before, found the not yet dead body of a termite. It's scurrying across the bolted down steel table deranged and nonsensically erratic. Why are you in space? he thought to ask it but then didn't, to conserve his energy.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-91142690647280866102023-02-10T08:34:00.004-08:002023-02-10T08:34:38.105-08:00Found Art - Black Square Print Error<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidQQ2sQNB-HA0rXcd3zXbWj8saHSdDcTM0R24IKyYRGdMS_EDrfHqE--ngIMdyQXPMRdapkSo0YT0TOCUPDgyDhTCZzxXeg5XZJnbagP2kA5Putkzib24nUVQ-EF57V0-qhCQ2XA9qZa1hQviG0xgyyyyLyg3jNJ99rzUxSTeCE-K099dkTitOKIrH/s1650/Found%20Art%20-%20black%20square%20print%20error.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1275" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidQQ2sQNB-HA0rXcd3zXbWj8saHSdDcTM0R24IKyYRGdMS_EDrfHqE--ngIMdyQXPMRdapkSo0YT0TOCUPDgyDhTCZzxXeg5XZJnbagP2kA5Putkzib24nUVQ-EF57V0-qhCQ2XA9qZa1hQviG0xgyyyyLyg3jNJ99rzUxSTeCE-K099dkTitOKIrH/w494-h640/Found%20Art%20-%20black%20square%20print%20error.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-66049995779004505762022-05-13T21:13:00.002-07:002022-05-13T21:16:02.266-07:00It is starting to feel good to write again.<div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">How often I say, I can’t complain</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and then complain.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">My apartment, if you’re reading this</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">is bigger than yours.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not to brag.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I asked for the smallest thing they had</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and they said here</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">A place so big you can haunt it.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch the sunset through the trees</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />over my climate </span>Mediterranean<span style="font-family: inherit;"> balcony<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">way deep into November.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even doing it now. Pink light</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">through spiky little fingers</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">of pine needles. Yeah, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">yeah I got trees,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">they're older than me </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And a cat</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">so very very very</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">very fat </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">happy?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And I’m not that far behind</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and yet</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">this body always runs</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">when I ask it to run.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This body always stands up </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">when I’ve asked it </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and one day I know</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">It won’t.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">But, baby, you should see me run.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m not good, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">but imagine a pony, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the dumbest </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the dumbest pony you can imagine.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">On a beach, happy to be there</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">just running</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">running</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">running</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">running like it is all it ever wanted to do and all it will ever be happy to do.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just the happiest and just dumbest fucking pony</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">heels </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">clicking in the air on the up-swing.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dumbest; happiest </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">between miles one and three</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">this body runs</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">like it wants me to be happy.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And I know it always won’t.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And I can’t complain </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">because sometimes I drive back from the Target</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and see this big old hawk hang</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">big old heavy up there</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">big old heavy in this white ocean air</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Big Old Heavy just lives up there and I</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">just live out here </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">alone </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and just</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">haunt this big old place and </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I can’t complain</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I often say</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">this place is haunted</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I often say</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">but I can’t complain</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because the square footage and the hawk,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and the Target nearby, and the ocean, the good running.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">How often I say </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I just though</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">can’t complain.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-70271987581065929772022-05-09T21:14:00.004-07:002022-05-09T21:14:45.930-07:00Just a simple little piece of writing.<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <b id="docs-internal-guid-e976d0d9-7fff-e562-cd4f-3c64e25ad889" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today I:<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">made a comic strip people<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like using</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nothing but my brain at 5am.<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did yoga using nothing<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but this old body, these old limbs.</span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Worked and worked work for<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eleven hours on a Monday<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">even though no</span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">one made me even<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">though I know <br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">no one will remember </span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">today.<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ran a 5k I didn’t even mean to,<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but the light was a nice purple,</span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the dirt mostly sand and <br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I didn’t see <br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">another person for forty-five minutes.</span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Made a simple<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dinner that wasn’t even sad,<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">only remarkably plain,</span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and today I wrote<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this and even though<br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it ‘s no good,</span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I still made it <br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">today. </span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><b style="font-weight: normal;">.<br /></b><b style="font-weight: normal;">.<br /></b><b style="font-weight: normal;">.</b></span></div><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-82479209593836013132022-01-10T19:53:00.001-08:002022-01-10T19:53:00.240-08:00Plants I Have Drawn Recently: 7<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi37bWXg-HnPA6vwvkOifw_yW7uqhBt16chHnK5HoZ8jZrvAoQ4C82r2nzaFBR8Hf2DymiAtozxP9pXKceJagwyubDD9nxuijeEap4JB1QdMJsGysDjW4GPOq3co0NCRecfQRMlEXbTZNirxQJioDxltvHLUQpVF8pup9wPy9KMETgwKnM_WRixLg6u=s1800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi37bWXg-HnPA6vwvkOifw_yW7uqhBt16chHnK5HoZ8jZrvAoQ4C82r2nzaFBR8Hf2DymiAtozxP9pXKceJagwyubDD9nxuijeEap4JB1QdMJsGysDjW4GPOq3co0NCRecfQRMlEXbTZNirxQJioDxltvHLUQpVF8pup9wPy9KMETgwKnM_WRixLg6u=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-29105209994286228692022-01-09T19:51:00.002-08:002022-01-09T19:51:00.242-08:00Plants I Have Drawn Recently: 6<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwVNIKqjslLDLAwb7wTvVVz3ROX0g-WmTi4uYGIezXoZ2Wi0hVmEnI0HNKtcLpQNhBuk7aOQOHw2Y5eEAfBHReQAaBl64eJc3BUiXraPrFCd3zOKQKNRYyUUbCNDhj2igSbmq9drFDe_I9tG0k-3pZ16GJKI1xduTyMdwWzNtPCVvhho5rc9HS0Hg-=s1800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwVNIKqjslLDLAwb7wTvVVz3ROX0g-WmTi4uYGIezXoZ2Wi0hVmEnI0HNKtcLpQNhBuk7aOQOHw2Y5eEAfBHReQAaBl64eJc3BUiXraPrFCd3zOKQKNRYyUUbCNDhj2igSbmq9drFDe_I9tG0k-3pZ16GJKI1xduTyMdwWzNtPCVvhho5rc9HS0Hg-=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-7584265191380450872022-01-08T19:50:00.001-08:002022-01-08T19:50:00.240-08:00Plants I Have Drawn Recently: 5<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0ex0xTYr4kdtDOTJuq9v3Pu7OY4l2kH7_km_zi7rOGytyn3Icx6dHne5c1m_l6-Pu6wjVvTAGC5KAltB8CggI7t9Lul8OyzCaWJBse-PbLjqSZ38K13K2mBUXLZTubeTlXAZTKeon_R4StzNljdCIEEWJ39IiN1zkffpBdgWjlDc60VXZnGTjfrGy=s1800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0ex0xTYr4kdtDOTJuq9v3Pu7OY4l2kH7_km_zi7rOGytyn3Icx6dHne5c1m_l6-Pu6wjVvTAGC5KAltB8CggI7t9Lul8OyzCaWJBse-PbLjqSZ38K13K2mBUXLZTubeTlXAZTKeon_R4StzNljdCIEEWJ39IiN1zkffpBdgWjlDc60VXZnGTjfrGy=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-37139112305687058812022-01-07T19:49:00.002-08:002022-01-07T19:49:00.241-08:00Plants I Have Drawn Recently: 4<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXO2oMmswqA6IORkjG6W4Kc9B03BxX33pF3SKiIdPi8qcSUbG2AhpeQ5HUfu4SLzkk635otl44gkENH9KKcXp4V2WSCyLxB0B4NbIA_qQdqO__GAClhK-iAq3qWq_ACSsiaEJ_7yeGhzc1oUJ-SMUQnXFscfZp0toRyLW7WiROp-ZbS6xi6QkdAZiV=s1800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXO2oMmswqA6IORkjG6W4Kc9B03BxX33pF3SKiIdPi8qcSUbG2AhpeQ5HUfu4SLzkk635otl44gkENH9KKcXp4V2WSCyLxB0B4NbIA_qQdqO__GAClhK-iAq3qWq_ACSsiaEJ_7yeGhzc1oUJ-SMUQnXFscfZp0toRyLW7WiROp-ZbS6xi6QkdAZiV=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-71035711251862985652022-01-06T19:47:00.001-08:002022-01-06T19:47:00.242-08:00Plants I Have Drawn Recently: 3<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNMIYJNmaDNRDX_JN54oJOqxSVyq0UbXMbykRZFMjch8zMNCcM8hmi7g82tMvChyE71mniLHvHm2_3RZXZ2NAjtAsqbP2oHJBg3_4Ihnu6ZCNTsKi6AA8GXKdAY3IAqsfdyIc6r2MdZVq_axTTm1VUhE5gKw2VFjXwm8fxT15ss066OYh4pa_hMJVJ=s1800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNMIYJNmaDNRDX_JN54oJOqxSVyq0UbXMbykRZFMjch8zMNCcM8hmi7g82tMvChyE71mniLHvHm2_3RZXZ2NAjtAsqbP2oHJBg3_4Ihnu6ZCNTsKi6AA8GXKdAY3IAqsfdyIc6r2MdZVq_axTTm1VUhE5gKw2VFjXwm8fxT15ss066OYh4pa_hMJVJ=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-74272367291102299832022-01-05T19:46:00.001-08:002022-01-05T19:46:00.232-08:00Plants I Have Drawn Recently: 2<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3_t5STMUIfyZW1ZHyV31fA_ffI4oHYKJcic6VRCEon3MtJ1oyb5pw2vB799IQi3VmkrDd10OkP4FA3nRKKkbb8rWgp49cBiudthdieWJmzrDpp_GsfSqP-JxVzs-_ncVdv_7dzxmZLYQ7kJjtHXz89Vbe6lTWWgyJEdy-KIO6v6cvlsuME3LoU2O1=s1800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3_t5STMUIfyZW1ZHyV31fA_ffI4oHYKJcic6VRCEon3MtJ1oyb5pw2vB799IQi3VmkrDd10OkP4FA3nRKKkbb8rWgp49cBiudthdieWJmzrDpp_GsfSqP-JxVzs-_ncVdv_7dzxmZLYQ7kJjtHXz89Vbe6lTWWgyJEdy-KIO6v6cvlsuME3LoU2O1=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-23381307844673258282022-01-04T19:45:00.007-08:002022-01-04T19:45:56.002-08:00Plants I Have Drawn Recently: 1<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg198G-aJwl3Zc5wO4mMRwmWC5nItgT6llynSW-y0vnTdoKhicF_o_0k6PKIpFhKcfOXS4242RXtJZClyUpefaLnyCxLzdiToJE1sVqQCUmbR_eYmBanTi2-4WXC6vnsZiEIlXXnM7MyZ5mYEgdDyXEdF3LGWANSu20ZSq1u9sqFiiNuvr_9xGjPpI=s1800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg198G-aJwl3Zc5wO4mMRwmWC5nItgT6llynSW-y0vnTdoKhicF_o_0k6PKIpFhKcfOXS4242RXtJZClyUpefaLnyCxLzdiToJE1sVqQCUmbR_eYmBanTi2-4WXC6vnsZiEIlXXnM7MyZ5mYEgdDyXEdF3LGWANSu20ZSq1u9sqFiiNuvr_9xGjPpI=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-39761880802046177342021-09-27T06:04:00.000-07:002021-09-27T06:04:02.452-07:00Wish Me Luck.<span id="docs-internal-guid-ad6d712e-7fff-b7df-3de1-477f2cb03cee"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today will be a good day. Today will not be a great day.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My current operating philosophy is that most of the days of our lives are unremarkable. Quick: what were you doing 14 Tuesdays ago??? </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You have no idea at all.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And that is the point.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So what I’ve been trying to do is make sure that the ho-hum standards days are at the very least, good.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So what’s good?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Good is a day when we do more than work and more than stress and more than simply call it a success when we manage to cloth and feed ourselves. I have started getting up at 5am and OMG it is terrible, but it isn’t actually, it is just hard.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I make coffee and do one of my silly little drawings that I post each weekday on </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instagram</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (standard_kink) and I sit down to do a little bit of writing. Even 20 minutes is 20 minutes of writing that I wouldn’t have gotten done otherwise (today, for instance, I am writing this). I’m about to go do yoga for a half an hour, then I will clean up at leave for work at 7am.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I will work hard, but I will not let it consume me. I will leave (more or less) on time at 4, I will drive back here and then I will go for a run. I have budgeted an hour and 15 minutes every day for a run. The problem I’ve been having lately is that I’m still getting used to waking up at 5am, so by running time I have been just all tuckered out like a little baby. But some days I still manage to run and today I am going to get it done. I am not a good runner (I’m actually pretty slow and bad at it), but what I lack in talent or physicality or speed, I more than make up for in … actually, I’m kidding, I don’t make up for any of that in any way. And yet, I will still go.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After running I will clean up and make dinner. I’m largely off of meat now, so learning how to cook new things has been a challenge, but I’m learning.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After dinner I have an hour budgeted to write. Then another hour to read. Then I am supposed to go t bed SO EARLY because that is the only way to make getting up at 5 sustainable.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What I am describing is not a spectacular day, not one for the history books, but it is a good day. To you it may sound downright miserable, and I get that, but to me any day when I can run, write, and read (RWR) all in the same 24 hours, that is a good day. Since, in the long run, I am not going to remember this day anyway, I might as well make it a day that I can feel good about. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who doesn’t need more of those in their life?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Right now it is 6am. Wish me luck.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934878494549391514.post-1821777008402811532021-08-06T08:12:00.002-07:002021-08-06T08:12:43.652-07:00Power to the Plants!<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Okay, so hear me out:</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-22d0f2fa-7fff-2454-753a-45d5ac8e5ff7"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A cartoon show for kids about plants as superheroes. It all starts out cute, as you’d expect. Then in the natural progression of the show over seasons they start battling “polluters” and then it becomes “corporate polluters” and then it becomes “extractive corporate polluters” and then “capitalist extractive corporate polluters” and then “capitalist corporations” and then “capitalism” and then “capitalists” and now a whole generation is wearing berets and rejecting the essential tenets of a profit driven society. They stop working in offices. They start farms on rooftops. They ban billionaires. Healthcare is free. They don’t pay rent. The entire current economic paradigm collapses. It turns out people are happier and healthier. The plants did that. It turns out theory really were superheroes.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember how Captain Planet taught people my age that protecting the environment was an individual’s responsibility? That’s because it was made by a capitalist corporation.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But who are we kidding? Have you heard that koan about how it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did you know that in Mexico the firearm maker Colt’s Manufacturing Company sells a handgun engraved with the likeness of Emiliano Zapata, whose name and philosophy of agrarian socialism have been adopted by the Zapatista Army of National Revolution? Capitalism is wild.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>jjbezerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488363755958357728noreply@blogger.com0