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                                                                                                             Huntington, WV

Tuesday June 24, 2008

 

     10:11am  I just woke up.  I got six and a half hours of sleep last night.  I am just in awe at the magic that happened last night.  I got delivered to another safehouse.  This guy Stephen.  At first he told me he was a fighter.  In my head I thought drunk thug, at first.  He ended up being a professional fighter.  He’s only fought like five times in the last four years.  He’s only lost once.  He’s got a job doing other stuff.  He’s in great shape and health.  He does cage-matches and shit.    He’s a sharp twenty three year old kid.  He’ll be homeless pretty soon so he told me he wants to take off traveling.  I don’t know.  He’s in shape and he can keep up.  The more the merrier.  He can help me out with my mission.  There’s power in numbers.  I am so happy that I landed here.  They’ll let me tap some resources.  I can take a shower and do my laundry.  I’ve been telling my story like crazy tonight.  All day I’ve been reciting it like crazy.  It’s evolving and getting better.  Everything is speeding up.  It’s awesome. 

 

     3:13pm  I am leaving the house.  I thought I was going to go to Charleston today, but I’ll probably go tomorrow.  I don’t know.  Right now I’m going to walk into town and tell my story.

 

     3:28pm  Desiree just hooked me up with all these cigarettes in front of the SRBI place.  I appreciate it, Desiree.  Everybody gets credit.

 

     4:21pm  Hmm, we’re a little late.  I was walking from the house I crashed at last night.  I passed by some alley and Nic, some guy I told my story to at the riverfront when I first got here, we’re going to go smoke.  SRBI is where he works at.  I told my story to his pretty sixteen year old friend Desiree.  We’re going to go to the mission now so I can get some food. 

 

     5:41pm  CJ gave me an audience.  I’m telling my story here at Jeremy’s apartment.  They’re all listening to my story.  Melvin gave me a cigarette earlier. 

 

     7:00pm  Hell yeah, another great adventure today.  I’m having an awesome time in Huntington.  I’m going to go to Montgomery soon and see this beautiful Hawaiian princess Jamilyn.  I would so tell her, “If you weren’t with Nat, I would so want to take off traveling with you.”  I like Nat.  He should be very proud.

 

     7:44pm  I’ve been playing around with that idea for an Ohio trip.  Jeremy is giving me a destination in Ohio.  Jeremy: “In Rutland, Ohio there is a little skater commune called Skatopia.  It’s owned by Bruce Martin who is an international skater.  That’s all he’s done his whole life.  Out in the outskirts of Rutland he’s taken a farm and converted it into a big wooden skatepark.  He’s got a derby track, he’s got four wheelers, everything you need.  He has big work parties out there where he lets people come stay.  You can help him with his bowls and halfpipes and everything and he’ll let you stay in a trailer as long as you want.  Twice yearly he has these big parties.  He has Harvest Jam and he has Bowl Bash which is sometime during the summer.  You can go up there and he’ll take you in.  Every skater on the East Coast knows about Skatopia.”

 

     9:40pm  I haven’t been making too many entries today.  I’m having this beautiful adventure in Huntington, West Virginia.  That kid Nic I met earlier, he brought me over to this guy BJ’s house.  It’s a similar house to the one I crashed last night.  You go upstairs and all the living area is up there.  He’s even got a firepit in the back.  When I first got here I took on the project of stripping the wood from a box-spring with a hammer.  We had a nice fire.  Oh yeah, I had deer meat tonight, venison.  It was delicious.  I’m out here recording myself.  Let me take a picture of the fire.

 

     10:05pm  I am leaving from the house the fire was at.  I’m going to walk home to Eighth Street. 

 

     10:42pm  I came back to the house and everybody is here.  Thanks for signing my guestbook, Stephen.  We’re hungry and broke and I got the idea to walk out to the Domino’s where I scored when I first got into town.  Stephen, John and I are walking.  Maybe that cool driver Phil is working and he’ll kick me down another nugget. 

 

     11:09pm  Hell yeah, presto-manifesto.  We walked over to Domino’s and Phil was working again.  I asked him if they had any mistakes and he said, “No, but I’ve got you covered.”  He made me a whole pizza!  He said he didn’t have any weed today.  Dude, I totally called that shit.  Stephen and them were all hungry.  Stephen wouldn’t stop bitching about how hungry he was.  I went out and manifested us some food, hell yeah! 

 

     3:10am  I forgot to tell you.  We came back to Stephen and Josh’s house.  We got a good walk in tonight. 

 

     3:31am  I’m going to bed.

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