081603

 

Berkeley, CA

Saturday August 16, 2003

     7:35am  It's Saturday. I woke up at the laundromat. I'm still kind of depressed. I really want to get out of Berkeley already, but there are some things I need to do before I leave. I need to get a disposable camera and take pictures. I need to get some Muscle Blast 2000, too. So, I'm going to start spanging. I need that stuff, though.

     10:02am  I made up a new sign. It says, "I need $10 so I can buy a disposable camera to take pictures of Berkeley for my webpage(for peace)." It has a little peace symbol on it, too.

     11:00am  Jill aka Poet was nice enough to give me some change. I appreciate it, Poet.

     12:54pm  I'm still flying my sign with not too much success. Zone came up and talked to me. He designs webpages for people and I made an appointment to meet him Tuesday at 2:00pm in front of Rasputin. Whoa, I really, really need a webpage. This could mean something.

     1:05pm  Amanda just gave me two bucks without me even asking. I appreciate it, Amanda. That's very generous of you.

     1:41pm  John hooked me up with a cigarette. That's very generous of you, brother. It'll come back to you.

     3:14pm  I smoked some weed, which made things a lot better. I'm in a much better mood. Earlier I was all pissed off and depressed. Oh, and I saw Bowie in the park, too. I thought he had already left. I was going to go with him to Salt Lake City, but I felt I had to go back to Arcata and ask around for El Jefe of NOFX instead. Man, I should probably get confirmation on where El Jefe lives before I go. For sure. It's just a rumor that he's in Arcata. But hell, I really need to talk to NOFX. Ahh, we'll see what happens.

     3:41pm  I walked up to the MLK building. I forgot they only open mon-fri. It really sucks not having any email, you know. The school shut down for the weekend for that big transitionary period preceding the first day of school. I sat down and saw this homeless guy who's been bumming cigarettes off me all day from that tobacco I didn't pay for. He asked me for another one and I rolled one. I was having problems rolling it. It was the wrong side of the paper. I was sitting there and all of a sudden I notice this black dude talking at the corner of the steps. At first I thought he was having a conversation with someone on the other side of the pillar, but then I saw that he was talking to himself. Crazy. He had headphones on and he's just talking to himself. This is hilarious. I wanted to get some of his gibberish on tape. I even snuck up behind the pillar to deposit my recorder in a good location. He stopped talking out loud, so I didn't get it.

     4:17pm  My day got a lot better. I'm out flying my sign some more and these two girls stopped and read my sign. They're both from the East Coast. They agreed with everything I said. They were like all excited about it. I told them how I was going to do it, but they walked off. They were going to go see the concert in the park. Badass man, my day just got a lot better. I'm all high, hehe.

     5:17pm  I just walked over to St. Marks and they just gave me a bag lunch, just like that. Badass. I got some Snickers candy, an egg, a little bag of Bitesize Mini sandwiches cookies, I got two carrot sticks, got a Capri Sun and a sandwich. Wow.

     7:16pm  Dude, I just ran into BJ, of all people. I grew up with BJ in San Antonio and he had moved to Oakland a couple months ago. He had sent me some really nasty emails thinking I was crazy. It was weird. I saw him right next to Amoeba. He gave me a cigarette.

     7:52pm  BJ gave me another cigarette.

     8:44pm  Cody just hooked me up with two cigarettes. I asked for one, he gave me two.

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