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Approaching Gloom

I stare at the white walls and think about the film The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman.

You can’t live without a paintbrush.

All I do is walk around, falling deeper into shaving cream.

The milkshakes have all melted into Apple Jacks.

Life seems so incomplete.

I want to blow the candles off a birthday cake for no reason.

A couple climbs into a black SUV, wearing face masks in ninety-degree weather on a Sunday morning. Nobody says anything.

A kid walks in with a black t-shirt on and earbuds in his ears, and walks back outside just for the hell of it.

There’s a canker sore on my lip that I keep biting. It won’t go away.

I once saw a lady with pink hair and the eyes of a fish.

There’s no one to disagree with.

I’m sick and tired of seeing people waddle like Charlie Chaplin to a Target.

A security guard steps in with a green shirt.

Is it too hard to beg for an ice cream cone?

I can’t lift a finger these days. What does lifting a finger even mean?

We live in a world where chocolate-covered raisins are more popular than chocolate-covered peanuts.

She held the phone to her ear as she opened the door.

“Hey, man. Can you tell me what the time is in Zimbabwe?”

I parked my car here and left the car in drive.

The jeep rolls along with a dog poking its head out the back window.

I wish I had wings on my arms.

The STOP sign says hello, and I don’t say hello back.

The gray clouds greet the mountains, and all I can think about is Pizza Hut.

I’m all alone in here except for the staff, and they ignore me completely.

Yesterday I never had a bowel movement.

Chinese food makes me itch.

If a cow jumps over the moon, why can’t I write something as ridiculous as that?

I see a man wearing fluorescent green gloves just in case he has to walk at night.

I see people waiting for their emptiness before they leave.

There’s nothing left to do in this small town.

Tomorrow I’ll try to piggyback someone, but I don’t hope for much.

My car is parked in the shade.

I once wrestled someone and grabbed a beer with him afterward.

I haven’t got much time left.

My arms are cold; my legs are restless.

I miss the day when I dissected frogs–much simpler times.

My ego is held by drawstrings.

Who the hell drinks ginger ale?

It’s been a long time since a salesman has knocked on my door.

My next birthday present will be a chainsaw.

I eagerly anticipate a clown to trip on the sidewalk.

It isn’t quite yet time to panic.

I once asked a man for fifteen cents. He looked at me with contempt in his eyes before he walked away. He was a shutterbug.

Hospitals need dance music.

I’m seeing the ugliest green BMW I’ve ever witnessed in my life.

There’s an exit sign on both doors.

A friend of mine once told me she ate steak by the pool.

A man climbs out of a vehicle with his glasses in his teeth.

They don’t like being called redheads. That’s how it is these days.

I like to wake up in the morning with a hunger for bagels and lox.

Blame it on sweaty handshakes.

Random Thoughts About Serial Killers.

I sometimes wonder how a killer comes to be. Is it a person who was raised not so well? I guess there comes a time when people just go nuts and kill a bunch of other people at a park or a museum. People are fascinated by these killers. Television shows present them as nefariously godlike creatures who are somehow special over all of us.

There was a show in which a famous host devoted time to interview a man who was indicted for a bunch of murders. Apologetic was the killer and polite as well, and even more polite than you or me. It came as a surprise. I didn’t think he had it in him, but apologies aside, he still committed murder in the worst degree, in which he lured a bunch of women to his car. The seventies were when the murders took place. And now the killer sits in prison for the remainder of his life. What thoughts ran through his head before he chose to kill them? At least he showed his honesty, displaying no remorse. It made me angry. I don’t watch those shows too often.

Like I said, some people are obsessed. Perhaps they’re too concerned with how they feel. What if they worry that they might have intent to kill? And so they watch and watch the interviews to make quite sure that they’re not murderers.

I wonder if a killer sits at home and watches shows like these. Suppose Ted Bundy used to watch the interviews of incarcerated murderers out of interest, not idolatry. Or he idolized them after all. Who knows? It’s hard to think he would. I can’t imagine killers of his nature watching television anyway.