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HOLLOW_LANDS

                                             June     6, 2010
                                             October 25, 2013


    There's a subject I touch on every so often:

    I've always been something of a compulsive loner,
    but I've always *wanted* to have a people to call
    my own, a circle that I can belong to.

    In CometBus #53, there's an anecdote that
    resonates: the guy was coming home late
    after seeing a really good punk show, and
    he was still feeling too jazzed up to want     It's always been a
    to go home, so he just stayed on the G         grave disappointment
    train, and rode it all the way up to           to me that the only
    Greenpoint, where he dropped in at Angry       other people who want
    Donut Man and found a bunch of his friends     to live like speed
    hanging around at 3am on a Thursday night.     freaks are typically
                                                   just speed freaks.


    I can remembering being a teenager
    looking longingly at a group of cool
    kids hanging around on the football         When I actually talked
    bleachers out in the school yard            to one of them, I realized
    behind my house.  I often thought           they were actually pretty
    about how I would make the approach.        stupid.  Most likely they
                                                had all just been getting
                                                stoned every evening.

                                                   This was back in the early
                                                   70s, long before the nerds
                                                   had gotten their revenge.

                                                        But then, I *could've*
     GHOST         SUBTERRA
                                                        were-- did I feel like  
           BRAND_X           they were too damaged?


         Really:

         All friendships are provisional,
         temporary alliances.

         You can't expect too much from people.



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