the reality tunnel

The Mark Of Borf: “The mysterious, ubiquitous and eminently destructive graffiti artist known as Borf was arrested yesterday after waging a months-long campaign that may have been intended to enlighten Washington, but mostly just confused us.”

You are on tour in a school bus with about 30 other people. Today, you are in Athens, GA. You ride a borrowed bicycle around town and you remember that the person from whom you borrowed the bicycle once had his knee shattered in a bike accident. So, you also remember to stop at all [...]

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I tell people this frequently, because I am quite pleased with myself when some off-hand observation that I make turns out to bear more than a morsel of truth. I often feel awkward around very drunk people because they find an optimism, an excitement, an inspiration even, in the things around them, and I just [...]

Spoonboy saw the following graffiti in a bathroom at a gas station: “Niggers – God’s only mistake”. Below it was the retort, “Racist faggots can suck a dick” (or something equally offensive). He painted over both sentences.

For a town with places like the ACRC, filled with lots of zines, magazines, and books about interesting, challenging ideas; or bands like Trouble Trouble Trouble playing awesome, smart songs; there sure is a lot of silly quasi-political graffiti up around this town. Oh yeah, our bus got tagged at the show in Asheville. My [...]

I’m doing okay, really I am, but this is largely contingent on me being in my own little world, and largely contingent of me maintaining a certain ignorance or indifference to my tourmates. This is because the second I look over at someone and see them looking crazy, I feel crazy. I was trying to [...]

I guess I’ve gone and am going to a lot of places on this tour, though I wonder, for all the time spent at shows, how much of them I really get to see. Still, I’ve been thinking about places a whole lot. … On one of the days where I got to do something [...]