The following is straight from one of my sketch pads, written during a dark stormy evening in the truck. Random...

Here, in the bench seat of my truck. Pouring rain, screaming cars are all trying to get a space. I'm taking a whole place just to lay here and relax to some aqualung and bright eyes on the 60 gig ipod, also known as an hp notebook. The gas gauge is telling me its below empty. Maybe I should turn it off. All the way or the battery will probably complain. This sweet mint gum is inspiring. I just drew Charlie Chaplin on the foggy windshield. Im reading Barn Burning. Ab Snopes would be a strange role model.The ink in my pen is leaving, drying up. I'll just sing and not care.

Choice. That's all my life is. I like it.

dum dums are gross.

They are in a cage, and we are beating it, in hopes of heightened entertainment. The glass cage, getting slammed from the inside and out, is covered in skid marks, as if someone had been running on it. The nets on either side that go to the top are asking me to climb them. I resist the temptation. People are screaming fiercely at the imprisoned fighters. They keep fighting then abruptly stop and are set free after a couple hours. Hockey.

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The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside -

The Brain is deeper than the sea -
For - hold them - Blue to Blue -
The one the other will absorb -
As Sponges - Buckets - do -

The Brain is just the weight of God -
For - Heft them - Pound for Pound -
And they will differ - if they do -
As Syllable from Sound -

~Emily Dickinson

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I know I already said this earlier but just so you remember, if you want to see whats up, check http://christophercottage.com because I have been putting most of my blogging energy into that. Each post takes me a while every night to post because of all the pictures. I ran out of space on my host the other day, so if you are wondering where christopher-ink came from, thats another of my hosts, that I am now hosting pics on, but then transferring to christopher cottage. Anyway, now you know. But yeah, check it out because I am updating that with millions of pics everyday for the next week at least. I will still be updating the Daily Doodle, but probably not this one as much, while I am putting it all in cc.