To my darling wife and eternal girlfriend

Pepperdine has started a tradition of placing flags for everyone that died during 9-11, including flags of the people who died from other countries. Princess Hotcakes and I just walked the length of it during lunch..pretty overwhelming.

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My thoughts as of late.

Somewhere in my thirty some odd years upon this planet earth I became afraid.

I can’t pinpoint exactly where that happened, but I know it did. Growing up my friends and I would engage in feats of lunacy, that to this day when described to others gets a eye roll of disbelief.

As a toddler it was as simple as making bows and arrows, shooting them at friends, escalating to jumping our lined up friends with our BMX bikes, to molotov cocktails, trying to cow tip with a car, rappelling of the stadium in college and an assortment other things.

Then I moved to L.A.. I don’t know if it was the climate, the sheer alieness of being who I was in a town that was completely NOT who I am. Rejection, rejection and more rejection. I don’t know. But I started being afraid.

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People are wondering what I thought about Palin’s speech last night.

Well, lyrics to Billy Joel’s “Stiletto” come to mind. Either that or “hurts so good” by John Cougar Mellencamp. Man she was stabbing with a smile, wonderful.

I’m saying it now…she will be the first female president. Mark. My. Word.s

She cuts you once, she cuts you twice
But still you believe
The wound is so fresh you can taste the blood
But you don’t have strength to leave
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