Tag: distraction

• Fires, Professor Sprout, and the NME Charts – Thoughts from September 7 and 8, 2024

  

  September 7, 2024 There are flames in the hills near our house. Only a freeway separates our house from the evacuation area. Patti is home and freaking out. She can still see the flames from our house. My sixth-grade teacher showed a picture from his front yard of the smoke billowing up as if from…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 12, 2025

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  2020, 2023, 2024, 83 years old, A-holes on the freeway, artsy songs, audiobooks, being a lesbian, being Jewish, British artists, distraction, documentary, Duran Duran, evacuation area, expectations of the world, expecting each day to be the same, fear of thunder, few filters, fires, Harry Potter, liberally opinionated, living alone, magazine from the UK, Miriam Gargolyes, negative or positive opinions, new music, New Musical Express, NME charts, no belief in God, Patti, Pixies, problems to solve, Professor Spout, radio listening, rare events, refusing to leave, seeing flames from our house, Simon Le Bon, sing along with songs, smoke billowing up, songs in stereo, swearing, thoughts, throat problems, thunderstorms, top 100 albums of all time, Velvet Underground

• Wrist Rest Under the Keyboard – Thoughts from December 11 to 19, 2022

  

  December 11, 2022 I started writing a skit in my head as I was waking up the other day. The basic premise of it was a guy brought a kid to Bring Your Child to Work Day and his coworker questions whether it is his child. As the dialogue continued in my head, it got…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 20, 2024

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  1999, 2022, absurd, animate, animation, audio recording, Bring a child to work, Bring Your Child to Work Day, cassette tape, distraction, doing stupid things, Ears, Facebook, fun confusion, fun people, goofball, happy life, hello new person routine, keyboards, logic chip, lonely, miserable people, movies, multitasking, my songs, my stuff, new person at work, no time, office, on her mind, Patti, physical object, previously on, relationships, serious people, single people, skit, swipe keyboard, take me too seriously, the incident, thoughts, Thoughts papers, thoughts to schedule, too honest, touch typing, typing with thumbs, visuals, watching movies in sections, wrist rest, wrist rest under the keyboard, writing, wrote in high school, young people