Tag: freeway

• Route 66, Dreams, and Second Breakfast – Thoughts from September 19, 2024

  

  My last morning in the Roswell hotel began with a dream. I was walking up a cluttered stairwell with my mom and a cousin of ours. The cousin and I were kids. My mom was younger and could walk up and down the stairs easily. This was not the reality for my mom, especially in…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 16, 2025

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  1938, 2024, albuquerque, bad dream, box of Lego, breakfast, businessperson, Californian, collecting Lego, cowboy hat and lasso, dad, defying expectations, desert lizard, dream mom, dream yelling, dreams, El Rancho hotel, eye mask, finding a channel to sleep to, freeway, Gallop New Mexico, home of the movie stars, Jack Oakie, Lego, Lego pieces, Lucille Ball, mom, New Mexico, old Hollywood, old-fashioned metal key, Patti, Petrified Forest, petrified tree, Roswell New Mexico, Route 66, second breakfast, sit anywhere, sleeping in hotels, stairs, state motto, steakhouse, tepee hotel, The Affairs of Annabel, thoughts, toys, travels, vacation foods, Waffle House, waffles butter and syrup, writing, yelling

• Visiting LAs Art District and My Past – Thoughts from April 20, 2024

  

  Appropriately for today, I will point out the times recently when I have smelled marijuana around me. This, of course, is 420, man. I’ve never smoked … well, anything, but no one I know has ever even smoked marijuana around me. I only know what it smells like because it smells like skunk. This has…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 4, 2025

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  2024, 420, apartment, arcades in the 80s, art district, artsy furniture, classic arcade and pinball bar, decorating aesthetic, deli, expensive cars, fancy amenities, food experiences, freeway, Frogger, gourmet grocery store, hip clientele, humor, items that make a statement, Jesus Christ Superstar album, lack of a TV, local restaurant, Los Angeles, LP collection, macaroni salad, marijuana smell, Mexican food, minimalism, nephew, Patti, people who don’t have a TV, Philippe’s, pinball machines, purple egg, sawdust on the ground, smelling dead skunks on the freeway, smells like skunk, smoking marijuana, sweet potato tacos, Tapper, taxes, thoughts, Tron, unique Asian items, vegan status, Vegas, video games, well-paid creatives, western religions traveling east

• Women and Men Walking – Thoughts from October 16, 2022

  

  I was driving into work on the freeway and I saw a large white truck with a flag sticking up in the back of it. From a history of seeing flags sticking up in the back of trucks, I know they write nothing pleasant or encouraging on the flags. Sure enough, they inscribed the words…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 11, 2024

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  2022, bacon, Biden, caring about other people, dealing with death, Democrats, driving, emotions under control, existence, flying arms, freeway, hateful flag, hateful packs, hateful people, hateful person, hateful phrase, heart attack, horrible people, jerky people, keep me from hating, large white truck with a flag, loud noises, MAGA hat, men are boring to watch, men don’t move upper body, men walking, mom, mom’s death, money, not all men, not all women, outlet, Republicans, sadness, thoughts, Trump, unpleasant words, value their beliefs, women are more interesting than men, women walking, writing

• Toys and Charlie Manson – Thoughts from August 7 to 9, 2022

  

  August 7, 2022 Today’s Thoughts paper is brought to you by sleep. I’m looking forward to getting some tonight. I’ve dropped a lot of things today. Being tired will do that to you. I’m too tired to have many thoughts. I promise to have more tomorrow. August 8, 2022 I was going to work today…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 5, 2023

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  2022, action figures, anxiety, anxiety provoking, as a kid, Charles Manson, Charlie, Charlie Manson, daughter, driving down the street and back, dropping things, faded words, freeway, granddaughter, Harley Davison motorcycle, hateful words, living with mom, local Charlie, Manson died, middle-aged man, mobile home, multiple toys, no job, no one would employ him, one toy, open the box, out-of-control hair, parents took me to Toys R Us, regret, research, riding a bike, sad future, screaming obscenities, selling drugs, short motorcycle rides, sleep, stuffed animals, thoughts, Thoughts paper, tired, too tired, tough decisions, toys, Toys R Us, Toys R Us truck, urging his suicide, video games, wrong decision

• X Chromosome – Thoughts from July 30 and August 1, 2022

  

  July 30, 2022 The past few days have been weird, but not in a good way. I had to sit still on a freeway for hours and eventually get off the freeway by driving the wrong way. I gained 3.7 pounds in one day (not my personal record, but close). The day before, I got…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 28, 2023

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  1991, 2022, advantages and disadvantages, airport run, autism, autistic, blog, book, by subject, capable, caring about other people, chromosomes, chronilogical order, context, crying, entertaining, female, feminine qualities, freeway, future note, gay relationships, glasses, hang ups, having kids, I’m a different person, intimate relationships, kids, male, monogamy, mutated, mutated X chromosome, not wired for monogamy, podcast, polygamy, reading, reality is my friend, relationships, scientist, sex, shut down, still on the freeway for hours, stories, superpower, theoretical gold star, theoretical internet money, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, Thoughts papers, we are not wired at all, weight, weird days, writing, wrong way, XX, XY

• Booster Shot – Thoughts from April 30 and May 1, 2022

  

  April 30, 2022 This past Wednesday, Patti and I got our second booster shots. On Thursday, I did yard work and was going to go out grocery shopping, but found my whole body was in pain and I just wanted to sit down. Admittedly, I sat down on the squishy couch so I got more…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 5, 2023

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  2022, blog, booster shot, call in sick, cartoon version, cats, clear my mind, Covid-19, dark time, darkest before the dawn, darkness, dawn of new things, dragons, feeling sick, freeway, ghost, Hotel Transylvania, keyboard, Labor Day, laboring, May Day, May First, melodramatic, misery, misery infects others, misery loves company, no time, pain, Patti, Patti logic, piss me off, podcast, realistic, rearrange my office, record audio, record video, Saturdays, spread their misery, teleprompter, thoughts, typing, vaccine, vampires, werewolves, writing

• Sugary Things – Thoughts from April 16 to 20, 2022

  

  April 16, 2022 I noticed a truck on the freeway coming into work today that was shoving himself into traffic from the on-ramp. He had a blacked-out version of the American flag in his back window and a baseball hat on. The big truck, hat, flag, and bad driving were all signs of reality denial.…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 28, 2023

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  2022, albums, allergic, American flag, ashes in fireworks, atheist, bad driving, bands, baseball hat, big truck, candy, creative freedom, decisions, Easter, fireworks, freeway, future note, good bands change, goodies, Jane’s Addiction, last-minute, Lifetime Achievement Award for Denial of All Realities, loud, Nirvana, not signaling, painfully loud, performers, pyro, questions, reality denial, reality denial reality show, Reality Denier of the Day, refuse all food at work, religion, small catalog of songs, song, strawberry, sugary things, thinking for themselves, thoughts, too honest, traffic, Truck

• Pooping on the Super Bowl – Thoughts from February 12 and 13, 2022

  

  February 12, 2022 Well, it’s been a while since I wrote about my thoughts from life. I have been listening to my old Thoughts papers starting as early as 1991. What the hell! To say it’s weird does not encompass how weird I’ve been throughout my life. So many ups and sooooooooo many downs. It’s…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 22, 2023

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  2021, 2022, A-holes, American football, anti-fan, automatic laser, Beatrix, Blaze, boring, cats, changes in my life, dictation, enlarged heart, entertaining, females, football, freeway, future note, going home early, hateful, horrible, kittens, liberals, loser, Luna, lung cancer, meals, nervous, oldness, pathetic, poo at work, prone to injuries, Quest, racism, rage, Reality Acceptance, religion, restroom, restrooming, Scout, security guard, South Park, sports, strange, Super Bowl, super bowl Sunday, talk and think, thoughts, Thoughts papers, tigers, too normal, type and think, typing, ups and downs, urinating in public, vicious, violent, weird, Willow, work, wrestling cats, writing