Tag: oil change

• Competing Audio, Cassette Players, and Gender Outlaws – Thoughts from March 14 and 16, 2024

  

  March 14, 2024 I’m at the Honda dealer getting my car worked on. It’s just a regular oil change with a tire rotation and new windshield wipers added. There is a TV on in the waiting area with a house buying show on it. Music is playing in the background much louder than it usually…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 7, 2025

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  1989, 2024, audio cassette tapes, competing audio, dedicated audio interface, digital audio, dual tape player, flash drives, Gender Outlaw: On Men Women and the Rest of Us, graduated high school, grease the gear, Honda dealer, house buying show, incomplete categories, judging other people’s color choices, labeling people, LGBTQ community, loss of privilege, loud screeching noise, marginalized group experience, new model, noise overload, oil change, one good ear, other people’s stories, research online, screechy noise, seeing a rainbow in black and white, thoughts, trans person, true scope of people, VCR interface, writing

• Halloween as a Kid and Changing Oil as a Fancy Adult – Thoughts from October 31 and November 3, 2023

  

  October 31, 2023 In honor of Halloween, I’m going to talk non-stop about pickles. It’s the perfect scary snack. They’re green and look like fingers when they’re in a jar. It’s a jar of fingers. People used to make Frankenstein hands out of various sizes of pickles. I’m sure the pickles went to waste. Who…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 1, 2024

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  2023, buying a house, candy, chocolate, clown costume, eager home buyers, Elm Street, eyewitness accounts, Frankenstein, Freddie Krueger, Halloween, Halloween as a kid, hard candy, Honda Civic, Honda dealer, house buying show, in stores with a dog, jar of green fingers, KISS, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, labeling yourself, looking for a house closer to my work, luxury car, man with a dog, new thoughts, oil change, parents’ house, Patti, pickles, Redlands, regretting tattoos, riding bikes, ripped costume, sad clown, scaring kids, Sister, spitting up blood, tattoos, thoughts, tiger, tiger tattoo, tiger tattoo on neck, too small bike, trials, trick-or-treating, TV, waiting area