Tag: writing

• 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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• Bleeding Red – Thoughts from December 7, 2022

  

  On this day back in 1941, Pearl Harbor became a place of infamy. I know regular readers of these Thoughts papers thought they suddenly were reading a historical calendar, but it’s me, Brian. Patti and I have actually been to Pearl Harbor, so it is slightly relevant to me. I mainly mention it because I…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 15, 2024

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  1941, 2022, ashamed, Asian-American citizens, bleeding is a good thing, blood is natural, blue party, Brian, cat parents, cats scratch, color wheel, creating new words, Democrats, dislike color red, five cats, heart shapes, I’m a scratching post, loving your cats, make up words, misspelling, panicking, Patti, Pearl Harbor, positive current, proud of my scars, racism, racisming, racist attacks, red blood, red emergency lights, red party, red text in bible, red wire, remembering history, Republicans, scars, spell checker, stupid around sharp objects, thoughts, Thoughts papers, writing

• Five Cats – Thoughts from December 5 and 6, 2022

  

  December 5, 2022 I was telling a group made up of women and one man about our five cats we have right now. The man wasn’t really interested in hearing about cats, but the rest of the group overruled him. I’ve never been told by a female listener that they don’t want to hear about…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 13, 2024

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  2022, angry tirade, boring stories, box of rocks, cat stories, cats, caution tape, Charlie Manson, daughter, dog stories, dogs, dull stories, five cats, good person, Harley Davison, headache, I feel crappy, illogical behavior, local Charlie Manson, loud motorcycle, mobile home park, natural light, not my usual cheerful self, notice on window, outlet for frustration, Patti, police cars, power outage, religious person, thinking thoughts I never say, thoughts, Thoughts papers, tired, walking through the wrong door, waxing poetic, witty banter, writing

• Thanksgiving – Thoughts from November 21 and 27, 2022

  

  November 21, 2022 I’m listening to Jenny Lawson’s book Broken and have listened to others by her. Like me, she has anxiety issues and thinks weird thoughts. I’m enjoying it. It turns out I enjoy hearing other people’s weird thoughts as much as writing my own. I like people I can relate to. I can’t…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 1, 2024

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  2022, addicted, addictions, America, anxiety issues, arguments, arguments with relatives, author, being a sidekick, belief, book, Broken, celebrate my flaws, Competition ruins everything, debt, demeaning, disagreement, discriminatory practices, equal partner, flaws are relatable, forgiving student loan debt, future consequences, help young people, Jenny Lawson, literary works, non-smoking, normalized discrimination, older people, other points of view, Patti, pleasant conversations, political leanings, privilege, promise of money, removing personality, resources, smoking, Thanksgiving, the addict I love, thoughts, weird thoughts, word choice, writing, youngsters

• Beatniks – Thoughts from November 19 and 20, 2022

  

  November 19, 2022 I started publishing my Thoughts from Life papers on November 1st. Originally, I was going to publish them once a week, but decided to bump it up to two times on Tuesday and Thursday. I, of course, got the domain name for thoughtsfromlife.com first. It’s what I do. I scheduled them into…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 30, 2024

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  1996, 2022, 50s, audio recording, Beat My Necks sketch, beatnik, Beatrix, belief, beliefs are bad, beliefs are bad for your health, cat centipede, cats, cats in bed with me, comic genius, feedback, gain weight on days off, gaining weight, going to church tired, humor, illogical, interpretations of reality, knowledge is good, laughing, Lifetime Achievement Award for Denial of All Realities, line?, losing weight, Luna, not a group joiner, old documents, old hard drive, others interpreting reality, Patti, podcast, publishing, realities, scale makes fun of me, Scout, seperating myself from others, skipping church, sleepy, smelling buts, The Human Centipede, thoughts, Thoughts from Life, Thoughts papers, thoughtsfromlife.com, video recording, Willow, WordPress ad, writing, writing community, YouTube

• Raining Weirdness – Thoughts from October 17 – 23, 2022

  

  October 17, 2022 They rejected my submission about my mom’s last days. It was a bit atheistic so I’ll try my traumas from childhood paper. If they don’t like that, maybe they just don’t like my style. In the time between starting this paragraph and now, I submitted the grade school traumas with a new…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 16, 2024

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  2022, ambiguity, Assessor’s office, atheistic, catch twenty-two, dog breed owners, glasses and rain, grad school traumas, horse owners, horse slaves, I married the right person, indentured servants, insult the reader, learning from failure, living being owned as property, make wees, mastered weirdness, mom, my style, outside world, Patti, pee, pleasure of not knowing, race horses, raining, rejected submission, revulsion to race tracks, screw you, thoughts, traumas from childhood, urinating, weirdness, weirdnesses, wheeze, Wheezer, word count, write to hear myself write, writers, writing, writing is fun

• 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

• Restroom Man – Thoughts from October 2 and 15, 2022

  

  October 2, 2022 I’m done stressing about my life. I’m going to be making fun of other people now. Who I’m going to be making fun of, I don’t know yet. It will be people who deserve it. I could make fun of the rich for being so focused on money they neglect everything else…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 9, 2024

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  1997, 2022, allegations, alleged, autobiography, being Jewish, being non-religious, courtesy flush, different person now, disappointed in myself, Hollywood, lack of evidence, lightning, married, Mia Farrow, my favorite stall, non-religious by choice, not healthy, Patti, picking on myself, picking on others, raining, restroom psychic, rethinking, rewriting my thoughts, Southern California, stressing, thoughts, Thoughts papers, thunder, weird words, wonderful words, Woody Allen, writing, writing is rewriting, writing process

• Chinese Fast Food – Thoughts from September 19 to October 1, 2022

  

  September 19, 2022 We’re in Vegas for Patti’s birthday. The suite we’re in doesn’t have a remote to open the curtains this time. We were both very disappointed. How quickly we have become accustomed to the finer things. I’ve taken some good ground creature pictures. Hey Brian, what the hell are “ground creature” pictures? They…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 4, 2024

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  2022, art, auto-complete, automatic flush, automatic toilets, breakfast, BrianCreates.com, caring about others, chicken, Chinese food, comedy routine, context, eating animals, entertainment, fast food, flushing, food touching, ground creature pictures, happy and healthy, headache, healthy and delicious, humor, intends offending, motivating myself, my goals, not famous, Patti, pets, restroom, suite, thoughts, tired, ugly hugging, urinal, Vegas, writing, younger me

• Vegas Hotel – Thoughts from September 14 and 15, 2022

  

  September 14, 2022 Patti is in the middle of trying to watch TV with no power. It’s 10:40 pm, and the power has been out since about 9:00 pm. This is a planned outage, so it hopefully won’t be out until the estimated 5:00 AM time. I showed Patti how to tether her phone with…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 2, 2024

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  2022, bad texting, birthday, cat sitter, cats, cats freaking out, drinking buddies, genuine relationships, groups of friends, hot spot, hotel suite, just sitting on the toilet, lack of cats on vacation, lack of people at home, last cat meal, my pooping is quick, nerd, Patti, people in Vegas, phone flashlight, phone tethering, planned outage, poop, pooping, power outage, sexist, sups, tablet, text, thoughts, Thoughts papers, toilet seats are not for sitting, toxically male, vacations, vegan diet, Vegas, violent, watching TV, wiping my butt, worse behavior, writing, young men