Oct
23
2008
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“It looks like it’s gonna rain, Nameless. What should we do today?”
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Gray & Nameless considered lots of choices. Like reading…
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and watching movies…
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Nameless said, “I know, let’s listen to records! Here’s the first one I ever bought!”
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DANCE PARTY!!!
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Gray said, “Let’s make up our own song, together! You play the music, and I’ll sing the words.”
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Nameless had a good idea: “Let’s really use our imaginations and pretend we’re sitting around a campfire!”
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And once they started using their imaginations, there was no stopping Gray & Nameless. “That’s not a lampshade — it’s a spaceship…”
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“… an ANTI-GRAVITY SPACESHIP!!!”
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“Look, Nameless… a portal to an exotic, ancient land. Let’s go!”
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Once they arrived in the exotic, ancient land, they met an elephant who’d fallen from his treehouse. He asked Gray & Nameless if they would help him climb back up.
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“Of course we’ll help!” Nameless went first. Gray needed a boost from the elephant.
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“I got you, Gray!”
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Almost there…
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“WE DID IT!” Together, Gray & Nameless pulled the elephant back into his treehouse.
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Having worked up quite an appetite, Gray & Nameless left the exotic, ancient land in search of the land of the future, and its “Magical Hot Food Generator”.
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“We’ve got a problem, Gray. I’m not sure how to activate it.”
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“You turn the knob, Nameless!” But Gray & Nameless had an even bigger problem: deciding what they wanted for supper…
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MEATBALLS!!!
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After supper, Gray & Nameless fell fast asleep for the longest nap ever!
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Oct
23
2008
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Nameless and Gray met at the checkout counter of their neighborhood corner store. They chatted as they walked, and decided to grab some lunch. Their eyes were bigger than their stomaches!
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Nameless invited Gray back to his place to show her the view from his window.
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Gray couldn’t see over the top of the window ledge, so Nameless gave her a boost.
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Gray gave Nameless a kiss to thank him for a lovely day.
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Nameless said, “Hey, we should get out of the house and go for a bike ride!”
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Gray responded, “Then…get it in gear, pal!” She fancied herself quite the pun pup.
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After a long ride, Gray said, “I’m wiped out!” Nameless smiled, mischieviously. “I have just the thing to perk us up. CHOCOLATE!”
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Nameless and Gray decided to rest and relax in the shade. Nameless had a strange feeling they were being watched…
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“Look! It’s a full moon!”
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The next morning, Nameless reflected, “Maybe it was the full moon, but I had some weird dreams last night. We were in the desert of Arizona…”
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Which made Gray think. “I had a crazy dream too! We were in this weird Flashdance-meets-Italian-Vogue-magazine world…”
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Perfect Sunday morning: NFL and take-out…
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…but the Jets game wasn’t on cable. It’s just not the same watching it on a laptop. Nameless and Gray quickly became bored. But they found other ways to pass the time — like wrestling!
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And playing Hide & Seek!
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And pretending that they were in a rocket, flying to the moon!
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Later, Gray and Nameless agreed: a night on the town was long overdue. Destination: Haight Street.
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But Sunday nights, even in San Francisco, can be pretty quiet. Which — given the right company — can spell the perfect evening. Sometimes it’s nice to just walk and talk, walk and talk. They were relieved to finally find a badly-needed fire hydrant!
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All that walking sure worked up an appetite for…”STEAK!!!”
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After dinner, they ran into Nameless’ mysterious neighbor. Gray couldn’t help but note, “He’s really big!” Nameless replied, “Oh really? I hadn’t noticed.” But of course, he’d noticed.
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It turned out that the big, “mysterious” neighbor was really just painfully shy. So Nameless and Gray invited him in for coffee and cake. A master of Feng Shui, he insisted on organizing the kitchen!
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That night, Gray and Nameless talked about feeling so grateful for everything they had, which made them happy. But curiously, it also made Gray a little sad. So Nameless hugged her, until they fell asleep.
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Oct
14
2008
The problem with a column dedicated to “morning after musings” is that you need to write them down immediately in order to remember them. And for that matter, you have to muse in the morning. Which sounds good, but I usually like to just get up. Unless there’s a gorgeous distraction to keep me from doing so just yet. And if that’s the case, then the last thing I’ll be doing is writing. So maybe this column will last, maybe not. But like so many things in this world, I like the idea of it.
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