August 1997 Musings of the Gus

Profound disappointment with close friends, and serious repercussions from blunt musings entries leaves me isolated and occasionally demoralized while my web fame grows.

• 01: epiphany at the Taco Bell - We of Kappa Mutha Fucka set out to visit Diana and Virginia without the company of our British friend.

• 02: the streets of the East Village - Heroin and alcohol do their annoying things as I experience the hip and trendy part of New York.

• 03: Coney Island freak show - I pass out on the board walk, recover, and eventually enjoy being the only straight guy in a gay bar.

• 04: getting the hell out of that wormy apple - We make it back to Charlottesville with an hour to spare.

• 05: Nicekid revealed - I have a low-wattaged day as I recover from the New York City trip. Virtual life was interesting while I was gone.

• 06: no life'd dork - I spend my unpaid waking hours with my hands on an IP address.

• 07: picture of a redneck family - Also, problems with Atlas, my brother's diet and Matthew Hart's restored pupils.

• 08: crazy trumps tough guy ensemble - I defeat a group of tough guy web critics on the streets of Charlottesville.

• 09: sacrifice for domestic tranquility - A case of historical revisionism.

• 10: the fish of Lake Moomaw - We go visit Matthew Hart's friend CJ, who has a boat on Lake Moomaw in western Virginia. The evening ends with the smoking of a Phillies Blunt.

• 11: bike theft fandango - News of crime in the nighborhood. Also, Matthew makes a chilled soup for a wisdom tooth extractee.

• 12: go see Rory's website - He's getting pretty knockon at the old HTML. Also, the similarity of alcoholics and people on heroin.

• 13: what it takes to be five star - Contrasting two Charlottesville restaurants, some gossip about Deya and her new friend, and the continuing saga of Matthew's ID.

• 14: wet streets - They hiss like frying bacon.

• 15: meatspace manifesto - The usual discontent with my social life and also my taking a few measures to assert my independence and adulthood.

• 16: an unpopularity documentary - We watch Welcome to the Dollhouse, and I bruise my elbow at the Brick Mansion In the Hood.

• 17: men of the heart and guy of the pie - Some links as I recuperate from a damaged elbow.

• 18: fashionably fascist - A pleasant conversation with an older skinhead leader named Wingnut.

• 19: Eric Huffman, nazi skinhead with a pleasant face - I deal with the scariest skinhead of all, a bona-fide self-labeled nazi.

• 20: informational spirtualism - An oddly non-materialist philosophy.

• 21: Kentucky Sunrise - Matthew Hart invents a drink and I discuss the difference between punks and skinheads.

• 22: bowling beside the mullet people - We drink a few beers and bowl a few frames.

• 23: the house is surely haunted - Rory's house turns out to be a well-known Charlottesville haunted house.

• 24: barbecue with quarter keg - Matthew Hart fires up the grill for a Sunday evening of beer, dancing, and mostly vegan cooking.

• 25: humiliation dreams - I find myself being emotionally destroyed in unusually vivid dreams.

• 26: behold your essential nature - A few choice words from a drunk diarest to the opposition.

• 27: the monastic pattern - I can entertain myself fairly well all by myself.

• 28: very surreal stuff - Unknowingly cyberseduced, the Twilight Zone, and rumbles from Elly.

• 29: crashing a law students' party - The Brazilian Girls are visiting for the weekend and Fratville is hopping, so why not crash some parties?

• 30: Haunted House housewarming - Aaron the SHARP gets ridiculed, I make up a nice little violent love song, and hang out with a different crowd in a hot tub.

• 31: Di's demise and free pizza pies - A smushed princess, some free stuff throughout Charlottesville, and unsuccessful train hopping.