San Antonio, TX
Saturday March 20, 2004
10:57am Let's see, today I woke up kind of late, like around 9 or 10. I didn't do much. I took a shower. My mom said she's going to Callaghan so I hitched a ride. And she gave me five dollars. I asked her for bus fare. I'll get courtesy rides and buy some weed, hehe. Thanks, mom.
I'm over here on Fredericksburg and Magic. I'm looking for some water for my water bottle.
11:03am I saw some guy at the Warren Inn. I asked him, "Hey man, know where I can buy a joint?" He told me, "Nah, I can sell you some Xanax, though." He asked me, "Do you have a couple cigarettes? I can give you some money for them?" I told him, "That's alright, I don't sell cigarettes." I gave him two cigarettes and said enjoy. He told me me, "I live in 224. Stop by." Cool. Made a friend.
11:11am I walked down Oaklawn. I'm walking down Pin Oak. I'm going to see if there's any kids out here I can buy some weed off.
No weed. Right now I hopped 410 and I'm cutting through the Super Target they have here.
Letter of the day is K and I don't have a K transfer. Damnit, that sucks. Ah, I'll just use one of these dollar bills.
11:39am This dude called me, "Hey, come here!" This black dude. He was all, "You don't remember me?" I told him, "Man, I talk to people every day." He told me, "You got me high."
12:02pm At the Crossroads Park and Ride this security guard was messing with me. I had scraped a resin hit and was trying to hit my pipe right there on the bench. He came up to me and said, "I got a call." This VIA guy that was in a white truck earlier probably called on me. He saw me hitting my pipe. The security guard comes up to me and asks me, "Do you have any pot?" I told him, "I wish I had some pot." He said, "You weren't smoking pot right here?" I tell him, "No, do you smell it?" He told me, "Empty out your pockets." I laughed at him and said, "I don't have to do anything you tell me to. You're not a police officer." He said, "Well, I'll call the cops." I told him, "Do what you feel you need to. I'm about to get out of here anyway." He told me, "Well, I'll be here for three hours." I said, "Umm, I won't be here for three hours. I'm going to go ride the bus." I told him, "Man, you really don't have anything better to do, do you?" He just walked off, haha.
Oh yeah, he told me, "I've seen you around. I know you." I told him, "Yeah, I know. I'm everywhere."
12:30pm I got off the 92 in front of the library. I'm going to check my email and see if Kassie has written me.
No mail from Kassie, as I suspected.
1:42pm The 92 guy didn't give me a ride. I told him, "Ahh, these boots are made for walking." He said, "Yeah, it's good exercise." I told him, "Exactly."
Add to my quotes, "I don't celebrate holidays. I celebrate every day."
3:14pm I have a really big update to make. I never told you that I came to the library. I scored some weed at Travis park and I came back and checked my email. I spent like a whole hour trying to figure out the day I am on, on my tapes, so I can start logging my stuff again. I am so far behind now. I just finished up at the library. I'm going to look for a cigarette somewhere. I'll walk back to the park. I'm hungry. I'm going to go ask for spare change for a hotdog.
3:26pm Joseph Alvarado, the guy I talked to yesterday in the park hooked me up with a cigarette. Two cigarettes. I appreciate it, brother.
3:30pm I forgot to tell you, I ran into Zai. You've read about him already(4-6-03 and 5-16-03). Coincidentally, he's going to Sunken Gardens again! There's some concert or something going on. Alright, I'm following him again.
3:43pm This guy asked Zai if anyone had a cigarette. Zai didn't know. Then the guy says, "Wanna buy some weed?" I told him, "Yeah, I was looking for some." I got a dimebag. He had a cross tattoo on the back of his neck. I thought, "Damn, I need to tell this guy my story." I gave him my intro and asked him if he was willing to listen and he said, "Actually no, I don't want to listen."
Hypocrite.
3:44pm Bridgette is hooking me up with a cigarette here in Travis Park. I appreciate it, Bridgette.
3:52pm Mr. Chavez is hooking me up with a ride for twenty cents. I appreciate it, brother.
It's so crazy that I ran into Zai again and I'm going back to Sunken Gardens. Flashback!
4:22pm Roy hooked me up with a cigarette here at the Sunken Gardens. I appreciate it, brother.
4:29pm Charlie just hooked me up with a weed bandana out here in the parking lot. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit in my game.
5:03pm We came to the smoking spot in the woods right next to the parking lot to smoke some marijuana. What was your name, brother?
Nameless: "I'll tell you my name if you don't ever call me brother again."
Umm, I'll try my hardest, but I can't make any promises.
Nameless: "Well, I ain't going to tell you my name."
Okay, well Nameless walked by and we offered to smoke him out. He was sitting there talking to me and I told him something and he dropped all his weed. We went on a hunt for it. We were able to salvage like ninety nine percent of it.
I can't believe I don't have a camera today. This sucks.
5:15pm It's so cool that I got that marijuana bandana. It's just hanging out of my pocket. I have an addition to my uniform. I'm going to walk around with this thing hanging out of my pocket all the time now.
I think my recorder is dying again. That sucks.
5:22pm This guy just came up to me and said, "Man, I've already seen you like three times." I am known.
5:24pm This guy Don who was smoking weed with us was dreading the walk to go buy some Dorals. I told him, "I'm always up for some manual-labor/exercise. I'm always glad to be of service." So I took off to buy them for him. Maybe he'll give me one.
I'm right here at Mulberry and St. Mary's.
5:26pm I'm walking back towards the Japanese Tea Garden. Some Asian lady asked me, "Hey, is the Japanese Tea Garden that far from here?" I told her not at all. Then, I hit her up for my story. I started telling her my story and she went, "Oh, I gotta go to the restroom."
That was funny. She probably thinks I'm crazy.
6:07pm That's awesome, this little magical hideout at the Sunken Gardens. We have christened this place so many times before. We're just hanging out out here letting the lot fill up with cars and all the Babylonians come in and pay money to watch the show.
So why don't they fix that hole in the fence already? It's been there for years, so I've heard. I think they like it there. So that way when there's a show there will be a bigger crowd.
Zai: "This is Zai and we're in Sunken Gardens Theatre. Everything is going to go pretty much as scheduled. We're checking it out."
6:25pm "We're waiting for the time to feel right, and it's almost there. Umm, we're going to go in the second checkpoint."
6:36pm "We are commencing our infiltration."
7:01pm Ray is hooking me up with a cigarette outside of Sunken Gardens. I appreciate it, brother.
7:04pm Oh yeah, I need to make an update. We got busted trying to sneak in. Just because Zai wanted to look at the crowd down below and he stood up. Security was driving by in a truck right when he stood up. If he had been underneath the bridge with us, the truck would have never seen us. Just because Zai decided to venture out to the look at the crowd we got busted. So we've walked all the way to St. Mary's and Mulberry again.
7:45pm I forgot to tell you. I've decided I'm going to walk down St. Mary's all the way to downtown. I'll walk through the strip. St. Mary's Strip.
I just passed this thing that said ANTI-WAR at Woodlawn and St. Mary's. I have to come back and take a picture of this someday.
I had a great presentation with this guy in front of Hardbody's. I got through my story all the way up to Berkeley in my odyssey. In the end he told me, "I can only do one thing for you." I asked him what and he said, "Pray for you." I told him, "Praise Love." I got his email.
7:50pm Michelle hooked me up with a cigarette at The White Rabbit, where they have rock shows. I appreciate it, Michelle. Everybody gets credit in my game.
8:15pm Lauri hooked me up with two cigarettes. I appreciate it, Lauri.
8:25pm David is letting me into The White Rabbit for free. I appreciate it, brother.
Cool, I hit him up. I told him, "Hey man, there is some really important work I have to do with all these kids." He hooked me up.
9:07pm I am leaving The White Rabbit. That place got my too loud for me to tell my stories. I'm going to keep walking downtown.
I walked up to the Burger Boy. The guy told me they were closed. There was a couple sitting down eating and I asked them if I could tell them a really interesting story. The guy told me, "Nah, we're ok." I told them, "Well, you can just wait to hear about it when the rest of the world does. Have you always been that ignorant?" I just walked off.
9:30pm I thought I was walking down St. Mary's, but now I'm on Jones.
Hanging a right on Broadway.
9:45pm I just walked all the way from White Rabbit on St. Mary's to Travis Park.
9:50pm This fight broke out in the park. No aggro in the park!
It was a big fight, damn. There was aggro everywhere.
9:57pm Sam hooked me up with a cigarette at Travis Park. I appreciate it, brother.
The 92 pulled up. I asked him, "Hey, don't suppose I can get a courtesy ride to the hospital?" He said, "No, I gave you one last week. I'm not giving you one this week." I went, "Alright, next week then." The driver got all mad and said, "No, don't ask me next week. Don't ever ask me ever again!" He shut the door and I yelled at him, "Whatcha going to do, tough-guy?" Hehe.
10:23pm Daniel just walked by with leftovers and I went, "Spare any food?" He hooked me up! I appreciate it, man. Everybody gets credit in my game.
10:35pm Mr. 6442 hooked me up with a courtesy ride. I appreciate it, brother.
I was thinking of riding the bus to the hospital and then walking all the way to my mom's. Wurzbach all the way down to Bandera. Not only did I get hooked up with that food. I shared it with these street kids who think I'm full of shit. Just practicing what I preach, I told them. When I got to the park I had gone to this one kid who's always wondering about my project. I told him how I had just walked all the way from The White Rabbit and how they let me in for free, but then it got too loud for me to tell my story so I had to go. He asked me, "Where are you headed?" I told him, "Wherever the bus that gives me the courtesy ride goes. If you don't plan anything, you don't get let down." I thought there wasn't any more 91's. I thought I was going to have to walk all the way from Medical Center to my mom's. Then bam, a 91 shows up. I picked up my stuff and went to walk to it. Sure enough, the driver let me on. Proving myself right at every single turn. .
It's going to happen soon.
10:37pm I was just looking down and I found a snipe on the bus! Badass. Like half a cigarette. Thank you, Love. Man, everything is going right for me.
I have to thank this driver for mobilizing me. I forgot what his name was. 6442, I think.
11:06pm I am at West Telemarketing now.
11:16pm Man, West is all dead. I started walking towards Babcock North.
11:22pm This Dominos delivery guy just drove up at a stop sign. I asked him, "Hey, can you give me a ride to Babcock?" I thought he said yes, so I tugged on the door handle. He said, "Oh no, I can't. If I get caught I'll get fired." I told him, "Well, drop me off before you get there then." He said, "No, man. I can't." Greedy ass.
11:28pm The Dominos guy I just told you about, he came back. He said, "Hey man, do you want a ride?" I appreciate it, brother.
11:30pm That was awesome! That guy came back and picked me up. Cool.
I wasn't even expecting that. He brought me up to Babcock. He didn't have time to listen to my story, but I got his email address.
Praise Love. Thank you, Love.
I had a great presentation with that guy. Intro at least. His email address is subbed@aol.com. That's a badass screen name, if that's really it.
I'm going to walk to the Papa John's and see if I get hooked up there.
Papa John's is closed. The doors are locked.
Let's see if the Subway is still open at the Chevron. Get me a soup or something.
Nope, Subway's closed.
11:57pm I am at Carlos' house. Carlos and Bob are home.
2:32am I'm leaving Bob's. There were some other friends of theirs there. I asked Bob, "Think I can have that tray of shake in the garage?" He said, "Let me look at it." Then I asked him, "Got any dishes I can do? Any chores?" I swept and mopped both the kitchen and the bathroom floor. I did all the dishes too. He hooked me up with four cigarettes total for the night and a big chunk of weed.
Sweet, I've got some weed for tomorrow.
Anything is possible and you have to start somewhere. I started two years ago.
2:48am I stopped here on Bennington Court and Talbot Square and I switched out my tennis ball.
3:16am I'm at my platform now. I'm going to smoke a cigarette and smoke some weed. I've had a good night.
3:32am I'm getting down from the platform. I'm going to walk home now.
See, with all the other girls I've talked to, they have a really big problem with all my scripts. Man, I want you to get to know me. I'm telling you the truth. It just doesn't change. I want you to know me.
I want everybody to know me.
If you read my stuff, you will then know me.
3:36am I just realized I don't have my mission-bag! I must've left it up on the platform. That sucks.
Now I have to backtrack.
3:40am I'm back at the tree. I'm going to see if my mission-bag is still up there.
Okay, got my mission-bag. I'm up walking again.
4:00am I'm at the entrance to the park. I'm going to cross the street to the Exxon. I see a guy inside. Maybe he'll listen to me.
4:10am AJ hooked me up with a slice of pizza at the Exxon. I appreciate it, brother. It's good. I asked him, "Will you lend an ear tonight?" He said, "Tonight's not a good night. We're all busy."
4:43am I'm just now getting to my mom's house. Home sweet home. Oh yeah, my mom brought me home three pairs of boxers today. Cool.
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