let’s talk about beauty:<\/p>\n
there i was, last night, popping off 94 and onto dempster, heading east, windows all the way down, 50+ degrees outside in chicago in march, a cigarette absolutely mashed between my front teeth and the tape starts playing beastie boys “so what’cha want” and everything was absolutely perfect. i was driving with my left wrist, my right arm hanging down, pimped out, cruising with the waning light…<\/p>\n
…and there i was back in highschool, in dave’s brownishburgundyish four-door whatever, lunchtime, free period time, listening to the same song, drinking miller genuine draft purchased from el supermercado roman, not realizing how beautiful a thing it was. (and this is amazing to me now — thinking about how at the time, it didn’t seem like anything special…but at that age, you don’t realize how beautiful a thing can be until much much later. now i feel it too much and that’s why seeing any display of positive crowd energy [cheering fans, most of the time] can bring tears to me eyes.)<\/p>\n
here’s to the coming summer months. no more sitting outside school drinking MGD and stress. these days it’s baseball parks and Old Style (a chicago tradition)…or whatever. <\/p>\n
the point , if there is one, is that it takes very little for nostalgia to smack you backwards: the angle of light, or the quality of the air, or a song…<\/p>\n
and that’s freaking cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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