TTT 14 | New Hampshire Experience
Photos. Story. Song.
Greetings from New Hampshire.
1 - Photos
Two friends, Luke and Jenna, visited from New Brunswick, Canada. Not even people in Maine know where New Brunswick is.
We did an epic tour of the white mountains.
I gentlemen sat down beneath my open window to eat a rotisserie chicken and talk on the phone with his buddy Mike.
I took notes on the conversation. I considering going down there and chatting, but I didn’t want to interrupt. Mid-conversation he walked back to his tent. We’ll never know his name.
“It’s better I eat some fruit or else I start craving ice cream and soda and shit like that. I’m trying to do no carb. There’s a transition to protein and fat… I did it for a solid week and it felt good,” says Mystery Man.
*Mike talks inaudibly over the phone.*
Mystery says, “It was easy when I had the nose surgery, to just eat burger patties. Then I went full circle and did vegan, and dude, I’m pretty fucking pissed at the people that talked me into that. When you think, ‘what happened to the world,’ plant based happened. I fell for that one super hard.” He continues, “Dude, fishing. Fishing is fucking fun. I can’t wait to start hunting. I thought I should be vegan for the planet. I went to working gardens. It’s fucking boring. I don’t like gardening. I’m sorry.”
“Did you listen to Tucker?” Mike inquires.
“I’ve been giving myself a break for a few days. I kinda maxed out on it.”
“What’s really going on is extremely depressing,” one of them says.
What’s really going on is crickets and birds chirping. A coyote howls.
“Tom Robbins wrote about how after WWII politicians feared recession so we buy all our goods and shit from China and Japan and we just make weapons. Are we okay with that?”
“All I know that is we sent our manufacturing to China,” says Mike.
Mystery: “You don’t want to be greeter at WalMart? C’mon Mike why aren’t maximizing your potential as a worker?”
Mystery is fired up.
“The Germans are now dependent on Russia because our fuckin country dropped a bomb on a pipeline. I was a lifelong democrat. It was hard for me to get over that. I think people are clinging to faith in the party. The older generation is too set in their ways to change.”
The subject changes to women. Mike talks for a bit inaudibly.
“You need to take the lead,” says Mystery.
. . .
“That’s what I hate about modern male-female relationships. In the good ole days you could bop her on the head and take her back to your cave. We missed out man.”
. . .
“Keep her phone number, you never know.”
. . .
“Who cares if she’s Jewish, that doesn’t mean anything. She’s a nurse, she’s gonna try to vaccinate you.”
. . .
“Is she cool or attractive? The other one sounded better.”
. . .
“Smoking pot isn’t cool. I feel like that’s the gateway to your heart.”
. . .
“Yeah… sorry man.”
. . .
“I need to be more forceful and direct. I need to let them know I can satisfy them, then they’ll call me back.”
. . .
“But if you take one of those and nothing happens then you’re just walking around with a boner.”
. . .
“What wait what?”
. . .
“You’ve been doin that for while, do even need that shit?”
I think they are talking about SSRI’s. Mystery walks closer to the window and I hear Mike say, “Sometimes I take it to prevent it. . .”
“I mean that’s understandable,” says Mystery.
“But what if your body can’t get a boner. . .”
He walks away.
What can I say, the universe is doing the writing for me.
3 - Music
Ultimate Spinach was a Boston band from 1967-69. They made Eddie’s Rush which holds its own 55 years later.
This video of a guy singing in his front yard got 10 million views in three weeks. I like it.
“Four generations farming the ground, grandson sells it to a man outta town, two weeks later trees go down, only got concrete growin around.”
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