This is the one about my moleskine notebook.

Posted January 25th, 2008 by Mike Lawson

I have a little moleskine notebook that I carry around with me, and I will occasionally jot down things that I hear that I’d like to remember, or ideas that I have for blog posts or stories that I would like to write.

The moleskin that I’m writing in right now is pretty old. I usually can fit four or five notes on a single page, so I’ve been using it for about five years; they are pretty sturdy little things. I was flipping through the notebook today and wanted to share some of the notes that I have jotted down but haven’t had the opportunity to use.

I hate day-after-Christmas clothes people.

I used to work with a guy named Scott who would come into work the day after Christmas vacation in a brand-new outfit. I get it, you got new clothes for Christmas. Annoying.

Mom thought she was on the twilight zone.

Mom went to jury duty on September 11th, 2001. When she arrived they had her park in some strange parking lot because all of the local federal/state buildings were under watch. She told me that after checking in to jury duty and getting told she could leave 10 minutes later, she walked into a very empty downtown Phoenix and seriously thought she was in an episode of the twilight zone.

Porn bibles.

The bible has some raunchy stories in it. Wouldn’t it be cool to create an illustrated, x-rated version of the bible?

“Furious the kid skipped out into the pewter-grey L.A. sky. He’d come west. Sunset-neon-orange haphazardly blinked. Rain drenched his dance of doom.”

???

ideologue

I was listening to NPR and heard someone use the word “ideologue” repeatedly. And I had to come home and look it up. How sad.

Literary laxative.

I was talking to a friend about writing, and about how I would get super-inspired by a particular author’s short stories. I said that she’s like a literary laxative, and I wanted to remember that term.

I wonder how long it will take for people to look back on our odd ceremonies (like marriage) the way that we do to old African rituals.

???

You’ve got it all wrong…death comes before life. One cannot live until he sees death.

Heterosexuals are lucky because they get to re-vist the womb.

Story starts with the 2nd Great Depression.

When Jesus wrote the constitution…

Janeane Garofalo said this one on her Air America radio show. She was mimicking some of the extreme right-wing rhetoric and she slipped in that funny line.

Every life is precious? What are you doing for the 7 million homeless people in this country?

I was listening to an anti-abortionist talk, and he said “every life is precious.” And I started thinking about every life, and how I’d doubt he truly believed what he had just said.

I hear they save a lot of money on refreshments since Leyes termed out.

I wrote that note to a guy that was sitting next to me at a city council meeting. Mark Leyes is a big bag of hot-air that got a job working for Governor Schwarzenegger after he termed out of the city council.

I’m happy that I have now blogged some of those notes that were just sitting in the moleskine for years. Now I can forget them.