Humbert Humbert

So maybe I can do both. . . post both street photos from the hip and girly pics, too.  This one was taken in Mo's on Telegraph in Berkeley.  I forgot to change the settings on the camera for indoors, so the quality is poor.  But here is old Selavy, the Creeper and Lurker.  It was so quiet that I could hear the mirror slap on my camera and was sure I would be found out and beaten by the crowd.  If there was one.

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.  My sin, my soul.  Lo-lee-ta."

Actually, this looks like Q's old girlfriend.  I was always in love with her, but he bad mouthed me much and wanted to keep her for himself.  It is too bad, really.  She was a peach of a girl.  Smarter than the two of us put together.  Or more clever, anyway.

But that is not what I wanted to tell you at all, and I will surely get in trouble now.

And so on. . . Q maintains that tonight is the full moon, though it officially occurs at 5:16 a.m. on the 2nd.  Still. . . I don't want to fuck with an astrologer.

But the big news (let me scoop the old boy here) is that there is a second full moon in August--a Blue Moon.  And you know what that means.  We've been down this road before, you and I.  Musica!  


Maybe I'm a little goofy tonight.  I've not eaten after the gym but for cheese and olives and wine.  It is my new California Diet.  The wine is a Rhone from France.  The cheese an aged Manchega.  But I've switched now to the dreaded whiskey.  I'll be dead by morning.  And Q keeps texting me, telling me he will post this picture of me in Yosemite if I keep acting the fool.

I hate horses.  But I promise, I'm trying to lose weight.  It is hard to do.  At my age, I mean.  Today I went to the beauty salon and my beautician tried to set me up on a blind date.  She had a picture and everything.  She says she worries about me.  Doesn't want me to be alone.  I told her I could not do such a thing, but she didn't understand.  Most people don't.  The woman in the picture was standing with two teenage daughters, though, and I thought immediately of Humbert Humbert. I almost posted a link about him, but then thought better of it.  If you don't know already, you will never understand.

There was something I wanted to say when I started this post, but I don't know what it is any longer.  Oh well. Better that way.