[let the night air cool you off --]

i saw the boy who drives ITWZDADS again today, coming home from the library. the bumper is barely still attached to the truck -- and once again i fail to notice what kind of truck it is -- and there was what appeared to be a super tattered atlanta braves bumper sticker on it. i think he's a boy who grew up in the mountains somewhere, where sometimes TBS THE SUPERSTATION was the only channel that came in, for whatever reason, and he put the braves sticker on there when they won the world series in '95 and he took the truck to school when he moved down from cullowhee to go to carolina. i want to ask him why not western carolina, why not app state, why chapel hill, when he put the license plate on the car.


thinking about the mountains make me think of the story lewis grizzard told in one of his books, about one of his early crazy editors in athens, who wanted to move up to the georgia mountains and start a newspaper named the north georgia bee. i want weeks upon weeks to drive around the south taking pictures and listening to stories, and it frustrates me that i can't, sometimes.