Brian C. Griffin

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Shared sicky-ness

Nostalgia for times ex-boyfriend and I fell ill at same time. Coughed four or five times, mildly, as I was falling asleep last night. Then woke early and was wide awake. The banging of the radiator and warming room when it wasn’t that cool to begin with might have

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An undercut like the porticoes of Bologna

I cut my own hair. Took the 00000 line higher up the sides yesterday morning, to about an inch below “high and tight.” It was Easter. I wanted renewal and rebirth. And I had accepted that holding on to the mass of my hair “so Eric [the barber] [https://bcgriff.

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"Is this yours?" roommate asks

J_____ takes out from the refrigerator a bag of collard greens that I first noticed in there a few weeks ago, although a few weeks ago for me, especially in this strange “cyclical time” we’re all experiencing right now never leaving the house, could have been several months ago.

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Clandestine services mustache

My intent had been to have something between what I would call a “natural chevron” and those classic straight across the upper lip, well-maintained mustaches sported by the various diplomatic and clandestine services chaps working in offices, and seen about town among the extras, in BBC’s Smiley’s People.

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Dying Gaul mustache

I looked at photos of Sam Elliott the actor yesterday, having found a website with “the best mustaches of Sam Elliott” or something like that. I settled upon his mustache from the film Did You Hear About the Morgans? as my favorite, and noticed how in all his mustaches he

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A frittata you'll have to work for

Frittata ruins evening. List of things to do differently next time for a frittata [https://bcgriff.com/humor/is-this-yours/]: use a proper frittata/omelette pan, use less potato for the amount of egg I used, slice the potato thinner, have a proper cover for the pan that actually covers the

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Social distancing while sleeping

Had a dream that all sorts of people were coming into my bedroom and getting less than six feet close to me during the night, the most prominent of which was a character, played in my dream by Awkwafina who was in the Singapore food porn marry-a-rich-Singaporean movie. My bedroom

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Like a silent retreat after day four

“Saw” M_____ yesterday on video. M_____ S_____, that is. She asked if I missed physical contact, and my honest answer was, “I’m not sure.” I said I missed seeing Mom, and I supposed I missed seeing my barber [https://bcgriff.com/humor/undercut-like-porticoes-bologna/]. And it’s true that after

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Out of bed comes good

The difference between virtual and physical failure. It’s Tuesday, the day “G”-starting surnames are supposed to apply (along with “F,” “H,” “I,” and many other letters). I’ll try calling again later, maybe around dinner time. This is one of those experiences that feel like “the online world

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Can I get coronavirus if a guy shoots in my eye?

A gay man applies gallows humor to coronavirus the way he does with STDs. Back in the day, pre-pre-exposure-phophylaxis for HIV and Truvada, when I would come up with all kinds of theoretical ways I might have contracted HIV (and this always took place after sex, never before, let alone

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Wear your protective face bandana like an outlaw

I went to Duane Reade yesterday morning. I needed Olay face moisterizer, and shower body wash for sure; plus my Neilmed salt packets were running low; and my hand cream in the green hockey puck container was also running low. I made a shopping list, and also added Tylenol/acetominophin,

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And then I rose up

I had some crazy dreams last night. One ended with people entering a room, they had guns, I was hiding behind a desk, they came by and shot me. I was still alive so I was hoping they had missed me. But there was no way they could have missed.

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To rely on instinct

I spoke up to G__ last night. The scene to remember is Star Trek TNG [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation] when Deanna [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deanna_Troi] loses her empathic abilities [sc., “The Loss” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loss]] and Riker

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Twenty-fourth century loses allure

I think it was yesterday morning while I was doing creative writing that I felt a cool breeze blow in through the window, while there was steam rising from my coffee in front of the window. I was lying down on the bed with the computer on my lap. It

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The past interrupts the present

I had a nice evening last night. It was nice to just say to myself, “It’s 9PM, the rest of the evening is mine,” and then I folded clothes and did some reading. I had also watched Star Trek TNG [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_

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No DS9 at the dinner table

I think there’s something about my personality that I unconsciously mirror other people, to my own detriment, until resentment bursts out somewhere. I really don’t like how G__ brings his iPad over to my house and he’s on that while I cook dinner, and then after dinner

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Picard v. Pulaski

I’ve been watching a lot of Star Trek TNG [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455/] on TV, and I’ve seen a lot of second season [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation_(season_2)] episodes over the last couple of weeks. Dr. Pulaski [https://en.

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The opposite of Bashir

I’m reminded of something my old Chinese teacher said in Taipei, when I had said how it was my responsibility to learn how to fit in in Taiwan. And she said it was just as much everyone else’s opportunity to learn about my culture and way of being,

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Escapist worlds need someone to dream them

Let me sum it up by saying I realized that if there was only one thing I could do for the rest of my life, I’d want it to be writing. It’s not just a high, it’s profoundly deep, involving my whole personality and existence. And potentially

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A good man with a decent job

Another thing I need to realize about G__ is that he is conventional. He has quite an extroverted, witty, curious intellect that is hungry for exploration, and what he yearns for deep down is convention. He’s not going to be the kind to surprise me. He will seek me

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The rides I want to go on

Pat on the back to myself for this past weekend. It would have been the easy thing for me to get upset with G__ on Saturday for the _____, or to insist that he and I go on some of the rides I wanted to go on, instead of just the

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Life gets real when you stop collaborating

Sometimes I look around me and think, the world was so much more beautiful and exciting and fresh and alive in ancient Greece [https://bcgriff.com/humor/down-societal-collapse-rabbit-hole/]. Or it’s so much more so in the future of Star Trek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek]. But the

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DS9 slowly stops spinning

I was dreaming of Deep Space Nine [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine], and there was a war of some kind, and the enemy cut off power to the station, and the central pillar of the station, where the bulk of the people and systems were,

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Variety gives us ability to adapt

Dream about G__ coming back from Ibiza. He looked and sounded a lot like A___, and the dream brought to the surface feelings I had with A___, how it was always, “This is just how I am,” or “I know I’m wrong but this is just how I am.

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Losing identity, and inhibition

Normal work day yesterday editing. Then an excellent episode of Star Trek TNG [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation] [sc., “Conundrum” [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708693/]]. All of the crew lost the part of their memory that dealt with identity which lead to some surprising