hi there

i look much better without a beard

today i remembered being in high school

and there being like a 2-3 month period

where the same question kept on coming up in conversation

of

"would you rather know the truth"

"or be happy living a lie?"

my answer was always "know the truth"

because i felt like

(and still feel like, mostly)

there's a serenity in knowledge that ignorance can't achieve

but lately i feel like everything i used to believe is a little off

so maybe this is too

i mean there's definitely things i would rather just not know

for example

if someone made me a delicious home cooked meal

that had just a trace of bacon in it

i would rather just not know

even though i'm a vegetarian

this is not an invitation to cook me something with bacon in it

i'm just saying

i'd rather eat it and wonder why my stomach hurt a little bit later

than know that there's bacon in it and i can't partake in this meal that someone graciously cooked

even though, come on, if you're cooking for someone you should know whether or not they're vegetarian

jeez i mean do your research

ha ha

these dave updates have been getting all deeeeeep lately

ANNOYING right?

sorry

i made stir fry last night

it was good

also i took a shower and shaved my beard

both were good

oh i came up with something of a joke

it's unpolished but man was i laughing when kim and i were talking about it

have you ever been to a fun parade?

ME NEITHER

how the fuck did we fuck up the parade?

a parade is when a bunch of people play rad music and dance in the streets

and people come out of their houses to join the celebration

i mean it's a moving party AND THEN SOME

and yet

i've NEVER been to a fun parade

WHAT THE FUCK

how do you fuck up a moving party?????

did you forget the music?

i had an idea

parades were coming up because we were watching treme and mardi gras was coming up

and i've been thinking about how cool it is when people start their own traditions

someone told me about this new years party they went to

where they had this elaborate way of telling your fortune for the new year

you'd make a floating ship

with a candle on it

and set it in this circular pool

where all these papers were lining the perimeter

and as your ship went around it

whatever paper it lit on fire was your fortune

you'd have to grab it quick and put it out

so you could read it

and if you didn't get it in time

then you just didn't know what the new year held in store

i love that

i mean think about it

every tradition started somewhere

as "something fun to do"

we need more of that

anyways

i started thinking about a san francisco version of mardi gras

and my idea was a parade down shotwell

that didn't really move per say

but there was a band on each corner

and you could just walk around and check out each band

and instead of passing out beads we would have paint balloons

that you would throw at anyone who was dressed too nice

seemed like fun to me

anyways

i just ate a bagel

mmm mmmm

this has been the dave update