every once in a great while, something unbelievable occurs.

to be honest, i'm drawing a blank as to the best way to articulate what exactly it is that i mean. it's not the sort of thing where you remember where you were when something happened, like when that murderer o.j. was being chased by the LAPD in his white bronco, i remember i was with my dad getting bbq at hardeman's in west dallas. now that was some good brisket.

this, however, was something entirely different. have you ever had the feeling when you walked into a place that your very perceptions of reality were being challenged simply by being in that place? it's as though the place you're in is, by nature, an ontological impossibility, sort of like trying to perceive arriving in heaven before being adequately prepared to do so.

so to the point, i went to target today. now you're probably all pissed off thinking "he went through all that crap to say that he went to target?!?! what a schmuck, i went to target this morning and some bratty kid stepped on my foot." in my defense, however, this was not at all an ordinary target. this was target in lakewood, california, a target whose grand opening took place just this past week. they've been advertising its opening for like a year, it seems like pretty much as soon as i got here last september i'd heard about it. everyone's been to target, there's nothing really special about it, even thinking about this one opening, the only thing i really thought was that it'd be nice to have one on the way from home to work and back, i had no idea it'd be what it was, two stories, i'd never seen a two story target before, an escalator for the carts, it was nuts.

it reminds me of the mcdonald's that opened down the street from st. mark's when i was around eighth or ninth grade there. kinda like target, everyone's been to mcdonald's and the experience, after about age 8 is really nothing surpassing mundane. i mean once ronald mcdonald stops being scary, he just starts being creepy, but anyways, this mcdonald's was s'posed to be upscale, like the kinda place you take your date before the prom. it had fancy chandeliers and tartan wallpaper, not even joking, that's what this target was like, like the mcdonald's with tartan wallpaper.

it wasn't long before we turned that mcdonald's into a post morning-workout venue for breakfast burrito binges.

feeling: better, though fighting insecurity
thinking of: katie and my dad, they called me tonite, it was great
music: "house of the rising sun" cream