i came to carlsbad late.
i think i was just about to turn sixteen.
i was never a part of the group that came of age with each other.
there is no one there that could tell an embarrassing story about me in the third grade.
and though i was pretty well accepted, i have always been a bit of an outsider in the particular culture of my beloved home town.
that said, i am not sure how much i belong to the group of writers and artists that paul mentioned in his diary a few days ago.
if history deems us all great in the years after our deaths, there might be some debate about my place in the group.
perhaps like bukowski and the beats.
but since i like the idea of being part of a particular "school" of writers and artists, and i like even more the backwards desert town that i (claim to) hail from, i am including myself in this group of carlsbad artisans.
and as a carlsbad artisan the stories that i will write about concerning our city will revolve around our collective adolscent adventures.
the times hanging out by the rocket slide and the train bridge.
the endless driving from one side of town to the other.
the dreaming of love.
the asprirations of greatness.
the desperation to find something to do.
these things, however, will simply be the subtext of what i think is the true story of carlsbad, nm. a story that needs to be written. the story of christopher lee rushing.
seriously, if our deaths precede a record of chris' antics, a great disservice to humanity will have been made.
i had the full intention of now placing a series of anecdotes about mr. rushing here to illustrate the neccessity of such a document.
but, i quickly have realized that as an outsider i don't know chris as well as others, and can't give his stories justice.
a point that will surely be made by the historians that will scour our words once we are dead and gone.
9:28 p.m. - 2007-03-06
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