kentucky fried

i have returned from my trip to save a pony. some sad news. the pony broke his leg and has been flown in the equine airplane to university of pennsylvania to save his life. how can a broken leg equal death? i'm not worldly in horse so maybe this isn't surprising at all.

sorry preakness pony.

in other news, louisville is weird. the city motto is: "keep louisville weird." well, bravo, louisville! you are weird and i like it. a lot. i don't even know where to begin to describe the weirdness that is louisville. it's weirdness is just so refreshing that it really does take your breath away.

first, the lay of the land. flat. lots of sky. a feast for the eye in terms of architecture. beautiful old buildings alongside really odd new buildings, like the home of the symphony which i couldn't stop staring at. and there's art everywhere. every bike rack is a sculpture. no lie. every single one. and 21c -- a new museum-hotel -- blew my mind. we stood in front of one piece called "text rain" for 20 minutes as letters of the alphabet bounced off our heads. this was all projected on the wall in front of us so it was like looking in a mirror as letters danced around you. i held "hi" in my hand for a while. BIG FUN. if i go back to louisville, i will be staying at this museum-hotel with its giant red plastic penguins and animal art. i won't go into the short film with the man and woman eating dinner as mice crawl all over them. i said i won't go into it.

but really louisville just had the weird vibe down pat. i could almost imagine myself living there except the streets are totally deserted and nearly everything is closed on saturday and sunday. still there was something mesmerizing about it. i bought my first piece of art in louisville. it's a wood carving. it arrives this week sometime. it's quite large. i don't know why i bought it exactly but it gave me this funny feeling and i had to have it.

lots of other strange things happened while there in weird louisville but i don't want to ruin it by remembering. you know how your memory distorts everything and creates this new reality that you convince yourself is actual and fact? well, i do know and so i'm keeping the rest to myself.