The Temple of Tarot

Tag: 1986

  • Alex

    Alex

    11/18/86

    Later that

    night Alex and I stayed

    up until 1:00 watching

    movies. The next day

    I didn’t do much except

    sleep and water my

    grandparents garden. I went

    to mass that night.

    Today I went to

    mass, watered and

    got $25 for the week.

    I’ve been

    depressed lately. The

    people in my gym

    class put me down

    because I’m not

    good in sports. Some

    of them call me

    “beastman!!” I got

    my report card

    today.

    I got an A in PE, an A

    in Photo, an A in history,

    a B in English, a B in Spanish,

    and a C in Algebra.

    I am struggling in Spanish

    and I hope that I can

    keep the B.

    11/27/86 Today was a great

    Thanksgiving, much better

    than last year. I remember

    when I had the flat top,

    last Thanksgiving we were

    at Aunt Doris and Uncle

    Godfrey’s, (God rest his soul)

    turkey we ate gross

    turkey for lunch and

    Mexican food (yuck!)

    for dinner. Then we

    watched Rocky IV. This

    year we (Mom, Dad,

    and Mike (Mike went with

    Matt to Point Mugu at 6:00)

    Grandma and Goompa,

    Bernia and Mary Ann celebrated

    Thanksgiving at Grandma

    and Goompa’s house. We

    ate turkey, stuffing,

    mashed potatoes, and

    candied yams (first time

    I ever tried them,

    they were pretty good too!)

    I had a lot to

    be thankful for.

    I thankful for. I

    think the Lord that

    we all could be there

    (Goompa was feeling

    pretty low a little while

    back) I hope that

    Grandfather fully recovers

    from the bleeding he

    had had. I have

    decided to tape

    Star Trek every night

    to make a media collection.

    What is life, but death

    And, what is death, but a

    rebirth of life.

    The end is in itself, but

    a new beginning, while

    an old beginning is but

    a new ending.

    2/24/87 I haven’t written

    for a long time, but

    I want to record the

    event that happened tonight.

    It actually snowed!

    For the first time in

    11 years, it snowed! We

    played in the snow and I

    hope it snows

    more so we

    don’t have

    to go to

    school

    tomorrow.

    Note: When writing the

    beginning of a story

    put the character in

    to a dangerous

    situation at first, but

    have him reflect

    on his past

    circumstances that

    led him to the present

    situation or at least

    or have another

    character or another

    narrator telling

    a story.

    “Instead of griping about the lyrics,

    just enjoy the music” – Brian Redfern

    Grayson was an Asper, a

    person who is genetically

    engineered to use Psi powers.

    He was fleeing from Earth.

    Yesterday I heard a noise.

    It was so loud it ruined my poise.

    I looked up from my studies

    And spied some pudgy buddies

    Playing with their dirty toys.

    “Get against the wall, Earth

    man,”

    The Altrusian roughly pushed

    me up against the wall, although

    human the Altrusian

    I never liked Altrusians. They

    looked like a cross between a

    blob of slime and a wart-

    hog and smelled like it too.

    They felt like the owned the

    galaxy.

  • October Diary

    October Diary

    10/13/86

    Well today was pretty uneventfull. The only things that happened were that I got scared out of my boots when I saw a snake. I tried to kill it, but never found it. I also got my part for drama and I’m an Irish boy.

    I had a bad experience at P.E. at school, because everyone was blaming me for the losses we had. I found out that 2nd semester I will have to take an art class because Mr. Bishop is moving to Oregon.

    10/14/86 Today I didn’t do all that much. I had a wierd math practice test during English. I talked to Amy during P.E. I found out that she is adopted and is from England. After school I went to Crown and bought my mother a book as a B-day present. Mike and I fought over how much he owed me.

    10/21/86 Well, its been a while since I last wrote. Not much has happened between these dates. I got a new role in acting class, I’m an Irish idiot who gets killed at sea bringing horses to the fair. And a few tests. In Mrs. Lee’s class we are starting “Fahrenheit 451.” We are starting volleyball in P.E., the people on my team wouldn’t let me play, though.

    10/28/86 Well, it has been a few days since I’ve written. I haven’t done much, except get ready for Halloween. This year I was invited to a party at Mike Rupp’s, but I declined, because I’m party sick. Also, in Theater Theater Class we are doing our plays in a real theater. One – a real theater. Unfortunately, I don’t have that big of a part, because my character gets killed early on in the play.

  • 80s Text

    80s Text

    10/12/86

    Well, I decided to start a journal today. Strange things are
    happening to me – I mean on Friday this Korean girl
    named Amy outright tells me that she likes me, just
    like that. Then this girl, Elisabeth Tuttle, who hasn’t
    spoken nicely to me in years, starts to go after
    me, I can tell, Mrs. Lee gives us a whole list
    of words we can’t use when we write, screw
    her. Well I’ll end this entry with saying that
    I’m not used to having girls go crazy over me.

  • Talking to Pigeons

    Talking to Pigeons

    9/3/1986

    Once long ago there lived

    a hobbit but not an ordinary hobbit,

    mind you, but a very adventurous

    one, there is a journal of his adventures.

    One bright and sunny morning,

    Sam was walking down the road,

    cape as in his tweeds, a large white wolf

    jumped out at him, so he drew his

    dagger, and stabbed the wolf as it

    lunged at him, so he went and rang

    the wolf alarm and then raced swiftly

    to his hole. Suddenly his hole started

    cave-in and ran OUT as fast

    as he could, BUT as he ran out,

    a fire-breathing dragon cornered

    and roasted him.

    Once long ago there was a

    clarinet player named Brian. The

    clarinet player was the best clarinet player

    in the land.

    One day, he decided to take

    a walk in the woods.

    my theory of man:

    evolution of man, is

    that man is just

    learning to use his

    mental powers, just

    as early man, just

    began to use his physical

    power.

    One evening three wargamers

    were enjoying themselves at a good

    game of (T) Traveller. “I’ll look

    soon, they started to wonder

    “what happened to gamemaster?”

    they were play a Traveller board

    game because it doesn’t need a

    gamemaster. Suddenly he walked

    through the door, Mr. Slorance

    was the gamemaster. He was

    also the school historian. He

    was a tall, thin and gray

    man (w-) at the age of 60.

    He sat down a newly made

    module and said, “Sorry

    I’m late, but I have a new

    scenario, let me begin.” “I suppose

    you have all of your old

    characters because I will

    take experienced characters

    to play this module. Let “you

    are (on) shipwrecked on a

    strange planet,” “It seems to

    be uninhabited.” “Before you were

    shipwrecked your cruiser was

    attacked by cosmic pirates.” Suddenly

    the gamemaster broke into laughter

    and the room was filled with smoke

    (A) Suddenly the young gamers found

    that they were in the far future,

    and they weren’t gaming anymore.

    Each of them, (A) (must) (be) David,

    Wendell

    and Mark had a puzzled look on

    their face. They didn’t know what to think.

    This is the story of a group of

    freedom fighters in the far fu-

    ture. Now the Earth is a barren

    wasteland, the only forests

    are succulents. (dom) The Earth

    was taken over by the

    Succulents. The succulents are

    an alien race, they can be

    described as human-shaped

    and sized succulent.

    Their goal, is to take

    all the moisture from

    from our planet and

    return to their home

    planet. Our story begins

    with a group of freedom

    fighters who have

    stowed away on an

    alien ship. Once they

    ship touched ground the

    freedom fighters

    There was once a fat gnome

    named Matt who got his

    jollies from a baseball bat

    he rubbed and he rubbed

    till his dick was but

    a stub and he exclaimed

    “I regret that!”

    I had a dream that

    I was camping in

    the Australian Outback

    with my scout troop

    and a girl scout troop,

    all the girl scouts

    were real good

    looking, I had a

    friend who was

    an aborigine

    who was lost

    from his tribe

    so that night

    I tried to

    help him,

    until I was

    caught

    by the

    scouts who

    thought

    I wanted to go and

    make-out with one

    of the girl scouts.

    The next night

    the girl scouts and

    boy scouts were all

    making-out in

    a big shack. A

    beautiful blonde picked

    me up and said, “come

    on, lets go make-out

    with the rest.” But

    we were too late

    and the girl scout

    leader said that all

    of this would go

    on to ~~not~~ fucking go

    she made us stop, my

    we got home on a Monday.

    All of this took place

    in an Australian jungle.

    The Pigeon Man – One day

    after our class

    oceanography trip

    out to the forest,

    we encountered

    a strange old

    man who

    was calling

    the pigeons

    “Little

    Bums”,

    he kept

    disappearing

    and then showing up

    again – like he did when

    we had to leave, but

    then he popped up in

    the bathroom standing

    next to us using the

    urinal next to

    us. One time he

    had disappeared and

    then reappeared, telling

    us all about the

    different languages

    he knew. He would

    dig in trashcans

    for food for the

    pigeons. David

    Pimley’s mom

    said that he was

    overfriendly because

    he was lonely – so that

    was why

    he was talking to the pigeons. I think he popped-up so much because I was friendly to him and he wanted to be friends with me. I would have become friends with him, but I had to leave.

    I think that all the nations of Earth should write, and rename Earth using its Latin name, Terra.

    (Illustration page containing an inverted sketch of a man in a shirt and tie)

    (Illustration page containing an inverted sketch of a man wearing a belt, pants, and shirt)

    There was once an old man named Arthur on a bench. He wore a sweater.

    Whether death is death or life is life doesn’t matter. What matters is the preservation of humanity and the common respect that comes out of Christianity.

    “Where you are, so I have been, where I am, so you shall be.” A quote from a gravestone.

    Tensions had been incredible between the two super-powers for decades. The year is 1999. Boom!!!

    How I hate thee, let me list the ways. Your dirty body, Your scummy breath, Your pale face,

    I am as I am, and so I will be, but how that I am none knoweth trulie.

    If you love someone… set them free, but if they don’t come back, hunt them down and kill them