Given Up

I shouted out, “SHIT!” And hobbled on, telling myself if you have to do something badly enough, you do it, even if you have a broken neck!
-James Kirkwood
GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES, a novel

Twenty-five years ago today:

May 8, 1987
Friday

What can I say? Work was ‘as usual’.

I rented ALIEN and ALIENS for a double-whammy Sigourney Weaver night. I watched them all by my lonesome. It was a spine-tingling night alone. They were both great movies even if they were scary.

I saw Connie of the CSO-Customer Service Office while I was at WHEREHOUSE RECORDS, renting the movies.

Eileen did not answer her telephone.  I’ve about given up on the bitch!

He was officially heterosexual, but his dark secret was that he was attracted to men; since his divorce fifteen years ago he had been making his most private fantasies a reality.
-Stieg Larsson
THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST