💧paint the wall. 001💧
Tackling the new project on 52E - day.1 - 980sq.ft. - (feat. The Father) --- proceeding with "CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM."
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1.) father please, CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM is my middle name.
Saturday morning. Call the father at 7:43a. he says “Cautions Optimism” Nick.
we get over their and L. Mosely has already been sweeping up the street with a broom and dust pan for at least an hour. The city council person’s city council person. SWEATING IT for the people.
9:40a - The Father says that we need to keep 3 points of vigilant awareness at all times:
1.) imminent threat: Traffic
2.) paint line on the sprayer. (keep it tended and full because once we get started we don’t want to stop.)
3.) people trying to steal our sh*t
A man walks by with two buckets of water he clearly filled up out of the back Little Ceasars and is horsing it back to the homeless encampment for daily usage.
guy is a tank. Slick from the heat.
2.) “the classic is when you’re not paying attention to the cart and you knock a full bucket of water or paint or a sprayer off the cart—it’s a catastrophe”
The Feeling of needing to be about 6 places at once.
The Father running the gun. He has fashioned a durag out of a wet paint rag. Crowning his expedition with the frontier hat. Beat up Hoka’s. Camo Shorts. White Tee. Oakleys of course:
War ready.
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1.) Alright bub you’re gonna have to tend to me more than you’d like to but I need you to do it.
Tell me what you need and i’ll do it.
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2.) Okay bub now roll it back once with the roller, now quick and get off of it
Got it
but up here, it’s already dry where you’re rolling it, you’re already behind it
yes sir.
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3.) bub this paint will dry so fast don’t leave that lid off the sprayer even a second.
Yes sir
You got a wet rag?
Yup
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4.) tarp! Yup, pull it just like a train, that’s what those splash guards are for
got it
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5.) watch that line son. Run up there and get me another bucket of paint I need at least 2 gallons
yup
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6.) you don’t smell carbon monoxide on that generator do you?
No why
it’s like a small invisible cloud that builds up and you’ll start getting woozy then we’ll pass out, we should be far enough back though
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7.) SON—son, the extension cord—
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8.) We really need a third person—
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9.) Son that brush’ll turn hard as a rock like that it’s 100 degrees out heat index.
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10.) you’re not thrown off by your old man hustling you around are you?
I take absolutely no offense
Good man.
3.) Sitting at the brew pub like two thieves waiting on the third. J walks in. Wings ordered. Pub fries.
J says that he suggested the churches all host a homeless man.
But then of course the question of what to do and for how long with them?
Keep them indefinitely.
You won’t change them but “Whatever you do unto the least of these.”
J says that you’re never going to be able to truly change those people. As the old saying goes:
You put a prince into a prison and he’ll make it a palace. You put a prisoner into a palace and he’ll make it a prison.
It’s like your dad, you put your dad anywhere in the world and he’ll survive.
just sad that the only place they can get water is from the little Caesars
Yeah it’s probably because someone at the little caesars is homeless!
Your dad used to hire them.
Shoot he’d pull up on one that he’d hired from the day before and they’d run the other direction
they didnt realize there was something even worse than being homeless: And that’s being a general contractor on Parson’s Avenue in Columbus Ohio
7th circle of Hell if I recall.
I remember a few of those guys: Freddy, Bill Nye
Like Bill Nye the science guy?
and Dan too, even though he wouldn’t have admitted to being homeless?
4.) you remember J.MUDD?
Oh my god I forgot about him listen to this:
He smoked crack, that’s what ruined him
but when I found him he said he’d found a pair of scrubs in riverside hospital and pretended to be a doctor for two weeks, he just lived in riverside hospital.
and when the security finally ran him down they found him under the bushes and beat the brakes off of him.
He came from a wealthy family, he came from money. He mom lived on one of the nicest golf course in Ohio and they all disowned him totally on account of the crack.
He lived with this horrible girl for a while that was schytozphenic and she’d call the police and she did that like 3 times, and the police got tired of running down there so they finally told him.
Bro I don’t care what she did if they call us down here one more time we’re going to kick your ass.
and wouldn’t you know it they pulled up a 4th time and J ran out of the house scared to death in his boxers only and I won’t even say what happened after that but he S*** himself.
But one time he got us V.I.P. tickets to Rascal Flats in Columbus no joke.
he was trying to tell us that his brother was in the band forever.
And at first we were riding him, telling to shut up, whatever, yeaaaaahhh ssuuuuurreee
he just kept on it: I SWEAR. IF YOU WANT TICKETS I CAN GET THEM.
Okay sure, sure, Me and My wife and J and his Girlfriend, we all want tickets J MUDD, get us 4 tickets.
Then he actually showed up with them…….
And we pull up to the concert and J.Mudd tells us to park near the tour buses and all that and we’re like, we’re going to get arrested for sure, but then he signals security out the window and wouldn’t you know it they wave us in.
…..then we’re sitting in the green room with Rascals Flats at the peak of their fame on account of this—
cracked out homeless dude who picked up a stint of work with your father.
5.) You know dad your life is like straight out of Hunter S. Thompson piece
except Hunter just imagined he saw half of that stuff
he wouldn’t have wanted to see the real thing…
imagining Hunter S m-fkn Thompson standing on the corner, tucking tail and running when The Father tries to flag him down for work.
6.) Progress
more soon, God bless.
Work Fast, Don’t Die.
