We are all idiots. We are all goofs.  We are all blind and distracted.  Wake up!

Voices keep telling me that Annie is on her way back, so, where the fuck is she then.  The world is just cluster big daddy crazy and I am just sitting here pretty… Read full post »

And there it is you idiot, you fool, you vagabond traveller of the stars.

The truth is right there in front of you, the truth that has always been there.  This life, this absolutely beautiful life!  It’s the most important thing in the universe, in this infinite now.  Th… Read full post »

Oh Annie will anyone remember me when this journey is finally through?

Oh Annie, where the hell are you?

Van Gogh died a madman with not a penny to his name.

Mozart was buried in a public grave crazy and poor.

Somehow we are supposed to… Read full post »

Something has changed hasn’t it?  Is it me or is it everything? 

No one is out there anymore. 

No one is reading anymore, commenting. 

We all seem to be drifting in our own voids, or is it just me.  Has something changed dramatically with me?

They… Read full post »

What a day this has been.  See, because of the market, flea market, Mondays are like my Friday.  I decided to sleep in on this Monday/Friday.  It was absolutely wonderful.

I let the day drift away from me in dreams.  My phone rang and I ignored it.  People kept… Read full post »

What I do know as truth.   What I know as absolute reality is that, if we as human beings were given enough information to know that the life after this one was a better life, or, actually as good as this life, well no, probably would have to be better,… Read full post »

     Oh my Golly Gee Wombat!!  What has happened to the universe?!  We are just floating text characters moving through the ooze with no identity anymore.

        We thrive on cruelty and trollish abu… Read full post »

Annie and I were pulled into the raging sky by some unbelievable vacuum and yet we seemed to be able to maneuver ourselves around.  Annie moved over close to me and with a  rope and clips she had hooked around her waist she clipped on end to my trousers and… Read full post »

My dad wasn’t a lazy man.  He was a hard working blue collar factory worker and a farmer.  My dad was also a drunk.  When he got off third shift he wanted to lay on the couch, drink Burger Beer and watch football or some sport, western or Red Skelton unless… Read full post »

“Yes I am brilliant Annie, but then brilliant doesn’t matter when you are bull goose full blown crazy now do it?”

Annie was giggling as she climbed on top of me and slid down.  My god this woman was beautiful and she was about to make passionate love to… Read full post »

You are the curse, and, you are the cure.

Oh wait, I think I am finally starting to get this.  It’s finally starting to filter through the haze. 

The journey to consciousness is of course the spiritual connection to the all but it also has… Read full post »

     I am insane.

     I am crazy.

     I am mentally ill, so they say, so I say, who knows?

     I am lost in the found.

     The worlds that I visit, they are real, all of them, are real. … Read full post »

The story falls apart

     “Jack and I are going car shopping tonight.  He says I need a car.”

Life is just full of fucking surprises.  Yep man, it keeps me on my fucking toes.

Maybe all of her wishes are coming true, you know,… Read full post »

Annie Cosmic was standing in the bedroom doorway dressed in my robe, “Gunnar your dad is here.”

As I was coming out of a very deep sleep I thought this was such an unbelievably mean thing for Annie to say.  My dad had been dead for about a year… Read full post »

When karma finally does reveal itself and also reveal the nature of each individual’s participation in the process called life, alas, oh little one does it make the pain any less?  Does it make the loss feel any closer?

I understand what my task was, what my purpose in… Read full post »

   What you are about to read are the letters, stories and notes that I have been writing and keeping track of as this adventure has unfolded.  This is the culmination of consciousness, Annie Cosmic, Albert, insanity and Aardvark Diggs with life’s mysteries sprinkl… Read full post »

  The truth can set us free.

     The truth can never be.

     I can feel it man.  There are moments when I can feel, physically feel myself coming apart at the seams because I am so unbelievably close to revealing the trut… Read full post »

Take my hand beautiful lady.

Let’s dance.

There was a knock on John’s door.  John really wasn’t in the mood to see anyone.

John pulled himself out of his chair and went to the door.  He figured it was the Schwan’s guy stopping as he did every… Read full post »

We’re on the road to nowhere.

Come on inside.

Friday market day, oh yea, Friday at the flea market, the place where all the retirees, handicaps, unemployed, disjointed, homeless and hungry go to hang out and try to buy and sell each other’s stuff.

Where the hell… Read full post »

     The top news story for today, a Wednesday, March 7, 2012 is the new iPad!  What?!  Are you fucking kidding me?  This is what is considered the most important thing going on in the world today?

     This beat out the fact that states are… Read full post »

I am watching the smoke rise from the corpse knowing that I am the burning body, knowing that the soul is leaving for good this time.

She came into the booth; another vendor, well the wife or girlfriend of another vendor but that means she was still another vendor. … Read full post »

“Jesus Christ!  There has to be something that can be done about this!”

“Ok, what would you suggest?”

“Well I don’t know.  I was hoping you would have an answer, or a suggestion or the next clue.”

“Nope, I got nuthin.”

 … Read full post »

Gets no better does it

     I get so frustrated anymore.  I watched my mother and father lose the home they build and lived in for forty years.  I watched my dad shake and twist from Parkinson’s the last fifteen years of his life and watched him sell his John… Read full post »

     We all have those wonderful heart felt moments that will be with us forever of our experiences here at Open Salon but along with those times when this was a lifeboat for many of us there are also so many unbelievable amounts of time that is spent on… Read full post »