November 17, 1996
12:32pm I'm drinking coffee and watching football and waiting for someone to call. Without fail, when I'm waiting for a call I will end up in the shower or on the john at the moment the call comes.

Slept very late this morning, and feel great about it. But sleeping like that does sometimes incur a headache of sorts. I should probably start taking some kind of vitamin complex, because I'm such a baby about things like eating.

telling people that i was coming here this week, everyone commented on Las Vegas and America. It is the best and worst of America. It is an unbelievable piece of America. It is all of America laid out to dry.

Not to be a wet rag, but I don't know what America is.

flying makes no sense to me. it is an unnatural situation to be shooting through the air at 30,000 feet, and nothing i can do can prepare me for the vertigo and the panic i feel when the plane is landing or taking off. At cruising altitude i don't worry about it; it is in those minutes of takeoff and landing that i fidget and sweat, certain that this will be the plane today that drops like a stone onto the earth. It is at those same moments that I wonder why i should care if the plane does exactly that and smashes us all.

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