last night my brother and i sat out on the porch and drank a beer and smoked some cigarettes and had a perfect conversation.

the topics included:

-artificial intelligence

-cloning and it's societal and (if this is not redundant) moral implications

-the origin of human rights and whether they are innate or earned, as related to the above topic

-the seat of personhood

-how well his date kissed

-what she wore

-steve myerchin, high school guidance counselor to end all high school guidance counselors

-my friend kerri, who died 7 years ago

-why wheat beer is so damn tasty

-a friend of ours did cocaine and i didn't know it

-how people at work have no idea who i am and why this is probably a good thing

-why an internal monologue is essential

-why people need to believe in god, the soul and the unattainable nature of the definition of emotions

-why, ultimately, even if everything that we chalk up to being immaterial or divine is a function of biology, it doesn't matter, because the real meat of all this is experiential

-we think so similarly it's beautiful

-what makes this even more beautiful is we can still have a good intellectual knock-down-drag-out because jon loves to play the devil's advocate

-how much fun it was to explain the term "devil's advocate" to his native japanese date

-stuart, and how his strategy to take over the neighborhood is highly effective

-princess kitty willie's problem with stuart

-why isn't that car moved yet?

-what it feels like to know the sky has already fallen, and more than that, why it feels so good to feel that as a memory now rather than an event which you are experiencing currently

-what we were going to eat for breakfast today at the diner

-frank

-the radiohead show

-being a server at a restaurant

-what we are doing when he gets home tonight

-"hey, it's like 4 am, huh?"

-"ok, girl, i'm gonna go up the street and house-sit"

-"ok, sweet, sleep well, wake me up by noon"

-"i love you jess"

-"i love you too, jon"

-"gimme a kiss goodnight"

-kiss

-kiss

-"be safe!"

close the door, turn the lock, leave on the light and wander into bed