Buddy Wakefield's Blog

You are the kind of overcoming that puts all the other threats in their place.
—Buddy Wakefield

IMAGE“There is life after survival.” From Human the Death Dance, where I also necessarily say to myself “Boy, go find your spine and ride it out of here.”

Someone sent this tattoo and I saved it, but can’t find the message or the story behind it. DM me, you insane diamond.

IMAGETomorrow’s talk has me ready to run the opposite direction. Feels twisted, risky, self-indulgent and may expose the fraud in the saint I’d hoped to be. But I’m the name of our cards on the table, here we go.

IMAGEFor the third week in a row I will not be able to host the open mic, BUT @frivnkie will be there with y’all, and I will for sure see you again on the 26th have fun out there!

IMAGE48 years old. A happy belated candleface cake super to me. Y’all every year I look back at some photo of me and can’t believe I didn’t know how good I looked. Why was I hating on myself so much when I didn’t look that bad at all? [Especially when I’m not compared to anything.]

Well me and my shameless left bicep just want y’all to know we know we look good right now. This year. This moment. And the only thing I can imagine even slightly regretting is that I actually did post a flexing selfie.
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HUGE ongoing thanks to my friend @andy86thomps for helping me get back in shape the way i wanted this year, and with extremely simple science.

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IMAGEStayin Alive.

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VIDEODon’t worry. Help is on the way. You have always been on the way. Keep company with whom your happiness is never in question. Look at this world that is yours, a festival of party lights hanging all the way around the horizon line. You will be so glad you did not sleep on the chance to stay strung up till dawn talking about life with your best friend, even if Mom does make you roof the house hungover with your uncles that very same morning good god the hammering home.

IMAGETomorrow! Today for some of you. TUESDAY, the one you’re standing on, @theangrytherapist and I talk about your questions, our revelations, and about how caffeine killed the world. Free Zoom link in bio to join us at the LIVE show @ NOON Pacific