Thankful for central heating. • Thankful I am not in Folsom Prison proud of a son I hardly know like Johnny Cash sings. • Thankful the man in China sewed this shirt. • Thankful for a big Spanish Omelette at the hungry end of that Yom Kippur when I fasted. • Thankful for the kid in What About Bob who fears diving. • Thanks for Limax Maximus, hanging from the slime. • Thanks for acting classes that taught me to listen. • Thanks to Aikido that taught me to stand without falling over. • Thankful for my college roommate who built me a set. • Thanks for Forum Theatre and the critique and the warmth of it. • Thankful for Nina Simone that voice like a butterfly knife in your side that's falling in love. • Thanks for the stone bench in the park where I lay and thought about topology. • Thanks for hostels. • Thankful not everyone is mean. • Thank you for Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware, because of the bold lines and the small winks. • Thankful for living without television. • Thankful for an iron skillet and dinner guests who are patient. • Thankful for the woods of the Cascade mountains, and the chance to commiserate with you each morning, cascades. • Thankful for the kid in What About Bob who finally jumps. • Thanks for reading my column. • Thankful for the guy with the grow juice when I was starting trying to be an artist. • Thankful for weather that lets me use my bicycle in February. • Thanks for jeopardizing my identity which let me be twice as much as I was. • Thanks Jacob for being a genius-beyond. • Thanks Jacob for disappearing before I became like you. • Thanks C. K. for meeting me in Portland that Winter and for the ghosts of leaves and for being like the autumn to me returning sometimes. • Thanks A. M. for meeting me in Portland that Winter & bringing the woodsman for to help me remember how lonely we are. • Thanks A. M. for being a vision out of films & for recalcitrance and for that picture of you in the red fabric—Byzantine around you. • Thanks to the wee grade school that let my horrible self flower and fume & thanks to the public industrial school that weaned me of being myself. • Thankful for the inner-life privilege that some folks, celebrities, haven't got. • Thanks for creating this beast mom & dad.