Monday, November 9, 2026

Legacy 131 -Virgil Will B Running-

Hey Dad,
It’s me, Baby B. Did you have a good day? Good Day? No nap, no news; that’s good news, less nickels and dimes.

Do you get why I hate car rides, Dad? And Virgil isn’t too fond of them either; I know that.

And what about Virgil and my potential future stepmom, M Anime? Better yet, let’s not think about that. It’s not that you two will be starting a life. It’s the whole, creating-life idea. You know, like one of those movies you would watch as you sent me off to my room. And surprisingly, Virgil didn’t get in trouble again. You being gone for so long.

However, you weren’t taking advantage of being all alone, as worried as you’ve been. I remember my last two car rides. The first took me to my own “Bad Place” where you FIRED me. I know, not funny, not cool…

“Pinch me, pinch me
‘Cause I’m still asleep
Please, God, tell me
That I’m still asleep.”
Barenaked Ladies ‧ 2000

And the last one was when you picked me up. And let’s just say it tore me to pieces. Or burned might be more accurate. Okay, I’ll stop, Dad. Again, not funny. Pretty damn sad.

Getting me back to never run with you in the fur and flesh again was a little more expensive than getting my hearse back to semi-decent condition. And just when you were thinking you could SAVE my brother. Virgil isn’t dying. But if something happened tomorrow, or if you had thought to help him yesterday. You did, dammit, I’ll stop.

Honestly, like father, like son, right. Something bad happens, and we have to think of the worst to get by. It wasn’t death for me; it was leaving your side.

And for you, it was my death. You can’t outrun it. M Anime can talk about ‘riding’ all she wants, but still… You keep rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, but to where, my father? Where? Nowhere.

Where is the last place you WANTED to be? Even when you went to the movies without me or V. Yes, I can huff and puff like the wolf I want to be. Anyway, you went because, well, like me and V, free food. And of course there were “zombies” or monsters of some kind. But the most memorable things that you can remember in a car all involve Heaven.

First potential stepmom, fistful of pills, your furry firstborn, me, myself, and I. But keep driving… Virgil Will B Running

Some people rushed the ending. Others found reasons to put it off
― Jack Pinkhunter

“Swifter than the winds or winged thunderbolt.”
― The Aeneid

2108 Days Without B III, Day 1549 of Virgil’s Arrival

Always and Forever,
Your Son

Monday, November 2, 2026

Legacy 124 -B And V Timed-

Hey Dad,
It’s me, Baby B. Did you have a good day? Good Day? Are you still listening to me bark or the constant tick-tock?

Tick-tock, tick-tock. I remember being with you to watch all those Hunger Games movies, except “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.” You share pictures of me on TikTok. Still the M.V.P. over Miss M Anime. “I’m Comin’” could be my intro song. Though Virgil and I’s potential future stepmom means that in another way, I suppose… Eww. And then there’s all the time you need for well… Everything. Tick-tock, Mr. Wick. How many references is that, Dad? As always, I remain my father’s son. There is no time limit. Eternity.

However you live, my brother lives. And every day it’s as if we’re “living” reverse lives, my father. “Hunt Him Down!” “Braxton Lives!” Remember “The Running Man”? The things you do for a time, Dad.

“Pinch me, pinch me
‘Cause I’m still asleep
Please, God, tell me
That I’m still asleep.”
Barenaked Ladies ‧ 2000

Here and now, it’s only you and me as V gets one more slice of his B-Day pie, ha. Lucky

How many of those did you buy for me, Dad? For fifteen years, you were buying me burgers and enough fries to make me puke. You even got my fav girl to make me cake.

Fifteen years Dad. And you remember the time. Every time. And you’re doing it again.

You know, when you’re sad enough to join me… Again, I say no! Remember how hard I fought. Maybe a bad example, because if it had been up to me… What are our words, Dad?

Always and forever. There have to be dogs in Heaven… Cerberus wouldn’t get any rest…

Dad. Hell’s not for you.

Not saying I wouldn’t follow you. But it’s not your time. And I don’t mean to bark all “Me Before You,” because that isn’t fair. At all. My memory, M Anime, my mutt lil’ bro.

Language! I know, but I can say that, can’t I? Fur and all. If only you had as much time as I have fur that you’re still finding after all this time. Once again, you and me always and forever. And you feel like you’ll be behind forever. No wonder you prefer yabbos to butts.

What, I am a guy too. And while you say so formally, I might bark: fatherhood is the epitome of manhood. But there is more. If only time to find it. B And V Timed

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven”
Ecclesiastes 3:1

“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”
The Aeneid

2101 Days Without B III, Day 1542 of Virgil’s Arrival

Always and Forever,
Your Son

Monday, October 26, 2026

Legacy 117 -B’s Brotherhood, Virgil’s Friendship-

Hey Dad,
It’s me, Baby B. Did you have a good day? Good Day? I’m sure you can hear me bark from up here, right?

Or is it down there… At least it’s warm. Not in the Ninth Circle of Hell. How many times must I bark that you’re not going that way? Not even Virgil, living or dead. Treachery is not who my father is. Others, sure. It’s why I remain top of the heap, ain’t it? Always Dad

Number one. Top of the list. King of the hill. A number one. But like you say to 2-V and my potential future stepmom, it’s in our nature, isn’t it? Man’s Best Friend, like Shadow:

“We didn’t have to. It’s built in. Has been ever since the dawn of time… when a few wild dogs took it upon themselves to watch over man, to bark when he’s in danger, to run and play with him when he’s happy, to nuzzle him when he’s lonely. That’s why they call us man’s best friend.”
Shadow, Homeward Bound

And it’s only one more reason you believe you failed me. And you think you’re failing my brother. Man’s Best Friend. But what are you? Daddy, always and forever. Glory:

“And what are you?
So full of hate you wanna
go fight everybody…
…because you been whipped
and chased.
That might not be living,
but it sure ain’t dying.”
Glory

Why Can’t We Be Friends?

“Pinch me, pinch me
‘Cause I’m still asleep
Please, God, tell me
That I’m still asleep.”
Barenaked Ladies ‧ 2000

“Dead Like Me” much? For the record, the movie was garbage. One that I’m glad we didn’t sit through together. Friends, you, me, my Favorite Girl, maybe one day stepmom.

“Just because (I’m) dead doesn’t mean that I can’t move in with you.”

“And just because I’m (alive) doesn’t mean I can’t have a splitting headache.”
Dead Like Me

That’s what friendship is, isn’t it? Finding someone you can stand to be around… And by that I mean sitting in our reading spot, Dad, ordering all our yummy favorites, and watching anything and everything on the Glow Box, and occasionally sending me outside. Like time-out? I’m sure I don’t even want to know what you and my bestie saw.

“Wasn’t it you who said that true love is all about finding someone you can stand to be around for 10 minutes at a time?

“Yeah”

“You got 10 minutes”
―

My bro’s only done that once with you and my Favorite Girl. He was won over, far too easily, am I right? Another sign that he ain’t me. More like a Backrooms version, for sure.

So we’re really doing this. “Just call my name, and I’ll be there.” Any ole movie night sounds about right, Dad. So the Backrooms only I’m not Mary, and you aren’t Clark. Not Captain Clark either. A monster, which is what this is all about. You thinking like that, ha.

Who can be friends with a monster? “No face as hideous as my face…” “When does a man become a monster?” Here’s a question for you, my father. Why do you think we are friends? You don’t remember the day we met, the day you and Miss M Anime met.

However, V, Saturday, August 13. 2022. “You thought you’d find a friend.” And you did.

You? The Man in the Mirror… B’s Brotherhood, Virgil’s Friendship

“You might never become king of the world, but you may very well be treated like a king by the people that matter most.”
Dystopian Girls 7 by Rodzil LaBraun

“Heaven’s my witness, and the stars that look down on us, all he did was care too much for a luckless friend.”
― The Aeneid

2094 Days Without B III, Day 1535 of Virgil’s Arrival

Always and Forever,
Your Son

Monday, October 19, 2026

Legacy 110 -B In Melancholia, Virgil-

Hey Dad,
It’s me, Baby B. Did you have a good day? Good Day? You don’t want to answer that, I know. Peace and Quiet.

A kinder way to bark Melancholia. It took me quite a while to understand you, Dad. And me and Virgil’s Potential Future Stepmom, is trying her best. But right now you’d rather not bark another single word today. You always told me other humans barked too much anyway. Constant noise. At least when I barked, it helped you out; it actually mattered, Daddy. My voice.

What matters today? What has you Melancholy? I heard you last night, and it wasn’t the “Sleepy Time V, Good Night.” If you only knew how much I miss that, Dad. But you were so Melancholic this morning… I learned from you, Dad, so I learned from the best, hmm

The power of words, “The Power of Love,” I swear

“Pinch me, pinch me
‘Cause I’m still asleep
Please, God, tell me
That I’m still asleep.”
Barenaked Ladies ‧ 2000

Movies, music, and manuscripts. Well, not yet; let’s stick with movies. How will you be spending tomorrow with my brother? I’m glad you saw the birthday cookies in the Bad Place… I mean the other Bad Place. Turns out we have a few of those, Dad. V has seen his

One more reason you are lost to Melancholia. Six years old, that’s my baby brother, I know. And I was nearly sixteen, and you never missed anything with me, my father. Every check-up, you found a cute girl to bake me a cake, and I cuddled enough that M Anime is still trying to catch up. Hell, you wrote a whole universe, the Unfinished Archive, that now numbers 11 women?

Maybe. Maybe I’m buttering you up to butter up, Virgil.

If anything, you need to hear anything other than your own mouth. You’ll be no good to M Anime or your mini-mes. And you have a birthday to plan. A movie night? Something, my father. “You Were Loved”? No, Dad, today I am loved by you; Virgil shares this too.

I know it even if you can’t speak it. And we both love you. M Anime says she loves you; it’s the only reason I’m not haunting her. Or maybe I like hanging out with you, Dad, as we always barked: Always and Forever. Melancholy and all. Fur buddies. Children.

You’re not ashamed of our barks, growls, or paws. We make the madness, certain music selections, and Melancholia manageable. Sad? Speak. B In Melancholia, Virgil

“But when you spend a long enough time in a very bad place, your soul hungers for something that your brain no longer believes exists”
Dystopian Girls 7, Rodzil LaBraun

“He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish.”
From ― The Aeneid

2087 Days Without B III, Day 1528 of Virgil’s Arrival

Always and Forever,
Your Son

Monday, October 12, 2026

Legacy 103 -Savage B’s, Virgil’s Bestiary-

Hey Dad,
It’s me, Baby B. Did you have a good day? Good Day? The Bad Place. A cell, a dungeon, an easy escape. Hmm.

And yet we are here, my father. We’re not quitters; we’re not runners. Savages Daddy.

That’s what we are, Dad. Survivors always; we got souls, but we’re not soldiers, and Saviors… Yes, Dad, I remember. All those nights you told me to shut it, because of TWD, “The Walking Dead.” I am Negan! No, I am my father’s son, as much so as my brother.

And I know you’re giving me that look about not being a quitter, about being a survivor, my father. I invented that look. That savage look. And the fact that you remember means that “I’m Still Here,” And I’m not going anywhere. Neither are you, Old Man, no, not now. And why is that? Bradford Men. We said last week.

“Pinch me, pinch me
‘Cause I’m still asleep
Please, God, tell me
That I’m still asleep.”
Barenaked Ladies ‧ 2000

“We don’t bleed when we don’t fight,” but neither you nor I is a “Runaway.” Just because we don’t fight doesn’t mean we can’t fight. Or that we must not fight on these days, Dad.

Days you try so hard to salvage. Salvage or Savage? When was the last time you attacked the day instead of trying to pick up the pieces? Isn’t that how we got here, Dad? Today would have been so easy, and yet you wake up and suddenly. No, it ain’t love. Except maybe for your craft. Isn’t that where we should begin? Attacking your craft?

Daddy, it doesn’t matter how tired you are, the tons that this world places upon your shoulders, or the two tiny titans that you’re raising.

When it comes to being a savage, that’s what you do here. What we do here. 2-V as well as he cries his little heart out to join us… Someday, maybe he’ll understand, won’t he?

What about V and my “Potential Future Stepmom”? Does she understand? You haven’t even told her about everything… You know the stuff you would send me to timeout for so you could be by yourself. Eww! Yeah, I know, I know, who am I to bark, right? You still talk about me being in front of my favorite girl and “The Talk” we had, Daddy.

“Braxton knows better,” you’d tell her. But do you know better? The beast, monster, and savage you are. Stronger than anything. Savage B’s, Virgil’s Bestiary

“Everyone is a monster to somebody”
― The Book Eaters

“His mad lust for battle drove him upon his enemies in an ecstasy of passion… A savage lion.” The Aeneid

2080 Days Without B III, Day 1521 of Virgil’s Arrival

Always and Forever,
Your Son