....michael jackson dies, and i feel oddly sad.
though he was a monster to many children, he was obviously a great talent, and one that will be missed.
i will resist the hurge to grab my crotch and squeal as a fitting gesture in his memory at several points today.
and compared to farrah fawcett, who also died yesterday and clearly had little talent but for what she looked like when she was young, jackson was a true artist.
may you indeed rest now, tortured soul.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
ms. fawcett.
she died.
for those of you who still have her poster up on the wall....i have one thing to say.
that`s kinda sad.
i remember when friends of mins got worked up when the thing first came out. those were the guys who`s mothers would allow them to put her image up on thier bedroom wall in the first place.
i could care less.
i was much more taken with the girl next door.
i would have had her picture up on my wall, but i didn`t need to. she was real to me and i was 14 and in heaven.
that`s just me though. i much prefer the real thing. live music, real discussion, the girl next door.
so the poster is dead.
long live the poster.
i guess it`s worth more now that she died....or something.
for those of you who still have her poster up on the wall....i have one thing to say.
that`s kinda sad.
i remember when friends of mins got worked up when the thing first came out. those were the guys who`s mothers would allow them to put her image up on thier bedroom wall in the first place.
i could care less.
i was much more taken with the girl next door.
i would have had her picture up on my wall, but i didn`t need to. she was real to me and i was 14 and in heaven.
that`s just me though. i much prefer the real thing. live music, real discussion, the girl next door.
so the poster is dead.
long live the poster.
i guess it`s worth more now that she died....or something.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
finally.....
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Ed-McMahon-dies-86/ss/events/en/062309mcmahon
....the old gasbag gives it up.
and his tired-looking wifey can stop retending to smile so much.
....the old gasbag gives it up.
and his tired-looking wifey can stop retending to smile so much.
nutjob.
recently a nutty woman whom i have had some contact with over the past few years was overty rude to my girlfreind. i suppose her reasoning was that she was only temporary, or somesuch nonsense.
this morning the aforementioned nutjob made a freind request to my facebook page which i summarily blocked.
needless to say, my girlfreind questioned why this woman would be clearly ignorant to her while being flirty with me. though she trusts me and understood that my interest was aimed at the woman`s newly adopted german shepherd dog as we stood talking briefly, she was concerned that such a nutty woman would have my interest at all.
my answer was that i have recenty avoided her when she appears at starbucks, but yesterday i spoke briefy as we passed to go across the street.
my gilrfreind spoke to the woman while we stood there and she was ignored totally.
nutjob.
tired of being nice to her when she floats up while i`m in conversation with others, when she has interupted dates i`ve been on in the past and now openly hostile to the girl i love.
she claims she has thyroid cancer also....yet this story changes, and i find it hard to believe her....tragic though it would be if true.
i have tolerated her nuttiness and her tiresome religiosity and whiny poor-me attitude to life but yesterday was the last straw.
attempting to come between my girl is a foul. whistle blows. game stops. name goes in book.
nutjob.
this morning the aforementioned nutjob made a freind request to my facebook page which i summarily blocked.
needless to say, my girlfreind questioned why this woman would be clearly ignorant to her while being flirty with me. though she trusts me and understood that my interest was aimed at the woman`s newly adopted german shepherd dog as we stood talking briefly, she was concerned that such a nutty woman would have my interest at all.
my answer was that i have recenty avoided her when she appears at starbucks, but yesterday i spoke briefy as we passed to go across the street.
my gilrfreind spoke to the woman while we stood there and she was ignored totally.
nutjob.
tired of being nice to her when she floats up while i`m in conversation with others, when she has interupted dates i`ve been on in the past and now openly hostile to the girl i love.
she claims she has thyroid cancer also....yet this story changes, and i find it hard to believe her....tragic though it would be if true.
i have tolerated her nuttiness and her tiresome religiosity and whiny poor-me attitude to life but yesterday was the last straw.
attempting to come between my girl is a foul. whistle blows. game stops. name goes in book.
nutjob.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
yay.
http://www.itmightgetloud.com/info.html
finally a documentary about music that white males like....except the little retarded leprechaun.
didn`t the producers think that page and white could float the boat without the pope`s banjoist?
(sigh.)
at least it`s not bob dylan and leonard cohen.
finally a documentary about music that white males like....except the little retarded leprechaun.
didn`t the producers think that page and white could float the boat without the pope`s banjoist?
(sigh.)
at least it`s not bob dylan and leonard cohen.
a camera for the chronically self-conscious.
http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2009/06/samsung-camera-promises-to-make-you-look-good.html
i wonder if it has a database of prefered faces you can use, just in case you reject yours entirely.
i wonder if it has a database of prefered faces you can use, just in case you reject yours entirely.
Monday, June 15, 2009
obligation.
i wrote quite a bit about obligation a few years ago here, and i realise it`s appropriate in relation to the issue of rescuing as discussed in my last post.
the thing that stops us from trying to stop "rescuing" others, especially those close to us is obligation.
obligation is a tacit agreement between people that binds them into this game whereby rescuer runs the risk of being persecuted/persecuter.
just as buying a girl a drink in a bar has the potential to oblige a girl to sex, the providing of help obliges a person to reciprocating...and is difficult when the person recieving the help has little or no means to reciprocate.
and we feel guilty if we dont help though, don`t we?
obligation goes hand-in-hand with guilt to bind people in these games of victim-rescue-persecute in all areas of human interaction.
how do we break the cycle?
by not helping, fighting the guilt....and not feeling obliged to "help".
the thing that stops us from trying to stop "rescuing" others, especially those close to us is obligation.
obligation is a tacit agreement between people that binds them into this game whereby rescuer runs the risk of being persecuted/persecuter.
just as buying a girl a drink in a bar has the potential to oblige a girl to sex, the providing of help obliges a person to reciprocating...and is difficult when the person recieving the help has little or no means to reciprocate.
and we feel guilty if we dont help though, don`t we?
obligation goes hand-in-hand with guilt to bind people in these games of victim-rescue-persecute in all areas of human interaction.
how do we break the cycle?
by not helping, fighting the guilt....and not feeling obliged to "help".
a simple transactional game.
victim-rescue-persecute.
we all do it. we think we can help someone less fortunate than ourselves. we put a coin in a cup, we reach out a hand, we advise, we offer shelter.....
...and we wonder why nothing changes, or that the person isn`t grateful, or that the situation gets worse.
the answer lies in our own personal motives.
why did we put the money in the cup, or offer help or advice or shelter?
too often the person offering help has some expectation that the act of help will be repayed, not necesarily in the form it was given, but in recognition or gratitude.
so why is that a problem?
because it puts pressure on the person who recieved the initial action to reciprocate.
now, not all people who need help are playing victim. the person with a broken-down car needs somemone to stop and assist. the kid being bullied at school needs adult intervention. the ill need medicine. people need advice and certainly we help those close to us without thought of what they should do for us.
these brief adult transactions are part of the glue that holds communities together, but the manipulative exchanges that make up the victim-rescue-persecute triangle are a different story entirely.
a person, for whatever reason, feels inedequate and plays victim. they drag thier heels, play sick or generally unable to do things to survive....and petition someone else for help...consciously or otherwise.
then the rescuer goes to work, morally and ethically believing that thier efforts will somehow make this person`s life better.....and that they will be seen as the one to do it.
people of all types do this. parents, clergy, teachers, politicians...the list is endless.
ok, so there is the simplified dynamic of the victim-rescue phase of the game.
now for the persecution.
children get angry at their parents, want thier own lives, cars, phones, money, etc....and resent thier parents for having these things and not continuing to share.
husbands and wives tear eachother apart with the help of lawyers and judges.
the nieghbour makes your life a misery every day of your existance.
again, not all children and not all spouses and not all nieghbours do this.
only the ones caught in the victim-rescue-persecute game.
how do we tell the difference?
our own attitude toward whomever we offer assistance.
what do we expect from them?
if we expect the begger on the street to turn his life around because we put a dollar in his cup...we have begun on the path to a persecution game.
same with our spouses and our children.
they need our help, but the don`t need our sanctimonious expectation and obligation.
it`s no wonder they get angry.
the movie "the soloist" is the story of a homelss cellist suffering from mental illness and a journalist who decides to write a story about the man and help get him off the street. it is a great example of the rescue game in action....and interestingly critics panned it.
we all do it. we think we can help someone less fortunate than ourselves. we put a coin in a cup, we reach out a hand, we advise, we offer shelter.....
...and we wonder why nothing changes, or that the person isn`t grateful, or that the situation gets worse.
the answer lies in our own personal motives.
why did we put the money in the cup, or offer help or advice or shelter?
too often the person offering help has some expectation that the act of help will be repayed, not necesarily in the form it was given, but in recognition or gratitude.
so why is that a problem?
because it puts pressure on the person who recieved the initial action to reciprocate.
now, not all people who need help are playing victim. the person with a broken-down car needs somemone to stop and assist. the kid being bullied at school needs adult intervention. the ill need medicine. people need advice and certainly we help those close to us without thought of what they should do for us.
these brief adult transactions are part of the glue that holds communities together, but the manipulative exchanges that make up the victim-rescue-persecute triangle are a different story entirely.
a person, for whatever reason, feels inedequate and plays victim. they drag thier heels, play sick or generally unable to do things to survive....and petition someone else for help...consciously or otherwise.
then the rescuer goes to work, morally and ethically believing that thier efforts will somehow make this person`s life better.....and that they will be seen as the one to do it.
people of all types do this. parents, clergy, teachers, politicians...the list is endless.
ok, so there is the simplified dynamic of the victim-rescue phase of the game.
now for the persecution.
children get angry at their parents, want thier own lives, cars, phones, money, etc....and resent thier parents for having these things and not continuing to share.
husbands and wives tear eachother apart with the help of lawyers and judges.
the nieghbour makes your life a misery every day of your existance.
again, not all children and not all spouses and not all nieghbours do this.
only the ones caught in the victim-rescue-persecute game.
how do we tell the difference?
our own attitude toward whomever we offer assistance.
what do we expect from them?
if we expect the begger on the street to turn his life around because we put a dollar in his cup...we have begun on the path to a persecution game.
same with our spouses and our children.
they need our help, but the don`t need our sanctimonious expectation and obligation.
it`s no wonder they get angry.
the movie "the soloist" is the story of a homelss cellist suffering from mental illness and a journalist who decides to write a story about the man and help get him off the street. it is a great example of the rescue game in action....and interestingly critics panned it.
Monday, June 08, 2009
herman`s hermits.
fucking crap.
made me ashamed to be english.
droning hyper british invasion bullshit. sort of like a fake beatles, except from manchester.
if you don`t know where manchester is, just imagine hamilton with fish and chips...and a lot more east indians.
i went with my girlfriend because she really wanted to go.....reminded her of what it was like growing up.
i knew a fair number of the songs, which made it no easier to sit through...in fact actually hearing them live made it worse because i still have remnants of the shit sound rattling around in my head two days later.
she was happy as a clam, though she realised after an hour or so that my boys and i were sitting stone-faced while the band chewed up our brain cells.
see, my boys and i are guitar players, and we were waiting to be entertained, and instead we got a 60 odd year old shoe salesman telling bad jokes and singing to grandparents in the front rows....
...shit, shit, shit.
i went because i love my girlfriend and wanted to share something she really enjoyed because she`s a sweetheart and i love to share her enthusiasm whenever i get a chance......but....for fuck`s sake sweetie.
she even promised to go to see megadeth with me because she was so grateful that we went with her.
i wouldn`t consider doing that to her for an instant.
maybe the eagles will come and we can go to something we would both enjoy.
i think my boys would like it too.
made me ashamed to be english.
droning hyper british invasion bullshit. sort of like a fake beatles, except from manchester.
if you don`t know where manchester is, just imagine hamilton with fish and chips...and a lot more east indians.
i went with my girlfriend because she really wanted to go.....reminded her of what it was like growing up.
i knew a fair number of the songs, which made it no easier to sit through...in fact actually hearing them live made it worse because i still have remnants of the shit sound rattling around in my head two days later.
she was happy as a clam, though she realised after an hour or so that my boys and i were sitting stone-faced while the band chewed up our brain cells.
see, my boys and i are guitar players, and we were waiting to be entertained, and instead we got a 60 odd year old shoe salesman telling bad jokes and singing to grandparents in the front rows....
...shit, shit, shit.
i went because i love my girlfriend and wanted to share something she really enjoyed because she`s a sweetheart and i love to share her enthusiasm whenever i get a chance......but....for fuck`s sake sweetie.
she even promised to go to see megadeth with me because she was so grateful that we went with her.
i wouldn`t consider doing that to her for an instant.
maybe the eagles will come and we can go to something we would both enjoy.
i think my boys would like it too.
Friday, June 05, 2009
sure thing.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/090602/science/science_teen_sexual_health_survey
just another bit of evidence to suggest that we are in the end days.
what`s next, porno for kids?
just another bit of evidence to suggest that we are in the end days.
what`s next, porno for kids?
what i believe is really going on.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=g+edward+griffin&emb=0&aq=f#
individualism vs. collectivism.
either the rights of the individual are important or the survival of the collective. there is no middle ground.
kennedy asked not what government could do for us but what we could do for government. this is collectivist guilt.
when we are expendable for the good of the group, then we end up with leaders like stalin or mao or any other fuckwit who will torture, maim and kill whoever he pleases if they disagree with the collective view.
we are witnessing a financial situation at the federal level that i feel is the begining of the destruction of the middle class, and when this happens we will see nothing but the rich few and masses of poor wandering around in shock wondering where thier savings, equity and retirement went to.
why?
because money has no gold to back it up and so governments can create paper debt and devalue whatever you and i have worked for...
obama is busy doing that right now.
devaluing property, investment and labour value so that we can`t work hard or long enough to catch up.
all of the union jobs and middle management salary jobs are going and the only one hiring is wal-mart.
y`know...none of us have been this old before, with kids and mortgages. our parents never discussed it, did they? the erosion of thier wealth and subsequent re-evaluation of thier lifestyle upon retirement.
so while we are busy watching the freakshow on tv the ass is falling out of our portfolio value.
in canada we are going to spend many billions of dollars in the next few years to bail out the "economy" and saddle ourselves with futher taxes and reduction of benefits.
why not just give each canadian a million?
thirty billion dollars is a lot...but it`s ours. the goverment took it from us, mismanaged it and want us to give them more to try to fix whatever the problem is.
what would happen if we all got a million?
we`d spend it.
isn`t spending what the economy needs?
we`d have to promise to keep our jobs though....
individualism vs. collectivism.
either the rights of the individual are important or the survival of the collective. there is no middle ground.
kennedy asked not what government could do for us but what we could do for government. this is collectivist guilt.
when we are expendable for the good of the group, then we end up with leaders like stalin or mao or any other fuckwit who will torture, maim and kill whoever he pleases if they disagree with the collective view.
we are witnessing a financial situation at the federal level that i feel is the begining of the destruction of the middle class, and when this happens we will see nothing but the rich few and masses of poor wandering around in shock wondering where thier savings, equity and retirement went to.
why?
because money has no gold to back it up and so governments can create paper debt and devalue whatever you and i have worked for...
obama is busy doing that right now.
devaluing property, investment and labour value so that we can`t work hard or long enough to catch up.
all of the union jobs and middle management salary jobs are going and the only one hiring is wal-mart.
y`know...none of us have been this old before, with kids and mortgages. our parents never discussed it, did they? the erosion of thier wealth and subsequent re-evaluation of thier lifestyle upon retirement.
so while we are busy watching the freakshow on tv the ass is falling out of our portfolio value.
in canada we are going to spend many billions of dollars in the next few years to bail out the "economy" and saddle ourselves with futher taxes and reduction of benefits.
why not just give each canadian a million?
thirty billion dollars is a lot...but it`s ours. the goverment took it from us, mismanaged it and want us to give them more to try to fix whatever the problem is.
what would happen if we all got a million?
we`d spend it.
isn`t spending what the economy needs?
we`d have to promise to keep our jobs though....
and a message to liberals.
what you do behind closed doors is fine. i don`t went to know about it, i don`t want my children taught it, and i don`t want to see you doing it on a flatbed at a parade where families are encouraged to watch.
don`t ask; don`t tell seemed to be a good place to stop actually. it seemed like billy-bob clinton actually made sense there. but for some the "asking and telling" was, and still, is where the fun is. the constant need for attention and the demanding the right to get it in more and more elaborate ways has all the earmarks of borderline personality and arrested developement.....and i really don`t think the average liberal suffers that way, it`s just the few freaks and thier enablers that get them spray painted gold and prancing about in the summer sun that make the rest look as loonie as them.
and my poitical position.
none.
the left and right both seem to want to push the boundaries further and further from center.
my position is more social. maybe niave and innocent of the "adult" motives and desires so prominently pushed in the media these days, but i think i have the right to my little patch. i don`t watch tv, i`m selective in what i read, and occasionally i`ll debate an issue with a liberal....but i`ve found that they areen`t really interested in debate and discussion so much as ramming thier ideas home as correct and tolerant and painting me as repressive and somehow wrong and insenitive to others......
....and i can understand. they see me as intolerant of them and of others of like mind who encourage gay marriage and pornography and public nudity etc, but really i`m saying that they are entitled to thier opinion and desires, but that i would like the same consideration when i say somethinhg like "i think that children shouldn`t be exposed to pornography, and that marriage is between a man and a woman for the purpose of raising children and that drugs fuck people up".
i don`t take it personally when they disagree with my opinion, but when they attack me personally and say i`m stupid and dangerous and teaching my children intolerance and insensitivity...well, then i have to just stop talking to them and avoid them in social situations.
if their politics is so important that they are willing to be agressively inolerant, as they suggest that i am, then they need to be left alone.
there is a bigger issue at hand here. i have been hesitant to write about it, but maybe the time is upon us to face what is really going on, and maybe we can drop the political differences and deal with what is coming.
don`t ask; don`t tell seemed to be a good place to stop actually. it seemed like billy-bob clinton actually made sense there. but for some the "asking and telling" was, and still, is where the fun is. the constant need for attention and the demanding the right to get it in more and more elaborate ways has all the earmarks of borderline personality and arrested developement.....and i really don`t think the average liberal suffers that way, it`s just the few freaks and thier enablers that get them spray painted gold and prancing about in the summer sun that make the rest look as loonie as them.
and my poitical position.
none.
the left and right both seem to want to push the boundaries further and further from center.
my position is more social. maybe niave and innocent of the "adult" motives and desires so prominently pushed in the media these days, but i think i have the right to my little patch. i don`t watch tv, i`m selective in what i read, and occasionally i`ll debate an issue with a liberal....but i`ve found that they areen`t really interested in debate and discussion so much as ramming thier ideas home as correct and tolerant and painting me as repressive and somehow wrong and insenitive to others......
....and i can understand. they see me as intolerant of them and of others of like mind who encourage gay marriage and pornography and public nudity etc, but really i`m saying that they are entitled to thier opinion and desires, but that i would like the same consideration when i say somethinhg like "i think that children shouldn`t be exposed to pornography, and that marriage is between a man and a woman for the purpose of raising children and that drugs fuck people up".
i don`t take it personally when they disagree with my opinion, but when they attack me personally and say i`m stupid and dangerous and teaching my children intolerance and insensitivity...well, then i have to just stop talking to them and avoid them in social situations.
if their politics is so important that they are willing to be agressively inolerant, as they suggest that i am, then they need to be left alone.
there is a bigger issue at hand here. i have been hesitant to write about it, but maybe the time is upon us to face what is really going on, and maybe we can drop the political differences and deal with what is coming.
couldn`t resist.
not that christianity does any better at, well, anything actually....but the poster is funny.
unless you are a jihadist fuckwit..in which case; sorry. don`t go blowing up...or if you do, just do it while following the how-to instructions on youtube in your basement.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
waking up the spirit.
ok so....not everyone`s spirit is aligned with all that is positive in the world, but that`s no reason why they should be deprived of the opportunity to actualise themselves......
....this is, after all, what liberalism is all about. embracing all the twisted freaks out there who see things alternatively to those of us who went to school, learned respect, duty, honour and resisted the urge occasionally....all in the belief that we existed in a consensus reality.....one of responsibility, discipline and faith in doing thing well.
apparently not.
but, having said that, i have faith that there will be an adjustment to the mean eventually and that we will get back to some sense of measure in things.
....this is, after all, what liberalism is all about. embracing all the twisted freaks out there who see things alternatively to those of us who went to school, learned respect, duty, honour and resisted the urge occasionally....all in the belief that we existed in a consensus reality.....one of responsibility, discipline and faith in doing thing well.
apparently not.
but, having said that, i have faith that there will be an adjustment to the mean eventually and that we will get back to some sense of measure in things.
Friday, May 29, 2009
dope is dope.....
i have decided, after some pressure from the prevailing opinion in our society, that pot really isn`t all that bad for our children. it is only my uninformed opinion that being whacked out of one`s skull is conducive to fucking your life up before it has a chance to get going.
and maybe anal sex isn`t all that bad either.....although i have no expertise in that area, and therefore a limited position to comment.
boy, i thought i was a conservative.
after all this time holding rigidly to outmoded beliefs about substances and behaviours, it sure feels good knowing that i can fit into normal conversations around town about teen drug use and queer sex and not offend anyone by suggesting that kids should be taught about the dangers of smoking dope and not taught that sodomy is a choice.
if you feel like it.
now and then.
and how would i know, i`ve never tried it....so shut up and let us teach your kids the right way to put things up thier arse.
boy was i ever sheltered as a kid.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
could this be the reason......
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090522/ap_on_re_us/us_princess_syndrome
.....the hair and nails gang are so cranky all the time?
.....the hair and nails gang are so cranky all the time?
Saturday, May 23, 2009
oh no.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090523/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_cuba
why does he want the entire population of cuba?
why does he want the entire population of cuba?
Friday, May 22, 2009
wah....
http://inmusic.ca/news_and_features/contentposting_news?newsitemid=211849421&feedname=CP-ENTERTAINMENT&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=False
crybabies.
40 year-olds selling pop crap to our youth should expect some resistance to thier message from people thier own age who have kids....occasionally.
though i imagine this publicity will not hurt thier sales.
green day decided to "sell out" by playing to a politically polarised market place on thier last record and sold millions...not for an artistic gesture, but for a political one.
so i guess they tried to hit another hot button with kids, and are getting a different response.
thier next cd will be a run-on love song to obama/guevarra....
i feel tired now.
crybabies.
40 year-olds selling pop crap to our youth should expect some resistance to thier message from people thier own age who have kids....occasionally.
though i imagine this publicity will not hurt thier sales.
green day decided to "sell out" by playing to a politically polarised market place on thier last record and sold millions...not for an artistic gesture, but for a political one.
so i guess they tried to hit another hot button with kids, and are getting a different response.
thier next cd will be a run-on love song to obama/guevarra....
i feel tired now.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
wierd drivers.
recently, here on the roads of ontario, something strange is going on. people are driving under the speed limit.
on monday, victoria day, an irritating and unnecesary holiday, people who are normally somewhere else being told what to do are having to decide for themselves.
i think this is the problem. people are so afraid to make a mistake that they are driving a hair under the speed limit so, in thier mind, there is no possible way they will get a ticket.
except that people who are used to figuring shit out for themselves just want to get where they have to go with reasonable speed....and not at 85kph on a 100kph highway.
and it`s not just on holidays either. yesterday evening climbing the hill back home on an 80kph highway people were crawling along at 65-70kph.....
strange.
is is the recession? fear of losing one`s job? obama`s shirts?
on monday, victoria day, an irritating and unnecesary holiday, people who are normally somewhere else being told what to do are having to decide for themselves.
i think this is the problem. people are so afraid to make a mistake that they are driving a hair under the speed limit so, in thier mind, there is no possible way they will get a ticket.
except that people who are used to figuring shit out for themselves just want to get where they have to go with reasonable speed....and not at 85kph on a 100kph highway.
and it`s not just on holidays either. yesterday evening climbing the hill back home on an 80kph highway people were crawling along at 65-70kph.....
strange.
is is the recession? fear of losing one`s job? obama`s shirts?
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
here we fucking go.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090512/health/health_us_food_medicine
a new drug?
it`s cheerios people, get a grip. you are bureaucrats with nothing better to do than to sit in offices and figure out if some law-abiding citizen if in contravention of some rule or law that only you have heard of....
this is the tip of the iceberg though. pretty soon water will have to be approved with testing and constant evaluations to see of standards are being met....because water is the only known cure for dehydration, a substantial threat in third world nations.
men and women in lab coats will be whipped into action to begin looking at such things as meat and eggs and salad greens and oats...because, y`know, claims have been made as to the dietary effectiveness of consuming such things...and people have to be protected from the potential health risks associated with being confused by packaging and labels that say things like meat has protien in it.
fuuuuuck......
pretty soon only a doctor will be able to "prescribe" meals.
you think i`m kidding. just wait.
a new drug?
it`s cheerios people, get a grip. you are bureaucrats with nothing better to do than to sit in offices and figure out if some law-abiding citizen if in contravention of some rule or law that only you have heard of....
this is the tip of the iceberg though. pretty soon water will have to be approved with testing and constant evaluations to see of standards are being met....because water is the only known cure for dehydration, a substantial threat in third world nations.
men and women in lab coats will be whipped into action to begin looking at such things as meat and eggs and salad greens and oats...because, y`know, claims have been made as to the dietary effectiveness of consuming such things...and people have to be protected from the potential health risks associated with being confused by packaging and labels that say things like meat has protien in it.
fuuuuuck......
pretty soon only a doctor will be able to "prescribe" meals.
you think i`m kidding. just wait.
Monday, May 11, 2009
a man....
...comes out of a bar one night only to be confronted by a six foot tall rabbit, who addresses him by name.
the man is so moved by this experience that he tells his wife when he gets home.
his wife suggests he go see a psychiatrist because she says it`s not normal to see six foot tall rabbits who address you by name.
the psychiatrist asks the man if he was suprised that the rabbit knew his name and the man said, "no, it is a small town, most people know me."
the man is so moved by this experience that he tells his wife when he gets home.
his wife suggests he go see a psychiatrist because she says it`s not normal to see six foot tall rabbits who address you by name.
the psychiatrist asks the man if he was suprised that the rabbit knew his name and the man said, "no, it is a small town, most people know me."
we are all different.
with all this talk recently about miss california and the gay judge being "offended" by her comments about marriage (i mean really mate, you openly tell everyone what you put where, and we should believe you are shocked that a young woman feels that marriage should be between a man and a woman.....?) i am reminded of a thought i had some time ago about religion.
religion, and by connection, spirituality wants us to all be the same in our beliefs and practices so that we can be known as religious or spiritual. we go to church and read the bible, or we go out in the forest and talk to trees....but we follow the ideas and practices of those who we believe have some idea about where this will all take us.
but, in the same breath, priests, ministers, druids and witches are saying we should now express our individuality in how we live our lives.
this seems to fit nicely in with the shift in political views and cultural values regarding things such as money, voting, leadership, what we should allow our children to see and hear....and of course, what we should be putting things into.
but what about spiritual diversity?
the romans for instance had all sorts of gods for praying to. love gods, war gods, money gods, gods for favours, gods for doing well at competion....
....so did the greeks, and many other cultures.
but now we are left with one god and one way to communicate with him, and that seems odd considering how different we all are.
i`m not really sure what my god is, other than to say (heretically of course) that he is within me and without me at the same time.
the buddhists say that makes me one with everything.
maybe that`s true..now and then...except when i`m flying past vehicles on my bike. i really don`t want to be one with any of them.
religion, and by connection, spirituality wants us to all be the same in our beliefs and practices so that we can be known as religious or spiritual. we go to church and read the bible, or we go out in the forest and talk to trees....but we follow the ideas and practices of those who we believe have some idea about where this will all take us.
but, in the same breath, priests, ministers, druids and witches are saying we should now express our individuality in how we live our lives.
this seems to fit nicely in with the shift in political views and cultural values regarding things such as money, voting, leadership, what we should allow our children to see and hear....and of course, what we should be putting things into.
but what about spiritual diversity?
the romans for instance had all sorts of gods for praying to. love gods, war gods, money gods, gods for favours, gods for doing well at competion....
....so did the greeks, and many other cultures.
but now we are left with one god and one way to communicate with him, and that seems odd considering how different we all are.
i`m not really sure what my god is, other than to say (heretically of course) that he is within me and without me at the same time.
the buddhists say that makes me one with everything.
maybe that`s true..now and then...except when i`m flying past vehicles on my bike. i really don`t want to be one with any of them.
Friday, May 08, 2009
regarding my last post.....
....approaching mother`s day it is appropriate, i feel, to discuss a little bit about how some women really don`t like the man they married.
in my last post i provided a link to a blog wherein a woman has displayed a substantial dislike for the behaviour of her husband, and as a result, several women have agreed and indicated that they have similar feelings for thier spouses.
there are a number of questions i have for women such as this that feel that there is something substantially wrong, not with the relationship....but with the man they chose to be with.....however long ago that may be.
and then, in full public view (and let`s make no bones about things such as privacy and personal space here....) they rail on at length about how pissed they are that they can`t get thier man to do what they want to do.
my simple answer to that concern is; your men don`t want to.
your men will avoid, distort facts and "work late", and forget entirely the demands on a consistant basis....and risk you withholding sex from them as a consequence.
so this begs the question, why do men behave this way?
you failed to hold up your end of whatever bargain you struck in the first place.
and there are many men in relationships who fail at this also, but in this instance i`m refering to the blogger in the last post who fails to include herself in the equation......and get`s consistant results.
so what do we agree to when we marry?
the true answer to that lies at the heart of the problem.
now, if you`ll excuse me, i have to seed my girlfriend`s garden, do a few dishes, some laundry, make the bed, and prepare for a wonderful evening with my girl.
in my last post i provided a link to a blog wherein a woman has displayed a substantial dislike for the behaviour of her husband, and as a result, several women have agreed and indicated that they have similar feelings for thier spouses.
there are a number of questions i have for women such as this that feel that there is something substantially wrong, not with the relationship....but with the man they chose to be with.....however long ago that may be.
and then, in full public view (and let`s make no bones about things such as privacy and personal space here....) they rail on at length about how pissed they are that they can`t get thier man to do what they want to do.
my simple answer to that concern is; your men don`t want to.
your men will avoid, distort facts and "work late", and forget entirely the demands on a consistant basis....and risk you withholding sex from them as a consequence.
so this begs the question, why do men behave this way?
you failed to hold up your end of whatever bargain you struck in the first place.
and there are many men in relationships who fail at this also, but in this instance i`m refering to the blogger in the last post who fails to include herself in the equation......and get`s consistant results.
so what do we agree to when we marry?
the true answer to that lies at the heart of the problem.
now, if you`ll excuse me, i have to seed my girlfriend`s garden, do a few dishes, some laundry, make the bed, and prepare for a wonderful evening with my girl.
oh shit.
http://sanewithoutdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-am-bitch-im-mother.html#links
can`t get any more painful than that.
working late?
no shit.
can`t get any more painful than that.
working late?
no shit.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
vicarious.
for me it is no thing, to experience through you.
for me it all direct.
knowing.
feeling.
words come thrown, like hooks biting into flesh....ripping and tearing as they try to retreat.
do not talk to me anymore.
i gave you that space; but you came for more. so now you have forever.
my gift to you.
for me it all direct.
knowing.
feeling.
words come thrown, like hooks biting into flesh....ripping and tearing as they try to retreat.
do not talk to me anymore.
i gave you that space; but you came for more. so now you have forever.
my gift to you.
Monday, May 04, 2009
a pound and a half of heroin?
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/ad/afp-090502-world-britain_laos_crime_rights_1
let`s hope that these civil rights types don`t ever have a loved one meet this woman at a party.
let`s hope that these civil rights types don`t ever have a loved one meet this woman at a party.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Saturday, May 02, 2009
bullshit.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-ca:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7SUNA&q=zepplelin&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#q=christopher+hitchens&hl=en&emb=1
a philosophical analysis of bullshit. straightforward and obvious deconstruction of the state of politics and other serious and important issues...like environmental ism, feminism, etc.
what we are asked to believe by so-called experts with alterior and impertinant mmotives, is mostly....bullshit.
a philosophical analysis of bullshit. straightforward and obvious deconstruction of the state of politics and other serious and important issues...like environmental ism, feminism, etc.
what we are asked to believe by so-called experts with alterior and impertinant mmotives, is mostly....bullshit.
tea for one.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=yahoo&rls=com.microsoft:en-ca:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7SUNA&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv#q=jimmy+page&hl=en&emb=1&start=20
Thursday, April 30, 2009
thanks dear....
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090430/miss_california_090430/20090430?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
as someone who unashamedly likes girls, and one in particular, i particularly appreciated miss california`s defence of normal marriage.
and suprisingly to some, we have access to the same rights as them.
and here`s a message to the judge who took offence.
fuck you buddy.
you are entitled to do whatever you want in private, but when you get overtly pissy in public when someone states thier opinion, you make yourself look like a dick....and i for one don`t have to like your attitude, your behaviour, or your face.....
so again, fuck you, and well done miss california for taking a bullet for normal people.
as someone who unashamedly likes girls, and one in particular, i particularly appreciated miss california`s defence of normal marriage.
and suprisingly to some, we have access to the same rights as them.
and here`s a message to the judge who took offence.
fuck you buddy.
you are entitled to do whatever you want in private, but when you get overtly pissy in public when someone states thier opinion, you make yourself look like a dick....and i for one don`t have to like your attitude, your behaviour, or your face.....
so again, fuck you, and well done miss california for taking a bullet for normal people.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
and this....
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1069975803184_13/?hub=CTVNewsAt11
....indicates that between 500 and 4000 people die each year in canada due to flu and related illness.
so, what`s the fuss about one or two cases of reported infection?
i`ve had symptoms of flu on and off for around three weeks and so when i was able i rested and took in more fluids, and when i felt better in a day or two, went right back to training like mad.......
....and i didn`t die.
but i`m not ill, old, an infant or otherwise suffering from some sort of likelyhood of being killed by a minor virus.
anyway, the good news is that surgical masks now come in designer colours, with team logos and instructions for extra stupid people so they don`t wear them upside down.
....indicates that between 500 and 4000 people die each year in canada due to flu and related illness.
so, what`s the fuss about one or two cases of reported infection?
i`ve had symptoms of flu on and off for around three weeks and so when i was able i rested and took in more fluids, and when i felt better in a day or two, went right back to training like mad.......
....and i didn`t die.
but i`m not ill, old, an infant or otherwise suffering from some sort of likelyhood of being killed by a minor virus.
anyway, the good news is that surgical masks now come in designer colours, with team logos and instructions for extra stupid people so they don`t wear them upside down.
the mother is acting very strangely.....
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090428/national/missing_girl
crazy old ex-nazi in a fancy wizard suit.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090429/world/residential_schools_pope
Monday, April 27, 2009
something just struck me....
http://www.safecarguide.com/exp/statistics/statistics.htm
global statistics for automobile fatalities indicate that there is a substantial risk of being injured or killed (or injured and killed) by a car.
and nobody is suggesting we don`t visit places due to this substantial risk.
and cigarettes are topping people substantially also.
but we still visit france and greece.
but canada and mexico are no fly zones because of a few cases of fatal infection.
something odd is going on here....
global statistics for automobile fatalities indicate that there is a substantial risk of being injured or killed (or injured and killed) by a car.
and nobody is suggesting we don`t visit places due to this substantial risk.
and cigarettes are topping people substantially also.
but we still visit france and greece.
but canada and mexico are no fly zones because of a few cases of fatal infection.
something odd is going on here....
and.....
don`t go to mexico either, because they are all wearing surgical masks down there....well, at least the nuns in the picture i saw in the newspaper were....
strange.
do you think the surgical mask people have something to do with this?
strange.
do you think the surgical mask people have something to do with this?
please don`t come to canada.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/swine_flu_travel_to_cda
there are a number of other reasons not to come to canada but i can`t tell you what they are because that wouldn`t be politically correct....and we are nothing if we aren`t that. here. now.
there are a number of other reasons not to come to canada but i can`t tell you what they are because that wouldn`t be politically correct....and we are nothing if we aren`t that. here. now.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
don`t go to romania.
recently my girlfriend`s daughter and her friend took a trip to europe. the girl is eighteen and though there is the sual trepidation one has for young girls traveling alone, the first week of thier journey went without a hitch.
they landed in amsterdam and then went to germany and austria briefly before taking the train to budapest where her father`s family is from.
from there they wanted to briefly see romania for some reason before getting to why they really wanted to go to europe....the greek islands.
so they planned to board the train to romania but were dragged off forceably at the last minute by a woman yelling at them to keep away from the gypsies....
the next train they boarded was apparently gypsy free, but as soon as the train pulled out a man positioned himself outside thier compartment and began a litany of suggestions and threats that my own disgust makes me refrain from typing.
once off the train they found what they thought was a cab, but the man proceeded to drive them out into the country and held them ransom for an amount approximating $600 canadian.
if this wasn`t an account coming from my girlfriend regarding her daughter i would have discounted the story as being a tale worthy of a bad hollywood revenge movie.......not unlike the film taken, with liam neeson, miscast as an action hero in which his daughter is abducted and forced into prostitution by gypsies.
ironically my girlfriend and i watched the thing a couple of weeks ago.
anyway, in summation one can rage against the police in romania or travel authorities or whomever for not warning the girls , but i can only thank the woman who forceably got them off the first train or they might have found themselves in a scene from the film we watched.
and the police? they would have wanted a share for the money.
how do i know this? i have a friend who moved here from romania 15 years ago who told me that her family hid from the police if they saw them for fear of a shakedown, or worse, depending on the officer`s mood.
in canada we live in a coddled little bubble where our major bookseller chapters refuses to carry the book dangerous places by robert pelton. instead they carry bright, shiny tomes promising a welcome to young tourists with canadian patches on thier back-packs.....come to eastern europe and experience the nomadic tribes people of slavic descent with thier rich heritage of cooking, dance and wine.
they are off to greece next where i feel they`ll fair somewhat better, unless they take another taxi-ride into the countryside of another non-anglo-saxon country.
they landed in amsterdam and then went to germany and austria briefly before taking the train to budapest where her father`s family is from.
from there they wanted to briefly see romania for some reason before getting to why they really wanted to go to europe....the greek islands.
so they planned to board the train to romania but were dragged off forceably at the last minute by a woman yelling at them to keep away from the gypsies....
the next train they boarded was apparently gypsy free, but as soon as the train pulled out a man positioned himself outside thier compartment and began a litany of suggestions and threats that my own disgust makes me refrain from typing.
once off the train they found what they thought was a cab, but the man proceeded to drive them out into the country and held them ransom for an amount approximating $600 canadian.
if this wasn`t an account coming from my girlfriend regarding her daughter i would have discounted the story as being a tale worthy of a bad hollywood revenge movie.......not unlike the film taken, with liam neeson, miscast as an action hero in which his daughter is abducted and forced into prostitution by gypsies.
ironically my girlfriend and i watched the thing a couple of weeks ago.
anyway, in summation one can rage against the police in romania or travel authorities or whomever for not warning the girls , but i can only thank the woman who forceably got them off the first train or they might have found themselves in a scene from the film we watched.
and the police? they would have wanted a share for the money.
how do i know this? i have a friend who moved here from romania 15 years ago who told me that her family hid from the police if they saw them for fear of a shakedown, or worse, depending on the officer`s mood.
in canada we live in a coddled little bubble where our major bookseller chapters refuses to carry the book dangerous places by robert pelton. instead they carry bright, shiny tomes promising a welcome to young tourists with canadian patches on thier back-packs.....come to eastern europe and experience the nomadic tribes people of slavic descent with thier rich heritage of cooking, dance and wine.
they are off to greece next where i feel they`ll fair somewhat better, unless they take another taxi-ride into the countryside of another non-anglo-saxon country.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
oh yeah, and....
....people are smarter than rats right?
well rats don`t break into a lab in the middle of the night to run the maze even though there is no cheese.
well rats don`t break into a lab in the middle of the night to run the maze even though there is no cheese.
clearly.
clearly we seem to resonate more with the shit in the world than with that which could make us feel good....though maybe focusing on shit makes people feel good....but i can`t include myself in that group.
put twenty rats in a 100 square foot room with food and water and they will get along and avoid eachother for the most part.
fifty rats in the same closed environment will form small groups and be wary of others.
a hundred rats will engage in small-scale scurmishes over food, females and territory.
a hundred and fifty rats will tear eachothers balls off and eat thier own young......
if you can clearly see a hundred rats/people from where you sit; move.
put twenty rats in a 100 square foot room with food and water and they will get along and avoid eachother for the most part.
fifty rats in the same closed environment will form small groups and be wary of others.
a hundred rats will engage in small-scale scurmishes over food, females and territory.
a hundred and fifty rats will tear eachothers balls off and eat thier own young......
if you can clearly see a hundred rats/people from where you sit; move.
earth day.
did you buy a t-shirt?
did it save anything?
no. it made someone money.
our grocery store is now providing plastic bags....you have to buy them for 5 cents each.
or...you can buy an eco-bag for 95 cents.
large corporations exist to exist, and by doing so they make you give them money.
either you recieve something you think you need, such as a product or service, or if the corporation gets big enough, they can make the government make a law forcing you to give the money to them....whether you like or need the product or service or not.
our local newspaper is delivered here weekly. it`s a big brick of a thing. once you take out all the retail ads it shrinks down to a few pages about civic policy, missing cats and junior sport.
this is polution. visually, physically and psychically. when the flyers come you must buy something...for the garden, or the house, or the patio.....
the same corporations who are making us guilty for consumption must, to survive, force us to consume.
or they are not going to survive.
the landfills are full of thier efforts and the eforts of us manipulated by them.
without them we would consume less and the things we would consume would be less harmful to our rivers, fields and lakes.
and there would be less of us too.
did it save anything?
no. it made someone money.
our grocery store is now providing plastic bags....you have to buy them for 5 cents each.
or...you can buy an eco-bag for 95 cents.
large corporations exist to exist, and by doing so they make you give them money.
either you recieve something you think you need, such as a product or service, or if the corporation gets big enough, they can make the government make a law forcing you to give the money to them....whether you like or need the product or service or not.
our local newspaper is delivered here weekly. it`s a big brick of a thing. once you take out all the retail ads it shrinks down to a few pages about civic policy, missing cats and junior sport.
this is polution. visually, physically and psychically. when the flyers come you must buy something...for the garden, or the house, or the patio.....
the same corporations who are making us guilty for consumption must, to survive, force us to consume.
or they are not going to survive.
the landfills are full of thier efforts and the eforts of us manipulated by them.
without them we would consume less and the things we would consume would be less harmful to our rivers, fields and lakes.
and there would be less of us too.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
on a more positive note.......
......i understand that you are mostly confused about um, everything. money, sex, politics, religion, spirituality...etc, and i know what you are thinking, "what the fuck does this guy know that i don`t"?
well...the answer is that i find a way back to happiness.....by choice.
deliberately.
in spite of all the reasons to be depressed and anxious and dissapointed about just about everything, i find myself enjoying life just about every day, and enthusiastic about what lies ahead.
some of what i`m going to say next will seem familiar, some of it will seem somewhat different.....and some of it will seem impossible.
it is nonetheless the way things are.
1)if you keep ddoing the same old thing, you will get more of the same old thing in response.
2)if you watch tv and read newspapers you will learn new ways to be fat and stupid and dissapointed every day. there is always someone brighter and shinier and fresher and richer than you being featured and photographed having a whale of a time while our taxes go up and our property values go down and our kids are being shown how to smoke dope in public while we cling to our shit jobs with our finger tips.......
....see what i mean?
3)cut your food intake in half and don`t eat anything after 7.30pm.
4)smile at a stranger at least once a day. that means a new stranger. every day. and smile more to yourself while you work and walk and drive and ride. find shit to smile about. search stupid jokes on the internet if you have to. just smile more often. it`ll become a habit pretty soon and people will smile back, i promise.
5) exercise a little. not like me, i`m freak. some sort of obsessive/compulsive about soccer, weights, cycling and hiking..but maybe you might find yourself doing something you never thought possible....really soon.
6) get a cat. unless you are allergic or travel for a living, in which case the cat would get lonely. cats are really relaxing, sleek, sensual creatures that, if you mirror thier behaviour, will turn you into a relaxed, sensual, sleek creature yourself.
don`t get a cat if you are a demanding control freak who needs absolute obedience from your pets. a cat will show you it`s ass and you will get angry.
my cat completely owns my girlfriend`s cocker-poo (don`t ask) the stupid dog just follows the cat around waiting for it to move quickly so that it can try to catch him....at which time the cat goes into hyperdrive and as far as the dog is concerned, vanishes.
very amusing.
7) right now, get out of your chair and jump up and down and yell fuck at the top of your lungs for a minute or so.
8) and tomorrow, because i believe it`s eath day, resist the urge to do anything that is supposed to save the planet. for fuck`s sake think for yourself for a minute. what could we possibly do to "save" a giant ball of cooling metal that is whizzing through space at 60,000 miles an hour?
let`s start thinking about saving ourselves.....
emotionally.
financially.
physically.
spiritually.
sexually.
9)give yourself a break, go get laid, flirt with your wife or girlfriend or husband or boyfriend...or go find someone new to flirt with.
do this now.
ok, that`s 9 things. i will post the tenth one if i get some reposes to this.
now, go outside. that`s enough sitting indoors staring at a little screen in a dark room.
and by the way, if you did number 7, i love you man.....
well...the answer is that i find a way back to happiness.....by choice.
deliberately.
in spite of all the reasons to be depressed and anxious and dissapointed about just about everything, i find myself enjoying life just about every day, and enthusiastic about what lies ahead.
some of what i`m going to say next will seem familiar, some of it will seem somewhat different.....and some of it will seem impossible.
it is nonetheless the way things are.
1)if you keep ddoing the same old thing, you will get more of the same old thing in response.
2)if you watch tv and read newspapers you will learn new ways to be fat and stupid and dissapointed every day. there is always someone brighter and shinier and fresher and richer than you being featured and photographed having a whale of a time while our taxes go up and our property values go down and our kids are being shown how to smoke dope in public while we cling to our shit jobs with our finger tips.......
....see what i mean?
3)cut your food intake in half and don`t eat anything after 7.30pm.
4)smile at a stranger at least once a day. that means a new stranger. every day. and smile more to yourself while you work and walk and drive and ride. find shit to smile about. search stupid jokes on the internet if you have to. just smile more often. it`ll become a habit pretty soon and people will smile back, i promise.
5) exercise a little. not like me, i`m freak. some sort of obsessive/compulsive about soccer, weights, cycling and hiking..but maybe you might find yourself doing something you never thought possible....really soon.
6) get a cat. unless you are allergic or travel for a living, in which case the cat would get lonely. cats are really relaxing, sleek, sensual creatures that, if you mirror thier behaviour, will turn you into a relaxed, sensual, sleek creature yourself.
don`t get a cat if you are a demanding control freak who needs absolute obedience from your pets. a cat will show you it`s ass and you will get angry.
my cat completely owns my girlfriend`s cocker-poo (don`t ask) the stupid dog just follows the cat around waiting for it to move quickly so that it can try to catch him....at which time the cat goes into hyperdrive and as far as the dog is concerned, vanishes.
very amusing.
7) right now, get out of your chair and jump up and down and yell fuck at the top of your lungs for a minute or so.
8) and tomorrow, because i believe it`s eath day, resist the urge to do anything that is supposed to save the planet. for fuck`s sake think for yourself for a minute. what could we possibly do to "save" a giant ball of cooling metal that is whizzing through space at 60,000 miles an hour?
let`s start thinking about saving ourselves.....
emotionally.
financially.
physically.
spiritually.
sexually.
9)give yourself a break, go get laid, flirt with your wife or girlfriend or husband or boyfriend...or go find someone new to flirt with.
do this now.
ok, that`s 9 things. i will post the tenth one if i get some reposes to this.
now, go outside. that`s enough sitting indoors staring at a little screen in a dark room.
and by the way, if you did number 7, i love you man.....
Monday, April 20, 2009
4.20
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/ad/edmsun-090420-canada-all_ready_to_toke_up
there is a reason why it`s called dope.
as a parent i am concerned that my children will get the impression that it is ok to get stoned and be cool like musicians and other "celebrities" who advocate confusing your brain.
it is tough enough to get an education and find employment, but to encourage youth to get stoned and try to get through school is merely wrong.
one can speak all you want about free speech and freedom of expression, but that`s exactly what i`m doing right now......and unless you are stoned you can see my position.
and 4.20 is hitler`s birthday and that of the mother of my children.
ironic.
there is a reason why it`s called dope.
as a parent i am concerned that my children will get the impression that it is ok to get stoned and be cool like musicians and other "celebrities" who advocate confusing your brain.
it is tough enough to get an education and find employment, but to encourage youth to get stoned and try to get through school is merely wrong.
one can speak all you want about free speech and freedom of expression, but that`s exactly what i`m doing right now......and unless you are stoned you can see my position.
and 4.20 is hitler`s birthday and that of the mother of my children.
ironic.
Friday, April 17, 2009
i have followers......
welcome officially to hypgnosys. i know you guys have been reading on and off for a while, and i`ve been doing the same, but it`s nice to see the faces appear in the window.
cheers.
cheers.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
posting for posting`s sake....
i haven`t posted here recently......"no shit" you say....well, i haven`t had much to say as i`m increasingly dissapointed at the level of stupidity, self-centeredness, paranoia and craftiness of people.
i guess i`m finally growing up and realising that i`ve been niave all these years believing that people would actually adhere to moral and ethical codes.
oh well.
so; what to do today. what to comment on. what to be digusted/dissapointed at......?
when i began to write this blog i felt that people might be interested in some good news about how to take on positive attiudes and find enjoyment in life. but as i cruise around the blog nighbourhood i find that the peole with the most members and commentors are those that trade in the anguish and despair.
so i will reconcile myself to the fact that people are generally rat-faced liars that would stab you as soon as look at you but for fear of getting caught, and i take consolation in the fact that i have a few friends who i can trust and a good woman who i can fall asleep with at night and share my niavety with and not be betrayed.
she said to me today that she forgives those who treated her like shit.....and i said a year ago i would have been threatened by that statement coming from her.....but now i understand that she didn`t say she would forget, trust or recommend them. she merely stopped letting it bother her that people are generally rat-faced liars....and she plays dumb in the midst of thier subterfuge.
like my dad said "give them enough rope...."
people aren`t virtuous or moral or ethical. just afraid.
and that makes them dangerous.
is that a depressing thought?
i guess i`m finally growing up and realising that i`ve been niave all these years believing that people would actually adhere to moral and ethical codes.
oh well.
so; what to do today. what to comment on. what to be digusted/dissapointed at......?
when i began to write this blog i felt that people might be interested in some good news about how to take on positive attiudes and find enjoyment in life. but as i cruise around the blog nighbourhood i find that the peole with the most members and commentors are those that trade in the anguish and despair.
so i will reconcile myself to the fact that people are generally rat-faced liars that would stab you as soon as look at you but for fear of getting caught, and i take consolation in the fact that i have a few friends who i can trust and a good woman who i can fall asleep with at night and share my niavety with and not be betrayed.
she said to me today that she forgives those who treated her like shit.....and i said a year ago i would have been threatened by that statement coming from her.....but now i understand that she didn`t say she would forget, trust or recommend them. she merely stopped letting it bother her that people are generally rat-faced liars....and she plays dumb in the midst of thier subterfuge.
like my dad said "give them enough rope...."
people aren`t virtuous or moral or ethical. just afraid.
and that makes them dangerous.
is that a depressing thought?
Sunday, March 22, 2009
you can`t make this shit up.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090320/oddities/russia_us_advertise_racism_offbeat
Thursday, March 19, 2009
hey al.....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_sc/as_tonga_volcano
we should pass a law outlawing volcanos....y`know, for the environment`s sake.
we should pass a law outlawing volcanos....y`know, for the environment`s sake.
message to joey.
i found and posted your comment regarding evolution.......but i cannot, for the life of me, find the co-responding post......
my apologies joey, i would love to discuss evolution, trans-humanism, upoading consciousness, etc.
my apologies joey, i would love to discuss evolution, trans-humanism, upoading consciousness, etc.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
ok, well.....um.
http://ca.autos.yahoo.com/p/1274/windsor-auto-workers-seize-shuttered-plant
at a time when the money supply has been limited and millionaire ceos are being vilified for thier greed, there are those who`s intellect won`t allow them the capacity to actually survive. thier self-destructive tendancies have allowed them to be manipulated by union leaders for generations, and now that the promises made have been broken, all they can do is continue to do damage.
the middle class was artificially created by unions and now is being equally destroyed......
....along with it the middle-class entitlement.
interesting times boys and girls.
at a time when the money supply has been limited and millionaire ceos are being vilified for thier greed, there are those who`s intellect won`t allow them the capacity to actually survive. thier self-destructive tendancies have allowed them to be manipulated by union leaders for generations, and now that the promises made have been broken, all they can do is continue to do damage.
the middle class was artificially created by unions and now is being equally destroyed......
....along with it the middle-class entitlement.
interesting times boys and girls.
Monday, March 16, 2009
nutcase.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090315/ap_on_re_us/sla_olson
here is someone without remorse for what she did. she is being released after serving minimal time for bombing people for some thin veneer of an excuse that she was making a political statement. much like peta members or radical feminists, who use some extreme moral or ethical stance to act out on thier psychopathic tendancies.
that is the face of a person ready to do similar things again.
here is someone without remorse for what she did. she is being released after serving minimal time for bombing people for some thin veneer of an excuse that she was making a political statement. much like peta members or radical feminists, who use some extreme moral or ethical stance to act out on thier psychopathic tendancies.
that is the face of a person ready to do similar things again.
Friday, March 13, 2009
moral convenience.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090313/us_time/08599188495600
people`s morals are personally convenient.
aparently california`s is too.
people`s morals are personally convenient.
aparently california`s is too.
Friday, March 06, 2009
seems to me.....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090306/media_nm/us_digitaltv
....as if some don`t care about where all those big old tvs are going to end up.
....as if some don`t care about where all those big old tvs are going to end up.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
there is a hill.
there is a hill, and there is a will.
the hill stands before you and you are free to sit and stare.......or you can begin to ride.
as you ride you think. about what is happening. about the pain. the ache. the pressure on your chest as air becomes difficult to get to your lungs........the burning in your legs and your shoulders and hands as you fight to keep the bike upright and moving.
and the hill stands mute.
then you remember who you are and why you are here.
and you smile.....because that blue sign that waits at the top of the hill is yours.
by sheer act of will.
you are stronger than you think.
you are a survivor.
you win.
not the hill.
nor the cold.
nor anything else for that matter.
you.
will.
win.
the sign says welcome to waterdown.
yeah.
the hill stands before you and you are free to sit and stare.......or you can begin to ride.
as you ride you think. about what is happening. about the pain. the ache. the pressure on your chest as air becomes difficult to get to your lungs........the burning in your legs and your shoulders and hands as you fight to keep the bike upright and moving.
and the hill stands mute.
then you remember who you are and why you are here.
and you smile.....because that blue sign that waits at the top of the hill is yours.
by sheer act of will.
you are stronger than you think.
you are a survivor.
you win.
not the hill.
nor the cold.
nor anything else for that matter.
you.
will.
win.
the sign says welcome to waterdown.
yeah.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
tired.
i was prerty tired when i posted that last post. i had just finished moving and looking at unpublished criticisms from the last few months pissed me off.
i suppose i should have published them as per my mission statement, but some things have to just fade away without further encouragement.
otherwise they persist....
......and i really want to just move on.
sorry. i stand corrected.
i am moving. on.
and i stand by the statements i made.
i suppose i should have published them as per my mission statement, but some things have to just fade away without further encouragement.
otherwise they persist....
......and i really want to just move on.
sorry. i stand corrected.
i am moving. on.
and i stand by the statements i made.
Monday, March 02, 2009
spys......
i used to have software that old me all sorts of info about who viewed my blog and at what time etc. it was really useful in a benign way as i was hosting a website for my business at the time and was interested in how my ads were getting hits when i was promoting seminars.....
.....anyhow, i would be curious who visits my site locally....other than my friends, of course.
i`m really not that interesting. mind your own business.
i now what you are saying, don`t publish personal info on the web...but that`s similar to saying don`t walk and talk in public in 2009, isn`t it?
i am happy to have successfully moved past a particularly difficult period in my life and would like those people who involved themselves adversarily during that period to mind thier own business from this period onwards.
ok?
good.
now we return to the regularly scheduled sarcasm.
.....anyhow, i would be curious who visits my site locally....other than my friends, of course.
i`m really not that interesting. mind your own business.
i now what you are saying, don`t publish personal info on the web...but that`s similar to saying don`t walk and talk in public in 2009, isn`t it?
i am happy to have successfully moved past a particularly difficult period in my life and would like those people who involved themselves adversarily during that period to mind thier own business from this period onwards.
ok?
good.
now we return to the regularly scheduled sarcasm.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
insulting.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090220/world/us_obama_visit
americans need to become more aware of the place where many who voted for thier new president live.
americans need to become more aware of the place where many who voted for thier new president live.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
environmentalism etc.....
in conversation the other day with a friend of mine`s daughter, she expressed her desire to help save the world in a number of ways. this position is admirable if not misguided, but when espoused by someone who holds themselves out as intelligent, educated and reasonable bothers me for a number of simple reasons.
firstly, the world needs no saving.
it may become incapable of sustaining life as we know it at some point, but there is very little we can do to effect change on this giant cooling ball of molten iron spinning through the vacuum of space.
secondly, she said she wants to build a home that will do less to damage the environment.
i told her not to build a new one at all, but to apply her own strategy and recycle.
buy an old one.....
her ego couldn`t get around that one.
if we stop building new homes and new cars and recycle the old ones, we would do a significant amount to reduce the stress that making things causes.
but we would lose jobs....but that`s a seperate issue.
the girl`s really just another consumer in disguise, needing a high moral position to justify her need to have a new car and a big new (morally sound) home.
thirdly........we are buying bigger cars again because we need safe comfortable trasportation for our families. would you want the wife and kids in a "smart" car racing trucks at 70 mph on the highway?
i didn`t think so.
and how do we reduce the amount of cars on the road.
stop living in suburban ghettos miles from shops and schools.
live closer to things and walk or take the bus.
if you care to reduce the use of things.
otherwise stop fooling yourself into thinking that you want to save the world to justify your consumer choices.
what you really want is a high paying job in the emerging green industry, and you will probably get there once you get your mba and your doctorate in environmental politics.
and one day we`ll have this conversation again.
firstly, the world needs no saving.
it may become incapable of sustaining life as we know it at some point, but there is very little we can do to effect change on this giant cooling ball of molten iron spinning through the vacuum of space.
secondly, she said she wants to build a home that will do less to damage the environment.
i told her not to build a new one at all, but to apply her own strategy and recycle.
buy an old one.....
her ego couldn`t get around that one.
if we stop building new homes and new cars and recycle the old ones, we would do a significant amount to reduce the stress that making things causes.
but we would lose jobs....but that`s a seperate issue.
the girl`s really just another consumer in disguise, needing a high moral position to justify her need to have a new car and a big new (morally sound) home.
thirdly........we are buying bigger cars again because we need safe comfortable trasportation for our families. would you want the wife and kids in a "smart" car racing trucks at 70 mph on the highway?
i didn`t think so.
and how do we reduce the amount of cars on the road.
stop living in suburban ghettos miles from shops and schools.
live closer to things and walk or take the bus.
if you care to reduce the use of things.
otherwise stop fooling yourself into thinking that you want to save the world to justify your consumer choices.
what you really want is a high paying job in the emerging green industry, and you will probably get there once you get your mba and your doctorate in environmental politics.
and one day we`ll have this conversation again.
Monday, February 16, 2009
family day.
here in ontario today we are experiencing family day. it is a day where people are encouraged to stay home and spend time at home with loved ones.
and the shops are shut.
starbucks is shut.
the mall is shut.
so literally we are forced to sit in close quarters with people who are also bored and tired and stressed from an unexpected change in thier routines due to our provincial leader`s gladhanding of the state of the modern family........
....let the games begin.
update;
so we went bowling. glow-in-the-dark bowling. and i learned a few things.
firstly, my children have played this game before. secondly, my girlfeind has played this game before. a lot. and thirdly, though the shoes leave lots to be desired, i had lots of fun.......even though those little pins take all you have and still remain standing.
personally, i don`t need an act of the provincial legislature to know when to spend time with my family, but it was refreshing to be able to have a time set aside specifically for people like myself, who still believe in family and want to do things with them for no reason other than it feels good.
even though we had to wear those shoes.
and the shops are shut.
starbucks is shut.
the mall is shut.
so literally we are forced to sit in close quarters with people who are also bored and tired and stressed from an unexpected change in thier routines due to our provincial leader`s gladhanding of the state of the modern family........
....let the games begin.
update;
so we went bowling. glow-in-the-dark bowling. and i learned a few things.
firstly, my children have played this game before. secondly, my girlfeind has played this game before. a lot. and thirdly, though the shoes leave lots to be desired, i had lots of fun.......even though those little pins take all you have and still remain standing.
personally, i don`t need an act of the provincial legislature to know when to spend time with my family, but it was refreshing to be able to have a time set aside specifically for people like myself, who still believe in family and want to do things with them for no reason other than it feels good.
even though we had to wear those shoes.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
lloyd pye re-visited
http://www.lloydpye.com
an interesting read for those with questions about evolution vs. creationism, and aren`t afraid to actually think for one`s self.
an interesting read for those with questions about evolution vs. creationism, and aren`t afraid to actually think for one`s self.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
evolution.
this morning someone commented that we "anti-evolution" people are wrong. i posted the comment, then realised that the comment was to a post from quite some time ago....and i have no idea where the post of origin lies.
otherwise i would love to rejoin the debate.
in fact, let`s debate the point.
did humans evolve?
here`s my position.
no.
we are a frail, hairless, slow bipedal hominid, with a natural propensity for technology....which we are developing.
it seems as if we are helping technology to evolve.....if anything can be said to evolve, as we remain absolutely and exactly the same.
we are best suited to comfortable condo living with high-speed digital telecommunication devices to banter with our tribe around the world.
and by the way, darwin was refering to the evolution of traits within a species. the differerence between beaks and claws and wing sizes of galapagos island finches.
not a monkey changing into a man.
otherwise i would love to rejoin the debate.
in fact, let`s debate the point.
did humans evolve?
here`s my position.
no.
we are a frail, hairless, slow bipedal hominid, with a natural propensity for technology....which we are developing.
it seems as if we are helping technology to evolve.....if anything can be said to evolve, as we remain absolutely and exactly the same.
we are best suited to comfortable condo living with high-speed digital telecommunication devices to banter with our tribe around the world.
and by the way, darwin was refering to the evolution of traits within a species. the differerence between beaks and claws and wing sizes of galapagos island finches.
not a monkey changing into a man.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
argh......
i lost cell phone service for less than 24 hours and i thought i was going to die, and i learned that cell phones cannot swim........they also commit suicide.
i swear the little bugger jumped off the sink and into the tub, but i could be wrong.
anyhow, i went to telus.....my service provider, and they diagnosed the poor thing by inserting a probe up it`s ass (maybe cell-phone providers are abducting people too.....) and declared it to be dead. interesting that all the other aspects of the device worked fine. address book, dialing, photo album, etc. just the telecom bit.
oh well.
it was early evening by the time i got to telus and i had a soccer game late on, so i waited until today to call customer service to ask for a replacement.
i managed to get a store credit for $50, but was assured the cheapest phone was $79.95....
i took the credit and went to the same store this morning and talked to the same girl and she tried to sell me a $199. phone.
i told her i had the credit and that i wanted thier service credit, allowing me to get the phone at no further cost, so that i could continue to give them money each month to keep the economy going........
she made a call and pulled a few faces and then said that she could offer me the phone i have now at no cost (actually the $50 credit which i had already obtained for customer loyalty.)
she then said they have a non-negotiable fee of $25+ taxes but that i could call customer services and have them credit my account....
so i`m going to get them to also re-credit me for the $50 which the salesgirl gently lifted from me as i basked in the glory of my new cell phone.
phew.
i`m tired just typing the story.
the lesson here is that large corporations are compartmentalised....which supposedly allows control from the top.
but if you know what you are doing and keep asking for the same thing in different ways......
.....sometimes you can actually get what you need.
i swear the little bugger jumped off the sink and into the tub, but i could be wrong.
anyhow, i went to telus.....my service provider, and they diagnosed the poor thing by inserting a probe up it`s ass (maybe cell-phone providers are abducting people too.....) and declared it to be dead. interesting that all the other aspects of the device worked fine. address book, dialing, photo album, etc. just the telecom bit.
oh well.
it was early evening by the time i got to telus and i had a soccer game late on, so i waited until today to call customer service to ask for a replacement.
i managed to get a store credit for $50, but was assured the cheapest phone was $79.95....
i took the credit and went to the same store this morning and talked to the same girl and she tried to sell me a $199. phone.
i told her i had the credit and that i wanted thier service credit, allowing me to get the phone at no further cost, so that i could continue to give them money each month to keep the economy going........
she made a call and pulled a few faces and then said that she could offer me the phone i have now at no cost (actually the $50 credit which i had already obtained for customer loyalty.)
she then said they have a non-negotiable fee of $25+ taxes but that i could call customer services and have them credit my account....
so i`m going to get them to also re-credit me for the $50 which the salesgirl gently lifted from me as i basked in the glory of my new cell phone.
phew.
i`m tired just typing the story.
the lesson here is that large corporations are compartmentalised....which supposedly allows control from the top.
but if you know what you are doing and keep asking for the same thing in different ways......
.....sometimes you can actually get what you need.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
2009
well, here we are once again begining a new year.....and i have little to say to mark the occasion other than to say what i always say; whatyouseeiswhatyouget.
seeing is believing.
you always hit the last thing you look at.
and so on.
you don`t need me to tell you to have a good year, you`ve already decided what type of year to have.....so i`d be wasting my time.
but i hope you`ve decided to make it a good one, nonetheless.
seeing is believing.
you always hit the last thing you look at.
and so on.
you don`t need me to tell you to have a good year, you`ve already decided what type of year to have.....so i`d be wasting my time.
but i hope you`ve decided to make it a good one, nonetheless.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
mildly political
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081230/usa/us_politics_race_obama_republicans
i would have voted for sharpton.
just for fun........
Friday, December 26, 2008
personal vs.political.
personal is real, political is metaphysical......or imaginary.
that`s why there are no political solutions, only personal ones, done by real people with thier own efforts.
so next time, don`t vote......act.
voting feeds politicians.
taking action effects change.
that`s why there are no political solutions, only personal ones, done by real people with thier own efforts.
so next time, don`t vote......act.
voting feeds politicians.
taking action effects change.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
abundance.
abundance is all there is.
there is no lack save for that we decide there is in our lives.
i know you want to prove me wrong, but that`s your own trip.....the fact remains that there is so much of everything piled up here that some people can`t step back far enough to be able to see it.
ever wonder why some have more than others?
it`s about the pictures they show themselves.
see?
there is no lack save for that we decide there is in our lives.
i know you want to prove me wrong, but that`s your own trip.....the fact remains that there is so much of everything piled up here that some people can`t step back far enough to be able to see it.
ever wonder why some have more than others?
it`s about the pictures they show themselves.
see?
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
from manufacturing to service to..........
the prevailing buzz amongst analysts is that we are at the end of the manufacturing age in north america, and i tend to agree.
the analysts speak of us entering a service economy wherein we will all be gainfully employed in providing a service of some sort......
...everything from baby-sitting to counceling to sales.
cool.
except that money (capital) is moving so quickly these days that the service jobs are being taken by new immigrants, or outsourced overseas......as anyone who has spoken to a call-in service department recently will understand.
and with the emerging next economy involving total connectivity and information management, only those with a complete understanding of this technology and administration will be able to capitalise.
so it begs the question......
....doesn`t it?
the analysts speak of us entering a service economy wherein we will all be gainfully employed in providing a service of some sort......
...everything from baby-sitting to counceling to sales.
cool.
except that money (capital) is moving so quickly these days that the service jobs are being taken by new immigrants, or outsourced overseas......as anyone who has spoken to a call-in service department recently will understand.
and with the emerging next economy involving total connectivity and information management, only those with a complete understanding of this technology and administration will be able to capitalise.
so it begs the question......
....doesn`t it?
Sunday, December 21, 2008
economics.
as we enter into this uncertain economic time, i want to explore something that i have noticed recently.
i was looking for a bread knife, the type with the long serated blade, so that i could cut bagels without squashing them.........and so i looked at prices in the shops.
i found some really nice ones.
$100.
i found some adequate ones.
$50.+
i found some serviceable ones.
$25.
in a shop called homesense they sell domestic products from bedsheets to carpets to frying pans, and while there i found a nice breadknife reduced from $24.95 to $14.95 and so i felt had i had the best value and took the knife home and gleefully cut bagels.......
a few days later i was in the dollar store (everything for a dollar.) and saw the identical knife, without the attendant glossy packaging and rhetoric, for A DOLLAR.
i returned the pricey one and i continue to enjoy crisp cut and un-squashed bagels .
my point?
mall retail cannot afford to continue to sell the same products for 15 times the price in an economic atmosphere such as this. the type of person that deliberately pays for the more expensive version can only indulge themselves for a short period longer.
when both retailers are buying the knife from the same distributor, it`s only a matter of time before the game becomes obvious to all but politicians and professors of economics, and people will "vote" with thier money........and more shops will have to close thier doors....or drop prices, and hope hier customers forgive them thier gouging.
we have been enjoying this false prosperity since the end of the second world war, and it is clear to most that this process is winding down, and that manufacturing salaries are disappearing in whole numbers even though the politicians are scrambling to enact bailouts.
this will only prolong the process, and give people false hope of a recovery into high-paying union protected jobs in industry once this is "over".
the truth is that we hve slowly but surely been evolving into a service sector economy, providing management, accounting, sales and so on.......and so, if you are looking at re-training or this is your first step into the employment field, then learn some skills in those areas.
or emigrate.
i was looking for a bread knife, the type with the long serated blade, so that i could cut bagels without squashing them.........and so i looked at prices in the shops.
i found some really nice ones.
$100.
i found some adequate ones.
$50.+
i found some serviceable ones.
$25.
in a shop called homesense they sell domestic products from bedsheets to carpets to frying pans, and while there i found a nice breadknife reduced from $24.95 to $14.95 and so i felt had i had the best value and took the knife home and gleefully cut bagels.......
a few days later i was in the dollar store (everything for a dollar.) and saw the identical knife, without the attendant glossy packaging and rhetoric, for A DOLLAR.
i returned the pricey one and i continue to enjoy crisp cut and un-squashed bagels .
my point?
mall retail cannot afford to continue to sell the same products for 15 times the price in an economic atmosphere such as this. the type of person that deliberately pays for the more expensive version can only indulge themselves for a short period longer.
when both retailers are buying the knife from the same distributor, it`s only a matter of time before the game becomes obvious to all but politicians and professors of economics, and people will "vote" with thier money........and more shops will have to close thier doors....or drop prices, and hope hier customers forgive them thier gouging.
we have been enjoying this false prosperity since the end of the second world war, and it is clear to most that this process is winding down, and that manufacturing salaries are disappearing in whole numbers even though the politicians are scrambling to enact bailouts.
this will only prolong the process, and give people false hope of a recovery into high-paying union protected jobs in industry once this is "over".
the truth is that we hve slowly but surely been evolving into a service sector economy, providing management, accounting, sales and so on.......and so, if you are looking at re-training or this is your first step into the employment field, then learn some skills in those areas.
or emigrate.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
gratitude.....
....it comes down to this; be grateful, it just feels good.
studies have shown that the process of being grateful, speaking, writing and otherwise processing gratitude, released brain chemicals that make us feel good.
so here is my induction into feeling good.
i am grateful for a long list of things, and i will list a few of them here.
friends.
little dogs.
my children.
my health.
the perfect shot.
community.
recognising.
the look of love in her eyes.
the look of love in her eyes.
the look of love in her eyes.
talent.
skills won hard through practice.
the on-going second chance that life offers.
......there, i feel better now.
studies have shown that the process of being grateful, speaking, writing and otherwise processing gratitude, released brain chemicals that make us feel good.
so here is my induction into feeling good.
i am grateful for a long list of things, and i will list a few of them here.
friends.
little dogs.
my children.
my health.
the perfect shot.
community.
recognising.
the look of love in her eyes.
the look of love in her eyes.
the look of love in her eyes.
talent.
skills won hard through practice.
the on-going second chance that life offers.
......there, i feel better now.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
and......
......how about a day where nobody discusses sexual orientation of any sort at all?
but now i`m being insensitive.....
but now i`m being insensitive.....
i um, oh fuck it....
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712&cl=11042064&src=news
we are entering the final days.
for years i thought the religious zealots were just a bunch of loonies, and well, that view hasn`t changed.....but when i hear people taking this shit seriously i think the fundies might have a point.
we are entering the final days.
for years i thought the religious zealots were just a bunch of loonies, and well, that view hasn`t changed.....but when i hear people taking this shit seriously i think the fundies might have a point.
Monday, December 08, 2008
quiet recently.
and so the posts have been few and far between.
having said that, i find the break from posting and commenting elsewhere has allowed me to refresh my view with regard to the whole mechanism of blogging and opinion and so on.......
.....so thanks for your readership and sharing whatever happens next.
cheers.
having said that, i find the break from posting and commenting elsewhere has allowed me to refresh my view with regard to the whole mechanism of blogging and opinion and so on.......
.....so thanks for your readership and sharing whatever happens next.
cheers.
Monday, November 24, 2008
i love stupid people.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081124/odds/odd_us_china_panda
i just wanted to cuddle? fuckwit.
ok, so where did this dim bulb get the idea that the panda would actually be up for a cuddle?
pictures of pandas and representations of pandas in stories and conversations.
in other words..........
the ideas of others.
like a map.
not reality.
too often we are responding to maps, and not checking for the reality.
pandas are a type of bear by the way. a bear stoned on eucalyptus, but a bear nonetheless......and if we stop to think for a minute, we realise that bears are really big, strong predators, that have the potential to hurt and kill weak, hairless, slow-moving hominoids.
so kiddies, the next time you get the idea that what looks like a cartoon character might appreciate your "human" touch; think twice......dumbass, or we`ll have yet another news story to laugh outloud at.
i just wanted to cuddle? fuckwit.
ok, so where did this dim bulb get the idea that the panda would actually be up for a cuddle?
pictures of pandas and representations of pandas in stories and conversations.
in other words..........
the ideas of others.
like a map.
not reality.
too often we are responding to maps, and not checking for the reality.
pandas are a type of bear by the way. a bear stoned on eucalyptus, but a bear nonetheless......and if we stop to think for a minute, we realise that bears are really big, strong predators, that have the potential to hurt and kill weak, hairless, slow-moving hominoids.
so kiddies, the next time you get the idea that what looks like a cartoon character might appreciate your "human" touch; think twice......dumbass, or we`ll have yet another news story to laugh outloud at.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
why?
why does this message of unconditional love for the self persist?
because if not, we would die.
this message is the essence of uor existance.
if we try hard enough we can shout it down, we can drug it or make it physically or mentally sick, or we can become so goal-driven that we exhaust ourselves and are doing nothing but working or sleeping.
and even then the spirit persists and even if we stop for a moment, the voice whispers still.
we then begin to realise just how hard it is to not unconditionally love one`s self.
but the un-merry-go-round still spins.......until we choose to step off.
because if not, we would die.
this message is the essence of uor existance.
if we try hard enough we can shout it down, we can drug it or make it physically or mentally sick, or we can become so goal-driven that we exhaust ourselves and are doing nothing but working or sleeping.
and even then the spirit persists and even if we stop for a moment, the voice whispers still.
we then begin to realise just how hard it is to not unconditionally love one`s self.
but the un-merry-go-round still spins.......until we choose to step off.
time out.
it is necessary to take time out occasionally to remove one`s self from the mainstream of culture, society, family, business, career and everything else that demands our attention....so that we can tune in to the inner voice that has quietly been trying to get our attention for some time.
this voice has been with us all of our lives, through thick and thin, saying the same thing over and over.
i love you. i always will.
this voice has had to compete with every single amplified screaming noise that modern life provides, and we have hemmed ourselves into a box and arranged surround-sound systems to blast more of these sounds at us from the moment we wake each day.
but the quiet voice persists.
sit quietly sometime away from the racket, up on a hillside or deep in a cave perhaps, or sitting on your couch breathing deeply and letting the noises go
this voice has been with us all of our lives, through thick and thin, saying the same thing over and over.
i love you. i always will.
this voice has had to compete with every single amplified screaming noise that modern life provides, and we have hemmed ourselves into a box and arranged surround-sound systems to blast more of these sounds at us from the moment we wake each day.
but the quiet voice persists.
sit quietly sometime away from the racket, up on a hillside or deep in a cave perhaps, or sitting on your couch breathing deeply and letting the noises go
Friday, November 14, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
rememberance day.
a time to remember those who died for our right to say the most outragious things about anything we want to using the most sophisticated technology ever imagined.......
so be grateful for those who payed the ultimate price, not by buying a poppy necessarily, but by understanding that occasionally war is the only option.
when we aren`t too busy trying to save the planet of course.
so be grateful for those who payed the ultimate price, not by buying a poppy necessarily, but by understanding that occasionally war is the only option.
when we aren`t too busy trying to save the planet of course.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
about time......
... i posted something.
ok, so we have a new president.
did you notice how little a deal it really is, or are you waiting for the music to begin and the curtain to rise on a different world?
so, once again, we are given the opportunity to see that everything isn`t political.
unless you are a control freak.
in which case getting "your guy" into office is critical.
me? i`m just doing the same shit.
breathing in and out. thinking. shaking my head at the futility. the abject boredom. the bankrupcy. the tiresome sameness of people`s expectation that things will change....even though they personally do nothing at all to effect such a change.
the only way things change is if we make them change.
voting once every four years isn`t doing it folks.
unless you are looking for a reason to be disappointed until it`s time to vote again.
look at hockey for instance.
the team does shit for a month and the coach and manager get fired.
maybe we should do that with presidents.
it won`t do much to change things either, but it would be more fun to watch.
because it is entertainment after all.
did you ever wonder why more and more pundits are comedians?
ok, so we have a new president.
did you notice how little a deal it really is, or are you waiting for the music to begin and the curtain to rise on a different world?
so, once again, we are given the opportunity to see that everything isn`t political.
unless you are a control freak.
in which case getting "your guy" into office is critical.
me? i`m just doing the same shit.
breathing in and out. thinking. shaking my head at the futility. the abject boredom. the bankrupcy. the tiresome sameness of people`s expectation that things will change....even though they personally do nothing at all to effect such a change.
the only way things change is if we make them change.
voting once every four years isn`t doing it folks.
unless you are looking for a reason to be disappointed until it`s time to vote again.
look at hockey for instance.
the team does shit for a month and the coach and manager get fired.
maybe we should do that with presidents.
it won`t do much to change things either, but it would be more fun to watch.
because it is entertainment after all.
did you ever wonder why more and more pundits are comedians?
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
not for liberals.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html
this is peace folks.........
this is peace folks.........
Thursday, October 16, 2008
pat condell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-KHHKuVVRc
as a communicator i struggle to say difficult things with the clarity of this man.
thanks to youtube and blogger i can now allow pat to speak for me on the thorny issue of the islamification of the west.
enjoy.....and please, once you have watched, let me know what you think.
cheers.
as a communicator i struggle to say difficult things with the clarity of this man.
thanks to youtube and blogger i can now allow pat to speak for me on the thorny issue of the islamification of the west.
enjoy.....and please, once you have watched, let me know what you think.
cheers.
not suitable to watch....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwooM4yhiiY&feature=related
......if you work in a church.
when you`ve finished laughing, be good boys and girls and leave a comment.
thanks.
......if you work in a church.
when you`ve finished laughing, be good boys and girls and leave a comment.
thanks.
Monday, October 06, 2008
unconditional.
i`d like to dedicate this to ms.q.
unconditional.
that means without conditions.
like...all the time.
that`s how i set out to write this blog some years ago when i realised the relationship with the mother of my children was falling apart.
and how i realised that i could love myself.
unconditionally.
accepting.
realising.
loving and supporting.
because i knew truths about myself that were good and bad. and accepted that i`d got this far in this state and that i could experience love and devotion....i learned this through becoming a father........and that the world that i didn`t want to bring children into for most of my adult life had this ability to be ok once i began to accept and love myself unconditionally.
so it all comes back to this; once we find a way to unconditionally love ourselves, then others are left to face thier own decisions about themselves (or not....) and our lives change.
we stop putting ourselves in situations that are uncomfortable, or worse...and we put less obligation on others, and let them do thier thing and accept that too.
meeting others expectations a challenge?
then stop.
and sit back and watch the damage that expectations can cause....and just accept and love yourself.
others can then choose to do that too.
and you will be suprised at who comes and who goes from your life.
i feel like preaching a bit this afternoon so forgive me, or not, as i type away about what i feel is the most important practice we can take up on our journey through whatever it is we are journeying through in our conscious awareness.
oh yeah, and be prepared for the consquences of such a self-indulgent act. some will get hostile when you refuse to feed thier disagreement.
one of the first challenges i met in blogging was the power of disagreement.
people would openly challenge my posts and comments with all manner of comments in return, that, if we had been face-to-face, would have been too confrontational.
it took some adjustment on my part and a new-found confidence in my position to continue on typing and posting....to the point where i discovered that i really did love, not only myself, but how i said what i said.
and so i come full circle to begining to post once again about the unconditional love for the self.
also called not taking shit.
try it for a day or two and watch eyebrows fly.
unconditional.
that means without conditions.
like...all the time.
that`s how i set out to write this blog some years ago when i realised the relationship with the mother of my children was falling apart.
and how i realised that i could love myself.
unconditionally.
accepting.
realising.
loving and supporting.
because i knew truths about myself that were good and bad. and accepted that i`d got this far in this state and that i could experience love and devotion....i learned this through becoming a father........and that the world that i didn`t want to bring children into for most of my adult life had this ability to be ok once i began to accept and love myself unconditionally.
so it all comes back to this; once we find a way to unconditionally love ourselves, then others are left to face thier own decisions about themselves (or not....) and our lives change.
we stop putting ourselves in situations that are uncomfortable, or worse...and we put less obligation on others, and let them do thier thing and accept that too.
meeting others expectations a challenge?
then stop.
and sit back and watch the damage that expectations can cause....and just accept and love yourself.
others can then choose to do that too.
and you will be suprised at who comes and who goes from your life.
i feel like preaching a bit this afternoon so forgive me, or not, as i type away about what i feel is the most important practice we can take up on our journey through whatever it is we are journeying through in our conscious awareness.
oh yeah, and be prepared for the consquences of such a self-indulgent act. some will get hostile when you refuse to feed thier disagreement.
one of the first challenges i met in blogging was the power of disagreement.
people would openly challenge my posts and comments with all manner of comments in return, that, if we had been face-to-face, would have been too confrontational.
it took some adjustment on my part and a new-found confidence in my position to continue on typing and posting....to the point where i discovered that i really did love, not only myself, but how i said what i said.
and so i come full circle to begining to post once again about the unconditional love for the self.
also called not taking shit.
try it for a day or two and watch eyebrows fly.
Friday, October 03, 2008
no shit sherlock.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081001/us/usreport_us_cereal_sugar_1
"kellogs are working to make thier cereals more nutritious."
bullshit.
if they managed people wouldn`t eat them.
oatmeal, or as we called it as kids, porridge, is a dense, low glycemic food that is equally good for men and for horses......and as any horse owner will tell you......he ain`t feeding morning star lucky charms.
the majority of commercially available cereals are only as nutritious as the milk you drown them in, and your are better off eating the box they came in as they provide many minerals, oils and types of fibre not found in the nutitionally inert consumer product inside.
many of my weight-loss clients struggle with their wieght simply because the makers of these products lie to them, and while people try to limit caloric intake, the body needs nutrition from the calories ingested.
you would have to eat an entire box of special k, for example, to get enough protien and carbohydrate in a useable form to make it to lunch........
.......so people struggle in agony all morning and over eat at lunch.......or struggle further in cognitive deficit until supper and then devour whatever is available then.
and continue to eat late into the evening, because the bodies natural tendancy is to eat when real food is available.
stomachs don`t lie.
eat oatmeal in the morning and have a salad for lunch and a sandwich and fruit for supper.
and wake up hungry.
repeat.....and live lean and strong with energy all day.
and stop getting diet advice from commercials.
"kellogs are working to make thier cereals more nutritious."
bullshit.
if they managed people wouldn`t eat them.
oatmeal, or as we called it as kids, porridge, is a dense, low glycemic food that is equally good for men and for horses......and as any horse owner will tell you......he ain`t feeding morning star lucky charms.
the majority of commercially available cereals are only as nutritious as the milk you drown them in, and your are better off eating the box they came in as they provide many minerals, oils and types of fibre not found in the nutitionally inert consumer product inside.
many of my weight-loss clients struggle with their wieght simply because the makers of these products lie to them, and while people try to limit caloric intake, the body needs nutrition from the calories ingested.
you would have to eat an entire box of special k, for example, to get enough protien and carbohydrate in a useable form to make it to lunch........
.......so people struggle in agony all morning and over eat at lunch.......or struggle further in cognitive deficit until supper and then devour whatever is available then.
and continue to eat late into the evening, because the bodies natural tendancy is to eat when real food is available.
stomachs don`t lie.
eat oatmeal in the morning and have a salad for lunch and a sandwich and fruit for supper.
and wake up hungry.
repeat.....and live lean and strong with energy all day.
and stop getting diet advice from commercials.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
some logic required.
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20081001/122289041500.html
firstly, mr.lee is not being criticized on how he makes a film, but on the factual content within the work......and secondly, mr.lee doesn`t make films that aren`t going to get "special" attention.
lee deliberately takes on subjects that promote issues of race, which he has a right to do, and has made a fine living at it.
having said that, i`m not contending that i have any knowledge whatsoever of what happened.
i will leave that to the experts.
firstly, mr.lee is not being criticized on how he makes a film, but on the factual content within the work......and secondly, mr.lee doesn`t make films that aren`t going to get "special" attention.
lee deliberately takes on subjects that promote issues of race, which he has a right to do, and has made a fine living at it.
having said that, i`m not contending that i have any knowledge whatsoever of what happened.
i will leave that to the experts.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Tipler#The_Omega_Point
i have posted this previously, but one thing i realised is that someone or something had to build the damned thing in the first place.....unless it just compiled it`s self automatically.
the scientists say we all evolved out of the first protoplasmic organisms coming from mud, and the religious say we are a divine creation coming form god.
niether really says much about what went before.
so.
the question remains.
what went before all of this.
what was before the big bang...............and what did it bang into?
i have posted this previously, but one thing i realised is that someone or something had to build the damned thing in the first place.....unless it just compiled it`s self automatically.
the scientists say we all evolved out of the first protoplasmic organisms coming from mud, and the religious say we are a divine creation coming form god.
niether really says much about what went before.
so.
the question remains.
what went before all of this.
what was before the big bang...............and what did it bang into?
proof positive.
we find ways to make what we believe become a reality.
look around you and see what you`ve created......every second of your conscious existance.
look around you and see what you`ve created......every second of your conscious existance.
Monday, September 29, 2008
the cold arrives.
yesterday it was warm and humid, and today it`s cold and just damp.
my knees are telling me that winter is on the way and that i should be thinking about getting my mountain bike ready in the next few weeks as the road bike weather is passing quickly.
oh yeah....and it`s time to price out oil heaters for the apartment. last year i used the oven to heat the place too many times.
but i do love apartment living though........except the fuckwit who keeps taking my shit out of the dryer.
bring back the death penalty for that one i say.
my knees are telling me that winter is on the way and that i should be thinking about getting my mountain bike ready in the next few weeks as the road bike weather is passing quickly.
oh yeah....and it`s time to price out oil heaters for the apartment. last year i used the oven to heat the place too many times.
but i do love apartment living though........except the fuckwit who keeps taking my shit out of the dryer.
bring back the death penalty for that one i say.
Friday, September 19, 2008
week-end.
hope everyone has a great weekend, taking advantage of what could be the last of the summer heat.
i h ave finally turned the corner on this summer flu, or whatever the hell it was, and i`m lookng forward to getting back to focused training and competition, as the play-offs are here in both my soccer leagues.
i will be back to posting on a more regular basis when i find a deal on a laptop, so that i can post from home and spend abit more time researching my points and following the links on your sites at my leasure. the distractions at the library get to be too much here.
silly me, i thought libraries were supposed to be QUIET!
btw, if anyone local has a laptop for sale let me know.
cheers.
i h ave finally turned the corner on this summer flu, or whatever the hell it was, and i`m lookng forward to getting back to focused training and competition, as the play-offs are here in both my soccer leagues.
i will be back to posting on a more regular basis when i find a deal on a laptop, so that i can post from home and spend abit more time researching my points and following the links on your sites at my leasure. the distractions at the library get to be too much here.
silly me, i thought libraries were supposed to be QUIET!
btw, if anyone local has a laptop for sale let me know.
cheers.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
we forget.......
.....that we can show ourselves a picture or two, of some of our favorite things, and in an instant we become tranceformed......(transformed.)
try this now.
go to youtube and search for a video that will thrill you.
once you have watched the video, spend a few moments remembering how you felt while you watched it, what you saw, what you felt, what you said to yourself while you watched.
amplify what you saw, what you felt, and what you heard yourself say to yourself....to the point where you can barely stand to do it anymore.
fell better?
i thought so.
repeat when necessary.
try this now.
go to youtube and search for a video that will thrill you.
once you have watched the video, spend a few moments remembering how you felt while you watched it, what you saw, what you felt, what you said to yourself while you watched.
amplify what you saw, what you felt, and what you heard yourself say to yourself....to the point where you can barely stand to do it anymore.
fell better?
i thought so.
repeat when necessary.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
flu.
or something like it.
for the last six weeks or so i have been experiencing flu-like symptoms that have gone from sinus conjestion to the guts and back.
i believe the immune deficit began with mosquito bites while camping, something i rarely do, and so the effect of so many bites overwhelmed my natural ability to deal with such foriegn matter in my system. i would have been fiine but we ran out of repellent on the last day and so while packing to leave i was bitten hundreds of times and by the time we had driven 200 miles home i was already feeling the effects.
i can understand now how things like westnile virus can kill older people and those already ill.
we live in such a sheltered place in suburbia that any time we venture out into the wild away from airconditioning and starbucks we run the risk of exposure to things that can threaten out very existance.
i will have to take more repellant next time.
for the last six weeks or so i have been experiencing flu-like symptoms that have gone from sinus conjestion to the guts and back.
i believe the immune deficit began with mosquito bites while camping, something i rarely do, and so the effect of so many bites overwhelmed my natural ability to deal with such foriegn matter in my system. i would have been fiine but we ran out of repellent on the last day and so while packing to leave i was bitten hundreds of times and by the time we had driven 200 miles home i was already feeling the effects.
i can understand now how things like westnile virus can kill older people and those already ill.
we live in such a sheltered place in suburbia that any time we venture out into the wild away from airconditioning and starbucks we run the risk of exposure to things that can threaten out very existance.
i will have to take more repellant next time.
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