Colorless Green Ideas

Google changed their privacy policy. My google plus account now shows, as part of my profile - every nude picture of Bettie Page that I've ever posted. There have been predictable responses from my co workers, and family, and so on. I've decided, however, that being singled out and identified as a man who sincerely appreciates the female form isn't a bad thing. I'm keeping the pictures. I am firm that I plan to airbrush her picture on the nose of my F-16A fighter jet. Or skateboard. Or snowboard. Actually, I'm planning to airbrush her picture onto a model airplane I'm building as well.. Google's new privacy policy isn't really a great idea for an anonymous blogger. But that's what you get, when you let other people host your stuff.

I believe I have finally come up with a good visual metaphor, for Men, as to why so called news channels that do little but recycle failed political party talking points - the ones they send out in email every day - just really doesn't do it for me. Or for anyone, for that matter. Women, take heed - you might not really know what we're thinking about all the time. This may surprise you. Ok, so here's the visual metaphor. News: News Media Entertainment: Look, ok. I get it. She does it because she thinks it makes her somehow more attractive. More womanly? More of what she really wants to be? In looking at the advertising packages that the news media entertainment guys put up for sale - to corporations - one says that it "allows advertisers to target (customers) precisely". I'm a man. It may appear, if you've read my blog, that I happen to be someone who's got a thing for Bettie Page. What turns me on most, I think - is the fact that she...

When a company says "Tell us on facebook!" .. they really mean "give us your personal contact info so we can farm your data for our marketing department". When you are asked to "like this" you're asked to add your name to a list. When any business wants you to "friend" them, they're asking two things. First, believe that corporations should be the same thing as people (last time I checked, I did not have any major, multinational corporation that I could go play a round of thursday afternoon squash with at the racquetball court..). Second, they want to be able to see everything your mother sees - out of your profile. The still-amazingly flat and largely ineffective security model in Facebook is designed for marketing departments to farm data from you. Although the site got its start in hatred, the ranking algorithms at the core of the site's basic code are designed not to deliver data to you - but to store data for a lurker. I...

I've written alot about my ideas about age. I no longer buy into the concept of forced mortality. The two concepts we need to separate in Aging - are the progression of a set of physical diseases that kick in around age thirty - and the mental process of acquiring wisdom. These two things are what people mean,when they call someone 'old'. The derisive element of that refers to someone who either can't think straight - or who looks like they got hit in the face by a baseball bat. Or so we would be led to believe. We really need to separate those two ideas and reference them differently. The mental side and physical side are separate. You can be in alot of pain, and still be able to think relatively clearly. You might get tired, but you'll be able to work. Then sleep. Wisdom refers to the transformation of information to intelligence and eventually , until its object logic becomes complete and its references and pointers cast properly. This amounts to giving ...

It will , in all likelihood be a very passionless and helpless thing to consider life at the end of life The spirit hungers for truth and light in a living body, but as that light dies a calmness might settle in and to this please listen That the face of death will appear almost as a friend his scythe cutting the strands of pain until all feeling vanishes He is not your friend Death is a horrible price to pay An evil act upon a soul whose purpose is to delete the living framework of being where the soul can grow It is a very simple thing to be alive, just at the end after all elements transmute into element without struggle why would death be any different in its approach But even as you feel the pain starting to flood your mind and glow red you must learn to hold these thoughts and remember exactly what hurts because it has a name and though different parts of you suffer you can still remain and later dream the sweet dream of Morticia and Go...

The reason that the republican primary matters, this year - is that it indicates the complete fracture of what was once its party base. Where once moderate, and independent - rallied under the banner of fiscal conservatism, ecological stewardship, and social and political freedom - we now see a deeply divided group of people almost evenly splitting amongst several candidates representing radically different direction. 2012 is a clear beginning of the end of the Republican part in the United States. Even as we speak, lobbyists are attempting to remove the right of free speech in Chicago. The issue of lobbyism and the Republican party's tacit acceptance of such monied corruption has made it the party of welfare for the wealthy. It can be safely assumed that it will vault to the top of its candidate list - a man who benefits from the same. Where the average citizen pays a strong burden of taxes - the republican candidates will all pay 15 percent or less. The upcoming loss by...

This first mate knows the ropes. If you study this photograph carefully, you can see she has a good firm grasp of the pole. I think it's safe to say that with such fine technique, there will be seamen everywhere... cheering as she passes by.

If you are in excruciating, mind numbing tearing your hair out by the roots slamming your head against the wall rolling around on the floor clawing at your skin pain Here's a Clue No one cares. As loud as hell a ringing bell behind your smile it shakes your teeth and all the while ears will bleed so fucking what go to work there's deadline to meet And if you can take a moment to reflect in between meds that don't work that you can cough so hard that it breaks a rib and have a cold that doesn't go away see if you can find a clue: A virus somewhere grew into something that keeps makes zombies instead of killing you An evil dwarf sits on your shoulder hammering a number two pencil into your ear Your head spins You vomit in the corporate bathroom but walk out smiling, again Into the house of fun down the hall of mirrors where a hungry, green woman awaits you with a prescription in a house made of candy and gingerbread and lefto...

2011 broke all previous environmental disaster records. The total amount of money lost to environmental disaster - in the calendar year of 2011 - was 58 billion dollars. That's billion with a "B". The total amount of time that broadcast television - ABC, CBS, and NBC - granted on the subject of Climate Change - was 32 minutes . Studies that falsified data were broadcast on other networks - and the usual tactic of bringing on 'experts' who run counter to the broad scientific consensus that global climate change is real - in order that a point of fact might be argued instead of considered (is the sky blue? I say it's not ..!)... was adopted by other cable news organizations. This study also tactfully leaves out the weather channel - which had the unfortunate job this year of having to dispatch their reporters onto scene after scene of natural disaster. In earlier days, I would dive on reefs in the Carribean. These were beautiful , vivid - tree-like st...

Pieces of comets rain down the size of a house every sixty seconds in our upper atmosphere perhaps we haven't noticed because we misplace them sort of like car keys but that's where the ocean comes from Abraham's wife conceived at the age of three score ten and five bearing a son Named Isaac That's supposed to be where you and I come from Isaac was asleep against cool grey sky As Abraham held the knife he looked out upon an existential map that said "You Are Here" written in every single place And then he heard a voice inside his head well done and well done is better than well said And put the knife away Isaac awoke and said Are we there yet? Sarah raised her children to be strong and when in the dark her child fought a man or an angel all about them burning pieces of the sky fell to the ground Israel

Pornography died in its sleep strangled by a comforting as I passed in and out of a fever dream helpless to watch Nobody knew if it was really dead but we buried it anyway under its stage name Later of course, it rose undead body parts falling nails black from earth coffin shattered dragging itself slowly across the cemetery past supposed lovers moth-like toward a distant light of innocence We defend smashing its head with maxwell's hammer a zombie death scene , of course, censored in the interest of taste and civilization Let's just say, dear reader .. rule number one: double tap. At last the monster fell and the raid was tired so we decided to held the funeral at dawn circled around and watch it go up in flame arm leg chest dark circles where eyes had been nails on its hands black with earth hanging by thin pieces of skin red tongue and shattered yellow teeth glowing from the pyre as the sparks fly upward into chaos, and ero...

The Church of Latter Day Saints gears a person well to become a chief executive. If not first for the fact that it promotes amongst its members a sense of sobriety and clarity in personal relation, then it becomes the challenge of what one would do in an all-volunteer organization that represents your faith. Americans are, in many ways - religiously complacent. We are also essentially apolitical, and are almost always caught up on the bleeding edge of some social, political, or technological experiment. Clearly, in the past few years - social websites have exacted a toll on our society. They have, especially amongst the teenagers - promoted an Aspie-like inability to connect by almost negating the need for contact and real , emotional interaction. This type of soulless existence is exemplified by the rise of such trends as cyber bullying and online games. But it points to a deeper trend of the loss of even consideration of that spark of the divine within. The past does not point t...