+he WYZARD projec+

Oh Yeah Right... Merry Star Wars-mas wreath - Holy Kaw!

2010-12-10T21:36:00.000-08:00

Actually...OYR...Hmmm...That's strangely perfect...

Oh yes, where was I...

Oh yes, taking the 'random internet peer influence/advice' to use my imagination when watching movies that are in fact nothing but allegorical reflections of reality to begin with, suddenly leaving not only us, but the entire rest of the world floating in that same damn sphere of Disney-like imagination coupled with Preacher Billy-like motives, and not even existing in reality as the blod clearly states while STILL freaking busy lost at space camp trying to find SOuls I can trust beyond any of the insane behavior I've experienced from what happened when I first through the rescue flare leash into the sky back in 06 and starting making my lists and plans and requirements, so by the time your actually find reflections of the peer groups you, come to think of it, never even had in college while trying to 'save' waffle house waitresses only to have the horrific nightmare of beyond-worst-case-scenarios line-up where it turns out seemingly patently false or not-completely-equivalently apparent relationship dynamics in fact existed between my parents...leaving me somewhere in that 30 wake of WTF and Cynderella Complication Syndrome...but this is America...and I grew up in rural Texas...not LA...so I had to learn about some other things the hard way but still refused to ever give up on my Dreem or Myself because it's not like I have a choice, so a blah, blah, blah...

One minute it's "Hey believe in Star Wars, we already landed on the moon and apparently the entire world or at least space was upside down and in a vacuum since the 1940's anyway so whatever because what kind of role model or referenceis that to even begin from right", and the next it's "oh, blah, blah, blah" people saying whatever their brains are thinking or have gotten lost in while dreaming about Star Wars, and the meantime DWTS still exists and Jersey Shore is s still leaking into the minds of a considerable percentage of the programs of the whatevers they actually expect me to somehow want to save, but there seems to be some sort of weird Fight Club 'blanket/bubble of silence' going on around Justin Bieber and I think that explains why Lady Gaga is doing so well simply by burning the bodies and souls of poor hoomans that lie (or is it lay?) next to her and having encountered faaaaaar too many things like that that I never signed up for nor could have conceived existed, I think it's time we find some more better protective behavior standards and examples, because clearly the nightmares (and real-life blanketity blank gosh darn femme fatales) have affected me to the point that I hide behind the virtual examples of other blanks simple for the purpose of protecting myself from the status quo behavior influence when the people I first trusted with the gem only through the previous nightmare-grade cast back in it.

F7ck that. That is the social relativity I escaped to nothing from, and yet I'm clearly still not Master of the Universe yet, so the more better friends I have willing to break us all out of the insane vortex of having to sit there on stage watching what's his face perform 'crazy' with an orchestra of gosh darned storm troopers while being for to deny they exist to each single person as an individual bubble...

WTF?

Why is everything painted green?

What are we going to replace or at least upgrade Christmas with?

It's gotten to damn ridiculous.

Would someone please page Princess Leia and tell her to let me out of the damn simulator already?

In the past series of missions in it they f7cked up the programming model so bad it makes a mockery of the entire god damn system and seeming rightfully so.

Ain't that right R2?

Merry Star Wars-mas wreath - Holy Kaw!

paws w84it w84it w84it en espanol? Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul (Ed Rush & Optical Remix)

2010-12-06T16:35:00.000-08:00

Yah. Yah. Yah... Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) HQ

2010-12-06T14:56:00.000-08:00

Dance Cat Dance...

What? Secret Life feat Dwizz (Original Mix) [Exclusive]

2010-12-03T13:30:00.000-08:00

Oh yes Dear... Where were we? Iron Man 2 Trailer (OFFICIAL)

2010-11-28T17:03:00.000-08:00

WWW = teh interwebs!!!

That's Correct My Love said #KarynRRR

Sir James - Special (Bingo Players Remix) Strictly Rhythm

2010-11-28T16:56:00.000-08:00

Some Imagineering Required

Bingo!

This one is on my 'cool beat/melody but the lyrics could use some rewriting and improvement' list.

#w8aminute

Deadmau And Kaskade - I Remember

2010-11-28T16:08:00.000-08:00

How can 0ne not remember that which is everywhere and most-importantly, programmed from the inside-out and outside-in at the same time?

- A! - finds it adorable and purrrfect that cats spell I 'Ai' in sync with the meme.

Speaking of me not having enough money to copyright the entire Empire of Designs already in play, we should all fall in love with a 'Solarized' version of reality by adopting a 'Solar Eyes' viewpoint from within. It's about saving and improving and fixing and everything more Right than less right unless/except by painful illustration of murky reflections to draw attention to the dynamics.

Sigh.

BUT...

w00t!!!

http://speckyboy.com/2009/07/09/50-beautiful-hdr-images-from-50-world-cities/

That Yellow Magic Lemonade is an Increasingly Useful and Powerful State of Mynd It Seems.

Like the Holy Seems exposing the centuries of misdesign left uncovered by these 80/20 sheep. Meh.

Technology can save us if we save ourselves from ourselves first. Thing about the impact of relative hooman programming with variosu 'warrior' mindsets given the state of technology BUT more importantly, Game-ReSolving Equations built Independent of all these other Hooman-Perception-Affecting role-dynamics.

blah.blah.blah

Yes. I know.

But while we're counting l

HI:FI vs. Dave Darell - Flash 2.9(Dave Darell remix)

2010-11-28T15:51:00.000-08:00

I Love These 50 Beautiful HDR Images from 50 World Cities | Speckyboy Design Magazine

2010-11-28T13:50:00.000-08:00

50 Beautiful HDR Images from 50 World Cities | Speckyboy Design Magazine

Vinyl Shakerz - One Night in Bangkok

2010-11-28T12:35:00.000-08:00

Audioslave - Like A Stone

2010-11-28T12:21:00.000-08:00

+he 11.11 wha+???

2010-11-15T15:34:00.000-08:00

Whoopsy. Did they do that?

So, for those of you, young and old, following or not-following along alike, the 'Awakening Code' (11:11) just so happened to land on my traumatic/dramatic exit and closure of my most recent writing/life-publishing platform on Facebook, and I'm sure the question anyone who cares should be left with is...

What? Why? ___?

As usual, with most things I do that are knowingly far-less-than-ideal, this was done in response to the ongoing torturous degree of psychological "light pollution" I had been patiently enduring since randomly opening the doors to my living 'virtual living room/office' , secret project and all, only to have waaaaay too much bad invite itself in along with the Good/neutral/random/test audience. That was totally not cool of the any/all secretive randoms that were handed a chance at using 'Solar Nuclear Power' to make the world a better place, and I feel bad about having to blindly turn off that entire couple years of my life recording project platform just in illustration of just the tip of what I had previously/was/is/am being subjected to on a 24/7 basis, but I figured taking a page out of the book of whatever negative psyops assholes had been using against me and using it to re-focus the rest of the circus on those sources of such discontent seemed like the only way to get the bullies to stop after soooo long.

They pushed me past the point of self-destroying something invaluably more valuable than them. Gee, why does that sound familiar?

Anywho. Still on the streets of Santa Monica. Several key family members and past circumstantial friends have been complete FAILS in their inclusion. Several people/Hoomans have been exceptional Good/Wins/Assets in the same project/program/test, and so goes the story.

Must find job and/or new/Better friends in real-life to help/hire/be-part-of this Ultimate thing I've created.

That is all.

- A! -

P.S. You know what? Just to be an even-bigger smartass earlier I decided to just start going by ^!^ as my initial. Why? Because I'm me to the power of exclamation mark to the power of nothing. And it looks like a cat's ears with an exclamation mark where it's mind/face goes. And - A! - was from Al which also looks like AI which could either be Al, the common denominator of all these virtual pen names, or AI, as in Artificial Intelligence and a creative take on the way in which my mind can see and oversee things in many ways others can't because of the varying degrees and depths and timing of codes and symbolism.

But of course it's several years if not decades in the making and all still written in random places about the interwebs, so in this interim 'transitional' multi-parallel-platform phase, just find me on Twitter for the time being as Alyn Alyx West, and from there when I eventually build 'Path-like Lego Brick Patterns of Personally Known/Character Trusted" Hoomans into the new virtual Facebook Castle/Palace, not only will it be pre-written and decorated, but in theory, far more Beautiful from a Warm/Invited/Friendly/Neighbor audience perspective instead of being caught up in all the annoying military/alphabet/spy/psyops nonsense that was intentionally hurting me and driving me grrr/hiss/grrr.

Sigh.

Damn hoomans...

BRB

Hello (again) World!

2010-11-10T11:30:00.000-08:00

Welcome (back) to the nonsense parade.

I know we're all busy, and it's a looooong story, but the moral to it is "what you don't yet know can and will save and sometimes simultaneously entertain the living hell out of you".

Or something like that.

So ignore this blog. Find the Facebook at the badge. And then just observe quietly until you start to understand what's going on from the myriad of different storylines a characters/plots at work.

That is all.

Carry on.

- A! -

The Colbert Reportfolio -(formatting lost-in-time/space)

2010-07-07T20:43:00.000-07:00

"Patience is a virtue - but that's only if you have to wait. Prepare for instant gratification - this is the Colbert Report!"

Colbert Limited Editions

The Colbert Reporthouse Edition - "F7ck hope. We need a plan." Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, Colbert has pounced on the opportunity to exploit the economic collapse to the full extent of the public's sanity. Despite record-setting profits, a page has been taken out of CNN's book and the entire state-of-the-art set is suddenly replaced with late 1990's grade CRT-monitor technology in conspicuous wooden cabinetry. Not realizing he synchronized his feigned goodwill-acquiring poverty just slightly out of phase with the actual real-world financial collapse (CNN has now re-upgraded), he decides to run with it anyway. During the time spent 'in that world' he adopts an entirely different 'Great Depression survivor' character with random stories about walking uphill both ways to everywhere and being forced to eat handfuls of wooden nickels he had accepted in payment for his entertainment and medicinal tonic sales on the boardwalk in between reminiscing about the "good ole days" of the roaring 20's before subprime mortgages existed. This option also brings up the opportunity to amusingly show 'grandfathered-in' turn-of-the-century Prescott Medical Serpent Oil Solutions for everything from PMS to 'battles with demon-like possession'. Stories of snipe hunting and witchcraft optional. "Why? Because it ain't illegal yet."

The Colbert Repenthouse Edition - "F7cking peasants and their cheap-assed sets." Either preceding or following the aforementioned 'poor house' edition, Colbert's worldview over-compensates by doing a complete 180 and basing his entire worth around material objects and branding. He pays way too much for everything then brags about how he pays too much to stimulate the economy. In a nod to CNN's semi-secret news set downgrade-then-upgrade during the recession, Colbert's state-of-the-art set suddenly returns with new and even more possibly needless but cool upgrades. Additionally his sense of worth now relies on the multi-million dollar advertising campaigns of all his name brand psychological materialist armor. If their branding takes a hit, so does he. During this phase, anytime the news or conversation on his show turns to something he doesn't particularly care for, he simply, immediately, and blatantly turns the conversation to his manifestations of material luxury. At the conclusion of an acceptable amount of use from this set, Stephen comes to the very frustrating realization that his happiness index seems to peak-out at "God's gift to television punditry". All the excess was pointless it seems. The set upgrades can then be 'spun off'' and/or removed to be reused or auctioned for charity/history. With the set gone the associated behaviors immediately wear off, though Stephen boldly defends his temporary 'arguably-too-rich' behavioral phase as 'investment class' work on his part. "Only one helicopter!??? What the f7ck?"

Random Possible Segment/Recurring Throwback Additions

Jesus Christ! Moments - Stories of encounters with reality that make one literally go "Jesus Christ!" or "Jesus F7cking Christ!" The degree of 'surprise' required to trigger that response varies, but is a real-life, real-time 'manifestation' of "Jesus Christ" literally out of nowhere. This segment is designed to establish and document a 'real-world' baseline of exactly when, why, and how people use that expression to draw attention to various events, and in doing so, create a new 'reality-based' lexicon of just where Jesus truly exists (or apparently might need to). Possibly an interactive TV audience piece. Viewers could be invited to take note of their 'real-world' crossings with that specific response to environmental stimuli (pricing, news, etc.) and have select ones re-created in sarcastic fashion. (like in the existing Colbert segment "Nailed 'em") Going a step further, 'social experiments' attempting to elicit such responses could be conducted 'in the field'. Specific further elaboration of hypothetical scenarios available upon request. Additionally have 'Oh my God!' and 'What the f7ck?' competitions.

The Blank Book - A follow-up to I am America and So Can You, Colbert is contemplating biting the proverbial bullet and chopping the proverbial mullet by taking on the ultimate challenge - writing I am the People of Wal-mart...and What the F7ck is Really Goin on Ya'll? along with possible follow-ups - Where'd you get that?, Where'd you learn that?, I Don't Think Them Are Shorts You're Wearing as Shorts, Put it on Layaway, Exactly Why and How this Exceptionally-well-educated Democracy Could Never be...Whoops!...Financial Collapse and Why are You so Angry?

Shoe Me - Colbert, having realized his existence is iconic enough to add value to clothing items merely by wearing them, now begins wearing a different pair of shoes to each remote city or location he broadcasts from. Mocking the stereotypical materialistic American woman's obsession with shoes, he begins a secret collection of these production-purchased-for-self souvenirs to one day be auctioned off for charity or what have you. The only side effect is he suddenly becomes conspicuously obsessed with what type of shoes figures in the news he is reporting on are wearing above and beyond what they are actually doing to be in the news.

Why the f7ck is this news again? - While trying to figure out the genesis of why some "real" news items are included with randomly mixed-in "fluffer" entertainment news, Colbert begins coming up with all kinds of advertising-dollar-based explanations of how completely unrelated news items are put next to each other. Involving wild and outrageous conspiracies with everything from TMZ to witchcraft, he always ends up tying them together in some insanely far-reaching and ridiculous way, but ultimately never quite finds the true answer to that initial question "Why the f7ck is this news again?"

Sports-related Temper Tantrum Challenge - Originally inspired by memories of my father throwing golf clubs following erroneous shots much to the amusement of all parties involved, this initially began as a 'Sports Equipment-tossing Top 7 List' but has now evolved to include 'any athlete attempting to make the Colbert Report merely by camera-worthy over-the-top expression of their passionate frustration'. In this design it essentially becomes a free-for-all excuse for people to submit clips from across the board, amateur to pro, golf to basketball - as long as the principle actor is setting a highly-questionable but hilarious-to-watch example. Colbert then references these clips to describe his internalized emotion in regard to other normal political news while simultaneously giving smartassed athletes a new and possibly legitimate humorous excuse for their "passionate outbursts". "The silver lining? At least I made the Colbert Report."

Diehard Vicarious-Performance-Based-Adrenaline-Rush Revolving Token Super Fan - Although not blessed with the free time to become remotely concerned with sports at the moment, Colbert has seen the immense fun others seem to be having with their 'fandom' from a distance and decides to attempt a Michael Jordan free-throw-line-launch onto that fan bandwagon of local-team-based crazy good times and drunkenness. Having a pre-existing completely neutral team affiliation complex, Colbert uses this to his advantage by merely adopting a different team to root for in diehard fashion every week. He selects random players for extremely unconventional reasons and then puts his full support behind a different one each week with only mild to all-consuming bi-polar side effects. Not one to take the act of watching other people play sports lightly, he even goes so far as to come up with new-and-improved token 'game spectating enhancement' traditions and rituals...although most end up being merely variations of the same thinly-veiled recipe for consuming mass quantities of alcohol and food during the specific time frame while deftly out-foxing crowd and line logistics. Beyond that he could use the random assortment of acquired team mascots for allegorical political commentary that week. Like "Better Know a District" but "Better Know a Random Sports Team's Political Euphemism Fairytale". An exercise in 'passionate random association' if you will.

Ceiling Cat Reality Intervention - It seems Ceiling Cat has now taken up ghost-like residence in the Colbert Report/Comedy Central studios and is reaking comedic havoc using virtually all forms of technology available. From the teleprompters to on-screen graphics, applause signs, and Colbert's producer-linked earpiece, the signs are everywhere, but usually only noticed after-the-fact several moments into a piece when we suddenly hear Ceiling Cat breakout into Bart Simpson-like prank call laughter or Colbert notices the obvious 'lolspeak' spelling typos on the teleprompter. Colbert becomes confused because it's increasingly hard to tell if what he's reading is real news or just a Ceiling Cat joke version, and additionally more confused because he also just started an "0 hai! - peas sey dis fawr mi" segment using lolcat pics in response to news items, buh ceelin kat sez he wuz runnin uh dwil dat vury same day... Translation: "Oh hey, please say this for me." and "...but Ceiling Cat says he was running a drill that very same day..."

Grocery Store Savings Club RFID-chip Super-deep Discount Pricing - Are you willing to get chipped in exchange for saving an additional 50% over our already-low everyday discount pricing? Remote social experiment setup potential.

Pet Personality Enhancement Accessories - For all those people that aren't celebrity-grade hilarious icons of American entertainment, now their pets can be for them. Where pet fashion meets technology and laughs like crazy. "0 hai-los" A hypothetcial line of cell phone remotely-controlled pet collars that allow your pet to respond to you using Stephen's pre-recorded voice and quips. Not only that, to make sure no one misuses the power of such globally-redefining technology, the NSA has joined with PETA to voluntarily keep a log of all communication made with your pet, and with the additional RFID-based accessories and upgrades, all the communications your pet makes in response. Other star options and an entire world of linked and unlinked designs and accessories are also easily possible.

Which f7cking America do you live in? - Now every time highly-questionable quotes popup from random figures in the media, Colbert can watch them quietly and intently as if processing all the information being presented while putting the pieces together into a logical picture of something he understands - which elicits the same response every time - "Which f7cking America do you live in?"

Colbert Puppeteer Spoiler Alert - Show all "questionable" pundit clips in a cardboard box graphic frame with puppet strings held by the CEOs of each respective umbrella corporation. Decorate as-desired like *Truman's box/castle. Add quotes from the annual stockholder/corporate performance reports scrolled across the bottom of the screen in-sync with their narrative, for literal 'performance design-based' reference. InfoGraphics with a smirk if you will. *Truman is a puppet-like tiger character I dreamt up and fleshed-out to the point he/it almost needs a show of his own. However at the moment there is only one raw 5 minute video sketch of his existence on my blog at DamnNearGeni.us It speaks for itself, but, like this writing sample, only shows a random and small fraction of the entire 'make-believe empire'. What has Colbert, cats, and similarly-sized boxes without the extra FB link first? http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/313483/june-22-2010/usa-board-of-ophthalmological-freedom

Overly Dramatic Exits...to Commercial Breaks - Stephen learns from a "daytime" writer he is supposed to be "building suspense" going into commercial breaks to retain audience interest. Although pretty sure this only applies to shows with "non-all-ecompassing-God-like-presence", he decides to give it a shot anyway. In this attempt, rather than just end segments where and how he would normally, he starts throwing-in absurd twists and cliffhangers - - - that always just turn out to be nightmares or a dreams on the other side of the commercial break. Stephen adapts to this new high-suspense style almost too quickly and is gets dangerously good at it...until finding out he literally had zer0 problem with commercial break audience retention in the first place. When he then realizes his additional 'shock and awe-like' false suspense-adding tactics might just be annoying his already-loyal audience, he decides to make the best of it by using his newfound 'DNG-style' (Dramatic Nonsense-Generating) to sarcastically try and acquire previously untouched audiences be they from TMZ, Showbiz Tonight, The View, whatever. With his new, experimental, high-suspense, 'dumbed-down' but 'fluffed-up' writing format (that week or two), he goes on an all-out media blitz for no reason except to get in the news just to get in the news while his show is temporarily-formatted in a way 'even the small people should appreciate'. Multiple other tie-ins.

Colbert's Clear, Intentional, Professional, Self-retardation Initiative - Colbert has received the disturbing news his audience is above-average in intelligence and education. This brings him to the unsettling realization his entire show, platform, and possibly very existence itself is relatively condescending by default and thereby politically incorrect from the start. Accordingly, not one to play by a different set of rules, he must somehow adjust the content of his show closer to the 'median' American demographic to try and adapt to the 'pretend/hypothetical' scenario he assumes most other audience-rating-based television show writers face while aiming for 'that fat part' of the America target demographic. (shown as a bell curve generated by following the contour of an extremely fat person lying on their back...but with the chart axes titled in "I.Q." v. "Population") Poor Stephen starts trying to 'dumb down' his show any way he can from talking slower to just adding half-naked models and shiny things at random. Results vary. Can you hear me now ? ? ? In becoming increasingly frustrated trying to employ techniques that seem to only work on the rest of the huddled masses at the expense of his art, as an alternative he eventually opts to start simply explaining how the show and entire industry works as if to a child. ...using fairytale-like allegories to describe an advertiser-fueled business-centric religion that worships ratings as it gloriously sacrifices the human condition. And they all spent their top-ratings-earned fortunes happily ever after...

Existing Segment Examples

Cheating Death With Dr. Stephen T. Colbert D.F.A.
Preemptive Retroactive Possibly Redundant Plan B++ - Allow me to introduce the latest in Prescott Pharmaceutical’s perfectly fine line of pregnancy prevention slightly post-prophylactic products - the Plan B++- Pill. "Because it’s better to avoid destroying several lives at once later than not at all." The same as the Plan B pill, but with a whole lot more scary and sincere advertising. Like Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston in a high school time machine that could see into the future before they ever fell in whatever that was... "Plan B ++- Better than being fathered by a horny teenage douchebag turned national embarrassment gracing the cover of Playgirl right out of the Alaskan wilderness from which he cameth onto our sacred American national political stage." (at the end of the segment insert the shot of Palin’s daughter licking her hand and combing an imaginary baby’s hair or a recreation of Stephen having a female assistant comb his) Possibly tie it in with a cross promotion for his Prescott Pharmaceutical's 'Special Edition Man Seed' available only to post 30-year-old, stable, career-oriented, psychiatrist-evaluated women and his 'Prescott Pharmaceutical's Magic Night Pro Tem Teen Sterilization Vacation Packages'.

The Craziest F7cking Shit I Ever Heard?
Suing the Gold Man Sacks Off America’s Collective Forehead

Difference Makers
The Token Unretouchables In light of Hollywood and the “mainstream media’s” continued obsession with fake beauty and the real money and fake friends it can acquire, Stephen has decided to take a stand and give credit where credit is due to that handful of celebrity stalwarts willing to go naked, without make-up and unretouched, in front of their adoring audiences. Stephen then breaks down all the pros and cons of the recent ‘rash’ of honesty caused by Jessica Simpson, Britney, and even Kim Kardashian posing in attention-getting far-more-honest-and-natural-than-usual-but-still-ultimately-fake-as-hell-in-motive magazine spreads. Stephen does his part by having the segment hosted by three ‘all-natural’ supermodels…or at least as much as he can show of them and still remain on cable.

"Necessity is the mother of invention, hey, don't suppose anyone has a non-dysfunctional government handy? - that was the Colbert Report!"

And the List Goes On...
I have hundreds of them. Practically an entire few shows worth. What I seek is a directly collaborative position amongst a team of like-minded and/or mentor-like colleagues/teachers.

THANK U4 your consideration.

The Real-time Colbert Reportfolio - Mullet Jihad '10

2010-07-06T14:59:00.000-07:00

The whole thing? Yeah right. Like such a thing exists. But what does exist is my A.D.D., random association, and ability to apparently write what I could delusionally try to sell as apex-grade political satire based on one thought from one tweet? Sure. Why not.

So it all began this morning when I was sidetracked by my Twitter stream as usual. The Alyona Show posted a link about some men's hairstyles that had been banned in Iran but the link in the tweet wasn't actually linked to that story. I quickly gave up (not being all-that-concerned about the story enough to hunt it down in depth) but noticed @anniecolbert tweeted that Iran had banned mullets causing 'Achy Breaky Heart' to get stuck in her head, and apparently that was all I needed to spark my political satire writing practice for today.

First, that story reminded me of this specific entry from the portfolio I wrote several weeks ago:

The Blank Book - A follow-up to I am America and So Can You, Colbert is contemplating biting the proverbial bullet and chopping the proverbial mullet by taking on the ultimate challenge - writing I am the People of Wal-mart...and What the F7ck is Really Goin on Ya'll? along with possible follow-ups - Where'd you get that?, Where'd you learn that?, I Don't Think Them Are Shorts You're Wearing as Shorts, Put it on Layaway, Exactly Why and How this Exceptionally-well-educated Democracy Could Never be...Whoops!...Financial Collapse and Why are You so Angry?

(facepalm)

And from that I decided I needed some practice writing a monologue from scratch...

So, I did. Here it is. Unrewritten. Unretouched. Highly questionable as usual.

I would like to pre-apologize to Disney for bringing Miley and the Mickey Mouse ears and cardboard cutouts into it...but I think I was trying to make a point that reflects on American mainstream role modeling in the grand (OMG Lilo is getting 90 days just for being like her friends?) scheme of things.

Love you Disney!!! X0X0X0X

- A -

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Colbert Miraculous Recovery

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Hello Nation!

Glad to be back. Glad to be back.

Now you may have noticed that just yesterday I was bathrobe, slippers, and na-naw’ blanket-bound sick and contagious in ways that had me forgetting to put the Gatorade logo on the plastic cup along with conspicuously mentioning their name.

So here. Let me take care of that real quick.

(Pulls out an orange lighting bolt decal and affixes to his cup and takes a sip.)

I know. I know. They are using the G now or whatever - but I’m old school.

Gatorade - ride the lightning! The electrolytning!

(studio lights flash and thunder rumbles underscoring Colbert’s improvised product tagline in storm-like fashion)

They can just give me creative credit for making that up whenever.

You’re welcome.

Now that we got that out of the way...

Nation! There is terrible news in global politics to report.

Yes, those crazy Iranians be are it again, but this time they might be onto something.

No, I’m not talking about that one time at band camp when they sent around the prank email comparing the wearing of berkas to the failures of America’s war on drugs policy.

That was a fluke.

Sex only acts like a drug when it is seen by the mind as a drug.

That's what Hugh Grant told me.

Then again I'm not 100% I trust his judgment.

To put Devine Brown in the same world as Elizabeth Hurley is what you call a terrorist act if not crime against humanity in my book.

But who am I to judge?

Now, just prior to that tangent I was about to discuss those crafty Persian Cats hanging out in the sandbox and their recently announced Holy war on mullets.

Yes, I said Holy war on mullets!

(The random mesmerizing beautiful girl from a few months ago walks across the stage in front of Stephen. Colbert completely ignores the graphic and the entire show stops while his gaze follows her all the way across the stage. When she is out of his sight he suddenly snaps back.)

Whew!

(Shaking his head as if waking up or shaking a curse.)

Sorry nation. I apologize. I have no idea what just came over me.

Where was I?

Jimmy! Can you go find her and have her walk across the stage again and then make sure that doesn’t happen again?

We’re trying to do a show here.

So nation, blah, blah, blah those crazy f7cking Iranians and their primitive solutions to being human have now decided simply outlawing that Universal symbol of sexiness that is the mullet is the best solution to increasing pressure from the White House regarding the question marks behind their nuclear program.

Oh, sure, blame Billy Ray.

Brilliant!

Like he's the one to answer for Miley’s supple underage gluteus maximus rubbing on some gay dude at a party.

I mean really Iran?

The mullet?

You're going to take out your pent up American "the great satan" global imperialist nuclear restriction frustrations on the mullet?

If that's to blame why not go ahead and attack the New Kids on the Block for making rat tails cool in the late 80's and early 90's and ban them too?

Do your research first. They make mullets look high-class.

Oh. They banned those too?

Well... Good.

I guess that's what I get for writing this entire missive only having read a second hand tweet that condensed whatever policies the Iranian government has designed for men’s hair styling down to that one line about outlawing the mullet.

But we're already halfway there, so...

You think banning the mullet is going to solve the problems the mullet is merely a symbol of?

Which came first - the mullet or getting famous via peopleofwalmart.com?

Wrong. No breeding licenses.

No breeding licenses. That's what came first.

Just something to think about. I'm not making this sh7t up. It's a historical fact.

Besides, if sex is the problem in light of larger cultural concerns, is it really time to start taking authoritative hairstyle advice from tribunals of men whose choice 7 days out of the week when not in the shower or pool is: towel?

Although I will give them points for authoritarian administration of authority.

Between this and that convenient Twitter outage a few months ago during that whole little revolution thing you can tell they definitely have their theocratic stormtroopers lined up.

How did that whole revolution thing turn out anyway?

Sorry, I totally got distracted and forgot when Tiger Woods crashed into Elin's 9 iron then into that tree.

How'd that turn out?

No. I meant Iran.

Well, they're obviously still there right?

Just without mullets?

Hey, they might have a point. Just because something exudes sexiness in its very existence to the point it becomes a drug-like curse on humanity is no reason to ban or cover it up.

Two words: Sterile ization

At least until we get them past Bristol Palin territory.

(Sexy girl walks back across the stage in front of Stephen completely covered in a berka. Stephen is not impressed whatsoever and looks at the cousin It stand-in with utter contempt it would have the audacity to interrupt his multiple-award-winning show.)

What the f7ck was that?

Jimmy! Don’t we have security here?

Can anyone or anything just get up and walk across the stage or what?

What the f7ck is this? Jerry Seinfeld's skybox?

Oh. That was THAT?

No wonder we have reason to be concerned about veils and the nuclear power they conceal.

You’re right Iran.

Good call. F7ck the mullets.

Not that I realized Iranian mullets were a problem to need addressing in the first place.

Hmmm... They might just have been hidden under the towels.

(Colbert reaches back to undo a rubber band that had been holding his mullet into a thin ponytail out of the camera’s sight and runs his fingers through the hair.)

We’ll be right back!

(Zoom out to reveal girl wearing the berka now with Mickey Mouse ears dancing provocatively Miley Cyrus-style on/against life-size cardboard cut-outs of Elton John, Perez Hilton, Liberace, and Adam Lambert to her daddy, Billy Ray’s, ‘Achy Breaky Heart’)

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I'll give it a 7. :/

They don't got puppet tiger?

2010-06-23T15:18:00.000-07:00

O hai!

2010-04-08T11:16:00.000-07:00

True genius.

...and he did not eated it.

- A -

Miss Me Yet?

2010-02-11T12:29:00.000-08:00

Oooh the suspense and mystery...

But why in a town of 7,000 in WYoming?

Doesn't matter 'cause it made the *national news* in the names of comedy and that is worth the $100 or so it costs...right?

Sorry. Haven't made any blog posts (despite writing a few more epic interactive chapters on the Facebook) so I randomly figured this would suffice as a place holder.

Take the same ad, except replace his picture with mine and make it say 'Tell your Mom I said Hi!'.

That is all.

Carry on.

;)

- A -

P.S. What is up with the kids at RedEye? For my purposes all the historical associations with Yellow are irrelevant. In my lexicon it only means what I have stated it to mean - comedy and inspirational symbolism to make the best of any situation and focus - which is nothing derogatory towards any blanket stereotypes by any stretch.

P.P.S. And WTF is this? (rolls eyes)

The Awe(and then)some Choir.

2010-01-04T21:39:00.000-08:00

Howdy Ya'll!

Have you met the Choir?

The Best F**cking News Team Ever.

Meet the Choir.

Now color-coordinated in wide-screen high-definition.

BOOM.

Love the use of Yellow+ on his new and improved set. :)

Complaints? Understandable on rare occasion.

Send them to the Choir. ;)

But remember, they're the best.

Epic potential.

Love it.

- A -

P.S. i can haz urned cheezburger now?

P.P.S. All I need is a door like Stephen has and I'm golden.

P.P.P.S. Happy Year 10!!! + Thanks for reading/watching!!!

The Twelve Days of Christmas

2009-12-25T11:11:00.000-08:00

The Twelve Days of Christmas start with Christmas Day and finish with the eve of Epiphany on 5th January. The carol dates back to English origins in the sixteenth century although the music is reputed to be French. The first publication date for the carol was 1780. Each of The Twelve Days of Christmas has a religious significance and are symbolized following the lyrics of the carol. What do the twelve days signify?

In England (from 1558 to 1829), it was illegal for Catholics to practice any pieces of their faith in their homes or in public.

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" was written as a "catechism song" to assist young Catholics to learn the tenets of their faith without being obvious to the outside world, that it was of religious roots.... See More

The gifts mentioned in the song symbolize different teachings of Catholicism, and the giver of the gifts, "My true love," is God. The recipient of the presents refers anyone who has been baptized.

The symbols:
Partridge in a pear tree = Jesus
2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit (the seven sacraments )
8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed

NOT! lol

Wow. I had no idea religion would try to jack things like that. Although it did give me some brilliant ideas.

(insert snopes)

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/music/12days.asp

Merry +mas!!!

They say the partridge represents Jesus feigning injury amongst other things. But then the entire currently widespread religious symbolism is disassembled DaVinci Code-style.

Well, at least disassembling things DaVinci Code-style creates a whole industry according to the TV.

;)

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

- A -

I rest my case.

2009-12-16T16:25:00.000-08:00

(from an extremely intelligent Facebook friend of mine, DK Matai)

Apparently cultural self-destruction isn't the only problem as I've been repeating like a broken record since you first met me. What's your plan cowboy?

Dear Friends,

When we examine the asymmetric threats facing humanity, it becomes clear that major challenges -- whether local, national or international -- are all tied together by the exponential function! A lack of appreciation for what exponential increase really means leads our society to be disastrously sluggish in acting on critical issues. Believe it or not, our great survival struggle -- manifest via Demographics, Energy and The End Game -- is about understanding the practical meaning and effects of the exponential function!

What is the Exponential Function?

Simply put, the exponential function means growing like this: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32. Doubling, doubling again and then doubling again and again. Everyone surely understands that? Yes, at a theoretical level, and No, at a practical level!

For example: suppose one agrees to eat one almond on the first day of the month, two almonds on the second, four almonds on the third, eight almonds on the fourth, and keeps doubling them every day. How long can one keep going? How long will a pound of almonds last? The first pound of almonds will be gone on the ninth day as one eats the remaining half of the pound. On the tenth, day one will eat a whole new pound of almonds. By the fifteenth day, one will be expected to eat 32 pounds of almonds! One will have to eat roughly one's own weight in almonds by the 17th day! On the 21st day the total will have risen to one ton, roughly the weight of a car; and by the end of the month, assuming a 30-day month, it will be 500 tons, or the weight of a ship!

Impact on Demographics

The human population of Earth reached 1 billion in 1804, 2 billion in 1927, 3 billion in 1959, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in late 1986 and 6 billion in late 1999. We are presently on the cusp of reaching 7 billion. Mexico, with a population of 107 million and a doubling time of 70 years, will, if it keeps that up, grow to 214 million in seven decades. That's nothing compared to Kenya, which has a doubling time of 26 years. If Kenya goes on growing at its present rate, in 70 years there will be roughly three Kenyans for every one today!

Impact on Energy Capacity and Consumption

Until the 1970s world oil consumption was growing at seven percent per year. That means doubling every ten years. The doubling time of anything growing exponentially is 70 divided by its annual growth rate — 70 divided by seven percent is a ten-year doubling time. Every ten years we used as much oil as we had used in all previous history. Every ten years we had to go out and discover as much oil as we had ever discovered before — and then, to keep going, discover twice that much in the next ten years. We didn't keep going after 1970 because we couldn't have. In 1973, there was an massive oil shock and that global economic crisis began to alter consumption behaviour. Since then, per capita oil consumption in the US -- which reached a peak in 1978 -- has fallen by 20 percent from that level. As a result, there's still plenty of oil around at present, but we've been burning it faster than we've been discovering it for 20 years now because of the arrival of China, India and other emerging countries as major consumers of oil alongside the G7 and other developed nations. It is well known that we have around a 1,000 years' worth of coal left. However, if we burn 7 percent more of it each year than the year before -- which we may well do, substituting it for the disappearing oil -- it will last just 60+ years, and it will bring on global climate chaos much faster than even the worst case scenario projections!

The End Game

One doesn't get much reaction time when problems grow exponentially and come closer to the end game. An old French riddle illustrates the point: Suppose one owns a pond on which a water lily is growing. The lily doubles in size each day. If the lily were allowed to grow unchecked, it would completely cover the pond in 30 days, choking off other forms of life in the water. For a long time the plant is almost invisible, and so one decides not to worry about cutting it back until it covers half the pond. On what day will that be? On the twenty-ninth day!

We are emitting carbon dioxide and several other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere exponentially. We are clearing tropical forest at an exponential rate. The human population is growing exponentially. Human energy use, human production of synthetic products, chemicals, deserts and rubbish are growing exponentially. Many national economies are growing exponentially in terms of x percent GDP growth per annum, and we cheer them on, although a worldwide economic growth rate of, say, 3.5 percent per year means another whole industrial world is added to this one in just two decades! We can't keep it up. If all interlocutors truly understood the consequences of exponential growth, we would have no differences of opinion, no conflicts of interest, within the one world united point-of-view!

Escape Velocity

The Key Question: How to build the escape velocity needed to break free from the current gravitational pull of influences that limit the capacities of leadership? Educate one and all on the practical relevance and power of the Exponential Function as it applies to Demographics, Energy and The End Game!

[ENDS]

We welcome your thoughts, observations and views. To reflect further on this, please respond within Twitter, Linked and Facebook's ATCA Open and related Socratic dialogue platform of HQR.

All the best

DK Matai

Chairman and Founder: mi2g.net, ATCA, The Philanthropia, HQR, @G140

To connect directly with:

. DK Matai: http://twitter.com/DKMatai

. Open HQR: http://twitter.com/OpenHQR

. ATCA Open: http://twitter.com/ATCAOpen

. @G140: http://twitter.com/G140

. mi2g: http://twitter.com/intunit

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This is an "ATCA Open, Philanthropia and HQR Socratic Dialogue."

The "ATCA Open" network on LinkedIn and Facebook is for professionals interested in ATCA's original global aims, working with ATCA step-by-step across the world, or developing tools supporting ATCA's objectives to build a better world.

The original ATCA -- Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance -- is a philanthropic expert initiative founded in 2001 to resolve complex global challenges through collective Socratic dialogue and joint executive action to build a wisdom based global economy. Adhering to the doctrine of non-violence, ATCA addresses asymmetric threats and social opportunities arising from climate chaos and the environment; radical poverty and microfinance; geo-politics and energy; organised crime & extremism; advanced technologies -- bio, info, nano, robo & AI; demographic skews and resource shortages; pandemics; financial systems and systemic risk; as well as transhumanism and ethics. Present membership of the original ATCA network is by invitation only and has over 5,000 distinguished members from over 120 countries: including 1,000 Parliamentarians; 1,500 Chairmen and CEOs of corporations; 1,000 Heads of NGOs; 750 Directors at Academic Centres of Excellence; 500 Inventors and Original thinkers; as well as 250 Editors-in-Chief of major media.

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Acting Fast...

2009-11-09T13:47:00.000-08:00

A rather interesting article from Dave @ rockyourday.com.

Figured I'd copy and paste it here for future reference. Not a whole lot new to report. Making progress in many directions. Occasionally taking note of it on the FB as usual.

Hope everyone is having great time making the world spin as usual.

:)

;)

- A -

How To Train Yourself To Be In The Mood You Want

When you have major changes going on in your life, or you’re just frustrated about where you are, it’s easy to get trapped in a cycle of depression, bad moods and frustration. I know, I’ve been there … and when I’m not careful, I still get there more than I want to.

But lately I’ve had a particularly hard time, as I make some major (positive) changes in my life. I hit these moments where I’m in a foul mood, or I’m just feeling paralyzed, and I’m just stuck. Sometimes I just stew in that and stay there, but sometimes I actually get intelligent and pull my way out of it.

I’m going to outline the framework that I’ve been using over the last 30 days to really get myself resourceful and motivated (and in a better mood) when I’m feeling stuck. Hopefully it will help you, too, and if you do I truly hope you’ll share it with others.

First Up: Using A Framework to Escape From Paralyzing Emotions

When we feel bad, it’s hard to “feel good” again. You can’t just wish yourself better, and when you’re in a stuck place, you don’t generally have the mental energy to pull out. Willpower doesn’t help, and “positive thinking” sure as hell doesn’t help. But falling back on a framework of steps does help, because we humans function well when we have a set of steps to follow.

The reason for this is that steps take the emotion out of our situation and give us direction to simply act. Duck and Cover. Stop, Drop, and Roll. When you know with certainty what to do next, you’re in a much stronger position to take action, even when you’re panicking. (And it doesn’t have to be words, either – just think of Lamaze breathing, which expectant mothers practice well ahead of time so they can slip back into it during the stress of labor.)

You can call these verbal step-by-step tools anchors if you want, because they’re ways to anchor your emotional state to a time where you knew what to do and you felt prepared. So I’m going to lay out a framework that you can use as your own anchor when you need to reset your mood, and while it’s seven steps long, it’s hella effective at getting the job done.

The seven steps form the acronym ACT FAST, and I picked that because I felt that it was a pretty empowering term as it forces you to presuppose you have a workable course of action. So let’s dive in.
A: AGREE With Yourself That You Don’t Want To Be In This Mood Right Now.

This seems hokey, but it’s important for this reason: Once you agree with yourself that this is not the right mood for you, you’re revoking permission to stew in your own juices and keep the “pity party” going. Think about it: When we’re mad, the thing we hate the most is when someone tries to cheer us up, because on some level we want to be mad and stay mad, or be depressed and stay depressed.

And that’s not always a bad thing. Maybe we want to stay sad because on some level we know we need to hang out in this mental state and really look at what’s making us sad, to really connect with it and deal with it instead of pretending it doesn’t exist. Maybe we want to stay mad because we’re not finished processing our emotions and figuring out what our situation means and what we’re going to do about it.

So don’t take this as me saying “man up and stop crying.” What I am saying is that at some point if you want to move forward in a functional way, and not feel paralyzed, you need to agree that this stage of emotion has to be finite, it has to come to an end so you can deal with the solution that the emotion demands of you. When you’re ready to deal with it, you agree with yourself that you’re ready to shift gears.

Let’s say you’ve lost your job and you’re freaking out about what to do. You could tell yourself something like, “Okay, I’m ready to stop being scared of this situation now.” Then you move on to the second step.
C: CLARIFY The Mood or Emotion You Want To Move Towards

Now that you’re ready to change, you need to make sure that you know where you’re headed so you have something you can focus on. It’s not enough to say “I just don’t want to feel this way anymore,” because then you’re still swimming in the Sea of What You Don’t Want. You need to have a focus.

It could be as simple as defining the mood you want to be in with a single word or two. Resourceful. Confident. Infectiously Happy. Stable. Calm. Controlled. Helpful. Pleasant. Civil. Generous. Whatever it is, you need to give it a name.

Then you combine it with the last thought, so you can tell yourself something like “I’m ready to stop feeling scared and start feeling resourceful.”

There’s nothing magical about these words, and again, it’s not positive thinking. This is all about creating something you can say to yourself to pull the emotion out of your mental state and focus on what you can do next and what you can influence.

When you start getting scattered and lose track of where you are, and you’re stressing, you can fall back on your statement: “I’m ready to stop feeling scared and start feeling resourceful.” You’re putting yourself back in control and you’re ready for the next step.
T: TAKE Responsibility For Taking Immediate Action.

Now that you know what you want to move away from and what you want to move towards, it’s time to face reality: It ain’t gonna happen unless you make it happen. You’re going to have to consciously accept responsibility for getting yourself in a better state.

This is a big deal, because it means that you‘re going to have to revoke permission to blame other people so you can do this. Note that I’m not saying that you’re absolving other people of blame – if someone just screwed you over, then they’re still at fault, and you don’t pretend that didn’t happen.

But focusing on that isn’t going to help you get to your desired emotional state. You have to take full responsibility for what thoughts you’re going to focus on and what attitudes you’re going to reinforce, because no one is going to do it. No one is coming to your rescue.

You want out of this emotion? You’re going to have to do it yourself. the good news is you totally can do it yourself, and we’re going to cover that in the next four steps so you can get there.

So now our statement to ourselves gets a little longer – it’s something like, “I’m ready to stop feeling scared and start feeling resourceful, and I’m going to make that happen right now.”

We’re going to move into four questions right now, and you’ll need to memorize them so you can get yourself back on track instantly when you’re backsliding into the emotional state you don’t want to be in.
F: “What Would I Need To FOCUS On To Feel this Way?”

This question is a really empowering one, because it forces you to stop thinking about the things that are draining you and gets you to acknowledge that there are things you can focus on that will give you more mental and emotional energy.

When you ask yourself this question, you’re putting yourself on the spot – you’re saying, “Hey, if I wanted to feel resourceful (for this job loss example), what would I need to focus on?” You’re presupposing the answer is available to you rather than saying “How do I get out of this funk?”, which is an open ended question that invites an “I dunno …” response.

Think about it. If you were feeling resourceful in this job loss situation – imagine that you were for a second – what would you be focusing on in order to feel resourceful? Would you be thinking of all your contacts and references, about renewing old work relationships? Would you be taking stock of all the online job boards, or maybe sites like LinkedIn? Or would you be revisiting your skills and experience and seeing if another career would be more fun?

Ask yourself this question, and write down the answers. You’ll need that written note to look back on when the painful emotion you’re moving away from resurfaces. Have a written library of answers to this question and you can benefit from it when you’re feeling emotionally unable to conjure up answers later.

Sometimes the answer can be external as well. The first part of my career was spent in software testing, and that’s some boring stuff. It’s frustrating to test the same thing 100 times and not feel totally unmotivated. But I’d focus on something external – like the road trip I was going to take with this week’s pay – and that would keep me going.

In one case I was testing training Army courseware for avoiding/disarming landmines, and after the 1,000th retest I was so bored out of my skull I wanted to scream. But I told myself that if I focused on testing it until it was 100% ready, then it would save people’s lives in the field. Someone’s Dad would be coming home because they didn’t trip a landmine or trigger a roadside bomb. That didn’t make the job less boring, but it gave me a sense of purpose and a better emotional state.

So think: What would you have to focus on to move towards the mood you want? There’s always an answer. Find it and write it down.
A: “What Would I Need To ACT On To Feel The Way I Want To?”

Now that you’ve established what you need to focus on, you need to address what kinds of actions you need to take to build up that feeling. If you’re depressed and you want to feel happier, maybe you ask yourself, “How can I help 3 people today?” and you do something simple like send an encouraging email, or meet them for lunch, or just send $25 to a charity of your choice in someone else’s name.

Action is important because it’s extremely difficult to feel your way into a different way of behaving. You know this, or you wouldn’t be stuck in the first place. When you’re feeling scared or mad or depressed, you can’t just manufacture emotion to get yourself going.

But if you do something – if you take action – you can behave yourself into a different way of feeling. And it doesn’t have to be directly related to your own issue if that’s causing you friction. If you hate your life situation and you can’t figure out how to make it better, then focus on helping 5 other people feel better. Be an encourager, and that will help you pull out of that sense of depression. Trust me, it works, because it breaks your pattern of feeling helpless and connects you with other people.

But that’s just the start – it’s all well and good to take external actions to get your emotions jump-started, but you also need to get a sense of the actions you need to take relative to your own problems. In the FOCUS step you will probably come up with things you need to not only focus on, but actually do, and you need to make a list of those actions and start running with them.

Sometimes that’s hard to do – the motivation wanes – and that’s when you fall back on the FOCUS step again. It will help you get in a better frame of mind to take action.

Moving on, you’ll also need to ask yourself,
S: “What Would I Need To SURROUND Myself With To Feel The Way I Want To?”

This is an overlooked concept when it comes to mood change. Your surrounding environment plays a huge factor in your mood, and if you don’t consciously take control over it, you’re leaving power “on the table.” When you arrange your environment in ways that empower you, the chances of you keeping the mood you want to be in go through the roof.

Right now I’m writing this while listening to epic soundtrack music – I personally find that isolating my ears via headphones and keeping high-adventure music going keeps me focused and motivated. It’s hard to feel complacent when listening to instrumental tracks like “A Storm Is Coming” and “Rise of the Destroyers” are drowning your ears in epic symphonic goodness. :-)

I know that this kind of music helps me kick ass, but you’ll have your own environmental triggers. Maybe it’s classical music or R&B, or maybe it’s just the silence of an empty room (or noise-cancelling headphones). Maybe it’s a clean desk, or maybe it’s a desk littered with action figures and crazy stuff. Maybe it’s wearing your favorite hat, brewing a certain kind of coffee or lighting some incense.

It doesn’t matter what it is - it just matters that you become aware of it, and you leverage it to help create the emotional state you want. Whether it’s keeping the counters clean, making the bed, soaking in hot bath or cranking up Aerosmith, get a feel for what makes it easier to be in the moods you want to be in. Then make it easy to build that environment when you need it.

T: “What Would I Need To TELL Myself To Feel The Way I Want To?”

This is where it all comes together – the part where the rubber hits the road and you have to fight against the emotions you want to move away from. This is where the previous steps all kind of combine and you create this little script you can say to yourself, a litany of conscious choice, as it were, to recalibrate yourself when you’re struggling.

Maybe it’s something like this for the freaking-out-about-the-job-loss example:

“I’m ready to stop feeling scared and start feeling resourceful, and I’m going to make that happen right now. I’m going to focus on the resources I have, like the 50 past co-workers who can get me leads, the job boards online and the in-demand skills I can show on my resume. I have everything I need to make this crazy time less crazy and I know what to do next.

I’m going to make a plan for getting (or creating) the job I want and set aside 3 hours a day to take serious action. I’m going to neaten up my home office so I can think straight, and make it a relaxing place to work in the meantime.”

If you read this over and over again, what do you think would happen? Would you keep freaking out about your job? Or would you start feeling a little bit better?
Yeah, This Takes Some Work, But What The Hell Else Are You Doing?

Most people, if they’ve read this far, will say, “That’s too much work, Dave.” But seriously, if you’re paralyzed and feeling terrible, you have time on your hands already. You’re just using that time to stew in the emotion instead of making it finite and taking action. I know how it feels, I fight it all the time.

But this is a way out – or at least the beginning of the way out for you. And it’s easier than you think, because once you understand this process, 9 times out of 10 you won’t have to use all of it. You’ll just be sitting there stewing and say to yourself, “What would I have to focus on right now if I wanted to get my ass up and exercising?” or “What would I need to change about my surroundings right now to feel a little bit happier?” and that will be enough to get moving.

The quality of your life revolves around the quality of the questions you ask yourself on a minute-by-minute basis.

If you ask yourself, “Why me?” or “What can I possibly do?” you‘re going to be paralyzed.

If you ask yourself “What can I do next, from where I am, with what I have,” you’re going to put yourself in a position of strength.

Ask better questions. Train yourself to be the sculptor of your moods, rather than being tossed about by urgency and externalities you can’t control.

You can do it. I hope this helps.

My best to you,

Dave

PS – I think this article can help a ton of people. Please link to it and spread it on social media sites right now if you agree, even before you leave a comment.

Elvis is in the building.

2009-10-29T16:43:00.001-07:00

So, let's see...where to begin after taking such an extended hiatus?

Yawn.

Seen any good politics lately? Only in your dreams?

I can relate, but there are some high points since last I reported from the front lines of my life experience...and here we go...

So, in typical true-to-life fashion, after much debate I allowed peer influence to affect me into jumping through the hoops to get a medical cannabis card. It's one of those things I'd pondered in the past, but I'd largely forgotten about it in the same way I had forgotten about the whole drug war/medical marijuana debate as it didn't seem to affect my life. Nonetheless, at some point I signed up for the national chapter of NORML's Facebook page. I presume as an indirect result, a few weeks ago I was randomly befriended by Cheryl Shuman. Cheryl is an exceptional lady who just happens to be in the process of opening a Beverly Hills chapter of NORML beyond her other unique business endeavors...and as such makes a very interesting Facebook neighbor. Given the compelling and understanding nature of her story and apparent caliber as a human being, suddenly the 'Great California Medical Marijuana Debate' was brought to my attention...

...with a different face and story...

...and a few weeks later...

...here we are.

Me writing again if nothing else... Right? Write? I'm trying...

So, there I was, there I was, there I was with my appointment set for today, October 29th at 1:30. Showed up. Filled-out paperwork. Walked down really long hall of unoccupied offices to a very straightforward Asian doctor. Without the specific note from my normal primary care doctor he only gave me a three month clearance, but when I have it faxed over or bring it by I'll have a full year of legal protection for my $150. I also see why it's called the 'green rush' as so many businesses are suffering while others are making fortunes as fast as they can write. I guess one doesn't truly appreciate how much doctors and the healthcare system make unless you see a very basic grassroots model like that in action. And they take Medicaid.

No worries though. This pseudo-legal version appears far superior to the way 'the game' is run on the street. The more intelligent, responsible people you associate with something, the better the results are most likely going to be.

(sidebar)

Judge Gray's Argument

You'll be pleased to know the legal option and experience seems not only fairly reasonable ('cept maybe the price$ ;), but far superior, convenient, and easy. Not only having options, but having 'experts' give you simple suggestions seems like a brilliant approach to self-medicating. It just backs up all the points I've been making, but at the same time I do realize the legal paradox regarding profit from such endeavors.

Granted, one must realize that profit is just forced back onto the street if the operation is shut down, but I do see how they could totally be operating as serious money trees...and how that kind of cash flow could be considered criminal because it's so easy...and in a non-profit? When profit is being poured on by God and the human condition alone as the doctor's office line testified? Totally normal, harmless, Jay-Z-NASCAR loving people though. But seriously. How's that for common ground? lol Jay Z. Nascar. That would make a great alias. Well, at least on the flip side I don't think the model is driving anyone to marijuana or dangerous behavior, and it might be significantly improving the lives of otherwise law-abiding perfectly harmless citizens trying to escape the pain of everything from cancer to the just possibly man-made recession-grade terror. Which is a positive impact on society as far as I can see.

While I'm on the subject I'd like to also officially thank Obama for his generalized blanket protection regarding this matter. The catalyst can be debated, but the realization is profound.

It's amazing the difference a token cakewalk can make in helping people help themselves. No seriously. Sometimes a little advice, direction, and encouragement can go a long way. Other times a simple recommendation will do. In this case, either way it seems to have worked out for the better. So, as Elvis would say - Thank ya very muuuch!

More undoubtedly to follow...

The rest of the nonsense parade has been on Facebook as usual. Off-line I'm still juggling career directions while dreaming up satirically epic campaigns of one sort or another. After putting it off for a few months I finally decided to sell Pepe the BMW and managed to do so immediately upon trying. My life is funny like that. I put some things off thinking they will be a huge ordeal...and then it takes me much less effort than expected to do it. Hmmm... Helped my sister put together her new store in Malibu since last I wrote as well. Interesting. I must say it looks pretty cool though. She's calling it bLank. She said I'm free to design stuff and sell it there if I like, so throw one more option on the table of things I could, would, should and might be doing if I get around to it.

Alright, I guess that's enough. It's totally annoying and boring talking about myself, but I figure this is the closest thing I have to a diary...and I may as well at least make Cliff Notes of where and what I've been up to here and there.

The political rhetoric you might typically expect from me is frustrated by the only apparent option of choosing between what I believe to be several non-working options...but maybe I'm wrong and Stephen Colbert's lines of satirical truth are too.

God help us.

Well, at least today I saw one thing working in an improved way and can now benefit from it. Hopefully you were as lucky.

:)

- A -

Oh damn...Halloween is on Saturday eh? Ha. I just had an idea... I could go as a Canadian. Because I found it humorous my old boss dressed as a Canadian when he traveled to avoid airport security scrutiny. Meh. Alright, guess you had to witness it. Coaster is going as an Obama Zombie. I could go as a Tea Bagger holding a sign telling people to 'inform' the zombie about how their political beliefs are superior...but a Canadian seems easier. Wait. Don't have a Canada shirt. Nevermind. Back to the drawing board... K. I'm done for now.

WTF mates?

2009-10-04T18:48:00.000-07:00

End of Xe World

Carry on.

- A -

Auto-defaults.

2009-09-22T20:21:00.000-07:00

So it occurred to me there I was on Facebook preaching and running out of room in the 'What's on your mind?' box, then I remembered I had a blog for just such purposes.

Hey, I go through phases. I wonder if God designed behavior to default into that 'cycle' to test a range of options? Like the evolution of trial and error until an acceptable level of success and happiness is achieved.

The crazy part is, if you give me a box and the internet I'm set.

That says something - because imagine if every person on Earth adopted that mindset simultaneously.

Anywho, so life finds me watching the Daily Show and bitching about politics...but only through the observation that I haven't been paying attention to politics because apparently it's upset me that much. :(

Here's what inspired this entry:

was just upset by the realization I've become so disappointed by the condition of the political system in America I've just started 'blocking it out'/ignoring it. It's not like it's in my job description right? I must be more disenchanted with the media than I thought because Obama gave an interview to all major networks - and I'm only learning of it from the Daily Show. Yeah, that's the condition of history in the world today. Actually, that is the one cool thing about technology - it records a level of 'reality' unprecedented in the course of human evolution. History probably won't be nearly as romantic from this point on, but much better. The depth of human history being recorded now is exponentially more vivid in POV detail, and in diagramming how human groups interact. I think I need a political psychiatrist - I seem to feel disenfranchised - ooooh that stupid government bailout. The key question is, where are people going to vent that?

Nevermind. I'll blog about it...

_________

Tah dah!

See, I'm a man of my word.

;)

Now Colbert is on and they're making 'the second coming of Jesus jokes'...

...which makes me think of lyrics even rappers wouldn't pull...

Yawn.

Anywho, I'll spare us. The Daily Show got an Emmy over the Colbert Report?

Well, it's a free country.

Although I love the 'feel free to call to apologize' skit.

Dear business people, if you're going to advertise your web address while being exposed on a show as powerful as the Colbert Report, make sure your servers are up to the challenge ahead of time.

Just a PSA for future reference.

Interpret things allegorically if you wish.

Alright kids...go back to bed America, your government is in control again...

'night!

:)

- A -

Bonus! Cool song from back in the day.

Bonus 2! Same song with a different mix and cooler video.

The Grapevine

2009-09-21T13:35:00.000-07:00

Hello World!!!

Miss me?

I haven't written in awhile (thank you Captain Obvious)...errr...actually I have, I just haven't finished writing the entries and posting them so they are in the 'Drafts' folder with a whole bunch of other stuff...but anywho...

I've been back at the drawing board lately, but so far, so great... Instead of the TV route I'll be exploring the entrepreneurial route the next few months...so wish me luck!!!

Here is something one of my best friends from college, Alistair, just sent me. I presume he received it through the grapevine. Highly amusing to the point it makes me wonder what all my humorous thoughts would look like if I actually compiled them in one sheet...

Hmmm...well, perhaps one day.

Since I've apparently been too lazy/distracted to write lately, why not just cut and paste premium content until I get around to writing again?

And here it is...(random thoughts from the grapevine)

I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.

More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

I don't understand the purpose of the line, "I don't need to drink to have fun." Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they've invented the lighter?

Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase "Regards" again.

Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.

There is a great need for sarcasm font.

Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f*** was going on when I first saw it.

I think everyone has a movie that they love so much; it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.

How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.

A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.

Was learning cursive really necessary?

Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".

I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.

My brother's Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, "Cuz we beat you, and you hate us." Classy, bro.

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.

MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

Bad decisions make good stories.

Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!

Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?

If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.

Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from; this shouldn't be a problem....

You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.

There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

"Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.

I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'

While watching the Olympics, I find myself cheering equally for China and USA. No, I am not of Chinese descent, but I am fairly certain that when Chinese athletes don’t win, they are executed.

I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Darnit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.

I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...

As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.

I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

I think that if, years down the road when I’m trying to have a kid, I find out that I’m sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.

Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.

Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet my a$$ everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...

My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?

It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.

I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.

I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.

The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimate d that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There’s nothing like being made to feel like a fat b@st@rd before dinner.

________________

Additional cool/random stuff:

1.) Did you know Richard Branson is going to be in town next month? Sweet! One of my few role models! We won't have our business plan put together in time to submit it, but the conference looks cool nonetheless. Man, all I've ever dreamed of is creating a brand as successful as his... Well, it's never too late to start...

2.) If you have Facebook, check out this guy/group. And I only thought my plans to take over/save the world were something. George here has clearly put a lot of thought into something that even makes me go WTF? It is certainly quite impressive at any rate. If you don't have the Facebook, he is his blog: http://georgetbhua.blogspot.com/

3.) Save your life. If you happen to have the Facebook, then this is probably worth the $3 investment. Just calculate the amount of money this is worth in the context of your time/life invested. Feel free to tell you friends...but only the nice ones! ;) lol

4.) Additionally...nevermind, I'll save it for next time...

;)

Hope everyone has been having a wonderful life experience since we last spoke!

:)))

Carry on.

- A -

Lost in Space

2009-09-01T11:13:00.000-07:00

Don't you just love talking animals?

How about magic?

Sorry kids, the essays and nonsense have still predominately been confined to Facebook as of late, but I leave it wide open for a reason.

Have a Terrific Tuesday!

;)

- A -

Bonus!--> A really good speech I'm part way through watching.

The LCD is in sight.

2009-08-21T22:43:00.000-07:00

The 'Lowest Common Denominator' that is.

So, you know I've been tinkering with my whole '1' world branding plan since day one basically right? "Friends, 21st century Romans, Countrymen - lend me your ear or rent it out to me like a media voice-over set to pictures for varying amounts of time as needed..." That whole Alexander the Great meets Jesus plan for my '1'world umbrella religion? Oh, you don't know anything about that chapter? That's why I'll have to redo this as a book at some point. Anywho, the idea is an idealized world working conceptual model that's better than WTF is going on now...and that takes a universal key to solve.

Not the 'One Love' community per say...had never even really heard of or done much research into it, but it sounds cool...just not very sophisticated. The '1' World plan of mine to symbolically get everyone on the same page by making that page blank and my logo symbolize a mirror, allowing that person to paint their own personal beliefs onto it provided they document and understand where their beliefs come from...and where key others come from as well. First-hand understanding or the desire and willingness to experience it.

So, I've actually come up with some pretty profound schemes on things...which is something to work with even if my 'guardian angel' isn't exactly playing the role well.

God, if I can only start taking things more seriously and try a little bit...my designs are aimed on: TOP SECRET

;)

-✧-

P.S.

Here's an interesting piece of what I consider 'abstract poetry'. Now this is an interesting filter to apply to things... Very impressive Neil, whomever you are...

Subject: "Duality"

its okayyyy if
sometimes u see darkness
just remember it teaches us what light is
and how much we miss it
when the absence of presence
eternal resting place of all aquatic bodies
i am every and nobody
i know everything and nothing at all
i am hate and i am love
fear and trust
pain and bliss
love and lust
sex and a kiss
i AM what has been seen
what will always be
what will never become
the slumber of delirium
I AM the illusion of a reality that we think we are in
I AM the confusion of duality of war where no one truly wins
I AM the pollution of intellect and youth where we believe all we do is a sin
I AM the fusion of like minded souls who together will transcend
I AM spirituality and organized religion!!!
I AM the perception of consciousness manifested into this dimension!!!!!
I AM the lesson transcend fear and aggression achieve ascension!!!!
I AM the New World Order
I AM the world full of borders
testing my commitment to the recycled universe!!!!!
I AM loyal and I have betrayed
lied, killed, pillaged, loved, torchered...
hated, lusted, trusted, incarnated and nurtured...
all experiences... in these universes...
you and I are all of this
I AM the perfect circle... split by the white light
and twisted to form the infinite...
you see... I AM all that IS....

<3 achieve enlightenment for euphoric bliss

- neil

P.P.S. Watch out, ceiling cat is watching you!

P.P.S. Random bonus video!

The Tiger Theme...

2009-08-20T11:32:00.000-07:00

One of the most recent people I've befriended on Facebook is Telepathic Tiger. I reckon that's not his real name just like Allyn Tygrrr isn't mine...but since we have the same animal theme in common, it makes sense that we might have like minds in some regards.

Here's the list of quotes from his FB page...I thought it was cute...especially the little 'tiger face' he's created =^_^=. Points for creativity.

Favorite TV Shows

Do not adjust your set.... Black and white striping pattern is normal. Enjoy the show =^_^=

Favorite Quotations:

“Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”

“Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian”

“You handle depression in much the same way you handle a tiger.”

“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”

“When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.”

“In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.”

“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”

“Everyone needs a dog to adore him, and a tiger to bring him back to reality”

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”

“When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.

"It is better to have lived one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep." -- Tibetan proverb

"When tigers transform themselves into men, their tails do not change." -- Chinese proverb

"The one who tied the bell on the tiger can take it off." -- Chinese proverb

"Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs." -- Chinese proverb

"There is no off switch on a tiger." - Proverb

"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount." -- Chinese proverb

"Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given him wings." -- Indian proverb

"Tigers do not need monarchy. The Tiger lives in a world where power and beauty are king and queen..." -Telepathic Tiger

"Children of light, don't become blind, experience a little darkness and let your eyes adjust. there is nothing to fear only mystery and understanding. Love yourselves and become one with all of nature..." -Telepathic Tiger

________________

"Admire the stripes, just mind the claws." -Me

OK, so I just made that up and it's not that great...but meh, I tried...and I actually wrote something today!

(2 points)

"My, what sharp claws you have!"

"That's why I'm so very careful about who gets to pet me my Dear."

;)

- AES -

One way to explain the coincidences...

2009-08-17T15:51:00.000-07:00

Intelligence Unit
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What is Holistic Quantum Relativity?

Dear Friends

Since many of you have asked for a simple explanation of HQR, this is an attempt at providing it, with apologies for errors and omissions.

Let us take a table. What is it essentially made of? Wood on the surface and underlying that... what? Nothing! Why? Let us examine the wood under a powerful electron microscope. What is it made of? Carbon and hydrogen atoms amongst other types connected to each other with what? Vast open spaces... What are the carbon atoms made of? A nucleus and polarised charge clouds with electrons etc and... what? Vast open spaces... What is the nucleus made of? Sub-atomic particles and... what? Vast open spaces!

Beyond the 1920s we referred to the nucleus as a collection of protons and neutrons enveloped by an electron charge cloud and step by step we have put so many designer labels on the sub-parts -- sub-nuclear particles -- that at last count there were at least 100+ different names for such particles and growing!

Now, as we go deeper... and observe: the sub-atomic particles -- all flavours -- are just forms of packet (Quantum) energy connected with each other as Happenings, ie, "Haps" manifest as pulsating particles or waves depending on how we look at them or don't! [Heisenberg ist wunderbar!]

The "Haps" are the sequence in which the entire universe connects to create a grand story, yes, the illusion of duality, which when looked at holistically is all just One space-time continuum of energy, which can be expressed as a grand manifestation of light or cosmic vibration simultaneously appearing and disappearing as matter, based on the illusory lens of observation set at simultaneous multiple planes of consciousness! No wonder, at first glance, it makes no sense. It confuses, disturbs and we end up worrying! No need to worry, at all!

What is HQR suggesting in a nutshell?

We ignore micro- and macro- connections and connectivity at our peril because this is the entire universe! The more we are able to connect people, events, places, stories, facts, fiction, things etc we re-create haps in our mind-spirit matrix as neural networks and then step by step, everything appears connected and Holistic via imaginative associations. The past, present and future merge into one when imagination triumphs over logic and the creative spark overtakes the mundane banality of our tedium-inspired illusory entrapment!

Holos is not just "Whole", it is essentially about recognising perfection: Why? The so called good, bad and ugly do not exist but only do so in the duality of our mind's perception. Holistically, all is there for a perfectly valid reason or completely not there for a perfectly valid reason manifest as Synchronicity! Perfectly timed, perfectly placed, perfectly connected!

If we were to revisit the original 30+ HQR Socratic dialogues what we would find is that even these humble thoughts have been expressed within them. Everything is connected with everything else and that is the "Grand Narrative" of our existence. Once we are able to recognise the Quantum nature of Energy, the Relativity of our existence suspended in an illusory -- disconnected -- duality of the mind (an entrapment) and that our true essence, the spirit, is Holistic and no different from the Cosmic Origin of the entire universe and beyond -- The Supra Universal Consciousness -- we are then able to recognise that Holistic Quantum Relativity = Spirit Mind Connectivity.

Within the dynamic HQR of our trinitised existence: The Father is the Supra Universal Consiousness (Divine and Primordial Awareness at all Eight planes); The Son is the Universal Consciousness (Director of Mental Awareness at Three lower planes); and The Holy Ghost is the Consciousness (Individual Spirit or Soul's Awareness entrapped at a restricted number of lower planes or a single plane depending on Gravity of attachment).

The moment the Spirit recognises that it is none other than a part of the Supra Universal Consciousness and acts as such, the duality imposed by the mental faculties is removed step by step. There is a rich narrative of connectivity going all the way back to creation put together Holistically with perfection, Quantised by Time and Energy, and then re-presented as Relativity as a Space-Time Continnum connected across multiple planes, which we cannot externally visualise as ONE, but only in our within and then alone via our "Rising Consciousness" that:

"Yes! We are indeed all One-in-All and All-in-One!"

[ENDS]

. ONE Creator.Name Truth.Sole Doer.Fears None.Without Hate.Never Dies.Beyond Birth-Death.Self-illuminated.Realised by Master's Grace.Ever True! - Mula Mantra (Root Chant)

To witness the One-in-All, and the All-in-One! To listen, learn and love!

Love

DK and Family

To connect directly with:

. DK Matai: http://twitter.com/DKMatai

. Open HQR: http://twitter.com/OpenHQR

. ATCA Open: http://twitter.com/ATCAOpen

. @G140: http://twitter.com/G140

. mi2g: http://twitter.com/intunit

All "Early Morning Thoughts!" can be found at The Holistic Quantum Relativity Group: http://ow.ly/7wb6

Friends in Low Places...

2009-08-16T14:00:00.000-07:00

So there I was wandering aimlessly around the Facebook as usual last night when I stumbled across this.

Now then, crazy as it sounds, it gave me an idea...

What if we could set up a U.N. organization that makes microloans to citizens of developing countries directly from the World Bank?

Basically the sane thing Kiva is doing, but on the ultimate international, goodwill, 'save the world' level.

I sounds crazy, but if I ran the world...9/10 of the problems I see could easily be fixed. On a slightly related note...WTF is this?

Do other countries have this same problem with such low-intellectual performance meeting such socially destructive lustful behavior?

How's that working out? Granted, it tortures me just to read the back of L.A. Weekly or watch porn and see people whoring themselves out...but come the fuck on. Really?

Boss King? Really?

Brace yourselves...then read this.

Then watch this. (If you already have, just re-watch it as needed until it sinks in.)

I realize none of these are technically my problems to worry about, but when I see glaring problems...because they are blatantly thrown in from of me, I typically automatically start devising solutions whether I want to or not...and between the crap getting thrown at me on TV and the crap getting thrown in front of me on Facebook and online...God help me...and since God is 'us'...I think we can do better as a species.

If you were God, what would you do? Count on the monkey-like humans in high places to solve the problems? With the way the current system is designed? It is literally not the 'leaders' job to actually worry about saving the future of human civilization on this planet, noooo...they are too worried about money.

The irony of course is they already have so much of it compared to most they should be ashamed for behaving so selfishly...but that's not most human behavior, and in the meantime the current ruling system is designed to condition the opposite human behavior.

Sigh.

Meh.

Well, I figured I'd throw it out there.

I've already started dreaming up my '1' branding campaign...how long it will take to make reality match the 'visionary' '1'?...that I can't tell you.

Sorry for getting sidetracked by the girl...I thought she might have been sent as the catalyst/fuel for my 'ideological rocket' I built over the last few years...but between her reality and mine and the Facebook 'interference'...I don't even know what to believe at this point.

In other political news I haven't been paying attention to...

Healthcare reform?

Yeah, we need it.

Breeding licenses?

Yeah, we need them.

F*ck it...use my own family as an example. Hanging out with my half-sister and her offspring yesterday underscored that point in a frightening way. It's nothing personal, it's just, she should NOT have had kids in the context she did...and watching the domino effect of f*cked up parental role models and circumstance is hard for someone like me to watch.

Bringing kids into this world in a non-stable environment should be a crime...but instead we actually reward the f*cked up behavior and welcome more problems into our society with things like welfare. I'm not saying we shouldn't have compassion for our fellow humans, I'm saying we should have the upmost compassion for them and the rest of society by designing and implementing intelligent rules that encourage and reward the 'right', responsible behavior...not the 'other' WTF shit I see far too often.

I wonder if and how much the government has supported 'Boss King' in his lifetime...that's where I start asking questions about where we are as a society outside of the relatively-insulated class system.

There are so many amazing and 'normal', kind, hard-working, loving people in the world...why do we continue to tolerate such f*cked up behavior from some?

It's all relative...but just watch...with Google-type technology I'll be able to measure and graph this shit one day...and maybe the world will wake up and take evasive action before it's too late and we've crossed a very ugly tipping point.

Hope everyone is having a Super Sunday!

Talk to some people...get back to me.

Carry on.

;)

- AES -

P.S. While driving to the beach this morning I passed a crowd of people in a park adjacent from the beach. They were surrounding a statue of Mary standing in what appeared to be a sea shell. I thought, wow, that's interesting. I wish I could believe in things that completely only make sense in an imaginary way too. And it once again dawned on me that the modern-day human condition is ironically still one of MASS DELUSION dating back millenniums. Talk about living in the Dark Ages. I've been tortured by this understanding and my church experience as a child my entire life. It imposed a moral belief system that I actually believed in...only to experience other people using it as complete hypocrites. Then realizing the entire storyline is completely insane but believed by so many in the world... But insane compared to what? Yeah, I know. Crazy people and b.s. everywhere in God's name when God = The Truth? How unholy is that? What's the point? Where is reason? Where is logic? Where is honesty? Where is understanding the world in which you are blessed enough to live? Can we not mix believing in some 'Divine Power' with a bit more common sense? Just so I can have a 'group belief option' or two that don't test my sanity? Jesus says hi. Can we seriously not do much better? I can.

P.P.S. Bonus blast from the past to add some REAL light to the conversation. Push the button --> 'X' Now all we need do is analyze peoples' words and in comparison to the reason they say them.

P.P.P.S. Bonus bonus. --> 'V' Something I stumbled across while searching for that previous article I referenced.

Addendum: Damn. See, I told you so.

Lose Your Fear etc.

2009-08-15T23:37:00.000-07:00

Went and watched my sister's band 'Lose Your Fear' play in Venice Beach this evening...

It was interesting. They are actually kinda good though. Hmmmm...

This is just a thought marker to remind myself to recant the story later on for the autobiography.

Nothing too thrilling, but it's cool to get out amongst the crowds once in awhile.

Safely home. Being mature and low-key, just chilling at the house on a Saturday evening in my state of Zen as usual.

Miss me?

You know the story.

I'll be around...

;)

- AES -

Like...

2009-07-30T18:54:00.000-07:00

What time machine?

;)

Carry on.

+AES

Don't let 'em say...

2009-07-22T16:04:00.000-07:00

...you ain't beautiful...

Alright, so it looks like Eminem's new album might have merit to it after all...

What I listened to before, with the exception of 'We Made You', didn't impress me...but I like this.

In other news...

So where have I been?

Errr...ummmm...Facebook?

(facepalm)

Meh.

I'm learning a lot of random stuff if nothing else. Will it help me conquer/'save' the world?

Mmmmm...errrrr...well, it's kind of one of those 'save the world in your own mind' kind of belief systems I think...which obviously isn't all bad...but, just like church, it does make one wonder where the preaching meets reality. lol

So far, so good though. No, seriously, the entire storyline is incredibly dumb in one regard...but if it happens to work out...then it's fairytale-kind-of-dumb and that's mad cool.

Sue me.

So lets see...the global political scene I'm supposed to still be giving a f*ck about? (sigh) The number that scrolled across the bottom of my screen the other day was 27.x Trillion.

Wow. In truly comical form the way everything else fits into the story perfectly...what a pathetic way to introduce the news of capitalist Armageddon.

You know kids...with all due respect...WTF?

WTF? Who the f*ck taught you how to design a pyramid? You're pyramid looks a bit more pointy than the symbolism would otherwise indicate. I'm just saying...

Heard any good jokes lately?

Why did Allen go to get his passport renewed?

Because it doesn't expire until the end of April 2012...but for some reason I thought it expired this year and had unknowingly altered would-be travel plans b/c of it...

Whoopsy!

WTF Allen?

I know!!!!

I told ya'll my head has been in the clouds lately.

Well...you can thank Stella for that.

Sorry...I'm easily distracted.

But yeah, everything else is great...

Hope all is well with you as well...

Wow...my writing has really suffered huh? Well...as long as it really isn't all pivotal in...

...I assume everyone knows where I stand and why by now anyway...

Carry on.

+AES

The Esoteric Catalyst.

2009-07-11T23:14:00.000-07:00

So I spent today (Saturday) helping my friend Bron screen his movie to theoretically understand how much work has to be done behind stuff to make it a success...

Which got me thinking...

Anyway, it was cool. Got to see a side of downtown L.A. and and element of the 'urban subculture' that I had never paid close attention to before.

Apparently he's big time in an underground street artist-kind of way within certain circles.

Here's another name for one of my clothing brands --> Secretly famous.

The slogan could be "How high does this thing go?"...and then every time it goes so much higher...whatever it is.

It's just a 'brand concept'...add it to the list...

So, how many lives have you saved lately?

Oh, you didn't realize we were keeping score? Oh, my bad, I thought life was just one huge, funny, quirky test like that?

You know, I watched some interesting documentaries and...(facepalm)...

Damnit, it just occurred to me I've been updating Facebook instead of writing in a more valuable style about my misadventures in life. You know what my problem is?

I'm bored but need 'mentor-type' instruction to hone my ideas into something of a non-stop rain of dumb but occasionally profound ideas and observations on the internets. lolz OMG!

Genius!

I just figured it out...I'm going to start a lol catz religion just to be a smartass. If I remember tomorrow, which I won't, but if I were a TV writer I could probably throw that idea on the table in sarcastic fashion...and then start deconstructing everything from there.

The 'lol cat' God says.....and then insert whatever point it is you're trying to argue.

I keep telling you, I'm right, and when I'm around smart people...they usually agree with me...

I'm just saying--I think a lot...so I understand many sides of things. It can be a blessing and a curse. Well...let's see...where were we...

Calling it a night, because this was just a token entry to try and remind myself what I'm supposed to be doing again...

Here, watch these:

(I don't agree 100% because Mr. Dawkins overestimates people from his own 'genius-type' perspective...that's a key oversight my life is a testament to.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 3.+ (for perfect timing see Facebook)

IDEA cat...

;)

+AES

Bonus! --> Part 4

It went well.

2009-07-10T18:12:00.000-07:00

I got a tour and a t-shirt!

The rest of life is bright as well.

Carry on.

;)

+AES

Uh oh.

2009-07-09T19:06:00.000-07:00

Bad Allen!

Not well trained!!!

lololol

Yeah, I've been writing 'lol' in my missives a lot more lately...but I think it's actually become some form of 'slang punctuation' not necessarily 'Laughing Out Loud'. That's what CAPS are for. (smirk)

So, where was I...oh yes, re-directing my vision away from the Facebook content stream and helpless desire to interact with my kindergarten-level knowledge and esoteric storyline of experience and epic vision...chasing my tail, chasing my tail, chasing my tail...

But it's just a 'holding pattern'. ;)

In other news, life seems to be fine relatively speaking. It's nice to be at peace with it. I actually posted a picture of my current environment on Facebook today, so hell has officially frozen over.

In case you didn't get the memo...

It's been an interesting 30 days. Up to and including planning on taking my motorcycle to the interview tomorrow instead of my car. Fun times in the city...

Pray for me.

vOm.

;)

+AES

My Bad.

2009-07-06T17:32:00.000-07:00

Sorry world...my head has been 'in the clouds' lately in case it wasn't fairly obvious by the night/day difference in my behavior patterns. ;)

Anywho, so where was I/were we?

Oh yes, the world is going to hell in a hand basket with all our eggs in it...

Well, no, actually I have my interview with Current lined up for Friday at noon.

Wish me luck! (and spread some magic my way!)

Other than that...ummm...errr...grrr...

It's hard to explain, because we do not yet have enough factual information to explain things in detail. The 'reflection' thing? Ummm...well, that of course depends on her...the jury is still out. I could tell you the story, but then I'd have to pull you into that whole 2012 and holonomic brain theory debate which strangely enough is now either directly or indirectly associated with the U.N. until I get some more detailed responses as to exactly where the lines are being drawn.

The only problem with games/perspectives like that is it allows one to easily confuse things as well as providing an engaging degree of entertainment and escapism... Sounds familiar huh? You have been paying attention to your TV haven't you? lolol Then again, if you think the God of the bible is responsible for the physical Sun literally 'rising and falling' everyday...we need to have a talk anyway.

And you only thought it was a crazy world...

But as long as everyone is happy and not hurting anyone else to be so, everything is OK.

Don't ask. It's a short but relatively long story that could be amazingly life changing for the better, embarrassingly disappointing for the worse, or end up completely neutral but possibly helpful anyway.

Dude, that's what happens when you let the world get so fooked up that entire countries are 'military states' and the only other options are a sanity-twisting hodgepodge of witnessing pain and suffering from various degrees of insulated luxury or getting past my intense idealized-future-and-self-preservation-aligned scrutiny.

(Yes, I am totally grabbing random things, the true story obviously lies between the lines.)

If you had the international platform and resources some people do... It's somewhat surprising they invest so much time but don't invest time more directly and intelligently towards the ultimate goal. Taking tours of the problem isn't the solution, taking first-hand tours to understand and design a new, better, and complete solution is.

I hate to say it, but I think the problem really isn't that complicated when you cut the bullshit.

So, let's see...now if I remember correctly....what's going on in the world of consequence despite the death of "celebrities"? God, what the fuck is wrong with you monkeys? Does it occur to you, if our society wasn't allowed to come to this fucked up point, it wouldn't be at this fucked up point?...and yet the argument I hear from everyone is that 'compared to the rest of the world'...

WTF? No, seriously, WTF?

Indulgence is one thing. Blind indulgence is something else.

So they are more wrong and therefore that makes us relatively right? Hey, I understand the logic completely, but what the fuck every happened to people like me who say 'fuck everyone else, I'm holding myself to a higher standard'? They get disappointed a lot by other people's reality, but you have to be above it to think like that in the first place. It's all about perspective. Rise above.

Trust me, it beats the circle of rationalization I was enduring from Coaster this weekend. Smart people with a case to make are interesting creatures to watch though. Everyone loves to have their cake and eat it too...but I don't have that luxury...because I treat others as I would like to be treated. Hmmm...don't suppose you've heard of that concept lately?

Don't get me wrong, there are lots of good people in the world...and everyone has good and less-good in various percentages...but all that matters to me is that people are honest and forthcoming with me if I ask them to be. I promise them amnesty in exchange for the truth, and then I write it off and stand by my word. Then you're right back to where you started but at least dealing with complete reality.

I trust me. I can prove myself. If you're a complete stranger with a red flag or two around I don't trust you. Can you prove your character is trustworthy? Isn't that par for the course when it comes to love and war? Baby.

Don't trust words. Trust actions. Allow an explanation of intent if need be.

That said, well, at least it looks like I'm writing while tip-toeing my way towards writing or performing professionally again.

Yawn. Oh yes, I haven't turned on the TV yet today and haven't watched it too much for the last few...so this could be interesting especially because of all the shit I've been talking about international politics lately.

I sincerely wish we could bump the median IQ up 30 points and create a specific 'cookie cutter' model to balance the population to the world's geography in an idealized way...but we haven't hit critical mass yet. I mean, sure, you can just continuing letting the shit breed faster than you can feed it...or you can start creating a system of more intelligent rewards and restrictions.

Are any of these my problems? No, I just volunteered my mind. I can walk away from this whole 'designs on saving the world' thing and live happily in my 'normal life' forever as well...but it does make for unique fun on a level you would have to experience to understand.

And on that note I'm going to catch up with my 'other world' on TV and try to start reprogramming my behavior back to this format instead of Facebook. It just occurred to me there are currently three distinct 'realities' at play. My normal life in 3D, Facebook which is an interesting combination of friendly strangers and real-life friends, and 'TV land' where the writers and producers mix a blur of entertainment and reality...'feedback loop' optional. Interesting.

God some things are SO addictive.

Yay technology!!!!!!

;)

+AES

P.S. Hey, check it out... Remember how I've been whining and complaining about the way people misuse the word 'love'("luv") so much in our society for as long as you've known me? Well, interestingly enough, I looked it up the other day and realized the English language might actually be the weak link as much as some peoples' super, sappy, sweet everyday dialog. It's an interesting read --> ♡

P.P.S. Don't worry, this one was supposed to be completely random for my own purposes of reanalyzing at a later date. I like to keep track of myself like that. Don't worry, if it makes it into book/movie form much less world history, I'll go back and fill in the blanks. ;)

P.P.P.S. But, this I can buy.

The Proverbial Boom.

2009-07-04T21:12:00.000-07:00

Happy 4th of July America!

Completely? unrelated but cool song/video. vOm.

How's that working out for ya?

Not allegorical enough?

What Yellow where?

lolz

I'll be back.

;)

+AES

Not-so-bad advice.

2009-07-02T17:23:00.000-07:00

Courtesy of Facebook 'friends'...

When you love yourself you are being selfless*

Energy is such an interesting concept. When people are happy there is an electric exciting energy in the air. When children are carefree and curious there is an innocent and delicate energy in the air. As we move into the summer, remember to take time to feel the energy around you and to come alive with it. Maybe it is you that is causing this rich fun energy. Go with that energy no matter what other energies cross your path. This healing energy illuminates the world and aborts all forms of darkness, sadness and suffering.

The animals know this energy as they are naturally aware of it. Children are aware of it, the universe is this energy. As we expand as a species we begin to realize that this is our path as a whole. Our path as human beings is to love as a whole no matter what. To not choose fear, not be tainted by hate and to move into higher levels of consciousness. For some this is a tall order but for others this is the only reality- the reality we are in now*

Maybe you are witnessing this lit up energy around you. Whatever way you are feeling this magical energy know that it is no mistake that you are feeling it. You are feeling this divine energy for a reason. You were born to experience joy, manifest abundance and have ecstatic pleasures. It is all the same, positive energy, no matter if it's coming from you or other beings is it's own energy force and part of the whole.

Connect with your God/Goddess energies for a moment. Tap into them, take your time~ What are they telling you in this particular moment. Are these energies happy or sad. Do they need more attention and love or are they feeling content with the attention you have given them? Continue to give the God/Goddess energies your attention, love and care. When you feel them crying out to be heard, listen to there cries. Just like your soul, your God and or Goddess needs to be heard and understood.

Are you taking enough time to connect with your body? Are you taking enough time to connect with your spirit? By creating an awareness of some of the needs you might have both physically and spiritually you begin to create levels of healing that on some level you new were possible, however now you see they are. Also, mentally- are you ok? Are you able to express yourself to someone who cares? Are you happy or sad.... do you take vitamins, have a doctor...

Being aware that your healing process can be accelerated by checking in with the body, checking in with the spirit you realize that there is so much more to life than errands and bills. Yes, these things do need to get done but if the fine tuning within the soul is overlooked as well as the body, you better believe you will be out of balance and most likely develop some kind of ailment.

The universe is in perfect harmony and wants you to be the same way. Thank yourself for checking in with your body and your spirit. Lay down and take in a nice deep breath~ hold it and release through the mouth~ Do this another 3-6 times this evening. Soothing energy~ As you lay down realize that you are not your thoughts. You have the power to shape your life into anything you want it to be. The thoughts you have do attract what comes into your life as The Secret describes so beautifully.

Give yourself the gift of a 10-20 minute meditation as you unwind from your day. You are here to love yourself and love other beings. As you get up to sit in your meditation (set your timer) hold a stone or two you desire for your meditation. Slowly realizing: I am not my thoughts of the day, I am not my thoughts ever. The thoughts I have do attract what I want and don't want. I have the power to change my life by my positive, loving and healing thoughts. I am not my thoughts of the evening. I am a being of light and as I move deeper and deeper into my expanding awareness I connect with my higher self, my higher power. Love, oneness, eternity, divinity, grace, healing and
protection, unity, peace of mind, serenity, bliss and ecstasy*

Namaste,
Sarah

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Don't you just love the asterisk*?

* = lol

;)

+AES

Thank You Stephen...

2009-06-30T19:07:00.001-07:00

...and Company.

I like retroactive entertainment that blurs the line like that. Stellar genius guys.

Don't worry, I'll explain that quote's origins in the future if need be in case everyone isn't following my every whisper on Facebook...which is where I track myself openly...as if there is anyone reading this blog that doesn't know of my Facebook whereabouts...as if there is anything I say or do worth reading...

Way over due.

http://www.facebook.com/wayoverdue

But the question is, had I not double-linked it, how many of you would have ever noticed the screen name? That wouldn't mean it wasn't there right?

(insert God-like entertainment/comedy)

Exactly.

;)

Jeff Goldblum is dead.

Well, at least is seems certain like minds felt the MJ 'blanket' was a bit too much more important than other current events in world history...

But tell them what they've won Allen...

Ummm...we won't even go into political ideology land tonight.

:)

There. Happy?

Ohhh...how cute, I retract the claws all diplomatic like because I really want to see the world succeed...and damn, man, you know...being me, it's tough to look around the world and be okay with it, because I have a tendency to try and 'solve' the problems others seem to prefer ignoring.

That is not a sustainable model children. Model the story, then make it a happy one while still trying to end up where it needs to end up. I can't even imagine looking back on this in 10 years, because when I look back on my life in any past context I start laughing my ass off.

(sigh)

+AES

P.S. Guess what I learned how to do today? ✧

P.P.S. Can we have a talk about role models? Why is that Allen?

Resonate Frequencies

2009-06-28T11:56:00.000-07:00

Now this is more like it.

I like the video transition effects.

Been finding all kinds of cool stuff lately.

http://goldring.wetpaint.com/page/Solar+Transmissions

Om.

lol

;)

+AES

P.S. Thank you media/God for turning the news back to 'normal' today. Things are feeling more sane again. If you consider the current state of world affairs sane. I'm not sure how that's possible all things considered, but isn't it nice to know there seems to be a pretty serious force of good in the world too?

MJ and the Media...

2009-06-26T23:18:00.000-07:00

Not well-trained.

Seriously, WTF?

Fine, cover Michael Jackson's death, but at least hide some stuff in between the lines to make it interesting. Oh, you are, because we give a f*ck that Michael was on drugs not about the thousands of others that can be saved or those that survived such tragic conditions?

I mean wow. Unless something dramatically good comes from this...why must we waste so many resources?...ugh, the market based demographics are going to be the death of society. Something about Rome the circus and bread....except the best we can do is this and whatever 'circus' Britney's got going on with the midget porn dude?

Wow, that's what I call a high-class role model. It makes one wonder what kind of society idolizes false idols for profit and then idolizes the process itself like it's normal human behavior.

Is it? A controllable one though.

Seriously what a crazy paradox. I'm not a clinical psychologist, but I think the fame/attention made Michael Jackson regress...big time. I knew some guys in my old acting class who were completely badass dancers...and they had all been to Michael's ranch and seemed to have some inside joke about it. I'm pretty sure they were all gay/bisexual...but I never asked straight-up and didn't want to know more.

Strange world. I'm surprised they interviewed Al Sharpton but not Katt Williams about Michael's death. Hmmm... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h1euQKJsr4&feature=related

Let's see, what else is new? What do you mean you don't know? Well, I've kind of turned Facebook into my diary anyway. (Yawn.)

Yes, I know.

So, what needs to be done by what time in order for planet Earth to have a future?

We can't kill the living planet, but it would be nice if we stopped trying so hard.

Inefficiency isn't pretty.

All you need is love...at least spiritually. Errr...and trust. And food and shelter I suppose...ohhhh...but that leads us back to pointing out the gross inefficiencies in our society. Can we afford to continue living this way? For how long? Can I get a deadline just to be safe? http://c89b645e.seriousfiles.com/ Just watch over and over until it sinks in.

It's easy to do nothing, but I would like to do something in the right direction instead. Luckily we're slowly starting to fire on all cylinders again...although typing with one finger at the moment.

Hmmm...

Well, it is what it is...which is getting much closer to perfection from barely still giving a fuck like I have been designing it to for a lo-o-ong time. Go me. At least our society still seems to give a damn and look up to nice guys like MJ as well as the self-glorified 'thugs' like Tupac.

(facepalm)

What's most frightening is the turnout Michael Jackson's death pulls, but that 'presence' is completely absent in so many seemingly much more worthy endeavors and causes. It's a junk food society, the signs are everywhere. Literally.

On a brighter note...

I liked Jack Nicholson's yellow 'No Fear' hat I saw when flipping channels through TMZ earlier. Total flashback to when I got my first car that I was so damn proud of...I put a color-coordinated 'No Fear' sticker on the back window...BUT...I picked that up in California and put in on my car back in Texas...where no one had ever heard of No Fear yet...but it caught up with everyone else eventually. I'm cool before it's cool to be cool because I don't give a fuck about trying to be cool anymore. My life runs in funny patterns like that.

'night kids!

;)

+AES

P.S. Footnote--> Although after watching an MSNBC special on MJ about his childhood, I feel REALLY bad for the guy. Watching him spend millions of dollars on ridiculous vases seems almost like he's trying to fill some other voids. Oh well. R.I.P. Mike. Any faults he had seemed to be the result of circumstance as much as anything else.

Solidarity.

2009-06-24T08:26:00.000-07:00

Well, I have to give Facebook credit for putting my ideas into action for me. Will it gain steam? Probably not enough without the media. We'll see.

The random idea of mine:
(Select comments from the conversation on an Iranian man's status updates which can be found here by scrolling down to the 7:31 p.m. entry on 6/23/9. Watching this guy's posts will also give you a first-person perspective of Iran on the ground.)

Allen Simpson at 9:16pm June 23
They should symbolically get picked up by other teams somehow.

Kylie Cox at 9:19pm June 23
how? doesn't one need to be a citizen of a country to be eligible to play for their national team?

Allen Simpson at 9:23pm June 23
No, I was thinking teams from other countries should wear the green armbands in support of the principles being expressed that got the players fired.

Could other teams literally pick them up? I have no clue, but that just illustrates how silly the world is.

Pantea Love at 11:12pm June 23
PLEASE SIGN PETITION TO PRESENT TO FIFA AND THE REMAINING TEAMS in the World Cup qualifiers to wear GREEN WRISTBANDS to show support for these PLAYERS.
PLEASE SIGN

http://apps.facebook.com/petitions/view?pid=116046082

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You gotta love that eh? When in doubt just pickup the idea and run with it.

Sorry I haven't been writing lately guys...since it's just a hobby unfortunately I don't approach it as a job, which means I can disappear for days like the SC governor and just assume no one notices. There is quite a bit from me all over Facebook though.

Sign the petition, get it announced on the news, fight the war symbolically.

Have a Wonderful Wednesday!

;)

+AES

The Prophecy.

2009-06-19T18:14:00.000-07:00

It's not like I choose to have things appear in the order they do to me in my life, they just do...almost as perfectly as they had been envisioned, actually more so because they are imperfect but perfect in spirit. Spirit is important.

My spirit has a tendency to seriously over-estimate people, but the catch is, it could be argued it's not me, I was just around the wrong types of people.

Now then, we all know more or less all I've been asking for is essentially a female version of myself, like a mirror of my soul to talk to right? Well, here in Los Angeles, those things are conditioned to be few and far between, so it's really no wonder I said "fuck it, I'm not wasting my time because all I do is get distracted and look where that's led me." and decided to focus on my career completely instead first.

(facepalm)

That's alright, cause this is still about spinning clock-wise finally.

;)

Let's just say I've been having a lot more positive influence in my life on a spiritual level lately...although I haven't been completely productive career-hunting-wise, well, it's been interesting because I've written more this week than I have in a very long time...and yet no real new posts from me? Just some links... Hmmm...

But, whether real or not, if you reverse-engineered the story using some of the things in the Law of Attraction much less the whole 2012 symbolic event of some kind...well, for the story to unfold as it is, it sounds like something Disney wrote...which works fine for me.

It's like hey, give me someone to talk to who's almost on my level even if that is out of centerfield at this point in time. It is simply a 'filter' that can be applied.

Like the color yellow, but you make it symbolize what's right.

And the internet has a funny way of making that happen automatically.

Go internets! Even if things sometimes seem to fit too perfectly together.

Here's something I received in my Facebook inbox, I haven't read it all yet, but I will after I post this and then step back and analyze life through that 'prism' to point out what's real and what's not, but where it is safe to jump between the two.

It's no different than being religious, group influenced delusional beliefs, but to what end those beliefs extend should not be taken any more literally than the characters in the book...to which I would also like to point out...

Who here knows what the word allegory means?

100 Quotes from "The Secret"

And my responses below each.

1. We all work with one infinite power

Existence is nothing but energy.

2. The Secret is the Law of Attraction (LOA)

The Secret is painting coincidence in a certain way.

3. Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting

It's what you are living in 'parallel' with in your reality.

4. We are like magnets - like attract like. You become AND attract what you think

Lucky me. Who do I thank?

5. Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy

Wow has this been an interesting week for thought frequency.

6. People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same

God the news is garbage compared to all the positive stuff online.

7. Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation

Damn I'm good.

8. You attract your dominant thoughts

The coincidences are inescapable sometimes.

9. Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc..

Yes, now the 'parallel' existence that is 'spirit' in your mind will think a lot less 'ill' thoughts when not trapped in an 'ill-thought-inducing' real environment.

10. It's not "wishful" thinking.

2012

11. You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it

(enter the color Yellow)

12. Choose your thoughts carefully .. you are a masterpiece of your life

And what a masterpiece it is.

13. It's OK that thoughts don't manifest into reality immediately (if we saw a picture of an elephant and it instantly appeared, that would be too soon)

Well, is quickly as is reasonably possible makes sense though.

14. EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted .. accept that fact .. it's true.

Did I attract my parents before I was born to them?

15. Your thoughts cause your feelings

But your feelings can cause your thoughts more.

16. We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.

No. You need to deconstruct where the 'triggers' come from and modify behavior routines accordingly.

17. Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.

It's like night and day.

18. Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming

That's not the first time I heard perfect reflection this week. Strange.

19. You get exactly what you are FEELING

Guess?

20. Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances

And the meaning of life is Happiness.

21. You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song

Thank you Jesus!

22. What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience

Where the material world meets human spirit and imagination. Calibers vary.

23. What you think and what you feel and what actually manifests is ALWAYS a match - no exception

There are at least 2 or 3 ways to look at things, it depends on which perspective one takes, but yes, that is an option that can been seen as clear and present.

24. Shift your awareness

To what specifically if not best practices towards a specific goal?

25. "You create your own universe as you go along" Winston Churchill

You're reading about at least a small fraction of it this very second.

26. It's important to feel good ( ( ( (((good))) ) ) )

I'm always happy but yet I can envision being even happier.

27. You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience

Or else you can sit there telling yourself that all day even though it doesn't work because that's the difference between thoughts and emotions...but you can be distracted.

28. When you get the hang of this, before you know it you will KNOW you are the creator

And if I was wayyy ahead of you to begin with?

29. Life can and should be phenomenal .. and it will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction

It was before, but it can be more so.

30. Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly

Mind-boggling coincidences and proactive intent can do wonders for circumstance.

31. Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that.... "

I am so happy and grateful now that there are so many things worth believing in.

32. You don't need to know HOW the universe is going to rearrange itself

But if you can understand how you think it rearranges itself it probably wouldn't hurt.

33. LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW

Find the positive in negatives through learning and then set inspiring examples.

34. You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster

If you're around me you might get rained on by them every day.

35. The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt..

Oh.

36. When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT

Did the Secret Law of Attraction really just tell me to act impulsively?

37. You will attract everything you require - money, people, connections.. PAY ATTENTION to what's being set in front of you

Perfect. (answer continued from above question and answer)

38. You can start with nothing .. and out of nothing or no way - a WAY will be provided.

Please open sesame?

39. HOW LONG??? No rules on time .. the more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen

Oh, that little technicality.

40. Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's what you wish) We make the rules on size and time

Then I prefer abundance.

41. No rules according to the universe .. you provide the feelings of having it now and the universe will respond

Om. lol

42. Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing (bills in the mail, being late, having bad luck...etc..)

You don't say?

43. You have to find a different approach to what is through a different vantage point

And you have a myriad of options.

44. "All that we are is a result of what we have thought" - Buddha

And all that we feel is the same.

45. What can you do right now to turn your life around?? Gratitude

Pick up my equivalent of the Bible.

46. Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately

Thank you.

47. What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about

Thank you for the kindness of your spirit, it will not be forgotten.

48. What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for

Repeat after me: I'm grateful I might be as great as I thought I might be if I just keep thinking correctly.

49. Play the picture in your mind - focus on the end result

'1'

50. VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future

Note to self: Visualize future.

51. VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins

Some things cannot help being envisioned.

52. Feel the joy .. feel the happiness)

I feel the joy, I feel the Happiness.

53. An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one

At least powerful in a positive versus negative direction.

54. "What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists." Alexander Graham Bell

'the God circuit'

55. Our job is not to worry about the "How". The "How" will show up out of the commitment and belief in the "what"

And it will blow your mind.

56. The Hows are the domain of the universe. It always knows the quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream

Do you know the Hows?

57. If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered .. this is where magic and miracles happen

So far, so good.

58. Turn it over to the universe daily.. but it should never be a chore.

Like consistently putting periods on all the statements uniformly.

59. Feel exhilarated by the whole process .. high, happy, in tune

And be a better person for it.

60. The only difference between people who are really living this way is they have habituated ways of being.

And we are all creatures of habit and group influence.

61. They remember to do it all the time

That's what the TV commercial told me at least.

62. Create a Vision Board .. pictures of what you want to attract .. every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants

Project: Vsyon Board just got created.

63. "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein

I wonder how our fantasylands compare.

64. Decide what you want .. believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it's possible for you

Now it's just a few technicalities, red tape, performance, and time.

65. Close your eyes and visualize having what you already want - and the feeling of having it already.

Epic like you don't even know.

66. Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it.

Merry Xmas!

67. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve" W. Clement Stone

And having the right friends never hurt.

68. Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.

What's that Pinky?

69. When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.

And if you have too many to act on at least write them down.

70. How can you become more prosperous?? INTEND IT!!

Surround yourself with successful role models.

71. 'Checks are coming in the mail regularly'... or change your bank statement to whatever balance you want in there... and get behind the feeling of having it.

Same person, different playset and wardrobe.

72. Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas...

But some are more abundant than others.

73. Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things appear

I usually go because I'm curious and interested, but outside things appear anyway.

74. We are the creators of our universe

And legends in our own minds, not monkeys like these guys: http://wimp.com/ourlife/

75. Relationships: Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others .. love yourself and you will be loved

Love the spiritual mirror thing you've got going on.

76. Healthy respect for yourself

And respectful behavior towards yourself and others behind it.

77. For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.

My mind is a checklist like that.

78. Write down the things you like most about them (don't expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if you frequencies don't match

Note to self: Avoid known douchebags and airheads anyway.

79. When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.

(insert James Brown music)

80. You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children....

It was just a hobby anyway.

81. You are the only one that creates your reality

And reality creates what you think about it, but your thoughts aren't always accurate.

82. No one else can think or feel for you .. its YOU .. ONLY YOU.

Although other people's behavior can cause you to think differently.

83. Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy.

Thanks Universe! Tell your mom I said hi!

84. Immune system will heal itself

Life is designed to be all cool like that.

85. Parts of our bodies are replace every day, every week..etc... Within a few years we have a brand new body

Now just be sure to keep tabs on your soul.

86. See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.

Clock-wise.

87. Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself

To an extent.

88. Learn to become still .. and take your attention away from what you don't want, and place your attention on what you wish to experience

As long as you can afford to.

89. When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life

So you don't have to dress cool to be spiritual?

90. You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

It's almost magical at times.

91. And allow the world as others choose to see it, exist as well

Unless it's harmfully delusional. No harm, no Yellowcard.

92. People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.

Always consider the source, then compare your I.Q. and knowledgebase to the average person much less an expert on the subject if you can even comprehend such a conceptual level.

93. The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.

Thank God.

94. All of this abundance begins to shine through a mind that is aware of it's own infinite nature. There's enough for everyone. See it. Believe it. it will show up for you.

You've got the power, what are you going to do with it?

95. So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want.. get behind the good feelings of all your wants.

When reality feels like a dream you're on the right track.

96. Write your script. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don't wants... remove your attention from don't wants.. and place them on do wants

Hey Allen, remember that script 'From a Distance'...or your other stories. (LYTBULB)

97. We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING.

Which only proves how little we truly know about anything, because what we perceive all day is reality, comical and pathetic as that may be according to the news.

98. Don't define yourself by your body .. it's the infinite being that's connected to everything in the universe.

But looking this pretty takes some effort. Well, at least damn sure don't only define yourself by your body.

99. One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.

(transformer humming noise)

100. Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

(smirk)

********************************************

What are the odds I can go back and read through all these without getting distracted?

Well, I did it without missing a stride. Didn't expect that. Perhaps I just need things delivered to me in the right format or I make more out of my A.D.D. than it really is? ;)

God help us, the world feels like one big practical joke sometimes.

I think the moral to the story is: It's all in your head, and you must be aware and choose carefully how you let that be programmed or choose to program it, because the human belief mechanism is self-reinforcing. It's perfectly imperfect really...and that explains everything.

(You don't even wanna know the link I was gonna put here.) lolz But WoW.

;)

+AES

About the Ark

2009-06-17T12:12:00.000-07:00

...and they lived happily ever after...

The Mythic Call

Sorry I've been behind on my writing/feedback lately kids...I've been a little preoccupied...

In a good way.

I'll catch up soon.

;)

+AES

P.S. L.A. Lakers victory riots? Really? What the f*ck is wrong with some people? On SO many levels? Why do those among us who don't act like heathens have to tolerate such behavior? Grrr... I'm ashamed. Seriously, come the f*ck on people. That is all. Carry on.

P.P.S. Bonus metaphorical twist. Or not. lol

More context.

2009-06-14T17:30:00.000-07:00

(insert time machine flashback)

Monday, January 19, 2009

Blurring things.
Current mood:Sarcastically dramatic.
Category: Life
(This is an edited rewrite of a previous post of mine. Can you blindly guess the date?)

So anywho, I was lured into watching some Ron Paul propaganda, and I
realized there is a strong voice of dissent from the one man that made
a statement about not selling out...

...things that make you go hmmm...

Ah, the hell with it.

Here's what I wrote about I'm not even sure what...you guys would love
the stuff I haven't been posting. Although I suppose it's probably
open knowledge and a running inside joke amongst certain law
enforcement and intelligence communities given The Patriot Act and all.

It would almost be disappointing if it's not.

You KNOW they have got some funny stories of tracking some funny
people...now it's just a matter of them 'spinning-off' with a career
change into writing and the use of fake names and metaphors etc.
Seriously, where are all the sitcoms about the CIA, FBI, NSA, DHS, EDD,
etc. spying on you? (Yes, I threw EDD in there just to be a
smartass.) They can spy on us... but have to be too secretive about
the information to even give us some good sitcom entertainment out of
it? WTF? Where is your sense of humor?

Good-day mates!

Cheers!

"Why are we talking with Australian accents?"

Because I spent the whole first part of the story on MySpace Australia semi-unknowingly for no reason.

Don't ask me. The funny thing about online technology is it is largely
geographically independent. I could be next door, but you'd think I'm in
Australia b/c I overlooked one little field. Think about how close so
many are physically while being psychologically isolated.

It's all relative, but that's ironically irrelevant occasionally.

Here's the nonsense for today:

Remember how I'm always talking about safety mechanisms through
parallel stories? My whole little literary 'kingdom prototype in your mind's
sky' thing?

Well, just in case, I've got a few pretty serious
marketing campaigns just waiting on me to decide what to use them
for...it's just a matter of choosing how to be most constructive I
suppose. ;)

I digress...

...while lost in la-la land,
fighting a war on fighting and war...or was it just boredom and
creative writing expressing disdain for ships of fools adrift in
man-made perfect storms? Alright...don't listen to me...but drowning
sucks.

Can no one trust anyone anymore for Christ's sake? And by Christ I
mean the Sun and the idealized human behavioral metaphor...not the propaganda messiah. Why not
start redefining what's right with the +ru+h vs. CHOSEN blind
acceptance?

What do you mean it's not chosen but believed? Do you choose to
believe? Do you believe you are chosen? Do you not think everyone
should have to openly explain the meaning of life according to them and
how they choose to pursue it? Shouldn't it be done BLINDLY on
performance, personality, intelligence, creativity, and the ability to
perform in that capacity most efficiently, effectively, happily, fairly
and honestly if not compassionately?

So where the f*ck are the rest of these fools' minds @?

Don't get me started.

Although if it is just a financial metaphor you will survive right? At
what cost? I'm going to make a t-shirt that says "Are we living in
fear yet?"

I chase my tail, it chases me. My tail gives me attitude on occasion, sometimes I forget it exists and ignore it.

Is this how people see God or are they living in an entirely different
and twistedly false group fantasy? Why? Suit yourselves...but mine is
SO MUCH BETTER. The Spaghetti Monster gives me lots of flexibility when I preach. lol

"Can the economy be saved by commemorative plate sales?"

Figures the infomercial "fine print predators' would whore out the new
president before he was even president. Comically tragic irony wrapped
in mind-twisting bullshit. So you put some stickers on coins and sold
them for $20 a set? Really Montel? Really? With the recession coming
and all? Really?

Hi! I'm Allyn 'the Arbitration' Tygrrr. :)

(insert sarcastic alternate strategy)

Operation: Yellowcard :)

That's right, you have a temporary
yellow insert over the flag or 'not-designed-to-be-blanket' issue if necessary while we arbitrate
what the hell certain people have done to the future of our lives and
why. I'm sorry...but I want the absolute best of the best running and
designing the systems that govern me...that is NOT what I see or how our
current government operates.

It's getting embarrassing and probably causing lots of psychological trauma. Ya think?

It becomes apparent quickly and painfully sometimes.

I would argue my plan is better.

Too extreme? You don't want to try and bribe certain people out of
leading us down a future path to Idiocracy BEFORE we run out of
imaginary money to buy them off with?

OK, fine...then can we at least elect Google to design an 'optimized'
government from the ground up as I proposed a few years back? No,
seriously. Use data to understand just how 'less than ideal' things
are, then design a plan to correct it to 'best practices'
sustainability by the most efficient and effective means necessary.

Well, suit yourselves. If nothing else this abstract argument should
encourage 'healthy debate'. Personally I think Octomom's behavior and
choices are criminal and abusive...but who am I to judge?...except
someone who has gone above and beyond to not burden others unfairly nor
bring innocent life into the world irresponsibly.

Sue me.

Speaking of failure to tame the rhetoric...

Guess what? WTF Radio is starting again. Get out your pom-poms girls!

Saturdays @ 1 PST on --> KCTY.org

Go Obama!...can you get
me a minute-by-minute breakdown of what the CEO's that accepted the
funds are doing? For what it cost us, we need to see the lifestyle
that precipitated it from a '1st-person' perspective. ;)

That is all.

+AES

P.S. The beauty about numbers is that they don't lie...unless it was lies that created them.

P.P.S. Has anyone else noticed how 1980's-ishly outdated the Dow Jones
board that keeps erasing years of your savings on super-CGI-enhanced TV is? The Lord works in
mysterious ways.

Bonus Video!!! --> Australian Politicians vs. The Media Debating 'our' Economy

The End Game

2009-06-13T08:22:00.000-07:00

Ha. Yeah, like whatever.

Well kids, there's good news and there's bad news.

The good news is I've met some really wonderful, amazing people online lately, so thank God I'm finally getting the right kind of friends and influences I need around me again.

The bad news is apparently my whole plan to conquer/save the world is wrong according to this guy: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=102461410020

Dear media, government, religious circles, friends...please discuss at will.

I'm sure you're aware of how I rail against certain elements of our society like false advertising and predatory mindsets that take advantage of and abuse other people, but, although this guy is intelligent, I don't think his radical and hostile attitude towards eradicating money will work nor is something so extreme necessary...but since I spent the last few days debating this guy in circles about something completely different (something about principle, character, and fact...which I won...go figure), I figured it might not hurt to post his take on things since he defends them so strongly.

I will admit he is a much better writer than me, but I think his screen name ('Fukyio Pinion' = 'Fuk yir opinion') and attitude could use a little improvement.

...something about honey and vinegar.

He does have some very good points, I agree with him on a lot of stuff, but we need practical plans that work in reality...so the difference between reality and the dream on this one is a much farther stretch then some of the 'save the world' plans I've proposed...but hey, this is for the sake of argument.

The rest of my week has been a LONG story...but in a amazingly positive surreal way.

Go me!

Thanks God/Jesus/Aliens/whomever!

Un-f-n-believable is right.

;)

+AES

Is God Religious?

2009-06-10T09:47:00.000-07:00

Here's a pretty well-written article I found discussing just that.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/6/20/44736/2173

+AES

Operation: Cynderella

2009-06-09T19:38:00.000-07:00

'A seat at the table'

And once again welcome to the this edition of the craziest shit I ever heard...

from Allen...

this week...

that might also be one of the most brilliant and yet simplistic G-D ideas of all time...

Oh? What's that? You wanna know why it's called Operation: Cynderella?

Y = Why...and you just asked why. Get it?

...just a step or two ahead...

Oh...you already knew that key to the symbolism, but you wanted to know where oh where and how did the Cynderella character just pop into the story?

Because I had the brilliant idea for my plan to save the world...or at least build the model to do it...while washing dishes.

My life went from dishwasher = taken for granted to WTF happened to the dishwasher?

Actually that's happened to me a few different times in life but it always goes back to living in a circumstance with a dishwasher one way or another.

There's actually a beyond-brilliant actual sub-text to this story, but only if it works out of course. I love hypothesizing things that seem impossible and then turning them into 3D living, breathing reality.

(exhale)

So...there I was pondering some of the recent groups I've joined on Facebook and how to potentially use them to their full capacity. There was a bit of comically mis-directed drama associated by some to the whole scheme...but I think it's largely unfounded for my purposes. I mean, since when is the UN a bad thing? Some (very intelligent actually) dude's all trippin like blah, blah, blah...and I just think he is an antagonistic thinker instead of a builder/designer like me. He doesn't understand the UN is exactly the tool we (or at least I) need.

(lightning strike)

OK. Now this whole plan is going to need some ingredients, and remember, it's comically delusional in the first place, it's not like we could create an international economy-stimulating plan to model the entire world digitally.

Bear with me. This isn't as impossible as the insane amounts spent on military technology. So much destruction of so much of man's glorious efforts invested...

For what? Because you couldn't design a better global control system to protect them?

WTF? Grrr... I'm not a destroyer, I'm a designer.

Every time you destroy something, you destroy the meaning of all the heart and soul that was put into it. Life wasted that need not be. That is obviously not efficient, as well as being very painful, which ultimately leads to more than a small fraction of the world's most serious problems. Mind you, I understand all serious problems are relative, but I also understand the escape from them feels equally liberating.

Improvement is improvement.

Now then, what if we could design a way to offer humanity more of that in real life, so less of it will need to be demanded from the spiritual level? Not that there's anything wrong with the spiritual level, but if you more closely aligned the spiritual level globally... That could be cool huh? It should become more automatic as man is more in harmony with the planet and his own natural programming spectrum.

See, humans are funny creatures. And from this point on, humans no longer exist. Only monkeys. For the purposes of our modeling, we will be using monkeys. Monkey representations of humans, but monkeys just the same.

Are you a doctor? No, you're a monkey who thinks you're a doctor acting like a doctor. Is that a Holy man? No, that's a monkey acting like a Holy man. Is that a _______? No, it's a monkey acting like a ________. As Jesus once said: If they're mean to you, just say "nice suit" and keep walking. You know they're just monkeys too.

The idea here is something beyond a real-world Second Life 3D Google Maps Streetview Reality Simulation project. It's not nearly as complicated as it sounds...we're just waiting on the technology...which is coming quick, we just need to figure out how to map and install the model in reality. I guess it's taken a long time for monkeys to become so advanced...although they've been thinking they were advanced for a really long time right? Don't worry, history is going to look back at this and laugh.

(enter the UN)

Why not stick some Google Street View picture setups on the UN vehicles?

Why not create some robot cameras for internet real-time broadcast of...

Whoops! The Daily Show and Colbert Report time.

Detailing my model on how to model and account for every life in virtual reality before changing them in real life will have to wait until later.

+AES

P.S. It's funny how I brand cleaning my room 'Operation: Cynderella' just to make myself enjoy doing it. True Cynderella analogy is a story not yet shared. Wow. I've been writing while watching the Daily Show...looks like my A.D.D. is going back and forth between screens. Welcome to my world! lol ;)

P.P.S. The 'Cynderella' aspect is also the ultimate plan to have every person in this world 'accounted for' and a 'seat at the table of humanity' for them. Have different levels of tables in different places to start, but then use technology to coordinate and assist in building new ways. Once everyone has a laptop and a 'seat at the virtual table in my model society', once everything is worked out and tested in the model first (virtually, like a Facebook-type experience) then the world could be instantly reprogrammed and redesigned from the 'inside out'. Call me crazy, but at least give me points for tryin. ;)

P.P.P.S. Now Colbert's on in Iraq...with his new fur cut. I like quality entertainment.

No, but seriously...

2009-06-08T17:34:00.000-07:00

What's going on in the media these days?

I only wish you guys could read my emails...or that the NSA would just share them openly.

lol

Merry Tuesday!

;)

AES

P.S. The funniest shit ever is that Dan still thinks I'm taking over the world or something...even though he doesn't read my blog regularly. It's been a year or two since I got him semi-caught-up in the whole conspiracy, and I only talk to him to say hi every few months since he's still in the East Coast. WTF? No, seriously, what the f*ck is really going on? He's not smoking weed, so I can't blame the weed. Hmmm...

Dear Media,

2009-06-08T07:35:00.000-07:00

The only way to truly appreciate the comedy of my life would be to track my virtual misadventures and conversations on Facebook (and possibly even MySpace).

I wish I had the time and patience to repost some of these conversations...but for now I'll just remain silent. It is pure comedy though, on level so brilliant I could never write it myself. Nor could I likely write so passionately for such an extended period of time unless actually engaged in a heated debate or defense of some random principle.

Good news!!!

Today I officially go back to saving my own life!

Self-Directed Behavior book? Check.

Let's see...now where was I?

This part is always tough, because within the first few sentences, a flood of knowledge of what I am 'supposed' to be doing versus what I have been doing rushes over me. Damn A.D.D.

Wow.

Hopefully more compelling, informative, useful entries to follow.

:)

Happy Monday!

;)

+AES

The 'New in Town' Project

2009-06-07T14:35:00.000-07:00

Just an idea.

Intense.

2009-06-05T22:29:00.000-07:00

"The vice of over-population and dwindling resources."

Whoopsy! Did we do that? = FAIL x infinity if you don't correct the problems...now.

http://c89b645e.seriousfiles.com/

I keep trying to tell ya'll...I got/we need an App for that.

Dubai? Las Vegas? Hell, even LA...

Shame on your excess and inefficiency. I didn't realize the Earth was in such bad shape although I did realize mankind's behavior is FUBAR to a level that's ironically self-destructive. Hey, join the club, apparently the greatest nations in the world are doing it, but...

If we're going to survive, we're going to be needing to start doing things more intelligently...ya think?

I haven't finished watching it yet, but this movie is an eye-opener.

Pull your heads out of the sand kids, the world's not gonna save itself.

If not global warming, the over-expanding population and almost grotesque consumption of natural, non-renewable resources should be terrifying. No kids for me so that others shall live? Sure, fine...they just better be better human specimens than me...and that's not what I see. :( Fuck certain human behavior and mentality. :)

'night!

;)

+AES

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2009-06-05T16:03:00.000-07:00

(MySpace update)

What are you doing right now?
<+he WYZARD projec+> How many MySpace peeps will be played by the cartoon version of this bird in a yet-to-be-titled working project? http://lnk.ms/0Bncn 3 minutes ago
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The shit people randomly send via the internets seems amusingly pointless sometimes...although I had no idea such a thing existed before, I kind of suspected something like it did. Interesting, a bird dancing to real old school music in real life. I wonder what happens if you play gangsta rap or techno?

Friends

2009-06-04T17:32:00.000-07:00

On Facebook my friends are media personalities, rocket scientists, and 'alternative' intellectuals from around the world...and I haven't 'whored out' that profile--i.e. just befriended hundreds of people I don't know well.

Conversely, my MySpace 'friend pool' is populated with comedians and relatively high percentage of bimbos relatively speaking?

Why?

;'(

Apparently just demographics and the law of averages.

O M G the trainwrecks are predictable and comical, yet are still painful to watch.

I mean, as a people watcher, several key elements of the human condition under different circumstances stand out.

It's too bad, because I only find about 1 out of every hundred girls 'cute' enough to even consider, and beyond that, with my moral expectations and intellectual 'projection' level...f*ck.

...and you wonder why I focused on Hollywood as presumably the kind of place I would find 'dreamgirl' because they would have the same ultra-ambitious 'life view' and still be damn good human beings.

I mean really. All I ever wanted was to find a female version of myself or better...but damn, I guess the odds are stacked against me.

Then you throw the ultimate capitalism pyramid scheme mindset on top of the human behavioral fire...and whoosh!

WTF?

Yeah. I know. That's what I'm saying.

It's all part of the plan.

Friends.

;)

"this is good though, because it gives me an idea how to fix it"

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P.S. Fine. Fuck it. But if I get rich, and then girls like me, how in the fuck can I feel OK about that, because they aren't completely the right type of girls. But I'm in such an 'extreme' position instead of just a 'normal' one, I can't really even test that effectively. Which gives me an idea...

P.P.S. Yes, you may have parts of a wonderful human being in you as well. I feel bad that our society so looks up to attractive people, when if everyone were just attractive and intelligent...would the world run completely differently without the circumstantial conditioning into less-than-ideal behavior patterns? Maybe?

P.P.P.S. I put myself through A LOT, but I am so damn happy to be me. I presume everyone else feels that way too? If not, your mind should naturally adapt to rationalize whatever hand you've been dealt. But the catch is, the human 'internal' range of emotion is controlled by the mind, and with the right 'well-designed' blinders on, things like the Christian 'Heaven is in your mind and doesn't consider material possessions' work...now we just need to update the storyline to make a real difference in the world.

P.P.P.P.S. At least my real life friends are totally normal. lol

I'm just saying...

2009-06-03T20:34:00.000-07:00

If it were my Death Star, we would totally be running this shit more efficiently and respectfully.

Sorry. Blame Stephen (or Stephen's writers).

The Colbert Report just said we have a Death Star!!!

Woohoo!!! Doh. Woohoo!!!

Only because I can just start more conversations with 'If it were my Death Star...' instead of 'If it were my planet...'.

Eh, same difference, but he sounded excited about it and they dropped some balloons, so it might be a literary device worth mentioning.

Also, the alternative marriage categorizations he proposed make sense in a sarcastic way, just like what so much of what I occasionally spout does.

Or not.

Whatever dog.

If people got over themselves enough to admit that they may not be right because they don't know any better, then you are 90% of the way there.

Touche.

Hey. Life experience builds character, although some people have much more amazing characters to start.

I don't like "tough, mean" companies and I don't necessarily like "tough, mean" people unless it's just a front and they're really, really nice to me because my role as a writer is to gauge shit like that. And then I don't let them be pricks to other people, which is why I'm the kind of person that's worth knowing. I have standards.

OK, in the 'non-TV-reflecting' news, I didn't make it to the candlelight vigil for the two Vanguard journalists as I had intended to...but seriously, it's like God didn't want that to happen, so I just turned back home and saved my sanity from the traffic after I only made it to Carson by 5:40 (after leaving my house at 5).

Hey, I took the Google Maps alotted amount of time 'w/traffic', but at the pace I was making, that wasn't going to happen as planned. I guess they don't take rush hour and rain into account in their estimated time estimates, and that's as soon as I could leave.

Oh well, sorry kids, I'll get to meet you guys another time.

My thoughts are with the girls. I tried to spin my 'Dear Leader' rhetoric in the best way possible lest anyone is paying attention, that's the best I can do.

Speaking of perfect storms...

It was absolutely gorgeous yesterday with the coolest looking clouds in the sky. I didn't bring my camera and was on the motorcycle, or else I probably would have taken pictures of them they were so cool....and I'm not the kind of person that thinks about taking pictures of clouds very often. In case you care.

Today it was drizzling and sprinkling on and off all day...until I left for Santa Monica...when it literally started pouring when I walked out the door towards my car.

WTF? I mean really, WTF? This is why I can't believe in God, because if I did, all the other 'what are the odds?' coincidences would make me think God just loves to fuck with me.

Lately I've been worried that my recent life path is still aimed near the spotlight in a possibly 'still misdirected' way. It occurs to me, if I go the talkshow host route, I most likely won't be able to get super-rich from it...but it would be fun and I would be happy...although my previous life plans were always worried about designing epic business models.

When I was in high school, my 'dream' was to start a company, and do well enough with whatever I created that I took it national...and possibly even international.

Then I went to college just to say I did and get a piece of paper, and after that moved to Hollywood.

(change direction and start over completely)

(several times)

See. Here's the kicker. This is where I realize my fragile (super) ego (insecurity) got in the way of my better judgment before.

(enter Allen the model on the catwalk or whatever)

Exhibit A: What the fuck am I doing?

I could never have gotten rich as a male model, it was just to prove some token feeling of importance and that all that time I spent working out was worth something (and to meet really pretty girls)...so next thing you know, I'm trying to make money looking pretty when I not super-pretty, and ignoring my much more powerful characteristics, that had sense been sidetracked as I was focused on all the wrong shit that I realize I lot of MySpace-type people still do.

...and we won't even get into the stupid fucking club scene...

Bad choices in women. Enough said. Lessons learned.

However...

Why didn't I think about the media option WAY back then?

I could have saved years of wasted life.

Honest to God, didn't know it existed.

Oh well, better late than never.

Hmmm...

Real-estate or rolling the dice in Hollywood? Both. ...and maybe design as a hobby.

It just occurred to me I've done extensive research on this before. I should retrace my steps, because although my circumstance changes, my mind used to do pretty damn good at thinking shit out to the Nth degree.

When in doubt, just go back to where you left off before...right?

Alright, I'm rambled enough for now. Been taken notes still...

Thank God for small things right Allen?

Yeah.

But I can't help but keep staring at everything else that's possible anyway.

Call me a dreamer...

'night dreamer!

doveryai, no proveryai

;)

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Compromise?

2009-05-30T19:39:00.000-07:00

COM PROM IS E ?

How can I turn that word into a metaphorical system that designs compromise?

That concludes today's random thought.

Here, read this.

http://www.biblesecrets.org/METAPHOR.htm

Please remember, I try to keep my slate clean for a reason.

Have a super Saturday!

;)

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Thank You Jesus!

2009-05-29T23:51:00.001-07:00

...for the positive role model.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMLTdT1DMlQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efacebook%2Ecom%2Fhome%2Ephp%3Fref%3Dhome&feature=player_embedded

For future reference, just because I've decided to get noticed for my mind not my body doesn't mean I shouldn't lift a finger to make the most out of what I have. Now I have to work out before I can watch TV. That should do.

It's actually trippy. While watching that video on YouTube I actually stumbled across an old account of mine from 2 years ago when I was in Virginia visiting Dan.

Wow.

Hell, I'll post both links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VVK50I5vX4&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypwZbRz2KNY&feature=channel

And no, I didn't buy that shirt. A supposed Russian (Well, technically Armenian) mafia guy gave it to me off his back just because I said I liked it. Although he only kinda fixed the BMW like he was supposed to...hmmm...

Anywho, please understand I'm not a douchebag, that shirt was symbolic in a different way.

Well, you sure weren't expecting such random nonsense now were you?

I've already posted my aggressive yet creative views on N. Korea on Facebook. Do whatever you want. How much worse could humanity possibly f*ck up the world anyway?

Maybe we need to make a list of pros and cons shall we?

Then work to make things end where we want them to end...with everyone happy.

'night kids! Tomorrow another adventure begins!

;)

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Poor Communication.

2009-05-29T21:49:00.000-07:00

Or perhaps just not a big enough communication platform?

There I was commenting on something on Facebook, which lead me to the point where I was about to ask why the Onion News Network isn't on my TV...and instead I decided to find out myself...and instantly news on their virtual refrigerator is not encouraging.

But thank God I didn't take the stringball mission.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/37503

Cross promotional business models galore.

;)

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The Opposition?

2009-05-28T14:24:00.000-07:00

(repost of article by Matt Barnes @ The Onion)...I think he might be pointing out the fallacies of human nature (quite often that = self-centered stupidity), 'majority rule', and mass media control of the masses.

Have a terrific Thursday!

;)

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_________________________

I…I think it's finally over. Our reactionary emotional response seems to have stopped it dead in its tracks. If I'm right, all we have to do now is smugly reiterate our half-formed thesis and—oh, no! For the love of God, no! It's thoughtfully mulling things over!

Run! Run! It's making reasonable, fact-based arguments!

Quickly! Hide behind self-righteousness! The ad hominem rejoinders—ready the ad hominem rejoinders! Watch out! Dodge the issue at hand! Question its character and keep moving haphazardly from one flawed point to the next!

All together now! Put every bit of secondhand conjecture into it you've got!

Goddamn it, nothing's working! It's trapped us in our own unsubstantiated claims! We need to switch fundamentally unsound tactics. Hurry, throw up the straw man! Look, I think it's going for it. C'mon…c'mon…yes, it's going for it! Now hit it with the thing that one guy told us once while it's distracted by our ludicrous rationalizations!

Gah! It's calmly and evenhandedly deflecting everything we're throwing at it. Our deductive fallacies are only making it stronger! Wait…what on earth is it doing now? Oh, no, it has sources! My God, it's defending itself with ironclad sources! Someone stop the citing! Please, please stop the citing!

The language is impenetrable! For all that is good and holy, backpedal with all your might!

Where are the children? Someone overprotect the children! They cannot be exposed to this kind of illuminative reasoning. Their young, open minds are much too vulnerable to independent thought. We have to shield them behind our unshakeable intolerance for critical thinking.

What?!? Noooooooooo! Richard! For the love of God, it's convinced Richard!

No time for tears now. Richard's mind has been changed forever. But we mustn't let it weaken our resolve. Mark my words, our ignorance will hold, no matter the cost. Now, more than ever, we have to keep floundering ahead with blind faith in our increasingly fallacious worldview.

For Richard's sake.

What's that? Now it's making an appeal to reason? Never! Do you hear me, you eloquent, well-read behemoth? Never! We'll die before we recognize what we secretly know to be true! The cognitive dissonance only makes our denial stronger!

We have but one hope left: passive-aggressive slights disguised as impersonal discourse.† Okay, everyone, careful now…careful…if this is going to work, we have to arrogantly assume that it won't be smart enough to catch on to our attempt to salvage some feeling of superiority and—oh, God, it's calling us out! Quick, avoid eye contact and stammer an apology! Tell it we were just joking! Tell it we were joking!

Arrgh! Our pride! Oh, Lord, our pride! It burns!

All is lost. We don't stand a chance against its relentless onslaught of exhaustive research and immaculate rhetoric. We may as well lie down and—Christ, how it pains me to say it—admit that it's right. My friends, I would like to take these last few moments of stubborn close-mindedness to say that it's been an honor to dig myself into this hole with you.

Unless…wait, of course! Why didn't we think of it before? Volume! Sheer volume! It's so simple. Quickly now, we don't have much time! Don't let it get a word in edgewise! Derisively cut it off mid-sentence! Now, launch the sophomoric personal attacks! Louder, yes, that's it, louder! Be repetitive, juvenile, and obstinate! It's working! It's working!

We've done it! It's walking away and shaking its head in disgust! Huzzah! Finally—defeated with a single three-minute volley of irrelevant, off-topic shouting!

Ironic, really, isn't it?

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What is it? ;)

The Future

2009-05-27T17:56:00.000-07:00

I have an idea to turn reality into 3D virtual reality using Google maps and a Second Life-type model with real world location determined by RFID or cellular triangulation.

Who's with me? lol

I should really write down more of my ideas huh?

;)

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P.S. Bonus 'Plato's Cave'-type hypothetical I have previously touched on. Imagine if God is just supernatural-grade technology? http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0337

And no, I've never read Plato's Cave. That's just what other people compared the comical theory to. Law of Attraction? Really? No. Belief? Possible. ;) lol

W.W.W.T.F.D.? Grade A birds only.

2009-05-26T18:06:00.000-07:00

Well, guess who just came up with a comical plot to run his behavior as a Democratic operation of consensus rather than his own programming?

Then just edited this several page long entry down to this and will put the rest in the 'uncensored' version.

Ha.

Classic.

'night kids!

;)

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A Thousand Epic Fails

2009-05-26T10:25:00.000-07:00

...all in bite-size, A.D.D.-ready pieces...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbittLn84cY&feature=related

Guess who finally (re?) discovered FAIL blog?

Happy Monday!

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(unknowingly written on Tuesday = FAIL)

Just 10 Questions

2009-05-21T15:47:00.000-07:00

You find the damnedist stuff on the internets...

Just 10 Questions

Help me Jesus!

;)

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About the Boat

2009-05-21T14:24:00.000-07:00

In case you didn't know what 'boat' I was referring to in that last post.

Additionally, if you don't know what the Intrepid is, click here.

It's symbolic in a few respects.

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Operation: Catalyst Art

2009-05-21T10:55:00.000-07:00

Cat Al Y Start? Because I need to.

I guess it's all in how deeply one can read into things. Even comically like that.

I REALLY haven't been pushing myself hard enough.

How hard would it be to compose a book of 'humorous essays' like Elizabeth Edwards?

Retroactively?

Hmmm...

Work on getting rich or go to the beach?

Design means of getting rich that can be accomplished while at the beach?

Priceless.

Do you have any idea how wrong it is that MasterCard used that word as they did?

YellowCarding companies because of overly one-sided advertising? Truly priceless.

;)

Let's see...now I just need a topic list?

Hey, that can be written...probably even better...in the right beach environment.

Let's see, which idea to pursue first? God knows I've got more than enough of them.

Perhaps a piece of art to remind me of every chapter from the Self-Directed Behavior book?

...combined with the 'x' factor?

Yes, you are looking wonderful today too. May God's peace be with you.

Here's what you're supposed to do if you want people to like you:

1. Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Allen = FAIL

2. Give honest and sincere appreciation. Allen = Varies

3. Arouse in the other person an eager want. Allen = FAIL

Doh!

But you must be thinking to yourself "It's not like I don't know how to follow directions." True. Very true.

The problem is, metaphorically speaking, socially "I'm on a boat motherf:)er!"...but the boat is just in a temporary protective harbor.

Can you believe I've been writing like this (actually, this and much more aggressive/WTF-ish) since before the Intrepid was taken in for restoration?

WTF?

Yeah. Actually I used to write much, much more often too. Well, it usually depends what's going on politically, but I do get distracted by things in the 'harbor' and in the virtual sea of WTF? online.

lol

The internets and what it has done to my behavior is fooking funny. The idea was to force myself to write. Well, yeah, kinda sorta...I mean, this is much more than I had written previously...and this time to the ultimate target audience.

Paradoxically one could say 'The boy doesn't fuck around.' but we all know I simply haven't been formatting my life properly.

Ugh. Damn superlative blind ambition.

I'm going to go back to internalizing my thoughts now.

Carry on.

V

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My God v. Your God

2009-05-20T19:43:00.000-07:00

But, just b/c I'm too lazy right after having written so much already...

Well, while I'm asking the guy for permission, I'll give you the background details of how it came to this...

My God that's a long story...so we'll just tune back in where Allen's past friend Sandy had found him on the internet via Facebook. No biggie, the past is the past, so as long as she isn't coming around asking me to 'save her' again...the logo tattooed right where it counts will serve as an "I sincerely tried' if nothing else.

Anywho, so I'm not sure what Sandy's doing for money these days, but she represents a comical paradox...because here I am minding my own business...when the wakes of other peoples' status updates start making me go WTF?

So, Sandy says "Hi Allen...blah, blah, blah, love the logo, thanks, whatever..." Something along those lines. I say "Hi Sandy. It looks like you're doing alright, hope everything is well with you and Jamie (her son). Take care!" Blah, blah, blah...something like that.

These days it looks like Sandy's life is financially well-off...back in the fastlane...I presume the really fast lane where she was a professional sex object before...and her son is nowhere in sight. Well, like I said, I tried. And I didn't have to because I got lied into the entire scenario to begin with. What kind of girl tells you she's a 'survivor' and makes you watch Taxi before trying to move in?

Ha. Yeah. Well, as if to add insult to injury, apparently Sandy is doing quite well as a party girl these days...but I could care less, because that one token attempt to save her was just my 'Jesus' experience' when God had literally thrown the beyond-worse-case scenario possible on my lap when I was at rock bottom and weakest just to see if I could handle it.

Well, I did handle it, but I failed miserably at saving Sandy...but that's because Sandy didn't want to be saved, she just wanted to use me for my resources. Welcome to LA! One week she's looking for a normal job and going to church meetings, the next minute she's in Vegas with a black pimp named Kisu because he promised to buy her some Nike Shox.

I shit you not.

Yeah, so that whole experience set back the recovery clock...again...but that was merely at the time...and it was a token attempt...and this is ancient history now...so as long as I end up alright, and she's alright with whatever her life is, and her son and hopefully his future ends up alright, then good, because it's no longer my problem...but isn't it funny the crazy places my logo might just show up?

Wow.

Anyway, that was just to almost explain how this scenario came about, I haven't even got that far yet. To make a long story short, although I don't hang out with Sandy or anything, on Facebook it shows you when your friends join groups etc.

My oh my don't I have an interesting mix?

For a reason.

But the reason this matters is because on one hand you watch Sandy living the party girl life with all the embarrassment that carries someone of my historical caliber, and on the other hand you see her subscribing to things like 'Jesus Daily' while declaring herself to be religious.

Errr...screech.

(facepalm)

Timeout.

Have you never heard the saying "nervous as a whore in church"? WTF? If your religion doesn't stand for anything it says it stands for, then really, what good is it? If it doesn't stop people from doing the things that are destructive to themselves and/or others, then really, what good is it? If your religion doesn't protect the innocent from the predators, then really, what good is it?

Well, luckily the law takes care of a few of those.

The selfish desire do whatever and think it will get forgiven on the next level just because you think it will? What's fair? Seriously, what if when your life flashes in front of your eyes it's just like a computer program scanning the information before you get judged...by God? My God = what's responsible for life, so yeah, that works.

Do you really think denial is that high on God's list of Heaven-entry-gaining things?

You think you deserve Heaven eh? Well, have you been a good person while here on Earth? I mean, it's only far right?

Plus, either way, you're still debating things that don't exist, so everyone going through the motions as hypocrites is just a little...silly...don't you think?

Sorry to get everyone involved, but...

(insert YellowCard)

With all due respect, WTF?

On one front we're battling the gay's slightly ill-logic, and on another front I'm debating the cost effectiveness of space for all the rocket scientists with their heads in the stars, and on the other hand I sign up for Jesus Daily out of morbid curiosity about the completely hypocritical behavior of the triple-digit chick and how she rationalizes it with 'God'...

...next thing you know I'm actually reading the Jesus' Daily entries because it is perfectly allows me to hear and deconstruct the rhetoric in bite-size pieces...

Next thing I've gone and ruffled the feathers of some 'Old Christianity' believers...and now I'm waiting on Jeff's approval to post it so it can explain for itself instead of me having to write more and paraphrase in ways that probably don't do the original already paraphrased conversation justice.

Jeff's Facebook page says he's a lawyer.

So I found entertaining his argument on the validity of religion especially interesting. Actually not religion, I found it interesting because the only religion he references and therefore believes in is just his (Christianity).

WTF?

Yes, I know. I have the same problem. lol

My views on religion = WTF?

Because there is just so much out there, obviously it can't all be right, especially the parts that don't make sense. When one takes something literally that was written to be taken FIGURATIVELY...Houston we have a problem.

Lucky Bart the rocket scientist/funny guy glady let me repost my micro-debate with him when I critiqued the non-Earth-centered technological research funding...so hopefully Jeff will follow suit...especially since I come to find out that Bart is religious also.

Do I count as being religious just because I was indoctrinated with a story as a child and went through the motions because everyone else was doing it even though I didn't believe the miracle parts...at all?

Santa who?

Yeah, I'll show you a miracle.

That our society is still sane. Or is it?

9/11? Ahhh!!! Terrorists!!! Help me Jesus!!! Why did God just let them put through a rather evil-looking bailout? WTF do you mean he's programmed everyone to not stand up for what's right and be passive living in a common delusional dream state?

What do you mean this project is designed to be a comical demonstration of the same mechanisms within the human mind?

Damn. That's deep.

Anyway, here's the conversation. I'll assume he's friendly and fair-minded enough to say yes, either way, Jesus is OK with it, and that's apparently all that really matters in the end.

Brace yourselves kids...

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Honoring parents/loving neighbors
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Jeff C
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The difficulty with deciding who is honorable is that we overlook the fact that we ourselves are not honorable. In God's eyes, we are all just sinners, no one more honorable than the next. Viewed as such, the bibles message becomes timeless. We can honor our parents and love our neighbors while despising their acts. Forgive me if this intrusion was not welcomed. God's peace be yours through out Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Allen Simpson
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Hi Jeff,

I don't consider it intrusive at all, the entire point of sharing my thoughts is to encourage healthy debate.

That said, why can't we honor our parents and love our neighbors without bringing God and Jesus into it?

So, your interpretation of the Bible suggests that the widely varying degrees of righteousness in human behavior are irrelevant (according to God or whatever)?

Sorry. I don't agree with that.

I don't honor people, I honor honorable behavior.

Yes, I am not perfect, but the difference is, I try and I care about others as well as myself. But which ones are worth caring about? The ones trying to take advantage of you? I don't lie to people to take advantage of them, and quite frankly I despise people who do.

My God doesn't see those two opposing mindsets equally, for if he did, he would be protecting selfish, 'evil' mindsets and all the pain and harm they cause. That ain't cool.

You must be an intelligent man because you're an attorney, so what percentage of the Bible do you believe is fact and what percentage fiction?

What do you think you would think/behave like as a human being had you never been exposed to what I presume is Christianity? What if you were the identical person genetically, but you were born in Iran, or China instead?

Would you still be seeing the world through a prism that labels things as you do?

Historically my track record proves I'm an exceptionally good person (sacrificing of myself to help/save others to a level that actually proved to be quite regrettable), but it had nothing to do with religion, just in being a person that looks past myself and genuinely cares about the well being of others.

Accordingly, I take offense to a 2,000 year old political construct designed to allow the evil people of the world to take advantage of the good...and that's what you just described in claiming that "we are all sinners in God's eyes, no one more honorable than the next".

I'm sorry, but I disagree with your take on what 'God' thinks. You must be simply referring to the 'God' of the Bible, not the God I believe in that is responsible for life itself and everything else in this Universe both within and beyond our comprehension.

I guess it's just a difference of opinion in how one defines 'God'.

Personally, I believe in the truth, and that trying to get people to do the right thing by lying to them is not getting them to do the right thing for the right reasons, and therefore is a behavioral control mechanism that should have never made it as far as it has.

I'm all for being a good person, but I'm also all for identifying people who aren't being good to others and holding them accountable.

If I were Jesus, at this point I would be disgusted with what has been done in my name. If I were God, I would desperately be trying to invent a new worldwide religion for the 21st century and beyond based on technology and human behavior, not on a story written by men that thought the Sun revolved around the Earth written in another life and time.

Sorry for the long essay. I hope you don't find this too offensive.

May peace, happiness, and prosperity be with you as well!

Take care,

Allen

P.S. You'll have to forgive me, for I am a preacher, not a follower of anything I don't believe in wholeheartedly on principle or what other people tell me.

P.P.S. May I end with a quote of mine from a few weeks ago? "Just because a bunch of people believe the same thing, doesn't make it true or them sane."

P.P.P.S. You must be 'honorable', you've got a degree that says you are. It's in your title! lol ;)

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Initially, I beleive in the God of the Bible; accordingly, any debate will be as two ships paasing in the night because it would appear that we worship different gods. The God that I worship will hold sinners accountable and I trust him to do that. I accept that some that I may deisre to view as worse sinners than me will be accepted into the same kingdom of heaven that I hope to be because they have confessed faith in the same savior. I have no problem with that simply becasue I am concerned with my relationship with God and my relationship with my fellow man. What others do is not my concern. While I would rail against injustice I can still love the man who perpetrates it for at the end of the day I am blessed with the humility to accept that in God's eyes we are all just sinners. If I were Jesus I would also be disgusted with what has been done in my name but I would also be quite pleased with some of my brthers and sisters. If I were God, I would not create a new religion first becasue, frankly, religion, does a very good job of screwing up faith and second, because I already created a new religion in my son and the world has largly rejected that so whose to say it would accept the next one. Not sure who is being lied to or where the behavioral control mechanism comes in, unless you claim the Bible to be one great lie. To which I would say that the books of the new testament represent a historical record of the events described therein, the birth, ministry, torture/death, resurrection of Christ. There is no historical evidence to counter the record contained within the Bible save for the attempts of men to discredit it based on nothing more than their own disbelief. I could accept every word of the Bible to be true or I could accept that there are bound to be errors or poetry or figure of speach. It does not matter because it is by faith that I accept the central tenant's. I find it interestng that a great portion of the history of Western Civilation that is accepted by people to be true ad accurate was recorded the same way as the history of Christianity, which the same people reject based on the manner in which it was recorded. Although I have espoused to believe every word of the Bible to be true, I now accept that that is a cop out of a greater faith that beleives even in the face of an imperfect document, if that's what it is. As to who I would be without Jesus ... I care not to delve into the evil that lives within me. I was a different person before and would be a different person without Jesus. There is nothing honorable about me. Forgive me for a less than organized response. One question, what is the foundation for the god that you worship if not the God of the people. I suspect just another one of the amorphous gods that people invent for themselves in order to avoid coming to terms with the true God of the universe. I would love to hear about your God and the miracles he has performed in the lives of men as archived in the annals of history. Please, do tell. Peace.

PS - I do not find your response offensive, I will note, however, that no Christian ever came into your church/assembly, wherever that may be, and interupted for the sake of offering a counter view. I am all for healthy debate and will defend my faith any time and any place in any format or venue; however, this particular site is a place of worship for some and I do not find your intrusion therein honorable. That said, God's peace be yours.

Allen Simpson
Today at 7:30pm
Well, like you said, two ships passing in the night because there is no point debating someone about things they simply do not choose to believe because it doesn't serve their best interest.

So, you're a 'born again' Christian eh?

Well, that explains it. I think the word is opportunistic.

Wow. I went to the Methodist church as a child and was even president of the youth group, but I became so disgusted at the hypocrisy of others, even at young age, I just couldn't buy into the b.s. anymore. As an adult, I'm actually insulted that my mother exposed me to such nonsense as a child, but that's about the extent of it.

If you believe the world was 'magic' (virgins giving birth, literary characters arising from the dead, etc.) 2,000 years ago but isn't now, then I can't argue with you...but on that same note times infinity...if/when my 'God' and religion does succeed in saving the world one day, don't worry, the TV and internet will explain in great detail to the point that you 'experience' it on a level even the current church can't compete with.

My God is Technology.

My Saviors are +ru+h and Reason.

As such, yes, Facebook could be considered a site of 'worship', but the preaching of Jesus is designed to be debated.

Humor me, and watch this series of 3 videos.

What makes you think the God of the Bible is any more real (except in your own mind) than the explanation of where He/It came from (your fellow, all-too-human man) presented in these videos?

Actually you don't have to answer that, it's just a rhetorical question.

If you're just using religion as a self-imposed brainwashing tool to escape your past, then that isn't necessarily a bad thing, but please don't have the audacity to preach your new found faith as historical fact when/if previously you were one of those people taking advantage of others.

Unlike many, I can swear on my father's grave that I am an exceptionally honorable man, so you should understand how it irks me to have the types that might have once wronged types like me claiming the protection of Jesus.

Anyway, sorry, I don't want to argue this with you, but please humor me and watch these 3 videos (10 minutes each). Then hypothetically, just hypothetically consider if they are true and the Bible is just a (largely made-up and plagiarized) story.

A magical, commonly believed story--but a story just the same.

1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNf-P_5u_Hw

2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc-mrJf45Hg&feature=related

3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjAegPhQOUg&feature=related

See ya 'round the internets!

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Allen Simpson
Today at 7:49pm
BTW Jeff...do you mind if I republish this conversation in my blog?

I figure since what we're debating is your response to my public comment on a public figure like Jesus, this fits perfectly with what I usually talk about and I arguably spent more time engaged in debate with you then writing in public this evening.

lol

Damn technology causing conversations between strangers across thousands of miles that never would have been possible prior to....the last few years?

Now there's an impressive force, God or otherwise.

;)

Let me know.

Thanks!

Allen

Jeff C
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No objection so long as it is understood that I do not use religion to escape my past. I place my faith in Christ for the forgiveness of those sins so that I may move past them and become a loving and useful human being. I have not escaped the past; to the contrary, it stands as a constant monument to my imperfection. That said, by accepting forgiveness of my sins through Jesus, I no longer focus on that monument and allow the resultant self-loathing to bring me to a stand still. I find it interesting that your rejection of God/Christ appears to be more accurately described as a rejection of religion. I actually fault no one for rejecting modern religious institutions; however, it is illogical to reject God due to the failings of man made institutions. What is truth?

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I will repost my original response without the errors and you are free to place it on your blog

Allen Simpson
Today at 10:42am
Fair enough. Yes, I'm not rejecting God, I'm rejecting modern man still operating on a truly archaic interpretation of God.

Truth is understanding what is going on, not just believing what one is told by someone else.

I'm not just upset with Christianity, I'm upset with all religions that remove the accurate perception of reality to the point that dangerous scenarios can exist.

I'm upset with 'bad' people much more than religious people, but I do fault religion when it isn't protecting the brand and principles it supposedly stands for. The government too. Also, I do question many of the tenants of some religions and especially scenarios when religion leads to war, suffering, and strife do to disagreements about things that don't actually exist.

i.e.:

My God is Green!

My God is Blue!

My God is Yellow!

WTF?

I try not to pick sides because my goal is to find the lowest common denominators between various belief systems to hopefully one day bring them to terms with one another, but I do realize what I'm proposing and have tried to do could be considered impossible...without the future power of technology of course.

I'm upset with Christianity being the predominant religion in America because I'm obviously the type that tries to be a good person and stand for things simply for the credit of my own actions, but Christianity instead requires one to be drawn into a ancient web of very hard to believe fairytales...and being as intelligent as I am, it's simply not an option.

The entire purpose of +he WYZARD projec+ was to find/create a God replacement when my father died and I simply couldn't subscribe to all the other more traditional definitions of what happens, but, in truth, designing constructs to try and make the world a better is something I have pondered my entire life, so it is the result of 30+ years of intense thought and observation.

The model was originally called 'Religion 1' to denote the use of logic and numbers as the universal language and "that everything is one", or at least part of the same game/life experience/world...whatever you want to call it. I consider life on Earth to be the equivalent of God's 7th grade science fair project and everything was going well...until man learned how to lie...and then use God's name to lie and take advantage of others.

Yeah, I know, it's different...but it works on all accounts.

Essentially the entire structure to take man into the next era of thought is there, it's just a matter of waiting on the technology and opportunity to implement it.

Things like the wars in the Middle East are ridiculous, and in the 21st century, religion should not be allowed to fuel the fires as it has. In America, very questionable/unfair things have been happening in regard to economic warfare in recent years, and it hurts me to see so many loyal to the Christian God being held captive instead of being united on principle to take action against those who wish to harm and oppress us.

There is too much suffering and too much evangelical b.s. on TV, and being forced to bear witness to that paradox is exceptionally frustrating. I most certainly do not want to take away the happiness of those I've met with "their heads happily in the Jesus clouds"...but when their non-reality-based belief system allows their real lives to be compromised as they blindly stand by...well, I feel almost obligated to say something.

Being passive and living in a fantasy-based reality is a good thing...until certain lines have been crossed, at which point the people should be united to prevent their oppression, but sadly I don't see that happening.

Like everyone, everything I think and do is relative and subjective. We all have different life experiences that are a combination of luck and choice, so everything I say and do is simply a product of what I've experienced prior to that to reference when making decisions.

If you read through what I presume are beginning to be a collection of my rather extensive writings, you will realize there are specific experiences and reasons behind everything I do or say. I won't say things that I can't back up, and when I feel a certain way about things, I always explain the context, background, and my own thought process and reasoning behind it.

All I ask is the same ability of others to explain themselves and their actions, although I often overestimate people.

Thanks for engaging in a civil discussion of such a deeply emotional topic and allowing me to share it.

You probably needn't worry about correcting your previous response if a simple 'hey I typed this in a hurry on my iPhone' will do. Since you're an attorney, I presumed you know how to spell speech even though you spelled it speach, and I would assume anyone reading it and your more carefully written responses would understand you know how to write/spell correctly when you're trying to.

Thanks for taking the time to explain your side of things and listening to mine (and hopefully watching the videos out of curiosity if nothing else).

Best,

AES

Jeff C
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Yes there was a play I saw a few years back depicting Earth as God's seventh grade science project, that interested me for awhile. I watched the video's and while I don't doubt that several of the claims therein could be refuted with a bit of research, I do note the following flaws in the progression. First, the astrological argument turns on the alignment of the stars on or about December 25; however, it is widely accepted that Jesus' birth did not occur on December 25 and could not have occured on December 25 given the timing of the Roman census and the Bible nowhere claims that his birth was on December 25. December 25 was the date chosen to celebrate his birth coinciding with preexisting pagan celebrations. In so far as December 25 is only the day chosen for celebration and not the actual date of birth, there is no grounds to compare his birth to astrological events. That said, if in fact his birth did occur on the 25th and the story of his birth matched the astrological events, I would not find it surprising that the birth of God's son was foretold in the stars that God created and that earlier civilizations, if they were earlier, created similar stories based upon the same stars. As to the claim in the second video that Jesus did not make it into the historical record, the writings of the new testament are the unrefuted historical record.

The adulteration of Christ's message begins with the first church described in Acts, when the Jewish Christians decided that the gentile Christians should only have to follow certain parts of the Jewish law, no sexual immorality, drinking blood and the like. Truth is Christ had no such requirement. You clearly seem to believe in a god but would move people away from that god in an effort to find a construct within which we can peacibly coexist. You are not upset with God so much as you ae upset with what people have done in the name of god based upon an adulterated view. I would think that the more effective construct, if thats what it is, would be to move people away from religion and religious tenants, and back towards the one true God.

My background is simply this: I have a .22 calibre bullet in my head (its in bits and pieces but 90% of it is in there) and the best that science had to offer (neurosurgeon) told my parents was that they should prepare themselves for the fact that their son was going to die or have no quality of life to speak of. When I came to three days later (LOL) and asked for a black pen and white lined paper because I had a book report due, there was no explanation other than, there are some things that can't be explained other than to tip your hat to a higher power. Three years later, the experts opined that I would be lucky to finish high school but could forget driving a car and could forget college. So college, law school and two complete bar exams four years apart later, I don't have any great difficulty believing in the "fairy tales" of the Bible. We still encouter God's "fairy tales," the only difference is that he is not openly taking credit for them. I did not choose Christianity becasue it was given to me. I stopped going to church when I was old enough to make that decision and wrestled for a great deal of time with the questions that face us all. In the end I turned to Christ not because he was what I had been taught but becasue he spoke to me and moved in my life and demonstrated his living power to me even 20 years after being shot.

At the end of the day, I doubt that you would deny the life of Jesus. Its just that denying it and searching for your replacement construct is far easier than actually coming to terms with the true God of the universe. I would wish you luck, but I don't believe in luck, so best wishes and all God's blessings. Thank you for the chance to further build and reaffirm my faith. (By all means feel free to publish this with the understanding that the spell chack is off and I'm not proofing.)
___________

Hell, I even gave him the last word. Well, as long as one can listen to all sides without getting too bent out of shape and they aren't causing harm to anyone, more power to 'em.

;)

Let me know.

Thanks!

+AES

The Myssyng Lynk

2009-05-19T11:06:00.000-07:00

It's not rocket science.

I'm literally doing about 10 different things at once as usual, and still trying to reprogram those 10 things into the right ones. Since it occurs to me the pieces of the puzzle and the jokes/references are scattered across several online media 'hubs' (i.e. MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, this blog, my previous entire 'prequel' saga), I guess the idea would be an intentional trail of digital breadcrumbs more or less.

It could be seen as an storyline time capsule, which is basically the point.

Now if I'll just stop being too lazy to write. Yesterday I easily cornered Roger with his own rhetoric, so today it's just a matter of actually writing the nonsense that is my life down in the right format.

He said step A is to write the characters, so here's what I've written down so far:

Antagonist = Tygrrr while playing the role of the ultimate imaginary role model

Other = Coaster while living in Long Beach still in Nashville mode

"Beautiful soul" = The Jaguar

WTF? = Aggressive teenage lust in community college

'Crazy' = The hypothetical mystery audience

TV = 'magic nonsense box'

The Pontif = Playboy Mike, the complete opposite of a Holy Man

Jesus = Depends on what you believe and see in your cheese

Alright, I'm done for now.

Merry Tuesday!

Wait a minute, while I'm at it...

Happy Monday!

Merry Tuesday!

Wonderful Wednesday!

Terrific Thursday!

Fantastic Friday!

Super Saturday!

S_____ Sunday!

K. There. I just created a time-coded signature option.

And it runs independent of the calendar...more or less.

Hmmm...maybe it is its own form of rocket science in a way after all.

V

+AES

Arguing with Religion

2009-05-18T19:37:00.000-07:00

Great, so I agree to go ride motorcycles with Roger...again...

He seems to be a big fan of goofing off, but I brought him into the game for his talent as a writer. Irony. He's still stuck in Nashville mode, but other that that, a O.K. I suppose.

This time we went over the bridge to San Pedro and then up the coast to Marymount College and then Palos Verdes, where we stopped at the top of some random hill and had a beer at the local store/deli and got into what I presume is a relatively WTF conversation as usual. It was engaging enough to have the 85-year-old gentlemen sitting next to us to chime in...he reminded me of my dad...and backed up my arguments over Roger's more than Roger's over mine....to which I would like to add: Ha.

See. I'm not all wrong all the time.

The funny thing is, amongst my other close friends I'm known for always being right. Overly trusting perhaps, but usually well aware of WTF is really going on.

Roger thinks I don't understand exactly how he thinks. lol That is funny.

If I walk around with my hair messed up but a motorcycle helmet in my hand, does that give me an excuse, like a get outta jail free hall pass or something?

Where are those rogue groups of AXE hair chicks when I need them?

Alright, that's enough side tracks for one night.

Daily Show? Colbert Report anyone?

'night!

;)

+AES

Making West Coast Lemonade

2009-05-17T20:25:00.000-07:00

So, instead of going to see Angels and Demons as I planned, I instead was coaxed by my friend Roger (some of you may know him from the radio show) into riding motorcycles down to Huntington Beach. Never been there along the beach before, very cool.

Roger called it touristy and the 'home of surfing'. I just called it different.

See, I can tolerate beach culture. That version of Southern California is perfectly fine if not alluring to me. Sue me.

Anywho, so I swung by his place since it was on the way out of town that direction.

I then followed Roger's path of dive bar hopping, 1 beer per bar each.

Harmless enough.

Although I would also like to take this chance to bring up how backward and retarded drugs like alcohol are. I mean seriously, WTF? Back when alcohol became the predominant drug in history, how did that happen, and why has it alone so strongly legally stuck with us? Just a question, because drunk people are embarrassingly silly creatures.

Losing control = not sexy.

Remember that girls. Boys, you may be lost causes already.

Oh geez...so anywho...we went to some Irish dive bar in Seal Beach with a cute bartender Roger knows named Kim. Then to some other dive bar where Kim's friend Maggie works in the same capacity. Then Roger got us cursed out for being Texans, which reminds me why state and national stereotypes are so stupid.

But it was just in fun, and we eventually made our way to HB = Huntington Beach for all you non-locals around here...like me. lol

This totally reminds me of when I had a skate board in high school that said 'LOCALS ONLY'. I didn't know what it meant, but it was a Nash, and that's all that mattered according to advertising and group influence I had been brainwashed by at the time.

See, life is all relative and subjective kids.

Who you are is strongly influenced by those around you, and that can lead to some fooked up ....

Whoa. Insert earthquake.

Uh oh. God must be pissed.

Doh.

We'll be back after we turn on the television to see the feedback.

Kepp smiling ya'll...see that one was big enough to actually be exciting.

;)

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The Rainbow Invasion

2009-05-17T11:43:00.000-07:00

Oh Christ, here we go...

So yesterday I woke up to the neighbor's 'Mexican alarm clock', i.e. the sound of a gasoline-powered weedeater at 8:30 in the morning...on a Saturday...just like every Saturday.

(sigh)

Oh well. That's tolerable. No biggie there. I need to get out of bed anyway. The Jaguar gets pissed, but I'm more laid back about it I guess.

Today I was drawn from my exceptionally comfortable bed by the neighbor's gay pride parade coming down Ocean with police sirens blaring. Oh, it's that time of year again? I know because I had to move my motorcycle from the street by 8, because the parade literally comes down Ocean Blvd., along the ocean...50 yards away...and apparently they needed to clear the street just in case? Not sure, but at least they made some money towing cars I presume.

It suddenly feels like I accidentally moved into the middle of West Hollywood without being told I was being moved into the middle of West Hollywood. WTF?

Alright. Sure, fine. I blame the Jaguar for this one because she blindly moved us into the more gay part of Long Beach than the more normal part, but it's really no big deal except that, well, it's a little weird and discomforting when the gays out number the normal people in the crowd. It's a very discomforting scenario when I can't find just one of my drop-dead gorgeous dreamgirls to save my life and instead I'm suddenly forced to bear witness to things that make me fear the entire city is gay...which it obviously isn't...but God there are a lot of exhibitionistic homosexuals making a lot of noise down the street at the moment.

It occurs to me it could be the Jaguar just moved us into completely the wrong neighborhood without knowing it, but now I'm stuck here because I don't want to put forth the time and energy to move. Grrr... Well, at least until I find a specifically better option...and although I'm not sure I'll be looking on craigslist anytime soon.

So anywho, where was I? Oh yes, reporting on my attempt to be neighborly and go watch the gay parade down the street. Well, it's all fine and great, except I feel like I'm looking at a freak show (rental crate trucks with high-powered stereos blaring dance music as the crystal/X'd up party goers from the night before just basically take their gay dance club on the road...and on parade) and that certain elements of the freak show won't stop staring at me in a predatory way.

I mean, you've got to hand it to them, they know how to have a good time, but why do we need it in this slightly-obnoxious format? Ummm...I think the people behind it are very capable, creative, and well-connected...but that doesn't mean I'm supposed to actually enjoy watching a bunch of gay dudes dance down the street while I get stared at like prey right?

THAT is the only thing that bothers me, when gay guys look at me or make comments in suggestive ways. Thanks pirate. I know I'm cute, or at least as cute as I always have been, I don't need people with your mindset confirming that. I mean, thanks for being all disrespectful and all...but I still appreciate the compliment?

Girls? Fine, although if you come on too strong I will most likely rightfully think you're sluttly. Guys? Just please don't.

Good God, the way most men act makes me pity women. The way some women act makes me pity their victims. The way gay men look at you when you're a cute guy...well, it's just a little uncomfortable. I mean that in a nice way. I mean fine, be gay, be confused, be whatever you want...but just God please don't mistakenly apply that mindset to me. If you respect me as a person, which is the only thing I allow people to respect me for, then respect that I'm straight, and that other men are straight, and that you should only keep your gaydar focused on other gay people.

I mean, that is only fair right?

It makes me feel so bad about how women are looked at by most men.

I would also like to take this time to apologize to all the women I might have offended with my 'priceless girlfriend matrix' branding ideas, because if you aren't attracted to women the same way I'm not attracted to men...then OH MY GOD I apologize for even suggesting it. Although I must say, given the nature of the species, the girl/girl thing in regard to the patriarchal nature of our society makes much more sense from an emotionally/circumstantially 'protectionist' perspective. But what do I know? Except that Western culture and capitalism often appears to be quite abusive/destructive/damaging/painful in the love department...for really stupid, short-sighted reasons.

What about all these girls that get knocked up by these piece of shit guys that I have gone to such great lengths and sacrifice to avoid being my entire life?

(sigh)

A.) We need to stop these lapses in judgment and perspective ahead of time.

but B.) if the girl is an otherwise absolutely wonderful girl that has money but is just stuck with the kids from a relationship that didn't work out...

I just don't think people understand how long life is, and I think the culture guided by television demonstrates destructive role modeling to an extent, quite often for profit. :(

Boo!!! Stupid people. There must be a better way.

Hmmm...how would one design a 'priceless' matrix to fix that broken home problem which seems to have become embarrassingly far more prevalent in our society in recent years?

Yeah, I think too much...but there is some merit to my 'outside the box' scheming. On MySpace I noticed one absolutely beautiful rich girl has a baby daughter and a girlfriend...and she seems incredibly happy....although it might be the money and beauty insulating her as well, and most don't have that luxury. Hmmm... To which I would like to add: that doesn't mean it's true, so much more research will need to be done on my hypothetical matrix theories.

How's that working out for you?

(faceplam)

Don't worry. There are some highlights of the adventure down the street too. Honest to God, if it didn't seem so rude, I would laugh out loud at half the sh*t I saw...which I pretty much did anyway. Hey, I live in my own little world, so I was just there for entertainment because it was in the neighborhood, and the 10 minutes I was there were damn sure entertaining one way or another.

The police were in on escorting the trucks full of half-naked drugged out partyers down the city's main street. Hey, they have the MySpace-esque desire for attention by complete strangers too. There were lots of interesting interpretations of the rainbow color scheme. I feel so sorry for the rainbow sometimes. And the main thing here is I don't want to lump everyone in together, which is what I fear the entire concept of 'gay pride' is doing. There are some totally cool gay people, and there are some freaks...and unfortunately the freaks kind of stand out and give the entire experience a freakish feel.

I can't believe the police aren't just protecting free speech, but are actually participating in the parade that blatantly promotes drug culture. As I've been trying to point out for years since discovering it, the entire game is a little fooked up from a logical, rational perspective. But I digress.

On a comically positive note, I found a million dollars with quotes from Jesus on it!

I shit you not. Yup, apparently it's come to this.

Granted, it's a fake million dollar bill I found on the street...kind of like the ones I was going to use for promotion of any number of things before...but apparently these marketing geniuses decided to use it to promote...I don't even know.

The beauty of it is, the gays fighting religion is a joke, because religion is simply a man-made construct of ancient lies. But can the gay lifestyle face the light of science and full disclosure? Dude, you take drugs and emotional issues out of that equation, and it would be a MUCH different spectacle. Can religion? Ha. I am slightly upset that the gays have blurred the lines between homosexuality and the 'afterhours party lifestyle'. They are two separate things that should be clearly separated and identified, but the current laws prevent that even as the god damn police escort the glaring behavioral example down the street.

It's relatively harmless right? Exactly.

So then why all the military-type drama about the drugs?

If you could harness that power in a positive spiritual context instead of displaying it in a lustful homosexual manner, you might be able to save society from itself.

Not likely, but it's better than what we've got now.

Or you can always just move and build a house on a hill with a big fence around it. lol

Ah people, such silly creatures.

Oh snap. Correction. The million dollar bill propaganda was from hopechapel.org.

I'm not going to bother checking out the website though, because I honestly think Jesus has nothing to do with it. God's only Sun is that star we're circling around...nothing less, nothing more...well, unless of course you're referring to the fairytale, but, if you're referring to the fairytale as truth instead of as an allegorical fairytale...well, then what am I supposed to do?...start arguing reality with you?

I apologize to anyone I might have offended, I am simply straightforwardly relating the way my mind is processing the environment it sees.

If you're a gay guy, fine, just understand I'm not and don't hit on me or look at me in that way. If you're a girl, feel free, just try to keep it classy. ;)

I'm going to go ride motorcycles down to Huntington Beach with Roger because I don't have a damn thing better to do at the moment.

Sorry for the possibly controversial entry.

God called, he asked for the rainbow back. lol

I am so wrong...but funny.

Bye kids!

;)

+AES

Operation: SmartAss

2009-05-14T18:48:00.000-07:00

OMG! Hi.

How would you respond to that comment from a stranger?

;)

+AES

PSA

2009-05-13T18:29:00.000-07:00

You can't save whores.

Why? It's a selfish state of mind, that is precipitated by a wide spectrum of things.

Could you save Mike from being a whore?

No. Because people like Mike would gladly want to be a whores for money.

I makes sense I suppose, although seems to create a highly toxic mindset which is where the lies come in and can start doing lots of life-destroying damage quick. I think that's what's not fair. Do whatever you like, just don't lie about it. It's only fair right? I mean, sex isn't a bad thing, unless it's done in bad context.

So there in lies one of the key WTF scenarios of freedom. Oh hey, you just brought a kid into your selfish, fucked-up world? Asshole. If it were my world that kid would be able to sue you from inside them womb. Ha.

Which is where I simply want to insert specific transparency and non-destructive behavior clauses. Be bad or whatever, just be such a badass that you don't have to lie to anyone about anything you do and expect them to reflect those same 'badass' standards back.

Well, at least in my 'pretty damn impressive' fairytale world...

PlayTygrrr --> Because it's what I do best. ;)

Yes. I'm bored...but exercising my brain and creative thinking strengths.

Hmmm...so where were we?

Oh yes, trying to design a way to make your wildest dreams come true, for if I can do it for you, I can do it for me, and that is all it takes at this point. God knows we've drawn enough attention within specifically well-positioned crowds to the cause/show.

My latest online status update? You actually care? In a completely sarcastic way? Me too!!!...so here it is:

MySpace = WTF?

Facebook = Hmmm...

Twitter = You're invisible, who cares?

+he WYZARD projec+ = Priceless. ;)

So here we are again.

Heard any good jokes lately?

TMZ says they found Jesus.

God help us I suppose we should have seen this coming right?

Throw Jesus right in mix like that?

Ha. Sorry to momentarily sidetrack us from our intended path, but I guess I should find a way to post the half-assed videos I made in one day each? Note to self: You need better mentors around me.

(sigh)

Well, what brought this up is that my editing project ended up being about Jesus' Magic Lemonade.

It got mixed rave half-assed reviews from "Jesus is much more than a state of mind" to "Daring." to "you're a badass but I also like the word Jesus b/c he is my savior". Wow.

Magic lemonade eh?

Yeah, I totally changed my mind at the last minute and re-built the project around one specific image I found on the web and a Front 242 song from college.

"Jesus is here." = Jesus' Magic Lemonade

Yeah, walk into church and throw that on the cool-assed motorized screen on the alter.

Boom. Funny story about 'Boom'...back when I started writing this 'series' of emails specifically targeted at the 'ultimate powers that be'...'Boom.' was integrated into the story to the point that...nevermind.

That will be fun to remember at some point.

LOL 4EVR

I wonder if it's taken?

It's not 'in your own mind' when it's written down.

;)

Let that sink in.

When life is like a bad comedy, laugh at every chance you get. ;)

Laugh at every chance you get regardless of what life is like.

Well, this is what happens when one is invisible grabbing sh*t out of thin air.

;)

+AES

The Dimension of Thought

2009-05-13T16:14:00.001-07:00

Just something to think about.

;)

+AES

And it just keeps coming...

2009-05-12T21:45:00.000-07:00

Oh just great, apparently via some highly-questionable news source, the pontiffs are weighing in. Ha. I wonder if they've had a MySpace-sponsored reality check lately?

Nevermind. Here's whatever random but interesting article we received today.

Try to make sense of it if you can.

I'm not nice, I'm fair.

That is the long and short of it.

I'm also told I'm 'highly creative' and 'capable' by my peers. We're working on the tapped outlet for it as we speak.

Just keep track, that's where I see the future headed.

Society is going to have to adapt to the technology, it's as simple as that.

I told you, the God of Technology is a serious force to be reckoned with. Ya think?

You know what I've noticed?

Many of the people who are outwardly slutty, also seem to have a bi-polar relationship with emotions. Wow. Do you have any idea how happy I am I don't have to deal with drama like that?

I mean the MySpace thing is an interesting experiment and all, but there are some WTF? cats out there these days. Their behavior is even more stupid than mine from a distance, so remind me to only associate closely with people I respect.

Don't worry, there's a cross-over clause.

Which is, if you aren't what you say you are, then all bets are off.

What's a Symbologist?

Gotta run...

:)

+AES

Tygrrr v. Gangs

2009-05-11T20:18:00.000-07:00

So it's Monday. Wow, one seventh of my life is comprised of Mondays. Who knew?

Or maybe you always knew, but just never thought about it like that.

If your belief is that Mondays are miserable, then perhaps you haven't designed your life right?

Hey, guilty as charged...but that's before I A.) didn't know better and B.) tried anything but the theoretically impossible.

There are varying levels of impossible my friends. For apparently the world has blessed me with yet another level of WTF to start this week off.

(insert lesbian gangs)

Now then, the thought of some protective matrix of mutually hand-chosen sex icons seems almost logical if nothing else...but, ummm...that's not the kind of gangs the report was about.

Here, MotherforTruth sent it to me via Current.

http://current.com/items/90036352_lesbian-gangs.htm

Oh yeah, if you ever wanna know how I really feel, I've been a regular voice on Current under the screen names TheColorYellow and damnneargenius. Knock yourselves out. :)

Anywho, enough about me.

You would like a demonstration of ability instead?

Sidetrack: Hey, look what came in the mail today...I haven't watched it yet, but, given the theme, it seems convenient don't you think?

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/32425-science-of-the-impossible-becoming-invisible-video.htm

Of course you can't be invisible visibly, but metaphorically....

Man, our society is full of invisible people.

Allow me to explain how a certain more effective thought process might work...

Imagine if only I apply what I haven't been?

Well, that depends on you of course. What is it that you want?

What do you think the world would be like from different perspectives?

Where would you like to start?

What is the one thing you would like to experience being besides being your current self?

What is the one thing you want more than anything else?

Now then, do you want to try and find out how we attain that?

And Mike probably thinks buying Snuggies is dumb, except as symbolic mockery of yourself for wearing it.

Hey, seriously, all the presumably cool kids are doing it.

Well...in certain circles at least.

Who me?

Not I.

But I've noticed the trend.

;)

Let's see, where was I? Oh yes, promising to find a way to make your wildest dreams come true in modifying your performance to achieve them. Hey, until virtual reality gets here, I can only bend the rules of reality so much.

So, do you want to be part of history?

You are your own history, so make it something nice right?

I can only imagine where my life will be in 30 years.

How can I build a temple on the Playboy foundation?

It that thinking too 'big'?

Oh hey, it's Playboy Mike Stevens texting me...as I'm ignoring the Colbert Report in the background.

(facepalm)

Hang on.

The text message says "DO IT".

Ummm...damn my short-term memory all to hell. Damn I'm good.

But luckily, it's not about me, it's about you, but I'm just on your side in trying to help you achieve a level or reality that is surreal in a good way...like religion, but with modern branding and concepts.

Is that so wrong?

It's not about me, it's about designing things that work.

So, whatever it is we're doing, it has to be real, it can't just be talk.

Wait, what are we doing again?

Oh, that's what we're talking about?

Well isn't this going seemingly too according to plan?

Do you believe you can do whatever it is you're aspiring to do?

On what grounds?

I don't know, reality stars are going to be starring in reality in the way I design the game.

Now then, all we have to do is come up with a definition of star...

Is cocaine a star?

Is sex a star?

So people that use those to 'boost' their star power...should be asterisked*? But...

Am I on a tangent again?

No worries. The beautiful news is I have a list of objectives...that I lost a long time ago.

I would like to end by saying, you're all wonderful people if you've taken the time to read this.

;)

BTW...Mike was actually texting me about my offer to send Colbert the link to his 'The Real Navy' video, but upon watching Colbert eat cat food on his show...well, that's the only reason I thought of the video in the first place. I've never seen anyone do that except them. Wow, I suppose that's priceless in the 'hey my friends are...ummm...nevermind' category.

Mike is funny in how he just doesn't give a fook.

I'm funny in how much I pretend I do to the point that it becomes real.

Isn't that how the behavior control model is supposed to work?

Christianity just doesn't seem...ummm...real enough for me, so trying to stand on those Christian morals I was heavily influenced by without believing the hype is interesting...and quite difficult if not occasionally seeming equally pointless.

Southern California is like jungle in many ways, and if God is so great and powerful, I'm not sure why he tolerates so much bullshit.

But why?

Why do you go to church?

Why not...right?

Well...that's all I'm saying. Either way, there is reason behind it.

Those reasons can be measured and weighed, and no, I have no idea where I'm going with this. I am just bored and forcing myself to write everyday.

I'm going to watch that video on how to become invisible.

See ya'll round cyberspace.

;)

+AES

Update: 7 seconds in..."Science of the Impossible" and dramatic music. I like it already.

Invisible women running into each other huh? Wow. That's intense.

I don't know how many dimensions there are, all I know is that humans have the equivalent of ant brains we don't completely/remotely? understand, or else we wouldn't have the world wired as we do. People are funny creatures, myself included. ;)

Here's 1: The First Person dimension. Imagine if the entire world is watching you through your own perspective. How many people think/act that way? Why? So where is the soul in that equation? Front and center right?

The Token Sunday Entry

2009-05-10T18:11:00.000-07:00

Although on a totally unrelated note, Happy Mother's Day Mom!!!...except, ummm...the only thing is, my mother refuses to read this. lol

Wow. Oh well, here we are again.

Hello world!

(Hello Allen!)

What have you done today to make the world a better place Allen?

Ummm...bitched about certain elements of the 'thought control' system that seem quite obviously broken?

Sure. Fine. Close enough.

I was disappointed in Obama's comedy routine in that he could have made it look less lap-dogish, but the jokes were quite good.

But having the entire system designed so piss-poorly and painfully as those in charge glow is a little eerie don't you think? I mean, I know, I know...my own behavior is occasionally imperfect...but then again, I'm not officially leader of the free world.

I'm officially leader of the New World!

OH!!!! Take that. I called it! Sweet. Now that I'm leader of the New World just because I said it, may I request a movement towards higher standards of full disclosure in all forms of entertainment that might be taken as non-fiction otherwise?

No?

K. Fine.

In that case I'll just go back to writing about my real life. Bor-ing. Rode the motorcycle along the beach to get some sun and impulsively put off a long, long, long delayed trip to Best Buy to get a new digital camera.

Last one got stolen after I had given all my old/other ones to my mom...and I just kept putting off buying a new one...not sure why.

Well, at least we'll soon have the ability to take pictures again....yay...go me!

Haven't watched TV today, so I don't have anything to be upset about.

Classic.

Happy Mother's Day anyway!

MenforWomenNow.com

Now then, would could I reverse that marketing strategy for?

:)

;)

+AES

Fooking non-believers.

2009-05-08T20:56:00.000-07:00

So Mike doesn't say that he doesn't believe in my semi-nonsensical storyline, just that it's highly unusual and possibly crazy, but yet he is afraid that it's real enough that if he exposes his mind to verify or not, then he'll believe it too.

Wow.

Funniest shit I've ever heard. ...watching him argue against it and religion in the same way is priceless.

Then he showed me Colbert addressing the AP. I had no idea. That's pretty damn funny any way about it.

Alright, fine, I'll listen to my own advice for a change.

;)

Is it possible to have 'spells' of dyslexia?

(;

Just curious.

(:

+AES

P.S. Oh yes, I also stumbled across Christopher Hitchens. Entertaining stuff.

P.P.S. I apologize for not knowing how to write but writing anyway. (high five for the drive though?)

P.P.P.S. You can see random conversations across the country "Why won't you just put the damn Snuggie on?" Nevermind. Inside joke.

The Surreal Skynet

2009-05-06T21:16:00.000-07:00

Thanks Jerry!

The rhetoric of these guys reminds me of...

Well, I kinda like how they think: http://skynetresearch.com/

I'm going to go finish watching their infomercial now. They claim they are the future.

They may very well be right.

Have a great evening!

:)

+AES

P.S. Can I make requests of things I want Artificial Intelligence and robots for? It looks like it's a company out of a movie or something.

P.P.S. #1 would be Education. #2 would be my own brand of FemBots. lol

P.P.P.S. Ha. I knew it. If you watch the infomercial all the way to the end, there's a glimpse of where this is going or at least who's behind it.

Yellow is the New Black.

2009-05-06T11:43:00.000-07:00

...and Invisible is the new Yellow

"Tell me about +he WYZARD projec+." was the request.

My reply was:

"It's just a little hobby of mine."

The more-extensive truth is...

It's a really long, complicated story about me pretending to design a partially open-source 'social engineering' template via the media and possibly certain elements of Hollywood to conquer/save/or at least mildly entertain myself and possibly the world one day.

Yeah, I know. I guess it's best described as an exaggerated, over-the-top, satirical political plot to create a hidden 'brand'. A brand hidden between the lines on TV.

Although my ideas were just distributed in a one-way direction to random elements of the American media to see what kind of traction they might get, from that point on is where the story gets much more confusing and complicated, depending on which elements of it one knew about, saw, or didn't see right in front of them.

It's basically a political entertainment 'theme'.

I tried to explain it to one of my best friends from college today who hadn't been paying attention at all and wasn't remotely aware of what I was talking about, and it made me realize it's just one of those things you have to start paying attention to in order to see it.

Beyond people individually reading my essays/blog posts, it's hard to even describe or believe possible.

Although the number of purely coincidental references to the specific elements of it on a spectrum of television will really make you start wondering ...and what's on the other side of the curtain is fairly clear yet technically still unknown.

In summary: Your guess is as good as mine. Well, no, probably not even close...but that's what makes it a game. You'll just have to start paying closer attention to what I write and the handful of TV shows listed on my MySpace page as well as a more generalized political context that isn't.

It's actually a blur of many different conditions, circumstances, and ideas.

The idea is to make people think about everything that's going on in the world from outside the historical perspective box and backwards from my futuristic perspective instead.

It's a very unique hobby to say the least. Could someone actually hide a storyline secretly in front of the eyes of millions on TV? That would be crazy.

And if true...

One of the coolest things...ever?

Well, I guess that depends on whether or not one believes...before the proof.

Just last night on The Daily Show Jon Stewart made a white tiger reference in one of his jokes...

Coincidence?

Add it to the list.

:)

Nothing to see here.

Carry on.

;)

+AES

Shiny, Flashy, Loud & Fast

2009-05-05T17:46:00.000-07:00

No, not Paris Hilton.

My friend Mike's Viper.

Back in college this was the 'reasonable' dream car of choice, and slightly over a decade later, he's got one.

Still very cool.

He lives up north but drove it down to show off to me since he had a meeting in San Diego this week. When driven, it leaves a wake of chirping car alarms behind it from the roar of the exhaust, which I seem to find highly amusing.

Anywho, today we took it out for a quick tour of Hollywood and the coast. On one hand it's cool to have a car that everyone stares at you in, on the other hand I felt like I was in high school again wondering who in God's name cares whether a bunch of strangers are impressed with your ride.

I gave him a quick tour of Hollywood and Beverly Hills before going to visit my sister's store in Malibu then driving back down the coast to Long Beach.

It was a pretentiously laid back day--but next time I go riding in a convertible all day I'm going to apply sunscreen before the day is 2/3 over.

I presume since I let Mike borrow/play with many of my toys back in the day, on the way back he said "Here, drive it." Something I really had no desire to do, but I drove it home anyway.

The unfortunate thing I realized in doing so is that my token desire for a Ferrari is even more token than I realized. I mean, sure, yeah, it's cool having a head-turner like that...but unlike back in high school, college, and possibly through my 20's...I felt just a little cheesy about it for some reason.

I never thought I would say this, but, perhaps the bright yellow exotic sports car is overkill?

I mean, Mike loves it because he seems to be on a mission from God to try and attract the attention of as many easy women as humanly possible, but given all my introspective, presumed maturity-type realizations over the past several years, I just couldn't understand any value in attracting the attention of women or strangers on such hollow pretense.

I guess this all goes back to that fear of being desired for my material possessions instead of me as a person, but in our society it kind of seems like you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Oh well, it was fun and interesting to talk to Mike anyway, because he's one of those crazy friends I had back in college that kind of put my more recent life-perspective in context.

I uploaded a few pics to MySpace, but I didn't really want to show that side of things b/c I'm afraid it sends the wrong message about me and will possibly attract the wrong type of attention.

My sister and her business partner's store, Revolution Malibu, was pretty cool though.

To quote Mike "They do Rockstar Bedazzling."...which seemed like a highly accurate assessment.

Well, nonetheless, apparently lots of celebrities and rich people seem to think their style of 'Rockstar Bedazzling' is cool...so check out her website/blog if you're curious.

http://revolutionmalibu.blogspot.com/

Nick Nolte's pajamas? WTF?

Yeah, I know. But she gave me some cool coasters to replace a few that she had given me before that got broken 'somewhere in that blurry part of my story'.

I uploaded a shot of those to the Mobile Photos on my MySpace profile as well in case you're curious.

They actually do have pretty cool stuff there. I'm not necessarily into what's fashionable at the moment or that current 'Rockstar-style' of silk-screening and stitching...but apparently a lot of people much cooler or at least more famous and well-off than me are, so they've got something going on.

That's it.

No more time to report. I have to take my partially sun burnt ass to class to review this week's handful of video editing project submissions.

Talk soon?

lol

;)

+AES

How to travel around the world...

2009-05-03T16:26:00.000-07:00

...vicariously.

More details to follow.

I'm trying to be constructive and work on my video editing project at the moment. It is totally WTF? exactly as it is designed to be.

Have a great day!

+AES

P.S. Note to self: Don't forget to explain the nigerian scam WTF's on MySpace. Man...if I ruled the world...

The details to follow:

What this dude has done is pretty damn cool --> http://www.flashpackerbackpacking.com/

For the love of WTF?

2009-05-03T01:13:00.000-07:00

There is no God.

Want proof?

Just my simple thought process and experiences of the evening.

So, there I was...

there I was...

there I was...

Bored as hell...sitting at home...pissing away my life avoiding working on my creative assignments to watch TV and prowl the online social networking thing offering feedback and random observations...

F-ing boring right?

Exactly. I suppose if I had a girlfriend to keep me company, I would be content...

But the point of relationships is to find love not just kill time...right?

Eh, it varies I suppose.

Anywho, it is still the ultimate irony that I find myself once again pulled into going to a bar of all places just to get out of the house and meet people in the area. I mean, I would be infinitely happier to be curled up at home in bed with a highly attractive object of my affection...but there I go having these high standards as always.

On the way to the club my mind is filled with this WTF? am I doing feeling, because I really have no desire to be there...but being in Long Beach until I get to the next phase of my career transition, the options are kind of limited...then again, I haven't really been trying that hard to find 'companionship'...completely avoiding it actually, so I suppose this entire scenario makes sense.

On the way to the club all I could think about was updating my MySpace status to say: It is the ultimate irony that all I've wanted is to find 'true love' my entire life, and instead I'm doing this.

WTF?

Yeah, I know. The irony of ironies. And even more so, I write about these Playboy-esque schemes on having multiple girlfriends to theorhetically protect me from one another, but in reality everytime I've been in scenarios most guys can only dream about, I'm still thinking...no...I don't want to do anything that I can't one day tell my future wife about.

Crazy right?

Well, it's just the way my stupid brain thinks. It thinks it knows what it wants, but it just doesn't know where to find it, and according to my father's role model, I have lots of time still remaining in the game. Lots of time.

Will I look back and regret that I wasn't a 'serial dater' or player like everyone else?

Eh, maybe, maybe not.

I still think low mileage and the strength to be emotionally independent and alone is sexy.

Kind of like keeping an exotic sportscar in the garage to preserve its condition even as time passes. It doesn't make it any less valuable, and it should make it more valuable right? It's a little older, but still has really low mileage and only gets better looking and more valuable with age. Sue me.

If I want it in someone else, I have to demonstrate it myself right?

Err...Allen, you see in our society there is a double-standard. You're supposed to chase girls, sleep with as many as you want, and then get the good girl anyway.

Ummm...yeah, but that doesn't seem fair? And what if I don't like easy women and prefer high quality over quantity to the point that I've demonstrated it to the extents that I have?

I want things that other people who don't deserve them can't have.

Well, in that case, fuck it, just be yourself.

Fair enough.

As my dad said "Well son, they all want to fuck you and they all want to marry you." It is a paradox when it comes to that whole respect versus meaningless sex verus love thing, but I can think of worse problems to have or at least much worse hands to be stuck with playing.

So here I am looking for my dreamgirl, or dreamgirl matrix, or just happily playing with the grown ups filling my mind with politics and comedy...and going through the motions of being a social creature...but it still isn't necessarily me. And life still damn sure ain't fair.

Point and case:

So there I was at the club keeping myself totally sober tonight, but there saying hi to the people I know and meeting whatever new kids cross my path. I actually brought a semi-pro videocamera in with me tonight just to get some B-roll footage to possibly edit together a promo video or something, although since I've taken my video editing project in a different direction already, I'm not sure if I'll actually ever get around to it.

So anywho, back to the whole 'there is no God and I've clearly tried too hard to be too much in life for no reason' thing...

There I was saying hi to Ryan, the club manager (I call him the Captain because he's like 6'6" and reminds of a pirate captain), and he introduced me to the two girls that were with him.

Attractive girls, like so many, but what made them interesting and worth noting is their story:

I don't remember their names (sorry), but their claim to fame is that they work at Sunset Tan, apparently the tanning salon in that reality show on E!

Here's a cookie, congratulations on being important, so what's the plan again?

"For the love of Beau"

Come again? For the love of what?

"No, for the love of Beau. See, Beau is our friend, and we want to travel across the country to find him love...wanna come along and film us?"

Ummm...OK. Who, what?

"Well, actually his name is Victor, and we want to travel across the country and find him love and make a show about it. Here, come meet him."

(follow girls through patio to bar)

And there we meet Victor, who is apparently their hair stylist, but he seemed like a nice enough guy.

My only question is, where do I find girls that will do shit like that for me?

I clearly went wrong somewhere.

They actually seemed quite serious about it. While we were there I even hypothesized it in enough detail on how they would approach finding Victor some options for 'love' using MySpace first...and then they could just chart a course and go meet them one at a time or whatever.

Their budget seemed kind of low, but if they are affiliated with a show on a major TV network, then if there is any merit to the idea then they should be able to get sponsors for it.

And here I was just looking for an excuse to go cross-country in a Winnebago recording a documentary about whatever...and this guy has got random chicks excitedly plotting plans to do it for him.

And Victor's plan of it is "he just wants to go across country banging these chicks or whatever".

I quit. Here I've been saving all these people all these years, and trying to find the ultimate career to make the ultimate use of my God-given talents and one and only known shot at life...and I could have just been a hairstylist and apparently been much better off?

(facepalm)

Eh, too late now. lol

Perhaps they meant 'luv'? If you were a girl, and people are selling you 'love', does Victor have the kind of mindset you want to be falling in love with and thinking about marrying?

Guys that love to bang chicks love to bang chicks whether or not you're dating them, so it seems like a recipe for disaster when it comes to feelings like 'love' and fidelity, but I guess that's par for the course in our modern Roman society.

There in lies the paradox. If a girl thought/behaved like that ("I'm going to bang all these guys"), I would say "Don't touch me slut." and leave it at that. So when it comes to women, I don't think or act like that, because if the kind of girls I want thought that same way, I would be disgusted by them. On the otherhand, I have the God-given traits that would make such an approach easily viable, and maybe I've just been trying WAY too hard to be the ultra-good guy and not sleep around.

If you're attractive, you have lots of options. So if you're attractive and you're easy, then what makes you worth anything?

And there is that glaring double-standard that might be easier to accept rather than try and create my own 'brand' of priceless women. Hmmm...

Eh, we all go through phases. I suppose there's always the Ben Franklin model to copy...

Here karma... Here karma... Where's that Ferrari?

Nevermind.

I highly doubt these chicks will actually follow through with their epic vision, but they certainly seemed excited enough about it that it kind of inspired me and reminded me that, by not chosing anything, there is still a whole world of options at my fingertips.

I don't fear failure, I fear success. Success pigeonholes you into whichever direction you found it in. Just like with relationships, I fear commitment to the point that I don't want to even bother wasting my time or their's. Then again, there is always the Paris Hilton model of 'serial dating'...but isn't it just a little weird watching her behavior?

I don't have room to talk? Shit, yeah, but if I had her fame, do you even realize what a badass rolemodel I would try to be? When it comes to having a high-profile public image, it shouldn't be about the person's selfish desires, it should be about the message they are sending to millions. There is a difference. That should be the price of 'celebrity'. I monitor my behavior as if it is under the public microscope constantly and always have, but I guess most people don't think or act that way.

Hmmm...

Well, the footage I got talking to them and me just talking to the camera while walking through the parking lot of the club is probably pretty damn hilarious anyway.

Pseudo-celebrites everywhere!

(faceplam)

Here karma...

lol

'night!

;)

+AES

Skin Deep

2009-05-01T13:33:00.000-07:00

Here's a question:

If someone wasn't interested in you, and that was fine and cool, until they found out you were well-off and/or famous, then suddenly they were, would that make you feel bad? Insecure?

How would you treat them?

How should you treat them?

But it is completely understandable right?

Is this not the prevalent dynamic that catalyzes the concept of 'celebrity' in our culture?

A bunch of people with cameras? I've recently discovered girls that are just like MySpace micro-celebrities. Hell, even some of the girls I've dated have been mini-celebrities in certain circles. But why does one so desperately seem to need/want that attention, even if it's obvious by God's will to begin with?

God wouldn't have made you attractive if he didn't want people to look at you, right? So isn't it a given that you're attractive, and you don't need people to tell you that constantly? But what happens when that's all they see or care about? Is the human condition of most only as skin deep as it seems?

Hmmm...

The funny thing about dating trophies is you have to expect other people to look at them, that's what makes you feel special or whatever. It's a status symbol I suppose. But if you don't approach people that are in respectfully committed relationships, why would you fear people admiring your trophy?...unless your trophy is admiring them back?

Things that make you go hmmm...

Be prepared...this is a TOTALLY random entry pieced together at different times in reference to different things that have crossed my radar and feeble mind recently...but the examples I cite are a bit dated, although they have relevance in regard to social context and the impacts on behavior and thinking.

Yeah, ummm...whatever Allen, just start rambling already please so we an get this over with?

K. Fine.

To be honest, I was never fascinated with the fact that my ex-g/f became a Laker Girl while I was dating her...with my help and support. I kind of liked her more before that role consumed her entire sense of self-worth. She was just as hot before, we had just as many if not even more good times, and she was just as much of a trophy...my trophy, not one that always had to be on public display. But even when she was, it wasn't any big deal. I was cool b/c I could get my friends that gave a damn about basketball Lakers tickets, and it was kind of cool having all the Laker Girls hanging out at your house and going out as a group...but from the point that happened onward, our relationship changed in a way.

It was no longer "Allen's dating Candy...wow, look at her.", it suddenly became "You're dating a Laker Girl?"

WTF?

I guess 'celebrity' is rarely about the person, it's just about the hype machine and facial or brand recognition courtesy of the mass media distribution network. I mean, with all due respect, have you read some of these peoples tweets? lol

So anywho...

After Candy became a Laker Girl, our entire normal conversation with people changed because they saw the brand and position as something they recognized from TV.

Kind of like a game of Memory.

How fooked up is that?

They could care less about her talent, but I always had her do backflips and all kinds of crazy shit just to impress people anyway.

lol Wait, that might not have come out right. She was the acrobatic one of the bunch, so occasionally she would like to showoff her skills by doing backflips down the street or whatever...and I simply never stopped her.

See I'm not all super-careful and perfect all the time. Hell, I'm about to actually write this and post it, knowing damn well it is outside of the mainstream thinking (but not outside understanding where I'm coming from ;).

I did try to stop her from the fastlane drugs and friends...but that one kind of backfired. Damn you Hollywood! lol After we broke up over it, I went on my merry way. When she randomly just showed up in my house one day without having heard a word from her in 3 years, I then tried to 'save' her from the drug spiral she was apparently deeply in...and that beyond painfully backfired as well. She damn near destroyed herself, then I damn near destroyed myself trying to save her, then her parents finally came and took her back to Florida long after the damage had already been done and they ignored my begging and pleading for that year of hell.

Another reason I'm not too thrilled by people who call themselves Christians...yeah, they went to church, but their daughter still went semi-badgirl, and when the shit really hit the fan as a result and I sacrificed myself and damn near sanity trying to bring her back from the edge, instead of listening, caring, and stepping in to help...they just prayed. Fucking wow. I was not a happy camper about that at the time. Granted, she was lying to them and quite possibly me about everything, but that's also another reason I don't think indoctrinating people with lies is the way to teach them how to be truly upstanding human beings for the right reasons. God our society needs a 2,000-year upgrade.

It took awhile to get over those never-believed-possible experiences. The girl I respected and dated back in the day had let her desire for attention and fun lead her into the wrong company, and when she came back asking for my help, I was so traumatized by what had happened to her life and behavior I felt I had to try and 'save' her to restore my previous respect for her as a person I once put on a pedestal like the rest.

Ummm...yeah. I recommend not trying that. It was tough trying to understand that the person I had dated and lived with for over two years was in fact more the creation of my own doing than her own character. Without me, she fell. And once she fell I even tried to pick her back up as a person and friend, only to find the person was never remotely the person I had made her out to be in the first place. At some point she did thank me for saving her life, but I still don't think her family remotely knows what she was doing or what she put me though, and I'm not sure she ever apologized for damn near destroying my life.

Oh well. Let bygones be bygones. She did phone in her condolences when my dad died a few years back, but that's the last I heard from her.

Add that to the list of other women I've tried to save and the consequent impact on my life, and you'll see why I think karma owes me....big time.

Anywho, I think the point I was trying to make was something about fame, behavior, and insecurity sometimes being the driving forces behind self-destructive or at least semi-pointless, hollow behavior.

Why would someone care if half a million strangers know who they are instead of being famous amongst a handful of close, respectable, mutually-important friends and peers? And judge them on what they look like?

What's the difference between a friend, an admirer, and a fan?

Sheer numbers provided by the platform and marketing machines?

But what about quality, close personal support, and finding oneself completely satiated?

Can the paparazzi, fans, and admirers give you that? Not likely. Everyone only has so much time to divide amongst others. Choose them very carefully.

I have noticed with the advent of digital technology, lots of cute girls are in love with their cameras and themselves. It's kind of cute in a way because it reminds me of me...or at least how I used to be--always worried about making the best impression. But at some point I out grew it...even though I still haven't completely. I still look in mirrors when I walk by them, although my house is no longer filled with mirrors (as it was back in the day for purely decorative purposes...except...well, nevermind...) so there is far less desire to be so self-conscious.

Who am I trying to impress anyway? Women? Which one(s)? Myself? Which one(s)? My friends? My true friends? All of them? I don't know. That comes with an interesting paradox. I eventually learned what my parents had told me about the perils of attractive women, and I got so sick of going on modeling auditions and just being judged on what I looked like with my shirt off and not my mind that I made efforts to decondition myself from focusing on aesthetic beauty. It made me resent only being seen for what I look like, even though back in the day that was much more important to me.

If you have a mind that you believe is far more beautiful than you are on the outside, but yet everyone always just looks at your body and puts you in that 'underwear model' category, how do you make people appreciate what's on the inside first before getting thrown in the disgusting pile with all other people who are just cute on the outside?

Fuck that. All cute people are not created equal. My problem has been settling for physical beauty while assuming that a similar spiritual beauty existed in these other creatures that were aesthetically acceptable, but that is not the case and the odds are statistically stacked way against it.

But what is the purpose of life if not to find or engineer a like-minded exception to the rule or two? :)

Objects of prolific beauty attract attention by default, so it's a given that people who have always been beautiful will attract attention, they are used to it. But what if they want people to see what's on the inside because that's what matters more? Would they intentionally hide their beauty just to try and find worthy people who could appreciate their inner beauty more deeply?

Once you've been around someone constantly for more than a few months, do you even notice their physical appearance or just their 'presence' more often than not?

When that point is reached, what happens to all the relationships that were built on foundations of plastic and the purely drug-like allure of sex much less lies or secrecy?

Not pretty.

Hugh Hefner is cool and I would like to design an improved, more sophisticated version of what he engineered for himself one day, but is it conceivable to think of super-intelligent, low-mileage, drop-dead gorgeous but still classy dreamgirls organizing themselves into protective groups?

I mean, I can't lie, the thought of seeing passion and love through a kaleidoscope and in multiples intrigues me, but yet you would want the girls all to be there by heartfelt desire, not financial here-take-off-your-clothes contract. I want romance and passion, not just lust and sex. Sue me.

But doesn't that require an element of respect and exclusivity like everything else?

I wouldn't want the girls to take off their clothes for anyone they didn't want to or under false representation/pretense, and, in theory, the fewer the number of people they took off their clothes for, the more valuable they would be. I don't want people to be seen just as sex objects, but appreciated completely as human beings with the full package. I guess we can call this my 'Diamond Theory' of human sexual behavior, but I have no idea how much traction it will have in today's reality. Since I'm just a rare specimen of a guy that kind of thinks like a girl (or at least takes the girl's perspective and well-being into account equally) ...and gets constantly mocked for it...not a girl, I can only propose these 'dream theories', but the girls would have to make it happen.

I may be totally off, but in a society that has such a high and-ever-worsening divorce rate, gays everywhere, and almost shameful role models indoctrinating the masses into short-sighted behavior on TV, I figure it damn sure can't hurt to throw my ideas out there as usual and let them land where they may.

The goal is to find a way to design and install value-added behavior protocols for girls by having them lean on each other for support rather than being subjected to the bullshit behavior and lies of most men in our society. Not all men, but most stereotypical men, are jerks and I would love nothing more than to invent a way for girls to protect each other from such predatory, disrespectful mindsets while adding value to themselves and finding comfort, respect, security, and even possibly pleasure amongst themselves along the way. I guess the theory is like pimping girls out only for true love and respect instead of sex. Crazy? Yes, but it sounds like a dream to me.

The funny thing is, if I found the right girl all this overthinking would be completely unnecessary, but like I said, what I consider eligible women are few and far between, and I'm intentionally in no hurry to get stuck in anything, so there is lots of room to move.

All it really takes is the will and the way.

So, how does this game work?

Well, this 'brand' of girl suddenly has unparalleled value and security as a human being far beyond sex, and the security and emotional, (sexual if so desired) protection of each other in the meantime. Sounds fair and smart, right?

I just dreamed of one dreamgirl to marry back in high school, but life has beat me up, and I learned some things, and now it could be argued that life REALLY owes me. I mean, if you've got money, money doesn't matter to you, but love still does to various extents, so why not try and find ways to find what you're missing in exchange for trading things you have more than enough of?

We all have different strengths and weaknesses, but I think as a society we can do better than the Millionaire Matchmaker.

Never sell out.

If the idea is to have your cake and eat it with insurance too, and all it takes is a little daydreaming and planning, then...well, I'm just saying, as you watch the news, and watch people's behavior, and you possibly try to figure out WTF is really going on...just think about 'outside the box' solutions like this and how they could apply to different people.

Being the ultimate center of attention is obviously not the life desired by everyone, but what if you had the best of both worlds and the choice at your fingertips? What if you could have everything, overnight, because you worked for it...would you want the ?????

It's all just hypothetical of course.

Ding.

That was a yet another random idea...hmmm...well, it damn sure makes for an interesting script.

Damnit! Something just occurred to me: The odds of finding girls on that level or finding a world of girls on that level are next to non-existant.

Any girls that have been brought into the world have already defaulted into different categories depending on the options presented to them and the world view they were taught or learned along the way. Damnit! Lord? Why must I live on a level that provides such a small, small group of viable options?

How can I take the Playboy template and intelligently, respectfully improve on it? I want my brand to stand for something as close to perfect as possible, not just meaningless sex.

Here karma... Here karma... Come on karma... Good karma...

For Christ's sake, you know, it's one thing that the Ferrari hasn't just fallen out of the sky yet, but this whole career retraining thing is taking forever (a few months Allen?) where I'm at because I don't have the right influences training me...namely me.

Doh!

Law of Attraction huh?

The Secret?

If you say so, I always look for designed coincidence, that's what makes it science not magic.

There is a difference, because everything has a source. Now then, tracking down the source in a world of relatively infinite information (in comparison to our brain's ability) isn't easy...but, ummm..., what if there were forces at work far beyond that???

Huh...ya think just maybe?

What's the difference between faith and indoctrination?

One is real and clear and can be proven, the other is caused by the denial of it.

Fooked up world we live in, but it looks like it will be a lot of fun to upgrade over time.

It's about the climb right? Yeah...that's what you think until you've already seen the top and threw yourself back down on a bet with yourself that if you made it back up you win everything. Even when you're almost to the top of the proverbial mountain the second time...I guarantee at that point you are thinking "fuck the climb".

...but you keep climbing anyway because it has something to do with building character...

And proving some undoubtedly stupid but I presume often overlooked point.

"Don't do stupid shit."

Yeah, but what's better: "Here's why...in detail."

Or at least that's the theory.

Any questions?

WTF?

Exactly. I hypothesize, you decide.

Or at least stand to see there are usually more than two ways to solve a problem.

There is more than one way to train a circus audience, and there is more than one way to perform in it.

Midget porn stars on stage with Britney on top of everything else that's happened in the world this year? Why do I fear some sort of man-made Biblical plague is being theorized?

Would Hugh Jackman still be attractive to women if he was poor and not famous?

What if he was a porn star?

Hey, it's not my society (yet), I'm just asking questions about how people analyze it.

I suppose I've dug my imaginary hole deep enough for one night. Yes, this was written at night.

See ya'll next time!!!

(I so cannot believe I'm going to publish this)

:)~

+AES

BOOM mothafookers!

2009-05-01T11:03:00.000-07:00

So I made some off-hand slightly smartassed comment on my friend Doug's (the rocket scientist) Facebook update. As it turns out a friend of his who apparently is another rocket scientist/writer of some type found what I said WTF? enough to actually write an exceptionally in-depth response.

Here it is, and following it is my response back to him. I presume it is totally deeper than most people like to go, but it actually did illustrate things quite well in a rather unexpected way.

(Pretty girls just reading my writing b/c I'm kinda cute, there is a 99% chance you will totally not give a damn about this entry.)

Space As a Remedy for Solving Society's Problems

I have a long answer and a short answer to a posting I read on Facebook. Rather than go over-long there, I have decided to post the answer here. Here's what one FB fan wrote about funding the space program:

you rocket scientists need to come up with a way to address the world's social problems upfront and center for good, and then you won't have to see technology competing with social Idiocracy beyond your control.
Sorry, after living in So Cal for the past decade, I see social decay that is hard to ignore, so I don't understand, if we can't even design a system to solve our own deep social problems on Earth (i.e. the concept of non-conditioned/created 'enemies') first, what business do we have hypothesizing spreading of the still nuclear-war rigged human condition elsewhere?

First, let's translate this into the real, most-often-asked question of space advocates: "Why should we spend all that money on space when there are so many more important things to be done here on Earth?" The specific variant the poster asked was, "Why can't the space program be used to solve social problems here on Earth?" The short answer is: it can't, but that's not why it's there.

Hereafter follows the long answer.

Let's start with the concept of "more important." That is, of course, a value judgment. One might ask, "What is more important, understanding better how the universe functions or having enough to eat?" Now the Earth-firsters will think that having enough to eat is the no-brainer "right" answer.

Investments in New Knowledge and Technology Always Pay Off
But consider: if some part of this nation is engaged in fundamental research about the way, say, the Earth's ecosystem works, they could find new, more efficient, more productive, less harmful ways to use land or grow crops. Such second-hand effects, typically called spinoffs, inevitably lead to new knowledge that allows other segments of society to benefit. The process runs as follows:

Learn about the Earth ==> Use the land better ==> Grow more food ==> Food becomes cheaper ==> Fewer starving people

Is this a direct path? No. But it is a concrete, real-world explanation of how investments in space can help reduce social problems like hunger.

Why Investments in Technology Have an Advantage Over Direct Aid
The next argument from the previous discussion would be: "Why not spend that money directly on the poor and hungry here on Earth and eliminate all those intermediate steps?"

Let's start with the federal budget...we'll use 2008, a budget which has already passed. This relatively modest budget (compared to the $3.7 trillion for '09) included $17.3 billion for NASA. The budget for unemployment payments, welfare, and other direct transfers of wealth (entitlements) was $324 billion. That means that welfare spending is nearly 19 times as much as what is spent on government-funded civilian space activities. If you don't like that example, the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as of 2007, had cost the taxpayers $368 billion--21 times NASA's budget--and that doesn't even include the regular Department of Defense budget, which was another $481 billion, or nearly 28 times NASA's budget. Throw in Medicare and Medicaid totaled up to $1.2 trillion for 2008, and you get over 69 times the NASA budget. "All that money on space?" Really, now.

But let's return to the social welfare example, which addresses the questioner's original concern--aid to the poor, social welfare, and direct aid to people in need of some sort. At $324 billion a year, the government spent over $887 million a day in direct welfare payments. That means, if you zeroed out NASA's budget and turned all those funds over to welfare, you'd help feed those folks for 19 days. So, great: you've fed folks at a slightly higher level for just under three weeks. What opportunity costs have you given up by spending that way?

Spending NASA's budget directly on welfare doesn't make sense, in part because that money is not doing much more than being consumed in the form of food, shelter, and clothing, and once consumed is gone. Now consider the opportunity costs you missed out on by not spending that $17.3 billion on space technology. You miss out on:

The new satellite(s), which bring you the data that teaches you about the environment.
The new technologies built into the satellite, such as new cameras, sensors, and electronics, all of which advance the state of the art and can be used for applications here on Earth.
The jobs created by building the hardware, infrastructure, and research that led to increased scientific knowledge and better farm productivity, which led to better living standards for everyone, not just the poor individual receiving a check. And note that not all of these jobs are of the "rocket scientist" (aerospace engineer) or environmental scientist variety. There are white-collar workers, such as logisticians, accountants, and administrative assistants, who are employed by NASA and the companies supporting the programs. Blue-collar workers are hired to build the launch towers and rockets, drive the trucks that transport raw materials and hardware, and yes, clean the offices and maintain the grounds of the various facilities needed to support the space program. A job is a social program because the person having one usually does not need to receive welfare. They're a taxpayer.

The Specific Advantage of Space Hardware Over Earth-Based Investments
The next argument is likely to be, "Why not spend money on Earth-based technologies (e.g. an improved plow, better crop technologies, etc.) instead of going off into space?" That is being done, both by government and the private sector. However, research into space technologies is unique because space itself is such a unique and challenging environment in which to work.

Human beings have been living on this Earth for thousands of years. All in all, it's safe to say that this world is a known quantity, and there are things we take for granted, like our gravity, atmosphere, range of temperatures, and plant and animal life. Orbital space and the planets, asteroids, and comets all have extreme environments completely outside regular human experience: no atmosphere, too much atmosphere, zero gravity, microgravity, massive gravity, poisonous chemicals and solids in the air and on the surface, temperatures ranging from nearly Earthlike to beyond boiling to so far below that it's nearly "absolute zero." Any time we send spacecraft or people to these places, and so far we've only gone as far as the Moon, we must build high-performance machines that must accelerate out of our gravity well and then function perfectly in those extreme environments, thousands or millions or billions of miles away. And once the machines or people arrive at their destination, they must gather more information using whatever instruments have been brought with them--and all those instruments have to function perfectly, or nearly so, or millions/billions of dollars have been lost.

The challenges of all this work have been immense, and it has been NASA that has given Americans justifiable bragging rights having sent the first machines to the outer solar system and the first men to the Moon, as well as having built telescopes that have seen billions of light-years away. Space exploration has greatly increased our technological capabilities here on Earth because it has required us to build machines we would never have thought of or needed here on our relatively safe mother planet. It is only by building machines capable of surviving in space that we have lucked upon spinoffs and new uses for them here on Earth--a process philosophy writer and teacher Gonzalo Munevar calls the principle of serendipity. The principle is simple enough to understand: if we hadn't gone into space in the first place, we would never have created the spinoffs that made our lives better once we turned that technology back toward addressing problems here on Earth.

Overcoming Ignorance--The Value of Space Exploration to Education
NASA's primary job is not to educate the public, though the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created the agency in 1958, authorized NASA to engage in partnerships with educational institutions to accomplish its mission. It also provides educational outreach opportunities by sharing information about its hardware and discoveries with students, teachers, the media, and the general public.

While I must admit that it gets to sound corny after awhile, NASA really does inspire kids to study difficult subjects. While I was too young to witness it firsthand, Apollo 11 inspired me to want to write for NASA. Others have gotten interested in studying math or science. The process works this way:

The nation invests in space exploration ==> NASA's space probes or astronauts do incredible things ==> kids watch and get inspired ==> kids study and learn ==> kids get older, get advanced degrees, and get jobs [if not at NASA, then in some technical field that gives them satisfaction] ==> the next generation goes on to inspiring, difficult things

Again, it's not a straight path from spending on space exploration to solving social ills, but the importance of inspiration in education cannot be overlooked. With inspiration comes hope, a desire to improve, and a future productive citizen. An inspired, motivated, hard-working kid with dreams and goals is not going to turn to drugs and gangs to find fulfillment because they've got something more important and more rewarding to do.

The Rising Tide
And what about the future, and the problems it poses to adult citizens today? We hear a lot about resource crunches, increased pollution, and increased tension in world politics because we're fighting over one small planet. It doesn't have to be that way.

Our solar system is rich in energy--from space solar power to the untapped potential of helium-3 fusion--and metallic resources from the lunar crust, asteroids, and comets. We don't yet know how to tap these resources, but we owe it to ourselves to try and learn how, if only to ensure a better future for all of us--Americans and non, friends and enemies. If we successfully develop space-based forms of energy, enough energy to prevent another Gulf War or two, that certainly has to be worth 19 days' worth of welfare payments.

So, again, to answer the question of whether space exploration can be used to solve society's problems, the answer is, no, it can't, but it can address societal problems along the way. It all depends on how we choose to define what a "societal problem" is, and what it's worth to seek for new knowledge and better solutions to fix them.

Bart Leahy is a technical writer living in Huntsville, Alabama.

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My response:

Hey Bart!

Thanks for taking the time to write such a truly in depth response to my off-the-cuff comment to Doug's Facebook update.

You are exceptionally well-spoken and I never remotely expected someone to respond with such detail and statistics putting things in context.

Here's the catch--you totally missed what I was hinting at. I wasn't suggesting that NASA literally battle it out with welfare, I was suggesting that we need more 'rocket scientist'-type minds to get tough on addressing the root causes of the need for welfare in our society.

I found one line in your rebuttal that I believe is key to expound on to make my point: "An inspired, motivated, hard-working kid with dreams and goals is not going to turn to drugs and gangs to find fulfillment because they've got something more important and more rewarding to do."

Yeah, see, there in lies the problem. Some of us may be able to see the world from having near/genius I.Q.'s that make it appear as though the choice to do one thing versus the other is simply a circumstantial one--which it largely is, but there is also the genetic and 'behavioral programming/conditioning' component.

Some people = FAIL.

Some people = multiple FAIL.

Octomom?

So why are they allowed to reproduce and bring more Jerry Springer-esque nightmares into this world for everyone else to contend with?

If our society continues to ignore the contributing factors of what 'creates a person' while allowing those people to breed freely and much less endorsing such socially destructive behavior with such things as welfare...well, lets just say it's not going to take society forward.

How have you always envisioned the future?

I presume you've seen Idiocracy?

WTF?

The same way you guys tinker with rockets and space exploration theoretical problems, my mind instead literally spends its free time trying to design ideal propaganda and strategies to address the world's population problems in general.

From a distance, the human race could been seen like a cancer expanding, smothering, and destroying its only current source of life--the planet Earth and its resources.

You probably aren't familiar with my writing of the last few years, so you're oblivious to the various types of strategies I've been trying to develop to eliminate the world's population growth and resource consumption problems...but I'm the type of person that likes to think ahead...just to be safe.

I wasn't suggesting that we continue welfare. My theories strongly suggest that we discontinue war, military spending, and welfare all at the same time by upgrading the world's societies all at once. Yes, it seems insanely impossible, but that's what makes it challenging. :)

If Alexander the Great could bring together warring states and Jesus could become a 2,000-year strong social icon/literary character just past the age of 30, I said f*ck it, and when I turned 30 I literally put my mind to work trying to devise a way to bring the world 'up to the level I envision', because right now, large parts of it are shamefully dysfunctional beyond comprehension.

I presume living in the Southern California urban environment since graduating college in Texas is largely responsible for this quest. I've seen a lot of insane behavior up close and personal that my feeble mind cannot understand why/how these people were allowed to make such stupid decisions and bring so many more problems and suffering into the world to begin with. I never thought twice about rap music when listening to it in high school...it just sounded cool and was a joke, I mean, nobody is that stupid and selfish, they weren't serious...right?

Wrong. Upon moving to L.A. and seeing that much of the nonsense mentioned in rap music is true, it became a lot less cool. Many of the social ills are the result of stupidity and short-sighted behavior alone, and I have the type of mind that thinks it can find a way to fix everything. Since this is what it's been exposed to in recent years, this is what it's been focused on solving.

The true problems are things most decision makers and 'thinking minds' are too insulated from and unaware of to design effectively policies/solutions clearly...the way I used to be.

I was hinting at a more ultra-right wing vs. left wing 'bleeding heart' approach, but one that doesn't involve killing like the Nazis, and instead uses the light year-type advances in technology and communication to bridge the national, cultural, and religious divides currently plaguing the human race, while also bribing people into sterilization or mandatory birth control vs. rewarding them for diluting the genetic and social pools even further.

I try to protect the truly innocent--the lives that haven't been conceived and brought into this world in totally compromised circumstance yet. That requires stopping certain people from creating the problems BEFORE they happen, because you can't get just a little bit pregnant, and if done incorrectly, from that point on the nightmarish cycle continues on varying levels.

I started writing theoretical essays about this (and a whole bunch of other random ideas) and sending them to the media a few years ago, and it eventually evolved into just posting my ideas in blog format and just telling my very specific media audience where to find them.

http://thewyzardproject.blogspot.com/

When I made that response to Doug, I was simply saying "Hey Doug, I need the rocket scientists on my side." more than anything else, because I presume like minds can relate to the underlying causes of specific problems more readily than the average person one meets on the street.

You took what I said literally and made an absolutely amazing rebuttal (mind if I repost it on my blog?), but what I was hinting at was more 'Why should we have to live on a planet where we have the brilliant minds that can design machines to take us to other worlds and still suffer the consequences of other questionable-at-best human beings?'.

I just doesn't seem right, and if our corrupt/myopic government(s) stopping ignoring, denying, and rationalizing the problems underlying the creation of totally worthless human lives while too busy lining their own pockets, we might be able to apply the God-like advances in technology to pull the human condition out of the cesspool large parts of it have fallen into.

I see humans like computers. You've got the hardware component and the software component, but all hardware and software is not designed nor does it function equally as well.

I realize your world perspective is much different because you're surrounded by upper-middle class rocket scientists all day, and you probably aren't familiar with all my other theories about 'breeding licenses' etc. I've been promoting, but that is exactly why you took what I said literally instead of figuratively.

As I mentioned though, the essay you wrote in rebuttal and statistics you cited were priceless.

Which brings me to the EXACT point I was trying to get at in my reply to Doug's original status update: If we had minds as thorough as yours addressing the statistics leading to the social/cultural/rhetorical problems in the world, then we might not be sitting here forced to bear witness to all the WTF? behavior being displayed on TV.

Bailouts? Terrorists? Britney's va-jay-jay? lol

Well, at least not as much maybe.

I mean, come on, the politicians who are supposed to be in charge of thinking like this have failed miserably, because the system itself has ironically become completely corrupted by money and the 'leaders' are just special interest puppets who should be wearing NASCAR outfits to identify who sponsors/owns their decisions. Decisions that could almost be considered torture to endure at this point in history.

In short, no one is paying attention "because it's not their job"...and we wonder how and why things come crashing down so easily in the very same society that sent men to the moon?

How does one take on such rampant WTF?

Get the rocket scientist-type minds and media on your side, that's how. If we had a Google data-sponsored NASA-type organization tasked with eliminating the world's population problems humanely and efficiently, the the world could be a much better place within just a generation or two, and that is/was the goal --> a sustainable civilization in balance/harmony with the environment that supports it--known as planet Earth.

It's not NASA, but it is a noble vision.

At the pace we're at, I don't think NASA can get us off this planet in time, and with the embarrassingly destructive effects of this still relatively mild economic downturn, I just sit here all day thinking there must be a better way.

All I need is to get the right type of minds thinking the right way to solve the problems...right?

Remind me to hire you if I ever become president. lol

Sincerely, thanks for taking the time to write such a well-thought out and backed-up response...you wanna try one to the figurative message I was presenting?

I don't necessarily agree with the "that's the way it's always been, that's the way it will always be, it's not our problem" approach, because every problem starts somewhere, and the fewer unnecessary problems there are to solve in the the world, the more that 'problem solving' mindset can be focused on space, technology, humanity, and beyond...

Best,

AES
damn@damnneargeni.us

Delayed Reaction

2009-04-30T18:41:00.000-07:00

I didn't actually bother to post the extensive essay I wrote about all the cool 'coincidences' I saw on Fox News and the Colbert Report earlier in the week, but I wanted to just jot down brief notes for future reference.

The FCC's "O.P.I. 7" are being contested on their constitutional legality under the 1st Amendment.

Hmmm...who have I heard pushing for that sporadically...but especially in recent months on his radio show? I just never expected anyone to actually take it up...but do you even remotely realize the potential that would have for speaking in code?

It would literally make me the shit. No, literally. If my bitching and complaining and sarcasm directed at the right people finally paid off and reality suddenly became more like...ummm reality, then whenever you heard the word 'shit' or any one of the other infamous 7 on previously censored programming...I could point to it and say...see!!!

If you don't get it, don't worry, you might eventually.

When Colbert mentioned the barista under his desk can get a job at the Footlocker in one of the skits...and to ask for the manager...the manager's name was ???

But more importantly, the manager of Footlockers are dressed in what type of uniform?

And if the political role you are playing is...

Nevermind. If you understand the 'inside' nature of the comedic storyline, then it all makes sense. If not, if/when you do, you will be able to watch certain programs over again and see an entire 'secret' storyline hidden in plain sight.

...talk about redefining syndication...

It's always fun handing people my business card, even though they are likely clueless to the depth of the hidden symbolism in its design, it makes me smile. Yellow?

:)

+AES