Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Just too much

I have been swamped with pressure and pain here lately.  On the outside I am always calm and cool, yet inside I am a fucking mess.  I feel like I am one step ahead of a mental breakdown, and that is what motivates me so much.  After all, I have responsibilities and I will make sure they are taken care of.  I have too keep moving on, as fast as I can.  I stop every once and a while to evaluate my performance.  I am amazed how things keep working out right, when I always wonder how it possibly can be done in the first place.  I take pride in our accomplishments, and learn from our disappointments. 

Somehow I have been finding my comfort in watching videos of peoples poetry, spoken word, and story telling.  It is something I have always wanted to be able to do.  To boldly get up on stage, in front crowds of people, and pour out my stories, visions, emotions.  Get it all out in the open without any fear of judgement or repercussion.  Words take on some much power when spoken aloud.  Alas, that is not me.  I have written hundreds of poems, that no one will ever hear.  I have written songs, that no one will ever hear. I have written stories, that no one will ever hear.  I am shy, loaded with anxiety, and feel most alone in a room full of people.  There have been times, for work or family's sake I have pushed all that aside and done what I needed, but I would rather not have to at all.

I suppose, overall I have become quite a well functioning, dysfunctional part of society.  Compromised by an extremely big heart, and too often, a bad judge of character.  My current situation I must only endure.  The future is still a big, bright shining star.  There is just a little eclipse going on right now.  Always, in the back of my mind I wonder, "Will there ever come a time when this is all just too much for me?"

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Music is Life

Man, I love music!  I don't want to imagine life without music.  It does not have to be just music made by man.  Listen to natures music as well.  Wind, water, earth, fire, spirit is how I believe the Wicca say it.  I am not talking of specific spirituality, just noises.  After all, what is music?  Individual noises arranged in some way as to appeal to your hearing and taste.  Like the wind blowing by, the ocean roaring as the waves come in to shore, birds chirping in the trees, the earth pounding when boulders roll down mountains, or fire crackling and popping as it consumes a piece of wood.  It can be very emotional and become quite spiritual as well.


There is a noise for every feeling, every action, every emotion.  There is also a song for every feeling, every emotion and every situation.  Some even say a noise might lead you to insanity....... and murder. Like the agonizing drip of a leaky faucet.  The mesmerising tick of a clock, or the beating of a heart as it gets louder and louder.  Some might even say.... "My mind's playing tricks on me."

The Geto (Ghetto) Boys - My mind playin' tricks on me

There is a song for every moment in time.... every "Moment 4 Life."  We have all felt like kings or queens at some point in our lives.

Nicki Minaj - Moment 4 life

When your car breaks down and you are late for work.  Then your boss starts his "Power Trip" yelling at you and gives you a warning that he will fire you next time...... there is a song for that.
Chimaira - Power trip

When you know you have pushed the issue "Way too far" and there may be no turning back from here.  The damage is done, and the suffering begins.  Even though you were wrong.... you just wouldn't back down.

Korn - Way too far

The days and weeks after that really bad breakup with your loved one.  The one you thought you would never be apart from, spend the rest of your lives together.  When you were so happy and so fucking sad all at the same time.  Who hasn't spent countless hours staring at "Pictures of you."

The Cure - Pictures of you

When you realized you were being lied to.  Not by just one person, but by most of the society you were raised to respect.  The government, media, teachers, doctors, and yes.... even family.  Like everything and everybody is just filling you with poison.  Sometimes you feel like you just gotta "Spit it out."
Brotha Lynch Hung - Spit it out
 
At a party one night, that kid got shot over the color of a bandanna.  He was not family, but in a way he was.  You hung out everyday, reppin' your shit.  When everybody started set trippin' and the blood started dripping, you learned what scared really was.  "Cuz tha boyz in da hood are always hard."  You finally realized you were a white boi, from the suburbs.  Gang life was not for you.

Eazy E - Boyz in da hood

If you ever get fighting mad about a cause.  Standing up for some wrong, or some right.  You need something to solidify the cause into one voice, to scream a war cry like the great "Comanche."

In this Moment - Comanche

Sometimes you just need to cut loose and get your groove on.  A hard day at work, or long week even.  There are just those times you need to get your "party rock anthem" on..... even if it is just you and a bottle of alcohol, dancing in front of a mirror.

LMFAO - Party rock anthem
 
When your loved one died.... there was a song for that.  For the first time realizing all those years of singing "I will survive" were just in vain.  It was, after all, just a song.  I miss you mom.  :-(
 

Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
 
Sometimes you just want to cry and remember being a kid, not having to worry about what our parents had to worry about.  Their kids... now our kids and this screwed up world we live in. We are only human, and thus we will destroy everything we have ever loved or cared about in the end.  God, sometimes, what I would give to just be "forever young."  No responsibilities, no one depending on my actions to survive.
 
 
Alphaville - Forever young
 
 
There was that one time while you were 13 and care free.  Getting high and running circles around your friends swimming pool, when you spontaneously decided to jump in (glad there were no cell phones back then).  When you came up for air you immediately felt a slam and sting to your forehead.  It was so shocking you just sank back down to the bottom of the pool before coming to your senses.  Climbing out of the pool you heard her screams of "OH, I am so sorry.  I never thought I would actually hit you with that peach."  And then "......And threw her arms around my neck. "Show me how you do it, And I promise you, I promise that, I'll run away with you. I'll run away with you" Spinning on that dizzy edge, I kissed her face and kissed her head......"  A true life friendship was born.
 
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
 
Then there was that message you received, the one that almost knocked you to the ground.  Your stomach dropped, flipped, and lodged itself in your throat.  Then some mighty demon reached in and ripped your heart right out of your chest, held it up to your face and made you watch it stop beating.  The Angel of Death just became real.  He was only 17, a child, a young man at most, who you had known for several years.  He ended his pain before he even had a chance to live.  "I have lost the will to  live.  Simply nothing more to give.  There is nothing more for me.  Need the end to set me free."  If only you could have known how bad it really was. 


Metallica - Fade to black
 
Then there was that moment of pure spiritual awakening.  The day you realized that you had a universal love for all of mankind.  No matter the sex, race, age or religion.  The only thing that mattered was how they treated you.  Respect given will equal respect returned.  As weird as it sounds, I love you all, and hate is not a word I choose to use.  One heart, one soul, one life, one people, one dream, one love....
 





Bob Marley - One Love
 
Just for the fuck of it, one of my all time favorites..... "ARE YOU READDDDDDYYYYYY!!!!"  I am pretty sure we have all felt this at some point. 
 
Korn - Blind

 
I could go on for days, but the Fade to Black section took too much out of me.  I hope these links stay active for years or this is going to seem like a really bad blog post.  A toast: "To those who got lost along the way, our paths will cross again."

Sunday, June 24, 2012

sleep

Up entirely too early this morning.  In reality, I don't sleep much anymore anyway.  Dreams of ghosts from former lives haunt me to the end.  Ex girlfriends, dead relatives, dead friends, the stars that have come and gone, and fishing trips.... much enjoyed.  Memories of lives once lived, and visions of futures not yet created.  Sorrow, pain, joy, happiness, the smiles in my childrens' eyes.  The mind's eye can be a creator, or destroyer of dreams.... lives if you allow.  Now?  My head is swimming in an ocean of "What if?"  The scars are bleeding through and band aids are just too fucking temporary.  There really is no solution, is there?

The roller coaster of emotion rides again.... up and down.... faster than I can compensate.  It turns hard enough to shatter bones, crushing all hope.  I have to be stronger than this, greater than this.  There is a vision stuck in my eye, a haunting memory really.  A house of silence, death, and decay, that was once so full of life.  The silence is sickening.  I am stuck.  Just for the moment..... choking on vomit and tears.  I do not like this "now," but this life cannot be stopped, this book will not be closed.  Jimmy, Jim, Jim Jr., JamCo, Jamboi, James, Mr. Day.  Past, present and futures tense, very tense.  Ready to break, but too stubborn to let go.  (This presence is full of dots ..... and commas misused.  At least I can still smile about that.)  Dammit, I wish I could go back to sleep.... just go back to sleep... go back to sleep.. sleep.  

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Heart Strings

I sit here, just like she does, staring at the wall. We both see something different, but we are both the same..... lost. I talk to her and for just a second she jumps back into my world.  "Jimmy" she says as she coughs and gasps.  "Yes Mom, I am right here" I reply.  She glances towards me as I reach out to hold her hand, then back to the wall she looks, and she is gone again..... lost.  Her body lays in this hospital bed, too weak to move, but her mind has been drifting away for days.  Farther and farther she goes, sleeping most of the time. Probably 22 of the last 24 hours, she has been asleep.

Her eyes are dark and distant.  Like stars that have lost their twinkle. They were once the brightest brown, no the dullest black.  Her once thick brown hair has become thin, grey and white.  Here tan skin she was once so proud of, preferring to spend most of her time outside in the garden or planting a new flower, has lost it's color.  She is pale, almost ghostly. He skin is loose and thin, with bones looking as if they will poke through at any moment.

It won't be long.  I sit and wait for the inevitable.  A end to her suffering, and the beginning of mine. I have spent the last 4 months trying to take care of her, make her as comfortable as possible.  I handle the bills, the yard, the cleaning, the cooking, the vehicles, the clothes, the dogs, the banks, anything else I can do.  We have 3 houses to take care of now.  We have 5 vehicles.  Above all I still have a wife, 2 children and 2 dogs that have been neglected for some time.  My wife is under more stress than she ever has been before as well.  She has done a great job, and I do not know how I would make it without her.

I have been trying to stay as busy as possible....... so I would not have time to stop and think. When she is gone I will have too much time to think.   I wonder how I will react.  You see, my mom and I were never very close.  She always took better care of her animals than she did her family.  In her later years she always put her cigarettes, wine, rum, vodka or gin before anything else.  I tried to get her out of the house and involved in something, anything.  I tried to get her involved in my life and my children's lives.  I had friends that tried to get her to do things.  She pushed us all away, and always went back to that fucking box of wine.

I have felt like her dying would not effect me very much.  Since we were not that close, and in fact she only wanted me around when she needed something done.  I would walk in and she would be sitting there in her chair, drunk or getting there, and she would say "OK, the pool needs to be cleaned, the lawnmower needs gas and the garbage disposal is not working.  Then I want you to take me to the grocery store and the liqueur store."  I would say "Hi mom, I will look at those in a little while."  And I thought this would not effect me.

It is starting to.  I sit next to her and look into her eyes and I see she is lost.  I talk to her and she does not even hear me.  I ask her questions over and over again.  "Do you want a drink, or something to eat?"  Nothing. "Can you take your medicine?" Nothing.  Sometimes she wakes up and yells "Where am I?" or says "I'm about to piss on myself."  I sit in the chair next to the bed, with tears in my eyes.

I wonder, because I am lost, will I feel a sense of relief when this is all over?  She will not be suffering anymore. My family will not be suffering anymore.  It does not bother me to take care of anything she needs, what bothers me is all the things I am not taking care of, like my family. I wonder will it be better that there is this emotional wall between us, or will I forever be full of loss and regret that we did not have a better relationship?

I sit here watching, waiting and wondering, as I listen to her lungs gurgle.  Even if I did not know or hated her, it would still pull my heart strings, someday maybe break them.  When it is all said and done and all the blame and anger is shed and has been cast aside..... she is still my mom and I would not be here without her.  I love you mom and I miss you already......

Sunday, April 1, 2012

This damn fortune cookie....



We all make trips to the Chinese or Japanese Buffet and stuff ourselves to the point of pure misery.  We usually swear to God that we will NEVER eat that much food again.  Then with the check comes this wonderful little package.  It is a gift, right, or have you actually earned it by being able to swallow that last bite of sweet and sour chicken?  Needless to say, even when you think you are done eating, you see they have ice cream.  "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!"  Damn, it is Blue Bell too, AND they have fucking birthday cake flavor.  That diet is shot to hell and back.  I just gained a pound typing it.

Then up front they have something to keep the kids coming back over and over again.  They all have a fish tank or pond.  Some have a pond with Koi fish of varying colors.  Others have a slat water aquarium with various brightly colored sea life.  They all have a Nemo, or clown fish.  I can still hear Gabe yelling, "Daddy, Daddy, I found Nemo!"  Eleven years later I hear "Daddy, it's Nemo and his daddy!" as Max begins his journey through the Chinese Buffet line.  There was Rocky, Gabe and I named him years ago, at the New China Buffet.  We named him Rocky because he never swam around like the other fish, he just sat on top of the rocks.  I have no idea what kind of fish he was, but his front fins were like arms and he used them to scoot around on the rocks.  He was there for at least 5 years, then we noticed part of his tail disappeared, then one of his eyes disappeared, then one of his front fins disappeared.... and shit... then he disappeared.  I never thought I would see the day where my son and I would stand in front of a Buffet's aquarium and comment on how we were really going to miss a fish.  R.I.P Rocky.

I will let you in on a not so little secret, I don't like Chinese or Japanese food much.  In fact, I usually stick with the same three items at every place we go, chicken fried rice, spring rolls and egg drop soup.  I just go because the wife and Gabe have always liked it.  Whenever Gabe would do something awesome and we wanted to celebrate, he would always want to go eat Chinese food.  Who am I to deny him?  He gets A's and B's on his report card and wants to go out and eat Chinese food.... he gets Chines food.

People talk about things sometimes and we just think they are full or shit, or trying to persuade us to do something with them.  My wife used to want to go eat Chinese food almost everyday when she was pregnant with Gabe.  She would say "The baby wants Chinese for dinner," lunch and sometimes for breakfast.   I would just laugh and think SHE just wanted me to take her out to eat Chinese.  Then we took Gabe there once he was old enough, and BAM, he has loved it every since.  Maybe the baby really did want Chinese!

Why am I writing about all this menial crap?  Well, because of this damn fortune cookie.  Normally you get some generic, everyday bullshit kind of fortune.  Like "It is easier to win friends with sugar than with vinegar."  or "You will make a bad financial decision today that will cost you plenty."  Then you look at the bill and it is like $80 and you tear up the damn fortune and crush the cookie to bits, while pulling out your debit card.

I have not been writing a lot lately, or drawing, or reading.  I love to read things people write.  Normal people...... like me (HA!).  I don't even know what normal could possibly be.   I don't like reading about a professional writers made up fictional world, with made up fictional characters, that do made up fictional things.  I like reading things people write, trying to interpret their feelings and emotions into words.  Some searching for understanding or possibly forgiveness.  Some telling the world "Fuck You!  I can do this and you can't stop me!"  Some reaching out to the stars they lost, to finally seek the closure they need to move on.

People that use writing to communicate with others, or to understand themselves.  People, everyday people, that write about their real world, really real world in the hope that someone reaches out to them and says "You are not alone, you are never alone."  People that write about the not so real world they live in, deep inside themselves.  The world where they are in control and they make the rules, whether it is technicolor butterflies in a garden or fire breathing dragons destroying entire kingdoms..... I like to go there with them.  Realms where I can hang onto their words, overjoyed with anticipation, waiting to know what the next word will bring.  Will they let me smile with them, or cry for them, or extend a bit of my life's journey to help answer their questions? 

Here lately I have "lost me muchness."  Taking care of my mother has emotionally drained me.  Physically, it is easy as pie.  Emotionally, not so much.  I need a fill up, premium please, full tank don't worry about how much it costs because it will cost me much more if I wait.  We are all guilty of saying "I will wait and hopefully the price will go back down" at one point or another.  It almost never does, but still we wait.  Some wait until it runs out, sputtering and putting along until it dies.  It is hard to get it running as good as it did before, all those contaminates settle to the bottom clogging up the filters.

So alas, I was somewhat astonished when I read this particular fortune.  I read it fast like we always do on first glance.  Then slowly to absorb the words.  Again to make sure we read it right the first and second times through.  This, my friends, is the first and only fortune I have ever read that I felt pertained to me, let alone spoke directly to me.  In fact, it was like a razor blade to the vein of my life.  It said simply, yet elegantly, "You are a lover of words, someday you should write a book."  Hummm, maybe I shall.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Filters

I am feeling a bit Skinny Puppyish this morning and I have been fueling my fires with Death Metal.  My mind literally jumps from topic to topic these days.  So hard to maintain any focused path.  These morning news shows on TV have given me reason to pause.  Are we heading for another civil war?  Will it be a racial or class war?  Will we be heading into WW3, or is this all just more propaganda and media bias to keep us separated?  A world divided, a country divided, a state divided, a community divided, a family divided..... "Define ..... The state of things."

Vile stench.  Decay.  Flesh rotting from the inside out.  Intentional.  Defects in the brain.  Atrophy.  Petrified.  Forrest grows.  Memories lost.  Once relished.  Voices call out from the past.  Unknown.  Unsettling.  Ghost like visions.  Anger mostly.  Pouring out.  Why can't I remember?  WHY CAN'T I REMEMBER!!!

Self infliction.  So painful.  Suicide.  Homicide.  Genocide.  Addiction.  Personality traits gone wrong.  Another day.  Decide.  The future is a scary beast.  Attacking.  Outcome unknown.  One last warrior.  Spirit.  See life through a child's eyes.  Perception filters.  Unbiased.  Untainted with regret.  Today is a good day.  Smiles.  Pure emotion.  Love.  LOVE!!!

There is still hope....... there is still hope..... there is still hope......

I know many people would read this and think "OMG he needs counseling, or some kind of help!"  My thoughts get dark sometimes, a lot here lately.  This is my counseling, this is how I get them out.  I will never need help, as long as I have outlet.  Keeping it inside is when things get scary.  I have hope, always have hope.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Dark Secrets

I swore I would never speak of what happened that day.  I was afraid that if I did they would come and find me.  Make me disappear, or worse harm my family or friends.  Son, here in the twilight of my days I would like to tell you a secret, one I have kept for 66 years.  You may not believe it, or you may.  Whatever you do, do not speak openly about it or they may come for you.

I remember it like it was yesterday.  I got a call about 2 broken golf carts that needed repair at about 4pm.  I remember being so pissed because I was supposed to get off at 5 and I knew this would take hours.  None the less I gathered up my tools, jumped in my van and headed to that industrial, pollution filled facility.  It had only been a few days since my last visit there, but upon my return I noticed a lot of changes.

They had installed 2 new automated security gates, with barbed wire across the top.  I had to get out and go to the security house to sign in.  The sign in sheet had a total makeover as well: Name, Organization, Date, Time, Badge Number, Vehicle Type, License Number, Computer Serial Number, Smart phone Serial Number.  Humm, computer or smart phone...... I thought.  They gave me a new badge and let me in.

I reached the golf carts in question and got out my tools.  I took off the battery cover on the first one and immediately noticed one of the battery wires had been disconnected.  Not broken, but unscrewed.  "What the hell?" I thought.  I put the wire back on and hopped on to test it out.  I drove around the entire facility and it was running fine.  I noticed a line of large trucks lined up down one side of the road.  They appeared to be hauling loads of wood chips, like the kind you might put in a flower bed.


I decided to give the golf cart one more trip to make sure it was running A-OK.  In the middle of the second lap is when something caught my eye.  One of the trucks was being lifted up and a 45 degree angle.  It seemed so weird that I quickly snapped a picture with my cell phone.  I drove on past it and down the road, when I heard a loud *CrAsH* and metal *BaNgInG* on metal.  Then there was this very loud sound like very high winds, like a tornado almost *WoOsH*.  Without thinking I took my foot off the pedal and slammed on the brake.  I turned my head around and what I saw made me jump right out of the seat.  There was a security truck right behind me, only inches from my bumper, with the blue and red lights flashing angrily.

A man got out and walked stiffly up to me.  It was a very odd walk, like his legs did not bend at the knees.  He asked me some questions:  "Who do you work for?  What are you doing?  How long are you going to be here?  Do you know it is dangerous to stop on the main road?"  I told him the truth and apologized, he told me to go on and finish my work up.  I could not help but to wonder, where did he come from?  It was like he appeared out of the air.  I had been going there for 5 years and never saw him before, or that security truck.  I started driving back and glanced back again, the truck was gone...... like it just vanished into thin air.

I parked the golf cart by the security gate and started looking at the other one.  It had gotten dark so I had to go to the van and grab my flashlight.  "That is really weird, I thought I parked on the left side of the parking lot, not the right" I thought to myself.  I had been here so many times I just figured my mind was playing tricks on me.  Flashlight in hand, I walked back to the golf cart.  After looking around in the battery compartment I noticed the same thing, one of the battery wires had been disconnected, not broken, just unscrewed.  "Holy Sabotage Batman!"  I yelled in my mind.  This was just too weird.  I do not know if our people had done this to get out of working tonight, or if their people had done this to make our people leave.

I decided to put the cable back on and test this cart as well.  I drove around to the back of the facility and heard some very loud *BaNgInG* noises again.... and then a *SwOoSh* that seemed right above my head.  It was dark now and I was trying to stick to the main road only.  I heard a loud *VrOoM vRoOm* very close to me, accompanied with a very bright *FlAsH* of light, so I stopped.   I could not really make out what I was looking at because it was so dark.  "Ah Ha!"  My new smart phone had a night vision camera.  I pulled it out and pointed at the area of the noises.  The picture was of another truck at about a 45 degree angle.  I changed the settings on my phone and snapped another picture as quickly as I could, and drove off.  Back at the parking lot I checked the pictures again.



What I saw in the second picture was shocking.  I had taken a inferred picture of the area, because smart phones these days can do almost anything.  What looked like a normal semi truck was shining a very iridescent silver.  The whole truck seemed to be glowing, not unlike a distant star on a clear night.  What had originally appeared to be wood chips was now glowing an eerie fluorescent blue.  I had assumed the chips were being unloaded earlier, but now I realized they were being pushed, forcefully, at a very high speed at what appeared to be a solid metal wall, several feet thick.  This was causing the *WoOsHiNg* noise I had heard several times.  It reminded me of watching the space shuttle take off on TV.  For a second, I found myself mourning for the people that died on the space shuttle Challenger, all those years ago.

I felt like a child who just learned something new, I had to see it again and again.  I decided to "Test" out the cart once again.  I drove around to approximately where I had saw the truck, but this time I took the side road behind it, instead of the main road in front.  I snapped a picture and it was blank.  I changed settings and snapped another, but it was blank too.  "What the Fuck" I thought.  I drove on toward the next road when I heard a very loud *RoAr!*  I could not see anything, but there was definitely something there.  I came to a dead stop and snapped another picture.  I clicked the picture and looked at it.  I got so scared I dropped my phone and floored the golf cart.  It was chasing me, right behind me breathing down my neck.... whatever vile, evil thing it was.

 
I knew now those were not trucks like I had assumed earlier.  They were alive, like some sort of wild animal roaming the forest for food.  I was in their forest, and I was food.   I drove as fast as that cart would go back to the parking lot.  I didn't stop for the stop signs, or slow down for the railroad tracks, just flew right over them.  I reached the parking area and skidded the cart into a spot sideways.  I grabbed my loose tools from the floorboard of the cart and threw them into the toolbox, and as fast as I could I ran and jumped into my work van.  I locked the doors and tried to catch my breath.  As I looked outside everything looked normal.  The parking are was lit up and there were several vehicles parked in their "reserved" spots, just like always.

I decided I better just leave.   I drove to the gate and the guard motioned for me to come to the window.  I slowly walked over, trembling.  He said I looked pale and asked if I was OK.   I told him it had been a very long day and I was tired.  He asked me to walk through a metal detector, and then to sign out.  "Do you have a camera, laptop, or cellphone?" he asked.  "No, I lost my phone earlier today," I told him.  He invited me to the next Southern Misfits Roller Derby match, and wished me a safe night.  I had been to several matches and he knew we were big supporters. *WiNk, WiNk*

I drove out of the gate and about a mile down the road when I saw another *FlAsH* of light.  I pulled over and looked up into the clear night sky.  I saw several bright stars directly over the facility.  I watched for several more minutes and saw another *FlAsH* and a streak of light come from the facility, at about a 45 degree angle.  I decided I needed to get home before it got any later and put my van in drive.

Just then, there was a *FlAsH* and I saw a black Cadillac Escalade, with red and blue lights flashing angrily in the grill.  It had just appeared in front of me from no where.  I put the van in reverse and saw a second *FlAsH* behind me.  Yep, another black SUV with flashing lights.  To my knowledge it was perfectly legal to pull onto the shoulder of the road.  I put the van in park, turned it off and rolled down the window.  There really was not anything else I could do, I was pinned in on both sides.  "If you have not done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear" was a quote running through my mind.

There, a few feet from my van, appeared the security guard from earlier.  This time he was wearing a solid black suit and sunglasses.  He very clumsily and stiffly walked to my window. In his hand he held a small wallet with a badge and an ID card.  Curious, he only had 4 fingers on his hand.  FBI, John Smith, it said.  Without even a movement on his part I felt something dragging me out the window and it slammed into his vehicle.  As I hit it, and hit it hard,  I heard a very loud *GrOwL* and I knew what it was.  Mr. John Smith never moved, nor did his mouth, but I felt his words inside my mind.  It hurt terribly, intense pain,  so intense I passed out.

"We work for the Federal Government of the United States of America.  We own you.  We know everything there is to know about you, your family, pets and friends.  You will forget everything you saw here tonight, EVERYTHING!  We have ways of watching you from the sky, and we can track you wherever you try to run to.  If you ever mention this we will know.  Even if you do talk, you have no proof, and NO ONE will believe it.  Live you life, James, and never speak of this again."  Then there *FlAsHeD* this horrible monster in my mind.  It was so horrible I cried every time I pictured it for years afterward.  It was eating a person, chewing him up, with blood everywhere.  It was my friend from the Guard Shack.

I woke up in my bed at home.  Every part of my body hurt and I had a terrible headache.  There were 2 sores on the back of my neck, like puncture wounds.  I had a mysterious new tattoo of a smiling mouth with iridescent blue, viciously pointy teeth, on my chest.  I knew it was a reminder.  I called in sick at work for a few days.  When I did go back I found my van parked, with my tool box still sitting on the passenger seat.  I opened it up and there was my phone.  I must have picked it up when I loaded up my tools.  I had proof, but who would I tell? 

Several weeks later I got a call to go back to the facility.  One of the golf carts was broken down and they needed it that night.  I called them back and told them to check the battery wires before I came down there.  The wires were fine so I had to go.  I checked in at the gate and went straight to the golf carts.  I found a loose wire and fixed it.  This time I just drove it in the parking lot to test it.  While I was signing out at the guard shack I asked when Joe worked.  I did not see him at the Southern Misfits game like I normally did.  He was their EMT, he was at every game.  The guard told me they had not seen him in 3 weeks.  He said Joe apparently abandoned his post that night and no one, even his wife has heard from him since.  Now I knew why he was not at that game, that was not just a vision in my mind..... they killed him.  

I have not told anyone until now.  You can't believe how guilty I feel for my friends death, even to this day.  If I wouldn't have been so curious, he would still be alive.  Shortly son, I will be gone from this Earth.  This is my only confession.  It feels good to finally let this horror out, and with my death they will believe the secret is dead.  I have always been so proud of you and I love you.  This is my final goodbye, Dad.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Trivial


Wow, have you looked at the date?  December 15, 2011, where did the year go?  I see quite a bit of news, blogs and video discussing the "end of the world."  They screwed us those Mayans did, ending the calendar like that.  On December 21, 2012 we may just *poof* and cease to exist.  Possibly, the planet will undergo and extreme natural transformation and we will no longer be needed.  Perhaps, just maybe.... we will evolve into beings of pure energy and leave this plane of existence.
 
No more time or time will end, really?  You do know the concept of time is a man made theory to explain the order of events, don't you?  More specifically, we have to know how long we are going to live.  Very selfish of us.  I do like this "end of the world" concept, even changed some of my aliases to jamboi2012 and jamonit2012, and even JamCo2012 Production several years ago.  I don't like the idea of everybody dying, but I do like the idea of having an exact date for the "END."  Putting an exact date on "Judgement Day" tends to put social issues in perspective, doesn't it?  The day many people believe that we will be judged by God for our actions in this mortal plane.  So now that you know where I am coming from.......  hop on this roller coaster and ride with me.  You can scream all you want, but please no puking, I only brought 1 change of clothes.

To that end, I laugh my ass off.  We are looking at a date the world will end. It is just over a year from now.  The reason I laugh is this funny shit right here. ---->  Isn't it ironic that we are still fighting over such Trivial Bullshit as the color of someones skin?  The world may end... but you are not the same color as me so I do not like you.  WTF!?!?!  Yet here I sit, perplexed by that exact drama unfolding around me.  I do not quite understand why people are racist, so this is to explore my own thoughts as well.  No one is born hating anyone, or anything for that matter.  I believe it is a learned behavior, which in turn means someone must be teaching it. 

You see, I was raised as military brat. I have been in direct contact with people of almost every race, color, creed, and religion.  If you walk on a military base you will see people of different races holding hands, hugging or kissing.  Many service personnel marry people from other countries.  Never, have I cared what color someones skin was.  I do not think I have any racism in my soul.  I examine all people based on what is inside them; personality, education, common sense, and above all is the way they treat me.  I like ALL people, until they give me a reason not to. 

Once again I am an outsider looking in.  Here in Southern Mississippi and Louisiana racism runs rampant in the streets and the institutions.  It is a way of life, passed down from generation to generation.  IGNORANCE BREEDS INTOLERANCE!  That does not mean these people are not educated, quite the contrary and some are very well educated.  I do not think that all people down here are bigots, they are not.  It is probably about 50/50 if I had to guess.

Do you really think that a persons skin color automatically makes them this, or that?  Do you really believe that "She can't help it because she's black?"  I hear this shit all the time at work and at outside accounts.  "I won't vote for a damn Nigger for President," referring to President Obama.  I have been in a conversation with some one who I looked up to, a mentor so to speak.  Just as casually as saying hello, he states that "Niggers are ruining this country."  I almost fell down.   I just looked at him in awe, the conversation was over for me, so I walked away. 

I have been told several times that "Blacks have destroyed the school system."  Please, Mr. Bigot, let me see your proof of that. I was told the other day that a black man, had asked out a white woman, I work with out on a date. She said that her legal guardian did not approve of her dating or being friends with blacks.  Once again, I almost fell down with shock.  This Ultra Christian can not date black people, because her Ultra Christian guardian (owner of a church) says blacks are not as good as whites.  I was explained to his theory on mixing the races, and of course it says so in the bible.  NOT!

Let me not get it twisted, it is not just the white people either.  I have heard so much racist crap from black people around here as well.  My very first run in with racism was from several "friends" of mine.  I had several black friends growing up in Louisiana.  We played basketball all the time, at school or at the park.  Some of us hung out and learned to break dance on cardboard boxes in someones front yard.  I thought we were tight, homies.

I got very close to a girl named Suzann in the 7th grade.  We studied at the library and at each others houses together.  I think it was partly because we were both doing very bad in Social Studies.  After about half the school year we started getting really close, holding hands and such.  We were hanging out all the time after school.  I started to notice I was getting the shit knocked out of me on the basketball court at school.  Then it happened, she said we couldn't hang out anymore one day at school.  I kept bugging her as to "Why?"  She started avoiding me.  Then I got a knock on the front door and saw several of my "friends" in the front yard.  I went outside thinking they wanted to hang out, and was slammed up against my dad's truck.  They were Suzann's brothers and cousins.  They had a plain and simple message for me.  I was not ever to lay a finger on their sister again, or any other black woman on this planet.

I was in shock for days.  Some of my closest friends had turned on me.  The one that gave me the name Jamboi, jam on little white boi, had threatened me.  All this because I was white and I dared to get close to a black woman.  To me she was just a girl I really liked being around, it hurt me a lot.  I didn't talk to Suzann anymore.  I didn't play basketball at school or the park anymore.  I had to find somewhere else to break dance at.  The only one I was still cool with was Ant, or Anthony.  He was her little brother and he didn't give a fuck, we were still homies.  He told me years later she was still sad about what happened, so was I.  Let's just leave those skeletons in the closet from now on.

The most amazing part to me is that anytime I have brought this up in conversation, I am told I am wrong.  People have called me a liar, a drama queen or a "shit starter."  Some discussions have gotten so heated I expected to have to literally fight my way out of the room.  White racists are in denial.  Everyone is unhappy with the way the country is heading.  I think white people just refuse to take their share of responsibility for fucking it up, so they blame it on black people.  Black racists say they wouldn't be racist, if the whites weren't.  That's bullshit too.  They say it is because of slavery that they hate whites.  Can you blame them for holding a grudge?  "Blue eyed white devil."  At the same time, no one in my families history had slaves.  None.  So how can all white people be blamed for the actions of some?

Our cultures and history are so different that we do have a hard time meshing together.  Sometimes we can't even talk to each other, just don't know where to start.  When we do it leads to such amazing collaborations, teamwork, and even babies.  I have seen several mixed racial children that are just beautiful, way beyond "normal" beautiful.  What if Andre Young had told Marshall Mathers to fuck off because he was white?  Just imagine that shit.

Well, before I get my ass beat for dissing on black and whites, let me get to the problem at hand, the situation... the reason this is weighing so heavily on my mind.  I was asked for my opinion, and ideas for solutions to this problem.  That was a bad idea.  Never ask me for a solution if you are afraid of upsetting the status quo.  We are contractors.  That means they hire us to come work in their businesses, in their environments.  We have people of several races that work for us.  The people that own the company say "Go there!" and we go there.  We are just worker bees in search of a little honey.

We recently got a new account, a pretty large account.  The people that we have working there are black, the supervisor is black, and the sales people are black.  They started finding things written on walls in bathrooms, on paper taped to mirrors and lockers, and pictures/drawings taped up around the place.  The people working for us thought they were directed at them.  One of them even said she was going to quit because she feared for her safety.... her life even.  I don't blame her at all.  The graffiti was sayings like this; "Die Nigger Die!" "The only good nigger is a dead nigger." "We don't want your kind here."  "Go back to Africa, Nigger."  It hurts my heart to even repeat it.  There were several pictures of a person hanging by a rope from a tree found and quite a few pictures of burning crosses.

So, some of my people, met with some of their people.... and he said, and she said, and everybody talked... "Yada, Yada, Yada Nigga... It's just talk." (Tech N9ne)  You see, this is where is all leads back to "Who teaches racism and why?"  I can tell people from here the approximate location of the school, and they instantly say "The White School."  It is common knowledge to them.  This is an all white school, from K through 12.  Did you read that right?  All white school.  It is a Christian School, a private Christian school.  When they say private, THEY MEAN FUCKING PRIVATE!  The people running the school have even said as much.  They say the parents want it that way.  They have passed all these rules and qualifications in order to keep it that way.  Not to mention you have to be pretty wealthy to send your kids there in the first place.

Some of the people working there are friends of mine, and I do not wish to see them harmed.   I can not believe I actually have to worry about their safety, but I do.  I can only imagine what it must be like for a black man/woman having to work in that environment, with those kinds of people.  Especially the type of people some of them are.  Proud black folks, very well educated and dedicated to their work, professionals.  They impress me very much for being able to do their jobs so well, even when faced with all this hatred.  I am opposite, a middle class white boi, with a college degree.  I can't possibly know where they are coming from, can I?

So that is where we are at, a stand off.  A bunch of racist as hell white folks, trying with all their power to keep their kids away from the "niggers."  If this is how the human race has evolved over the last couple hundred years, maybe we need to call it quits in 2012.  Just a thought I have had.  Fuck it, just push the button and blow us all to kingdom come.  Sometimes I am ashamed to be white.  I think about how my race has treated so many other races over the years.  We are conquerors, conquer, kill, rape, pillage, and enslave.  Even now we are trying to enslave the middle east in the name of freedom and democracy.  Oh please.....

So that is my macro view.  People hate each other because they are different.  White people are in denial and refuse to accept any responsibility for their own actions.  It is easy to blame the blacks, Indians, Native Americans, Latinos, Spanish, French, British, and now Muslims for our problems.  It is much easier to just stick with that, than it is to try to change it. 

Here is my theory about all this racism bull shit.  The government, yep government, stands to benefit more than anyone from racism and segregation.  Have you ever filled out a government form that didn't ask for age, sex, and race?  According to our government everything has to be categorized.  African American, Caucasian American, Asian American, Native American Indian, etc.  Why is that.... to keep us apart.  Just think about it for a minute.  Is there anything we couldn't do if we were all united?  No obstacle would be too big for a truly "United States."  Would we need all these fucking politicians?  No.  So I think the government is behind it all.

Hopefully with each passing generation the racism will fade away.  It has not been very long ago that whites had slaves.  Many families did not, but we are all guilty, until proven innocent.  I look forward until the day all my brothers and sisters can stand together, United, and fight the real demons in this world..... not each other.  Finally, putting an end to all this trivial bullshit.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Manhood

This is a short story I had to do for an advanced art project, way back as a freshman in high school.  We were asked to write a poem or short story using only cutout words and letters from magazines.  Serial killer note style.  This thing was AWESOME and I kept it for a long time.  It took an entire week of class to complete.  If only I had gotten a scanner before all the glue melted away from the humidity.  I can't remember where I got these ideas from, probably plagiarised as hell, but here goes............

-~-

Manhood

Taught not to cry and reveal my soft spots, a dream about Manhood!  With a swell of confidence, I cried, "WATCH THIS!"  I leaped into the air and the sun smashed into my eyes.  I fell, plunging backwards, and sinking slowly underwater.  A second before I floated to the surface, I listened for my father's applause, but I saw only a smirk.  Now I realize it was a smile.

"A man is a man who can always look the same, no matter what plagues his tiresome soul."  Least ways, that's what Pops said.  I pull the Sony Walkman's music from my ears, as he remarks on the burning eyes of the man smacking the innocence, out of the young child.

I stood..... watching, as an old photograph fades back into the stream.  In the photograph I am bundled up and warm, in a thick, padded jacket.  My head is covered by a layer of animal fur, a sacrifice not soon to be forgotten.  I hit at the air, I scowl..... lashing out and searching for a spark of what flickers inside!

Years ago, to stop the tears a bully had beaten out of me...... My father, with an easy twist of the wrist, whipped me into a man.  The pain was gone, for there had never been a pain as bad as this new pain.  His bear head and and heavy glasses torment my eyes.  I did not cry anymore, and to this day I have not cried again.

In times of trouble I clam up and fizzle, like a hot, shaken Dr. Pepper.  Only as I'd seen him do.  HE IS A MAN!  His father was a man, as was his father's father.  Bottled up emotions hid truths.  Alcohol festered anger in their hearts, and consumed them in fire.  They died in pure silence, their spirits are finally free, grinding into Heaven.

I carry on, and OH, how I have learned to cry.  My emotions no longer composed of pure ice.  Sometimes..... for my father, I am still not allowed to cry.  I thank you... I love you... Never my Daddy... Forever my Father... and your fucked up dream about Manhood!
-~-
 A related vibe from a 2011 rap song, quote by Brotha Lynch Hung and COS, from the song "Spit it out."

I'm colder than the glacier
Even where my heart breaking
Everything aching can't repair myself
Every mirror in here broken like I can't stare at myself
I see clear through the smoke cause I got air in myself
But every time they give me rope they think I tear at myself

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Day My Earth Stood Still.

There I was laying in bed feeling like one hell of a cold was ravaging my whole body.  Laying in bed, sniffling, snorting, coughing, aching and burning up.  My phone rang, party rock anthem played and I heard a chime for a voicemail.  I was feeling so bad I couldn't even reach the phone.  I fell back to sleep.  A little while later the phone rang again.  Even in my delirious state I knew the phone ringing twice before 9am on a Sunday was bizarre.  I looked and my father had called twice and sent a text message.  Yes, my 68 year old Dad has learned to text!  I read the text, "Your mother is very sick, please call her immediately."  I jumped up and listened to the voice mails.

They are divorced, mom and dad, and mom lives by herself.  For years she has smoked cigarettes and drank excessive quanties of alcohol.  Other people would flat out say she is an alcoholic.  Dad called her this morning and asked how she was doing and she said "I am going to lay down in this bed and die."  He asked if she needed to go to the emergency room, and she said "I think so."  She would NEVER say she wanted to go to the doctor unless something was VERY wrong.  Dad was in Baton Rouge, 3 hours away, so he called me.  I am still one hour away, but I can make it in 40 minutes flat.  ;-)

I roll my nasty self out of bed and go straight to the hot shower to open up my passages a little, and breathe.  I call dad back while getting dressed.  We talk, I tell him I think I am going to have to go to the E.R. too.  I get off the phone with him and call her.  "Mom, are you OK?" I ask.  "Jimmy, I am going to lay in this bed and die" she tells me.  "No, no you are not, I am on my way to your house" I tell her.  She tries to tell me not to come, but she knows she is not going to make it if I don't.

I talk to Kelly, my wonderful wife.  I kiss my adorable kids Gabe, 12 and Max 2, goodbye.  I know in my heart I will not be back for a while.  I give Gabe the "you are now the oldest man in the house and you better help your mother out because she can't do it all by herself" speech.  I bet every man on this planet has heard that speech at least once in their lives.  I packed up a few clothes and necessities in my duffel bag and hit the road.  I was so worried about what I would find all the way there.  I normally went to see her every other Sunday.  I would do anything she needed around the house and take her grocery shopping, then to Dollar General and usually to the package store.  I was going to miss this Sunday because I was so sick, but I had to go anyway.

I got to the house and sat outside in the driveway for several minutes trying to get up my courage.  The front door was locked, but I had a key.  I went into the living room and immediately started choking.  My mom has always raised birds, all the way from parakeets to green wing macaws.  Birds constantly shed dust or dander.  My mom has always been good about having about 10 air filters in the house and she cleaned the filters almost daily.  It had obviously been a while.  There was a layer of white powder on everything in the house.  I had to go pee, so I went straight to the bathroom on what was once "my" side of the house.  I walked through several spider webs. When I looked in the toilet I saw mosquito larvae filling the toilet bowl.  I knew she was bad off then.

I went to her room and she was sitting on the edge of the bed with her purse in her hands.  She was dressed and ready to go.  I asked her if she could walk and she said she didn't know.  I went back out and moved the SUV to the edge of the front door.  I went back in and only by sheer stubbornness did she walk to the SUV, with my help.  We set out for the closest emergency room.  We chose North shore in Slidell, Louisiana because she had been seen there several times before.  Little did we know the horrors we would find.

We went to the emergency room.  During the initial check-in the nurse said she had an irregular heartbeat and brought her straight to a room in the back.  She had several tests and was admitted to the hospital that afternoon.  The next day they did a multitude of tests, EKG, chest x-ray, cat scan, all kinds of blood work.  Tuesday came and the main hospitalist doctor came in.  He said, "I did not want to have to tell you this, I have been trying for hours to find an easier way of saying it, but there isn't one, we are 90% sure you have Lung Cancer Mrs. Day."  He said they were scheduling a bronchoscopy for the following morning.  They would do a biopsy and send it off for results.

So there it was, the thing that no one wants to hear, Lung Cancer.  Yet she smoked for 30 something years.  She used to tell me she hoped I would come down one day and find her dead on the floor of her house.  I guess she just never realized it was not that easy.  This will apparently drag on for months, if not years.  She has a urinary tract infection, phenomia, very low sodium count, dehydrated, malnourished, arterial fibrillation of her heart, and lung cancer.  It has not been pretty so far, and they tell me the worst is yet to come.

So, there you have it.... The day my earth stood still.  The day quite a few peoples lives changed because my mother wanted to kill herself.  She refused to get any sort of help.  She refused to enjoy any type of life with her grandchildren.  She refused to to stop drinking or smoking.  I have now taken a FM LA leave from my job to become a full time caregiver.  She needs someone around 24 hours a day.  My family has to suffer now, for her irrational behavior.  They say she has to eat and drink all the nutrients and vitamins she can, because the radiation therapy will more than likely kill her.  She has a tumor in her windpipe, and multiples inside her lungs.

Even after years of preparing, I was still floored by the news.  I have seen this coming for almost 10 years.  Yet, I still cried for an hour and an half straight on my drive back to Petal, Ms.  I am starting to feel selfish, and at the same time ashamed of myself.  I realize I have given up almost all of my life to care for her.  It has put a very real hurt on my family.  I have been fighting to keep my wife and oldest son happy.  We are at times, drifting apart.  I moved my mother into my house, which was already too small.  We had to take away the youngest ones room, while we wait on an addition to the house.  The stress is showing, even on the 2 year old who has cried himself to sleep for the last 3 nights.

There it is, the day my earth stood still, Sunday January 15th, 2012.  Something people never seen to  think about is, how much does your way of life affect your loved ones?  I would imagine it is a lot more than you know, more than you will ever know, more than they will ever tell you.  It is amazing how my mom always wanted to die, right up until they said she was dying.  That is when she told the doctor "I want to live and spend more time with my grandchildren."  Tonight she has called me into her room 4 times.  She needed to pee she said.  She can't even stand up without some help.  I will help.  She is my mom and I love her so much.  I will be there for her, til the end, no matter how bad it is.

Friday, January 13, 2012

People Equal Shit

It is a jazz cover, absolutely amazing.

People do equal shit in the broad scheme of things, manure to fertilize the ground.  Food for the maggots and worms.  No matter how poor or rich, lowly or important, weak or strong, we will all be reduced to compost.

Why does it matter?  There is a beginning and an end to life.  We have no idea how long it will last, do we?  You can talk about living to the ripe old age of ___ (insert desired number here).  Some may take a different approach, saying things like "I want to go out with a bang" or "I want to die before my body deteriorates into a pile of mush."  My favorite saying is "I want to go out while I am having sex, right as I reach an orgasm."  Do you know how fucked up that is going to be to your partner?  Scarred for the rest of their lives!!!  "Yeah, but I will die one happy son of a bitch!"  You could be reading this on your smart phone right now, not see the open manhole cover in front of you and fall, screaming to your death.  We just don't know when Azrael will come to take us away from this mortal plane.

My point is this;  We have no idea how long we are going to live, so it is what you do in between that counts.  Why act like a piece of shit while you are alive, when you will be one when you die?  We all have to make choices every day.  Why not choose to be nice and helpful to your fellow mankind?  No one makes anybody be mean or hurtful, it is just a choice.  Life is so much more enjoyable when we treat each other with compassion and respect.  I choose to like everybody, until they give me a reason not to.  Even then I may still give them another chance.

To me it seems like hard work being mean and nasty to people. My mother has worked so hard to make herself miserable.  She works even harder to try and make the rest of us miserable.  With so many blessings in her life, she will not open her eyes to see them.  I know I don't have to do much to be nice, a smile here or a few words of appreciation there.  Not hard at all.  Smiles are contagious, you know?

Thursday, January 12, 2012

I C U

It is a song title.  I am relating everything these days to music.  It is not really about this topic, but still a great song if you like dark, mind bending Hip Hop from a man that claims to be a crip and a real life cannibal.  His point is that somebody is always watching you.  When you least expect it they are going to take vengeance for all the horrible things you have done.  (If that bothers you, your conscience is talking and you may need to reevaluate your actions, just saying.)


Here is the point.  We have been working out at the YMCA for months trying to get into better shape.  That quitting smoking thing really killed me.  I gained like 40 pounds in about a year.  Healthier in one way, not in another.  "Oral fixation" they call it.  I constantly search for something to suck or chew on.  I actually think I am a lot better on that front now.  Knowing is half the battle.

So, about a week ago we went to the Y and could not find anywhere to park.  Then we got inside and all of the machines we like to use were full.  We tried several times of the day and they were still full.  I asked some of the people working there about it and they say it happens every year.  New Year's resolutions!  Then after a month or so people just start disappearing.  It has been about 2 weeks and there are still way too many people.  It is really starting to get aggravating.  It costs up $60 a month to be members.  Is that "acceptable" or "satisfying" when we can not even get to do what we want?  ;-)  No.

Here is what I have found and the reason I am so pissed off about this.  I was listening to this song when it hit me and I thought.....  "Nigga, I see you"  Standing there in your very expensive running shoes, very expensive workout outfit, expensive cutie workout jacket, expensive Nike or Addidas hat, wearing your little workout gloves (that match your outfit), with full makeup on, your hair did and full jewelry on.  You have been here every time I have 4 days a week for 2 weeks.  I have not seen you were the same outfit or shoes yet.  That is quite an investment in apparel and time.  Let me just say I am not only talking about the women either.  Guys do it too, just maybe not the makeup.

I can see your faces while you are reading this.  "What is your problem Jam, they just want to look good at the gym?"  Yep, that is it.  They just want to look good at the gym, because they are definitely not fucking working out.  They stand around and talk and gossip, "So how is your mama and 'em?"  They are standing there blocking the machines, or worse, pretending to be using the machine when they are actually just sitting on it.  I have watched people get on an elliptical machine or bicycle for a grand total of 3 minutes.  You can get more exercise getting off the couch, walking to the kitchen, grabbing a beer and walking back to the couch.

When I first noticed it I thought maybe it was just the single people looking for love.  Nope, most are married.  The women really seem to take pride in blinding people with their wedding rings at every chance.  Then I thought that it is possible that 3 minutes is all you can do since you are so out of shape.  Nope, one lady was talking about how she ran 3 miles every morning, then came to the gym every evening. 

In closing, what does it all mean?  I was always told you had to have a closing paragraph in English class and here it is.  I really don't know what it means, but I really wish you people would go the FUCK outside or at least to the hallway with all the chitter~chatter and bull shit.  Some of us really do want to use that $10,000 dollar piece of exercise equipment you are sitting at, leaving butt juice all over while you ask about somebodies pet hamster.  Dammit!!!!  I am not the only one either.  I was talking to a guy tonight and he said "I C U 2!"

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Cat~Sup

What?  You actually beLIEved it was made from just tomatoes?

I am going to write a blog today and post it!  That is my new short term goal.  Nothing else matters until it is complete.  It is not that I have not been writing, I have.  I just never can come to an acceptable "The End" in my mind.  Therefore, I have 20 unfinished blog posts saved.  Gurrrrrrr......

Gurrrrrr is right.  I am somewhat sad, a little bit worried, and a whole hell of a lot curious.  Two bloggers that I have been following for some time now, just up and quit.  No warning, no explanation.... just *pOoF* and they are gone.  I never thought blogging would become a hobby, let alone an obsession at times.  In fact, I used to just plain think blogging was stupid and the people that did it were losers with no lives.  I have since changed my entire perspective on the subject.

It is wonderful to be able to share common experiences, feelings, art, music, etc with other people.  It is even more enjoyable for me to learn new things.  I have to admit I have learned a lot about myself, other people and cultures on this here site.  Words, they are just words.  They are, but they are not "just words."  Words can be the most powerful thing in the world.  They can make you so happy you feel like you grew wings and are flying with the angels.  They can make you so sad that you want to slit your wrists, and hope everyone forgets you ever existed.  Yeah..... "just words."  Whatever you do just remember this, use your words wisely.  Words cut to the bone like a razor, yet can mend wounds like a mothers loving embrace.

To those that left, your words will be missed.  To those new ones that join, we have been waiting to hear from you.  To everybody, thanks for sharing your lives with me.  I want to give all of you a gold star for your effort!  just a little jamboi.............