A Day In The Life

Books I'm Reading:

Joey The Hitman-The Autobiography of a Hitman by David Fisher
The Enforcer-A Life And Death In The Mafia by Adrian Humphreys
The Way Of The Wiseguy - Joseph Pistone
Killing One Another by Gwenn Nettler (editor)
Samuel Beckett The Man & His Works - F.J. Hoffman

What I'm Listening To:

Skanky Panky - Kid Koala
The Drugs Don't Work - Ben Harper
Six Days (Remix) - DJ Shadow & Mos Def
Rodeo Clowns - G Love & Jack Johnson
I Will Sing You Songs - My Morning Jacket

No time .... no time ..... but I feel just fine. Seems the older I grow the messier my desk gets. Why is that? I thought aging had something to do with increasing maturity and planning and organization? Here I am with 10 books that I must read and an ever threatening writing project staring me down. Maybe the two jobs get in the way of my creativity. Damned morgage, car, electricity, cable, internet, insurance, food, booze, shoes, clothes, books, paper, ink.

I took the boys to the marsh. They took their plastic nets swinging through the bulrush and captured two bullfrog tadpoles. We now have an ongoing project in these two aquatic bulbous beasts. Placed in a standard hexagonal aquarium the two gelatenous figures have taken on personalities. They seem to wake up at 9:00pm and swim madly, splashing all over, to the point where if there were no lid on the aquarium I'm sure they'd be found on the floor like dried up prunes. There'd be no Finding freakin Nemo happy ending in that. Anyway after two hours of absolutly bouncing off the walls they settle down and do nothing (but mutate). Glad I'm not a frog...but wait we have so much in common. I do nothing all day then freak out for two hours......yup that's me. Somedays a classroom can feel alot like a hexagonal aquarium.

Listening to the radio this weekend a totally fascinating PHD was speaking about the madness of the social condition (very generally). I recomend everybody and anybody seek this guy out Frederick Hickling is like a cross between Bob Marley and Michel Foucault. Absolutly amazing dude.

Oh yea and speaking of culture and such this site is presently in the courts for being a search engine for films that are still in the cinemas. Enjoy the downloads -ISOHUNT-

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence.
Waking Life

The demons have been turned loose and go about, grotesquely pretending to be honourable 20th-century men who do not believe in evil spirits.
Vaclav Havel

Decietfulness, perverse sexual behaviour, stealing, and increasing destructiveness are typical features of...breakdown of the personality."
Martin Israel

Three Poisons: Craving - Hatred - Ignorance
Buddha

The world is not a vacuume. Either we make it an alter for God or it is invaded by demons.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

....every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell

Man is asleep, must he die before he wakes?
Muhammad

Three things in life are destructive: anger, greed and pride.
Muhammad

The path to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
Carl Jung

Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response

DEADLY ARSENALS

Continuing upon the theme of Mutually Assured Destruction we have entered into a time soon to be called the NEW COLD WAR

POstMOdern CULTure

Of the specters that remain with us haunting our writing, of those that we faintly acknowledge one commands our attention: Its voice echoes: "no apocalypse, not now."

NUCLEAR JIHAD

The idea is not new.....if you find yourself wondering about the legitmacy of the fight against terror groups, read on.

The New Brinksmanship: Iran's Nuclear Threat