Divine Communion

Had another visit from the Lady in Silver last night. Who is she? Read Cosmic Trigger. To make it short, I came to Her as Saturn, She called me Adonis, and She had me drink from her cup.

Citations

Quite often in the midst of a conversation someone will pull a quote, statistic, or theory out as ammunition. Things like 'The Wall Street Journal says,' or 'Mark Twain once wrote,' or even 'Nazi Scientists discovered...' I use references quite a bit myself.

On three occasions now, people have quoted or referred to material from my book, Black Whole Son. Once the person couldn't even remember the source of what she was citing and was a bit embarrassed when I pointed out it was from my book. It's all so fantastic! Less than a month and people reference the book. I am a citation source. Yay!

To Kill or Not to Kill

I won't comment here about my opinions on the upcoming execution of Stanley Tookie Williams. I've already got an excellent dialogue going on with Knight of Pan.

But I would like to point something out here. Have you noticed that people in favor of carrying out his death sentence will typically use the photo on the left and those who argue for a stay of execution tend to show the photo on the right?

Thus God Spake

God came to me in a vision. You know how people often joke about how, "He's shorter than I expected." It's true. I've talked with him a couple of times. Nice guy. Really short. Likes to wear strange outfits and speak with funny accents.

Long story short, I'm in charge of the whole world now. It's kind of nice. That means I can travel anywhere around the globe and still be at home in my kingdom.

God's a nice guy. Really short though.

White

I have never liked Spike Lee. In my opinion, his films are grade A typical of what comes out of an NYU film student. On the other hand, that formula made a much bigger star of Martin Scorsese than it did of Spike Lee.

Watch this. Are the people giving him a fair shake? Are they actually listening to what he is saying? Is what he is saying the least bit plausible?

I'm about as white as they come, and I feel real sorry for Spike in this clip. I don't know if he is right or wrong, but the people aren't even responding to what he actually said, and that's sad.

Wilson Quote

Through the years, (Robert Anton) Wilson and (Albert) Hoffman have stayed in touch. "He's a fan of my books," says Wilson, "and I'm a fan of his drugs."

A GOP Christmas

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history.

George W. Bush

AWPC

As soon as I heard the guy say this, I knew that this was my AWPC for the day. So I grabbed my pocket notebook and wrote it down, word for word.

Operator: I was like fuck. I mean the bread, son-of-a-bitch. Tuna fish by itself? Fuck. I mean fuck. All eatin' it and shit. Fuck.

Dig DiRT

'Back in the day', as I like to say at work, X and I had worked on a little something we called Demented Radical Thinking, DiRT. We cultivated this as a means of altering reality through the use of our minds. People tended to consider us quite nuts for it and we would often accept the compliment as the freight train rolled through the classroom.

Turns out, we weren't nearly as original as we thought at the time. We did, however, find ourselves in good company. Salvador Dali utilized a method he called Critical Paranoia. While not as all encompassing as DiRT, I must still give a nod to those who trod this path before us.

LAMP!

The League of Armed Marijuanna Patients has great quotes from George Washington, John Adams, Lysander Spooner, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Spookiness

This girl doing overtime freaked me out last night. Never worked with her before. Nothing really wrong with her. In fact, that's the origination of the freakiness.

Imagine an alien species is looking at humans in America. They scan our communications (radio, phone, and television) to determine our habits. They figure out what kinds of things are going on, what is acceptable, what isn't, and they are now ready to send an agent to the surface for some field work.

So they send the agent in to Walmart to buy everything they need, because it's America's number one retailer. They then try to put together a fashionable ensemble based on what they can get at Walmart and what they have seen in media sources. Trust me, it's very, VERY frightening.

Very nice person. Almost too nice. Almost. See, it's just sort of alien. It's almost like I should turn the whole situation over to the Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal.

Happy!

Came home from work in an extremly good mood. Not sure why. I'll just take it.

Black Whole Sonnier

I thought about it for a while and have decided to cut the cost of Black Whole Son. You can now buy it for $1.00! Or just $8.05 for a printed copy (plus shipping). This is a first book, written in (less than) one month. The cover rocks! That's what makes the printed version such a value. But I make the same either way.

It really is a great book. Well worth the money to download a copy for a read. So the price has come down to take away everyone's excuse for not buying a copy. You'd spend a buck on a lotto ticket, and this provides some guaranteed entertainment.

Wikinformation

So some hot shot journalist gets upset because a Wikipedia article implicates reporter in the Kennedy assasination.

I like Wikipedia. I like it because I know it is flawed. Anyone can add content. Opinions are part of encyclopedia entries. And if you disagree with an entry, you can add to, edit, or replace it with your own. I like to hound this point but here goes again. When you look up topics in Britanica and Wikipedia, what is the difference between the entries? What makes one a more reputable source than the other? Here's my answer. The authors for the Britanica pieces operate under the delusion that they are seperate from the piece, impartial. They aren't! Light seems to travel as a wave or a particle depending on what we use to look at it. A scientist could be completely objective and talk all about his experiences looking at light waves. Another scientist could be completely objective and talk all about her experiences looking at light particles. Neither is wrong, but their data won't match. That's all information that reaches us. We see what we are looking for. Using an opensource project like Wikipedia is a constant reminder of who the ultimate editor in your life has to be.

Further lessons:

How do you know that the New York Times is telling the truth and the Weekly World News is lieing?

Why did a majority of the population, including Democratic Congressmen and Senators, believe the pre-Iraq invasion intelligence reports?

How is a person in an American flag shirt and a yellow ribbon on their SUV more or less patriotic than an artist who suspends a crucifix in urine and makes people walk across an American flag if they want to view it?

Information consists of what you directly experience. Your brain then filters a good deal of it before you can even 'think' about it. Ever met a reporter? No brighter than you or me. Imagine all the filtering that happens in their brains before writing a piece. Then an editor reads and filters. Then you read an filter.

Mis-Information, Dis-Information, completely altered and edited reality. You create your own reality, every second.

And if you disagree with all of the above, then you are not right or wrong. You are seeing the world through a filter that blocks or edits some of the information.

Happy Holidays!

I found yet another wonderful ode to the holiday season. Check out the video at http://www.karkis.net/. It feels as though the universe has conspired to get me to like December again.

On a Roll

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

George Washington

Embrace Technology

Life imitates jokes. Not too long ago I heard jokes about the 'iProd'. Now I see geek girl's new best friend, the iBuzz. Cyndi Lauper was right.

Santa IS Evil

We sat on the couch and watched 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' tonight. Some things I noticed.

Santa learns from the animals much like shamans do.

When the Winter Warlock's heart unfreezes and he wants to be good, Santa encourages self determination over salvation.

When Santa gets married, not only is the ceremony outside in the forest, but the bride is wearing BLUE! Way to go, Santa!

I'd swear the 'first christmas tree' has rose croix with unicursal hexagrams in the centers.

The extreme right christians might have something when they call Santa Claus evil. After rewatchng the old film even I like the Santa presented.

Smarter Than Cap'n Crunch

Looking at the back of my cereal box.

It asks me how many bells I can find hidden. Easy.
A. None since all the ones I saw were in plain site, or
B. Indeterminate since they are, after all, hidden.

And the final stretch of the maze was cut off by a starburst graphic instructing me to have an adult help me cut out the ticket. So you can't finish it. You're blockaded.

Doing it Right

At work I found myself having to bend over to wire up a new motor, clutch, and brake on a preset table. True to form, I knew my ass crack was showing. For a few seconds it bothered me. Then I remembered, "Hey. I'm doing electrical work. If ever there is a time to have one's ass crack showing, surely it is now!"

So I bared it with pride. And of course no one complained. I was merely showing my professional work credentials.