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Friday, March 13, 2009 |
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Tom, Helen, Paris and Ray
Location: four hours ago, in a Honda driving home Mood: busy Music: Bad news comes don't you worry even when it lands
Don't come, it was two years ago (whoa) - I'm not at my place and don't have a pic for this entry so I'm reposting - you can watch it at 72canal.com if you want.
Me: What do you think it is? Her: (thinking) I think it's a self-selecting industry. I mean, you have to be somewhat greedy and self-centered to enter the profession. So when you give a bunch of greedy, self-centered people a ton of money, is anyone really surprised when they give themselves million-dollar bonuses for "retention" even though there's no job for them to go to?
Normally I never write anything political but I just gotta say this.
The problem with tossing out all these numbers like million, billion and trillion is that they all kinda sound the same - lemme put it in some perspective:
- A million seconds ago, was 11 days, 20 hours, 4 minutes and 4 seconds ago. I was still a 35-year old nobody.
- A billion seconds ago, was 31 years, 8 months, 6 days. I was a 3-year old nobody.
- A trillion seconds ago, was 31,688 years 269 days 17 hours 34 minutes 25 seconds. Nobody was anybody.
Y'know that quote from Edison? He was asked how it felt failing all those times while making the lightbulb - he replied, I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
There's this insane fear of failure. And it is very, very insane. Spending a lotta A's dough, to bail out B just seems wrong to me. Even worse, spending that much money, knowing, knowing that they're just going to spend it on themselves, as they have before, is just more insanity.
The worst part is that it keeps happening and the economy keeps getting worse.
Rough times cut away the fat of our lives to see the muscle underneath. I truly believe that. Failure and death are ugly things but ugly things are part of the natural course of the world.
I meet so many young people that think spending coin's the way to solve things. It isn't.
The world needs more people like Helen Keller who have nothing and made something of themselves and less people like Paris Hilton who have everything and make nothing of themselves.
YASYCTAI: Read about Ray Kroc. He was a failure until he was 50-something. Then he wasn't. (60 mins/1 pt)
Labels: dialogue, discussion, video
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Monday, March 17, 2008 |
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Dressing for success
Location: 03:00 yest, bumping into a friend on Broadway Mood: mischievous Music: Again and again and again, I think I will break but I mend
Me: Oh for...why would you ask that now?
Her: Well, you have low, or no, creepiness factor and you dress well. A girl's gotta know.
Me: I would think by now, you'd have figured it out.
Her: You could be bi.
Me: Oh for...
Been doing the online dating thing. Four months ago, it was about 90% RL and 10% online, then it flipped (please don't search for me, that's just stalkerish and weird). Lately, it's about 50/50.
Dating in general is tiring - the constant hellos and goodbyes. But like most things, on the net it happens faster; the disappointing and disappointments zip by and I don't even have time to register them. Still meeting lots of pescatarians. Don't ask.
This weekend, I took a break. Friday, stayed in, cooked, and watched a Law & Order marathon. Saturday fenced and then Paul and I saw CaptainRedStar and crew. Ran into L - twice in a week. Bumped into each other earlier Tuesday at Candyfiend's party. We're always so busy.
On another point entirely, decided to act and dress my age. There's a story there, but it's for next time. Guess I gotta start shopping at the Gap or something.
The other part's harder - how does a 34 year-old act?
Labels: dialogue, pescatarians, single life, video
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Friday, February 22, 2008 |
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Music Week Day 4 - Bedtime stories
Location: 20:00, locked out of my car and freezing in Queens Mood: sotted Music: they keep getting younger, Don't they baby?
no mother ever thinks that her daughter's gonna grow up to sleep alone.
I was listening to this song before I fell asleep one night and I had the strangest dream about a man who couldn't sleep and woman who wouldn't speak. I'd like to tell it to you.
If I can remember it all, I will.
I'll add that to the list of things I've gotta do. I'm sorry for all of those of you that said you could help - I don't think I can do the rum project. No time.
There's never enough time these days.
Labels: story, video
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
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Music Week Day 3 - Charm attack / -ish
Location: 10:30 yest, queuing at the bank Mood: creative Music: Well, I'm no savior But I tried to save you
To continue from my last post:
Me: OK, I'll meet your friend. Cain: Wait, you know Logan has a strict catch and release policy, right?
Her: What does that...oh... Me: Hey! (sighing) Nevermind...
Time: 500(ish) Days Dates: 80(ish) Relationships: 5(ish) Shortest: 2 weeks Longest: 4 months (4.5 if you count the recidivism) Dates this week: 2 Batting average: 80:0
I'm 35 in two months. Cain thinks I'm self-sabotaging, my parents think I'm not getting any younger, friends Rain questions if I'm gay.
They all think I'm the guy that's just passing by, but I'm not. I'm killing time. I told you then, I'm waiting.
I'm still waiting.
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Thanks for all the music so far - post more?
Labels: dialogue, single life, video, waiting
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 |
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Music Week Day 2 - Not quite yet
Location: 15:30 & 19:00 yest, walking about the hood Mood: disappointed Music: you only want what everybody else says you should want
If you miss Freddie too, you'll like this kid - he's got pipes. Here's another killer vid from him.
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Kemidra posted an interesting question in her blog and supported my parents' theory that I'm attractive (bringing the total number of people that think that to three).
I wrote in my very first post that, for almost two decades, I wasn't so much Logan as I was Loganandliz, or what have you - like Samanderic in Lord of the Flies. I was a unit as in: Let's invite Loganandliz - they're a cute couple!
It's been 19 months and I gotta say, I like being single.
I don't think you can have a good relationship with someone else if you've never fully fleshed out who you are. I mean what do you bring to the table if you're defined by someone else?
Having said that, if I did meet the right girl at the right time for both of us, I'd stop being single in a heartbeat. Cause it doesn't matter if you're the disappointer or the diappointee - it's fulla suck either way.
But sometimes, that's how it's gotta be. To quote St. Augustine again: da mihi castitatem et continentiam - sed noli modo
Give me chastity and continence - but not quite yet.
Labels: single life, video
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Monday, February 18, 2008 |
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Music Week Day 1 - George
Location: 14:00 yest., the 66th Street Barnes & Noble Mood: hopeful Music: I don't believe that you, you don't believe in me
I went on a blind date with a very cool and attractive, brown-eyed girl today.
Me: After all my fish died, I bought a bunch more and named them all George. Her: (quizzical look)
Me: ( nodding slowly) They're pretty upset over the whole matter, too. Her: (laughs) You should get a goldfish and call him Token because he'll be the token goldfish.
Me: Well now, that's just silly. Also met a bevy of lovely Christian girls at a party on Friday. Weird thing is that when I found out they were Christian, I slipped into anywhere but church mode.
It's a mental block.
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I wanna share my current favorite songs this week. If you blog, will you post songs and videos this week? If you don't, post music in the comments? Introduce me to music you love.
It'll make these days go by faster.
I'd like them to go by faster. Labels: dialogue, george, random meetings, single life, video
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
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Mighty Forces in a Golden Cup
Location: well, my mind's elsewhere Mood: hopeful Music: I thought it out this very day. Noon upon the clock
Christine, danke sehr...
Basil King once said, Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid. I think this is true. Your friends, your family, yourself. It all comes together, somehow. Not perfectly, but it does.
It's been 16 months since I became single. Seven months since the car accident. Three months since the theft. And I'm still here.
I drink a little more, I drive a little less and my clothes are exactly the same. But I'm still here.
Labels: depression, hope, video
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