Happy New Ear!
Month: December 2002
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I had a bit of a freakout today: one part father/inner child issues, two parts holiday forebodin’, shake well, sweat a little… produces copious tears and wracking sobs.
Then the clouds parted and a tattooed angel descended from those golden arches in the sky…and who do you think my darling angel was? It was the lovely and ultimately thoughtful SealKitty of Doom!
After dealing with the joy tears, I was able to smooth myself back into presentable order and go on with my day!
Sealy is a sweety darling, and a singularly talented artist…just so’s you know. Thank you oodles, honey-chile. You’ll never know just how much it mattered.
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The baby gell is watching Peter Pan, and I’m hearing one of my favorite songs from childhood:
Never smile at a crocodile
’cause you can’t get friendly with a crocodile
don’t be taken in by his welcome grin
he’s imagining how well you’d fit beneath his skin
Never smile at a crocodile
never tip your hat and stop to talk a while
don’t be cruel, never mock
thrown a kiss, not a rock
leave the island, never talk to Mr. Crocodile
Some people are like that. No point in hating them; they’re crocodiles…they can’t help what they are.
Still, you’d be a pretty dim bulb to know it’s a crocodile and still put your head in its mouth.
just a pubic service message from your friends at:
Metaphors R Us -
Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful…
hate me because I have my holiday shopping done and have mailed all my cards!
things are so damned good that it is frightening me. the other shoe? dropping soon? yes?
in addition… it occurs to me that there are proportionately more clever people “here” than in the general population. of course, there are still lots of morons too. just a thought.
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Welcome to My Opinion:
It’s my opinion and you’re welcome to it…I don’t do boycotts. I don’t think they work. What they DO is negatively impact the lower rungs of organizations, generally the poverty level workers.
I don’t think demonstrations are the best use of energy, in most cases. At their worst they can foster a mob mentality that spawns violence. I do concede that there are exceptions, such as getting information into the media. Locally, two women in their sixties were arrested outside an armed forces recruiting office. They were protesting the use of radioactive metals in military equipment. They wanted the public to have the information, and more important, they wanted potential recruits to have that information. I wouldn’t know about it if I hadn’t wondered what the hell was so important that two women in their sixties, dressed to the nines, would go to jail to further their cause.
Do I care about many of the subjects of mass protest? Sure I do, but I already know about them, and so do the majority of people the media reaches.
What I think works, is making an impact on an individual level (as well as funding research and organizations that DO trench work).
Here is one organization that I think merits notice:
Project_Linus
