Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

It started like any other, the week, the years, the arguments and culture and pomp that seems to run together. Everyone is out to save something or kill it. We have red states and blue states, warehouses, share houses, socialists and banks. We have education and weapons and drugs wed to profit and good and evil arrayed in various disarrays and back again, but none of it explains why the day started like any other, or the years for that matter.

No, the planet spun around again and it was my turn to get up, that's all. Wired to the rock I could go anywhere, weary and innocent if necessary. Click. So naturally I logged on and found a snapshot entirely random that day, 1/20/09 (AD):

Last night (1:03 AM, by Lady Arduriel): "Maybe I'm misinterpreting things (and I hope I am), but you are saying that you would slaughter the whole population, Cal?"

Today (12:34 PM, by Cal): "Ellie, you are not misinterpreting my statement. Human life deserves the utmost preservation. Show me respect and I'll show you respect. If they don't care about the preservation of human life then they deserve the same. Kill everything that moves. Wipe them out and you no longer have a problem."

Today (12:49 PM, by mnaz): "Yeah that's great Cal. Complete and utter genocide as the solution. How long did that take you?"

Today (1:00 PM, by Cal): "About a split-second, it would be my answer to someone attacking the United States, don't need a lot of research for it."

Today (1:30 PM, by mnaz): "So if I understand your rhetoric here, genocide is the preferred solution for anyone attacking the U.S., no exceptions. So by that logic, in response to the 9/11/01 attacks perhaps the U.S. should have just nuked all of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and got it done with and got all of the suspects along with the rest of the millions (nukes would seem the best shot at "killing everything that moves"). Would that scenario match your split-second sort of foreign policy analysis?"

Today (1:44 PM, by Cal): "As far as genocide being the preferred solution? Yes. If you want to nuke someone, ok. I don't think a nuke would be necessary to accomplish the job, but whatever. It's not rhetoric, it's called an opinion."

I spent the rest of the day arguing about sports and wiping out the sunset.

involvement varies in inches of depth one is willing to dig for the facts.

well written, my friend... very creative. i liked the originality of this.

Okay, confession time. I've lived much healthier in November through January overall than I have in most months for the past few years-- getting a little more balanced in my approach, one would hope. But on top of the ongoing trial that my family has journeyed through for quite a while now, with love and deeper connection mostly, lately my family is faltering and coming apart at the seams, and I have little strength for it, even though I have to stay strong and loving. I need to be a fighter, but one with compassion (for myself as well). But I did kind of "lose it" last night, the blessed night that followed the day. Oh, the day. Sometimes I just want to be anywhere but in reality, only to log on and have reality's unreality thrown right back in my face.

I like some of this, though... "...planet spun around again and it was my turn to get up, that's all"... Yeah, it's like that.

Is this a real conversation? Did Cal really say this stuff?

yes he did.

wowow... He must have been joking around in an odd humor type of way that i couldn't possibly understand but that he thought was amusing at the time. Nobody could mean that seriously, yanno?

That's what I thought. That's why I kept pushing him on it, but he wouldn't back down.

Originally I was going to post snippets from all of my considerable online interaction yesterday, from mundane to riveting, but this exchange stood out and kind of dominated my thoughts for a while.

Anyway... just a surreal day for me in many ways. Sometimes it's like that.