I am happy, I try not to think about unhappy people
I try not to think about war, rape, and all unpleasant unwholesome thoughts
I will not let the devil steal my joy
I will read only good books
why should I care
We making progress every day
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Every passing hour brings the Solar System 43,000 miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules—and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. – Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
Woke up to a documentary about women and war. Since the end of the cold war our peace dividend has consisted of ever increasing small arm sales to combatants in the "commodity wars"
I don't want to go to work today, I want to stay home and contemplate the lint in my belly button.
Re: April fool
Posted: April 3rd, 2012, 9:52 am
by stilltrucking
On a down hill roll
rolling rolling rolling free
"like a wheel out of its own center"
zekiel saw da wheel
Re: April fool
Posted: April 4th, 2012, 8:34 am
by stilltrucking
He went on to describe his work as a volunteer lay pastor for his Mormon congregation in the Boston area. “That gave me the occasion to work with people on a very personal basis that were dealing with unemployment, with marital difficulties, with health difficulties of their own and with their kids,” Romney said.
“Most Americans, by the way, are carrying a burden of some kind,” Romney continued. “You don’t see it. We see someone on the street, they smile and say, ‘Hello.’ But behind them they are carrying a bag of rocks. It may be their own health difficulties. It may be concern about a job. It may be inability to pay for the home or the college they were hoping to pay for for a child.”
Romney added, “When you get a chance to know people on a very personal basis, whether you’re serving as a pastor or as a counselor or in other kinds of roles, you understand that every kind of person you see is facing some challenges. And one of the reasons I’m running for president of the United States
the age of insight
I love that
what it must to have felt like walking around the the streets of Veinna in the first years of the twentieth century. I think I would have gone mad to live throught all that, than I realize I have lived through most of 20th century, but grateful not to be born in the time of my parents youth. But Oh god if I had been alive and in Europe at the end of World War One, I would have gone mad.
Re: April fool
Posted: April 12th, 2012, 8:11 am
by stilltrucking
I am trying to spend more time centered in my body, instead of sitting godlike in some abstract space slightly above and behind it.
Re: April fool
Posted: April 15th, 2012, 3:02 pm
by gypsyjoker
Been almost fifty years to the day since we burried crazy mike.
Got dam old dogs
April 17/18 1962
to Nov 22, 1963 time dilation, months seem like days
I feel like I am at The 42 Parallel
April is slowing down again
or speeding up
again
so familiar
all most like being on the road again
moving
ha
such a road longing
a sea longing
an alone longing
yeah I need beach time
Yes we have no bananas or record of that chess game when crazy mike played the great bobby fischer to a drawl
In the U.S. Amateur, won by John Hudson, Bobby tied for 11-23rd with a score of +3=2-1. Only the loss against Nash survives.
rd. 1 draw vs. Tilles, Michael
rd. 2 win vs. Bacardi, J.
rd. 3 draw vs. Hurttlen, Norman
rd. 4 win vs. Sklaroff, Samuel
rd. 5 loss to Nash, Edmund
rd. 6 win vs. Rigler, R.
Bobby then won for the first time in the U.S. Junior Championship. Only the games against Grossguth, Whisler and Blake have survived.
Re: April fool
Posted: April 18th, 2012, 7:48 am
by stilltrucking
Dreamed about Bashar al-Assad last night, long dream went on and on.
Woke up thinking "Bashar al-Assad, Boo Yah!"
The night before I dreamed about crazy mike. He looked sad and young in the dream. I woke up thinking I am 8 years older than my father was when he died at age 63.
The day before the dream about crazy mike I heard this song.
Loudon Wainwright III "Older Than My Old Man"
Re: April fool
Posted: April 25th, 2012, 1:08 am
by stilltrucking
April
Re: April fool
Posted: April 25th, 2012, 6:21 am
by SadLuckDame
April, is all of these minutes.
Makes it kinda easy for me.
Re: April fool
Posted: April 25th, 2012, 3:10 pm
by stilltrucking
I don't know I became so fixated on April this month. I am in the pits these days. Not sure if it happens every April since 1962. I just can't remember.
I think spring is over here. We are into summer today. Hot humid.
The other night so beautiful, mostly the sky stays overcast here but a lot of stars were showing the night before. I love seeing the stars in the night sky. A religious ocianic feeling for me.
My dreams been going up in a puff of consciousness when I first awake. I had an interesting dream last night but all I can remember about it was that it was interesting
that picture of the army guy hitting the protester in the face with his rifle stuck in consciousness but I have not dreamed about it yet.
Re: April fool
Posted: April 26th, 2012, 7:26 am
by SadLuckDame
Funny that I went to worry yesterday thinking you'd deleted me, took me a bit of time to realize you had two April threads and I'd just posted in this and not the other. ppp
Then I went to sleep wondering if I'd 'take' it there. na na na
here we arrive. Hello, Jack. It's good having you in April.
Re: April fool
Posted: April 26th, 2012, 8:04 am
by stilltrucking
Isabella rose is moving in here, she always cheers me up
I feel like there is hope
Re: April fool
Posted: April 26th, 2012, 8:19 am
by SadLuckDame
Maybe there is.
I like the feeling of thinking so.
Welcome to your isabella rose, too.
