on bradley, buddhism, butts, bicycling, bodybuilding, and beliefs!
What on earth are you doing? I'm
writing! What about? This. That's not very interesting. Neither
are you! I'm interesting. Say something interesting. Something
interesting. That's the least interesting thing you could have said!
Ok, how bout, “big boobs and big butts battle for bradley's
fighting vehicle.” Where'd that come from? I dunno. The word
'butts' is funny. Cigarette butts are gross. Well, buttholes are
gross, but people put their mouths on them, too. Fighting vehicle?
Is that code for cock? 10-4, soldier. Okay, well that's slightly
interesting. What else you got? I could flash my tits. You're a
guy. No one wants to see your tits. Well, how bout I shave my
beard? You wanna see that? If you want to. I don't care. I'm
writing, though. No facial hair doesn't translate into good copy.
How bout a police officer urinating? That's good cop pee, lol.
That's not very funny. Well, I thought it was. How about I tell you
about my week? Okay, shoot.
Well, I woke up at 4:30a, as I do
every weekday, following ben franklin, and I popped some
multivitamins, drank coffee with cream, ate a bowl of oatmeal, and
listened to jazz from whrb, the harvard radio station, on my Amazon
Echo. My walls are thick, so I don't disturb my roommates. Then I
read the day's history, from 2 books, then wikipedia, and then the
encyclopedia brittanica on my computer. The 2 books are Today in
History, from the history channel, and The Grim Reaper's Book of
Days, which highlights a few interesting cases of who died, and how,
on each date. Reading those 4 sources usually takes about an hour.
I can linger on wikipedia for hours. I can find endless ways of
procrastinating, when I want to. I like to use my Alexa to answer
questions, so I think of random queries, progressing through the 6
question words (who, what, where, when, why, how). I have a book of
trivia on alexa that it reads aloud to me, if I ask. I also like to
have the device read me wikipedia articles. I bounce around radio
stations, musical artists, standup comedy, podcasts, jokes, facts,
news, and background sounds, like “space deck” or “rainforest
sounds” or “spanish guitar” or “rap music.” I like to
keep things interesting and fresh. Sports scores, definitions of
words, and stupid banter with the AI to see what the programmers told
it to say, are all interesting (to me, anyway). My roommate
sometimes comes in and yells at it, which keeps my room lively. He
calls it the “salon”. I offer my computer for email or youtube
or the onion or ted talks, my tablet for wikipedia or videos, the
alexa for audio whatever, and I have a huge collection of trivia
cards, to pass the time, productively. Of course, you can take a
nap, meditate, or just chill and chat, too. I write my blog, and
check the stats to see how much recent viewership it's getting, as
well as read. Ideally, I'll read a book a day. It's easier with
kids books, and I have a list of the newbery winners I printed from
off of wikipedia, online, that I pluck from the shelves at the local
libraries. Sometimes I read the Economist and Foreign Affairs at the
Cal library. Rarely, I'll go to the GTU (that's Graduate
Theological Union) library, where it is quiet and lovely, and where I
can pour over books like the Aletheon by Adi Da, or just the day's
New York Times. I get news in my email, too, which is always
demanding my time, to process it down, erasing the daily additions,
which include trivia, poetry, vocabulary word of the day, a
washington post news summary, a quick news review from the new york
times, and daily book passage excerpts (called 'delancey'), in
addition, of course, to the correspondence from family. I walk dogs
4 times a week, and sometimes housesit. I save money by going to the
food pantry once a month, and there are free meals (lunches) 3x a
week at a nearby church. This is how I rationalize spending money on
sushi burritoes, baklava, papa john's and mountain mike's pizza, and
ike's sandwiches. I'm trying to be more vegetarian. But I love my
weekly treat of a pastor taco, from Los Pericos restaurant, in San
Leandro. I also want to get stronger, better looking, more athletic,
and fit by going to the gym. I have a discounted membership at the
local YMCA. I exercise in my room, too. I used to go to the free
yoga, downtown (yoga to the people), but it's been quite awhile since
I've done that. I have a mat, though. As if all this weren't
enough on my plate, I want to discipline myself to learn martial arts
and self-defense, from youtube, or by training with actual people.
Ideally, I will bodybuild, swim, yoga, walk dogs, and practice
martial arts. I don't have a car, so I bicycle everywhere, as well,
which is of course more cardio. I mix 2 scoops of gnc protein powder
in cold water every morning, which keeps me fueled, providing energy
for my daily regimen. The gym used to have mtv on their exercise
bicycle tv screens, but they don't anymore, so I don't get to laugh
at the Ridiculousness show I like, on that station. That's the only
tv I watch, really. I have a mr. coffee, but sometimes I'll go to
starbuck's or peet's and get a small coffee with room, with a pastry
(I like the starbuck's chocolate chip cookie, and the peet's almond
croissant). I'll occasionally go to a porn site, at home, and do my
business. I have an okcupid profile, but I've stopped dating,
searching, playing the field, trying. I'm happy with my books and
blog. I might even write a book, someday, we'll see. I'm God, you
know. Or, at least a high-level theologian, you might say. I like
to think I'm a deity! Divinity is a fun perspective, to my way of
seeing. And hopefully some good will come of it. Some religious
folk think God is the source of all goodness, and that only God is
good, and, of course, that God is love, and love believes all things,
if you put 2 and 2 together, from the bible. If I find somebody who
believes I might be right, while I in turn believe they might be
right, while each of us still holds our respective beliefs, well
that's the kind of love The Good Book is talking about, I think.
Strong opinions, while still remaining open to the possibilities of
alternate and even radically different explanations, keeps life
interesting. It's all good, as they say. We're attached to our
beliefs, and sometimes averse to others, but happiness requires we
let go, and let god, as they say. That sounds vampiric, actually.
Well, there's all kinds of folks. Enlightenment and Nirvana requires
an open mind, tolerant, accepting, non-averse. Equanimity is the
ideal, in which “good” and “bad” do not inherently exist, but
proceed from attachments, which we extinguish, to delight in simply
being and breathing, and to experience freedom from pain, suffering,
discontent, and dukkha, while participating in the larger societal
process of reducing and eliminating others' suffering, to create
shambala, the kingdom, utopia, heaven, bliss, progress, whatever you
want to call it. Being God is simply being good, there's nothing
else to it. What's good is what makes you happy. You only live
once. I've decided to ponder the great questions, and share my
perspective, wisdom, insight, opinion, beliefs, values, thoughts,
ideas, and knowledge, on my blog. That's what I did last week. Did
that make for good reading? I dunno, depends on the reader. Who's
Bradley? Well, Bradley, he found happiness in being. Breathing,
meditating, sleeping, dreaming, reading, talking, creating, writing,
listening, watching, eating, drinking, exercising, fucking, doing
drugs, hiking, camping, working, helping, anything and everything, it was all good,
nothing was bad, he loved life, and was content, satisfied,
comfortable, joyful, wise, curious, educated, informed, and in love
with himself, others, his girl, his family, his country, animals,
everybody, everything, always, everywhere. He set an example for all
of us. He lived simply. He was a simple man. Simplicity. Being,
Goodness, Life. Fun, humor, laughter, play, kindness, cheer. He was
a good man. He made the world a better place. Being good. That, to me, is God.
