yada yada yada

helicopter, hell I copulated with her

jedis in Jeddah, a dearth of Darth, Sith in a sopwith-camel 

swastika means good luck, well-being, in Sanskrit

terminator botanist, with google glass

‘Irie’ means, in Jamaican english: nice, good, pleasing (Irineo!)

Iration is a band, doesn’t mean irate, like Ireland isn’t a land of ire

Rotten and rot-eleven, and rot-eight (rotate)

Prostate, prostrate, concentrate, constraints

Joe Biden, jingle bells, Justin Bieber, brand of scotch whiskey, Jerry Brown, book of Job, Jerusalem bible, Jack Black, James Brown, James Bond, Jonas Brothers, jailbreak, Jim Beam

preacher, get a Job

Methuselah was 969, but Jean Calment was 122 (and 64 days)

DMV (444), NEW (555), FOX (news), IR (International Relations, 99)

yes, FOX is 666;  DMV also stands for DC, Maryland, Virginia

letter positions 6, 15, 24 (grok? dig?)

BTK is an unfortunate association (Dennis Rader)

Is there any intellectual credibility, or argumentative heft, to the 

belief/argument/position/proposition

that we don’t actually exist

or, are merely holograms?!?

Disrespect and dishonesty

Lies, incompetence, stupidity

book bans and voting restrictions

   the MAGA saga; Lady Gaga plays a raga

Happy japonés, merry in America

Sewers in Seward, gators in the gutter

Fisting Mephistopheles

Logical logistics

Tortured tortoise

the sumatran striped rabbit is, in fact, a jungle bunny

Cynical in Senegal

Trivial pursuit, teepee, true priest, toilet paper

Terry pratchett, Thomas pynchon, Tom Petty

Saints and maharishis, senators and mayors, into S and M

Lucifer and tight-ifer, satan and saintin’, devil and Devan

God is getting old (without the letting)

an allergy to clergy, by analogy

goddog and lucifer the rotifer

Difficulty refilling, and Reficul 

Good omnipotent deity

Good orange drink

boogie, bop, or boogaloo

Full-time free-thinker

G-D: Galileo-Darwin

creating Allah Creation

Saints and sages say be safe

Dignity, indignation, you dig?

Automaton Tom, matrimony with Matt

edification, the making of Ed

Going to hell: dying, suffering

FSM sacrament: eucharistic spaghetti

Intolerant of short-cuts

Pain, misery, and suffering (pms)

   And degradation, injustice, cruelty, malevolence

Intelligence re: Ellen’s gents

UCD:  universal condition, death

SI: soul, immortality;  science, intelligence;  self-interest

pre-menstrual, post-menopausal, pm

Repetition representing repression

Religion contagion

Decent descent

The best and wisest of men, in a bmw

Dragon ran God

knowledge, wisdom, benevolence, delight, love

righteousness, cloaking cruelty as justice

My stars!  actors, astrology, my personal constellation, my sky

Playing with a different sex

Those that care about being fair, in terror of error

Superstition about the wrath of god, moral indignation

Obsequious obloquy

The Allah-las, band

I'm a virgo boar

virgos are most compatible with scorpio, capricorn, taurus, or cancer

boars are most compatible with tigers

   (not an aquarius monkey...oh well)

boring boar, virgin...ergo

pigs and pork and swine and hogs and miss piggy

cops and gluttons and harley-davidsons

dyslexic acronyms

GDO, garage door opener

DGO, diploma in gynaecology and obstetrics

DOG, deployable operations group; digital onscreen graphic

ODG, olive drab green (military clothing and equipment)

OGD, open gvt. data, 

          organization and guidance department (N. Korea)

GODs

Gus O'Donnell, former UK civil service head

Goods of desire, Hong Kong company

Guerrillas of destiny, pro wrestling tag-team

v

You’re all, Jess

It’s an absolutely massive construct, Jesse

My Education Philosophy

Kids First

Not the parents.  Not the teachers.  The kids.   They should follow their interests, their curiosity, their passion, their dreams, if they have one.  I believe in specialization and focus on what is interesting, being motivated to learn.  They should also get a liberal education that spans all the bases of the traditional curriculum, focused on critical thinking, writing, getting into college, passing tests, if that’s what the kid wants.  

Teachers should be ranked second, in forming an educational programme.  They should only be teaching what they’re interested in, enjoy, and can effectively convey passion about.  Not anything else.  If the teacher loves a subject, the student probably will, too.   The best teachers can be made available to all, online.

Parents already have the greatest influence on their children, and don’t need to be given any more, in my view.  They can choose which school to pay for.  If they have a specific syllabus they want emphasized, they can move to a place that shares their values, or even home-school their kids, themselves.  Parents can ask their kids what they’ve learned, what they want to learn, and play vital roles in the growth and formation of their kids.  But they don’t have the only say, and shouldn’t have even the final say, in my opinion.  

The internet and libraries are centers of learning.  Wikipedia and Ted and YouTube and free college courses online and instructional resources abound.  Google, Alexa, Siri, Chat GPT can answer questions, as well as message boards.  Education is already free.  A motivated kid will earn good grades, and should therefore qualify for financial aid, based on merit, which grows naturally from youth being excited, engaged, motivated, and learning, actively, daily.  

The best model of learning is teaching what the kids are interested in.  They should generate and submit questions daily, to teachers, to libarians, to the internet, to parents, and anyone else.   That is the joy of learning (and of teaching).  Ramp up the curiosity, and motivate kids to engage in finding and acquiring the answer(s).  Question by question, as a class, as a community, with their peers, as well as individuals.

As an adult, I collect trivia cards, have a kindle that has the NYT and Economist.   I have a computer, a phone, an Echo smart speaker, an apple watch.   I can ask questions as they occur to me.  My blog allows me to keep (and share) a record of my opinions, books I’ve read, interests, and compile facts, for others and my future self.  Chat GPT is a fun way to engage with trivia.  Libraries are a kind of heaven.  School shouldn’t be a kind of hell. 

Pro-Deityism

Goodness, Virtue

Go fishing or take a dip in the river!  Immerse in the goodness of your local public library!  Exercise and make progress toward your ideal body!  Go to a delicious restaurant, or cook up a tasty meal for yourself and some friends.   Music, sex, a beer, go hiking or camping.  Travel and adventure… movies and live entertainment, dance, plays, concerts, etc.   Service and virtue and being good, helping, teaching, setting an example, sharing, fighting crime, so on and so forth..  Making a better world.

Diabolism

God drank a beer

 It’s always now.   Wear a watch that says now.   A wrist sundial might be fun, too.  All good!  Is torture good?   Torture is never good.  Pain can be good, however.   I mean, that’s why it exists, to tell us when we need to heal.  But sadistic cruelty ain’t right.   Can I think of an exception to this rule?   Like if it prevents a nuclear holocaust or something?  A case can be made.  A lesser evil is sometimes necessary.  If I were to consider all evil as equally heinous, then eating meat would merit the death penalty.  Or murder a slap on the wrist.  You get the picture.  What’s the worse crime imaginable?  Worse even than Hitler’s 6 million jews?  Or Stalin’s (up to) 20 million people?   You could kill Everyone.   That would top the list.   Like killing God, say.   The devil, if successful, would annihilate every last fucker on Earth.  Wars, famine, pestilence, disease.  The devil could get scientific, and design a virus.  Or build a bomb.  Or get his hands dirty, and kill more than the leader of serial killers, Harold Shipman, who killed 218 people himself, up to 250 possibly.  Rack up the count, like a video game.  But even the devil wants to live.  Totalicide is basically unthinkable.  No one is that twisted.  Life is good.  Like food and sex and sunbathing by the pool and going to the library for books and music and movies.  Restaurant and travel and roller coasters and beauty.   Like beautiful women, art, dance, nature, athleticism…

God could be worse than the devil, if He wanted.   If it’s all good, like people say, then an asteroid impact, or nuclear winter, or a supervolcano, or aliens with a death star space-laser, or a virus that makes zombies, or even all these things at once, if He wanted!  Everyone could be atheists, and that would piss off God, right?  I don’t think God believes in Himself, actually.  But  if God wanted to out-devil the Devil, he could be completely depraved and nasty-wicked.  Like blow up the sun, or crash the moon into us, or abc weapons (atomic, biological, chemical), or scare the shit out of everyone while they’re sleeping, with nightmares beamed into each of our fucking meathead skulls.  The number and severity of crimes could skyrocket, with amorality and vice the norm, spreading over the whole world, making everyone miserable.   Murders, robbery, gangs, arson, sabotage, bombings, rape, assault, torture, kidnapping, slavery, false imprisonment, poisonings, the gamut.  Hopelessness and depression and suicide.  What did I forget, omit?  Defacing property and vandalism and disfigurement.   Spraying acid on people and, of course, don’t forget, using a flamethrower, god’s favorite weapon.  A chaos of anarchy, mayhem, savagery, cruelty, brutality, the sadistic infliction of pain, with stabbings, blindings, cutting out tongues, starvation, panic, madness, executions, sickness, wailing and weeping and gnashing of teeth.  Killer robots and waves of aggressive spiders and the joy of crushing enemies, foes, adversaries, anyone and everyone who has ever bothered you, for any reason whatsoever.  Like not caring, anomie, apathy, ignorance, incuriosity.  Wake up, idiots!!  Schadenfreude, the bliss of observing people getting their due, what’s coming, what they all deserve, their just desserts.  Jesus died for your sins?  Fuck that.  Everyone should get their own personal justice.  Universal pain.  Everyone’s fate is death, in any case.  So it doesn’t matter.  There are around 12 supervolcanoes.   Yellowstone is the biggest.  Each is 7 times bigger+ than the greatest eruption in recorded history (Mt. Tambora).  

Okay, enough diabolism.  Schadenfreude evokes sh, sad, Freud, fraud, afraid, Frodo.  Nonsense, nun sense, and nonesuch.  I’m just saying stupid shit.  The flame-thrower bit is antiphrasis.  Which I shouldn't have to say.  So yeah, whatever, nevermind.  

musical darkness:

murmurs about murder, violent violins, drum beatings, bones and trombones, base bass, Mt. Tambor-ine, locals on vocals, a pair of horns, death metal, Poison, Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses, Sex Pistols, Velvet Underground... "your instrument is impressive"

Psycho analysis

Structure of the mind

Going mental

Ego, id, superego, thanatos, will to power

transference, abreaction, sublimation, reaction formation, projection

dungeon master's defense mechanisms, Depeche Mode, diabetes mellitus, dark matter, dead milkmen

One must learn to love oneself…with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.  

   - Friedrich Nietzsche

G-D

Genuine and deep (caring) 

   doing one's best 

   for the gravely depressed, distressed

Masochism, kiss my ass

   Mass and chrism

id, entity, and identity

Convicts, tact, and contact

Analysts with anal lists

rape on a beach, therapists and analysands

Holding one’s temper in temple

Temporary temptation at the temp agency

Announced nuance

Examination, am in ex

Crisis, sister crying

   Isis and Osiris 

Indication, indy k shun

The ability to laugh at yourself

Country and bluegrass

   Cunt, ass

eros, repression

galvanization, oppression, depression

sad sadists, weeping whip

Marquis de Sade (sod) ain't Sade (shaw-day)

Roaming Rome with Rumi and amor

carnation: flower, meat, automobiles, incarnation, country

blogs, dogs, Augs, and O.G.'s

    original gangstas, ogres from Ogden

    oh, gee!  Olympic Games, ob/gyn

Augustus cussed us

fuss about the bus 

lust must rust

dog, hogs, and pollywogs

balrog and al gore

computer and Putin, lol

sherpas and parole

a quartet piece

redaction, words of christ in red

anne the anarchist has prostate cancer

boba fete

McD (monster, criminal, demon) at McDonald's

CVS (Cthulhu, Voldemort, Sauron) (crime, vice, sin)

Rod and Todd, the modern God-squad

Hal Lode B. (thy name)

Holy Spirit, high school, holy shit

taking Roy out of country

cumming in the name of the lord, omg

Dei and knight

xox and xx (hugs/kisses, and death)

riding horses, the Yah!! way

soccer's feet feats feature defeat

feats of legislation are needed in October 

boots on the ground, aviator glasses in the sky

bongos, gongs, and songs

MAGA, materialism and greed again

    krav maga at the YMCA

a thousand points of light, a kinder and gentler nation

    is my blog on dark mode?  cagey 

gods, extraterrestrials, and supernatural beings

    gaudy, snatch, etc.

popes, gurus, and religious muckety-mucks

    hope to be a papa, uruguay, religiously litigious

buddhas, avatars, tirthankaras, and messiahs

  thanks for the tarry mess, buddy

priests, monks, nuns, and scholars

  pre-somethings, monkeys, nonesuch, and shot-callers

government official, diplomat

   GOP and the god of peace

   Dems the breaks

brass, generals, admirals, commanders

    admiring Jen's ass, man

kings, presidents, prime ministers, premieres

parents, clergy

   saints, sages, sadhus, swamis

   masters, mentors, mystics, and maharishis

Metahumans- mutants, inhumans, mutates, and posthumans

royalty, authority, power

alphas, bosses, chiefs, big cheeses, head-honchos, higher-ups, executives, directors, chairpersons, senators, congress(wo-)men, legislators, governors, mayors, judges, bankers, lawyers, doctors, priests, rabbis, imams, ceo's, teachers, and -of course- bloggers :-)

the historian lored

lord laird eats lard

life or death, love or detest, light or darkness, left or dexter

  ellen or david, LN or DVD, lucifer or devil, liberty or dependence

  laughter or despair, levity or depression, lust or disgust

(unfun) fact: 1 garbage truck of plastics is dumped every minute, into our oceans

(so, 60x24=1440 trucks worth, every day)

(in other words, 32% of the 78 Million tons of plastic packaging produced annually is going into the oceans).   The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is 620,000 square miles (!!)

don't ever change - change is the only constant

remember, you're unique - just like everybody else

God is one, everyone is one, everyone is God

   U2, Neo, Irineo, (Brian) Eno, (enough!)

Wholly Schnitzel

 What the World Needs Now

Is Love Sweet Love

   -Dionne Warwick

For everyone!

It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of

WWNN is LSL

Mountain of Love, Johnny Rivers

HOTMOL (high on the)

Ocean of Love, Lemongrass

River of Love, Lynch Mob

Love Creek

love drought, Beyonce 

   Make it rain

Love is a rose, a drug, a battlefield

Ahh, frog get a bout it

Might as well jump

Jump into the lake of love, lol

jumpin’ geezus on a pogo stick!

Man alive

Holy schnitzel!

Shiites shouting shit

Christians with double chins

Choose your jews

Buddhist nudists

Sexy Mexicans

God the Creator, omg, comes and goes

cum and Gough, getting your creative juices flowing

GTF -  God the Father,  fat her

our father, who art in heaven

hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come

thy will be Gone Over Done

cats, pens, pistols, country

pussy, penis, cock, cunt

hard rock music and resurrection

Pennsylvania penitentiary and hard time

penetrating gaze and insights

military insertion and discharge

skiing with Shiva, Koran, and Israel

surfing with Serapis, U-God, Ra, and FSM

wokking your dog

blother

oh bother, some blather

 I want to order a pizza (combination) from Papa John’s, and eat as much as I want, before going to bed, as soon or far from eating the day’s last meal as I feel like.   But I don’t want to overspend, or get obese, or complicate my health (diabetes, plantar fasciitis, schizophrenia, broken toe, glasses, oversleeping, and of course sexual health).  Maybe I’ll get an ice cream, diabetes be damned.  Or is it me that would be damned?  Ah, shit.  

I got an ice cream sandwich.  It’s not even real ice cream.  And it cost 3 bucks (too much).  And I had to walk to get it, 6 buildings down the block.  Pretty close, like walking down the hall of my mansion (!).   Pizza is an internet order away.   Taco trucks are close.  This ain’t no food desert.  Although alcohol, cigarettes, ice cream, candy, chips, and soda are hardly healthy menu options.  Beef jerky is maybe the only healthy item.   Oh, and they have nuts.  I could always get a V8, a Clif bar, a box of cheezits, and a Guinness.  Beer has some health value, I think, right?  In moderation.  It’s basically liquid bread, someone told me, once.  

It’s 9:30p.   I wanted to finish a book today, but only got as far as the second chapter.  I slept in.  I didn’t read any Economist.  I didn’t do my pushups.  I’m not really beating myself up.  I mean I did SOMEthing.   Just not EVERYthing.  Well, goodnite.  See you bright and early, Sunday morning.

I listened to some YouTube madness (professor Sheldrake, catholic Mass), and now it’s 10:30p, so I have to reset my alarm, to give myself 8 hours.   Maybe I’ll stay up even longer.  I’m not sure how a pre diabetic diagnosis is determined, and I’m curious if perhaps I’m not anymore (or even never was, if I just ate too much sugar before the test, or something).

hm

lord, have mercy

life or death, light or darkness, love or despair

blessed are the poor in spirit

the meek, the gentle, the humble, the modest

in recognition of human limitations, humanity

awesome, AH-sum

"superior" court, lol (and supreme pizza)

p.s.

pain and suffering, courage and compassion

Commencement

Greetings, fellow classmates!  This is a commencement, which as you probably know means both ending and beginning, just like how bad can mean good, or with can mean fighting with someone or fighting with someone… you grok?  They’re called contronyms.   So anyway,  welcome to the end of your past life, and the beginning of something new, just like a birthday, or being born again, or like any moment at all, really, right?  

    The old is past, the new is present.   And it’s always the present!  Like a gift, tomorrow is a new day.   Not a nude A, a new day!  So you can prepare for each new day the night before, with taking a minute to outline what you want to accomplish.   Or you can meditate, take 20 minutes or whatever to sit silently, and do a bit of brain maintenance, noting things that arise, and letting your monkey-mind stop its chattering, so you can be calm and equanimous.  Equanimity means letting things slide off you like water off a duck’s back.   Did you know ducks rape each other?  I’m getting off track, derailing.   Excuse me.   So as I was saying it’s always now.  Which is kind of weird, when you think about it.  Just like how, for 300 people, a second is like 300 seconds, which makes, for us collectively, a ten minute talk into 3000 minutes, which is 50 hours!   So I’ll be brief.  I won’t get off topic about briefs and pants, the plurality of which you can ponder on your own time.  You can splash in that pond, later.

     There’s a type of therapy called logotherapy, which focuses on the future, unlike other therapies which dredge up the past, your childhood memories and such.   The therapeutic value of the future lies in giving yourself purpose and meaning, things to look forward to, projects to complete, bucket lists etc.,  as opposed to being nihilist and seeing all life as pointless, meaningless, and absurd.  True, we are getting closer to death daily, like the Pink Floyd lyrics says, but we’re also making progress, hopefully, toward our goals, and have a healthy outlook toward the future, which shouldn’t be a dystopian wasteland of oblivion and being pushed around by forces outside our control, feeling hopeless and empty.  Paradoxically, we need to fight for peace, and die to live.  The French call orgasm the little death.  I’m getting off topic, but I think you get my point.  As an example, my vision for my own future, my dream, if you will, is to stay healthy and die of old age, with a healthy diet and daily exercise, with maintenance as a minimum, and improvement as the ideal.   I might even be a bodybuilder, if I enjoy pumping iron enough.  Strength and beauty and health are worthy goals.  Maybe you’d rather spend your time serving others, volunteering planting trees or teaching kids how to swim or donating books to prison libraries or inspiring others through your example, doing good works, being good, better, best.   Aim high, right?  Each day is a new opportunity to seek growth, or - if you’re like an Olympic athlete- even perfection, a personal best.  

    How high can you go?   What is the height of the tallest mountain?  Or maybe you want to shoot for the moon, be an astronaut.   Or even Mars.  Or, like a priest, aim for the goodness and godliness of the deity Himself, as God the Father.  Which of course, for most of us, means starting our own families, and being the best dad possible.  The Buddha found a way to extinguish suffering.  You can aspire to Buddhahood, enlightenment, great wisdom - and share your insights with others, who are also aspiring to escape suffering.   The world is heavenly, I mean it can be…. and we should all help each other through our bad times and personal hells, to the good life, the ideal of love-bliss, and community, and harmony, and laughter and fun.  There’s FU in fun, and fun in funeral.  There’s love in evolution.  And hate in Haiti.  So let’s be all that we can be, aim high, and approach the future with the highest expectations for ourselves and others.   Let’s each of us make a better world, and be a part of the solution, not the problem.   We’re each in our own skull-sized universes, so make your own world pleasant and happy, even as you engage in service to others.  Utopia beckons!  The future begins… Now!