Monday, April 30, 2007
April 30th, 2007
The questions that put the wonder in Wonder Woman
April 27th, 2007
- Does your chewing gum loose it’s flavor on the bedpost over night?
- Should vegetarians eat animal crackers?
- Why are the numbers on a phone opposite of the numbers on an adding machine?
- What if the hokey pokey is really what it’s all about?
- How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated or martyred instead of just murdered?
- Do you find it a bit unnerving doctors call what they do practice?
- Why is it that people say they slept like a baby when babies wake up like every two hours?
- If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
- If a funeral procession is at night, do you drive with your lights off?
- Why doesn’t Wylie E. Coyote just buy dinner, instead of all of the faulty ACME crap?
- If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
- Why do adults point at you with their finger and berate you: “It’s not polite to point!”
- When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?
- When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?
- Why do people swear? It sounds like hell. (I swear it does)
- Do people in Australia call the rest of the world ‘up over’?
- What’s another word for thesaurus?
- Why do people say they’re sweating like a pig? PIGS DON’T SWEAT.
- Do witches run spell checkers?
- If a person uses fancy words would you say they’re talking in cursive?
- Why do people pay to go to the top of big buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
- Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
- Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?
- Do crematoriums give discounts to burn victims?
- Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?
- What do you say if you’re talking to God, and he sneezes?
- Can you get cavities in your dentures if you use too much artificial sweetener?
- What do batteries run on?
- If a wood chuck can chuck wood why is the phrase: “if a wood chuck could chuck wood” even in the stupid tongue twister?
- When you see a solid red hand when you’re about to cross the street, you’re supposed to stop. Are you supposed to stop- go- stop- go- stop- go in accordance with the red flashing hand?
- How do people always know when you’ve crossed the invisible line?
- Why do people claim that you ate all the cookies when you only took the last one?
- People always say “It’s always the last place you look.” Does anyone keep looking after they’ve found what they’re looking for?
- Are you breaking the law if you drive past those road signs that say “Do Not Pass”?
- Can fat people go skinny-dipping?
- Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
Daydreamy
April 26th, 2007
“Daydreaming will yield more entertainment for you than a Hollywood blockbuster — so feel free to wander off into dreamland and focus on what your life would be like if all your hopes and dreams came true. This exercise in ‘what could be’ is more than just a fanciful escape from the daily grind — visualization is one way to bring something into being, and imagining alternative futures can help you choose the goals you want to pursue next.”
-Unknown
I love to daydream, but I rarely take the time. Today is a day to daydream. Everyday is a day to daydream. The key for me though, is to remember what will lead to making those daydreams- the keepers- come true.
I once dated a man who daydreamed to no end. The problem was- he daydreamed our days away, and never once did anything real to persue his dreams. He was very fun, and always lived in the minute. The minute however, was not enough for me. I needed a future, plans, a dream that I was working toward.
“Dreams are the most powerful motivators of all.”
-Nick Thornely
The more vivid the dream the more vivid the outcome.
I highly recommend reading the story, “Bunker Bean,” if you can find it. It’s about a man who transforms himself because he believes he is the reincarnated Napoleon Bonaparte. He goes from a from a clerk to a successful business man in no time. He later discovers that he is not the reincarnated Napoleon, but he can’t return to being the file clerk that he once was. The habbits and qualities that he had thought were Napoleons became his own.
The reason that I write this is to remind myself of what I need to acheive, and what I can acheive. I need to remind myself that I am going somewhere. (even if it is at a snails pace) It’s easy for me to loose sight of my goals when I feel like they aren’t going anywhere. I guess it’s the endless struggle, but once a goal is acheived, it’s worth the effort!
Nowhere
April 25th, 2007
In a town where you’re invisible, where no one has a name
Not a single soul can tell if he is the same
Not one is insecure
This is the final cure
In a town where man is silent there is no shame
Not a single soul can tell if he is the same
Not one is insecure
This is the final cure
In a town where man is silent there is no shame
And if I get melancholy…
April 24th, 2007
“and if I get melancholy, which can happen, I expect you to be my companion and solace me.”
- Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) to Pardner (Clint Eastwood) Paint Your Wagon, 1969
Paint Your Wagon, in my opinion, is one of the greatest musicals ever. I don’t care that Lee Marvin didn’t have proper vocal training or that the songs are a little rough around the edges. It’s the rugged and the rough that make Paint Your Wagon so great.
I digress. Back to the quote. Everyone gets melancholy and when that happens, ideally every person would have a “pardner” to be their companion and solace them. In reality how many people really have that? There are times when I want nothing more than to be held by a man who loves me. I don’t want to talk, I don’t want to cry, I don’t want someone to solve my problems, I just want to be held and loved in comfortable silence. I’ve felt this need when I’m in a romantic relationship and when I’m not. What is it specifically that fulfills this companionship and solace that we all seek at one time or another? Why don’t we always get it from the ones that we love/love us most? Just a question. I don’t really know the answer. Do you?