Time Out

 "All life is a blur of Republicans and meat!"

...Zippy the Pinhead...

Lettuce Prey Four Whirled Peas

Lettuce Prey Four Whirled Peas

("let us pray for world peace")

is my first blog and the inspiration

for "GlobaLove Think Tank".

Apparently, several people thought my

photographs and ideas were "objectionable"

and let Google know they were "offended".

I find this fact a vindication of my assertion

that some people are "offended" by the truth.

 http://lettucepreyfourwhirledpeas.blogspot.com/

All of Eternity

Hunter S. - Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

Young people of America, awake from your slumber of indolence and hark-en the call of the future! Do you realize you are rapidly becoming a doomed generation? Do you realize that the fate of the world and of generations to come rests on your shoulders?  Do you realize that at any time you may be called on to protect your country and the freedom of the world from the creeping scourge of communism? How can you possibly laugh in the face of the disasters which face us all from all sides? Oh ignorant youth, the world is not a joyous place. The time has come for you to dispense with the frivolous pleasures of childhood and get down to honest toil until you are sixty-five. Then and only then can you relax and collect your social security and live happily until the time of your death. Also your insolent attitude disturbs me greatly. You have the nerve to say that you have never known what it is like to live in a secure and peaceful world; you say that the present generation has balled things up to the extent that we now face a war so terrible that the very thought of it makes hardened veterans shudder; you say it is our fault that World War ll  was fought in vein; you say that it is impossible to lay plans for the future until you are sure you have a future. I say Nonsense! None of these things matter. If you expect a future you must carve it out in the face of these things. You also say that you must wait until after you have served your time with the service to settle down. Ridiculous! It is a man’s duty to pull up stakes and serve his country at any time, then settle down again.

I say there is no excuse for a feeling of insecurity on your part; there is no excuse for juvenile delinquency; there is no excuse for your attitude except that you are rotten and lazy! I was never like that! I worked hard; I saved; I didn’t run around and stay out late at night; I carved out my own future through hard work and virtuous living, and look at me now: a respectful and successful man.

I warn you, if you don’t start now it will be too late, and the blame for the end of the world will be laid at your feet. Heed my warning, oh depraved and profligate youth; I say awake, awake, awake!

Fearfully and disgustedly yours,       John J. Righteous-Hypocrite.

Hunter S. Thompson - Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

a radical revolution of the mind

pee here now

There is no past 

There is no future 

There is only the eternal now

Pee here now

 

Drawing Hands

"I don't grow up.

In me is the small child 

of my early days."

M.C. Escher

patriotism and nationalism

You do not talk about Fight Club !

Fight Club trailer

Robert Crumb

Confessions of Robert Crumb - Clip 1 of 3

Andromeda

Spiritual Fascism

You've Woken Up...Now What ?

victim of prejudice and stereotype

two choices

Smiling Buddha, Angkor Wat

No matter where you are or what you're doing,

you have only two choices in life,

to be happy or not to be happy.

Which one do you choose?

There is no way to happiness,

happiness is the way.

Anarchy

Mooncake

The Razor's Edge

Ramana Maharshi

"Rise, wake up, seek the wise and realize.

The path is difficult to cross

like the sharpened edge of the razor,

so say the wise."

(verse 1.3.14 from the Katha Upanishads)

Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

Climbing Mount Signal

When I was 18 years old, me and two of my buddies decided that we were going to climb Mt. Signal. Even though it's only 2,300 feet to the top of Mt. Signal it looked like Mt. Everest to us. Being the young bucks that we were, we thought it the thing to do to prove our manhood. Temperatures in the Imperial Valley hit 90 to 110 during the day so we started early in the morning, figuring to make the summit by noon and get back down before nightfall. We started up one foot in front of the other, boulder by boulder, it was a good climb and we gained a hundred feet of altitude every ten minutes. Half way up we looked around and thought, maybe we've bit off more than we can chew, but we kept on climbing. We made the summit right around noon and took in the view. 2,300 feet in the air it was if we were in an airplane flying over the perfectly flat fields of the Imperial Valley, we were in awe of what we had accomplished. Standing before the shrine with it's cross at the summit we knew we were somebody, we knew that we mattered. I picked up a couple of rocks and put them in my pocket, then we started the climb down. It was like floating on air, we bounded from boulder to boulder gravity assisted and flew down the mountain. Without seeming effort we glided as if on wings toward the base, in a trance like state time slowed down, as if in slow motion every stone was alive and a step back to reality. We arrived in the real world and realized that we were men and began our journey, we had arrived ! (read more)

monkeys with guns

"We are buried beneath the weight of information,

which is being confused with knowledge,

quantity is being confused with abundance

and wealth with happiness.

We are monkeys with money and guns."

Tom Waits

"Hell Broke Luce"