All this coming and going is leading up to something.  But what?

Perhaps you grind your teeth while sleeping.  You may drink too much coffee, stay up later than you should, neglect yourself.  You are not organized enough! … Hurry, hurry!  Fight the War on Terror!  Look busy!

On my walk to work I often recall dreams which include interaction with people I have never met, whom are as vivid and familiar as any r.e.m. sleep encounter with my family and friends … where/whom are these people?

How is THIS possible?

We really have no concrete idea(s) of how we got where we are now.

We sure do like to speculate, though. 

This just happens to be one of those situations where I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Tanya Davis, who is a very fine musician, in collaboration with her good friend Andrea Dorfman, who is a very fine filmmaker:

art

I wondered what would be the worth of my words in the world
if i write them and then recite them are they worth being heard
just because i like them does that mean i should mic them
and see what might unfurl

i think of the significance of my opinions here
is it significant to be giving them does anybody care
just because i’m into this does that mean i should live like it
and really do i dare

art, art i want you
art you make it pretty hard not too
and my heart is trying hard here to follow you
but i can’t always tell if i ought to

so i pondered the point of my art in this life
if i make it will someone take it and think it’s genuine
will they be glad that i did ’cause they got something good out of it
will they leave me and be any more inspired

i question the outcome of the outpouring of myself
if i tell everyone my stories will this keep me healthy and well
will it give me purpose, to this world some sort of service
is it worth it, how can i tell

art, art…

According to National Geographic News,

“The worst of Ike’s damage was caused by its huge storm surge, a mound of water pushed ashore by the storm’s winds.”

Like everyone else out there in TV-land, I can’t help but get drawn into the shadow box.  I watch.

As the old saying goes, “The medium is the message.”, which, loosely translated, means – TV is owned by the winners.

Hurricane season is upon us.

I’ve noticed something else about TV.  It focuses on things in a way designed to inspire widespread use of a few other old sayings -  “God, help us!“, and “What an idiot!“, not to mention, “Kill ‘em all!“.

Oh, yes, hurricane season is always upon us, somewhere in the world.

I lived without TV for years.  Although it has long since wormed it’s way back into my hearth, I notice that my reception of it has been permanently altered by prolonged abstinence from it.

Consider this slice above as an example; the subtler headline, in black text on a white ground, reads, Pakistan Violence.  Appearing slightly beneath it, in white text on a black ground and twice the size, we read, “U.S. strikes have drawn protest from Pakistanis.”

The copy editors who compose these labels for the image-feed choose their words very carefully.  Notice how the word violence is glued to the word Pakistan.  There can be no doubt that the author chose a more abstract noun to describe U.S. actions for a reason.  Notice the bottom line, “protest from Pakistanis“.

A person might just absorb the idea that the people of Pakistan are violent and U.S. strikes refers to some noble American effort that has been met with violence, especially if this image is regurgitated often enough.

Of course, warmongers have always lied.  This is not new.  The high-def cable version of controlling populations is, nevertheless, cold and raw.  The shadow box liars are amazingly seductive.  Their powers of suggestion trample millions, while millions more roll-over and play dead.

America sells Coca Cola and guns and democracy, and the world burns.  We can watch it happen over and over again on CNN. Welcome to North America.

New old sayings and idioms are born every minute.  Storm surge and troop surge are two examples of this, now spreading like wildfire.

Hurricane season is upon us.