My birthday is in five days. I will turn 42. The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything ( Read more... )

I: Of Yesteryear
Memories are a strange beast
without visual proof or a word chronicling
they are at times all we can rely on
In 1984, 86 and 89 trips to Disney World
I can prove were real because photo evidence is abound
images of me in front of the castle with mom and dad
standing with characters in costume
my best friend Chris alongside me

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I woke from under the tree

protected from the sun

into town I strolled

faces were a blur

everything unrecognizable

was I in my village

or far from home

the heat blazed

my skin blistered

people turned to lizards

refuge I had to seek

running backwards

I almost tripped

I reached the tree

it would save me

for now

as night time returned

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Pop-Culture and certain forms of genre truly only have one chance to grab you and then become part of your obsessions, hobbies, interests, and sometimes even careers. Folks who say they don't like something even after later finding something they do like about that thing, reflect back to that first time and therefore never change their mind fully ( Read more... )

 Gary and others demanded it...
so Second Chance and all that jazz.

Art is subjective
From creator's vision to public's reaction
of love and hate 
dissension and acceptance
fame and derision
the same work is both masterpiece and garbage
popculture fantasy and affront to developed values
a layered atrocity built upon skills meant to invoke nothing
and a simple stroke of grande de magnefique portraying intricate thought and ( Read more... )

Kings and Queens, Presidents, Tzars, Dictators, no matter where you and no matter what time period, they are all the same in many ways. They do/did their duties and much of looked/looks like it is done with ease. All these folks had a what could amount to a small army of courtesans, maidens, council, assistants, under chiefs, and the ilk who ( Read more... )

 This has been a very interesting year for me and it's not over. I don't actually have millions of things to be thankful, but what I do have I appreciate. I've made new friends over this year and new colleagues and it's made me find new branches of career and future that I wasn't sure of before.
Firstly though I'd be no where that I am without ( Read more... )

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Stratosphere came down across the oceans 
lightnings first strike a firefly zooming inside the pupils 
a stingray shooting into an empty void brazen and unafraid leaping towards that next dimension 
you've been here before you'll be here again 
from Mongolia to  Mozambique from Hawaii to Wyoming
fast as the fox as explosive as trinitrotoluene 
You may ( Read more... )

 
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