tumbleweeddreams

I drink coffee. I ride motorcycles. I listen to music. I read books. I write poetry. And in the immortal words of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, "I work hard at doin' nothin' all day". I like things the way they were.

The second and third best things about growing older is that you don't have to suffer fools like you used to and you've dropped any pretense of giving a shit about the things you can't control. The best thing, however, is realizing how profoundly unimportant other people's opinions are of you. This is because other people don't really spend much time thinking about you. In fact, very little. They're much too busy thinking about themselves.

I sold my last TV more than a decade ago. I'm an unreformed political junkie. I don't filter my consumption of news analysis, but read about the same story or event from a wide spectrum of political thought from Left, Right and impartial sources. I divide my life between two places which I consider paradise. I'm usually up at the crack of noon because I'm a bit of a night owl.

I am interested in beauty because I find so little of it in this graceless age we live in. I fear the America I grew up in is being denied to others. I believe America is in economic decline because of it's profound moral, intellectual and political rot. And I'm alarmed at the rate at which it's unravelling right before my eyes.

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PHOTOGRAPH - Charlie Robison (Good Times, 2005)

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Video 22 May

ever pause to wonder why the media-reported ‘unemployment’ rate finally started to decline in 2011, and keeps slowly declining? If you know anything about how the ‘unemployment’ rate is calculated, these two simple graphs will tell you everything, unless you flunked third grade math. If you’re a grown-up possessing at least a sixth-grade reading comprehension, and these two graphs don’t disturb you, well then, never-mind. Ignorance is bliss, the world is flat and unicorns really do exist. Real unemployment continues to climb, and is a catastrophe. A national disgrace. (graphs best viewed on desktop)

Video 16 May

Eternal Drama

The Valente Celle Tomb (Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa). This funeral monument, “Eternal Drama”, expresses the futile attempt of life to escape the inevitable embrace of death.

The sculptor, Giulio Monteverde (1837-1917) expresses this eternal struggle between Life (personified by a beautiful young woman caught in the moment in which, wearied by vain struggle, surrenders herself to the terrible spectre who has chosen her) and the profound indifference of Death which seizes her. We all have a rendezvous with Death, which is what makes life so precious and sweet. Without death, life would be unbearable.

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weaponsystems:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

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we all have at least one gay friend

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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

— Winston Churchill (via trexsayshello)

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