Different Recipe, Same Pancakes
2001-05-31 - 7:13 p.m.
On things that aren�t things: �I�m sure that this is important, but I�m not sure what it means.� -Nemo
The low level drug deal. Imagine yourself as a plateau. Everyone else is a plateau of similar structure...all of different girth and height. The quality of the girth of the plateau reflects the person�s ability to border, and thusly come in contact with, other plateaus...the fatter the plateau, the more contacts a person has. The height of a plateau reflects personal power. Enter misfortune, stage right. Misfortune, represented as an earthquake in this particular model, may include, police raids, a price jump, involvement of the lil� miss...whathaveyou. The deal can go one of two ways, depending on the transaction order. As a dealer, you could be the higher plateau, a simple buy/give transaction. Or you could get money in advance and then get the deal to the consumer. The second is a much more dangerous practice, and puts you at the mercy of the misfortune. This lowers the height of your plateau, because the deal must shift from higher to lower ground. As starting deals go, most people are nearly on the same elevation. The real dealers are the people that never allow themselves to be in danger of an earthquake.
I really enjoy Van Gogh style painting...the principle: to make everything Alive. Yes, I know, in the basic sense, the birds and trees and grass are alive...but brushstrokes are made to create the illusion of Life...painting a tree that resembles flames, for instance, produces a greater illusion of movement, of vitality, in the tree. Like it�s gonna reach out and bite you if you look at it the wrong way. In his self-portrait, he does this too...the fades from light to dark, spiraling in toward the face...points on the edges of his clothing and in the face alike. The streakiness/blottedness of the piece suggests movement, as is commonly depicted in cartoons...one has no disagreement in saying that the person in the portrait is, in fact, Alive, even though he�s long since died.
And now, for more Little People Quotes (which I get from walking in the halls):
*pulling a string down the hallway* �C�mon string, hurry up...� �Kid#2
�No, if you got punched in the chest, and my fist went out the other side, THEN you�d puke. Otherwise, you don�t have anything to worry about.� [no, movies don�t influence the way kids think, of course not... tsktsk] �Kid#1
Why is it that if two preschoolers say they�re married, we�d say �Ooh, that�s so cute�...But if the same two kids were to say they�re going out, we�d say �Nono, you�re too young for that.�?
Revelation: Both girls/women and guys/boys/thing-with-penises are asses...asses that are attached to the rest of their bodies. And here we are, thinking that the mind, with all of it�s positional superiority over the ass, is the centre of the human Soul. We could not be more ignorant.
They used to runn a commercial on PBS that ended in the statement �no one ever says �I wanna be a junkie when I grow up��. Since then, this statement has become quite false. People want to be computer junkies. Bookworm junkies. Sex junkies. The term �junkie� has morphed into the very definition of one who is peacefully addicted to...anything.
I�ve said before that a person can do Anything, provided with enough sugar and free time. What I noticed today is that the same effect can be achieved with a lot of confidence and a touch of luck.
I�m going to Houlton this weekend on a top-secret mission to acquire a Styrofoam (TM) head. I knew I wouldn�t be able to keep that �thou shall not steal from big corporate business� thing going for very long.
