No Time To Blog!

Gaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!


How is it that I can spend 24hrs of every day doing something other than blogging? I can't even keep up with reading all of yours!


Here's some quick, random thoughts:


Big Drag practice - I can't wait

Cubs + Edp = years of therapy for Cub Girl (see edp's blog)


Kids at end of the street with totally ghetto skate ramp - Get that fucking thing off of the street when you go inside for the night! I wanted to run into it, just so that you could cry yellow, Kraft mac and cheese stained tears the next day

Cornfest - gimme my free corn, a killerita and the number 5 (crispy, please)

Bring It All Together

I really hoped that the last question would get several different responses, and it did. Now, what I'd like to know is what they have to do with each other.


The old guy lamented the loss of a way that once was; a way of intereacting with one another that seems, to him at least, to have gone away from our general way of being. Are we really less caring, more crass and cold-hearted now than when the old guy was in his prime? When I was talking to him, I wondered if it was ever there to begin with. I don't know, because I wasn't there. Maybe there is a fond memory that is false. I hear about good deeds, see good deeds and beleive that people generally do desire good.

Does being nice, good and kind mean the same thing to us today that it did yesterday? To "renew" means that something is returning to it's original form or consistency. However, it seems to me that the word is interchangable with "re-invent" or "improve", to some people.

I honestly don't know exactly what I hope to learn from this, but I do think that it's just very difficult to see the good in others and ourselves and really embrace it and act on it, make it a part of our lives.

Lion and Elephant: Origins of the Rivalry

Dr. Jurgen Streeck, of the University of Texas at Austin, writes on the origins of rap music:


"Yet another African-American speech genre that reappears in rap
are the toasts. Toasts are rhymed folk-tales about various mythical folkheroes.
The most famous ones are Staggolee, a gangster (who is
actually based on a real person), Shane who by his wit survived the
sinking of the Titanic, and—to me the most intersting one—the Signifying
Monkey (which apparently was brought to America by the slaves from
West-Africa); it may originally have been a Yoruba figure. The signifying
monkey always does one thing: he tells the lion that the elephant has
insulted him (the lion, or vice versa), which makes the lion get into a fight
with the elephant. He gets bruised and beaten and comes back to beat
up the monkey. Sometimes the monkey escapes onto the tree,
sometimes he gets beaten, but he always comes back to signify some
more: he just can’t repress his linguistic wit."


I guess this explains why that damn monkey got booted after their first project. Has anyone heard from the monkey? Hmmmmm.

Here's a question:

What does it mean to "renew yourself"?

Now We're Getting Somewhere

Di, comin' through with the ideas (someone give her a raise). Here's what she's got for us:


1. Try to be good people.
2. Be nice
3. Remain open.


Let's start by picking each of these apart; we'll try to learn what they mean, and then we'll talk about if and how we can accomplish each of these goals and what the intended or unintended outcomes of each might be.


1. What is being "good" to people?

2 What is being "nice" to people?

3 What does it mean to "remain open"?