Portrait of America as a Man

This is one way America would look if it turned into a man, a futurist re-visioning  of 'Captain' America. America...don't you know I want you? Don't you know I need you? The fix is alright..

picture by Philip Toledano

TIME SUCKS

Alternative Press-Elise Amendola

Time. Sucks. The whole popular concept of it is whacked out. Sure, it makes sense to rise with the sun and probably sleep sometime after it gets dark. There's no problem with daylight or the lack of it when night creeps in. It's what we do and how we think of things in between. Somewhere along the line people thought it was a great idea to use calendars and clocks and create definite boundaries on time itself..something actually boundless. How many times do we go into a job and end up being clockwatchers? We work halfheartedly (or better than that if we can afford) and kill the hours away until our 'freedom'. For many of us, we are paid hourly wages and even when it doesn't make sense to be at work certain times, we will make excuses to stay and find menial tasks to fill up the time, just to get enough 'hours'. The whole idea that our time is worth money, and money is a fair trade is absurd. You can always find 5 dollars lying on the ground, when will you even get 5 minutes back? Money comes and goes...time constantly gets lost. Sure, people have to work to live, right? Work doesn't have to mean the kind involving a job and money though. Why not just live, and build the framework around life itself? Why does money have to always be a middleman?

Animals don't show up 5 minutes 'late' for a 'shift'. They eat when they need to, they drink when they need to, they sleep when they need to. We are always distracted by clocks and our idea of time, enough to the extent that we rob ourselves of time! Everyone's in a hurry to get nowhere. Appointments are made, sure I guess we need some structure right? Did the witch doctor or shaman need an appointment if you were in his village? Would he see if he could 'squeeze' or 'work you in' for next week? Maybe there were times he was busy and you'd have to return. People unconsciously do things to the nearest quarter hour, half hour, full hour mark point. We seldom choose to go to sleep at 11:23 pm over 11:30 pm. Boom, so we kill 7 minutes before then without realizing it, just because 11:30 is an easier point to mark in our minds. What about calendar dates? Someone wants to quit smoking, but it always has to be a 'special' time. "I'll quit smoking New Year's Day, that's my New Year's resolution," they'll say. Or "I'll quit on my birthday." In an attempt to establish special meaning for these days, (or even the hours within them), we make it ok to waste time in the meantime because it's not 'special enough' or 'right enough'. Every second should be special.

Time is infinite and circular, but that doesn't mean OUR time is infinite in the current life we live. The only way we can measure time is by changes in ourselves and our surroundings. No changes and time would appear to freeze. So in a way it never runs out, but WE run out physically. We owe it to ourselves to treat all of our countdown towards our own death as special. This does not involve cramming a schedule with 144,000 tasks a day which may or may not be important in the end. It's quality versus quantity. The irony is if we remove our notion of time and stop using the word, we gain more time than ever. If time is the concept we think about constantly, we never have enough of it....

Unserious Job Interviews as a Hobby

I just thought it'd be a cool here-and-there hobby or pastime. You set up a job interview for a job you don't really give a rats' ass about, and you have fun acting crazy or wearing demented clothes or whatever, just to laugh at how serious people are all the time.
Case in point: have you ever left a message on someone's phone machine, and then you hear the robot chick go something like : 'to re-record message, press blah blah, if you are satifisfied, press yadda yadda' and you end up playing around with the record function and using it almost like a toy? Well I confess I once made a bunch of demented noises on my friend's machine (well.. the level of things before it went to machine, or so I thought). I also practiced my speech for getting jobs (as I was job hunting then) so I'd say shit like "hi I'm looking for a job...bblablabla call me at suchandsuch #.' So I was sure I erased all that crap when I was done with it and hung up. Somehow it didn't erase and they actually called me for a job (my friend's dad had a contracting business and I dunno if he knew it was me on the mssg, or if the 'demented noises' person was different from the 'job wanted' person! You'd think he'd recognize my voice or that it was the same for all the recordings!?)
So the point is, unserious job interviews are just for a laugh and shitting around, but you might get offers for a job you might want after all, hahaha. Also, you could work things from the other end, put up bullshit hiring ads and see who'll actually respond!

What planet is this #%%#@ guy from?

Ooh! Pick me pick me!

"Ehhm..final question. What size of bra do you wear, and what color are your panties? Uh..why are you looking at me like that, don't you want the job?"

I just want...to be a penguin for a living. A computer generated penguin.

I'm on drugs, and I'm not smiling

Fox Fur Color Changes

There's at least a dozen species of true fox out there, each with its own physical traits and characteristics. To confuse things more, even within one species (say the more common Red Fox) color changes can occur. Meaning a Red Fox can actually look black. These happen with conditions such as pregnancy or seasonal changes, or born mutations. Here are some pics of different colors of fur in foxes:

Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts

One of the most beautiful songs you'll ever hear is 'Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts' by Funkadelic

It's the kind of song you need to just set aside all your hurrying and bullshit, lie back and just

listen and meditate. It's hard to imagine not feeling a bit better after hearing it all.. 
https://youtu.be/rlHpaypcQrw

A clip of the song can be found here ^ 

Follow the words of wisdom... 

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Travel like a king

Listen to the inner voice

A higher wisdom is at work for you

Conquering the stumbling blocks come easier

When the conqueror is in tune with the infinite

Every ending is a new beginning

Life is an endless unfoldment

Change your mind, and you change your relation to time



You can find the answer

The solution lies within the problem

The answer is in every question

Dig it?

An attitude is all you need to rise and walk away

Inspire yourself

Your life is yours

It fits you like your skin



The oak sleeps in the acorn

The giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seed

The bird waits in the egg

God waits for his unfoldment in man

Fly on, children

Play on



You gravitate to that which you secretly love most

You meet in life the exact reproduction of your own thoughts

There is no chance, coincidence or accident

In a world ruled by law and divine order

You rise as high as your dominant aspiration

You descend to the level of your lowest concept of your self

Free your mind and your ass will follow



The infinite intelligence within you knows the answers

Its nature is to respond to your thoughts

Be careful of the thought-seeds you plant in the garden of your mind

For seeds grow after their kind



Play on, children



Every thought felt as true

Or allowed to be accepted as true by your conscious mind

Take roots in your subconscious

Blossoms sooner or later into an act

And bears its own fruit

Good thoughts bring forth good fruit

Bullshit thoughts rot your meat 

Think right, and you can fly

The kingdom of heaven is within 

Free your mind, and your ass will follow



Play on, children

Sing on, lady



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