WALKING ON THIN ICE

 

It doesn’t pay to beat a dead hearse… the deeper the cleavage, the slipperier the slope.

 

traded my old kathy in on new chopped & channeled kathy.  left america 5 months ago with long-haired kathy.  she cut half off in london in a pageboy bob.  yesterday she chopped it down to a french do.  from long-haired girly girl to matronly pageboy to french punkette - travel sure changes one.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”  Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad - Or, The New Pilgrims’ Progress (1869).

i’ve traveled an odd and variegated journey since starting in the panhandle of idaho in 1946… more or less in order, i’ve lived worked studied or stayed in washington state, oregon, california, tennessee, maryland, hawaii, florida, virginia, connecticut, new york, washington d.c., pennsylvania, texas, georgia, wisconsin, michigan, arizona, ohio, west virginia, nevada, canada, luxumberg, belgium, netherlands, england, poland and now croatia at the end of 2006. i’ve hitchhiked across the northern u.s., thru its middle, and along its bottom as well. met a great number of good people.  trouble is, everywhere i went, i found me there judging me.

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric; but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry” - William Butler Yeats

last day of 2006. 16 months now for kathy and i. before her, mine was a singular journey - no matter whom i was with.  now i’m two, and we’re two as one.  even when alone i’m not alone.

no resolutions this new year’s eve except my eternal try at being a better person, producing more, becoming more compassionate and patient, more helpful and gentler to others - and of course finding marijuana… “For me wanna marijuana / And me wanna do the dog / Bow the wow to shady lady / Leap and lap her fire log / Oh let me be your poodle boy” (2nd verse from Lamentation 5 - the Faithful Bewail).

scientists are trying to force grow fish twice as fast. say it’ll save the world’s food population. evidently they never watched the roger corman film “humanoids from the deep“. scientists there said the same thing, and the big, fast fish came out upon the land and ate and raped the humans.  it did solve the fish’s food problem, so it wasn’t a total waste.

to satisfy one’s required 2500 daily calorie intake, you could eat 2 cheeseburgers, or 15 pounds of fresh strawberries.

assorted oddities from various newspapers:
1 - A cockroach can live 9 days without its head. 
2 - Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, white worms like pork rinds. 
3 - People are basically dark meat.
4 - A blue whale’s tongue weighs 6,500 pounds.
5 - 70% of house dust consists of dead skin flakes.
6 - A four year olds brain is twice as active as an adult’s.
7 - Vegetarians live 10 years longer.
8 - People who attend church more than twice a week live 7 years longer.
9 - Women live 7 years longer than men.
10 - Whites live 7 years longer than blacks.

 

the oil & chemical industries introduced 70,000 synthetic chemicals into the environment from 1900-2000.

humans have damned up so much water that geophysicists say it has perceptibly altered the way the planet rotates.

what a long road to whore.  we’ve become the curse of our mummy’s womb.  we can take nothing for granted, not even granite.  night has fallen, and it can’t get up.  we’re catching up to the future and we’re filling up the past. we got those old algorithm blues.  jesus as carpenter was a wood worker - jesus as christ a would worker. 

Learn and live.  Know need to no, for the eyes will never be full.