WALKING ON THIN ICE

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lady asks me if there’s anything i’d like to do before we end our wandering for awhile. i say see paris. we’re here in south france, paris is 393 miles north, i’ve never seen it, paris is one of the world’s great metaphoric poetic symbols - it’d be a shame to waste this chance. plus then i can say to lady (just as humphrey bogart said to ingrid bergman) “we’ll always have paris.” so we’re going to go next weeked for 3 days.

my previous blog commenting on the lack of speaking out by the american people against their fascist rulers generated this emailed dialogue:

Mad M
there are ways and ways of resisting; it doesn’t all have to involve shouting out into the cyber wilderness.

me
you’re right - there are a lot of ways to speak out - next time i mention politics, i’ll point that out. for example, there’s subversion, there’s joining the system and trying to improve it from within, there’s teaching - there’s ???

Mad M
Hmmmm….there’s still demonstrations, making political art, getting political art to the public, registering voters, green activism…and oddly, I still believe in comedy, pointing out stupidities while you are entertaining people…

me
all those are valid, but i think making people laugh at the bad guys is one of the best.

o well, as the cheney-bush beast, kkkorporation$, republicrats & demofraidycats put it: piss on earth, good wealth to all - (all in this case of course being only rich white males).

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