Looking Back (But Not In Turns)

It is somewhat amusing and very scary when you take take a moment to reflect on your current position in life. When I say position I mean more of a high level overview and not specific to just one context. The majority of us will always fill as though we could be doing better, but the biggest room is the room for improvement, while some of us will feel that things are where they should be. I am not sure where I stand. On one hand I look at my current position and feel that I could have done better. Ok let me be honest the disappointment is in the fact that I am not doing better. This is not to say that I am not doing well.  You see herein lies my quandry. I find it easier to grasp air than I do obtaining contentment. Why is that? I look at others and their willingness to accept their position, their lot in life, and what seems to be a relative degree of reconcilliation with it and by a larger token what seems to be a greater degree of peace with that and feel a sense of resintment towards them. How dare they choose aquiessence over the struggle for more. Then it dawns on me, we are conditioned to push, conditioned to feel and think that we need and are entitled to more. More hurt, more heartache, more stress, more disappointment. Yes there is truth in the saying less is more. There is no harm in looking back to see how you much have progressed or regressed in some instances. I guess it all boils down to how you feel about where you are at and where you will be. Just be careful, the more time you spend looking back means the more likely you are to miss what is front of you.

About the picture. I usually attempt to make the pictures meaning overt as it relates to the post. Either in context or through the mood. I know some of you may not see the correlation between the motorcycle and the post. Piloting a motorcycle is very different that driving a car. The motorcycle and its driver truly become one unit. The slightest change in the riders position is transmitted to the bike. One of the first lessons you are taught when first learning to ride a motorcyle is to turn your head. The bike will go where your head is turned. When you see the sport bike riders racing around the track at 200+ mph and taking those turns with the bike only inches from the ground, they are never looking straight ahead. They must in order to successfully negotiate those turns look through the turn. They can not afford to look back. A quick glance over the should upon exiting the turn is typically all that they will give because at this point they must set up mentally and physically for the next scenario.

Common Sense

So Geraldine Ferraro got axed for saying that Obama would not  be getting as much buzz if it were not for his race. Wow thats a shame that some one gets fired for making an honest assessment of a situation and highlighting one of the plausible explanations. I guess she really over stepped her bounds as a campaign adviser.

Give me a friggn break. This is America, is it not. Since when has race not been an issue here. Her comments were not racist. They were real observations and very real sentiments based on those observations. Come on America get some cajones and just admit that race is important to you.Really it wont hurt.

Television Sux

In this age of enlightened people that understand more about the world in which they live than at any other time in history why are we subjected to so many unoriginal ideas and concepts? Why is that we are constantly bombarded by regurgitated material? How many home design shows, how to cook shows, how to fix shit shows , how to blow shit up, how to build shit, how to take a shit shows, how to not to shit shows, how to shit standing up shows (I think you get my point) do we need? Seriously, the Discovery channel conglomerate and HGTV bull shit. What the hell is the Fine Living Channel? The friggn Travel Channel is nothing more than top 10 lists put to video. If I see one more show telling me how to decorate my house, or another show telling me how to boil pasta or another show telling me where I need to go to get a good cup of coffee or where I can find the worlds largest pancake I will hurl. The intent of all these networks, does anyone remember the number of networks in the TV series Max Headroom , was to provide us the audience with content choice. What we have is just reordered list in multiple columns. It may seem like I am picking on the home and lifestyle networks but the same can be said for news, sports and the movie channels as well. Not counting the music stations the average consumer can have upwards of 400 channels to choose from. Yet we just find ourselves settling on content that is sub-par and not very engaging. Come on do you really like American Idol that much?

I think I have got some ideas for new DIY shows. How to be a pimp? How to get started as a meth dealer? How to piss off your coworkers? The top 10 hottest girls/guys at the gym. Where to go to get laid on a Friday night? Yep those sound like real winners to me. Stay tuned!

Be My Valentine

I came across this on digg. OK for all of you shoot first ask questions later types I need to go on the defensive before I can even state my position. Gay, straight, bi or confused, which ever category you fall in is fine with me. I do not really care. Peace.
I think it is a disgrace that the young man was murdered. I also think that it is a shame that the perp has to resort to such extreme measures to express his displeasure with the victims advances. However I get the sense that there is some back story here that we are not privy to. To continue lamenting the the victim and just chalking it up as a bias crime without considering what the victim’s contributing factors to his his untimely death were is really overlooking the fact that maybe he was not as innocent as he is made out to be. If the kid was smart enough (I used the term loosely being that he was 15 years old and in the 8th grade) to be an openly gay cross dresser then he was probably savvy enough to know which males in his school he could approach with such a request. Am I the only one that see that? Come on, everybody knows that teenage males are some of the most needlessly aggressive insecure people on the planet. Looking for any opportunity to demonstrate their budding manhood.

I was taught that there is no such thing as an innocent bystander. Come on don’t be so quick to play the “poor me card”. What did he do to set the other dude off?

Strip Club Philosophy

Recently I have been equating some things to their equivalent strip club counterpart or as close to it as I can get. Why, you ask. Well simply for the hell of it. I’m not really into strip clubs but I do find them interesting. Just as interesting as the articles in Playboy.

The psychology behind strip clubs is well documented and there is no need to regurgitate these. Regardless of where you stand on the morality of strip clubs and the behavior within you must admit that when you examine the mind sets of the patrons that you almost feel a little sorry for them. You see what I fail to understand is this; Ordinarily sane men who would pinch a penny out of their nether regions will without hesitation “make it rain” dollars to see women take their clothes off and do cool tricks with their private parts. This is where it gets interesting. You see after they have “made it rain”, they do not get to go any further with these women. Hundreds and sadly at times thousands of dollars are literally cast on the floor and the only thing you may have to show for it is some wood. WOW wood. They paid for a flippn’ hard-on!

OK let me illustrate this further. Going to a strip club is the same as going to a car dealership and giving the dealership money so that you can sit in one of the cars. Depending upon the dealership you may not even get to touch the car (steering wheel, shifter, doors, etc.). Thats right, you pay to sit in the car and enjoy that new car smell. If its a really high end dealership you pay to just walk in and look at the cars. If you touch any of them you may get kicked out (no refund), if you are taking up space and some one else is willing to give the dealership more money you have to give up your seat but you can still hang out in the dealership. So now that your appetite for the vehicle is whetted you want to test drive it. Your palms are itchy with excitement, your heart races as you think about reving the engine and peeling out. You ask the dealer about getting a test drive and you are summarily asked to leave. Off you go out of money and no test drive. Then you show up again next week and do it all over again.

Silly isn’t it? Who of us what dare waste our money in a car dealership like that? Week after week, just giving our money away for the privilege of sitting in what we consider to be a hot car. Well that is exactly what you do when you go to a strip club. Please do not get me wrong, if thats how you want to spend your money then thats your business. I on the other hand just do not see the need.

Back to my original thought. Strip clubs are by no means the standard by which we judge the sexuality of women. If anything they highlight the most despised trait of women (despised by men at any rate). The “tease”. They tease men into thinking that they are going to get some nookie. Isn’t that how society works though? Are we not often teased into thinking we are going to obtain some great prize by paying dues? Are we not lured in by the sounds, smells and sights that society flashes at us on a daily basis? Only to be let down when she informed us we only paid to see the show and not for the nookie. Yet we keep coming back. Yeah every now and them she feels pity on us and gives us a lap dance. Get a boob in the face perhaps. Nothing wrong with a nice tit. Then what she leaves. Leaves you wanting. Time and time again. The pay off is never what we want just more teasing to keep us coming back. I don’t know about you but that is some serious BS. I’m a human I have needs.