Random thoughts occurring to a random bloke…
Where the hell did 2007 go? And why can’t I remember anything worthy of recognition happening last year?
Anyway I want to wish everyone a year like the one that just ended, and in the very least we all get shat out the ass end alive.
But, hold on, 2008 could prove to be interesting. After all we have another American “election” to look forward to. Time and money well spent. Gotta love democracy… Continue reading Well It’s 2008
Now that the winter facial hair growing season has begun I’m reminded of something about myself that I’ve never much thought about. Past the initial shock, and attempts in years past to hide it, of course. I’m going grey. I suspect I’m a lot grey up top, too (shaving my scalp every few days prevents me from knowing for sure).
Which, as I said got me to thinking about a tuft of hair. Why? Not why is it grey. But why buy in to someone’s opinion of what having grey hair superficially means? Granted my attempts to dye it were a good many years ago, and yes I realize how silly and vain it all was. But no matter how much I’ve fought it I was and probably still am a drone to the hype. That and, let’s face it that the girl in the bar won’t talk to me with a grey beard, eh Keith? Continue reading Going Grey
I happened to witness something on the internet that frankly put me into a strange state of wonder. A “movie” called Zeitgeist. A collection of ideas “chronicling” the plausibility of an unsettling “coming of age.”
Sure it may be hard to swallow. Here I am, almost a full 48 hours later and no closer to knowing how to take the culmination of the ideas shared. Not so much because I’m completely convinced by the manner in which the “film” was presented, per se. Rather the fact that it was so absorbing. And so seemingly believable. Continue reading The Truth Will Set You Free