Ramblings, Rants, Ruminations and Reflections

Rant Number Four

Just Me — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:50:07 +0000

Bullshit nature survivor shows. It seems that every nature show you see on TV nowadays has one or two guys trying to convince the audience that they are always just on the verge of being killed, eaten, freezing to death or some other BS. It's like as an audience, they assume that we all seem to be so stupid that we can't possibly realize that the film crew, lights etc do not exist. And that at any second it could all be over. Sigh...and almost all of them now have a Aussie accent.

Rant number three.

Just Me — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:10:46 +0000

Dead animals are not good decorations. I simply do not understand this. I even saw a man pick up a free dead animal at a garage sale stating "This will look good on the wall eh?" Geezus!

And another thing. Tractor tires are not good decorations either. I have seen plenty of houses with big tractor tires, and for some odd reason they are always painted green, at the end of peoples driveways. The other day I saw a house with a huge wooden structure out front and two (painted green) tractor tires that had been hoisted up on poles on either side of the driveway. They were huge. Someone actually planned and paid to have this happen.

Rant number two.

Just Me — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:15:31 +0000

Litter. Or...more to the point, people who litter. I simply do not understand how someone can be in a beautiful place, even remarking to their little heathen children how pretty it is here, only to toss their trash on the ground 10 feet from a trash can and walk away. Or sitting at a stoplight and throw garbage out the window. What is wrong with these people? I'm not sure if anything else spins me up quite that fast. I would like to find out where they live, and back a garbage truck up to their front porch and pull the dump lever. What fun!!! There is a book by Carl Haaisan called Sick Puppy. The main character in the book seems to have the same problem as I...he's my hero lol.

Rant number one.

Just Me — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:48:30 +0000

OK. How many of you have picked up a magazine only to have 3 or 4 subscription cards fall out? Usually they are copies of the same exact thing, and really serve no real purpose. Apparently as you leaf through the pages, and see not one, not two but three or four of these things, you are suddenly supposed to exclaim "Wow, I didn't want to subscribe after the first one, or two, or three, but now that you've told me what a great deal this is for the fourth time I can see the light! I'm sending my money right away!" Please. Even Mother earth news had three of the damn things. Now, I have not done the math, and if any one cares to help I would love to be able to figure out how many mags, times an average of three cards, factored over an average year...how many hundreds of acres of forest are needed to print these? It is ridiculous. Even if the paper is recycled, it still must come from an original source and could easily be used for many other things.

So...here is what I propose. I spoke with the Postmaster general of my local post office and found out that if these cards 'accidentally' were to find their way into a mailbox somewhere, even if they are blank, the post office must mail them. AND...the magazine companies and or their publishers must still pay the postage. Imagine that. A better message might be to write 'Stop killing trees needlessly' on the silly thing. What would happen to these companies if everyone who reads a magazine mailed every one of these cards? I can only imagine how quickly this nonsense would stop. This is such a good idea I think it needs its own section lol.

Rants in the journal?

Just Me — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:45:51 +0000

I have no idea why, but I posted a new rant in the journal section...look there lol.

OK Fine....I will post it here :)

A very fine line.

Just Me — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:06:33 +0000

One dank and dark, despair and pain,

the other bright and harsh.

Overwhelming.

There is a fine line

between sadness and madness.

Vernal Equinox

Just Me — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:06:32 +0000

Wonderful :-)

To thine own self be true.

Just Me — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:03:12 +0000

I have struggled and fought with this. Not in the ways that you might think, but in other, less obvious ways. When I tell someone something under the premise that what I am telling them changes nothing in their future, but simply eliminates a painful present about the past, am I truly being kind to them? Or am I simply masking myself of a truth that makes me look at who I am, and what I have done or not done. Possibly my answer is in motive, and knowing who I am really protecting. Sometimes I fear it is me.

Janis

Just Me — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:00:56 +0000

She had it right I think. "Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose."

Names

Just Me — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:06:03 +0000

I was speaking to someone the other day, an arsty kind of guy who had his dreams in making movies. He said he needed a new name before he became famous :) We talked about how boring his was, and tried to come up with something more hollywoodish. So...have you ever thought about having a different name? Play along folks...what would it be? A few of you know that mine would be Logan.

Your turn.