Wednesday, July 29, 2009
More Spam Mail
MENTAL HOSPITAL PHONE MENU
Hello and thank you for calling The State Mental Hospital.
Please select from the following options menu:
If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.
If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.
If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5 and 6.
If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want - stay on the line so we can trace your call.
If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be forwarded to the Mother Ship.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press, nothing will make you happy anyway.
If you are dyslexic, press 9696969696969696.
If you are bipolar, please leave a message after the beep or before the beep o r after the beep. Please wait for the beep.
If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.
If you have low self-esteem, please hang up our operators are too busy to talk with you.
If you are menopausal, put the gun down, hang up, turn on the fan, lie down and cry. You won't be crazy forever.
If you are blonde, don't press any buttons, you'll just mess it up.
This coming week is National Mental Health Care week.
You can do your part by remembering to contact at least one unstable person to show you care.
The Wailing Wall
A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going the the Wailing Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time.
So she went to check it out. She went to the Wailing Wall and there he was walking slowly up to the holy site. She waited him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane in a very slow fashion, she approached him for an interview...
"Pardon me Sir, I'm Rebecca Smith from CNN. What's your name?"
"Maury Fishbein." he replied.
"Sir, how long have you been coming to the Wailing Wall and praying?"
"For about 60 years." he stated.
"60 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"
"I pray for peace between the christians, Jews and the Muslims. I pray for all the wars and hatred to stop. I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults, and to love their fellow man!"
"How do you feel after doing this for 60 years?" she asked her final question.
"I feel like I'm talking to a fuckin' wall." he bluntly barked.
HAHAHA
1. Picture yourself lying on your belly on a warm rock that hangs out over a crystal clear stream.
2. Picture yourself with both your hands dangling in the cool running water.
3. Birds are sweetly singing in the cool mountain air.
4. No one knows your secret place.
5. You are in total seclusion from that hectic place called the world.
6. The soothing sound of a gentle water fall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.
7. The water is so crystal clear that you can easily make out the face of the person you are holding underwater.
There!! See? It really does work. You're smiling already. Feel free to forward this if you know others who might benefit from this technique...
Thursday, July 16, 2009
An Unquiet Mind
"My awareness and experience of sounds in general and music in particular were intense. Individual notes from a horn, an oboe, or a cello became exquisitely poignant. I heard each note alone, all notes together, and then each and all with piercing beauty and clarity. I felt as though I were standing in the orchestra pit; soon, the intensity and sadness of classical music became unbearable to me. I became impatient with the pace, as well as overwhelmed by the emotion. I switched abruptly to rock music, pulled out my Rolling Stones albums, and played them as loud as possible. I went from cut to cut, album to album, matching mood to music, music to mood. Soon my rooms were further strewn with records, tapes, and album jackets as I went on my way in search of the perfect sound. The chaos in my mind began to mirror the chaos of my rooms; I could no longer process what I was hearing; I became confused, scared, and disoriented. I could not listen for more than a few minutes to any particular piece of music; my behavior was frenetic, and my mind more so."
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
fireflies will be our only light in heaven
A glow worms never glum
Cause how can you be grumpy
when the sun shines out your bum
My Sisters
i would like to introduce you to my lovely sisters!
left to right, top to bottom.
Loraze Pam
Diaze Pam
Alproazo Pam
Clonaze Pam
Holocaust Survivor Leaving US
Monday, May 02 2005 @ 03:02 PM PDT
Contributed by: Joey Picador
One of our neighbors is moving. I've been in this neighborhood for about six
years now, but didn't really know them very well at all - just waves and
nods, mostly.
So I heard the moving van pull up this morning. When I got home this evening
I happened to spy my neighbor (he's like 85 years old - I don't know
exactly, but he's old, talks and moves very slowly) standing on the sidewalk
next to the van. I walked over and shook his hand, and we started talking. I
asked him where he was moving, and he said, "Back to Germany."
I had been stationed in Germany for two years while in the military, so I
lit up, and commented about how beautiful the country was, and inquired if
he was going back because he missed it.
"No," he answered me. "I'm going back because I've seen this before." He
then commenced to explain that when he was a kid, he watched with his family
in fear as Hitler's government committed atrocity after atrocity, and no one
was willing to say anything. He said the news refused to question the
government, and the ones who did were not in the newspaper business much
longer. He said good neighbors, people he had known all his life, turned
against his family and other Jews, grabbing on to the hate and superiority
"as if they were starved for it" (his words).
He said he was too old to see it happen right in front of his eyes again,
and too old to do anything about it, so he was taking his family back to
Europe on Thursday where they would be safe from George W. Bush and his
neocons. He seemed resolute, but troubled, nonetheless, as if being too
young on one end and too old on the other to fight what he saw happening was
wearing on him.
I gotta tell you - it was chilling. I let him talk, and the whole time, my
gut was churning, like I had mutated butterflies in my stomach. When he was
finished, he shook my hand, gripping it really hard, until his knuckles
turned white and he was shaking. He looked me in the eyes, hard, and said,
"I will pray for your family and your country." He let go of my hand and
hobbled away.
I have related this event to you in the hopes it will serve as a cautionary
anecdote about the state of our Union, and to illustrate the path we
Americans are being led down by a group of fanatics bent on global economic
and military dominion. When a man who survived the fruits of fascism decides
its time to leave THIS country because he's seeing the same patterns that
led to the Holocaust and other Nazi horrors beginning to form here, it is
time for us to recognize the underlying evil inherent in the actions of
those who claim they work for all Americans, and for all mankind. And it is
incumbent upon all Americans, Red and Blue, Republican and Democrat, to stop
them.
____________
Justice For None.
http://justicefornone.com//article.php/20050527204356114
Saturday, July 4, 2009
more on your freedom....
self evident by ani difranco
(inspired by the WTC disaster)
yes,
us people are just poems
we're 90% metaphor
with a leanness of meaning
approaching hyper-distillation
and once upon a time
we were moonshine
rushing down the throat of a giraffe
yes, rushing down the long hallway
despite what the p.a. announcement says
yes, rushing down the long stairs
with the whiskey of eternity
fermented and distilled
to eighteen minutes
burning down our throats
down the hall
down the stairs
in a building so tall
that it will always be there
yes, it's part of a pair
there on the bow of noah's ark
the most prestigious couple
just kickin back parked
against a perfectly blue sky
on a morning beatific
in its indian summer breeze
on the day that america
fell to its knees
after strutting around for a century
without saying thank you
or please
and the shock was subsonic
and the smoke was deafening
between the setup and the punch line
cuz we were all on time for work that day
we all boarded that plane for to fly
and then while the fires were raging
we all climbed up on the windowsill
and then we all held hands
and jumped into the sky
and every borough looked up when it heard the first blast
and then every dumb action movie was summarily surpassed
and the exodus uptown by foot and motorcar
looked more like war than anything i've seen so far
so far
so far
so fierce and ingenious
a poetic specter so far gone
that every jackass newscaster was struck dumb and stumbling
over 'oh my god' and 'this is unbelievable' and on and on
and i'll tell you what, while we're at it
you can keep the pentagon
keep the propaganda
keep each and every tv
that's been trying to convince me
to participate
in some prep school punk's plan to perpetuate retribution
perpetuate retribution
even as the blue toxic smoke of our lesson in retribution
is still hanging in the air
and there's ash on our shoes
and there's ash in our hair
and there's a fine silt on every mantle
from hell's kitchen to brooklyn
and the streets are full of stories
sudden twists and near misses
and soon every open bar is crammed to the rafters
with tales of narrowly averted disasters
and the whiskey is flowin
like never before
as all over the country
folks just shake their heads
and pour
so here's a toast to all the folks who live in palestine
afghanistan
iraq
el salvador
here's a toast to the folks living on the pine ridge reservation
under the stone cold gaze of mt. rushmore
here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors
who daily provide women with a choice
who stand down a threat the size of oklahoma city
just to listen to a young woman's voice
here's a toast to all the folks on death row right now
awaiting the executioner's guillotine
who are shackled there with dread and can only escape into their heads
to find peace in the form of a dream
cuz take away our playstations
and we are a third world nation
under the thumb of some blue blood royal son
who stole the oval office and that phony election
i mean
it don't take a weatherman
to look around and see the weather
jeb said he'd deliver florida, folks
and boy did he ever
and we hold these truths to be self evident:
#1 george w. bush is not president
#2 america is not a true democracy
#3 the media is not fooling me
cuz i am a poem heeding hyper-distillation
i've got no room for a lie so verbose
i'm looking out over my whole human family
and i'm raising my glass in a toast
here's to our last drink of fossil fuels
let us vow to get off of this sauce
shoo away the swarms of commuter planes
and find that train ticket we lost
cuz once upon a time the line followed the river
and peeked into all the backyards
and the laundry was waving
the graffiti was teasing us
from brick walls and bridges
we were rolling over ridges
through valleys
under stars
i dream of touring like duke ellington
in my own railroad car
i dream of waiting on the tall blonde wooden benches
in a grand station aglow with grace
and then standing out on the platform
and feeling the air on my face
give back the night its distant whistle
give the darkness back its soul
give the big oil companies the finger finally
and relearn how to rock-n-roll
yes, the lessons are all around us and a change is waiting there
so it's time to pick through the rubble, clean the streets
and clear the air
get our government to pull its big dick out of the sand
of someone else's desert
put it back in its pants
and quit the hypocritical chants of
freedom forever
cuz when one lone phone rang
in two thousand and one
at ten after nine
on nine one one
which is the number we all called
when that lone phone rang right off the wall
right off our desk and down the long hall
down the long stairs
in a building so tall
that the whole world turned
just to watch it fall
and while we're at it
remember the first time around?
the bomb?
the ryder truck?
the parking garage?
the princess that didn't even feel the pea?
remember joking around in our apartment on avenue D?
can you imagine how many paper coffee cups would have to change their design
following a fantastical reversal of the new york skyline?!
it was a joke, of course
it was a joke
at the time
and that was just a few years ago
so let the record show
that the FBI was all over that case
that the plot was obvious and in everybody's face
and scoping that scene
religiously
the CIA
or is it KGB?
committing countless crimes against humanity
with this kind of eventuality
as its excuse
for abuse after expensive abuse
and it didn't have a clue
look, another window to see through
way up here
on the 104th floor
look
another key
another door
10% literal
90% metaphor
3000 some poems disguised as people
on an almost too perfect day
should be more than pawns
in some asshole's passion play
so now it's your job
and it's my job
to make it that way
to make sure they didn't die in vain
sshhhhhh....
baby listen
hear the train?