HELLO November, how art thou? October is over kids, begin the rush to xmas. Are you ready? Have you been good? Were you bad? Who isn't really bad these days, we all do bad things. Tomorrow we get to vote, we get to cast our intent on the next great leader of our nation, this time, this place we call USA.
The spin goes and goes where it stops nobody knows.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. It should be interesting really, part of me wishes it was all over so we could just carry on with what's really happening out there. Everyday it seems a few more american souls get laid to waste for a cause yet unknown yet paid for with colorful freedom gestures with the best photoshop graced ease. This election year taught me even more about the powerful and deadly use of mis-information which seems happily rampant in our nation, our time.
Like all people addicted to bad television and crappy reality based tv shows, we're addicted to bad press, tell us the next scandal, we're anxious to worry about it. So lets get it over with shall we? Don't ya think its funny that ole osma reared his head just in time for the election? Oh its all so interesting, yet so boring at the same time. Maybe we should go back to the days of unknown gunman who snipe those in our way, it far more cost effective thats for sure. This morning on NPR I listened to the story on MI6, bond and his fellows and the intelligence blunders that occured. Funny, seems like intelligence isnt needed for war any more, just good spin. Part of me wants go back and rewatch the war unfold again on CNN & FOX, maybe i can get DVD of it someday, some collectors set DVD, maybe i can skip to chapters like "shock and awe" or "operation freedom" heck in the future its gonna be more like "operation goodness sponsored by coca-cola!". Could it be we thrive on lies? The truth is increasingly colorless, flavorless, especially considering all the flavors we have at our reach, we can dive into the fear factor or the bigggest loser reality or dine on the hunkest man, or be gay for a day, or sit back and tune into the shout matches of "real" news to get the straight word, the honest truth.
But who wants truth? The real is so utterly boring unless its caught on tape, taken out of context, zoomed in, slow-mo'd so that you can feel the desperation of the moment. We need reality split-screened and upset, we need it vivid and looped and digitally effected. Nope real is lost. This moment in fact, isnt real, you just caught the aftermath of it, i could of paused there for a good ten minutes to re-write those thoughts, re-arranging every aspect of what seems to be a continous thought.
Are there no hopes admist the darkness before me other than the fact it gets later now and already i see night fall approaching and its barely 5pm. There were a few winners this time around i suppose. The spin doctors got played on shows like the Daily Show which turned out to be an american hero on this election, a comedic voice that reached out and touched a nerve more millions. I feel sorry for those that missed Jon Stewart's show. He arrived at the right time to put his comedic spin on the events that have come to pass. We're still dealing with the pain of 911 and before that we dealt with the daily onslaught over and over and over and over of endless car bombs blowing the crap out israel.
Israel, why do I care about you? The media tells me in print and on tv and the net etc that yer one big ass pain in the middle east, the onslaught of our policy in the middle east seems strangely intertwined with yer fate - but why do i care. What have you done for me lately Israel? Well I dont see you on the news as much any more, interesting how that works eh? Theres more bombs going off else where. The focus isnt on you any more. But oh for a good 3-4 years you were front and center nearly every day, someone died on a bus, in car, at a church.. all because of x y and z. Things and dealings i had no clue about. Ignorance is bliss i suppose. So whats wrong with bliss? Now we know everything. Who died, where they died and what it effects of them dying. We know more about death, death gets the front page at the drop of a hate, where as life, well hell no one cares about life. Birth, screw that, thats boring, but a few folks blown to smitherines and arms and legs flying thru the air, thats what i get to read about in the morning. Never the good of man, just gimme the gist of all the bad that he can do. That sells. America is one big sellout. Shovel it, sell it, take it town and paint the city red with it.
I rarely trust any media outlets any more really but ya know whats fun to read, i mean aside from CNN, FOX, etc is the Aljazeera website. Now there you get an good dose of american bashing. Not that I'm down on the ole USA and all I'm down on what we've become, i love this place yet I'm really disgusted by much of it. So much gets wrapped up in our "interests", thats the word i see everywhere... its in our best "interests", our agenda. Whats your agenda? Is America a biz now? Do we wage wars for business? War makes pretty good sense to us I would think, arms makers invent, goverment pays, eventually what we test and develop on the battlefield ends up in our multicolored groovy cellphones, it all works out. Look in order for us to leap forward, someone has to die. So agenda must be developed, beleived, faught for, and theres always evil doers out there somewhere. Its a strange reality we have, maybe thats why we have so many realites to choose from, cause this reality really blows.
Eventually I'll be able to project my essence on to the net and I'll be omnipresent, I'll join the cool kids and husky hackers to finally break the seal of whats to be in everspace of the internet. Sure I'll be dancing with spam and gobbs of bandwidth hording porn kittens but it'll be landscape for me thrive on, develop on, i'll have my own digital sidewalk chalk in hand.
We have so many hilarious holes in our nation. Homeland security, its funny, true its needed i suppose but the outlandish and outwardly spinable version of its current manifestation is laughable at best. Its almost like we created it cause we were so afraid not to have it. It was suggestion #34 on what to do about what just happened there in NYC, dang we sorta messed up there, shit happens, ok now put everyone at ease and create a new channel, channel FEAR! Someday we'll look back on homeland security as one of our greatest paranoid blunders of our time.
Maybe I'm too hopeful for spin itself really. I can't help but wonder whats all connected here. Is it really just a pissing match between a selected few, and this current reality paints just one version of the canvas, a painting of over a thousand colors when in reality its maybe 4, or 6. Thats our need for more. We must have more. There must be more.
Osma to swing election votes! Haha.. I love it. Where ever ya go on the net you can find hilarious ramblings here and there on the what if, could be, maybes of spotted truth. Thing is all this stuff gets written somewhere, unless somone has mastered it, perfected it in the spinbot that twists all reality for us. Would you blow 10 million on self publish bot that would do just that, you insert the agenda and it crafts the canvas for you, for whatever target you wish, media outlets, rogue reporting networks, underground publishing, irc channels and chat rooms, ya a bot like that that seemingly appeared real, it could assume a hundred different indenties, and flood the net with its truth, your truth. Theres a piece of code worth while dontcha think. I bet its in development as we speak. Definately the deliverly end of it has been under construction for quite some time. The syth of real is harder to forge but gets easier every day, the more we become attatched to it.
Everyday I come to work, go home, see my friends and family and try to tune out as much as possible those elements that do me no good. I pause now and then and ponder my friends in the Army. I have a few. Though they are not close to the fighting, still they could be. We lost 8 more just the other day. 8 more souls lost for what.. what reason, what cause justifed its loss. Like any american I wish I we were there for the right reasons and now its like well, regardless of the reason folks are shootin at us, glaze that town. We've lost about 1100 americans or more, hell how many guys from Poland, dont forget about Poland, how many of them or british soliders have died? No idea. That kinda bad news we don't get to hear about or about 100,000 or so iraq's that have died. Nope, those are numbers unfit for ratings. They dont look good in print.
Kerry's not a great choice either but I've heard him out and at this point I'll take anything over Bush. Either way we're in soo much shit it will take 10 years before we're ever clean, not that we ever were.
Lastly a note on self publishing since I looked up a few links for a friend today.
Iuniverse - looks cool
Cafepress - yet again
The Lulu - doesnt seem as good
and oh ya, Booksfree anyone?
Today I made the comment to a friend that "no I dont want you on prozac..." and of course they just told me "dan I've been on prozac you know that right?..." well no I didnt know that. So a conversation broke out, pros and cons of prozac and my beef against it. What's my issue with prozac? Well just seems to me I know alot of folks on prozac. Are we all clinicly depressed? Ok sure some of us are, share in some history of it etc, but more and more I seem to meet folks that are on it and more so their kids are going on it for the heck of it it seems like. Like got a cold pop a cough drop, down a bit, pop a prozac.