Monthly Archives: June 2014

The irony of being alone… (or): You are never by yourself, you are with yourself…

Posted on June 26, 2014 by pouringmyartout

The thing… and this is really a cool thing as things go… about that expression: ‘by yourself’, is that it is a fallacy, an impossibility, a blue herring, and many other clever ways of saying that it is just plain … Continue reading →

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No, I do not repost my old posts because I have run out of ideas for a new post… I have a head full of crack squirrels, for crying out loud… I do it because it is fun and it reminds me of the early days of blogging when I had no idea what I was doing and it didn’t really matter because nobody was reading my stuff anyway… and so that you don’t have to go back and read my old stuff… even though you ought to…

Posted on June 26, 2014 by pouringmyartout

This one was called: We all want people to like us —————————- But what are we willing to do to achieve that goal? I am learning some very interesting things, now that I am actually reading other people’s blogs. For … Continue reading →

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Well, this is certainly awkward… I seem to have done two posts in a row that completely contradict one another… which is what happens when you have crack squirrels living inside your head…

Posted on June 26, 2014 by pouringmyartout

First, let me apologize for such an obvious slip up. Next, let me thank my friend, List of X, for pointing out this glaring oversight on my part. It seems obvious, after it being pointed out to me, that I … Continue reading →

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So, I did warn you right up front that I only started this blog so I could take over the world, right?

Posted on June 26, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I mean, it is more than a little ironic, but I don’t want to be dishonest about the fact that this is basically a criminal organization bent on world domination… and now that I have the secret lair in the … Continue reading →

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Putting clever things done by other people on your FaceBook page and thinking you just communicated with someone is like vomiting up your last meal on someone’s plate and thinking that you just served them a meal…

Posted on June 25, 2014 by pouringmyartout

No… that isn’t quite right… because if you did that, you might at least be regurgitating a meal that you yourself cooked, whereas just recycling the wisdom and humor of others is infinitely worse. It is not any form of … Continue reading →

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Living history is what we all do…

Posted on June 25, 2014 by pouringmyartout

Making history takes hard work.

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The next time you are in bed with the person you love, and you have to get out of that nice, warm bed to turn off the light, take a moment before you flip the light switch to wave at the person who is still in bed…

Posted on June 24, 2014 by pouringmyartout

… because they are totally in charge of your relationship…

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Here is another of my very early posts, which I repost now and then, so that you don’t ever need to go to the trouble of reading my whole blog from the very beginning… even though you should… you really should…

Posted on June 24, 2014 by pouringmyartout

This post was called: Poetry against the machine ———————————- Here is another poem from the drawers of my soul… If nothing else, it proves I was building a raging anger against our political system even in my early teens. It … Continue reading →

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Helen of Troy… a role model… of sorts…

Posted on June 24, 2014 by pouringmyartout

Yes, she was beautiful. So beautiful that we still use her name thousands of years later as an ideal of beauty for which to strive. They say that her beauty launched a thousand ships.   Well, yeah, but not in … Continue reading →

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My next get rich quick scheme…

Posted on June 24, 2014 by pouringmyartout

A kite that looks like the flying nun from that old TV series.

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