Thoughts That Come To You

This weekend I visited a friend who will be dying shortly. He told me that even though he knows he won't be around very much longer, he was enjoying life more than ever. It's like he's come to terms with dying & sees the beauty in life that he took for granted.

He mentioned how crazy people dress in NFL stadiums. He said he never really thought about it before. The passion of these fans...fanatical. Brilliant IMO!

I won't go into anymore detail but it made me stop & think. Maybe it will do the same for you.

In Southwest Miami, thieves are stealing horses off ranches, butchering & selling the meat to many of our recent illegal arrivals.

Can't Make This Shit Up!

why do too many people wait till the last minute ? To answer the questions that they’ve asked themselves and laugh at the simpleton ? obscure and awkward wrongful ways that they looked at the world ? hook , line , and sinker in the skillet or till it’s broiled , I’ll still filet that fish even if it stinks or it’s been spoiled …..

cuz I take what’s given in this infinite shitty sadness , and put my microscopic eye to the center line with no time for the glasses , cuz rose colored ain’t my hue , and I don’t even like the flowers , and that’s why I let the cowards looking for power get devoured or turn sour , when things inevitably backfire into a quagmire , because they’re not being realistic , cuz livin’ isn’t just snickers and giggles it stings a bit it’s grimaces , and not the purple ones , that your mom and pop brought you to that serve you that dirt in between the burger buns …..

surf is up , Earth is out , I bring much service to the nervousness of every nerd lurking around , with the words from my mouth , as they worry and pout , in their search and their yearning for certainty amongst doubt , it’s been curtains , I’ve been “ downed “ , murdered for my currency so currently in my account , I’m bankrupt to your morals , or for a better word or metaphor I don’t rest on your laurels , I’ve been dead and I’ve departed and yes it was horrible , It’s just that I’ve been resurrected pure ever more with extra strength and now I’m flexing it sorrowful ……

God Bless your friend 

Why do you park in the driveway and drive on the parkway ? Why are there dark days ? Where war wounds open and a soldier feels like a martyr ¡° played ¡° ? Are we going to Mars and to space ? And when we do will we be buffoons and bring it to a stark decay ? Cuz everything our metatarsals walk and wiggle through gets changed , and sooner or later the temperature of Jupiter will escalate and then we¡¯ll be to blame  , Dude you ever poop yourself and the stain ? gets so deep in the fibers that you throw them piece of shit ¡° diapers ¡° away ? Christ it¡¯s insane , this world that we live , we have choices exorbitant but we force ourselves to piss , all over each other¡¯s not too broad shoulders , and we often scold and hurt , those that we love the most , and don¡¯t even get me started on not putting mustard on a hot dog but just the ketchup with the ¡° lots of squirts ¡° ¡­..

this life right ? It¡¯s crazy 

Having insurance in Florida is odd because even if you have it, it still kind of feels like you don't.

Someone needs to invent a job that Americans REALLY want to do.

A buddy told me it's been a rough year. I had to remind him it's only the 1st week in January.

I'd much rather party with friends who will fight over picking up the check than with people who flee to the bathroom when the check arrives.

If I had a girlfriend that I gave my heart to that was from The Rotterdam in The Netherlands that was down for ¡° some lovin¡¯ ¡° ¡­..

and we were in the bed and I made a fart like a poop like poppin¡¯ a squat would it be a mockery to pontificate or speak comically that ¡° the release ¡° was like a sloppy ¡° Dutch Oven ? ¡°

I'd rather party with friends.

How come the first guy at a party that drinks too much and passes out always has to get the shaving cream on his hand then tickle his nose trick done to him ?

or the permanent black magic marker penis drawn on the forehead joke ?

or worst of them all :

the put his hand in a bowl of tepid water trick so he pisses his pants joke that makes him look ridiculous when he wakes up to find out what he did all over himself even though he¡¯s still halfway incoherent but fully embarrassed ¡­.

I¡¯ve seen that one . Brutal . 

I have no clue why people get tattoos on their face.

Right away I think this may not be the only bad decision you made in life. 

@StumpTownStu

 It's great to party with friends that aren't cheap but in my experiences there's always one dude who forgot his wallet or didn't have any cash etc.

There's ways of dealing with that kind of cat & they don't get to play with us long without smartening up.

If you enjoy fishing & come to South Florida, make sure you go offshore about a half mile to fish the wrecks where you WILL catch fish.

Many want to snag a sail/swordfish/tuna but that takes more hunting to find them rather than fishing to catch other quality fish. If you charter a boat for 4 hours, spend at least 2 hours on the wrecks which aren't far from the marinas. 

Then spend the other 2 hours catching a trophy, get pictures & release the beauty for another person to enjoy a similar experience.

I think about free will and religion all the time. I¡¯m convinced it¡¯s all BS. I think about consciousness, reality, why people do what they do (we can¡¯t possibly explain some of it). 

I think about the hard problem of consciousness (see David Chalmers). I think about how we are nothing more than bags of chemicals, yet we experience happiness, joy, love, etc. How?

I think about the insanity of this world, and how much animals¡ªhumans included¡ªsuffer all the time. It makes me sad.

But to keep myself sane, I focus more on the positive. The funny. The good. I constantly remind myself that everything is temporary, and that it¡¯s never as good or as bad as it may seem.

I think about how in the blink of an eye, none of us will be here, and nobody will remember us. Life is beautiful, and so short. With the absence of free will (and it is an actual myth), life is just a roller coaster ride. Strap in and enjoy because whatever is gonna happen will indeed happen, and there¡¯s nothing we can do.

I think about the hate that so many people spread, and how insanely stupid they are. But then I always have to remind myself that they can¡¯t help it. It¡¯s what they believe. It¡¯s what their parents believe. And their grandparents. Their beliefs have been passed down and their brains are imprinted. They truly believe that their hate is a good thing. That it¡¯s all necessary to protect their rights, and their families. They¡¯re stuck in a delusional reality and they can¡¯t get out.

I could go on for hours like any of you could but I¡¯ll spare you the agony.

Peace and love to you all.

@SteelCash

 No agony reading your post & of course, it got me thinking.

When I was trying to stay alive as well as keep the guy next to me alive, I needed something to believe in that would get me through hell. I did the whole altar boy gig in my teens but it was faith not religion that kept me from totaling losing my shit.

Sadness, as well as happiness, is all around us. Visit a hospital & you'll see people celebrating a new birth while another family mourns a death. Most don't have a clue how fortunate we are in this country. We take all kinds of shit for granted.  Whadyaaa mean the internet service is down? What's taking the pizza guy so long to get here? Doesn't the bartender know I need another drink, WTF?

This is the kind of shit that filters through our minds every single day & we're all just trying to decipher why shit happens. We all have a comfort spot in our brain that brings us joy & it's happy place to go. Whether it's thinking about your 1st girlfriend or a no-hitter you pitched or remembering good times with good people. Now that I'm getting long in the tooth, I visit that "happy "spot more often which is a damn good thing IMO.

I have a self propelled mower but my buddies tell me that it qualifies as a push mower. 

So it¡¯s a push mower that you don¡¯t push? Why don¡¯t we call these things go mowers? Or no push mowers?

Boynton Beach, FL

A 98 year old man was runover & killed by a 86 year old dude driving his Mercedes-Benz.

Speechless.....

@Midnight1

Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL

A Buffalo Bills fan from Ontario, CN leaving the stadium after the game against the Dolphins evidently had a disagreement with a Dolphin fan & pounded on the hood on his car. The Dolphin fan exited his car & pumped 4 bullets into the Bills fan killing him. His mother now has a GoFundMe page to help bring her son's body back to Canada.

It's a perfect example of "here today gone tomorrow."

If you're from Buffalo, and you're down in South Florida, and you're pounding on cars, it's essentially a suicide. I guess they didn't send the memo out to western NY that everyone in Florida has guns.

If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving is not for you.

Some afternoons it seems like I talk to GOOGLE more that with my wife.

So Midnight, I had a Vivid Dream involving front man for Talking Heads, David Byrne .playing a Show for a Bunch of hotyye Totye peeps in a Private small play Hall.. I was lucky not to get thrown out cuz I didn't fit in with that crowd..it was great until He started playing " Burning Down the House"..

Rainy day had me looking at an old flick & I heard a line that made me laugh.

In Justice for All, Al Pacino plays a lawyer & Jack Warren plays a Judge that doesn't have all his marbles. The Judge wants Pacino to take a plane ride with him but Pacino doesn't want to go and tells the judge to take his wife on the plane ride. The Judge laughs and says..

"The last thing my wife and I did together was getting married."

I had an hour long conversation with David Byrne like,I don't know, 16 years ago when he played the Greek in Berkeley. Then after the show they went and played this club that used to exist in Berkeley called Blake's. It was an epic night. Then I met him when he played the Fox with St. Vincent but we didn't really talk. It was just one of those, "Hey, don't I know you?" kind of things and I was just like, "Yep! At the Greek!" Not a ton of time had elapsed. I wanna say not even a year. It was cool.

Driving around South Florida today I was reminded of an idea I heard years ago from Carlin, Gallagher or Carrot Top.

The concept was that every driver receives a plastic gun with 5 arrows with a small suction cup & when you see a driver making a douchebag move, you shoot an arrow at/on their car.

So when a cop sees a car with 5 attached arrows, the driver gets pulled over & given a ticket just on general principle.

Got to remember this idea is decades old & if tried today, it could end with a horrible result.

There are too many real guns in the hands of the unstable.