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What’s up with those crazy street preachers?

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Don’t they know how crazy it looks?

Are they crazy? Maybe not. Maybe crazy street preaching is totally respectable and I’m just too ignorant to appreciate. Maybe these guys are top-notch philanthropists whose frustration with the oblivious mass is, unfortunately, mistook for belligerence.

Probably not. But maybe. I could try sitting down with one of these street savvy saviors for a seasonal cup of jav- in the spirit of proactive inquiry, but, at the same time, I’d rather not risk the chance of being rude. Wouldn’t it be impolite, perhaps even blasphemous, for me to step in and interrupt?  If, in fact, he is the real deal, would not my indiscretion utterly damn me to an eternity of hell?  I don’t know.  I suspect not, but still, I don’t know.

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Third World Baby Day

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Alas, it’s time to remove a beautiful holiday wreath from my studio door!  People are wondering a’loud whether I do, indeed, intend to de-install the wreath, some time soon.  I get the impression that it would be inappropriate to do otherwise (though it still maintains a somewhat a green hue and subtle fragrance of the wild).  

The point, I guess, is that the holiday season has expired.  It’s spirit is dead.  And all evidence stating otherwise is symptomatic of bad taste.

But, suppose there was another, hypothetical holiday, entitled “Third World Baby Day.”  This holiday would focus global attention upon the lives of young children living in underdeveloped societies that lack adequate resources for acheiving a potential that we ‘advanced societies’ might take for granted.  So, on this special holiday, a movement of compassion would encourage the believer to donate precious funds to related charities, or even (in more committed circumstances) to adopt a very needy, ‘third world’ baby.  How wonderful that might be (but, by no means a solution)!

But, wait- what would happen once that holiday season has expired?  According to the model of Expiring Holiday Spirit, shouldn’t those ‘lucky’ adoptees be shipped back to their countries of origin, or discarded in some other sanitary fashion? According to the model, they should.

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The Chilly Winds of Boston Blow

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The Chilly Winds of Boston Blow.  As does the prospect of a soul that ceases to grow. Of a psyche with disingenuous ideologies in tow.

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Fashion in our Likeness

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

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Though a mannequin is manufactured in likeness to humanity, it is humanity that manufactures itself in likeness to it.  

We look toward the mannequin for guidance- for information as to how we should look, feel and act.  Never mind that a mannequin has no brain (nor, often times, a head).

Mannequins exist in isolation.  There is no meaningful intimacy between them, each other and ourselves.  Perhaps that’s why they appear so apathetically melodramatic- they are begging for attention.  Yet, this is considered fashionable and is, therfore, socially desirable.

It is socially desirable to identify ourselves with mannequins- to become mannequins- without brains, or personality- isolated from all else, because it ‘looks good.”

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