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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Daddy Dearest

My Father and I had never gotten along very well while he was alive.

I had always either wanted to be an artist, an advertiser, or a writer. He declined me in every single one of those dreams. You see, he had dreams for me as well. But it was different from mine. I wanted color in my life, he wanted me to become dull and stable.

Every single cell in my body twitched with defiance whenever he gave me a lecture about the practicality of life. The only thing that bonded us was Photography, and even there, we argued. He disliked my still life pictures. He gave me his old SLR when I was 12. I took pictures immediately. We didn't have digital cameras back then. everythiing was film. It was expensive, and every shot was a gamble.

I remember taking pictures of spiders, whilst they were weaving their intricate little homes. I was one just glistening in dew, and the spider was sleeping right in the enter of it. The morning sun was giving it the most exquisite glimmering effect on each bead of dew on the web, and the spider was a little ball of grey in the center of it. I took my picture.



Of ourse, he was furious, and threatened to take the camera away from me."There have to be people in the pictures," he argued, "They have to be looking, they have to be smiling, they have to be in the center of the pictures. I of course,

Friday, June 18, 2010

The Big Bang

It is a widely known fact that I know how to blow a fuse the magnitude of the Big Bang.




It is also an accepted form of behavior to clear away from the crossfire of two firing guns. One alone can kill you; two, will make sure you don't survive. In the past couple of months the absolute selective silence of a certain non-persona (Yimmach Shemo Vezikhro) drove me insanely furious. I have realized, no one really pays attention, until something is clearly blown out of proportion. We don't realize it's actually an earthquake until we realize the fat girl from the office didn't report to work that day, and the building is actually going down.

We don't get up unless the alarm is going (and even that, we ignore) or the stew you were cooking in the kitchen is burnt to a crisp until there is smoke in the house. We

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Amazing Things


I have seen amazing things.

This was the thought racing in my mind as I watched a thunderstorm just outside my house, by the gates. I marvelled at the lightshow produced by the bouncing of electrons in the sky. Massive bolts of lightning racing between clouds of dark grey, illuminating a starless, midnight-blue canvass. Each dance of light, revealing the once invisible puffs of clouds, too massive, it surprised you that you did not see them.

In the same spot, some twenty-something years ago, I witnessed an even more amazing thing.



One rainy afternoon, I was 10 or 12, I was watching the thunderstorm as I was tonight, when a bolt of lightning hit the ground 3 meters away from me. It was the most magnificent bomb I have ever felt. My hair literally stood on end, as the impact blew a gust of warm wind and debris against me. The light was blinding, I could hardly see anything after it left a crater half a foot wide and a few inches deep.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Master of the Universe.

He-Man is just about the gayest 80's superhero I could remember from my childhood. I just love him to bits. It was only recently that I recall telling a friend if he didn't notice anything odd about He-Man's intro at the start of each episode. If you do not recall what he says at the beginning of each program here it is.

"I am Adam, Prince of Eternia and defender of the secrets of Castle Grayskull. This is Cringer, my "fearless" friend. Fabulous, secret powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said, "By the Power of Grayskull!....I HAVE THE POWER! Only three others share this secret: our friends the Sorceress, Man-at Arms, and Orko. Together we defend Castle Greyskull against the evil forces of Skeletor."




And if that isn't gay enough, Adam is so wearing a blonde applecut, and has never once flirted with Teela. Maybe it was just the era. Maybe they never thought it would catch on that knee-high leather boots laced with fur was going to be so uber fabulous someday. Or that Lady gaga was going to grow up like that.

He-Man possibly would have inspired Lady Gaga growing up anyway. Hearing
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