T R U T H

The nag at Erisa the Blackboard won't take no for an answer. I gave in and said I'd agree to answering a few questions but with the stipulation that it would appear here first. Here's what ensued:

If you were to become a philosopher who would you most like to be identified with?

Either that guy whose name begins with an R, Reich - Wilhelm Reich who was all about "orgone" and making love or Ed Norton on the Honeymooners

Ed Norton? Seriously?

Yeah, he worked in a sewer and still wore a fedora. Maybe it's just my fantasizing about Vivian Vance but guys who get their message out the way Norton did are overlooked influencers. Like that lady who was asked "sleep around much?" and she answered "around 8 hours" you can't publish brilliance like that. Trying to tear out a single page in your book of life doesn't mean you don't know about throwing the whole thing in the fire. I mean if healthcare.gov was on my resume, I'd be laughing at the director waiting for Godot. The truth is you can still be lookin' good in your 70s (see Raquel and Hanoi Jane) so it doesn't matter how long Cleopatra reigned after the pyramids were built - she reigned. All of this emphasis on opening weekend box office receipts has diverted attention from really important high hard ones.

Can you take a breath - we have yet to get to the matters . .

Yes - inhale exhale - so why even bother with matters? What's the matter with you? I was always asked that and there was never anyone with me so how could I answer that? Eff questions about matters - my first pair of engineer boots AKA motorcycle boots gave me a feeling of love that made me believe I found it. It went away and it took years for me to realize that love is really the awareness of the impossibility of possession.

Are you high?

Higher than Sandra Bullock considering the possibility Clooney likes vag.

pretty much hi9s - wish she felt as good