The Inertia Dream

Often I dream that I can't walk or run because my legs won't move. I try to run and I keep leaning forward to run but nothing happens. I end up on the ground thinking about my physicality and gravity. People run up to help me but it's no use. Usually I am not afraid of anything. I am just trying to show that I can walk or run. And then I wake up and my legs are just there horizontal under the covers. I can only imagine how much my legs were twitching in my sleep. Actually I've been told.

One of these days

I want a new camera. Any donors out there? This is Twin Guns.

The Compounded Error on the Interview That Never Happened

I went to a job fair and one of the myriad recruiters there liked me and handed me a flier for a corporate sales job. Most of the real jobs and all of the fake jobs at the job fair were corporate sales jobs. I went home with a few leads for just that sort of job and I need a job so I might as well look into it. Just as I was writing an email to this company thanking them for the 30 second interview, they called me about their orientation meeting and interview the next day. The woman asked me if I had the address and I said hold on a minute, I've got the flier. I read the address there to her and she said ok, do you need directions? Well, no, I can find it.
Google Maps® gave me a pinpoint on the map where the address was and sure enough, I'm there three minutes after the appointed time -- only, the address wasn't there. Indeed, after asking two doormen (always get a second opinion), I was sure the address did not exist. I called the contact number on the flier and instead of giving me the correct address, I was given another intersection to go to, not too far, and some landmarks to look for... only I heard the intersection wrong. I had to call again. Do I really want to work for and with these communication dunderheads?

The Kneecap Dream

I had a dream where I lost both of my kneecaps. Where my knees should have been there were round flatnesses and some redness not unlike what mastectomies must look like although probably not as dramatic. (I am not going to look them up on Google.) I could still walk normally and there was no pain. My dream took a turn towards a coffee party with strangers where we talked about light fixtures. I finally mentioned I had lost my kneecaps and my comrade at the time said I should look for them and she would would help me. We were in the city at first but in a few moments we were out in the country on a dirt road. My companion finally pointed at the ground and there they were: two lumps on the ground like biscuits without enough leavening. They snapped back on like Mr. Potato Head® parts but without the pegs. I looked up to thank my guide and perhaps inquire how she knew where they were but she was gone. I woke up.

Our Founding Fathers Never Said "In God We Trust"

Occasionally I peruse the right-wing blogosphere much like my internet friend, Roy Edroso. Tonight I happened upon Dennis Prager's pap about how the TV cameras would not show the official U.S. motto, "In God We Trust" behind President Obama during his SOTU speech because the "left-wing media" views it as an "anachronism." He then goes on about how the country was "founded to be a God-centered, God-based country with a nondenominational government. And that is what those chiseled words affirm."

"In God We Trust" did not appear on U.S. currency until the 1860s. It was not made a motto until 1956, and I daresay, it probably was not on the wall of Congress until that time. To mention this little peeve and then conflate it with the founding of the country is ludicrous. Some of the founding fathers were Christian, but most of the famous ones, Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin, were atheist or agnostic. The jury is still out on George Washington, as it could be argued, he may have been agnostic privately. They were the ones who made sure that "God" and "Christian" never appeared in the Constitution.

Prager's attempt to rewrite history is what is anachronistic. I should add that because "In God We Trust" is printed and chiseled on all of our cash money and most of us see some of that every day, most of us won't miss not seeing it over Biden's and Boehner's heads.

Camping Near a Lake Rules

Towels on a rope! This is in the Berkshires of Massachusetts.

Fire Escape Performers

I caught these guys last night hamming it up on 14th Street. Only in New York? Ok, maybe Memphis or New Orleans.