The Trust Tree
Ok, this weird thing always happens to me, and it just happened again. I don't know if it's me, or if I just notice it more than others. It is hard to explain, but basically, someone will say something, describe something, or whatever, and that something will come across my path right at that minute. Like, a Lexus commercial coming on the radio while driving, and then looking to my left, seeing a Lexus, look to my right, see a Lexus, rearview, see a Lexus. Just weird. Right now, I was entering names into the data base. I was typing the name Tatyana, and at the exact same moment I started typing, the radio show I was listening to informed me of a winner of a tennis match named.....Tatyana. It was just eerie timing, and it happens all of the time. Freaky to me, lame to everyone else, Im sure.
Had a horrible dream last night. I can't even remember it, but I remember one totally blistering part. Right as I am waking up this morning, I am sitting next to my wife in my dream, and she is on the phone. I hear her say, "I love you too." and then I ask who it was. She tells me it was "Joaquin" and I start yelling "Who the f**k is Joaquin!!! Over and over again. Totally odd dream, and totally upsetting. I wish I knew what it meant.....I just hope Im not psychic.
I had the weirdest thought earlier today. I was thinking how although we are all intelligent beings, and we have complex thinking and all that, we are still governed by our primative needs and influences. No matter how evolved we are, we still do what we do to sate our desires to eat, sleep and procreate. So, I was thinking, is it even remotely possible that I chose my wife for primative mating reasons? Is that a weird thought? She is strong, attractive, smart, athletic and caring. She is a perfect mate and a perfect mother candidate. Could there be a subconscious desire to hold on to what I consider a great person for having a family with? It is such a weird, clinical thought, but the more I think about it, the more merit it has. Totally weird.....
Memo to sports announcers: If you have nothing to say, just shut up. Stop filling air time with idiotic comments. Sunday, the Braves' announcer told us, and I quote, "This game is brought to you en espanol. That means, 'In Spanish'." No! Really??? Thank god he slipped that valuable information in there. Listen to these doughheads some time, and you will notice the same pattern all of the time. "He has made 8 of 10 shots........which means, he has missed 2." Damnit, I almost had it! I have my abacus here, just let me do the math...don't help!
We have a great system going in the US right now for what is hot, and what isn't. Trends and fads start in the black and hispanic communities. They go on until they catch on throughout those communities. Then the high school kids get a hold of it, and it spreads across white America, as kids attempt to disassociate themselves from their suburban lifestyles. Then MTV gets a hold of it, and runs it into the ground with mind numbing force. At this point, the trend of fad has reached it's apex. It is like the Product Life Cycle, for all you marketing majors. Mainstream America now ignores it, or pretends to, but meanwhile, TV execs are working it into the next episode of Will and Grace. The word, or trend, slips its way onto the WB and the UPN. Stuart Scott starts referencing it. Then it shows up on prime time. The trend is dying now. A fast death. It starts appearing on the news. Old white people are now saying it. It has become accepted, and it becomes a comedic device. Like, a white guy saying "for shizzle" his a riot. Then it's in commercials, and one day, Tom Brokaw says it. Write the obituary, it is officially as uncool as possible. Think about it, all the things that are now mainstream that used to be looked at like "what?" Raising the roof. Anything -izzle. The high five, and now the fist pound. I could go on forever. But look at Snoop Dogg. I wouldn't even think about buying one of his albums now. He went from a respected hip hop artist, to a joke. He is literally trotted out by uppity white shows to say, hey, we are hip, look, we have Snoop. But there is no seriousness to it.
The big deal now is cops giving tickets for not wearing your seat belt. This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Whatever happened to thinning the herd? Since when can we legislate people's decisions to save themselves? It's bad enough we make bike riders wear helmets. It's the same thing as the motorcycle helmet laws. Look, if you are doing 95 down the highway on a Ninja, and you bail, and scrape your skull across a mile of pavement, you deserve it if you didnt wear a helmet. Why are we trying to protect the head that houses a brain so stupid it wouldnt put a helmet over itself? If you are too stupid to protect yourself, oh well. That is on you. And it isnt a safety thing for other people, because going through the window at 75 won't hurt anyone but you. I say it is a joke.
Had a horrible dream last night. I can't even remember it, but I remember one totally blistering part. Right as I am waking up this morning, I am sitting next to my wife in my dream, and she is on the phone. I hear her say, "I love you too." and then I ask who it was. She tells me it was "Joaquin" and I start yelling "Who the f**k is Joaquin!!! Over and over again. Totally odd dream, and totally upsetting. I wish I knew what it meant.....I just hope Im not psychic.
I had the weirdest thought earlier today. I was thinking how although we are all intelligent beings, and we have complex thinking and all that, we are still governed by our primative needs and influences. No matter how evolved we are, we still do what we do to sate our desires to eat, sleep and procreate. So, I was thinking, is it even remotely possible that I chose my wife for primative mating reasons? Is that a weird thought? She is strong, attractive, smart, athletic and caring. She is a perfect mate and a perfect mother candidate. Could there be a subconscious desire to hold on to what I consider a great person for having a family with? It is such a weird, clinical thought, but the more I think about it, the more merit it has. Totally weird.....
Memo to sports announcers: If you have nothing to say, just shut up. Stop filling air time with idiotic comments. Sunday, the Braves' announcer told us, and I quote, "This game is brought to you en espanol. That means, 'In Spanish'." No! Really??? Thank god he slipped that valuable information in there. Listen to these doughheads some time, and you will notice the same pattern all of the time. "He has made 8 of 10 shots........which means, he has missed 2." Damnit, I almost had it! I have my abacus here, just let me do the math...don't help!
We have a great system going in the US right now for what is hot, and what isn't. Trends and fads start in the black and hispanic communities. They go on until they catch on throughout those communities. Then the high school kids get a hold of it, and it spreads across white America, as kids attempt to disassociate themselves from their suburban lifestyles. Then MTV gets a hold of it, and runs it into the ground with mind numbing force. At this point, the trend of fad has reached it's apex. It is like the Product Life Cycle, for all you marketing majors. Mainstream America now ignores it, or pretends to, but meanwhile, TV execs are working it into the next episode of Will and Grace. The word, or trend, slips its way onto the WB and the UPN. Stuart Scott starts referencing it. Then it shows up on prime time. The trend is dying now. A fast death. It starts appearing on the news. Old white people are now saying it. It has become accepted, and it becomes a comedic device. Like, a white guy saying "for shizzle" his a riot. Then it's in commercials, and one day, Tom Brokaw says it. Write the obituary, it is officially as uncool as possible. Think about it, all the things that are now mainstream that used to be looked at like "what?" Raising the roof. Anything -izzle. The high five, and now the fist pound. I could go on forever. But look at Snoop Dogg. I wouldn't even think about buying one of his albums now. He went from a respected hip hop artist, to a joke. He is literally trotted out by uppity white shows to say, hey, we are hip, look, we have Snoop. But there is no seriousness to it.
The big deal now is cops giving tickets for not wearing your seat belt. This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Whatever happened to thinning the herd? Since when can we legislate people's decisions to save themselves? It's bad enough we make bike riders wear helmets. It's the same thing as the motorcycle helmet laws. Look, if you are doing 95 down the highway on a Ninja, and you bail, and scrape your skull across a mile of pavement, you deserve it if you didnt wear a helmet. Why are we trying to protect the head that houses a brain so stupid it wouldnt put a helmet over itself? If you are too stupid to protect yourself, oh well. That is on you. And it isnt a safety thing for other people, because going through the window at 75 won't hurt anyone but you. I say it is a joke.
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That weird thing happens to me all the time. It makes me feel like there's a glitch in the Matrix, or that my life is being filmed or something. For example: One time last week my sister and I were looking for somewhere to eat and I mentioned that I'd never been to Wahoo's Fish Taco, but she said she'd just been there, the food was OK, etc. Moments later we decided on a place to go, and when we pulled into our parking space, the car in front of us had a Wahoo's Fish Taco bumper sticker on its back windshield. My sister didn't say anything, but I got a chill. I swear...it makes me think I'm coming down with florid schizophrenia. I mean...I'm getting freaked out by WAHOO'S FISH TACO, worrying it's another part of some vast thought-control conspiracy or something. Christ.
The real issue there is, why are you eating fish tacos in Denver? Very upset with you. Leave the fish tacos to us folks down here in San Diego. By the way, glitch in the Matrix is the perfect way to explain it. Glad to know it isnt just me....but it does eliminate the possibility that I am "the One."
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