tag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:/blogs/a-blog-of-spontaneous-word?p=2A Blog of Spontaneous Word2021-06-17T11:43:02-12:00Mind Fry Enterprisesfalsetag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580642019-09-10T12:00:00-12:002021-06-17T11:43:02-12:0018 Years Ago<p> When he got out of bed that morning it was a sunny day. The sky was blue and it was warm. It was a lot like that same day 18 years ago. He recalled listening to the radio at the lab that he worked and the voice on the radio cut in to say a plane had just crashed into one of the Twin Towers in New York. His first thought that day was “odd, it’s too nice out for there to be visual difficulties.” He was assuming New York’s weather was like Cleveland's, which it was though he didn’t know that for sure. He stepped out of his lab and mentioned this to 2 of his co-workers. They acknowledged but it didn’t set off any alarms. He weighed a few more filters and then went to the front desk to pour a 2nd cup of coffee. He noticed the receptionist had a TV set up and people were gathered around it. He poured his cup and walked over to see what had everyone’s attention and that was when the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower. This indeed was not an accident.</p>
<p><br> This changed everything. The future was permanently transformed. The country’s psyche was damaged that day. It would remain that way for a long time. 18 years later it was still damaged. People were now living in fear. People no longer trusted so easily. This group and that group would be demonized. The country, which claimed to be the greatest country in the world, became a little less great. It was a sad thing. If it had permanently galvanized the country, as it did in the days after those plane hit on that beautiful late summer day, the greatness may have increased. But what happened over the next 18 years was not galvanization, it was not a permanent coming together but rather a separation of ideas and wills and love. It is to the point where unity seems an unreachable goal. It is to the point where love is reserved only for some and not for others. The same can be said for kindness and patience. The language of the day has become strident, course, vicious, and venomous. Discourse has taken a back seat to shouting and yelling. Listening is seemingly something of the past. Too many can only preach to the converted and too many cannot listen except to what they already believe.</p>
<p><br> We went to war because of this. Then we went to war again because of this, so we were told. That turned out not to be the case but it did not stop the war. We still have men and women in those places where we went to war even today. I suspect on the 20th anniversary they will still be there. What has happened because of that day still effects us as a country, as a people. It has diminished us some. We will not be proclaimed “The Greatest Generation” as my father’s generation was. Indeed, we don’t deserve that. We can rebound but if we are doing it, it’s a long slow rebound. It isn’t happening quickly if it is happening at all. In the long run who won what that day. Did the terrorists? Did our country? Who suffered the most damage?</p>
<p><br> He no longer works at that lab. In fact he no longer works but he remembers that day at work. It was much like this day. Sunny, warm, blue skies.... just a gorgeous day. </p>Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580632019-06-09T12:00:00-12:002019-06-10T05:54:10-12:00IMO
<p>Americans are lazy. They won’t vote, they will let the police do whatever they please without too much objection, even if it is to themselves. They will believe anything they hear especially if it is repeated to them over and over. They have freedom but do they deserve it? The older I get the less I think they are deserving of it. They won’t fight to protect it. Yet they will allow the people in charge to send their sons and daughters off to fight for it under questionable reasoning without thinking twice about it. They will listen to those running the show and eat the shit they are fed. It boggles the mind some of the time and other times I just shrug my shoulders and say... yeah, that seems to be the ‘American Way’ anymore:<br> <br>Let someone else do it... <br>But I would actually have to think to perform that act... <br>What ever is the easiest way... I don’t care. <br>You decide....<br>Voting takes effort and it doesn’t do anything...<br>Both sides are the same why bother...</p>
<p>You see what I mean, it is that type of attitude that drives me bonkers. I don’t know what the solution is. It would take something monumentally bad I suspect to wake people up. After September 11 I hoped that people would wake up sort of, but it seems they were suddenly ready to give away all their freedoms. It almost seems that it was then that they shut down their ability to reason and question their leaders. Security at all cost and yet since then how many shootings have there been and how many people have died at the hands of American terrorists, but they still demonize the brown and the black skins. That right there shows the inability to think and to take in facts and evaluate a situation. You want security? You want it more than freedom. How ‘bout we lock you up in a cell and bring you 3 squares a day for the rest of your pathetic life, no one will get you then. Except perhaps the guard, maybe he will terrorize you. It isn’t possible for complete and utter security. I want freedom. I’d rather die because I was out wandering in the woods and some white guy comes along and kills me and all the animals in the vicinity than to be sitting at home locked in my house. </p>
<p><br> Americans are lazy. They are lazy mentally. They are lazy physically. They are lazy spiritually. They are lazy. Now I will hold that other countries may also be lazy but I don’t observe them like I do Americans. Americans have this chest pounding thing they like to fake but then they deep down live in fear. It is a fear that if they were not so intellectually weak would be assuaged with a little reason and thought but they would have to reason and think.... I think Vegas would give big odds on that happening.</p>
Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580622018-05-21T12:00:00-12:002021-05-20T02:17:01-12:00Dying
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><strong>Everywhere, everyone they all were dying. It pretty much didn’t matter which way he looked he could see that the whole goddamn world was falling apart and while they were telling themselves they were good and wonderful and exemplary he also knew that deep down they knew they were worthless and pointless and death was sitting there just behind their eyes. Those eyes that did their best to deceive you into thinking that the skull around them was something special, was something worth talking to and knowing and perhaps even caring about, but it was a sham. The eyes were there to deceive and most people went ahead and let themselves be deceived because it was easier than admitting that no one and nothing was worth a rats bloody ass. He could see it but he wondered why he could and no one else could. It was all just a death march everywhere for everyone. There was no point, there was no reason. Slowly, they carried on until someone, also waiting to die, stuck them in the ground and acted like it mattered. Nothing mattered and no matter what you did you could not make it matter. Such it was. </strong></em></p>
Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580612018-03-31T12:00:00-12:002021-05-20T02:17:55-12:00April Fools and Happy Easter
<p> APRIL FOOLS and Happy Easter. So what is the significance of these days coming on the same day. Probably there isn’t any significance. But still whether you accept that Christ is the son of God, God or just a guy who had a message you got to admit the whole story is a good one. Tolkien could have written something like that although there would probably be more big wars and stuff. Christ might have been more like Aragorn or perhaps Gandalf. Still a brutal legally justified murder takes place and the victim, went to his death seemingly without protest, despite his innocence and then 3 days later is no longer in his tomb.</p>
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<p><br> And what about his message. I think it is getting more and more lost as time goes on. As the religious claim authority they are like the pharisees of the Bible trying to mess up Christ’s message for their own gain. The Scribes and the Pharisees would follow him around and try to trip him up with questions about the religious doctrine of the Jews and Jesus was always on to them and up to the task. He gave 2 commandments near the end of his life and they are good ones. My favorite is the second one “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”. I wonder if he meant that to apply to immigrants and people from neighboring countries? You wouldn’t think so the way so many people who hold the strings of power talk. You would think compassion was something that Christ fought against. You would think that helping the poor was something Jesus abhorred. You would think that greed was an essential ingredient for the entry to heaven. But that is not the case. It is hard to see how the evangelical right has glommed onto Trump. Christ said in Mark (7:21) “What emerges from within a man, that and nothing else is what makes him impure. Wicked designs come from the deep recesses of the heart: acts of fornication, theft, murder, adulterous conduct, greed, maliciousness, deceit, sensuality, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, an obtuse spirit. All these evils come from within and render a man impure.” So Donald seems to have hit on quite a few of those designs that come from deep within. At least 10. He probably has but I’m not sure if he has blasphemed. I’m not sure what constitutes an obtuse spirit but I wouldn’t be surprised if Trumps spirit is indeed obtuse. A blunt spirit? </p>
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<p><br> So evangelicals and all you other Christian right types what is that makes you think he is so spiffy. What is it about him that makes you think he is a good match for your (alleged) faith in Jesus Christ? Do you think that Jesus, if he’d come today, would have voted Trump? Something tells me he wouldn’t have. Something tells me he would have ended up at the receiving end of many of Trumps barbs and insults and nicknames. Crooked Jesus, or maybe Fishy Christ, or perhaps The Magic Man... who knows. You know he’d attack Christ just as he does anyone who disagrees with him. April Fools???????????????????</p>
Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580602017-12-30T12:00:00-12:002017-12-31T18:33:53-12:00Happy New Year???????? Something I wrote on 1-1-17
<p>So we commence with a new year. May it be a good one. May it be peaceful and productive and filled with love and compassion. May people of good will dominate those who are not like that. May things go well for the individual and the country. May we see beauty and truth and love and peace be the dominant factors that guide our society. These are only things that one can hope for and yet too they are things that one, on the individual level, should strive for. Yes I say ‘should’ which makes me sound like a pompous ass but I believe these are things that are better than some of the values that exists out there on this the first day of the new year. I believe there are forces that are not good that will do harm, quite possibly irreparable, to the land and the people that populate it. I believe that if this does occur it will hurt everyone across the board even those who propagated such behavior even those who encouraged the vile and hateful thoughts and evil actions. We are all in this together and if we rise we all rise and if we fall we will all fall. Of course that is not necessarily the case. All too often in this society some rise at the expense of others. While this goes on it is encouraged to get what you can and fuck the rest of the world, I got mine fuck you. Is this the values that we as a country hold. Of course no one (save myself perhaps) will come right out and say that but the actions of the powerful indicate that this is a good path to take, especially if you are one of the fortunate. If you are not then something seems awry and you want things changed, but as previously stated, it is the powerful who hold the keys and they are not inclined to help those without them. If you are worthy you would have acquired keys on your own but you are lazy and slothful and deserve every bit of pain you have earned. Of course they forget, or perhaps push out of their mind that they started this climb many rungs farther up the ladder so while perhaps they have not climbed as far they are well in the lead. To say everyone has the same opportunity’s is simply myopic. The rules may be the same across the board but the starting point is not consistent and there needs to be something done to even that up. I only have that question... I offer no answer.<br>1-1-17</p>
Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580592017-09-30T12:00:00-12:002017-10-01T05:25:28-12:00Mortality Is A Bitch!
<p>Mortality is a bitch. You live and you love and you have a blast as you do these things and then you have to go. “But I’m not ready to go” you say. Too fucking bad motherfucker... POW. You are gone. Wasn’t your choice. Nothing was ever your choice. You might have thought it was but you could only control so much and what you did was largely dependent upon what was put before you. Sure then you got to choose but who is living the ideal life? Everyone can bitch. When it’s over it’s over. You hope leaving isn’t too difficult. You hope that by the end you aren’t begging to go. You hope you can slip away painless and quietly without a lot of hoopla. You hope you don’t drag anyone else down with you. You hope you don’t become too much of a pain in the ass for anyone else because, if you are lucky, there will be people who love you and those people will do what they can to make your passing as pleasant as they can possibly make it. Even if it is a burden to themselves. They will do what they can because of that dirty 4 letter word “love”. They will do what they can so that you are happy and comfortable as you slowly flow down the drain and into the sewer. Mortality is a bitch. </p>
Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580582017-06-09T12:00:00-12:002021-05-20T02:18:25-12:00TRUMP #1
<p> So Trump is the President and he is doing one smashing job if being in the news is your thing, and I think it is his thing. I don’t think he has any real interest in governing but he likes attention and what more attention can you get than being the President of the United States. He is not a man I would want my children to emulate if I had any. That he is prez makes me especially glad that I do not. He will do things to this country that would make it worse for them. He will assuage the rich while telling the poor bastards that he’s is on their side. He isn’t but they are fools being led by the nose and they haven’t a clue. They will defend him and he will cut the programs that help them while giving more money to the wealthy class. It is indeed a strange time for this country. Comey testified and pretty much said Trump tried to obstruct justice but he did it in a way that he didn’t actually say he obstructed justice so nothing will come of that. He did say that the Russian election hacking was real and dangerous and yet you never hear Trump mention concern that Putin and company are trying to mess with our elections and the peoples confidence in them. Why not? He <span style="background-color:#ffffff">is </span>the President shouldn’t he be incredibly concerned with that. He was only concerned with clearing his name, which I can’t say Comey did he just didn’t condemn his name any further. He did say the Trump was a liar so you got that. For now we have to wait and see. There is still Flynn, and Kushner, and Sessions and Manafort etc. The investigation is just beginning. I’m comfortable with Muellar running it.</p>
<p> So...the country is being led by a maniac. You gotta wonder if he is on any medications to control his erratic behavior. What will he do next with his text? I hope he keeps shooting his feet as he has done. It is all quite amusing to watch. Obama provided no such entertainment. Then again it does not seem like he is really governing. Ryan offered the explanation for Trumps interaction with Comey as ‘inexperience”. He is new to the job and probably didn’t realize that his behavior with the Russian thing and Comey was inappropriate. Not acceptable. The man is 70 years old. He has been around. He knew. At one point he cleared the room of Sessions and Kushner and some others (I think) so he could be alone with Comey. That shows he knew he was being inappropriate. Ryan’s explanation doesn’t hold water. If you accept that then it also says he was not fit to take the office, a grenade he and Trump would throw at Clinton (who really was as qualified as anyone who has run in my lifetime.) Can’t have it both ways although that is a trait Trump seems to have. Alas I will watch with frightened amusement for 4 years (hopefully less and I will say I don’t think he will be re-elected).</p>
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Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580572015-06-29T12:00:00-12:002017-06-09T18:09:26-12:00Cavs 2015
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<p> So its the morning of game 4. Cavs could really use going back to the west coast with a 3-1 lead. Not sure if it will happen. As a Clevelander I have witnessed the disappointment and loss often enough to know that nothing comes easy. While my love a sports has faded considerably over the years there is something very intriguing about this particular moment. To walk around downtown and see all the Cavs reminder's from the kiosks with the individual players on them to the giant posters hanging from various buildings and then all the folks wearing Cavs tees and jerseys and the wine and gold. It's just a game yes but it would bring so much joy to the people of this city, my city, adopted as it is, that you can't help but pull for them. The story line is just too good with LeBron leaving and being hated so intensely and then to turn around and return to this place to bring them a championship and if he can do it this year, it would be a monumental accomplishment. Losing first Varejao, then Love, then Irving and to still be able to pull it off would be one for the ages. Tomorrow morning this city will wake up elated or that dark sinking feeling will start to drift in like a fog. It's a fog that we've felt all too often. A fog that has tormented the sports fans in this town for decades. The Browns, Indians and Cav's have all contributed to the disappointments over the years. If LeBron can do this, and I know he can, well there will be a lot of people who will, if only temporarily, forget their woes and rejoice. Go Cavs! </p>
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<p>It's the morning after Game 4. No 3-1 lead. Got our asses kicked. 21 point loss. Not good. How depressing. Yes we can still win. The series is tied at 2 games each but it doesn't feel good. Our team is running out of steam. They have to win 2 of 3 games which means winning at least one in GS. I don't like our chances. Not without Varejao, or Love or Irving. LeBron can't do it himself and the rest of the team... well they're giving their all but its stacked against us. I had a thought that losing was good because now we can't become the first team in NBA history to lose a 3-1 lead... I know, I know that is awfully pessimistic but the drive, the fumble, the shot, etc.... disappointment is in our DNA here in Cleveland. I don't feel well but I won't give up hope. It really isn't possible not at this stage. It's also really hard to feel optimistic at this point. In the long run its just a game but damn I want to see this town feel the joy of a championship because its not just a game to so many here in this city. I'm not sure why but it is really important for this city and we seemed so close, but we've been close other times. Head up stiff upper lip, keep fighting for it... We shall see.</p>
<p>June 14,2015</p>
<p>It’s the afternoon of game 5. Crucial game. If the Warriors win I think it’s all over. If the Cavs win we hang on to take yet a more painful disappointment. Not sure if I’ll watch. I don’t feel the same sense of optimism I this city that I felt prior to game 4. The loss was a tough one. It wasn’t even close. The Cavs may not have the fire power at this point. A 7 man rotation against the Warriors is hard to do. If only some of the other bench guys oculd pull something off. They’re using Jones but what about Shawn Marion, he was once an all-star. Perhaps there is s little left in him. Mike Miller was a spot up shooter. That could be useful. It would be good too is Smith and Shumpert stepped up more. Smith has described his play as horseshit so he is aware that he’s needed. I am not hopeful but if they win tonight then they could end it in Cleveland. I think the series ends at 6 games either way. If the Warriors win tonight I think the Cavs will deflate and be unable to win in Cleveland. If the Cavs win then perhaps, just perhaps it’s what they need to inspire them to take game 6 and the title. One can hope, without hope there is no disappointment. I want the chance the yet again be disappointed.</p>
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<p>So we lost again. Down 3-2. Yesterday I was thinking that it'd be all over in 6. Today another option comes to mind. The Cav's will win Tuesday but only so they can prolong the agony to the 7th game and then lose. It's the Cleveland way. Of course if they win the city will get their hopes up and when that happens it seems inevitable that we get the big disappointment. It's how it is in this town. Of course the only way for the Cav's to win it all at this point does involve them winning tomorrow night. Not sure we have the fire power to do it. We went small. Mozgov only got 9-10 minutes. They used Miller. Don't see how we can win with Mozgov on the bench. Blatt needs top find a strategy that slows them down and uses Mozgov. Does such a strategy exist? Don't ask me. What seemed so possible just a week ago seems so impossible now. Tomorrow will decided something I'm not quite sure what... I'd like a win even if we lose game 7. Sustain the hope one more day...</p>
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<p>Morning of game 6. I can hope for a victory. I don't feel much confidence and if they aren't going to win game 7 I almost would rather have it end tonight. Competitive Euthanasia or something like that. Still I can't give up so lets take this one and hope for the best. We have won games. So we know we can beat them. I think we have to figure out how to control the tempo like we did in the early games. I see all the Cav's shirts and jerseys and stuff as I walk downtown. I don't sense the same excitement. It almost seems like the people know what is coming but have to hope for the best. I don't sense the hope. That seemed to die after game 4. Perhaps I am wrong. Still anything can happen and there is ALWAYS a chance... Go Cavs! </p>
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<p>June 17, 2015</p>
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<p>It’s over. Probably just as well that it happened in 6. A 7<sup>th</sup> game loss would have hurt even more. LeBron took a crippled team as far as one could I think. Imagine if the Warriors were playing the same Cav’s team without Curry and Thompson then throw in Igudala to boot. We would have massacred them. Still that wasn’t the scenario. It was a Cleveland scenario that is all too familiar. Close but no cigar. Bad luck in the end ruined it for the Cavs. A mugging in Boston and then Irving’s knee. The what ifs and next year are inevitable but it means no title for this weary town yet once again. It’s just a game I’ve said several times but there is something beyond that or it wouldn't hurt so bad. LeBron laments that maybe it’s better to not make the playoffs than lose in the final… he concludes otherwise. Which is what the fan base here in Cleveland also concludes. That’s the way this city is and will always be.</p>
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Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580562015-03-25T12:00:00-12:002015-03-26T04:33:41-12:00Response to an Facebook post by a 'working musician'.
<p>Well sir it seems you have chosen to try and make a living performing music. That’s great. However if you make this choice and it does not work out don’t blame anyone but yourself. There are a lot of fine musicians who simply don’t want to live that life and manage to both support themselves <strong><em>and</em> </strong>keep creating music. Yes it means a day job perhaps, but if you decide to go that route complaining about the day job would be the same as you complaining that your life as a working musician isn’t working out… you have options. You want to blame those who are trying to be supportive (via say FB) even though they may not be able to make your shows. You chose to try and make your living via music. If it isn’t working look inside for the fault/reason don’t look outward. No one is required to come to your shows. You have to make them something people do not want to miss! It’s not rocket science! Life is cruel. It does not cater to people. You rule your own life. You make the decisions. If there is anyone to blame for your lot it is you. </p>
Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580552014-09-10T12:00:00-12:002021-05-20T02:18:55-12:00SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
<p>Another September 11<sup>th</sup>. I’m getting the idea that people are starting to forget it. It isn’t so fresh or raw these days and yet with all the crap going on in the Middle East how can they forget. I would say that a lot of the bullshit in the Middle East is an offshoot of September 11, and the irresponsible actions of the Bush/Cheney regime. Would ISIS be able to do what it’s doing if we hadn’t attacked Iraq for no good reason.. It wasn't so chaotic before then. Yes Saddam was cruel but is the present state any better? Bush/Cheney they knew best????</p>
<p>God damn them. They have torn the world apart and now they act like they still know what is good for it. They fucked things up and they think they know best. It’s not just the Middle East they fucked up they also fucked up our economy with their deregulation and their wars that they stuck on a Bank of America card. Now there are so many who are struggling in this country, there is so much misery and despair in this country and the world while the powers that be can only try to secure their positions with their money influence. They want to restrict voting because at this point in America there are an awful lot of people who have been fucked over by the greed of those who have more than they could ever possibly use. It is disgusting and so much of it goes back to September 11, 2001. You almost think that a guy like Cheney actually was glad about what happened that day. But that would be a weird conspiracy and that never happen, not in America. Nope not in America...</p>
Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580542014-01-03T12:00:00-12:002020-01-03T03:08:56-12:00“I wish to create and record and perform as much music as possible and then die.”
<p> Age is inevitable. With the coming of it one’s perspective on life will change adapt and evolve, one would hope anyway (yeww that word-hope). As I age I find that music, while always important, is becoming more and more so. Not just music either but the whole creative process whether it manifests itself with ink, paint or sound. Music is indeed what I have put the most time into and thus one would think what I am best at. The older I get the more I see the end. At least, while not actually seeing it, I am much more aware that the end is a hell of a lot closer than it was 30 years ago. While I do not and never have known the exact date the end will come whenever it is I am closer to it now than I was five minutes ago and closer than I was 30 years ago. </p>
<p> So what do you do? Give up to despair and anxiety. Worry that you won’t get all your life’s goals accomplished. Hell no. You set your nose to the grind stone and try and accomplish as much of whatever it is you feel is important and screw the fact that every little thing that you ever thought you might want to accomplish will not get done. At this point I have a decent idea what is important to me and what I should focus more singularly on. For me it is music. It is the one thing I have had, even prior to taking up an instrument, that could reach the depths of my soul (no big feat given how shallow I can be I suppose…). It is what I most hope to accomplish. At this point there are so many things that at one time or another would distract me from this focus. Those things are still there, some are even a threat, but one has to recognize this and pursue what it is you most hope to accomplish and fend off those influences that would keep you away from your goal. With me there is music and writing and even painting (albeit on a very primitive level… slightly lower than painting a bedroom wall…). I have put out recordings and I have had published and published my own written works. Stay focused and move forward and do not let the distractions win out for there are many of them. I will write as much as I can both verbal and musical and I will do my very best to get them into a form that someone at some point in time can then consume them and think they are either horrible, average or great. Music will, no doubt, be the major thing for me. If I had to sum up the rest of my life in a few words I would say “I wish to create and record and perform as much music as possible and then die.” By this I don’t mean to say I am going to create X amount of works and kill myself but rather that I will keep creating what I can until the moment that death overtakes me. It is all I can do.</p>
Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580532013-08-10T12:00:00-12:002015-06-11T17:25:53-12:00On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone
<p> Concerning the Rolling Stone article on the Boston marathon bomber (tsarnayav???). I don’t understand the uproar over them doing an article on him. They aren’t (and I haven’t read the article so here I could be wrong) glorifying him but rather analyzing him. This doesn’t seem at odds with journalistic curiosity. I suppose it might be nice if the press focused more on the victims but in America the victims are just a group to be referred to it is always the killer/assailant that is the focus. For this we can blame the press or we can blame the population that finds that as the more interesting angle. There were a lot of victims and the press simply isn’t going to go over each and every one of them. If they took that approach how could they have dealt with September 11, 2001? By the time they finished the thousands of articles about the victims the public would have lost interest. I don’t see it as odd or offensive or anything else that they did an article on Tsarnayv. I do find it odd that so many people who I consider sound rational human beings object to it. I get the impression they base their reaction solely on the photo on the cover. I get the impression that most of them have NOT read the article. The picture on the Rolling Stone cover I have read also appeared on the New York Times front page. Still no objection then. Why not? If it’s wrong now shouldn’t it have been wrong then??? The irrationality of humans always behooves me. I have been sent from another planet to observe mankind. It is not my charge to interfere, yet this totally befuddles me. Are humans truly this irrational??????????</p>
Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580522012-05-21T12:00:00-12:002021-05-20T02:19:28-12:00Is Suicide Painless?
<p> I'd driven down into Valley View to get a sub from an Italian Sub joint there. The meat is normal but their bread/rolls are excellent. I had called it in and stopped to pick it up. I normally drive over to a parking lot beneath the huge I-480 bridge where I can park in the shade if needed. Today as I approached on West Canal heading south I saw police lights right by the parking lot I planned on having my mid-day repast. As I got closer I noticed there were 2 Valley View Police cruisers, another car with red flashing lights in its grill and on the door it indicated it was the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner and another cruiser driven by one of the rangers from the Cuyahoga National Park. I looked to my right about 20-30 yards into the fieled and there was also a white van. Just as I looked I saw two people lifting a white sheet over something that was below the level of the weeds and wildflowers and grasses growing there. This didn't look good. The bridge, the cops, the medical examner, them covering something up with a white sheet, not good at all... suicide. </p>
<p> Someone had jumped from the bridge was the only thing I could think. A few years after purchasing what is now the Mind Fry complex I saw a similar scene in the house next door. White van out front. Cruisers. This time I saw the gurney with the white sheet over it. An old man had lived there so I thought he had probably died and they were taking him away. It turned out that the kid who lived there had killed himself about 5 days earlier and they just now were taking him away. Well this scene had a similar feel as that one. I perused the news today and yesterday for something about it and so far nothing, but after talking to a friend who knows someone who knows some rangers it turns out the man was driving on the bridge and just pulled over to the side of the road got out and climbed the fence and away he went. Sad. </p>
<p> I have to wonder what makes someone do that. A complete lack of hope that things can ever get 'good enough'. A despair and despondency that just overwhelms one. So long as one is alive there is always the chance that things will get better, good even. Death is inevitable why not wait. All I can think is that the suicidal feel this life is just so horrible anything that comes after, even if it is nothing, has to be better. I can't subscribe to that but I think I can understand the logic. I also have to wonder in a case like this what was going thorugh his mind after he lept. I'm not sure how far down it is but he had some time before the inevitable. Was he thinking "Free, I am finally free of this god forsaken life." or was he thinking "Shit what have I just done....". </p>
Mind Fry Enterprisestag:mindfryenterprises.com,2005:Post/60580512012-05-16T12:00:00-12:002021-05-20T02:19:54-12:00The Maiden Voyage
<p>Well it has finally come to this. I am a blogger. For the most part I prefer to write stories and song lyrics but everyknow and then I will spit something out on this page. I will not review this stuff or perfect it and at anytime I can change my mind about anything I may wrtie in this space. I will probably spell check it though. I think a blog is to be tended to with some regularity. This will be the deciding factor as to whether or not I will continue to do this. If my out put is lame then i shall discontinue it for lack of interest (my own). On the other hand I may well wish to take advantage of this teensy weensy soapbox that I have at my disposal. I used to have an old Royal typewriter and I just left it in my kitchen when I lived on Murray Hill in Little Italy years back. There was always a box of scrap paper next to it and at anytime I could sit and load the paper and type away. That is what this blog will be. Some may be serious some may be humoruous some no doubt will be down right bizarre... this is the Mind Fry web site after all. There may even be guest bloggers. Perhpas Babakar or PV will wish to whip off something verbal to the world. Perhaps even the lovely Ms. Dannon. Ya just never know. Anyway welcome to the Mind Fry blog.</p>
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