The Pointy Haired Guy

This is how i feel about things...
as soon as i write something down,
i will invariably forget it.

Recent Phenomena...

It's been ages since i've done a Recent Events entry...!!!
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i was listening to NPR the other day, and they had a 'Commenary' on by Daniel Shore--
i haven't trusted him since the Clinton Impeach hearings when he said... Something- i forget what now...
But i think it was mean-spirited towards the Republicans, and so mean-spirited and disingenuous that i decided that he must be senile or somesuch whatnot...!!! ( he is REALLY OLD now...!!! )
So the other day; he was ranting about Free Speech or something like that...??? And the topic of Tiananmen Square came up... ( out of the blue ) ...and he was saying how Google was CENSORING it's content, because when he did a search for Tiananmen Square-- All he got was a polite Tourist Information spread of pictures... And nothing about The Massacre that took place in 1989...!!!
( at first i thought that he 'meant' Yahoo... But they have nice coverage of it too...??? )
[ Apparently -- ( Note from the future ) --He meant that it's been Censored IN CHINA...
But he didn't say that, or even Imply it...???!!! ]
Needless to say; No Such Self Censorship is taking place... He just made that up...!!!
How can i Not Trust NPR anymore...!!!
Plus; They did that to me a few days ago, when they suggested that The October Surprise never took place...!!! ( They never even mentioned it when talking about the Release of the Iranian Hostages...! )
Everyone is THEM...!!!
There is NOWHERE to turn for a trusted view of World Events...
Except maybe; TheStranger.

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i was on the bus the other day, on my way to bed, and this 'kid' sits down beside me and starts pushing this book... Which he hasn't even read yet...!!! ...called; The Celestine Prophecy
And he's going on and on about this, and he so frazzles me that when it's time for me to get up, he won't move out of the way...!!! He's being Really Slow about it...!!!
i just about started screaming...!!!
So he finally get up and moves aside, and i jump up and dash off the bus, and almost immediately realize that i've forgotten my HAT...!!!
How can i live for more than 20 seconds without my HAT...!!!
i am more attached to my hat ( which wasn't even a very good hat...!!! ) than Dipsy...!!!
So i am thinking... Well-- the bus is on a loop up the hill, and will be back down in about 15 minutes, so i'll just cross the street, ( actually; i was already sitting at the correct bus stop when i was thinking this...!!! ) and wait for it to come back down...
But i was so tired, and still frazzled... that i just went to bed, and coughed all night; because i also have this weird cough that doesn't seem to be evolving into a real cold...!!!
So the next day, i had to go without a hat for about 5 hours, before i found a replacement along Waikiki.
It is not a Ball Cap-- as i had been getting... But a Gilligan type hat...
It is Army Green, but with Maui in Gold, and some Hawaiian Pictoglyphics, so it looks kind of spicy,
i like it-- even though it is just a tiny bit too small for me...

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All these weird things are always happening to me, and i think-- i'll remember them...
But i never do while i'm sitting here...!!!
[ i still remember them- But not right now...??? ]

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So a few days ago; i hd this TERRIFIC idea for how to find a place to live...!!!
i will put an ad in various newspapers on the coast ( via the internet...??? ) that will say:
"Middle aged male artist, with Asperger's, needs a sparse, very cheap, living space.
The Translucent Amoebae Consortium"
And that's all it will say; and anyone that thinks that they may be interested in renting out their basement or attic to me, will look up The TAC on the internet, and find out everything important and interesting about me...
And most of all; i won't have to go looking for someplace...!!!

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Book Reviews:
i FINALLY got around to reading Philip Dick's; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
This was the book that spawned the movie; Blade Runner, that i read somewhere, is Harrison Fords least favorite movie...!!!
At first i thought that the movie had followed the book about as carefully as a Harry Potter adventure; but after a few chapters, it strayed farther and farther into more familiar Dickian religious philosophy and oddness... which they left out of the movie.
Like many movies, if you read the book that it was based on, many things that you saw in the movie, suddenly make alot more sense...!!!
Like the Bleakness of Blade Runner... It's never explained in the movie, but this Replicant stuff ( called simply Androids / and Decker is merely a Bounty Hunter in the book ) happened after a devastating war that killed off virtually the entire animal population on Earth...!!! So that people; that desparately need the companionship of animals, resort to having 'Electric' imitations...! These Electric Animals are simple machines, while the Androids/Replicants are Biological Imitations... And the only way you can tell ( be certain ) that a Replicant isn't human... is to seek it's cooperation in taking a Voight-Kampff test which determines if the subject has the same emphatic responses as you would expect from an emotionally healthy human...???
The book also covers another Dick Theme; Mercerism... Which is a Religion, of sorts, where the participants are allows to mentally bond with a mysterious TV character called Mercer, who is forever trying to climb to the top of a hill, but his enemies keep throwing rocks at him...???
When a rock hits Mercer, everyone that is 'Connected' to him is injured too...!!!
Both the movie and book are actually not terribly concerned with 'Retiring' the escaped Replicants...
But the movie, in this regard, doesn't seem to be concerned with anything, except layering us with eye-candy...!
The book is all about having, or wondering if you have; 'Empathy' for your fellow creatures...???
What is it that defines a human-being as being human?
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After that book i checked out another Dick book, called: The Divine Invasion which is pure religious gibberish... Dick is a fine, fine short story writer, and his novels are occasionally brilliant, but when he turns out a pot-boiler, the chickens that should be making up the stock, are nowhere to be tasted...!!!
This book was either taken apart, or put back together, from several short stories, because i kept running across entire chapters that sounded awfully dang familiar...!!!
The story; as such, is sort of about the second comming of christ... Or it may all be a hallucination of the principle protagonist that is frozen solid, awaiting a new spleen...???
It doesn't really make as much sense as you'd like, either way...???

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i checked my mail this morning, and found a home-made Valentines Day Card from my Mother...
It's signed, but there is no note or letter accompanying it...
As i look back at my childhood, and wonder why noone was able to see that i had Asperger's...
Or; that something was seriously wrong with me...???
i only have to reflect that the principle symptom of Asperger's ( which wasn't 'Cataloged' until 2 years after i finished highschool...! ) is a lack of empathy, and incommunicativeness ( See : Replicants ( above ) ) --
And then realize... Everyone in my whole Family is like that...!!!
oh well...

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Maybe i'll add some more here...
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Baby Jesus...!!!

i saw this in a parade along Waikiki...

It's Catholic ( i think ) and the baby is derived from The Polish Version seen in...

[ The Internet is Driving me Completely Crazy...!!! ]

...some church, a very famous church,

the name of which i can't seem to recall at this moment,

but it's very fancy, and filled with all sorts of conspiritorial symbolism

and it alledged to contain an unlimited source of wealth,

and it also has this elaborate baby Jesus that has more costume changes

than a Barbie Doll...!!!

What is the name of that Church...???

i can't seem to find any references to it on the internet...!!!

( ??? )

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BONUS: Something Fun: Apparitions

Seven Eleven

Just about every morning
i go and get a fancy coffee and a cinnamon roll
at The 7-11 in Wahiawa.

This is Joshua.

( Is that a GANG Sign he's doing...!!! ) ( ??? )

He is very smart.

i don't think he's ever said anything to me to make me believe that he's smart...

Except that he just radiates smartness...!!!

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Joshua came by to visit this blog & he wants me to take down his picture...!!!
He wouldn't say, but i think he might be Islamic...!!!

Muslums hate to have their picture taken...

i bet that's it.

This is Margarita.

She usually calls me 'Cinnamon' because i get a Cinnamon Roll
EVERY STINKING DAY...!!! ( almost! )

So i asked what her pet name was,
( i was showing an unusual amount of curiosity that day...!!! )

So she said it is; "Spam-moo-sha-pee"

[ That's a rice cake with a slab of Spam in the middle,
wrapped with a strip of fish skin...???

( it looks like fish skin...??? ) ]

She is usually working with Minda,
But after i took these pictures of Margarita & Joshua,
They told me that i wasn't supposed to take any pictures inside the store...!!!

And Minda wasn't there that day,
So i would have had to come back the next day,

and Take some more pictures,

after they told that it would be deeply immoral...!!!

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This kind of reminds me of the time when i was living in Bremertowne,
And i took some pictures of the kids that lived upstairs,
And i was converting them into Ascii Art pictures...

And i showed Dan & Mel a couple of them,

But i still needed to make a good one of Christina and Victoria...

But Dan called me up

And said that Mel didn't want me to have any pictures of the kids,

Bbecause she was afraid that i might 'doctor' them

And post them on the internet...!!!

So i had to give my word that i would delete them...!!!

This; by the way,

Is the same Mel that later ( or was- at that time )

Screwing ( Sexual Intercourse )
All the young boys in the neighborhood

And had several ( dozen ) Internet lovers...!!!

When they got Divorced...
It was Mel that Divorced Dan,

Because--
'He couldn't deal with her cheating on him,
and she found that intorerable.'

( ??? )

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Eep from 'The Gallery'...!!!

i sent The Gallery in Portland a note a few days ago;
Requesting that a Link be established to my Blog
from their Notification Page on their Web Site...
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:18:46 -0800
From: "paul f"
To: transamoebae@seanet.com
Subject: Hi from Zeitgeist

Hello,

Everybody liked your work at the art show!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations.
What is the best way for me to pay you?

I can’t do a link at this time because I have to really watch what I am linked to.
It has to be 100% kid friendly.
I will set it up though so people will be able to easily find you with a search.

Take care and keep up the good work!

paul

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Additional Commentary:

What is especially annoying about this 'Thing' is that the 'Sketch book' that i sent Marc Calvary was filled with 'experimental' drawings that i'd been fooling around with...
The Experimental part was that i was using a Brush for the Line Ink work...
Which i'd never done before...
Previously; i'd always used Technical Pens or such...
These Drawings were so 'Ill Considered' that i worked both sides of each page...!!!
Plus: i didn't even put 'Boarders' around them...!!!
( i worked right to the edge of each sheet...! )
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So that: For all those years that i was doing 'The Good Stuff'...
i received absolutely no recognition at all, and plenty of derision...!!!
And then; i throw something together that is full of CRAP...!!!
And i finally get some attention.
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Things like this can only be explained in terms of
Mischievious Angels
&/or Weird Karma.
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Ack.

War on Tear Or...

Is that Tear as in Rip or Tear as in Salty Dribble...???
Is that Rip as in Lacerate or Rip as in Resting Peacefully...???

The Twelve Danish Cartoons

The Muslim's have a curious sort of religion,
It's derived from Judeo/Christianity in that Mohammed is thought to be Validated as 'Just another Prophet, as was Jesus & Siddhartha Gautama...'
But Islam differs from Main Stream Protestantism, or Even our so called 'Fundimentalism';
In that most quotidian Muslim's take many of their catechisms seriuosly...!!!

The 10 Commandments reveal in no uncertain terms that it's forbidden to represent [such] [ gods ] by any carved statue or picture of anything in the heaven above, on the earth below, or in the water below the land... But this is perhaps the most universally ignored commandment of them all... Even more so than the incomprehensible ones regarding coveting... Or; Baring False Witness...
Christians love to split hairs when it comes to 'What is Really Wrong with This...?'

( Baring False Witness for example: Only applies to Testimony given in a Court of Law, and then; Only if you've been Sworn In... and then; Only if you agree with how the prosecution uses various pronouns or adverbs... It Certainly Does NOT apply to gossiping about your neighbors-- who are undoubtly going to hell anyways... seeing as how they go to a different church than you do... and they have the audacity to drive a foreign made car...! )

Any Painting or Statue of Jesus, The Virgin Mary or any of The Saints is So Amazingly in Violation of this Precept that it's genuinely AMAZING that No One 'Gets It'...???
[ The Idea being that you're missing the point when you worship 'A Thing', rather than the idealization of The Thing's Conceptual Basis... -- That is probably too subtle for you too, wasn't it...??? ]

Muslim's on the other hand have taken this stuff very seriously...!
Particularly the one about engravened images...
They think it's wrong, ( Presidents of Islamic States excepted ) to make any image of any organic entity...
So perhaps that's what they're argument is against these Danish Cartoons...
Many of which are Staggeringly Bland... and Incomprehensible...???
The Fault lies in that they are depicting Mohammed,
Not that they are depicting him in an untowards manner...???

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Speaking of Politicibbles...

i've been thinking for a-long time that it would be 'cute' to run some 'ads' against an incumbent president that were Ostensibly 'For' him or her...
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The best way...
( in case you didn't already know this )
...To win an argument...
( and this goes hand in hand... ( so to speak ) ...with it's conceptual corollary of:
If you make someone think that they're thinking, Then they will love you--
But if you actually make them think, Then they'll hate you! )
...Is to Argue for a Particular Point: Badly.
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So this series of Ad's would be of Ne'er-do-wells, Delinquents, Ruffians & Middle Easterns to promote the sitting President...!
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Hell's Angels could do a spot saying that they've recently all registared to vote, just so that they could help reelect the president that had done more for their cause that any before him...
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Or -- For W.; You could have an Osama Bin L- Look alike say that he's encouraging all the members of his sleeper cells in America to Vote for George W. Bush ( or the coming Election, his heir apparent ) because he's given them everything that Alq'da had ever dreamt of in terms of destroying our economy, our global prestige and all of Our Constitutional Values that they had sought to bring down...
( Give several examples... )
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just a thought...

My Agent Is Keeping Busy...!!!

Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006
18:46:14 -0800
From: marc calvary
To: Chrs- transamoebae@seanet.com
Subject: A new show

You are having
Another Gallery Show
tomorrow in Portland...!!!

Yeah!

A gallery owner saw your stuff a few days ago and asked my sister about you,
I fed-ex'd some books and the prints I made for the last gallery show to him
and BOOM,
there you go!

Congratulations!

Here's his website:
http://www.calsk8.com/zeitgeist/zeitgeist.htm
He's already got a sample of your work online...

I'm moving to New York in May,
maybe I can get you some shows there too!

- marc calvary
http://www.thecarbonbasedmistake.com
http://www.cherrypepper.com
http://www.artexchangeprogram.com

publish and be damned.

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Suplement:
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Clap clap for us!
They sold 80 dollars worth of prints and books,
and he expects to sell more in the next week.
See?
I told you someone would finally catch on that you're
a freaking genius!