Why Wile E. Coyote is so Skinny

I visit an untitled life and here's MJC spouting about Neitzche and genius and god and what-all. It's fun I suppose, to wonder about the big questions sometimes, and you could do a whole lot worse than Neitzche. So I put my $.02 (there used to be a cent key on my typing apparatus!)

I prefer to take a survey approach, like whatshisname.... Joseph Campbell. I like to read, so it works out. I blasted my way through a penguin edition of faust a few weeks back, it was awful but in parts it was inspiring.

Everything I know about deep subjects can be summed up thusly:

If there is a god, he ain't the one you're thinking of.
(and don't count your money while you're sitting at the table)

Zorba knew how to live.

Wile E. Coyote was a super-genius.
(but he never, ever ever got to eat)

Most importantly,
Incarnation rocks.

Would it change your life one bit if you knew your great-gradfather was watching you through every second of your life? How about your mom? I bet we'd all be a lot less kinky, but beyond that, would you do anything differently?

Imagine how f**d up it would be to grow up in a religious setting where you were always told "God is always watching you, what you do in secret, God sees"

Wait a minute! That happened to me and just about everybody I know.

Here is where the real issue lies!

This world, this incarnation, we must at some point make a choice to tell that old schoolmaster of a god to take his life-denying rules and go, this life is to be taken head-on. No hiding in churces, begging forgiveness for only god-knows-what. Get out and live!

Somewhere along the line, somebody screwed up, and the western world at least (and big chunks of the rest) started worshipping the opposite of god.

The flesh is to be embraced, as anybody who's ever been in bed with an enthusiastic woman knows.
(Thank you, Mrs. JC, for continuing my religious instruction)

Exhaustion

Wednesday is my last chance to get some rest. Tomorrow through next monday I will be working on websites as well as doing the work of 2 people at the paper. (really, they fired a guy, and I'm doing both jobs now.) It's amazing what people will do for money. I guess I can't complain, I do like the rush of all the stress and keeping everything up in the air, I love making money too. But I do miss those halcyon days of yesteryear (2004) when I was able to get by on freelance work and luck.

Please don't get me wrong, I don't mean to complain! I actually do enjoy all the work I have to do, it's just nice to get a break now and then, a real break, like 3 weeks in Ireland, not 4 days in Ohio.

To Sleep

I had a girlfriend once, Shira, she could go to sleep in seconds. Seriously, she'd lay down, and less than a minute later, she'd be out. For me, it's a little more complicated. I know all the tricks, how to breathe, visualization, etc. Believe me, I know all about it, sometimes though, it doesn't work. And if you're one of those people who can just sleep whenever you want, well good for you.

Take tonight for example, I have an appointment in about 6 hours, its two in the morning and I can't seem to make the transition into sleep. In the morning, I'll have trouble waking up. Why?

I've never been very good at going to sleep or waking up. The only times I've ever been happy with the sleep I got were when I didn't have to get up at any particular time, and I went to sleep when I felt like it. (ah those were the days)

Now, in my new position as wage-slave, I have to get up every morning at around the same time. I've never liked doing that, and that's probably why I've been such a terrible wage-slave over the years.

I've always had trouble switching states, If I'm awake, I want to stay awake, if I'm asleep, I'd rather stay asleep. At least it seems that way when I'm forced into a schedule.

I once toyed with the idea that sleep was just an addiction, one that was passed down to us from some species long ago who got hooked and passed it down from parent to child like a drug addiction.

So, I tried to quit. I went cold turkey. 4 days later, I had an unusual experience, and I decided that I wasn't ready yet.

Years went by, and I tried a new tactic, I read somewhere how some famous genius only slept a few hours a day by taking short naps here and there. So I tried that. It was ok, except I was tired a lot, and it's hard to explain why you have to stop working in the middle of the day to take a nap when you're a wage-slave. It worked ok when I was working in a management position, since nobody really notices if the boss is asleep.

So, here I am today, wishing I could get some sleep, not because I'm tired, no, that would be too simple, but because I dread being over-tired tomorow afternoon, which at this point I guess is inevitable.

There's an old writer (He's actually dead ) Rabelais, he wrote something called Thelema or something like that, anyway, it was this monastery where everybody did just as he liked, and I remember the thing that stuck in my mind the most- "and each went in to sleep when he was tired and awoke when he felt sated" (paraphrase)

I've always wanted to live there, I've managed to spend a few holidays there, but I always seem to come back to the world of alarm clocks and (to hell with midwesterners) 8 am meetings.

Chuck E. Cheese and Uncle Sam

Ok, I think I have found the internet equivalent of bigfoot here. I have called a couple chuck-e-cheese restaraunts and asked friends of mine with kids who frequent this dive if they remember anything like this coming up but nobody even knows what I'm talking about.

I first got wind of this on truthout. (thanks DP) I was immediately suspicious, an internet search found only very biased (anti-military) sites covering the story. (there was even a protest march!)


So the story is this, the kids watch a chuck-e cheese video that shows happy soldiers and marines being happy in their happy tanks or whatever.


I am not 100% sure that this never happened, but it really doesn't look like it did. Is there anybody out there with a real, first-hand account? Here are some I found on the net- let's just say they're less than perfect news sources...

from -
http://call2action.blogspot.com/2005/09/war-for-latinos.html
(I ain't saying it's a biased source, but ...
Ok I am saying it.)

Recruiters are devising new and often unexpected ways to penetrate daily Latino life. "I went to a birthday celebration at Chuck E. Cheese's," says Sanchez, a 25-year-old single mom from San Marcos, California, just outside San Diego. "We were watching a puppet show when all of a sudden a military song is playing in the background. I thought that was weird but kept watching. A couple of minutes later, all of us were looking at pictures on a TV screen of people in the Army giving food and supplies to kids in Iraq. My friends and I thought that was really weird--and got out."


from truthout
(another very biased source)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090205C.shtml

When the birthday party settled into eating pizza and birthday cake, a second feature began. A series of large screen TVs came to life to show Chuck E. Cheese TV. The program was, at first, MTV-like. Performers in large animal garb sang and danced through an idyllic scene with herons and alligators. A man clad in a blazing yellow shirt and red vest skipped across the screen, singing and snapping his fingers to the lively music. The scene shifted to a person dressed in a dog costume fishing in the lake with 3- and 4-year-old children and then shifted again from pictures of the children to mothers holding small babies. Although it was disjointed and a bit crazed, it was what one might expect at Chuck E Cheese.

Then my jaw dropped: the MTV segment shifted to a promotional piece compiled by the Department of Defense! The promo showed happy, smiling soldiers in Iraq handing out toys and candies to delighted children. This was followed by a series of scenes showing war planes, tanks and more happy soldiers. This production lasted for 5 minutes of the 15-minute CEC TV show. Throughout the segment, the large animated puppets' eyes shifted toward the TV as they nodded in approval and clapped. Then their eyes shifted back to the children, who were spellbound by the movie


from:
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/14303/index2.html
(here's one that sounds legit, but seems like a second-hand account when you read it!)

"Intelligencer: September 12-19, 2005"

Chuck E. Cheese Wants You
Is the military targeting the birthday- party set?
Last week, members of the Park Slope Parents Association were alerted to a new threat: Republicans bearing pizza. The mother of a 3-year-old reported that she was shocked to see “promo films for military recruitment” playing at her local Chuck E. Cheese’s. The 500 franchises of the amusement-park-like pizzeria were screening a two-minute montage of smiling soldiers handing out toys and candy to Iraqi kids (set to “America the Beautiful”). According to Chuck E. Cheese’s VP of marketing Dick Huston, this segment, created from footage donated by the Defense Department, began showing at the chain around July 4. “There was no firing of weapons,” notes Huston. “It was meant to honor our troops and the humanness of what is occurring. It is a nice, innocent piece. It’s pretty warm.” Still, customers complained that this was inappropriate for a child’s birthday party. “I guess people could interpret it as prowar, but we support what our troops are doing over there—helping kids.” So is Chuck Republican? “We don’t know what he is.”
—Shana Liebman

I guess I also have trouble seeing the harm in it, so they show some soldiers and airmen at work. (not at work, work, but you know, filling up gas tanks, etc) so whats the big deal?
When I was a kid I watched MASH, so what?

The thing that is most interesting of course, is I don't think anybody ever really did this! I think it was all a lie.

Maybe its because I just watched "Shattered Glass" (great movie, watch it)