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93092- 1
There is a kind of elegance to the obvious …once you face up to it.
93092- 2
The Wrapping and Ribbons: Those who don’t know what they’re talking about, grope for words.
The Gift Inside: It seems like everybody’s groping for words.
93092- 3
A History & Cry OF The, “Battle Cry”:
“I’m alive!”, he shouted, “Therefore I am!”; “‘Am’ WHAT?” someone asked;
“That too!” he replied.
A mind that can stop — can get off, and minds don’t want to get off.
93092- 4
Civilization: A business with no product.
Why do you think that governments are its highest achievement!?
93092-5
“L” For, “Lo” — “L” For, “Lies” — “L” For, “Lo And Behold”:
Whenever he knew for sure that he wasn’t going home,
This one man would always ring ’em up and say: “I’m on the way home.”
…(Blessed “A” For, “Assurance” — [And Other Things].)
93092-6
A man in the city said to a friend:
“I’ve decided I want to be a, ‘public commentator’ — what’ll it take?”
And his bud replied: “You just gotta make things sound worse than they are.” And the man asked: “How’s that possible?”
93092- 7
Cripples need cliches,
The uncertain — fashionable speech.
93092 – 8
One man told his mind: “Wake up and smell the coffee.”,
And it replied: “I don’t like coffee!”
And the man thought: “OR much of anything ELSE, as far as I can tell.”
A viewer says: “I have trouble distinguishing between my brain, and my mind.” And his mind said: “I don’t!”
93092- 9
To the come-hither calls of just past events, one man brushed them away and said: “If I was interested in nostalgia I’d go for the real thing — I’d DIE!”
93092 -10
Hormones have no honor.
Upon hearing this, a man looked around and said: “That alone, explains a lot.”
93092-11
Another Excellent Example Of How Civilization Breeds, Builds & Grows:
There are people who are not so much “famous” themself as they are “kind-of famous” for being the person who cuts the hair OF someone truly famous, or fixes their toilets.
** More and more from less and less
Less & less from more and more,
And all combinations thereof.**
93092 -12
One man writes other people’s names on slips of paper, then drops them on the street.
..(He says it’s none of your damn business, why he does it.)
93092 -13
To think independently requires that you relentlessly — keep up the pressure! -And, old dear — it is you who must PROVIDE the pressure.
One man inquired of local life:
“Could I maybe, like just — have a choice? —
Like maybe I could either just: ‘Accept justice.’ -Or maybe: Swallow a live rat or something?’
93092-14
Proposition: Don’t talk about those not present. Translation: Don’t talk about people’s minds.
93092-15
One city observer notes:
“One advantage I guess of modern times is that now a man can become an electronic hermit.”
93092 -16
Habits — even, “bad” ones, by collective standards -Aren’t meant to be “abruptly broken,”
But rather — “strung-g-g out” —
Even in the processes of apparently stopping them.
(Not unlike – [I might add] — civilization itself.)
93092 -17
Hormones have no honor.
Upon hearing this, the man looked around — particularly at his own personal life, and said: “In this area that explains MORE than, ‘a lot’!”
93092-18
A certain publisher,
Who was this year’s featured speaker at the Ecologists’ Annual Award Dinner, presented as his speech, this one sentence.
“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen: Doom-sayers are the only creatures lower on the evolutionary ladder than writers, and party-goers.”
By a show of hands, it’s already been decided not to invite him back next year.
93092-19
As local conditions passed back through that certain city, on its way home,
It again took a quick reading on the general health of the people by shouting out to them: “Applaud — if you love to whine!”
93092 -20
As regards the, “Music of Speech,” a viewer writes:
“I may BE no Sonny Rollins, but I’m dumber than YOU are!”
93092-21
The herd doesn’t mind individual cows questioning, or complaining about
The answers the herd provides — just as long as they keep turning to the herd
for answers.
93092-22
…(Psst! — I just gotta ask: You DO KNOW that the herd is actually a “thing’; don’t you!?
93092-23
Boom, Boom, Gloom:
The serious are destined to be critics!
93092 -24
Boom, Boom, Follow-up:
A critic is a happy critic. Got cha!
93092-25
Fact: A man with a “strong opinion” has a knife at somebody’s throat. Conclusion: Better his — than yours.
Even, “intellectually” — suicide should be a, “one-man sport”.
93092-26
Tips For Bedazzling Boudoir Maneuvers:
Contraire to conventional wisdom-&-truisms —
A real thinker will ONLY lie in an intellectual bed that he has made.
93092-27
Combination Feature for Gamblers & Warlords: Cut your past and you’ve “cut your losses.”
93092 -28
One, non-standard, civil financial ponderer
In his latest, non-printed brochure describes, “Success in City Enterprises” as having the “turd monopoly for the entire ocean floor”.
93092 -29
Music is a “mystery” only to the tone deaf.
93092-30
A viewer contacts us to say:
“I AM pondering & thinking-about what you might be a’meanin’ by that twice-time used term — ‘The Heedless Horseman’.
Yes — just a’ponderin’ — and a’thinkin’.”
He prods me to now wonder
Who will be first to reflect on the implications of — “Taking merry go rounds to dazzling new heights! -If not into — totally new dimensions”!?
93092 -31
…And all of this hullabaloo
Seemed to cause one man to say to his sister:
“What need has a man with a burglar alarm for White-Out!?”
M.C.T.N.– (Might Care To Note), that:
Everything can be “corrected,” save death.
Should this make you re-think the notion that death is somehow a “mistake”?!?
…In this regard, the sister says, she ain’t talking!
93092 -32
As the child headed off for the first time to the city the father told him this: “Over there, it doesn’t matter much,
What you try to do,
But if you don’t try anything,
It matters then to you.”
93092 -33
Convo:
“Hey — why talk about the inevitable?”
“You mean other than because you’re ordinary?” “Right-t-t!”
93092-34
“Range News”– A’Movin’ This Way:
One kid told a calf buddy:
“The more complex things get around here, the more perverse it seems to the old folks.”
93092-35
Habit is to the middle class as drugs are to bohemians.
93092-36
In Re the Matter Of “Local Fate”:
Trying to help a man who IS going to drown can only make him go down faster.
Convo –(as in — “Convo-sation”) — Revisited:
“Hey — why talk about the inevitable?”
“To keep from noticing how obvious it is?”
“Right-t-t, dude!”
93092-38
Dance is a “mystery” only to those with no rhythm.
Supportive Hint Number Six for The Civilized, Yet, “Still-Troubled”:
If you don’t act as though your individual life is somehow more important than you feel it to truly be,
There’s a distinct likelihood that it will not even be of what little significance it actually is.
93092-40
“Okay”, says a viewer,
“I tried thinking about things I’d never thought about before — and I didn’t like it! Plus — I couldn’t DO it!”
93092-41
One attraction of politics is that it is the only field a fool can enter, and immediately be taken seriously.
…and also: When a man gets power, he no longer worries as much about his intelligence.
93092-42
The simple are easily challenged.
83092-43
Definitions Desk time:
Rituals: Habits, “fancy-named”.
The question then becomes: What does a sheep in wolf’s clothes eat when only real food is available?
93092-44
An old artist is no longer an artist.
93092-45
In one sense,
A thinker is the only, truly, “self-employed”
In that he is the only one who will pay him to think,
And the only one from whom he will accept payment TO think.
93092-46
Our Hymn For The Day
The crude and everyone else,
Lets- hormones get ’em down;
But none but the dumb, otherwise.
93092-47
A Follow-Up To Another Recent Story:
Many who live in the city, live in mines — that is: Underground.
93092 -48
One inanimate object said to another one: “Man! — can you believe the nerve of people!?”
93092-49
After complaining & whining,
If someone tells you: “Welcome to the club.”
Be aware that you’ve been greeted by the world’s LARGEST social organization.
93092-50
During a particularly friendly and frisky interlude,
Local physical conditions said to the mortal involved:
“Did you ever really consider how deeply intellectual awareness works on man in spite of the fact that it hardly actually exists!? —
Such as in the fact that without a consciousness of death there IS no death!?”
93092-51
Internal Fairy Tale Miscellanea for Inner City Dwellers:
An “Eater’s Ending”: “And they lived metabularly ever after.”
93092-52
Every real thinker is an artist of some kind.
93092-53
How Generations, Come-And-Go, And Some Times Faster Than Others:
The more civilized the herd, the less regard calves have for their genetic elders.
93092-54
One man had this hand-written note he took with and would show whenever he visited a branch bank of the Federal Reserve System, or the Philosophy Department of any major university, and it said: “Show me your muffins.”
One of them was less amused than the other.
Institutions’ sense-of-humor falls somewhere on an intensity scale between a dentist’s and a tax auditor’s —
A lack of the, “funnies” is partly what institutions are about, however.
93092-55
Now for our feature of: “News That EVERYONE Likes to Hear About”;
Most really great thinkers are unappreciated, less than extraordinarily well-off financially, not particularly well-known, and not especially good-looking, or sexy.
…(See! — I told you you’d like it!)
93092-56
A certain city man,
(Passing himself off as a “father”),
Said to this one kid:
“There are two ways to handle people who are critical of you:
One is to — compliment them on their clothes;
The other is to cut them. It’s your call -It’s your choice.
That’s how things ARE – ‘in town’.”
93092-57
Diagnosis: All opinions are a form of attempted — “self-hypnosis”. Patient’s Question: “Did you say, ‘attempted’?”
93092-58
Our Head Writer here at the News Show asks us to read this statement to try and make a certain matter, “clear”, (or at least, clear-ER):
“Although we present many reports and stories telling how there IS no, “Great Conspiracy” — there of course — IS. Thank you.”
93092-59
Song From The City:
I may be cripple, I may be lame;
In my pocket,
In my brain.
So! — I’m stupid,
And I ain’t rich;
I don’t care — long as I can bitch!
93092 -60
Finality, Revisited:
Remember this — No trip to the city is ever complete…
93092-61
At times as he’d watch his mind begin to wander off, this one man would ask himself: “Why go out to fun if you’re already pissed? ii
Battle News — From “Certain” Views:
Neurons grant no amnesty, and hormones can’t.
93092 -63
The, “Two Kinds Of People” Observer, observes for us the following:
“There are two kinds of people in the world:
Those who — when reading a sentence whose last word is to be emphasized -Will lower their voice,
And those who will raise theirs.”
93092-64
Under a tree,
Under the shade,
And under his breath, So sang one man:
I’m the –Idiot son of an idiot son; No need to guess my lineage.
93092 -65
Fact: The muddier the thought and talk, the more efficient it is for city affairs.
93092-66
“Hey — come on”, said a Cheshire to a parakeet,
“What’s all this talk about cats-and-birds about, any way!?”
93092-67
Meanwhile —
Sometime after the reading of one earlier news story a viewer faxes in this message: “Sirs: Regarding the item you presented that said:
‘Every real thinker is an artist of some kind.’ —
I want to ask you: Do you say that just to make me feel good?”
Dear Viewer: Did it?
“Yes, it did.”
See! — it worked!
93092 -68
Art is a “mystery” only to men with no talent -Thinking — to cows in a collective.
93092-69
Complimenting hormones won’t help!
Plus
A short fact,
Is a happy fact;
Unless it applies to you!
93092 -70
We are indebted to a correspondent for the following idea:
“Being civilized is about like trying to become a hero on purpose — it hardly ever works.”
93092-71
One thinker had a rather simple and direct attitude towards all habits: “Go to hell!”
93092-71-(B)
Used technology is ugly technology.
The central intellectual by-product of everyday life, (by way of man), is — excuses.
93092 –73
One guy’s latest attitude:
“Hey! — if I knew what I was talking about I probably wouldn’t be agreeing with you.”
93092-74
On this one world it was proposed that only the innocent be allowed to serve on juries, thus did all juries come to be composed of the living.
93092-75
Any time he had to seek medical treatment
This one man always used a fictitious name — so, (he said), That if he died, the authorities couldn’t notify anyone.
93092-76
One young Prince asked his old man, (aka, The King): “Say, Pops —
Which is worse —
To ask someone to, ‘pay you for counseling’, or to Stick your dick in their pocket?”
93092 -76 (B)
Alert! Number One Hundred & Four, (or so):
There is no such creature as, “useful advice” passed between people -…The exception being, (perhaps), among real thinkers —
…But then it’s no longer called, “advice” — now is it!?
93092 -77
Neurons see hormones dying and think: “My god! — who can I turn to now!?”
(This is the overall basis for much of man’s institutional life — You can identify the specifics.)
93092 -78
It appears that we have time now for one more definition of our old bud: The Neural City: Where the imaginary pursues the illusory.
Well, say, Jerrel, that reminds me of a related one:
Civilization: The magical transformation of:
Verbs into nouns,
Services into goods,
Actions into objects — and
The intangible made to seem totally otherwise.
Hey — well done, Pat! — relevant indeed! —
And I guess we have time to take just one more shot at the first one again:
The Neural City of Man: The place where everybody’s — SOME kinda guy.
93092-79
Every generation, the collective devours itself;
In contrast — an individual thinker consumes his own mind.
93092-80
The Rhyme and Warning of The Ancient Thinker:
Stick out your teeth,
Suck in your gums;
I’ve got a thought, and — H-e-r-e i-t c-o-m-e-s!
“So!”, said the raven to the albatross, “You ain’t talkin’ either!?”
93092 -81
Those unpredictable intellectual activities, unique to each individual thinker are more a matter of relentlessness than discipline.
93092 -82
The unsettling news is that: Without originality — nothing is possible, And the good news is that — WITH it — everything is.
93092-83
Don’t drive on no ugly bridge.
Tonight’s the night for the annual re-reading of what is perhaps our most popular story:
Your genetics is my environment — and mine, yours.
Only the ordinary believe that they can change —
A thinker doesn’t deal in beliefs.
Face It: A real thinker ain’t much of ANY, “kinda-of-a-guy”!
Son Of “Face It”:
* Don’t drive on no UGLY bridge! *