UNTITLED....

“When you see a wounded dog on the side of the road and try to help it, it may try to bite or scratch you. This is because the dog is afraid, confused, and INJURED. Because the animal is injured, even though you are trying to help it, the very act of your lifting it and trying to move it, may be hurting the animal. And in its confused state, its instinct is a defensive one."

Medicine Woman: Homer Simpson. do you know why you are here? 

Homer Simpson: because my family cares more about other people then they do about me. 

Medicine Woman: drink this liquid. 

Homer Simpson: AHHHhHHHHHHHH more please. 

Medicine Woman: now we will cleanse you spirit my the ancient Inuit art of throat singing. 

Homer Simpson: throat singing? 

Medicine Woman: AAAA OOO OOO OOO AAAA 

Homer Simpson: hoooo ahhh hoo ah hoo ah 

Homer Simpson: how long we doing this? 

Medicine Woman: until you. have an epiphany. 

Homer Simpson: ok? 

Medicine Woman: OOOOOOOHHHH OOOHHH OOHHH 

Homer Simpson: whats an epiphany? 

Medicine Woman: sudden realizing, of great truth. 

Homer Simpson: ok.

- The Simpsons Movie.


THE DOG part was pilfered from a friend's note. Just thought of sharing because it slapped the bejesus-of-the-latter-day-saints-out-of-me. I hope it will for YOU.


THAT. IS. ALL. Good night!

Tsunami - Salami

Tsunami

FACTS:

* Tsunami: Japanese word which literally means 'harbor wave' Japan has had 195 occurrences - they HAD to make a name for it.

* When something from the top shakes - things at the bottom gets affected.

* 8.8 Earthquake struck Japan triggering a Tsunami Alert.

* Philippines - Hawaii - Australia - New Zealand - Taiwan - Indonesia were alarmed of the Tsunami late last night.

* The alert level(s) were lifted this early morning.

On a very personal note - it's not a surprise for us here in The Philippines. We get alarms like that all the time. 

Some even WAIT for the huge wall of water at the beaches - while having a picnic, mind you.

We've had worse though - landslide/mudslide - yes, February 2006 - the one where the province was featured on CNN - FOX NEWS - BBC. (Lotsa army men that time - from the States!)

Personally - December 2008; I was reading while lying on my couch in my living room - because of a very strong wind which uprooted a tree - a HUGE BOULDER from the hill at the back of my house rolled and destroyed one the wall which leads to the living - where I was reading (Desperation by Stephen King) 

I almost became pancake. The huge boulder - since it's HUGE - couldn't be moved. A lot of neighbors tried to roll it OUT of the living room - but the neighbors only got to move it a little. 

As of present - it still IS outside my house

Sadly, because of (either) word-of-mouth (which spreads like wild forest fire) and/or (sometimes) the media (exaggerating things) = people get MORE alarmed and takes it very seriously.

How seriously? Going up to the mountains with their cattle - livestock - pig AND poultry seriously.




I live in small town which is in a province surrounded by the ocean - THE PACIFIC ocean. Regardless if this place is called a CITY now; it STILL is a town. It doesn't have a bookstore and/or a club or pub or bar even (unless of course it's a Friday) - and sadly, people here don't get to know much about what's going on with the world and/or HOW to deal with things like, yes, a Tsunami. We don't have emergency like 911. NO! But we get by.

Sometimes. At least.

The day-job has a lot of perks, regardless if it pays squat - working in a radio station - aside from of course getting all-access in every concert and/or gatherings; I get to hear a lot of complaints and yes, what happens to one part of the province and whatnots - like people going up the mountains.

As of the moment - the sun is shinning and yes, people are getting back to their usual activities, like fishing for example. And me - writing - happy that I didn't become flotsam and jetsam!

Salami

If this town had a Twitter account - the TOP trends would be:

- Tsunami

- Reproductive Health Bill

FACTS:

* The Reproductive Health Bill, popularly known as the RH Bill, is a Philippine bill aiming to guarantee universal access to methods and information on birth control and maternal care. 

* Filipino taxpayer and the private sector will fund and undertake widespread distribution of family planning devices such as birth control pills (BCPs) and IUDs - as a way of controlling the population of the Philippines.

*The bill is highly controversial, with experts, academics, religious institutions, and major political figures both supporting and opposing it, often criticizing the government and each other in the process. The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines threatened to excommunicate the President, Benigno Aquino III if he supported the bill.

THIS country - before it became one officially; Magellan came - did the first holy mass and brought Christianity to the land.

Separation between Church and State? BAH! We have that here - yes, BUT we kind of don't have that here. Unfortunately whatever the big holy men says - the big men in the high offices do so.

Right now, out on the field - there's a rally AGAINST the Reproductive Health Bill, and guess who's leading it? The BISHOP of the city/town himself.

In all honesty, This town OR even country - does NOT have sex education: NON WHATSOEVER.

The talk about sex - same sex relationships - someone sleeping around - someone kissing someone - someone holding hands even - is TABOO! I didn't even know what SEX is and what IT IS for til' sophomore year of high school. Swear!

Just like Hester Prynne = once you do things like the above-mentioned. You will be MARKED with the SCARLET LETTER!

The radio station in which I work is owned by The Bishop of this town - I am with him as his P.A. (It doesn't pay much - BUT, it at least pays taxes - I call it a HOBBY! I have the article writing which pays IN DOLLARS - thank you - for the OTHER stuff. And YES, I get to know the dirty stuff that goes in and out of the church.) 

And we're doing a live-coverage about the rally AGAINST the Reproductive Health Bill.

Right now - on air - some guy is babbling on how EVIL contraceptives are. And how it'll KILL YOU. And how contraceptives are like NAILS inside of you.

Sure - we ALLLLLLLLL love to do IT bareback. Given, of course that person we're with is:

- the love of our life

- super hot - sizzling even

- hung like a bear

BUT it's NEVER wrong to be safe, right? 

And what about IF you know someone who (sadly) is SICK (damn it) with the bad stuff one gets from sex?

WHAT if you know someone - or has a cousin even - who, at a very young age (full of life and has a LOT of ambitions) got pregnant?

In ALL my twenty-five years in THIS town or HELL country even - I haven't heard of anything made/suggested by the government - regardless if they're raging ass-hats at times - that hasn't been stomped by the church.

So - dear bishop and BOSS - I'm sorry. I know you probably haven't had your dick wet ever or if not - you nom-nomed one and you loved it. 

I would like to support the Reproductive Health Bill; because I know I can and I have every right to and that YOUR TIME of ruling this country or ANY country being ruled by the church - is long time DEAD and GONE.

To at LEAST put a stopper in diseases - broken hearts - shattered dreams and the daily rising toll of abandoned loved ones.

Deus Ex Machina AND a Zit...

Deus ex machina /DAY-əs eks MAH-kee-nə/ (Latin) "god out of the machine", literary device which means = a seemingly inextricable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new character, ability, or object.


For the life of me, I am - and always have been - a FIRM believer in choices - free will and all that jazz that I've learned from (dare I say it) SUNDAY SCHOOL!


Where, I've learned that, us humans are different because - aside from the ability to read - write and speak - HAVE free will and can choose whatever we want. 


Regardless of what country/situation we're in; may it seem hopeless or the country that you're in is under Martial Law (just like The Philippines from 1972 to 1981) there's ALWAYS a choice.


But then again, there are just times, as rare as they are; where you can believe and/or think that both choices AND fate (God - Deus Ex - Lucifer - Allah - Odin - Zeus - Ra - Shiva - Anansi-DESTINY) go hand-in-hand OR one would come in if the other is on (ahhhh) break.


Take last Sunday for example.


I was in a bus bound for the grand-folks house (because it was MORAL/SOCIAL OBLIGATION DAY) and I was worried about a ZIT perched on my NOSE like a heron on the back of a bull. 


As shameful as this sounds - while everyone was worried about the SPEED and/or the driver, I was worried about a ZIT!


And then - when the bus stopped to pick-up passengers - a girl, my age, came in and sat beside me.


She had ACNE. A WHOLE DARN LOT - TRUCK LOAD - TON of IT on BOTH SIDES OF HER CHEEKS!!!!


AT THAT instant, I was thinking a LOT of things, while the doe-eyed girl smiled at me.


Maybe the universe and its infinite power AND knowledge DOES have a sick sense of humor?


OR maybe - there really is SOMEONE/SOMETHING up/down/diagonal out there...waiting for a chance to solve a seemingly inextricable problem and make us laugh while at it.


Take your pick.


Good night! 

Bowling for Bitterness...

Ever had one of those moments after watching a movie and you realize - HEY, this - in some level - happened/is happening to me(?)

Well, I had that MOMENT not so long ago.

I recently watched the film/documentary "Bowling for Columbine." You've heard about it, yes? Good.

But before that, I sought counsel from the people I know - the "MEN who know better" - before watching the movie (with the exception of one - who I asked AFTER):




My Voice of Reason - who I asked (meekly because I get scared of his wake-up-slaps) what he thought about it and he told me that the ONLY good part about the movie - Bowling for Columbine - is the part where Marilyn Manson spoke. True. Hands down!







G - I asked if he's heard and/or watched the movie. And told me, flat out what it was - which was what I needed.










A - I asked him about school shootings and I even told him about that I watched a movie called Elephant and eventually, A, told me about Bowling for Columbine and how it's all about school shootings.










Old Buddy Old Chum - I also asked about the movie and while WATCHING it, messaged him how PAINFUL it was to watch - but still he said it's good and even rated the movie a "Meeeh...8.5 - 9"









Rock Star Comicbook Artist - I asked AFTER watching the movie. He said NO, but he recently watched LEON (The Professional) instead and that he think "Natalie Portman is hot" but STILL, like all the others, HE answered my never-ending thirst - GUSTO - ZEST - to ask questions.








The TRUTH is a bitch. BUT, it's the truth and in all honesty I would sadly say THAT, just THIS Saturday (yesterday), I was a recipient of a cold backhand virtual bitch slap which had the message "BACK OFF AND SHUT UP" written all over it.

At the risk of sounding overdramatic and/or overreacting at something which seems so little - I had a moment where I felt like a student at Columbine and/or a victim of violence / bitterness / hatred. You name it.

I feel like a ferret gunned down just because I cared.

It's how I took it - and I'm taking it still, swallowing all of it, little by little, until the SHOCK subsides - like the bitterness of, well, a bitter pill.

Someone tells you that he has something that would eventually kill him in the end - and then tells you to forget everything; would YOU just call it quits? Regardless if you just know each other through messages / chats / pictures / videos / recordings / whatnots? And even to the point of quoting Kurt Cobain when he said I WISH I could eat your cancer when you turn black.

What good of a friend would I be if I just left and didn't care - or better yet, what good of a PERSON would I be if I just left and just said "take care! BYE!"

Is it so bad and demeaning to include someone in your thoughts and prayers - as USELESS as it sounds - and for you to wish for them to MAN THE HELL UP even for just a nanosecond and NOT be a wuss while at it, is IT THAT bad?

Bahhhh!

I don't like violence - hell, I rarely even use the F word and/or retaliate even if someone drops something on me (NOT if I can help it OR when I'm hungry and someone's depriving me to eat)

The ONLY violent streak I made was when I had A MOMENT with an ex-boy long ago.

He hurled one huge liter beer bottle at me. I did a Keanu Reeves and didn't get hit. I grabbed one too and HURLED at him like WHAM!!!

It hit his face. And he NOW carries the MARK! I'm not proud of it, BUT, that was self defense.

WHAT RECENTLY happened to me was like being hurled with a case full of beer bottles, gunned down to the ground and THEN afterwards, pushed over a cliff by a suicidal Mickey Mouse!

In Bowling for Columbine, a LOT of theories or MAYBE's even were raised on WHY those two teenagers brought guns and killed almost everyone in their school.

One guy pointed out that MAYBE because they listen to Marilyn Mason?

The Director of the film (Michael Moore) retorded: Didn't the kids go bowling BEFORE they did the shooting? Why blame Marilyn Manson? WHY NOT blame BOWLING instead?"

A lot of MAYBE's! WHY? WHO? WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? HOW?!?! QUESTIONS!!!!

Maybe I was "too nice" or I "cared so much" OR MAYBE I "killed HIM with KINDESS" and he got tired and/or whatever cliché's the world has.

MAYBE it's time to NOT care and NO LONGER be a Mister Nice Guy and I probably need a "hobby" like Dexter - screw piano lessons.

I AM making a BIG deal of out this - true. Remember baobabs? From The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? "baobabs were not little bushes, but, on the contrary, trees as big as castles." THAT is how big a deal THIS is to me for now.



To quote The Rock Star Comicbook Artist: "Fuck them! Don't dwell on someone else’s stupid comments."

(I'll put a bookmark on that, old friend. Thank you.)

I have been told COUNTLESS TIMES TO NOT poke my nose any longer - and I didn't listen, I was being PIG-headed. Now, here I am, just like Lucifer from Milton's Paradise Lost, I have fallen from grace - YET again.

I am licking my wounds. Let me mourn. This will take time.

Today - is the 27th Day of February - a RAINY Sunday - probably the LAST day of the month, because tomorrow doesn't count, it's a work day.

Let's all hold hands and sing KUMBAYA and HOPE that March will be better.

MUCH better and LESS bitter.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. - Maya Angelou ☼