I'm Experiencing Things Different Than Other People Do

Most people - but not everyone: 

“I was 18 years old, watching the world being run by a bunch of hypocrites, is what it was. And at the same time, they were telling us how they had invented sex, how great it was to do all those drugs, they had no responsibilities, they really believed in stuff, they were super-individuals. Then along comes this incredibly repressive, selfish, racist, money-grubbing,…”

I've tasted it - and I'm never buying any of it again,...

Don Draper's Shame: He Was Born A Poor Black Child

The kid on the stair says it all:

It can't get any lower than that,...

The Macho Response: Turning America Right-Side Up, I

Most people find someone different startling, because we know it's a fact everyone else - even with each "individual" having their own "unique" story - is essentially cut from the same "mainstream" cultural mold.

Out of caution over mainstream reaction, we're forced to kind of just exist among them, watching - almost lost - as they talk about "freedom" the same way, while doing the same things, at basically the same times.

I know, from American history, as I hear the mainstream demanding "compassion for others" - on their terms - they couldn't care less for anyone not mainstream, and they close in on anyone who isn't.

How that "works", Americans have never considered hypocrisy, because it's mainstream to have also, always, had good intentions.

Needless to say, but as some have discovered (myself included in a myriad of ways) it's totally legal to kill Americans with good intentions.

Just frame it as "saving" something - could be anything - and then miss the mark by a mile. 

 To be cont'd,….

 

Impulse Items (Show Up Wherever You Pay For Things)

"It's always good."

Why high flying women are ditching therapists – for psychics

Sci-Fi Past: Oh, Those Radicals With Their Crazy Ideas

I love the look on Pete's face when he realizes what's happening,...

Friday Night (Bracing Myself For An Exciting Tomorrow)

 

A Real Challenge (And TMR Favorite) Made It Onto TV

"Honestly, the god in me, don't allow for modesty,..."

Hmmm. Apparently somebody at Lionsgate really messed up (The Mad Men Theme, below) and, in so doing, ensured I'll have RJD2's newest, bestest, weak at the knees but hard as day-old jello soundscapes (above) until the day that sucker stops,...or drops. 

Ain't that a bitch. 

A clear and definite reason to live:

At this point, it's kind of embarrassing,...