1. Everything in this list is suspect because it is from me and about me. If it were one or the other, I could stand behind it more concretely or rationally, but I am aware that I am a mass of self-delusion (a.k.a. human). Caveat emptor. Ceteris paribus. Sic transit gloria mundi. Really? I didn't know Gloria was sick. Et cetera.
2. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
   ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
3. Why would you ever pretend a picture is you if it's not really you? When they figure out the pictures they're masturbating to aren't really you, then you become superfluous and have to find a way rapidly to justify yourself, or they go looking for something else.
4. Ever have just one of those days? I used to have them all the time but now things are really looking up :)
   
   
   
   
5. Both of these pieces of advice were given to me around the same time as when I lived in NY well over a decade ago, and somehow I manage to find a way to remember the principles of letting it go sooner than later on a daily basis. It wasn't the right taxi :P Thanks to the two people who helped me through a very difficult time in my life way back when.
   
   "Living well is the best revenge."
   - K. M., who is famous now and prolly doesn't want her name here so I will just give her initials.
   
   "You probably would have regularly come home to find her fucking your friends in YOUR bed."
   - Nick, who pointed out that letting the wrong woman go earlier is a lot better than having to let her go later after she destroys whatever was left of your self-esteem.
   
   
6. Music in my blog posts: click here
7. The Secret
8. Intelligent humor, ready to wear
9. I whip my slaves back and forth... I saw this as a comment on a Sepultura video (thanks, Nikkers!).
10. What gives you the better ride? Fear or freedom from fear?
11. The past is history and the future's a mystery, but NOW is a gift, which is why we call it the present (thanks Drive, for the conversation).
12. It is better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt (thanks Abraham Lincoln for this precious advice).
13. If two people can be electronically separated but the brain of one responds to the other brain's stimulus, doesn't that prove we're all one and all connected? Non-local consciousness is real and is proven by experiments.
14. Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
15. How do you like my new direction? (say it out loud)
16. Self-pity by D.H. Lawrence
    I never saw a wild thing
    sorry for itself.
    A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
    without ever having felt sorry for itself.
    
17. One by Metallica (excerpt)
    Darkness
    Imprisoning me
    All that I see
    Absolute horror
    I can not live
    I can not die
    Trapped in myself
    Body my holding cell
    
18. Vicarious by Tool (excerpt)
    Part vampire, part warrior, carnivore and voyeur.
    Stare at the transmittal, sing to the death rattle.
    Lala lala la la lalie, lala lala la la lalie.
    
19. I Don't Know by Cripple Clarence Lofton, recorded by Willie Mabon as performed by the Blues Brothers(excerpt)
    I said baby
    You know when you bend over I see every bit of Christmas
    And when you bend back I'm looking right into new year
    She said honey, you know I gave up cigarettes for my new year's resolution
    But I didn't give up smoking
    I said woman, you going to walk a mile for a camel
    Or are you going to make like mr chesterfield and satisfy?
    She said that all depends on what you're packing
    Regular or king size
    And then she pulled out my jim beam, and to her surprise
    It was every bit as hard as my canadian club
    I said now what you got to say baby?
    She said umm...
    I don't know
    My oh my oh my
    She said I don't know
    But my baby's holding down
    
20. This is Homey the clown. A lot of my personality was formed by watching him when I was younger.
    
    

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And kitty always did get the last word:

I enjoy conversations and talking about stuff that happens in the real world. I am allergic to drama and avoid it like the plague it is. I just want fun company. If there's stuff that keeps you from doing that or if you aren't up front about it, we probably won't know each other for long. Life's just too short, and this wasn't your taxi.