A nametag - Allison - temporary identification. A face, also temporary, changing here and there like the sweeping hands of a clock's face. Beauty, part of the whole sense of self, carrying / bringing / taking one throughout the day. A shirt, a jacket, a vest - temporary uniform. Uniformity or Specialty? One person, one name, one moment. Only if...
Sweeping, mopping, writing down a food order. Ever looked a future king in the eye and knew he didn't yet know? Jamal, bearing his weight in lessons learned, next to Shane and the unnamed beauty, the short order cook of the day making waffles for dinner.
Writing about moments using one language to describe events of the day and testing its effects on search results of popular websites to see which ones sell information to one another to give viewers an immediate feeling of self-satisfaction that their words and phrases appear to have meaning in the bigger world out there. Feeding an addict's burning desire to be needed, the addict (the reader, the viewer) never completely satisfied, always looking for the next high.
Why do you think I see all of us as the same person in the moment? I try to give as many of you as I can write about a moment's notice here but this is a line of blank space punctuated with connected black dots.
Remember, you are more important than this blog. Yes, we want feedback that we're unique and special within our subcultural norms but at the same time we can develop wants and needs that are developed and approved by ourselves only.
The Internet is a tool, not an omniscient, omnipotent substitute for your parents and friends. Beware the electronic pacifier, the replacement for the previous generation's boob tube. Twitter is a virtual chat room - isn't it more fun to look in people's faces when you chat?
Someone asked me if there's any connection between the Brown resignation, the Kagan nomination and the hole punched in Earth that's releasing a bunch of oily goo into the Gulf - in other words, are they all just forms of releasing pressure on this planet? Why do I taste Thai hot pepper when I reread that question? We seek answers to what we don't know we know, you know? You know. So do I.
My inventor friends have asked me to review a few designs of theirs, thinking that my lack of overly critical opinion will help them break the impasse that too many camels designing an artificial person causes. I'll let you know about anything of theirs worth mentioning here that you might not hear anywhere else. If I or no one else mentions their inventions on the Internet, the inventions are still important. Just like every one of you I see in the moment, including the guys working at Around Your Table in the afternoon laughing about my forgetting to pay my bill and driving back to be an honest customer.
See you and talk to/about you real soon!
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