Ever try and do the right thing and just have it blow up in your face and reduce you to small mass of semi-intellectual garbage wondering how the hell trying to do good could ultimately rip your heart and being to shreds? Well, at least in the short term?

I digress, let me back up a bit. I have values, relationship values (I know, many of you reading this are snickering... yeah, right, E~Vol has values? "Armegeddon is upon us, save me jebus!"). Well...So much so that I carry them with me..... read more

"All the penguins, the centipedes, everyone applauds.
Except, even if you climb to the treetops...
It's impossible to catch the candy floss.
And so, everyone climbs to the top of the mountain...
except the giraffes who, of course, stay in one spot,
munching the clouds.

The snowflakes evaporate...
and then turn into hailstones.

In the farmyards...
the turkeys scramble towards the hailstones...
the better to peck them.
And the children's voices cry for help.
The chickens are mer... read more

"No one can know anybody, however much he may profess to know, except the lover, because in the absence of love the inner eyes are blind. Only the outer eyes are open, which are merely the spectacles of the inner eyes. If the sight is not keen, of what use are the spectacles? It is for this reason that we admire all those whom we love, and are blind to the good qualities of those whom we do not love. It is not always that these deserve our neglect, but our eyes, without love, cannot see their... read more

I'm continually amazed by the number of people that have never had grits. Some don't even know what a 'grit' is. Somewhere americana made a left turn & left these people out of the damn kitchen. It's not like you can't find them; they're in every f&*#ing grocery store in America. Now go get some grits, dammit, so the infernal perplexing will cease. (I like mine with butter and salt)

Note: You can now also get BACON (not the canadian kind) on your pizza. Oh Yeah Baby!

"A person is apt to think, 'Why should I perform actions that bring me no return? Why should I be kind, where no kindness is shown to me, where there is even no appreciation?' In this way he commercializes his kindness: he gives in order to receive. This blindness comes upon man, and it makes him blind. He thinks, 'Why should I be grateful? There is nothing to be grateful for. If the sun shines, it is natural. If I have what I need for my living, I work for it all day;' or else, 'I belong to ... read more