no sense in censorship

I get barred from the Orlando city market at Lake Eola for satirizing the Ku Klux Klan and Spike Lee gets an Oscar for it. I'm feeling hard done by. The Last Opus of Hector Berlioz - BANNED!!

When you can't make fun of the Klan, what's left?

Selling books last weekend at the Cortez Seafood and Levine Festival and discovered there's a new humanoid on the block. Not sure if this is a race or species or just the latest sign of the devolution of our cherished brand, but here it is:

Perfectly normal looking young woman walks by my booth.

“I'm selling my books,” I say jubilantly, expecting this to greatly excite her. “Got my hit novel right here.”

Never slowing down, she turns her head my way and says, “I'm a Kindle Person.”

I'm not sure if this means she was created by Amazon Kindle or she joined a cult that worships Kindle. Whichever, it may be a chilling portent of things to come. The battle lines are being drawn.

moving on

been thinking a lot about something lately. No matter how much I may want it, I'm never going to achieve my goal. It's hard to imagine what kind of person would actually want to be an Oscar Meyer weiner anyway. or any brand of hot dog. I'm over it. So really, I'm glad I'm not an Oscar Meyer weiner. Want what you have.

I wish I were an Oscar Myer weiner

New years revolutions for America:

1. Shoot your tv. It's killing you. Right now America is the realization of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In the movie Americans resisted getting their lives snatched away but once it happened, they were content. In reality it was so gradual nobody knew to resist. Imagine the enormous collective sigh of relief across the nation when, at the same moment every man, woman and child throws off the chains of tv watching.

It just hit me what the number one purpose of television is, the reason why the federal government mandates free tv so all may view it. It gives us role models– tv shows people going to work, drinking alcohol for fun and involving themselves in only the mudanities of their personal lives, usually restricted to their own abode. Ever wonder why there's never been a sitcom about the crew of the Rainbow Warrior or Sea Shepherd out there trying to save whales from whalers? How about a bunch of good citizens by day, vandalizing construction equipment by night in aid of Mother Nature? How about a drama based on the lives of a quirky bunch of homeless people? Well, as exponentially more interesting as that would be, got no industrial strength role models there.

More than anything else, tv shows us inmates how to use our lives to perpetuate the insane asylum that is modern America.

2. Reduce to rubble with a framing hammer your computer thereby reclaiming the real world. This means all your imaginary friends will die. Yahoo! Read the book Making Friends and Influencing People and then go out and make friends to replace your recent casualties. Instead of being entertained, be entertaining. Be like a Mexican and learn the guitar. Sing. Just go out and lay on the ground. You now have the free time for that.

That's all