Your Next Band, Named (and other random things)

I misplaced my last list of band name ideas, so just pretend that you read it, it was very clever & you loved it. In the meantime, here are some more:

The Spazmatics

Hellevator

Crunch

Whipscream

Annoyed and Enlightened

That’s a little cartoon I call, “People, shut the fuck up for a minute!” I mean, it’s hard to think of any other animal that just constantly jabbers: talk, talk, talk. Give it a rest! The other animals on the planet have told me that they are annoyed, so quiet the fuck down. The trees, too… they can’t take it anymore. The greatest thing about the original Planet of the Apes movies was that humans had lost the ability to speak. Thank fucking God.

I walked around in a labyrinth and came up with this poem:

I create my life’s story

I live my life’s story

I create stories with my life.

I am both in the center of my labyrinth

And on the path of my labyrinth

I don’t have to wait around for anything to happen

I am happening

Why Conflict Resolution Works

A lot of systems have been devised to help people take control of interpersonal conflict with the aim of facilitating positive, win-win outcomes. But, is there an underlying essence common to successful conflict resolution techniques? Let’s compare six systematized approaches to conflict resolution, looking for commonalities.

Stand Up and Be Discounted (is the name of this blog post)

Just like the @ sign for “at,” there should be signs for “before” and “after,” something like this: and

and

Here is some Trump Haiku:

1.

This Haiku is rigged

It is against Donald Trump

It is so unfair

Down with Rectangles

Rectangles: I hate rectangles. Rectangular screens, rectangular paper, rectangular books…. Rectangles are everywhere. But they are a singularly unnatural shape. Pentagons, hexagons, spirals, circles all abound in nature. But try to find a rectangular flower, insect hive or tortoise shell pattern. Nature scorns the rectangle. Yet, humans surround themselves with the wretched shape. Rooms are rectangular; chess is cut into squares (yes, it’s a type of rectangle); pillows, towels, beds, treadmills, paper bags, windows, doors, movie screens, televisions, phones… all rectangles.

Read this and You Can Pretend You are in My Brain

Here are some recent thinks:

• A name for a company that cleans up mildew: Mildon’t
• I just saw “free range eggs” on the menu of this diner. Why would anyone put eggs in cages in the first place?

Before I Have My Wisdom Teeth Removed….

I have finally given in to the dental industry and agreed to let them remove my wisdom teeth. I thought I’d better record any wisdom here beforeI lose it all with my teeth.

• This body isn’t mine. I’m borrowing it from the Earth.

A Series of Completely Unrelated Questions

1. What are the strings in String Theory made of? Why even call them strings – isn’t it arrogant to assume that their structure, which has to accommodate the math, has to be something we can visualize?

Curiouser and Curiouser….

color

You don’t find ugly color combinations in nature. I think that’s because our sense of beauty comes from the natural world. But why? Why do we find sunsets beautiful? It’s probably due to the bright colors. Why do we love bright colors? One explanation would be that we love bright colors in order to be attracted to ripe fruit. The sunset is just God’s way of reminding us to eat more fruit. Pollen collecting insects are also attracted to bright colors, so we share our sense of beauty with insects.

Thoughts that Recently Leaked from my Brain….

• Are dogs really marking their territories when we take them for walks or are we using dogs to mark our territories?