closing tiiiiime

....every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

flexible face, wrinkles, stretching and keeping in and out of shape

gym today, 11:14am: i'm in the corner stretching on this fantastic apparatus that looks like a spider web and lets you easily stretch alllll kinds of body parts. But I'm stretching -- I LOVE STRETCHING, btw -- and thinking, "this feels good and is good FOR me too..stretching muscles is good for us, right?" ...keeps elasticity healthy and we ALL know how important it is for us to be elastic. 8-|

Then, as usual, here comes the exception: face muscles. if we stretch our face muscles we get what we call "wrinkles"...and that's NOT a good thing - at least in the eyes of a superficial, "looks" society. so that brings me to my thought(s): do our inner muscles have wrinkles too?

--> is stretching overrated, in terms of how "healthy" it keeps us and how good it is for us? stretching = wrinkles and wrinkles = bad, ugly

--> OR are wrinkles actually GOOD and healthy for us, we just don't VIEW it as such because this societal no-no says its ugly? wrinkles = ugly BUT wrinkles = healthy (because stretched and flexible)

so then i went on to a more philosophical leap: if we assume that stretching muscles is GOOD for us and keeps us healthy, then those folk with wrinkles would indicate that they have exercised their facial muscles quite a bit in their life. Leaping even more, one could draw from this observation that a person with a lot of wrinkles has experienced a lot of emotion in their life - laughter, grimaces, crying, squinting. all of these emotions mentioned implications to them: laughter = had a fun life; grimace = pain or distaste; crying = not necessarily sad, emotional, compassionate; squinting = maybe couldn't afford glasses, works in the sun, deep thinker even. on the flip side, those with little or no wrinkles, are they cold, shallow, inexpressive people? or can they just afford expensive creams and/or surgeries to LOOK that way?

my question: are wrinkles hereditary or strictly inherited? or do they tell a story about that person that may not be evident at face (pun intended) value?

or do i have this all wrong? (or did i make myself clear? i know what i want to say, this is my first and only draft...usually come back to it a few hours later to see if it still makes sense, but i'm tired and heading to bed. if i can clarify, lemme know)

11 am: I overhear "...he went APESHIT!" Me: picturing in my head someone going apeshit...no ape....no shit. Tawlk amongst ya'selves....

Urban dictionary:
1. ape shit - Really going crazy or nuts over or about something.
Dan is going ape shit about how cool his new car is. Or - Dan went ape shit when he found out his wife left him.

ass on a platter

Mid afternoon yesterday: along the same lines as a previous post, somebody wanna take a stab at the etymology of this one? ~~> "We got our asses handed to us on a platter!" Really? ....REALLY?! As odd as it may sound, I think I'd like to witness that...

blind leading...their own life, apparently

This morning: Attn blind fol & those who know them: if you see a visually impaired person tapping and bumping into things and you are either walking along with or near them, do you offer to help? I would THINK so..but I have been barked at and ju...st SAW someone get barked at b/c this person was INSULTED..."I CAN DO IT MYSELF!" GRRRR.... Geez, thrice bitten now don't know WHAT the hell to do. Any takers on this one?

Backward Red Light

@ crosswalk: the yellow light signifies when a light is about to turn red. why not have a red light where...when the light is going from red to green, the yellow light illuminates WITH the red light signifying it's about to turn green... and then the green light illuminates while the red and yellow lights are now extinguished. gives new functionality to the yellow light: instead of only signifying a red light is about to come, it can now signify a green light allowing vehicles approaching to avoid slowing down and braking unnecessarily saving gas and brake pads.

Uh oh...somebody's knocking at my door violently. representatives from midas are here with men in black...HEEEELLLLLP!!! :)

oxymoronia: sun in the Shade

I got up and thought, geez, what a nice and sunny day it is here in...uh, wait...is it okay to say that it's nice and sunny in SHADYSIDE (my neighborhood)?!

Wizard of Oz

Before SEVEN am: SEVENTY YEARS ago today, the greatest movie ever made was released - everything we'll ever need to know is contained in.... "THE WIZARD OF OZ" Say what you will, Haters, but just like Michael Jackson...you LOVED it at one time, only to poke fun later!

NOT YOUR TYPICAL AM THOUGHT

...this should be an EVERYDAY reminder...everytime one goes to read the newspaper, watch the news or otherwise gets "information" from mainstream sources.

Wanna watch a series of docu-movies that are SURE to provoke, prod and propel you into thought and conversation?!
ZEITGEIST MOVIE
(Thank you, Jennifer)
I'd suggest watching the "Addendum" first..little less abrasive...



Zeitgeist - The Movie

brow beatin'

Before 9am: this one might creep you out a little..did for me once I realized just how LONG I've been lQQking at Whoopi Goldberg without noticing...THIS B*&CH AIN'T GOT NO F*&^KING EYEBROWS!!! For shizzy, yo! Check this out... WHOOPI

(august twenty first two thousand nine)
Before 9am: this one's easy. Brett FARve?! Uhhh....no. Brett Favre...more like FAY-vuh-ruh :) tawlk amongst ya'selves...

basket cases made in china?

Before 9am: I got TWO today...pretty different, but...1) I heard this one yesterday and made me pause: "She was a BASKET CASE (a wreck, mess...sad) what IS a basket case? Has anyone ever SEEN one? And how does this a sad person fit?! 2) In China..., when you look at tags inside clothes or under useless trinkets does it say "MADE HERE"? Yes, I thought of that one myself. :-) GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!

i'm good enough....

this sums it up for me today :-)

I'm good enough

(originally august 17th 2009)

how much are YOU feelin you're worth today?

Before 9am: I got an exercise in this morning and thought, "geez, i feel like a million..." then i stopped...and wondered to myself, do ppl in other countries use this expression too?! If so, would they say, "geez, i feel like a millio...n YEN..or Dinars...or Crowns...or, for our friends to the north -- a million LOONIES?!" Hm..

about that george michael, "father figure" guy...

Yeah, about that George Michael guy...can I call 'em or WHAT?!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090815/ts_afp/entertainmentbritainmusicpeoplemichael_20090815180644


Singer George Michael arrested after car crash - Yahoo! News
Source: news.yahoo.com
Pop star George Michael was arrested and questioned after his Land Rover car collided with a lorry in Britain, but the singer insisted Saturday he was "stone cold sober" at the time.

a "father figure"?

(original august 14th, 2009)
Before 9am: Father Figure by George Michael..umm, yeah. Sang it for many years..even cut my OWN version of it driving by myself several times..but never really LISTENED to the words and story as a whole. Kinda creepy to me. http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/george_michael/father_figure.html
GEORGE MICHAEL lyrics - Father Figure

take that astrology back...

(original august 13th 2009)
Yeah, about that whole astrology thing making sense I mentioned the other day... http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090812/sc_space/newfoundplanetorbitsbackward

astrology

2 am last night random thought: The more I know about it, the more I see astrology (especially in its broadest scope) as a relevant -- if not, indeed, important and/or integral -- to the big "mystery" on what we're doing here. My humbl...e opinion (!)...anyone who has ever seen a solar or lunar eclipse gotta be a dummy NOT to think there's SOME SORTA rhyme/reason to it all...

(original august 11th 2009)

pop-tart philosophy

(originally posted on august 10, 2009)

Before 9am: I put my Pop-Tart (still young at heart) into the toaster oven this morning, then turn the knob/dial which acts like a timer, slowly turning until it “dings” shutting off the heat (old school, I know). But I notice that my Pop-Tart is hot enough, so I apply gentle pressure, turning the dial in an attempt to “hurry it up,” forcing it to “ding” early. Then I think, hmm, what if a youngster saw me and asked me if I just made time go faster; I forced the dial to “ding” faster than it would on its own. Does that mean then that another “force” can also speed up (or slow down) things that WE humans use to measure time, such as light? How would I, or YOU, answer a youngster if he/she asked you about altering “time” as I did on the toaster oven?

playing catch-up

The "idea" of stuff before 9am came about by...well, writing about stuff i think about before 9am on facebook - and, probably more likely, sharing my seeming nonsense with anyone else who wanted to hear or was within ear/eye shot while having one of my "moments."

So I am going to post a few of before 9am thoughts in days recent past...

Sunday Night…Eve of New Blog

Well, finally gonna start to crank out some thoughts and give this a whirl.

My thoughts range from deep to mundane to "why didn't I think of that" to I-think/thought-that-too-but-never-said-it-outloud...sometimes original, sometimes find out been around for millenia, but ALWAYS raw, honest, sincere and fresh from my head. If something sounds conveniently "borrowed" and not sourced, please feel free to inform me (politely, preferably!).

I like witty, clever, sharp, playful, intelligent, provocative humor and thought. I am not necessarily an idealist; on the other hand, I am not a pessimist, perhaps a cynic, but am indeed a realist.

Sometimes there seems to be no point...until one is made.

So, see you tomorrow.