A Step Forward

Know this now, that one day your children will read of a time when racism had been dealt a fatal blow and know that then they will ask why it took so very long. Know this now, that one day we will have the chance to look back upon today and ask if we did what was right or what was wrong. In knowing the future, it would be a simple answer. Yet now, it remains as complex as the world itself, because the problems of mankind are tied so closely to the hearts of all the people of the world that they are not so easily untied from the convictions of our hearts and thereby the people of this world itself.

Know this, that, come what may, this world has changed forever. On this day, the 20th of January 2009, history has been made. In the coming years it will continue to be made, no doubt, but let us not forget the unity that this nation depends on to succeed. If for one day we can put aside partisanship for the pomp and circumstance of this day, then why not for another or another after that? Can we join together and progress? Will we put aside our immaterial and skin-deep differences? Does this nation have the ability to continue?

This is our hour, and our chance, to continue for this world the promise of great men and women of our past, the dream of justice and peace for each and every creature no matter how big or small, significant or seemingly unimportant. This is our day. Remember it and build on it. Our very continued existence depends on our cooperation. Not only will we be judged by the actions of our coming years, but history will show us whether or not justice and peace and equality for all will continue and profligate or if it will die in good intentions and misdirection.

This is the calling of our lives. Embrace it. And let this nation's successes be seen the world over not in the name of a god or a cause but in the name of humanity. Such is our task. Let us now get started.

One Wish

If I had one wish in life, I wouldn't ask for riches or fame. I wouldn't ask for health or love. I wouldn't ask anything more or anything less than this: I wish that everyone, everywhere, from this day until the end of the human race would be able to understand exactly how each other is feeling at any point for any reason.

Then I realized, we already can and many of us still choose not to for personal gain.

My Favorite / My Least Favorite

My favorite color is green because it is the color of new life. I enjoy food, granted I used to enjoy a greater variety, nevertheless it is one of my favorite things. Bad food is the sign of a bad day. So, DC food... Haha! I love music. But not all music. Primarily rock, classic hard rock, and classic metal. Of course, there are exceptions. My favorite song/performance of all time is Queen's "Somebody to Love" from On Fire Live at the Bowl (1982). It's just a profound performance and an even more phenomenal back story. I've pasted a copy of it below.



Feeling is what matters to me in music. It's hard to explain but the song, performance, or artist has to have feeling. It has to embrace you. You have to be able to sink into it. It has to make your skin crawl. It has to be almost sexual. That kind of connection. A primitive, almost supranatural closeness.

My favorite TV show is The Simpsons singularly because of the inclusivity and profoundly liberal attitudes of its creators, actors, and producers. Oh, and it's hillarious and phenominally brillant. It's probably the only TV show where two people of vastly different ages or educational backgrounds can laugh at the same time but for different reasons. It is simply unique and there is not and never will be an equal to it.

My favorite movie is V for Vendetta. It is the only movie I have ever come across that has reached the level of skin crawling sensory bliss that I talked about in regards to music and it solely hinges on the use of the 1812 Overture in the final scene. I also like it because of the issues that it deals with particularly the overarching theme of oppression and the standing up to that oppression. No one will ever say that I'm not a fighter of those battles.

My favorite food is everchanging and elusive. It's rarely the same thing for more than a couple of moments.

I absolutly love singing to myself. And, for the record, I can sing... well most of the time, if I try. I don't usually try if others are around. Kinda stupid, I know.

My favorite season is summer because I like the feel of the sun and I do not like the cold at all. Consequently I love the beach and unfortunately haven't gotten there in two or three years.

My favorite game is poker. It combines all of the mentallity of a chesslike game with the strategy and psychology of a police interrogater. The game is 95% mental. I throughly enjoy matching wits with anyone. When I'm hot -- when I'm alert and concentrating -- there isn't a person that can stop me. I love that feeling.

My favorite feeling is true love. That is to say love that feels "true". It is like a ray of sunshine that brightens your every moment and warms your every movement. It's a feeling that no matter how much it consumes you, you want more and more of it forever and ever. For me, it's been so brutally long since it's been even more than a glimmer and that is, if anything is, criminal. I'm not talking simply about sex or physical attraction, but of every aspect of love, the kind where you feel like a better person simply for being there with that single person. Consequently, if there was a single thing I could fix with my life it would be that. Yet the outlook to do so uncertain at best.

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My least favorite feeling is loneliness. It hollows you out and makes you think that everything that you are and everything that you've done means nothing, that your life is pointless and your actions moot.

My least favorite food (that I've eaten) is boiled potatoes. There is nothing to taste, regardless of how they're made. To turn such a fulfilling and filling food into such a bland starchy excuse for a side dish is an atrocity for sure.

My least favorite music is country because of the hardline conservative repression that represents most of it. There is no excuse for the hate that many (though not all) of them breed, it is repugnant.

My least favorite movie of all time was Alone After Dark (2005?) because the fucking thing ended just as it was getting to the good part!

I don't drink (you know "drink") for two reasons, one because it doesn't sit well with me and the second for the same reason that I don't do drugs of any type, I don't think that escaping from your problems does you any good. And, I value the mental side of me too much to waste it. It of all things, is most mine and most personal. I also don't smoke cigarettes because it's just plain dumb. I also don't really respect anyone who does and do not at all find it cool or even remotely attractive. Killing one's self is soooo attractive. (Rolls eyes.)

My least favorite person in the world can be picked from a pool of conservatives that is ever expanding. Conservatism is evil. Their hate of their fellow man is unnatural and disgusting. I would sooner kill myself (which I would nearly never ever even think of doing) than espouse their ideas. In some way or another every conservative sickens me, primarily because they are sickened by me and what I am. I also don't like religious people who want to tell me about their religion and why it's best. Screw them. They only think it's best because they believe it, that's not a convincing argument in my reasoning.

And lastly, I don't give a shit if you don't like me. I don't mean to sound standoffish or angry, but it's true. I am me and I don't compromise myself for others' feelings or opinions. I can't be happy if I'm not being me and I'm not willing to try.

Peace,
FFF

Let's Play a Game Called: "What's the Difference"

What's the difference between Obama asking Warren to speak at the inauguration and Obama promising to sit down with foreign leaders without preconditions?


Is there a difference between two situations, one which we (apparently) support as a group and one which we (apparently) do not support as a group.

The first is sitting down with foreign leaders without preconditions. We are willing to do this, to talk to foreign leaders who do not have our best interests at heart, to open dialog and perhaps change their minds.

The second is allowing someone to speak at the inauguration who is anti-GLBTQ rights. We are not willing to do this, because "we shouldn't bargain with civil rights" and "he's a bigot who shouldn't be given a voice". Apply this logic to the first statement and we have the Bush doctrine, one where we have no dialog and no chance of changing their minds.

Hmm...