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SITES I SEE A LOT
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movie database

Giga-Quotes

Harry Chapin Lyrics
SSA




OLD AND NEW READS
(WISH I HAD MORE TIME
TO READ and EXPLORE)

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utne reader
common dreams
the progressive
mediate
the other side
orion
harper's
rolling stone
reel classics


fallout shelter
the memory hole
song meanings
truth out
wil wheaton
bugmenot
global news matrix
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are you generic?
neil gaiman
h2g2
daily kos
the truth laid bear
reason
capitol hill blue
boing boing
nobody here




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the guide
purple
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maximum awesome
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something awful
glossy news
eric conveys emotion
odd todd
cracked



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urban legends
news of the weird
church of the fsm
the onion
god checker
faqs
fark
iGod
post secret
webby awards
meetup
the white house
ragged trousered philosopher
the smoking gun
the defective yeti
landover baptist
evil bible


COMMERCIAL CRAP (AND PRON)

(Note: pron is porn worth a look for amusement much more than passion, so if you see a (p) next to a link, be aware naked people may appear if you click it, m'ok?)

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real doll (p)
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�2006 Candor Communications


2008-12-21 - 12:24 a.m.

empathy or dreaming


ever google the word �the�?... it wasn�t the about 13,990,000,000 results in 0.05 seconds that got me, it was the order of listings� ever wonder just how the google search engine algorithmic code words?...

meanwhile, if you have not read this year�s almost xmas entry, well, shame on you� in fact, the last ten entries were pure genius, or at least one of them was sort of amusing, and you should wet noodle yourself until you make time to read them all, yes, all seventy billion of them� or at least some�

meanwhile, this entry is going to highlight my emoness, so you might just puke, or skip it if you are adverse to emo� you are why the world sucks, by the way�

just kidding� but you really ought to get in touch with your feelings� that is what life is about, after all� and so many never know� always feeling like they are missing something� well, this is for you:

i care.

since i am not sure who you are or how to reach you, i shall storm your mental gates right here in this message� do i have your email?... probably... but i am haphazard about keeping in touch through email due to some ptsd and if the truth must be known, i am a friend of proximity... lazy?... maybe� but i also want a simple life without burning tons of fossil fuels and having love all around me and being self-sufficient and all that too... example?... a nice girl gives me her number and i ponder why i should get close to someone who lives 45 minutes away...

stupid, maybe, but i want a neighbor like goldie hawn in butterflies are free, like right there climbing through my window and turning my life upside down with bubbly positivity and sensual energy... obviously i want to share more intimacy in this life and i am self-analyzing in this message as much to compare my proximity-ness with yours (as you are not here) as to nudge myself to do something about the growing loneliness creeping up from wherever it sleeps when i am way too busy to give it much conscious notice...

hello, how are you?... depressed in the garden of eden?... there's always the apple tree... or the red or blue pills, of course... but more seriously, what is missing?...

something is missing, so don't give me any crap about it's just a stupid mood or it's bad wiring or any such electrician (or psychological) mumbo jumbo side-stepping...

i love you... weird, maybe, but true... ever since i started reading your words i have felt like you're a sister, a daughter, a long lost family member, maybe we've got some alien genes from the same other planet... something about your words trickles into my psyche and stays there... comfortably, most of the time... like an old friend who knows way too much, but it's good... if that makes any sense to you, great...

and maybe it's just my projection, something i want - a connection with other people on a deeper level than hi, how are ya, what did you do on your summer vacation?...

family?... i wouldn't know cuz i really don't have any... i've adopted people along the way and they come back for a while, usually asking for money, but rarely does anyone stick around more than a decade (or when i say no)... being a giver is a good thing because i love the feeling of giving... but being one without much need, if any, keeps me very alone... i don't know how to be anything but self-sufficient, it's been life as i know it since my very early childhood on every level...

anyway, that's my missing piece and knowing about it keeps it from haunting me too much or getting me too down... i accept it and deal with the loneliness by writing about it and every once in a while (like once a decade, except not this decade yet) find someone willing to hold the infant inside who never knew the nuturing... and then i cry... and then i wake refreshed with hope that i may have found it, the family, the connection, the missing piece of the puzzle of a perfectly balanced me and life...

it hasn't lasted, but i keep hoping it will...

hey, did i do something like this last year (or longer ago) and you said the words gave you much to ponder?... are we laughing at my mixed up memory or at the fact that we both do this - put off the deeper pondering (or something like that?)...

do you like to play board games?... my favorite social activity these days is gathering with people and playing games... maybe it's my seventh childhood... consider yourself invited... you could come out and meet people that way...

or just call me up and talk... free therapy (cuz a friend/family/stranger all rolled into one is the best therapy really - cuz the point is just letting it all out, whatever it is, and then you know)...

i must run (i mean exercise)... the girl 40 minutes away who gave me her number actually wrote 'call me when you're going for a run' and i think that was an incentive... imagine a stranger caring like that... wow... am i just imagining it?... what were her motives, anyway?... am i over-analyzing?... asking too many questions?... so why am i still so lazy and self-undermining?...

maybe my ability to laugh at myself as easily as i do is not such a great quality after all :)

i used to get intense... motivated... angry about injustice... believing it mattered... i'd get involved and do things... i'd take life and ethics and social causes and humans much more seriously...

now i am just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round... i've accepted humans as self-destructive and way not ready to open their minds and understand what enlightenment and peaceful co-existence truly means... and i've become like them... i eat crap and too much of it... i don't exercise... i complain about this, that, and whatever... and i sit home wondering why i am not finding what i want... maybe i am not sure what i want anymore...

i used to know so clearly...

i sat in a room with a group of people the other night and talked about people and life and meaningful stuff until nearly dawn... they were all atheists or agnostics (the "freethinkers" group had a holiday party and we were the after-party deep thinkers)... and it felt good to relate to open minds... maybe that is what you are looking for, intellectual conversation... mental stimulation that only comes from a group of minds interacting... you are invited there too...

we live a blink of universal time, it seems so long from the day to day perspective, it seems so brief when we look back and around... we want meaning in what might be a meaningless existence... we want to believe in something, ourselves, someone else, the species, nature, the universe... and everything disappoints...

maybe cuz there are no sure answers...

so what's up with you, really?... just a little post xmas blues?... a disappointing almost true friend?... a feeling of inadequacy?... boredom?... longing for the mother planet?... something else entirely?...

for what it's worth, i really do care about you... i want to know... and i am willing to listen... cry if you want to...

ric
candoor is my gmail address
407-325-1482 any time (i am nocturnal)...
and if you want to try writing
PO Box 780398 Orlando, FL 32878
and i live right across from that post office in apt H202.




that�s right, i live in hydrogen peroxide, now you know�

and yes, most of that was originally written to a real person who inspired me to reach out all emo like that, but now it is for you if it means anything to you�

it is your opportunity to share�

boo :)






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