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Thursday, September 11, 2003

Regrets...
I've had a few.
But then again,
Too few to mention!
--"My Way",
written by Paul Anka
When I hear that song, I think of Frank Sinatra, and sometimes Elvis or Sid Vicious -- all of whom have been known to perform, in their own unique manner, that wonderful song. Wonderful because -- though I don't always enjoy hearing it, I've heard it so much -- the song is a wonderful personal anthem. That's something we all need: a personal anthem. A song that praises our individuality; a mark of devotion to oneself. After all, they say you're going to have a helluva time loving anyone else unless you've first learned to love yourself, right?

This is not to replace your love for your God, or your spouse, or your family. I'm simply saying that we all need to give ourselves a bit more self-love at this time of year. (No, not that type of self-love !) Too many of us beat up on ourselves throughout the year, and then nearly destroy ourselves at year's end. No wonder there are so many suicides during the Holidays; the messages bombarding us are to Buy Buy Buy and to Give Give Give -- but what if you have nothing to give but love? If you have a dearth of that good stuff, then you'll have a bitch of a time spreading it around to your neighbors.

So be good to yourself, whether you're Christian, Pagan, Wiccan, Athiest, Hindu, Islamic, Mormon, Podcastin, or otherwise. Don't take the pills, they won't do you or anyone else any good; you'll simply miss out on the Next Big Thing (which may turn out to be Your Next Big Thing). Just do things your own way, singing that little hymn as you do so:
For what is a man,
What has he got?
If not himself,
Then he has naught.
To say the things,
He truly feels,
And not the words,
Of one who kneels.
The record shows,
I took the blows
And did it my way!

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Some years ago, I was waiting in line with friends to purchase Cure concert tickets at the Virgin Megastore in West Hollywood. We were in line with hundreds of other Cureheads for hours, and we became friendly with a few like-minded souls. One petite young lady -- let's call her Foggy -- was a cute, spunky, and dim little goth a couple of us became somewhat smitten with. One of my buddies -- we'll call him Ricardo -- was more smitten than the other, however, and did his best to charm the girl in the most disgusting manner -- at his friend's expense. (It's all "water under the bridge" now, but it certainly wasn't one of Ricardo's prettier moments.)



The next day, and for several months afterward, Ricardo attempted to pursue a relationship with this girl, Foggy. At first, the girl seemed to respond to Ricardo's advances; she accepted his invitations to go on movie and dinner excursions, and they had a makeout session or two. Ricardo, who wasn't the luckiest fellow with women, seemed to be finding romance with this girl, and we were all rooting for him. Though the girl seemed a bit aloof -- at least, in the details Ricardo was giving us about their relationship -- it seemed that Ricardo had found a friendship that could, just possibly, turn into a love affair.



Then, Foggy took Ricardo to her church.



I lost the will to finish this (truthful) story

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I once posted, in this space (this right column), the following:

If I had friends they would be listed here

That particular bit o' text, that silly and idiotic phrase, was repeated a dozen or two dozen or so times and was intended to be temporary. I had been working on a project -- a new layout for this blog -- and had intended for that text to be placeholder content. That is, the text was supposed to temporarily replace the content that had previously occupied this column (which was a list of links to friends -- that is, other blogs and web sites I linked to). I didn't know what content I was going to place into that (this) space, so I placed a bunch of duplicate phrases here as a placeholder so that I would remember to fill in this space again later.

At the same time, I thought I was being cute with the heading:

NEW & IMPROVED FRIENDS!

The fact remains: I still don't know what content to put here, in this column. Links again? Pictures? Video? Audio? Ads? Oh, hell no! It hasn't come to me yet, but I'm sure it will eventually, and when it does it'll come quick and (as usual) with consequences.