CANNED FOOD AND AMMO

aloha again
(tribute to my dead buddy Tom from Hawaii)
NPR 1
spent a lot of time in the car this week;doctors,lab bloodwork-twice,CT Scan
(try not to puke!) and heard a pundit say that we will know the ECONOMY HAS HIT ROCK BOTTOM WHEN INVESTING IN CANNED FOOD AND AMMO BEATS WALL STREET. Mad Max time,yippee.

meanwhile here in "Paradise", as some locals and the Chamber of Commerce/tourism call it ,CRIPS ARE NOW FINDING IT EASIER TO FIND CAREGIVERS (due to the 12.3% county unemployment rate,15+% in Monterey)....(smiley face here).

a bitter joke i made up this week
OBAMA'S 5 POINT ALTERNATE TO FORECLOSURE HOUSING PLAN
1.we all get a big comfy box to live in
2. there is a lottery for who gets the dry spots under the freeway during rainy seasons.
3.we sneak into the yards of the rich to pillage their fruit trees (watch out for guard dogs) when not dumpster diving
4.plenty of time to work on our tans at the beach (don't litter).
5.remind ourselves that we're still better off than the GOP tax cuts/do nothing alternative.
NPR 2
great googly moogly,
NPR has discovered the War on Drugs (as Bill Maher says Drugs Won!)
and the bloodsoaked cartel wars in Mexico. don't quote me on the numbers but the USA has something like 5% of the worlds pop yet consumes 60% of the worlds illicit drugs.
why is that? what's lacking in our reality which we need hard drugs to assuage/soothe (wrong word?).is it a Spirutal Wound of some kind like the ancestors worried about? for movies see the xlnt RUSH with Jason Patric & Jennifer Jason Leigh or PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK in NYC with a very young Al Pacino or the obscure indie COOL WORLD shot in Harlem around the 60s or 70s.so you know what i mean,sorta.

SOUL MATE has been riding me about promoting LSD (her opinion) in these blogs, i try to explain that I WAS SUICIDAL BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING LSD THE FIRST FEW TIMES.my fractured ACA/PTSD upbringing had trashed my self esteem and bedrock whatever (sense of selfhood).
i used LSD as a tool,(one among many like the I Ching,Tarot cards,Lao Tsu,martial arts,meditation,chi flow then Zen Buddhism & combat tai chi) to staunch the Spiritural Wounds of my persona. see the history of healing ceremony like KACHINAS,Medicine Man & Wheels,Ghost Dance,White Buffalo Cult & Jung's anima/animus etc etc. unlike Soul Mate i have been a student/Seeker of comparative religions/world mythos since the Baptist chiurch threw me out of Sunday school for asking too many questions.
I AM NOT PROMOTING LSD BUT RATHER INTENSE & UNRELENTING SELF DISCOVERY,BY ALMOST ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
P.S. did LSD from 1969 until @1991,after you unlock the door you put the key back in your pocket.right?
just so you'll know...

in other news,
the sun is shining again and tomorrow i get to see WATCHMAN,
loved the graphic novel!
as Scoop Nisker used to say
"if you don't like the News,go out and make some of your own!" right on.

namaste
semper grumpy
mega