Category: detritus

Random TV detritus

Random detritus from this evening’s television viewing:

  • “There was one little boy who didn’t lose his mistrust.” ~ Marge Simpson on Bart foiling Sideshow Bob’s plot to murder Selma Bouvier
  • “How does it feel to be the least cultured person in a bus station?” ~ Stewie Griffin to Brian Griffin
  • “As stubborn as a four-hour erection.” (Not sure where I heard that but I like it and I will find an occasion to use it.)
  • “Put your sperm in our hands.” ~ sign at a fertility clinic on The Simpsons

Random Notes Whilst Watching the Telly

Random Notes Whilst Watching the Telly:

  • “Courage is everything.” ~ Maharaj-ji
  • “It’s a long way from Mickey Mouse to Ram.” ~ Krishna Das
  • “When the student is ready, the guru appears.”
  • “You have to calm your mind.”
  • “Unfortunately, this hospital isn’t equipped to treat stupid.” ~ The Big Bang Theory
  • “I will not accept burgers in lieu of cash.” ~ my response to a fast food commercial
  • “Maybe I am her gay friend.” ~ The Big Bang Theory
  • “Yes, I will go out with you.” “Really?” ~ The Big Bang Theory
  • “For every sin, there is a price.” (but easy payment plans are available)
  • “Long live concrete!” ~ The Big Bang Theory
  • “Your monkey sleeps inside me.” ~ The Big Bang Theory
  • “Alright, the cat’s alive. Let’s go to dinner.” ~ The Big Bang Theory

Monthly Detritus Report (12-12)

Random chatter from the Monkey Mind as it leaps from limb to limb, howls, scratches its balls and flings feces at passersby…

  • 01
    • Christmas tree up, decorated by Abi and Nick.
    • “There is nothing wrong with leaving the past behind.” The Moment of Letting Go.
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    • Keep the Han in Hanukkah.
    • Hey, I resemble that remark! … “Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown man child who can’t take care of himself.”
    • The tractors I drove on the farm were nothing like this. Need to watch this video! One word, “Awesome!”
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    • Re: shoulder. Getting referred to orthopedics. I didn’t catch all the medical jargon but there seem to be 2 issues. Something about a tendon and something has a tear. I did not not hear rotator cuff. Might have been bursa. Hoping I won’t need any surgery.
  • 14
    • Happy 94th birthday, B.K.S. Iyengar
  • 15
    • It’s hell getting old. Sudden muscle spasm in the right hip last night. Feels better this morning but hurts to put on pants.
    • As mysteriously as the bathroom lights went out yesterday morning, they came back on this morning. The TV in the bedroom mysteriously died last night. I turn it on and the little light just blinks at me. I’ll never buy another TV from Wally World. Anyone need a 32″ wide screen paperweight?
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    • Ortho appointment went well. No surgery! At home physical therapy. Planning to resume yoga practice.
    • I always suspected my cat might be a Sith Lord.
    • “I just try to make my 15-year-old self happy.” Yes, that might explain the chronic masturbation.
  • 19
    • First asana practice in quite a while but it went well. The shoulder still has some healing yet. — at Day Yoga Studio. The shoulder problem is most apparent when I’m flat on my back (supine twists, Savasana, and some core stuff). A rolled up blanket under my head helps in Savasana. Most of my practice is still possible with just a few modifications.
    • “Oh Gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.” ~ Dr. Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory (Yes, she is.)
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    • First snow of the season so driving to work was quite an adventure. It was ugly. I didn’t have much of a problem with the roads but those sharing the road with me seemed to be in panic mode. Almost got nailed by a Buick coming at me sideways. Fortunately, he came to a stop about a foot from my front bumper. I backed down the hill and let him get straightened out. Had to go around a few fender benders. I didn’t have to deal with this in Hawaii.
  • 22
    • Being subjected to musical theater against my will. Help!
  • 24
    • Watching “Scrooge” (the 1951 version)
  • 25
    • Watching “A Christmas Story”
    • Had a wonderful Christmas dinner with the whole local family and managed to smuggle a slice of apple pie back.
  • 26
    • My drive in was slow going but not nearly as adventurous as last Friday’s commute. At least there was no one sliding toward me sideways.
    • Drive home wasn’t too bad. It seems that they forgot to lower the plows to the road. Rob cleared the driveway and reports that the snowblower just compacts it in the chute. I’ll check it out this weekend.
    • 10 signs that you aren’t cut out for IT [Now they tell me.]
  • 27
    • RT @dspeers: “‘@RetweetDares: If you sleep naked, retweet this’ //thought that was pretty normal, how is that a dare?” [I recently read that only about 8% of Americans sleep naked. So 92% of Americans don’t dress appropriately for sleep? Then again, most Americans don’t dress appropriately for swimming or sunbathing.]
  • 28
    • RT @yisforyogini: “Free your mind and your ass will follow.” — George Clinton
    • Okay, we’ve had our snow. It can go away now. It’s not pretty any more.
    • Nudity is our ideal state, our pure state, our natural state, our default state. Clothing is always a deviation and a compromise.
  • 29
    • Another inch or so of snow this morning. It’s powder so it’s easy to shovel but it’s slick and not so good for driving. Oh, and why can’t the city plow crews get those snow plows a little closer to the pavement? Just saying.
    • Watching “How I Won the War”. Not bad for a British satire. Well, I think it was satire. John Lennon’s character was interesting.
  • 30
    • That’s a good start: “The key to eating healthy? Avoid any food that has a TV commercial.”
    • Happy Penultimate Day!
    • The secret to humor is… The elephant of surprise!
  • 31
    • “I’m too tired for savasana.” – said no one ever.

Compiled from Twitter and Facebook entries along with personal observations and seasoned with witticism, cynicism and sarcasm.

Monthly Detritus Report (11-12)

Random chatter from the Monkey Mind as it leaps from limb to limb, howls, scratches its balls and flings feces at passersby…

  • 02
    • We can choose to honor naturalness rather than condemn it… Naturist Math ~ East Texas Area Naturists
    • You’re Welcome (For What It’s Worth)
    • November 2nd, Christmas music in Walmart. Why am I not surprised? One holiday at time, please. I have nothing against Christmas and I like the traditional carols, but each holiday in its own season. The Christmas season begins on Black Friday.
    • Do we really ever get our shit together? Eleven Steps to a Happy Life | My Joy Practice ~ Heather Church via Yoganonymous [I miss being the age when I thought I would have my shit together by the time I was the age I am now.]
  • 03
    • Watching The Big Lebowski That was one weird-ass movie. I loved the Dude but the movie was weird.
    • Watched Dr. Detroit … classic Akroyd
  • 04
    • From a long lost fragment of a dream: “Men want to drive the cars of the bourgeoisie.” I have no idea what it’s supposed to mean.
  • 05
    • @RevRick: I’m driving the pickup truck of the proletariat.
  • 06
    • Erection Day. We’ll probably be screwed no matter who’s victorious.
    • @RevRick: Probably best to supply your own condoms & lube.
  • 08
    • Love the irony. Another reason I don’t participate in the madness. “Black Friday: Because only in America, people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.”
    • What a few minutes of focused breathing and a 10-minute meditation can do. No epiphanies, no revelations, no enlightenment. Just a few blissful moments of silence, peace and calm. Sometimes that’s just what’s needed.
  • 09
    • Happy Birthday Buddha!
  • 10
    • Tried to obtain a “Certified pre-owned” phone through Verzion store, web site and customer service. After an hour of frustration, finally went to Amazon and got another Droid X for $115. Thanks a lot Verizon. Will activating it be as painful? Why do we have to be slaves to our wireless carriers?
  • 11
    • Veterans Day. Let us remember all veterans past and present from all nations. They may have served for different reasons, different ideologies, different national policies but they all share common sacrifices. The best way to honor our veterans is to exercise the freedom they served to defend. Exercise your freedom every day. Question authority. Hold officials at every level of government accountable. If they are not serving the citizens, they are not serving and should be removed from office. We have the power to hold our government accountable and we need to exercise it or lose it.
    • Good advice. “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” – John F. Kennedy
    • Why can’t we do that here? (Other than the oil companies’ stranglehold on our collective testicles.) – “German solar powered plants produced a world record 22 giga-watts of electricity per hour, equal to 20 nuclear powered stations at full capacity. Solar power in the United States has been demonized as a ‘Left Wing conspiracy’.”
    • I shared this within 5 seconds. TEDxSF – Mel Robbins – F— YOU – How To Stop Screwing Yourself Over
  • 12
    • Today is November 12th. Veterans’ Day was yesterday. I’m still planning to get a free meal somewhere this evening.
    • Dining with my wife at Texas Roadhouse, Huber Heights. I enjoyed my free meal.
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    • Waiting for Rx at Wright-Patterson AFB Medical Center. Muscle relaxants and steroids. Better living through chemistry.
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    • Excellent, fully agree with it. Our Humanity Uniform
    • Lunch with Tina at Frisch’s in Huber. My GPS thinks I’m in Vandalia. … GPS finally found me – with Justina Romig at Friches Big Boy.
    • Watching Barbarella. Not a great film but pleasantly quirky. I had forgotten how bad an actress Jane Fonda is.
  • 17
    • Watching “1984”. I think it’s supposed to be a warning not a manual.
  • 27
    • Acting as the responsible adult until such time as I am relieved of my post.
  • 29
    • Came home to find a hole where the end of my driveway used to be. Hope they finish the job tomorrow. And I hope my neighbor doesn’t mind us using his driveway to access ours via our front lawn.

Compiled from this month’s Twitter and Facebook entries.

Monthly Detritus Report (10-12)

More random chatter from the Monkey Mind as it leaps from limb to limb, howls, scratches its balls and flings feces at passersby…

  • 01
    • Hope you had a great Blasphemy Day! Did you blasphemed yesterday? It felt good, didn’t it?
    • “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.” ~ J.K. Rowling
    • I often get them confused. “I said let’s go join a Buddhist colony! Buddhist!”
  • 02
    • Punctuation can save a life. “Let’s eat Grandpa.” vs. “Let’s eat, Grandpa.”
    • Conformity usually involves the sacrifice of one’s identity and one’s individuality and sometimes one’s principles.
  • 03
    • Why is chkdsk so slow? I’ve had root canals that were quicker and more enjoyable.
    • Only work order today was for a PC and monitor that would not power on. When I entered the office I noticed that the power strip was not plugged into the outlet. Do ya think that had anything to do with it?
    • Hatha Yoga at Day Yoga Studio. Great practice. The time on the blocks was heavenly.
  • 04
    • “What were once vices are now fond memories.” — me, just now.
  • 05
    • RT @yisforyogini: “Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.” ~ Cathy Guisewite
    • Who is Marilyn Trumbull and why do I need to get the latest on her? Is she someone I should know?
  • 06
    • Nothing memorable posted today.
  • 07
    • “I don’t trip. I do random gravity checks.” That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
    • Working on a few little projects around the house.
  • 08
    • “We have been programmed to consume foods that do not nourish, buy things we do not need, borrow money we will never have, marry though we do not know how to love and live without questioning the meaning of life. How can we embody our unlimited potential if we all follow nearly identical life paths? More importantly, how can we expect our planet to sustain us as we blindly follow paths to destruction?” We can change the program.
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    • RT @DepressedDarth: Padme and I are never ever ever ever getting back together.
  • 14
    • I’ve found most of the veggies for the cleanse. Next on my agenda is to replace a headlamp bulb and find the seeds and the other stuff.
    • Replacing the headlight bulb turned out to be much simpler than anticipated. I take back all the terrible things I said earlier today about GM engineers. Sometimes they get it right.
  • 15
    • First attempt at kitcheri ws a disaster. Did not bear any resemblance to any kitcheri I’ve ever seen. Rice porridge, while not a disaster, still counts as a failure. Very abbreviated yoga practice. Feeling tired, hungry and unclean this morning. On the other hand, the CCF tea turned out okay.
  • 16
    • Love the Nude Beach Planet!
    • “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” ~ George Orwell
    • Good read. Why Life is So Difficult Today (and Mankind in Such a Mess) ~ Ben Ralston
    • “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” ~ Alexander Graham Bell
    • I’ve let go of Marilyn Trumbull. Alas, I never really knew her. Nevertheless, I wish her well. Live long and prosper, Marilyn.
  • 17
    • RT @yisforyogini: “Truth makes happy, truth liberates.” — Nisargadatta Maharaj
    • Great hatha yoga class this evening at Day Yoga Studio. Surprised myself going into Salamba Sarvangasana from Setu Bandha Sarvangasana. I’ve always had trouble with that but tonight it just happened.
  • 18
    • Pretty good practice this morning but yesterday’s magic did not repeat itself. The magic is like that. It comes when you least expect it, not when you call for it.
  • 19
    • And government marches on…blindly. Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota ~ Will Oremus
    • Turkey Season — I shot my first turkey yesterday! Scared everyone in the frozen food section. It was awesome! Gettin’ old is so much fun…
    • Saw this in my Twitter feed this morning. Don’t know who said it but I like it: “A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realized how blessed you are.”
    • Bonus quote of the day: “Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.” — Jodie Foster
    • Not looking for the 4.5 lbs I lost this week. Don’t miss them.
    • Squat everywhere — The Squat Song
  • 20
    • “When you start to tell lies you enter a very dangerous arena, a grey world where black and white blur into one, and right and wrong lose their meaning. And one day you will find yourself an altogether grey person, because you will have started to believe your own lies.” The latest Yoga Scandal? Or you prefer to read about Truth? ~ Ben Ralston
    • “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” ~ Author Unknown
    • It’s sad that the protest songs of the 60s & 70s are just as relevant now as they were then. Has anything really changed? — Sunshine ~ Jonathan Edwards
    • “Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming to a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work … Sacredly, Secretly, and Silently … and those with ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’, will respond.” — The Arcturians
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    • Why Tantra? A Personal Story ~ Nicole Taylor Linehan
    • Upgraded from ADSL to U-verse. Have my network all reconfigured and working. Not sure what I’m going to do with the TV/DVR box. I’ll give them back eventually. I just wanted faster Internet.
  • 27
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    • Trust the process, don’t rush it. I’ve been learning that lesson this past week. On Gateways and Trusting the Process ~ Sadhana for One
    • It doesn’t matter what you believe. What matters is what you do. “Welcome Great Pumpkin”
    • Sunday hatha yoga at Sri Yoga Center.
  • 30
    • I always liked old Ben. “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” — Benjamin Franklin
  • 31
    • For some reason my droid is sucking too much power. Have to charge it 3 to 4 times a day and that’s with an extended battery. Haven’t installed any new apps. Even the original OEM battery is dead after a couple hours.

Compiled from this month’s Twitter and Facebook entries.

Monthly Detritus Report (09-12)

Random chatter from the Monkey Mind as it leaps from limb to limb, howls, scratches its balls and flings feces at passersby…

  • 01
    • Just watched Preventing and Reversing Diabetes Naturally on Netflix. It was very enlightening and increased my understanding of diabetes. I recommend it. The DVD is available at Amazon.com
  • 02
    • Hatha Yoga at Sri Yoga Center. I know it’s S.W.O.R.D. but while Melissa is teaching, our space is Sri Yoga. The energy was great, as was the class.
    • Lunch with my sweetheart at Roosters.
    • Whipped butter? I’d like mine to be treated humanely.
    • I like it. Dudeism: The Slowest Growing Religion in the World
  • 03
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    • Home practice going well so far. Full practice of pranayama, asana & meditation in about 1.5 hours. Still time for the morning stuff.
  • 05
    • Didn’t do my A.M. yoga but planning to take Melissa’s class tonight. That will sort of make up for it. Just a misstep, not a failure.
    • Great Yoga Class at Day Yoga Studio.
  • 06
    • Good practice this morning even if I did cut the meditation short.
    • Vivastra Hatha Yoga — great way to start the day!
    • Great restorative class at Day Yoga Studio. Where was the rest of the class?
    • Bluefish editor really pissing me off since Ubuntu upgrade. In fact, new desktop look & feel kinda sucks.
  • 07
    • Having roadkill with Justina at Texas Roadhouse – Huber Heights, OH.
  • 08
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    • Meditation & Yoga at Sri Yoga Center.
  • 10
    • Yesterday was “No Underwear Day.” As if I needed a special day for it.
    • RT @MensHumor: I don’t have a problem with idiots… I have a problem with the fact that they have an Internet connection.
    • Got my Gnome desktop back and my editor is behaving much closer to my preferences. It isn’t completely right but it’s tolerable. I think Linux would be more mainstream if they wrote documentation that moderately geeky people could understand. We ain’t all uber-geeks.
  • 11
    • It’s time to stop living in fear and proclaim our freedom. “We are free and we shall not live in fear!”
    • RT @yisforyogini: for best results, simplify. 🙂
    • RT @ekhartyoga: When you need to go fast, go slow …
    • RT @nudiarist: Is Naked Yoga for You? (Hell Yes!!)
    • RT @nakedjen: It can be so, so stupid the things we will do to ourselves because we’re afraid. We would never do it to anyone else. Love you just as much.
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    • Can I get an amen? “We live in the era of smart phones and stupid people.”
    • New Roku box arrived. I have it setup on main TV now with wired connection. Old one in bedroom. Need to get another HDMI cable.
  • 15
    • RT @phenude: #naked morning coffee…best way to start any day. #trynude
    • I had a great yoga practice this morning. I take that back. I had an awesome yoga practice this morning.
    • RT @nakedjen: I am not perfect. Neither are you. We are in this together. I’m here to love it out with you. We are all worthy of love and belonging.
  • 17
    • Semi-busy day. Why won’t the PC I’m testing randomly reboot like it did on the user’s desk? I hate it when technology won’t fail.
  • 19
    • Saw today that hospital gift shop has taken down Halloween display and put up Thanksgiving display. Let’s celebrate them in their own season!
  • 21
    • Diversity Dialogue topic – “Unintentional Intolerance”. If I’m intolerant you can be assured that it’s intentional.
    • RT @alyankovic: I stand corrected – a mammogram is NOT a message delivered by a topless woman.
  • 23
    • Rats! DSL modem is Tango Uniform. Waiting for HH Gregg to open.
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    • Happy Blasphemy Day! Be sure you blaspheme today. You’ll enjoy it and you’ll thank yourself for it later.
    • She brought this up in her “Sacred Life” workshop yesterday. I’ve observed the tendency for people to see only the black and white while the answers and the really interesting stuff are contained in those shades of gray. 500 Shades of Gray ~ Lila Lolling
    • Great yoga class at SWORD (Sri Yoga from 9:15 to 10:45). Still sore from Hatha Yoga yesterday.
    • RT @MandukaYoga: “Yoga is the practice of tolerating the consequences of being yourself.” – Bhagavad Gita.
    • RT @Ladygod1va: The problem with naturist activities is their limited scheduling, example: be able to swim when I have time, not fixed weekly 2 hour slot.

Compiled from this month’s Twitter and Facebook entries.

Monthly Detritus Report (08-12)

Random chatter from the Monkey Mind as it leaps from limb to limb, howls, scratches its balls and flings feces at passersby…

  • 01
    • Conspiring to commit public nudity.
    • Today’s random thought: “Unlocking the answers, I let the questions sort themselves out.”
    • I’m not a Quaker but I like what they’re saying here: Is it Time to Strip Quakerism Naked?
  • 02
    • Many of my friends happen to be recumbent urinators.
    • RT @gymnosophy: RT @nudismforever: To be fair to everyone out there in tweeter land. I’m only a nudist on days ending in Y.
  • 03
    • RT @iNAKED_Official: RT @RetweetDares: If you sleep naked, retweet this.
    • Phrase of the day: “Pro-ignorance culture” It describes what’s going on so well.
    • Do you know what burns me? Dogs; they’re always telling you to kill someone. That’s why I don’t have a dog.
    • Apparently I’m a yearner — reserved, open to new things, suspicious & cynical, when mind is made up sticks with it. Pretty close, I guess. What Does Your Sleep Position Say About You? via Elephant Journal
    • I did TM for a while about 30 years ago and found it quite beneficial at the time. Now I prefer a more traditional yoga meditation although sometimes I’ll find myself using my TM mantra instead of So Ham. Basic TM is easy, just sit comfortably and repeat the mantra for 20 minutes, twice a day. You don’t have to think about breathing or posture. — Ellen DeGeneres on (Transcendental) Meditation via Elephant Journal
    • This is the approach I’ve taken. I may never get my foot behind my head but that’s okay. — Yoga: A Practice, Not a Performance
  • 05
    • It’s great that modern science is looking at yoga.
    • Watching Rubber for no reason.
    • The Meaning of Life — Every sperm is sacred…
  • 06
    • National Underwear Day? We have a day for garments that are, for the most part, useless, unnecessary and unhealthy?
  • 08
    • RT @gymnosophy: Sleeping naked means never having to buy pajamas…
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    • Naked co-ed water volleyball should be an Olympic sport.
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    • “Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.”
  • 16
    • Yeah. “I know the voices aren’t real, but man, do they ever come up with some great ideas.”
    • Finished reading Teaching of Buddha. Next up is The Upanishads.
  • 17
    • So true — If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you. ~ Fred Devito
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    • It’s like that sometimes. Not sure if I’m a nudist, or just too lazy to get dressed… 🙂
    • I’ve always liked Emerson. Emerson’s Declaration of Spiritual Independence. via Elephant Journal
    • A good definition — Definition of Stupid: Knowing the truth, seeing the truth, but still believing the lies.
  • 22
    • “The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms…” ~ Guy de Maupassant
    • Target is already pushing Halloween costumes. Halloween is still 70 days away! It’s getting too commercial.
  • 23
    • “We were just young, restless and bored…” I’m no longer young.
  • 24
    • “The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.” – Bill Maher
    • Had the most awesome charbroiled chicken breasts ever for lunch today — at Georges Family Restaurant.
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    • Installed Mama’s new webcam and got her Skype set up last night.
    • Yesterday was a fluke. At 7:30 I was reluctantly considering wearing clothes. Society has such unrealistic expectations of me.
  • 30
    • Society has unrealistic expectations, period.
  • 31
    • RT @All_Nudist: “Advice is you telling a younger version of yourself what you wish you’d known.” – Nick on Twitter

Compiled from this month’s Twitter and Facebook entries.

Monthly Detritus Report (07-12)

Random chatter from the Monkey Mind as it leaps from limb to limb, howls, scratches its balls and flings feces at passersby…

  • 03
    • Yesterday was What’s-her-name’s birthday. Yes, I fondly remember my first lust but my attachment to the memory is fading.
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    • When do I get the job, the car, the computer and the credit I deserve? Wait. Maybe I already have them.
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    • Social stigma, adolescent attitudes and puritanical perceptions don’t change over night. Legally Topless — But Will They? – All Nudist
    • I wonder what horrifying percentage of my life I spend watching a little blue bar move left to right across a computer screen. Then again, I really don’t want to know. Knowing this would only confirm how much of my life is being wasted.
  • 11
    • This morning I saw that the Grass Gestapo had placed their “sign of shame” on my neighbor’s dead lawn. Will they come for me next? Never again!
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    • Re: the Viacom-DirecTV battle. It’s bad enough that I’m paying for channels I don’t or won’t watch but now I’m paying for channels I can’t watch. I’m rethinking this whole television thing. It is so overrated. The medium has so much potential but has achieved appallingly so little.
    • My son just gave me a copy of “Bhagavad Gita As It Is” by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivendanta Swami Prabhupada. He had gotten it as a birthday gift and figured I’d appreciate it. Thanks Rob.
    • Paulsen in 2012.
  • 16
    • Don’t Frack My Mother Sean Lennon is great. Looks just like his dad but sounds a bit like Arlo Guthrie. Yoko is … Yoko.
  • 19
    • “The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.” ~ Mad Magazine [I’m sure there’s a lot of truth to that. I can imagine the info-mercial for it.]
    • Do people have a deep-seated psychological need to be offended, a compulsion to find things that offend them?
  • 20
    • Watching ‘The Tudors’ on Netflix. I enjoy historical dramas.
  • 21
    • Cleaned out the shed this morning. Found stuff I haven’t seen in years, some it I’ve been looking for. Other stuff will go to a yard sale or given away. A truckload is destined for the landfill. But it is neat and organized now.
  • 24
    • At this time I have nothing to add to the rhetoric, er, discussion.
    • “There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.” – Jessica Hatchigan
  • 25
    • Core yoga plus bloated gassy feeling is not a good combination. I have never held mula bandha for so long (even during Savasana). Feeling better now that the gas has finally passed. Mint tea in the works now.
  • 26
    • Still not feeling any inclination to participate in any of the ongoing rhetoric. Keeping my truthiness to myself for now.
  • 27
    • You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. – John J. Plomp. Ain’t that the truth…
  • 31
    • Society may often burden us with arbitrary requirements to wear clothing but wearing clothing is rarely a necessity.
    • This morning I noticed the church down the road had a “sign of shame.” Even God has to mow his lawn.

Compiled from this month’s Twitter and Facebook entries.

Monthly Detritus Report (06-12)

Random chatter from the Monkey Mind as it leaps from limb to limb, howls, scratches its balls and flings feces at passersby…

  • 01
    • Googled my address and, according to Zillow.com, I have a fireplace. I’ve been living there for 18 years and I haven’t found it yet.
    • It’s the best way to meditate (for me anyway): 10 Things I Learned While Meditating Naked
  • 04
    • “We ain’t a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that.” ~ ShitMyDadSays
  • 06
    • I’ve begun reading the Eknath Easwaran translation & commentary of The Bhagavad Gita on my tablet.
  • 10
    • “The only devils in this world are those running around inside our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.” – Ghandi
  • 11
    • RT @wpnude: If you haven’t seen me naked, then we probably aren’t really friends. #nudist #wpnude #naturist
    • Clothing compulsiveness and body shame are the result of CULTural programming. Nudists have been deprogrammed.
    • After a very long nap this afternoon I’m feeling much better than I was this morning. Still not up to my usual 85% but by morning…
  • 15
    • “Engaging your creative nature with gratitude for the breath through movement is advanced yoga practice.” ~ Dan Clement
  • 16
    • Helped Rob move his stuff into a storage unit. It took three trips. This evening he’ll return to the nest again.
    • Watching Shaun of the Dead. I think I’m missing something.
  • 19
    • Visit from the Grass Gestapo today. Have to mow my lawn tonight. “Vee vill be back! Und vee vill bring der sign.”
    • “There’s no reason that you should accept the norms set by society unless you have researched their validity and agree with them. Most of the time, these norms turn out to be arbitrary. Even worse is the fact that so many remain convicted to ideas and morals that have no natural or compassionate basis.” ~ Nurba
  • 20
    • I think we should demand that the burgers we buy look like the ones in the ads.
    • Another scorcher and the AC isn’t up to the task. Hope to hear from a local heating & cooling place to get an estimate for getting it replaced. It’s on its last legs.
  • 22
    • Need to hold a gigantic bake sale this weekend. 2 banks turned me down.
  • 24
    • Too hot for clothes. New AC on Wed but will still prefer no clothes.
    • Mama’s HP Netbook is not well. I think it’s either the AC adapter or the power connection on the computer. Of course, it’s out of warranty so I’ll probably have the honor of opening it up if it comes to that. That should be fun. I’ll have to wait until after payday to order parts. [Working fine now.]
  • 27
    • New AC being installed. Looking forward to comfort in the coming heatwave.
  • 28
    • Vivastra Hatha Yoga practice this morning in my Sadhana space. Felt good.
  • 30
    • Vivastra Hatha Yoga this morning. Great Savasana and meditation. Om.
    • Watching 4th of July fireworks from the neighbor’s yard with Abi.

Compiled from this month’s Twitter and Facebook entries.