Sign O' The Times - I Tip My Hat Off To YOU, P.

This being a definate sign of the times:

Two SUSPECTED al-Quaeda members were arrested in Germany and, guess what? Like MOST MLM'ers, they aren't willing to "do the work themselves". They've been recruited into al-Quaeda and have, rather than be the idealistic martyr themselves, agreed to recruit OTHER suicide attackers. Way too many former mental hospital residents on the loose for them NOT to see a "good opportunity" to enrich themselves with those big, fat "terrorism insurance" payouyts Bin Laden's cohorts were promising everyone who "gave their lives in the fight against the white devil". Lord have mercy! Half the people they call "white devils" aren't caucasian themselves! Leave it to Prince to recognize this problem YEARS in advance. I can remember witting in an apartment in Los Angeles, CA, near Tom Cruise's favorite Century City haunts, listening to "The Black Album" the DAY it was released. Boy! Did I EVER recognize the times were changin'. I looked around the room and realized that my friend, Cindy, being half-black and me, being Native, Chicano, Latino, Caucasian, and Black, were the two fairest people in the room. She was a blue-eyed brunette streaked blonde and I a reddish, carmel colored (when tan, mind you) brown-eyed red head. We now might have to be a little more careful moving about South Central Los Angeles among friends AND family, because there were way to many Chets and Threats, real ones mind you, trying to swing us "THEIR WAY". The threats, being black people, some of whom both of us were related to and the Chets being people who were trained to avoid any real blackness, however so much as they revelled in Black Culture. Deep and MIGHTY Food For Thought.

Parveen Babi

Parveen Babi was found dead in her apartment 2 days ago....a star of Bollywood and nominated as a style icon by Time magazine in the 70's.

It would be interesting to find out how much of Parveen Babi's career problems were because of her attempts to Westernize herself just as 'The Press' had. I believe some of her alienation came from, not necessarily her talent, however, from her family's apparent heritage, and from The Press' ability to force Indigineous people out of their own comfortable place and into either Bollywood or Hollywood. I think she was also trying to forge her own private life, which can be next to impossible as a Screen Icon. It's happened with Brando's Family, Elvis' Family and so many others with strong cultural ties. It's amazing what 'The Papparazzi' and 'The Press' can do to people's careers and personal lives.

Things That Annoy

People who have the NERVE to enter OTHERS blog sites and change them because THEY keep trying to claim they belong to THEM! STOP IT!!!!!!! That's the 5th time today I've had to re-edit the description! Thank you!

The Sum of Us-For Those Lyle Lovett Fans, This Would Be The Start Of The Sequel To The Cheeseburger Song

The sum of us is me and you = nothing but what we two bring to the equation and when you've added and divided, multipled and subtracted all that has occurred you realize once and for all why on earth it is that you took mathematics in the first place. It was so you'd be able to go out to dinner and figure out who ate the bigger piece of steak!

Things That Annoy

People who change other people's blogs need to get a life! I do NOT mind comments. I do NOT tolerate hacking into other people's pages and calling them your OWN writing! By the by, my time as posted is 8 hours fast for the East Coast of the USA and about to change RIGHT NOW!

On Being B.E.E.

Well, as an involuntary muse for some of Brett's psychological observations, all I can say is, I get annoyed when I read some of his writing because I know, firsthand, how he gets some of his inspiration. It comes from deeply disturbed, usually drug addled individuals in rehab who rarely tell their own story while IN rehab. They usually tell stories about people they have harmed without their names attached, in spite of promising to be truthful. I believe that is where the saying "about as honest as a heroin addict in his first day of rehab" comes from. Kind of like that whole story about Brooke Shields calling Green Farms Academy asking to be shown around by me and them sending Diana Mercer instead. How annoying! What about this scam where they go down south to go into rehab using other people's ID numbers? Now THAT'S a racket! My ID is more well-travelled than I am! It's been to Africa, The United Kingdom (AND The DIVIDED Kingdom), Europe, Asia, and apparently Western Canada, where I've NEVER set foot, Mexico AND Central and SOUTH America! Can you BELIEVE it?! If I'd have caught that Harley Davidson Purse Snatching, good for nothing little brown-haired rodent of a human that used to live on East 13th Street, he would've gotten a spankin'! I BELIEVE my ID wound up in a donation box on the West Side of Manhattan, Upstate New York near Garrison or Albany, or in The Mediterranean that time!

Anyway, I was followed by his little heroin addict character when I lived in the East Village apartment sitting/subletting for Randy Danson, yes, one of Ted's ex-wives, and by others when I lived in the WestVillage near Bleecker Street. That whole "Operation: MindCrime" group really was quite intriguing, scares the daylights out of me on ocassion and had the vagur ring of Nazi Germany in their highly polished riding boots. Yet, most were part black, go figure. I guess it's the whole need to blend thing that goes on with so many blue eyed Semitic, Black, and Indigenous Americans. Never know who you might catch, eh? I think that stems from being around so many Argentinians that left South America in search of people who had fled Nazi Germany (very few of whom were actually Jewish) WITH the loot just before and just after Germany's surrender AND other people's identities. I am Jewish to many of those people simply by affiliation, even though I was baptised and brought up Anglican, raised in mostly Catholic neighborhoods and am actually probably part Spanish (Moor) through The Garcia family of Spain which goes back to a branch of my family tree fleeing of The Spanish Inquisition, mainly because they weren't from Spain, but from The Americas!

Anyway, I wish some of Brett's editors and publishers would realize that those people he interviews and talks to have RARELY told him their OWN stories, they've told him OTHER people's stories in code. Just like the folks in the 1990s back at the AICH. (First posted in the third week of August 2004, but a repeat of an OLD one-sided conversation of mine with Tom Reuel in our old Thompson Street Apartment in NYC in 1993).

Ever Get That Creeped Out Feeling Back in 2000 While Driving In Or Near Studio City, CA? (This Is For The Blonde Vamp On Angel/Buffy).

Read to the tune of The Twilight Zone Theme PLINK! PLINK! PLINK! PLINK! PLINK! PLINK!
This one's about Ms. Toad's (MY) Wild Ride in California? One of my experiences had to do with stopping at a Mobile Gas Station in the Studio City, CA/No. Hollywood, CA area and being approached by someone that I had not seen in YEARS!!!! However, he was actually one of the guys whose relatives had been working for a organ donor program as a "collector". He collected agreements from people who agreed to donate their organs to the program (it DID turn out to be UCLA). Eric, you knew the guy's relative from New York BEFORE he worked for Hanna-Barbera. We were ALL being tracked all over the country by Chinese and Japanese nationals who were USED to the practice of signing OTHER people up for drug studies and donor programs in order to get paid (an ILLEGAL farming practice which became more widespread with the Chinese Government's initiation of the "One Child" Law in China). THAT'S why it is recommended that you enter into these countries LEGALLY under you OWN ID name or REGISTERED stage name, because, if they lose track of you and you're using an alias and forgeries, you WON'T be figured out.

CREEPY! I had never seen so many of those SUVs used to transport people's remains while they were still hooked up to monitors post-mortem. They were all over! It was strange, because you could actually SEE the cryogenic gases seeping out of the back of most of the SUVs. It WAS a hot summer! (I posted this yesterday via e-mail).

The Bathing Suit & Connecticut

Alright Friends scriptwriter from H - E - Double -Toothpicks! I FINALLY caught the episode! And I'll have you know that the bathing suit thing was NOT appreciated! And I am NOT the brunette, I'm the redhead - you know, the "skinny Panavision-looking photo from the T-Installation Ad in Crain's"! I was a little offended, I am sure Laura from CT was too. You're lucky I didn't see that episode BEFORE today! That was after 240 hours (3 months) of working out and dieting (somewhat). You guys, this has been going on since that writer's strike way back in 1997 or 9. I KNOW ONE of you (at least) was in the A&E Writer's Group! You are SOOOO incredibly obnoxious! And NO, I am NOT your PARENT! You're probably one of Julie's kids.

Have You Ever?

Have you ever sat in front of a television for an hour watching a show and wondered WHERE they put the microphones in your place in order to eavesdrop on your every thought? I've done that with nearly EVERY SINGLE episode of Will & Grace. C'mon guys!!!! You KNOW better....what is it Krist that's the psychic? Or are you running around with one of those laptops they took from MIT without someone's permission?

Post Shrunk

I think this has something to do with either my Mother trying to do my laundry when I was a teenager, OR visiting Dr. Mueller....phew THAT was almost more painful than what sent me to the headshrinker in the FIRST place! Sitting in that organized little office thinking, "WHY on EARTH did he make me bring my MOTHER with me?!! Doesn't he understand that grown daughter/mother dynamic YET?! I MEAN, he's a FREUDIEN THERAPIST! If HE doesn't get it, than I think I REALLY am on the wrong planet!"

The T Thang

It's just so those with more money or credit can keep everyone else with lesser versions from hearing what THEY'RE privy to aurally. What it really means is that someone somewhere in Japan with OODLES of money is eavesdropping on you or your neighbor doing whatever thing that you thought was private. But just remember.... just because it's in Japan does NOT mean they're actually Japanese.