tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24242038057058691032024-02-20T05:44:23.617-08:00Digital DynamicUncategorized reading for the randomized mindDigital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.comBlogger277125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-79792128651603568062020-02-14T19:47:00.001-08:002020-02-14T19:47:06.595-08:00Wolfenstein 2 The New Collossus - A First Play EXTRA!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z2jZNaaIgGo" width="480"></iframe>Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-24121977917900065712020-02-12T00:00:00.002-08:002020-02-12T00:26:34.191-08:00I watch you go....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heart wide open</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Eyes firmly shut</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Not with reason</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but faith in...what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Faith in the unspoken a feeling shared</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Faith in a union but no armor to a heart bared</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fool or hero, neither or both</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A trust given not earned on little more than hope</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What could I do but gather more lines</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for another sad tome of a union denied</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My shadows her demons both tainting the air</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So much promise, so much hope but no fruit to bear</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her love restrained so shackled by shadows</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mine given freely but fearing the gallows</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The day is over the night draws first breath</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">A<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">t the well of the unrequited</span> again </span>I mourn love's death</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I mourn the truth more that two couldn't be united</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I mourn one last time and for a moment, delighted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For what it was, so much to me even for a little while.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">At times the memory still brings a smile</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's no shame that to love I surrendered</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That she woke a still heart with stirred embers</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But now I am done and alone is no burden</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What I seek lives not here, of this she is certain</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Give to me now a moment of grace even if strength shows not on a tortured face</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The heart burns strong but seeks not another to know love is to be love</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and that needs no other.</span><br />
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Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-68147123462916812802020-01-28T08:50:00.001-08:002020-01-28T08:50:55.153-08:00When you don't know Unconditional love<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XRhG8Fti0fc" width="480"></iframe>Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-64633175922840310742020-01-19T10:12:00.001-08:002020-01-19T10:12:54.820-08:00Sonoran Backroads: 4 Peaks Road<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q0nrgGKaxRc" width="480"></iframe>Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-47084130025669589562020-01-13T19:11:00.001-08:002020-01-13T19:11:39.284-08:00More! Trans Siberian Orchestra from the 2019 Phoenix show!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hQ8QZNgUC38" width="480"></iframe>Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-33930279777027187272020-01-13T19:09:00.001-08:002020-01-13T19:09:19.479-08:004 Peaks Snow - Bush Highway Road Trip (12/29.2019)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UTM-CFlnnnM" width="480"></iframe>Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-60148998938839027242019-12-28T22:44:00.001-08:002019-12-28T22:44:13.020-08:00Christmas Through The Windshield 2019 (Red Mountain Community Church & L...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UbiJEkleFXw" width="480"></iframe>Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-12288081275929007142019-12-28T22:43:00.001-08:002019-12-28T22:43:28.495-08:00Christmas Through The Windshield 2019 Falcon Field neighborhood<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X0GVkimAK9Y" width="480"></iframe>Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-47410207940142485272019-12-18T05:57:00.001-08:002019-12-18T05:57:15.231-08:00Trans Siberian Orchestra Live - Phx, AZ Dec 1st 2019<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cjM8-iVh6Qk" width="480"></iframe>Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-24695575109160936682019-09-28T21:17:00.006-07:002019-09-28T21:20:44.235-07:00Perspective : The rubber meets the road: a practical example<div style="text-align: center;">
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Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-44020177577341750822019-09-09T15:12:00.000-07:002019-09-11T11:39:32.056-07:00Crepe Hanger - Before the body's even cold<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">It seems that sadness is a powerful muse for me...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Much of what I've committed to these pages has come from places of sadness. Anger, injustice and disgust are in there too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's not easy to push away the insecurity, fear and doubt. My past is littered with them as no doubt is yours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Someone suggested things long gone that can no longer hurt me hold sway because of some degree of neurosis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've often said that we are prisoners of our experience. To give it power is to fulfill its prophecies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What does that mean?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I often make the mistake of assuming that others think as I do, I place weight in things that others don't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps an analogy would serve to explain it better. You know me, the king of analogies... :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Imagine a waiter in a busy restaurant as he tends to his patrons. It's important that the patrons are served what they want, the way they want it, in a timely manner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But something is strange about this waiter.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">First, when taking the order he repeats it back to the customer 4 times to ensure he got it right.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Second, when he takes the order to the kitchen he hands a copy of the recipe to the cook to ensure the meal is prepared properly.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Third when it's time to deliver the order he takes with him extra plates, silverware and glasses just in case.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Fourth, when he finally delivers the meal he hangs around the table watching the diner eat the meal looking for any sign of displeasure. If such an event were to occur he would instantly spring into action in an attempt to save himself from the barbs of an angry customer.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thing is...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With all this attention the very thing he hoped to avoid has come about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's go through the list again.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">First, nobody likes to talk to waiters that long, The first thing that comes to most people's minds in such a scenario is that the waiter either thinks they're stupid or he's just a pretentious jerk. Not winning friends and influencing people there.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Second, A waiter telling a cook how to prepare a meal isn't going to go well...nuff said.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Third, Worrying about every possible horrible thing that can go wrong between the kitchen and the table only makes more unnecessary work You've accomplished nothing and probably won't make it through a full shift because you're so tired of carrying half the kitchen cabinet with you all night. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Fourth, This waiter is preparing for a disaster that hasn't even shown up on the radar yet. This is probably the worst of the four because the waiter is giving power to a negative expectation.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Worst, if something bad does happen it only proves to validate his fears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Self-Fulfilling prophecy is complete.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What was a normal day waiting tables has turned into every horrible thing that can be imagined exactly because of the power we gave to fear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So why would someone act this way?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some would call it neurotic and the scenario above is a pretty good representation of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But where does the behavior come from?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again, we look to our past, to our experiences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What we find there may be trauma, tragedy and pain that's burrowed deep into our souls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's easy to say, "just let it go" but a lifetime of experiences like this can form behaviors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my own experience I've had times where I was what my grandmother would call a "crepe hanger"</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHK7MMTir8fHFE-F-RzA-hINymtSyLXWzCGVm2DQG4IlNE2iss6PN6dxl16XD0chuzMIUfttF7PsgljNVFeylSnk0GTZuAPx7CCyL9hH1QF-0_TloU6v1a27ik13MQ3DNBeJwGnfGJlrg/s1600/black+wreath.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHK7MMTir8fHFE-F-RzA-hINymtSyLXWzCGVm2DQG4IlNE2iss6PN6dxl16XD0chuzMIUfttF7PsgljNVFeylSnk0GTZuAPx7CCyL9hH1QF-0_TloU6v1a27ik13MQ3DNBeJwGnfGJlrg/s1600/black+wreath.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Crepe hangers were folks back in the old days that would decorate funeral parlors. The body would literally still be warm when they would spring into action with their less than festive decor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It means, looking for catastrophe where none exists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know that at least in some part I've done this and created self-fulfilling prophecies that only reinforce a neurotic tendency.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I, like most people, seek calm and a sense of security leading me to defend against anything that appears to threaten the bliss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The issue is that all that defense can end up much like our waiter up there. Good intentions, bad outcomes that only reinforce the crepe-hanging tendency.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Worry is something I learned early on. Perhaps it comes from being raised by a depression-era grandmother who always operated from a place of lack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps it was an early childhood that made me all too aware of how scary and cold the world could be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now in my later years I do struggle to give at least as much power to the light as is so easily given to the dark. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes I'm fine and sometimes fear and insecurity grip me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I often say, "I hate always being right" In those times I know I've probably just completed another self-fulfilling prophecy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, things have gone down the wrong path more than I'd like them to and I'm aware I have a part to play in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nothing happens without our participation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nothing happens in a vacuum either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all affect each other and respond to each other' s energy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just happen to be more sensitive than most and it causes me problems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Problems that feed a monster that delights in manifesting dark prophecies. Keeping the monster at bay requires sorting reality from prophecy and that requires a change of perspective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After all, if you start something looking for an ending then that's all you will achieve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm tired of endings...</span><br />
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Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-83753898794836331502019-09-08T14:20:00.001-07:002019-09-08T15:27:24.114-07:00We Just Disagree<div style="text-align: center;">
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"There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys. There's only you and me and we just disagree.."<br />
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The crossroads come before me again.<br />
Ribbons of consequence intersecting our lives.<br />
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Why does inspiration only come at the point of departure?<br />
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Each path we cross brings a lesson. Each life we touch a catalyst.<br />
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What was good was beautiful, what brought us to this metaphysical off-ramp, tragic.<br />
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But see the lesson for what it was and embrace the joy we found while we were together.<br />
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Our journey short but the distance traveled, far.<br />
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Let that which was good guide and nourish you as it has me.<br />
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Find your own peace and take what you've learned to build the world you desire.<br />
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That our path is no longer shared only means that the universe wanted us to share just a small part of our journey.<br />
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Now it is behind us and with both joy and sorrow I can watch you go. <br />
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Know that I did love you and that was enough.<br />
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<br />Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-25603223632232666642019-08-11T16:11:00.002-07:002019-08-11T16:11:49.564-07:00Best of the latest Battlefield stream - A dramatic ( funny ) reading<div style="text-align: center;">
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Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-36120822279804360282019-07-10T23:53:00.002-07:002019-07-10T23:53:35.987-07:00Whose voice?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've allowed seeds planted but they're not my own</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The war rages between past and now</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The desire and passion obscured somehow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Believe what I see or what I've seen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Belief in something in between</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So much in my heart it's hard to know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So much in my head tempting me so</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A kind of madness that destroys the soul</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A love so deep that none could know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Embracing the light that begs to be seen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But vulnerable to those dark times in between</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Voices demanding to be heard</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Manifesting doubts of the wholly absurd</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Weak from this pointless battle, ready to fall</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But for her I stand and risk it all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whether I stand on the mount or crumple to the ground</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The path leads where the voices can make no sound</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this I am fool or prophet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is for us to know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Silence the voices, they come from dark places below</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sadness is a willing muse. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The words flow easily from pain like a fresh wound.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm not who I was but the comfort of his prison still beckons.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How easy to retreat to my own exile.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How comfortable the lie of a well-worn facade.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How terrifying to leave behind the cage forged in my mind.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The comfort of resignation. The solace of denial.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The wages of despair from the toil of a fool.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time to change my occupation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time to stop hedging bets never placed.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time to practice what we preach.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm open to the world, I ask nothing but its performance.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Throw away the scales, love isn't measured, it's given.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The connection is there it asks nothing but to be.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It demands nothing but your attention.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The night sky, cold void or open window.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I see the light not the darkness now. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I seek only what is given.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I demand nothing and delight in everything.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The door closes behind as I step through. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing behind serves anymore save the lessons that brought me here.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each day is it's own, each embrace the first.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I will be that which I want to see.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">...and I will no longer be alone.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There are things I should be doing....</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They're not getting done....</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Things in need of attention...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But my thoughts are drawn to one...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I need to stop thinking about this, busy myself with the mundane...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tend to those things safe, measurable and plain...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What the hell am I thinking? Where am I going with this?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Is there an outcome any different from the others?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Or am I addicted to an imagined bliss?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I've written of it before but now I feel the wiser.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The heart strains to take flight but the mind screams louder...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Nothing here for you, why do you persist?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Why? You foolish analytical child!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Because life was better lived when such a foolish heart was wild....</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Better when the tangible held little value...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Better when survival was measured in a shared gaze </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Your baubles and trinkets, your empty expressions of pomp.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A manufactured reality, a facade dissipating in a haze.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I've felt, I've known this truth that I ache to share...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But even alone a burden I'm blessed to bear.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'd give my life to bring the impossible for her.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Even if all in vain... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But Foolish man, shouldn't you be asking...would she do the same?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">No matter calculating child. The heart trumps the brain...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">To love another is to love the world even if it brings pain.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I will,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I can,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I do</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">and know what I feel will remain.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My heart never empty, my faith never drained.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But the tear can come now and then when thoughts of wishes unmet.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When pangs of sorrow mix with sadness and regret.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And even then in my darkest I will praise the day.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When I felt that which no words can do justice.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When for that moment the heart would have it's say.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #121212; color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">I didn't write the lyrics but they seem apropo right now.... </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #121212; color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">But that's a point in time, a vibration in solo. I entertain the positive and the negative </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #121212; color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">to find the truth lying somewhere between them.</span><br />
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Isn't the right thing to do
How can I ever change things
That I feel?
If I could
Maybe I'd give you my world
How can I
When you won't take it from me
You can go your own way
Go your own way
You can call it
Another lonely day
You can go your own way
Go your own way
Tell me why
Everything turned around
Packing up
Shacking up's all you wanna do
If I could
Baby I'd give you my world
Open up
Everything's waiting for you
You can go your own way
Go your own way
You can call it
Another lonely day
You can go your own way
go your own way
You can go your own way
Go your own way
You can call it
Another lonely day
You can go your own way
go your own way
You can call it
Another lonely day
You can go your own way
Call it another lonely day
You can go your own way</span><br />
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Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-90492039645887784692019-02-22T01:55:00.001-08:002019-02-22T14:43:14.412-08:00Cashing in on the Innocent - Self-serving agendas & revisionist history<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hate to
date a video by bringing up a current event but the coming YouTube Adpocalypse
in 2019 is being driven by yet another self-serving "activist." One whose own past is questionable in the
context of his "activism" becoming
a prime example of what's wrong with social media.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't
usually get involved in new media controversies. I see them as hollow, pointless and
self-serving to the so-called "activists."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nobody
questions the source if there's an opportunity to milk a story for all its
worth. For example, I watched a couple of videos on the" Pedo Ring"
controversy on YouTube which is causing major advertisers to pull out of the
platform. While I don't always agree
with the viewpoints of channels like the
TheQuartering or Optimus , I have to
agree with the premise that the media's new "YouTube warrior" is less
about his cause and more about his popularity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I won't
bother to name his channel as I have no desire to encourage the behavior. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That this
guy went from virtually nothing to monetized overnight with YouTube's blessing
is ironic considering he's attacking the very platform he's deriving revenue
from and being given a voice to speak by it.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That he
blames the platform for the problem is either misplaced aggression or outright
sensationalism. I lean toward the
latter. There were ways to achieve his
goals without causing harm to legitimate creators or the platform. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In essence it's like suing an automaker for a
fatal accident because the car went too fast.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can
make a safer car and Youtube is hypersensitive about being a safe
platform. That someone finds a way to
misuse it for their twisted compulsions is not reason to attack and damage
it. Where is the personal responsibility
here? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm sick
and tired of so-called "activists" blaming everything but the
perpetrator of the misdeed for whatever "cause célèbre" is popular
today. Half-truths, half-reasoned,
complete insanity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let me be clear. YouTube is no great ally of mine and has done
my own channels great harm with their overheated fear of losing safe harbor and
broken search algorithm but if I do something wrong it's my fault not theirs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No, YouTube
isn't pure and unsullied. In fact you
can find literally hundreds of channels blessed by YouTube whose only purpose
is to instruct new "creators" how to essentially STEAL content from
other videos on the platform, abuse the search algorithm and make money for
doing nothing but a cut and paste of other peoples work. The result is 1000's of "Top Ten"
compilation videos with millions of views and thousands in revenue for these
new "creators." The original
creators see none of it and worse the search algorithm gets pre-loaded with
garbage ultimately crowding out legitimate content.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the
same kind of sensationalist and seedy mechanism the so-called
"activist" uses to enrich
himself at the expense of others. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's the
same issue I have with the so-called "woke" movement that treats
everything not 100% in line with their views as "misogynistic."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not
misogynistic to be against a revisionist history agenda even when it's in the
form of popular media.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The new
"Captain Marvel" movie is a prime example by making it less about
entertainment and more about an agenda.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where have
we heard that before...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Games like
Battlefield 5, TV shows like Doctor Who and the militant effort to reshape a
world view into something worse than the
wrongs they're trying to correct.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a
stupid game, a dumb comic book, a nerdy TV show. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, it's all of those things but all of them
have their own history, their own take on the world of their time. A view that should not be lost and a story
that must be built upon not denied. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'd rather
that Doctor Who wasn't the new vehicle for a blatant political agenda. I'd rather that we didn't need to focus on
gender in a video game or a comic book character for the same reason. All of these mediums can help change a world
view but not by alienating half of it.
This is the problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
pendulum will swing, that's true, but every pendulum has a fulcrum. Without it there is no pendulum only
anarchy. Denying history, denying other
views denies the fulcurm. Good or Bad
our history is our foundation. We try to
take that which is good and learn from that which is wrong and unjust.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For
example, with all the evils of the Roman Empire to say that it's gifts to
modern civilization are irrelevant is simply ignorant. Succeeding generations after the fall have
tried to learn from the past and hopefully not repeat its worst aspects. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not always
with success but to whitewash the failures or deny the history is to perpetuate
the greater sin. To align with the cult
of personality and the cause célèbre while blatantly denying anything that
conflicts with your own world view or your own contribution to the problem only
moves civilization that much more quickly to collapse. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This sounds
more like I agree with the rampant SJW causes of the day but in fact I accuse
them of the very sin they claim to be vanquishing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We come
back to ideology again. The truth lies
not in any full swing of the pendulum but rather where it rests at the center.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This song was rolling around my head for some reason. Don't know why, just was.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh well...</span></span><br />
<br />Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424203805705869103.post-3275659010180669832019-01-18T03:49:00.000-08:002019-01-18T04:16:12.663-08:00The Orville: A better Star Trek than Star Trek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a ridiculous name for a StarShip.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Orville.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of going where no man has gone before...Instead of evoking visions of the first flight with the brothers Wright (as in Orville and Wilbur) </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAa95t1JEj7LPoZ6dGyV4eVrGiSKaTwXTazi_xr58jqTTgAoAQFffCXFi9nZPj7fAkyJT2wlbOHZEmOhQxf1et5Zp99IfS5x5oBgbZ68ZQodyu51D102mviwAg7WZDzvX24o1Okwak5X8/s1600/redenbacher.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="405" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAa95t1JEj7LPoZ6dGyV4eVrGiSKaTwXTazi_xr58jqTTgAoAQFffCXFi9nZPj7fAkyJT2wlbOHZEmOhQxf1et5Zp99IfS5x5oBgbZ68ZQodyu51D102mviwAg7WZDzvX24o1Okwak5X8/s320/redenbacher.jpg" width="209" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think of Redenbacher...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You know, the popcorn guy...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...and maybe that's the point.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But somewhere along the way Seth McFarlane managed to do something no Star Trek Series has done in 4 decades. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a time when the "official" Star Trek canon has been bastardized into some weird amalgamation of action movie meets Sci-Fi chic peppered with liberal doses of gratuitous sex and violence for no other reason than they could.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here comes a parody, a spoof, the comic relief of the genre that somehow managed to get it right.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Orville</i> while not as straight-laced as <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i> or as moody and lifeless as <i>Discovery</i> has more in common with the original series than either of them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What made the original Star Trek series good was the writing and the chemistry of the actors. You didn't have to club the viewer over the head with the message. The drama made sense. Tension had a reason and didn't have to be manufactured. You cared about the characters, maybe even shed a tear at their pain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tonight while watching T<i>he Orville</i> it happened for me. Yes, it was campy in spots but there were moments every bit as poignant as the the best Star Trek episodes regardless of who sat in the captain's chair. It touched me like any good Star Trek episode would. It made me think. It made me feel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Orville</i> works for the same reason <i>Star Trek</i> worked in the 60's. We can identify with the characters. We can see ourselves in their trials and tribulations without being forced to. I think of <i>The Orville</i> as kind of a <i>Next Generation</i> if Picard had a better sense of humor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a funny show but not <i>Family Guy</i> kind of funny. The laughs aren't forced, they're natural and fit the narrative. The kind of thing you might say to a friend in a similar situation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">OK the obvious question....</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It's a show about being on a spaceship with alien people 400 years in the future. How would I EVER be in a similar situation?" </span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's the gist of it, it's relatable, recognizable. Not in the way that <i>Deep Space 9</i> was in defiling the rose colored glasses of Roddenberry's Star Trek universe by exposing its dark underbelly. Its </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span data-dobid="hdw">rai·son d'ê·tre</span> to make the future just as ugly as our present.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No, the problem with many of the Star Trek series that came after Kirk and Spock was that they took themselves too seriously. Somewhere along the line, they forgot that just shoehorning a current event into a Science Fiction context wasn't enough to be relatable to those of us that were watching. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For any work of fiction to succeed it has to meet us half way. It has to connect us to their world by reaching a hand out to ours. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've seen that happen repeatedly on <i>The Orville</i>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In "<i>Nothing Left on Earth Excepting the Fishes</i>" a title which references "<i>The King and I</i>" we saw multiple story lines intersecting and filling out the narrative. The most primary of which spoke to finding common ground. Something very much in the public conscience and something only addressable through a narrative in the current political climate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's no surprise, however, with Star Trek heavy hitters like Andre Bormanis and Brannon Braga showing up in the show's credits. In the previous episode "<i>Home</i>" we even saw a couple of veteran Star Trek actors in Robert Picardo ( the EMH from <i>Voyager</i> ) opposite John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox from <i>Enterprise</i>)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You don't have all of these celebrated Star Trek alumni jumping onboard <i>The Orville</i> just because they need a paycheck. They see it too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where <i>Discovery</i> is a militant, lifeless shell devoid of passion or reason for being other than just...being, <i>The Orville</i> has managed to bring us back to what good Sci-Fi should be.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not an action movie, it's not sexy or gratuitous just for the sake of being so. It's not trying to make <i>Star Trek</i> into <i>Mission Impossible: Space Camp</i>.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrSZMf61_8YCqak3TwYZvZ2vZGJTIY7JNWgNK93b1XC2bw0JQGoS5ZpoZX9eZ7nx14MVorabe4kAks5ZaDVLfN8SWEeVTmNaL6exNPSPbJQ2Z0OhsLs7tqtp5hwO13sj-K0HPcQAapdN8/s1600/star-trek-s-sexiest-aliens-image_ggcdwb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="380" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrSZMf61_8YCqak3TwYZvZ2vZGJTIY7JNWgNK93b1XC2bw0JQGoS5ZpoZX9eZ7nx14MVorabe4kAks5ZaDVLfN8SWEeVTmNaL6exNPSPbJQ2Z0OhsLs7tqtp5hwO13sj-K0HPcQAapdN8/s320/star-trek-s-sexiest-aliens-image_ggcdwb.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's good writing, a good story and a dose of humor just where it's needed. Even if that means poking fun at it's progenitor. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the fans love it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've had a very positive view of <i>The Orville</i> since it launched ( pardon the pun ) but this season seems to be raising the bar.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of "....<i>Fishes</i>" there was a poignant scene where Ed ( Seth McFarlane ) sets free a Trill ( <i>the primary antagonist species</i> ) that betrayed him by appearing as a human and starting a relationship just to lure him into a Trill trap. As the scene closed and she boarded her shuttle, Billy Joel's "<i>She's always a woman</i>" played the episode out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I literally felt that moment. Maybe it was the song....no...not maybe....the song fit the story perfectly. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's good writing, that's making something completely alien relatable. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's why <i>The Orville</i> is a better <i>Star Trek</i> than Star Trek...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let me start with this...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Regardless of the popularity of my TWIT posts this isn't one of them although the message may resonate with that subject matter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A few days ago it was very cold here. Uncharacteristically cold for the part of the country I live in. As such anything below 30F makes the local news for days. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was night and I went out on my back porch to have a smoke break. I'm a bit of a neat freak so I don't smoke in the house, car or anywhere else enclosed. I suppose I suffer for my vices for the sake of my compulsions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I stood there in the dark, feeling the chill of the night air permeating all 4 layers of my vain attempts to ignore the cold I heard a strange sound.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There's a pool in the back yard and at night I'm not used to hearing anything related to it except for the sound of the pump. This night something was different.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I heard what could only be the sound of something thrashing about in the water. Of course I had to see what it was.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let me preface my actions with this; I've had stray animals from the feline and feathered variety end up in the pool on multiple occasions. I can't count how many birds and kittens I've saved from a watery grave. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have a respect for living things. Especially those that don't know any better and end up in peril from a world dominated by man-made hazards nature never prepared them for.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I flipped on the back lights and found a small bird flapping hopelessly near the deep end of the pool. I knew the water was near freezing being only slightly warmer than the air above it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I retrieved my leaf net and scooped the little bird out placing him gently on one of the benches near the house. No longer in danger of drowning and out of sight and easy reach of any of the neighborhood cats, I felt he was safe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The night air was cutting though and the little bird was wet. I retrieved a small towel and picked him up briefly to get most of the water off of him. He let out a soft squawk in protest but gave no further resistance. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Satisfied that I'd at least gotten him mostly dry without traumatizing him too badly I let him be. It was below freezing and while I wanted to bring the bird in the house to warm up a bit I could tell it would just traumatize him more so I did the next best thing and made him a little lean-to kind of structure out of an old stiff terry cloth mop head I'd found in a closet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I put it over him and he nestled into one side and after a short while went to sleep.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I checked on him throughout the night and in the morning I was happy to find that he had gone. As in flew away BTW not lifeless on the pavement or a cat's dinner. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It felt good that maybe I had a hand in saving the little bird. Left in the pool he wouldn't have lasted much longer and I can't help but think that my discovery of his predicament was no accident.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To do a kindness to the helpless is never in vain but there was another lesson in store for me...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tonight I walked out on my back porch again and while the air was still cold, it didn't bite quite as much as the night I found that little bird flapping helplessly in the water.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I noticed that against the dim moonlight reflecting on the pool was something out of place. I'd thought it was just some leaves until I flipped on the lights just as I'd did that night.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you've guessed that I found the same little bird again you're right but this time I was too late to save him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He hung in the water lifeless but stoic with wings firm against his tiny body with head held erect as if defying his sad end.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It struck me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I hadn't saved him at all only delayed what was an inevitable end.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I may have facilitated another day of life but the lesson hadn't been learned. There he was in the same predicament but this time nobody to save him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It brought to mind something that I'd been thinking about. Not so much an epiphany as an affirmation of belief.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That as hard as we may try to influence the fate of others it is ultimately up to them. Free will is the cornerstone of many belief and societal systems. That we can do as we please even to our own detriment. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes a gift isn't accepted. Living things have free will regardless of whether we agree with it or not. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If our moral compass is wrong it's up to us to discover it. Nobody else can set it right. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That little bird chose to fly back into the pool. I can't know the reason but the choice to fly into oblivion was his regardless of my efforts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We can't truly know the mind of another we can only guess. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We can't really know if we've had a positive influence on someone else just because of the act of trying to help them. We can only observe what they do with what we've offered.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's up to them and only them to use or even ignore the gift.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I won't stop trying to help where I can but in the end I know that all I can do is offer an opinion, an option. You have to make the decision of how you bear your own crosses and quell your own demons. Your path is your own.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'd have liked the little bird to survive but it wasn't my choice. I'd done what I could do for him. It was up to him what came next.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just as it's up to you what you do next. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How the mighty hath fallen...so to speak.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don't watch TWIT much these days and when I do I'm frequently disappointed. Which in itself is a surprise since I didn't think things could get any worse. Looking at the holiday offerings this year for example was much like last year. Just a bunch of "Best of's" which were compilations of anything but. Where were the Holiday themed episodes? The special round tables with the likes of John Hodgman and Jonanthan Coulton? Where's the New Year's Special!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oh yeah, Leo don't do that anymore...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Truth be told, the promise of the TWIT was always far more grand than the product delivered. Big dreams, the resurgence of a 90's tech icon. A network built on a small but vocal demographic of those for whom their mantra, their religion, their dearest wish was all things tech.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It wasn't a hard sell for devotees of the defunct TechTV ( formerly ZDTV) basic cable channel. Leo Laporte was an affable "every-man" who just happened to have a silky smooth presentation and at least an idea of what he was talking about. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You never saw him confuse a Hard Drive with a Video card. He was someone you felt you could trust. A family man, someone like you and me. A trusted friend you drag along with you to CompUSA.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes, I'm dating myself but only in so much as the era where Laporte was relevant.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">NotsoMuch...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A check of the current TWIT schedule reveals just how bad things really are. Entire days of the calendar are blank with most having maybe 2 shows recording and of those only a few stalwart remnants of the near-glory of the network's past.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nostalgia wasn't enough and even Laporte's attempt to rekindle the vibe of his TechTV days has fallen flat with the announced cancellation of "The New Screen Savers." Gone as well are the Iyaz Akhtar created, <i>Know How</i> which in later years found itself increasingly squeezed to the margins and finally choked out of existence with the exit of replacement host Fr. Robert Ballacer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The good Father's charisma was the only thing keeping many shows afloat in the past few years as he played stand-in for Laporte and other popular (mostly departed) hosts. His exit in June of 2018 might as well have been the death knell for the network with Laporte the only recognizable face left. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those that might have taken up the reigns and brought the network to the lofty heights envisioned by its founder like Sara Lane, Tom Merritt, Brian Brushwood and Shannon Morse now long since gone. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their content and audience driven programming replaced by bland, also-ran drivel only an advertiser could love. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's not unlike so many popular YouTube channels that now focus their content almost exclusively at the pleasure of their paid sponsorship. Don't expect a sour word about a Geforce Card from a YouTuber with NVIDIA sponsorship for example. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So it is with TWIT. That which destroyed TECHTV has ultimately destroyed TWIT. It is now an also-ran competing with YouTube channels produced in somebody's garage for the same advertiser dollars. Laporte has admitted as much saying his reason for cancelling the New Screen Savers was he was trying to... <span style="background-color: white; color: #242125; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"<i>do a network television show on a podcaster’s budget.</i>"</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">And the now all too familiar excuse for any show's demise on TWIT.... </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">“The New Screen Savers”</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i> just hasn’t developed a big enough audience to pay for itself.</i>"</span>.</span></span> (<a href="https://twit.tv/posts/inside-twit/new-screen-savers-know-how-and-week-law-end-life" target="_blank">source</a>) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes folks, that's an admission of what TWIT is today. A lowly podcast channel with the overhead of a network broadcaster and every show under the gun to perform. Or so we would be led to believe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yet by Laporte's own admission the network was pulling in 13 to 14 million a year (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWiT.tv" target="_blank">source</a>) which far exceeds 99% of even the largest YouTube channel's revenue. Apparently that's not enough as the studio moved to a smaller location in 2016 and has since axed or put on hiatus at least half a dozen shows. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Still it seems there's never enough money for TWIT and every show has to carry it's own weight. Yet inexplicably shows like <i>Floss Weekly</i> and <i>Ham Nation</i> continue unabated even though they cater to a subset of a niche at best. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meanwhile shows more in line with TWIT's general demographic like <i>Coding 101, Know How, This Week In Law </i>and <i>Game On </i>get the axe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That pool of money is a lot more contentious than it used to be too. In at least that much we can cut Laporte some slack for TWIT's failure. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TWIT is now competing for advertisers with those same YouTube channels (some led by former TWIT hosts) with far less lofty ideals but a far more consistent viewership. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A quick peek at the ads you'll see on the average YouTube tech channel are also found on TWIT. With most TWIT shows struggling to break into a 4 figure audience per episode no matter where you watch them (most are low 3 figure BTW) it's not TWIT dictating the terms anymore. Advertisers can find far greener pastures elsewhere.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let's also not forget that YouTube creators don't have the overhead of TWIT (maybe) and can
survive on much thinner margins (definitely) while providing the same mediocre
content. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That said, none of the supposed financial strife at TWIT seems to have
stopped Laporte and wife/[sic]CEO from extravagances like month-long
European vacations or purchases of luxury items like his Tesla Model X (<a href="https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/members/leo-laporte.42938/" target="_blank">source</a>) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There was a time when Laporte chafed at the idea of TWIT as a podcast network. Now, he clings to it for every bit of relevancy it can afford him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And that aint much friends.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TWIT is now like a favorite TV series that over the years has replaced the entire cast and writing staff. Nothing remains but the set pieces and it's just not enough.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TWIT isn't dead but it's been a slow roll down the slope to the graveyard and we're far closer than we've been before. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So it's the day after Christmas and maybe
it's some kind of self-torture but I always stay up till midnight on Christmas
day to hear the last Christmas song played on the Radio. This year it was
Josh Groban's <i>O Holy Night</i>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
Not my favorite version but it closed out the Christmas part of the Holiday
Season. It was followed up with the usual parade of commercials and a
station identification that drove the point home that as far as that radio
station was concerned the Holidays were OVER!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
It starts on Christmas Eve with me. I feel like there's a huge hourglass
somewhere with the last few grains of sand flowing through that tiny choke
point and taking the joy of the season with it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
I'm aware that perception is everything and my analogy is my own. Perhaps
it's just that I love the Christmas season but there's something comforting in
knowing that at this time of year the feeling is always present. It may get
shuffled to the background but it colors my mood regardless. It brings a
hope and an optimism that may be difficult to conjure up at any other time.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
So the Christmas music is over and we sit in that intermission between
Christmas and New Years. It's a fairly useless week. Good luck
getting anyone to do anything if they're even around. It's dead time to
fill. For some a reprieve from the pressures of family responsibilities
around the holiday. For others a time of reflection especially as the old
year closes. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
It's a time that forces you to deal with yourself. Maybe you've got a
busy social calendar, maybe you have to work, maybe you're on your own.
It doesn't matter. There are always those down times where you're forced
to look around you and see what is and more importantly what isn't there.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
The holiday decorations that a week earlier brought joy to your heart now look
a bit tacky and faded. The pressures of the ordinary reassert themselves
without hindrance from that Christmas carol ringing in your head.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
Christmastime is a powerful force and its passing can make us forget that we
somehow managed to survive the other 11 months of the year without the
encouragement of Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
If Christmas is that important, the feeling, the meaning of it so dear then we
should recover from the "Christmas High" fairly quickly. Reason
being because Christmas is really just a magnification of our own better
selves. That heart is always present. It's just easier to show when
the trees go up and the reindeer antlers go on the dog.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
At least that's how I look at it. I don't claim to know your mind or your
motivations. I only offer up the possibility that if the holiday season
means that much to you that you carry that spirit with you no matter what time
of year.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
Connect with that and don't be surprised if your perception is altered.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
Happy New Year!</span></span>Digital Dynamichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056179466571447531noreply@blogger.com0