Day: September 8, 2002

  • Blogger runs self to death in cemetery


    In what can only be described as a most bizarre incident, a jogger/blogger apparently embraced the death faerie today by streaking in 92-95 F heat through the rugged hilly terrain of a popular local cemetery to the utter conclusion of a mortal collapse.  notforprophet, known to some as nfp, seemingly first lost all sensibility as he stripped to the buff strewing his running shirt, shoes, socks, and trunks throughout Lakeview Cemetery and then lost his life running full speed smack into a headstone designated “Beers” while apparently attempting to impress a strolling, passerby beauty queen out on her constitutional. 

    “It was tragic,” said Pixie Wingwood, who  just happened to witness nfp’s final missteps upon this earth, “He had it all going for him: a good, quick gate, deep breaths, and everything swinging in buff rhythm.  But when he looked up surprised and saw me smiling at him, I recognized that *transfixed look* in his eyes…faraway…and then like a runaway train, *wham* he went into that barrier at the end  of  the line.” 

    Services were held on the spot since it seemed stupid to remove his remains from the cemetery only to bring them back again. 

    Pixie Wingwood, who was so impressed by nfp’s heroics that she proposed and consummated a common law marriage with him even as he lay in a writhing heap dying, quoted nfp’s cryptic last words as some wholly incomprehensible gibberish, most likely not even English, along the lines of: “an whar are dose fuqin eprops whenya really needem?”



    The dreadful L.F. (“Look Fast”) Beers headstone, site of nfp’s undoing.  While some say it was his abrupt attention to the coincidental appearance of Ms. Pixie that distracted him into a mortal colliding slip-up, others who knew him claim they believe it was actually the effects of the unbearable heat on that fateful day that created a mirage of “Brewmeister Heaven” towards  which he deliriously sprinted for a purely imagined finish line of quenching refreshments.

  • Nothing is more democratic in our society than driving.  Nothing. When else, can you mix with such a cross-match of society as when on the highway?  And despite that someone out there who is *special'*  financially, and socially, and status-wise in almost every respect in our off-road society (thus far eclipsing me and excluding you), on that road with them, you are as potentially as dangerous and deadly to them as they are to you. Touche.


    carcooning


    (kar.KOON.ing) pp. Using one's car for working, playing, eating, grooming and other tasks normally performed at home or at the office.
    carcoon v., n.









    Nationally, officials believe up to 30 percent of crashes are caused by driver distractions that include mobile communications devices. A March report by the National Conference of State Legislatures suggests device-related distractions that killed an estimated 600 to 1,000 motorists in 2001 could kill 2,000 a year by 2004.

    Academics have coined the word "carcooning" to describe how people increasingly outfit their cars for comfort, entertainment and productivity. Phone systems are built in. New stereos pull in satellite radio broadcasts and play MP3 files downloaded from the Internet.
    —Jim Wasserman, "Inattention at the wheel: It's so much more than cell phones," The Associated Press, August 22, 2002


    So much more than cell phones!!!  LOL

  • If you’re high and feeling like a king, a queen.


    Don’t get all bunched up and abdicate,


    But feel regal …as real as can be..


    And then feel, likewise, democratic: that we’re all kings, queens equally.


     


    To feel like kings, queens equally


    Is a matter of feeling as you do…


    Without being such actually.


    You always remain just you.

  • I've decided today that I'm going to steal some hours away from a busy schedule to go to a favorite cemetery to run, take pics, sun, and write. 


    If that isn't a form of self-romance, then I'm not sure what is.

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