I suppose it’s time I wrote something new on here.

Working on a website for something on design – after I read Dan Pink’s book A Whole New Mind a lot of things got a lot clearer for me.

I write my daily thoughts (unrated!!!) at twitter.com/RoboKraut, and specifically about mobile devices, gadgets, etc. at twitter.com/mobileDYNAMITE to kind of keep the social DYNAMITE idea going.

So yes, lately it’s been a lot more about the microblogging.

It’s great, really, and a lot of fun. A REALLY excellent way for people to communicate with each other (got some great business leads, ideas and contacts from there!) and businesses know this.

The smart ones do.

So this is where we’re at. I started compiling a book on a collection of pseudo-witty sayings and such, so that may also be on the horizon.

Something else I want to mention is my friend Justin Vilonna’s AMAZING book GHOSTS! ZOMBIES! MONSTERS! BUNNIES!

You should really grab it – he’s such a great artist, and as it turns out, a poet and kids’ author too!

Wow.

It appears that people really like it when I post about/talk about big girls on here.

Hah.

Yes, I like big girls. I’m a chubby chaser, a FA (fat admirer), whatever you want to call it, I’m that. And I’m ok with that.

Those guys who are embarassed or ashamed about their PREFERENCES (i.e. bigger women), should NOT be! It’s a fantastic thing, and you should be proud.

Here is a friend of mine who is an adult BBW model and also a CEO/businesswoman – the lovely Kelly Shibari.

She runs a company called Hourglass8 that deals with marketing, social media, and of course the adult industry.

You should really check it out.

TV shows like the recent reality show More To Love portray bigger girls as lacking confidence and sad/ashamed about their weight and size.

And to that, I call foul.

I have met so many big girls with great confidence, who are incredibly sexy, and who are really proud of who they are.

So if you are a big, sexy confident girl out there, take heart.

There are also more like YOU, and a LOT of us guys who love you.

What constitutes contact with an extraterrestrial life form?

It may make sense that such a claim would have to have compelling scientific evidence, since science is the best method that humans have come up with so far for backing up claims in the real world.

But what is ENOUGH evidence?

We have astronauts saying there have been cover-ups.

We have skeptics saying UFOs are weather balloons, government testing, coincidence, insanity.

We have past civilizations shrouded in mystery – the Mayans, the Egyptians, et cetera – sometimes with what appears to be lost technologies compared to the level of human knowledge of today.

We have “Chariots of the Gods”.

We have the seemingly impossible (to us) logistics of long distance, high-speed space travel – see the work of Nichio Kaku and Albert Einstein, which suggests that space and time may be more of a fabric.

Laws of human science claim that nothing we know of can travel faster than the speed of light.

There are at least 1 billion stars in our galaxy. And there are at least 1 billion galaxies.

These numbers inform Drake’s Equation, which purports that the chances are simply too large for extraterrestrial life NOT to exist.

Furthermore, what is meant by the term “intelligent species”? Does that mean “sentient”? Does it mean “as intelligent or more intelligent than our own”?

And isn’t that arrogant on many levels?

Thinking that we are “the only ’sentient’ beings in the universe”?

And wanting to compare extraterrestrial intelligence to our own? Maybe that only because it’s the only measuring stick we know.

Also, we have been searching and broadcasting information into the sky using radio signals. But maybe their technology would be different than ours!
As in, not wave-based? Perhaps some kind of new particle-based communication system?

There is the issue of the concieved dangers of teleportation.

There is the theory that “abductees”, those who claim they were kidnapped by extraterrestrial species of some kind, have their memory clouded or erased.

Is God an extraterrestrial?

My questions are many.

Could “UFO experiences” be dreams? We all have so many at night – some of them incredibly REAL.

It’s difficult for me to place full validity on claims at night, during sleep, because of this.

I’ve had DREAMS of PARALYSIS. A lot of people have, right?

I’ve had vivid dreams. Dreams that seemed SO real that they mess up the rest of my “day” (this is assuming that I am NOT still sleeping! – Ha. Am I really writing this? To be or not to be?)

And I think a lot of people have shared many of these types of experiences while sleeping/dreaming.

That is why I think the absolute best evidence we have or could hope to attain are the big sightings during the day – the ones with many separate witnesses at once.

As with any other unexplained phenomena, any of these happenings could be (and often are) dismissed as publicity stunts or hoaxes.

Hell, if we’re going to go that far, all of our lives might just be dreams.

I think this is why we reach out so much to other human beings – others of our species. It’s comforting, even if this is difficult to do in a society of increasing distrust and unrest.

We CAN guess at what would be the impact of the discovery of extraterrestrial life, and the implications there are HUGE. What an earth-shaking day that would be.

The only thing we can do is keep our eyes and ears open, and keep watching the sky and the stars.

Those brightly burning suckers really burned out years ago and the light is only reaching us now.

Chew on that one.

Been working on a couple things I mentioned last post, but most importantly, something I’ve been looking for a very long time – a way to conglomerate my most useful interests and projects all into one.

And I think I’ve found it.

More on that soon.

Been on Twitter a lot, under real and assumed names – poking around this digital playground for some answers to some very real-life problems.

People are so touchy on there though! Very easy to piss people off. And I do sometimes. And it’s fun sometimes.

The image in this post is by NartyArt, her art is really something. I’ve been wanting to put more images in these posts for a while now, and now I can say I discovered a really amazing artist – also check out her flickr.

I’m planning on using one of her pieces for the cover of the upcoming Handcuff Hospital album Western Hairstyles.

By the way, you can listen to two of those songs over at the Handcuff Hospital MySpace.

I’ve probably said that before. I’m just pleased with how the recording came out. They need mastering, but otherwise, it’s done.

Really, I should sleep – just wanted to put up a little update.

Working on more topical posts, don’t you worry!

As many of you know, I deleted my old Twitter account.

The messages to my phone were out of control.

This time, I’m following less people.

WAY less people.

But I’ve been learning about psychology on there.

Every day.

My new account is twitter.com/RoboKraut. And be warned, I tweet about all kinds of things, the mundane, the weird, the funny, the interesting, and the downright offensive. Just wanted to get that out of the way.

I’ve also been recording Handcuff Hospital and working on my new site that will soon be launched..

However, I say hello to all of you again, and damn glad you’re still reading.

Haven’t posted in a while since I had to settle in after moving and get a new job to pay off bills/debts. I’ve been stifled. Sweaty. Tropical.

So there’s a little insight into me.

Now for the rest of the crap.

I’d like it to be known that I utterly hate Facebook.

I know, I know, I have a profile.

And I want to delete it every time I log in.

The overload of information on the site is ridiculous and annoying and the site itself isn’t nearly as useful as say, MySpace.

So here come the flames (ha) but I’ve said it before. One of these days I’m going to give up on Facebook. That being said though, I love Twitter. And MySpace of course (for some weird reason).

Maybe it’s because MySpace feels more organized, you can ignore more of the bullshit, and the layout is so much better, Facebook is just jumbled, ugly and overbearing. I don’t get why it’s so popular right now.

But enough of that for today.

I’ve also been writing (HandcuffHospital.com), may have found a drummer, etc. Okay, I lied – one more thing about MySpace. Look at these Google results for Handcuff Hospital.

What’s first on there?

That’s right.

Anyway, I know this post isn’t much in the way of explosiveness, but there will be more organized thoughts soon.

I’ve been listening to Bad Religion (their new one, New Maps of Hell – it’s fantastic). Lots of punk. Some great local bands I’ve found lately (the RunnAmucks, Floridas Dying, SuperAIDS, and Libyan Hit Squad) some of the new Superdrag (Industry Giants)

(video for Superdrag’s “Aspartame”)

Meat Puppets of course (new album Sewn Together drops THIS MONTH!!)

(live video of “Rotten Shame”)

and I’m also looking forward to Terminator Salvation.

(the amazing trailer)

Come on, postapocalyptic special effects, Christian Bale, and nine inch nails?!?!? What a trailer.

Damn.

So there’s your art reviews and reccomends for the day. Never done that before on here!

Just a little insight to the man behind the words.

I’ll leave you with two great quotes from the latest Bad Religion album:

“I don’t want to be in a land known as destitute and free – with the grains of wrath blazing a path from sea to shining sea”….

and

“We’re animals… with golden rules who won’t be moved by rational views”.

Suck on those for a while.

I just had some hardcore deja vu. Weeeeird.

“The Economy is our shepherd, we shall not want!”

That is from the last VERY insightful South Park. Quite a good parody.

So this is one more post this month, with two things. First.

“Is Obama a one-term president”?

Mull that stupid question over for a minute and then read this.

Obama has a billion critics and not many people who have other real solutions.

I have one, though, as does this ECONOMIST:

LEGALIZE DRUGS.

It’s the economy, stupid,

Listen to the ECONOMISTS.

Fix this goddamn country already, you useless, uptight prohibitionists. 

Realize that ESPECIALLY marijuana prohibition came from RACISM, MISINFORMATION and other factors.

And finally.

Third. One more thing.

I present to you readers a ridiculous diatribe from an email I was forwarded from a stereotyping, polarizing, generalizing conservative “law student” who I’m sure is white, well-off, and also lives in one of the whitest, hippie-filled places in the United States, Maine.

Here goes!

………

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950’s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let’s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way. Here is a model separation agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes. We don’t like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).

We’ll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s and rednecks. We’ll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood. 

You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we’ll help provide them security.

We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U. N. but we will no longer be paying the bill. 

We’ll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find. 

You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We’ll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute Imagine, I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World. 

We’ll practice trickle down economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot. Since it often so offends you, we’ll keep our history, our name and our flag. 

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I’ll bet you ANWAR which one of us will need whose help in 15 years. 

Sincerely, 

John J. Wall, Law Student and an American 

P. S. Also, please take Barbara Streisand & Jane Fonda with you.

……

Yeah, let’s split up this country over political spectrum lines, this land mass we stole from the natives and made our own, as IMMIGRANTS.

Stupid.

It nauseates me that I have this on sD here, but hey. I like to show both “sides” of this stupid country.

I also just found a GREAT line-by-line analysis of the great John J. Wall’s ignorant worldview online here, along with the letter from the blue states to the red states, which is too excellent not to post here, and reads as follows.

Dear Red States:

We’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren’t aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole’ Miss. We get 85 percent of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we’re going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they’re apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their children’s caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we’re not willing to spend our resources in Bush’s Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country’s fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95 percent of America’s quality wines, 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we’re discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Finally, we’re taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Peace out,

Blue States

(Booya!)

"I just couldn't get through my day without it!"

I saw a poll on the front of CNN.com about how RUSH thinks OBAMA is using FEAR to push A LIBERAL AGENDA.

Uh…WHAAAT?

That’s right. Read it again if you have to, and let the sheer STUPIDITY of that sink in.

For one, that doesn’t make sense, he’s not doing that, AND… wasn’t the Republican administration that was JUST in office using fear to promote a conservative agenda?

Hm. (and the answer is YES.)

Apparently Rush is the only spokesman the “right” has right now. How sad.

Luckily, the poll is at 70 percent no and 30 yes or something like that.

Check out this article too. Whaaaat an idiot. Al Franken was and still is right.

But people still listen. Damn.

Tonight I watched an excellent documentary on the late Hunter S. Thompson called Gonzo, and it got me thinking (as I knew it would).

The man had two very clear sides to his personality, a humanitarian, loving, generous side, and a very dark side.

I think all of us have this inside ourselves. And this is my issue.

When I was younger I was incredibly, unstoppably anti-authoritarian (and some would say I still am!)

However, this rage and anger, this fear and loathing many of us lodge against “The System”, the corporations, the politicians, the governments… we are told it is futile, although we are passionate, and then, sometimes, someone like me has anger into depression problems. Then, we re-evaluate everything we think.

My much-loved ideals led to my personal breakdown, my “not being able to deal with things”.

So we tone it down. We let things slide. We try to prevent the anger.

But sometimes, anger is so USEFUL – indeed, occasionally, it is the only thing that motivates us to GET SOMETHING DONE.

So that is the problem. How much anger makes us passionate, and how much destroys us?

A question for all of you to ponder. Is there a line? A gauge? A meter, in order to determine what is a healthy amount of anger?

I am disturbed by this story I read on CNN.

There is something wrong with this country, we are so obsessed with success and survival has become so difficult that people are resorting to drastic measures.

It’s also bullshit about “people should reach out for help” – I can say personally, as a person who applied for all manner of financial help and assistance with the state, this is often the most difficult thing to do.

The state does NOT want to give out money.

I, for one, know very well about being underpaid, overworked and overwhelmed, as much of America does.