Poor Old Dude

I haven't been feeling real well lately, which in part is why I haven't been posting. It's hard to come up with things to say when you feel like crap, but putting that aside. When I'm not feeling well I tend to spend more time on the computer and in front of the TV than normal. One of the things I tend to watch/listen to are the many paranormal radio programs on YouTube. They tend to be entertaining, mindless ways to kill time and well are a little bit of a guilty pleasure. So anyway what I have noticed is a strange coincidence, when ever I happen to select one of these shows on "shadowpeople" I invariably run into some technical problem that prevents me from watching it. I know sounds like hogwash right? but it's true I can watch/listen to shows on ghosts, no problem. Vampires, no problem. Demons, UFOs, witchcraft etc. etc. etc. but shadowpeople big problem. Do I give this any mystical meaning, well not really, but I do find it kind of strange.

As a culture this seems to be a skill we lost, we all seem to be collectors of something. Even those involved in prepping and survival pursuits seem to be in the constant act of acquiring stuff. I personally know how hard it is to give up your stuff and just how much of our "identity" is connected to our stuff. Not that long ago I was forced to go from a large two bedroom, two bath, kitchen, living room, dinning room, with storage apartment, to a one room studio. It was traumatic to give up so much of the stuff I had collected, and this was under what could be considered normal conditions not in a emergency situation where it could be a mater of life and death. So my advise today, for what it's worth, is prepare yourself to give up your stuff, develop a mindset that will allow you to quickly translate to a minimalist should the need arise. Bottom line, if you can't carry it, you just don't need it. 

found out today that I'm a racist because I don't like a certain type of food. Not because I don't like the taste, that it's too spicy, and because it gives me gas....NO because I'm racist....seriously are people just stupid or what?  I also found out I'm racist and sexist because I see no point in  changing who is on the twenty dollar bill....what is this country (US) coming to? Time to start building that bunker

Ok. First for any of you who actually read this I have to apologize for not posting recently. I could say it was because of some life changing even, but the truth is I just haven't felt up to it...so again sorry. Now to what this is about, I recently had the opportunity to listen to the unabridged, 12 hour, movie tie-in, audio book of World War Z by Max Brooks. First let me say I have no idea what kind of experience reading this work of fiction would be like, but listening to it was a truly enjoyable experience. It is a intelligent, well thought out, and realistic portrayal of a world wide zombie epidemic and it's aftermath. In my opinion it is by far the best zombie fiction out there, and the fact that it is preformed by a full cast of exemplary actors is just icing on the cake. I've read a lot of reviews that are negative, comparing it to all of the other hack and slash zombie flotsam and jetsam that is out there, and while it does not have the structure, the hero saving...

I was watching the recent incarnation of the X-files and I realize that the show which had seemed so far out when I was younger doesn't seem to be that far off the mark today. We have a president who side steps the Constitution whenever he feels like it and a legislative branch this is more than willing to let him. We have spy drones flying over American cities. We have government agencies whose purview is to do nothing else but monitor our conversations. Our federal government is demanding that a private company produce software which would allow them to hack into pretty much half the phones in America. We have children who are more more becoming allergic to the foods they eat, while becoming more and more dependent on drugs to control their" moods".We have illnesses and diseases which have developed immunity to our antiviral medicines and our antibiotics and we have a federal government that is now in control of our health care in this country. We have new...