Con and Air-Traffic-Control. Focus.

Voltaire - Hell In A Handbasket--- I dreamed that I was impersonating someone I knew, in their job, and the other person, going off-shift, could obviously see that i wasn't her, but let me on, anyway. I guessed her entry code, and started working. It was a room, in the back of one of the Hyatt ballroom floors, and it was a locker room and security station. When she showed up, the first lady didn't blink an eye at my being there. Something about playing with all my old toys, showing mech_angel this old silver Alien figure I had, and talking about stuff like that. We all left the girl to work, and went out to enjoy the convention. Lots of other things happened, and we ended up back at the room, and she wasn't there. i knw that if Someone wasn't watching the place, a lot of shit could go wrong, but I didn't know where to find her.

In the dream I knew her name, and she had that sisterly-but-not feel to her, and she kept trying to get me to let her off the hook for the stupid shit she'd done.

Very strange things, those.

Tom Waits - [Telephone Call From Istanbul]--- Office hours, today. Should be fun.

I meant what I said about your word choices. Don't you get that what you say, think, do, believe, and how you perform/experience those things affects your reality? Focus on that, a bit more, if you want something interesting to do, of an evening.

I'm off.

I hate the news, some days.

System of a Down - [I-E-A-I-A-I-O]--- I'll tell you what I've told many people, in the past few months: Politics is magic.

There are certain words and phrases that get used over and over again because, as Lewis Carrol said, "That which I tell you Three Times is true." You hear it over and over again and you develop a pavlovian reaction to what you hear, in what form and in which contexts. Freedom. Terror. Enduring Threat. These words are designed to push your conceptual buttons, to make you think, act, and react in certain ways. (Cranes - [Bewildered]). Stop looking at the hand people are showing you, and look out for the kick to the nuts, you dumbfuck.

Don't just sit there and think I'm insane. I know that shit. Think about the buzzwords. Think about the phrases you hear over and over again. "Stay the Course." "Cut and Run." Shit like that. Not just this administration. All of them. "Well, that depends on what your definition of the word 'is' is." Breaking your perception and conceptions, such that you think in a line they prefer.

This is something we all do everyday. We choose our words, and we think about how to spin everything so people react in the ways we want. There is no such thing as a "No-Spin Zone." (A Perfect Circle - [Blue]). Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is also probably waiting for you to drop your guard, so they can blindfold you, rape your sensibilities, root through your pockets, and dump your catatonic body in an alley. That may have been too graphic. I don't care.

Stop not thinking. Think about what you say and what you hear. Think about why people would have any motivation for telling you the things they tell you, in the manner in which they tell you. I choose my words, carefully. They are designed to make you think about the nature of your life, and stopping your bending over, closing your eyes, and thinking of England.

And I know I'm preaching to the fucking Chior, here. I get that. But the ripples spread outward. (Mirrormask - [Butterfingers]). Somewhere, down the line, new ideas reach new people, and spawn other new ideas. That's the goal, here. So think about it. Think.

Belly - [Untogether]--- I'm the hell out of here. I have office hours.

Knowing the things I know....

Mount Weather.

That is all.