The Railgun Prayer:

Satan please give me:
The Courage to change the things I can,
The Wisdom to recognise the things I can't,
And the Railgun to make the difference.

I Really need that railgun, right now, because I am terrible at accepting things. Seriously.

You just have No idea.

Jesus.

Ideas and Dreams

First of all, here is Part 2 of "It's Not A War, It's a Rescue Mission." I've read all of this, twice. Your turn? I think so.

Two nights ago, I dreamed that I was discussing the Ender's Game series with some young Yakuza in a roadside family restaurant based on the comics "Girls With Slingshots" and "Questionable Content." I remember discussing with one young woman the ideas brought about in Speaker For The Dead, and how I really agreed that everyone should have someone to tell the whole of their story, the phenomenal And the despicable, and all points in between.

Night before last, I dreamed about a network of subway tunnels, underneath DC and Atlanta, and not having to leave the tunnels into the light to get into buildings. I went to The Capitol Children's Museum, in DC and found it run by Rachel Wallack, the head of Youth Communication Atlanta. She was really happy to see me. We talked about the educational project, and about empowering youth.

Last night I had predictable sexual dreams about friends, and a series of dreams about a large party in a semi-recognised house, wherein someone's tw children were stolen by ostrich tricksters in human form. Also, something about using these OTiHF to help the DC National Zoo clone dinosaurs, to go with the huge T-Rex skeleton they were displaying as supine, hiding just behind their main "ZOO" sign. Something about having to crawl througha series of windows and fire escapes in this haunted place (which was now also partially a hotel), to get outside and to downtown Atl/DC, to where South By SouthWest East was being held. Got there just in time for the end of festivities.

Pretty awesome.

I've just this morning come to the full understanding that bracketing out our biases and "hanging a lantern" on our flaws can be disingenuously used to give ourselves permission to do terrible things. Asking the question "Am i part of the problem" before going ahead with being part of the problem? Disingenuous. If you don't actually stop and consider what "being part of the problem" really means so that you can then modify your behaviour, and seek to mittigate what could be construed as continuing the problem, then you're just mugging for show and being an asshole.

Good luck out there, today.