When all this is over, and there’s thousands of surplus ventilators are being sold off, I’m buying one. As long as stupid people keep voting republican our taxes are never going to be used to provide services to the population, so I might as well be prepared for the next pandemic. Because you know, as long as stupid people keep voting republican, we’re not going to be prepared as a nation for the next one.
Sometimes, being positive isn’t about finding the silver lining in the storm clouds, or seeing the sun from behind the rain. It’s about appreciating the rain, and how refreshing it can be while it is coming down. It’s about appreciating the dancing shadows in the storm clouds as they roll, and flow. It’s about recognizing your pain, embracing it, and realizing it will pass.
Not everything is good all of the time, but even when things aren’t good, they’re useful. Flowers rarely grow from sunshine alone. It takes a balance of rain, and some lumps of shit, along with the sunshine for them to thrive.
If you spend your time trying to only be positive, not only do you fail to learn to deal with your problems, but you lose the experience of the pain your problems bring. Without being able to feel, embrace, and deal with pain, you can’t fully appreciate the happiness, and the good. As I’ve said many times, the valleys help define the mountains. The oceans help to define the land. Contrasts exist to show us what can be, what is important, what we should value, and the things, and people that deserve our greatest efforts.
Yes, we all know it’s September 11th. As we have been told, we haven’t forgotten. We’re not allowed to forget, and with that, many aren’t allowed to reconcile the grief that day has caused.
It is a tragedy that honestly started our nation on a downward spiral of economic disarray, and increased ethnocentrism. Which is probably exactly what the terrorists wanted. Yes, honor the fallen, honor the first responders, remember them on this day. But maybe also realize our current state of affairs, and the endless wars that have further demonized us in the Middle East, and the breakdown of our alliances that we now have is evidence the terrorist got what they wanted. In that respect, we’ve failed to honor the fallen, and first responders correctly.
Symbolic memorials mean nothing if you don’t live in a nation that upholds the values it wrote into its Constitution.
But, who am I to say? After all, most conservatives still blame Obama for not being in the Oval Office when 9/11 happened.
I’m never going to look like a Chippendales dancer, unless you compare me to Chris Farley in the SNL skit. So I’ll be happier just reducing the spare tire, and not being a flabby old man in five years.
I mean, flabbier, and older, I guess.
Check out my best friend killing in on Saturday night at a performance at Marvin's Bar & Grill in Clarence, NY
She's amazing. 🙂
But hey, let me know how you like to video and audio work, too. That's my only way to contribute here.
Guess who landed the headline VIP slot at this year's Buffalo Goes Gatsby event?
That's right, Cortney Chyme.
She has assembled a Super Group of musicians for this one, so I put together this little poster for them to use in social media. People seem to really like it!
The event is going to be incredible. I love the music they already have arranged for it!
LIVE! At the Palladium!
No, sorry, it was just the Buffalo Pizza & Ale House. But Cortney Chyme had to fill in for Derek Mediak of the Derek Mediak Band who was recovering from strep.
Check out these awesome rock renditions of classic alternative rock songs!
Celebrate the Bills 2017 season, and as always, hope springs eternal - 2018 HAS to be THE YEAR!!!!
Enjoy the video, and the song!
We worked on this video yesterday on New Year's Day, with wind chills dipping in the -10F range. But it was fun!
The Bills made the playoffs for the first time in 17-years! WOOHOO!
I'm putting a lot of work into this one.
Check out my Buffalo Rising article HERE.
Get tickets - yes, get them NOW!
