Dishes from feasting on food for thought
2. Jose Torres-Tama performance was amazing. It was assertive, aggressive, compassionate, & at some points comedic. It's amazing how the phrase "Illegal Immigrant" only focuses on group of such people.
3. I respect the notion of a uniform, it makes things a tad simpler in the morning. However, it's remarkably disappointing to see throngs of adult men bound to the blue shirt/blue jeans, blue or white shirt/khakis, & the polo shirt/khakis combo. Sadly enough, these men genuinely don't see a thing wrong with such subversive conformity.
4. Where are the moderately attractive women hiding? There's appears to be an abundance of the respective extremes, but shortage of middle ground. It's like having your mouth set on a sandwich but you walk into a bakery, not a deli. Being a resident of said middle ground, I'm sure I didn't move into a foreclosed subdivision.
5. After 200+ yrs of cultural blending, Americans are still remarkably fearful of racial, cultural, & religious others. The world will not end if everyone at the family reunion isn't the same color people, get over it.
5a. Said Americans are not the Original Americans rather, the immigrant masses who have been divorced by either desire or design from their cultural heritage.
6. All I wanted was an appetizer, a little something to appease the hunger. A degree of amusement must reside in watching a man wrestle with his appetite. Lo, I shall satisfy my hunger.
7. Iconography & imagery accounted for, I find a good bit non-indigenous peoples tattoos remarkably predictable and consequently void of excitement.
8. As my understanding of critical literary theory grows (it'll take plenty of time & some steroids before I'm comfortable with it), I find it remarkably difficult to prevent any experience from being critiqued.
9. Stress induced weight loss retains a silver lining, it's still weight loss. It becomes industrial grade silver when you really don't have the fat to spare.
10. It amuses me to watch people seek validation of self in commercial transactions, as though they cease to exist in the moments between these transactions. Resource exchanges validate A role you play in a given system, not YOUR role in a given unless you're wedded to capitalism. In which case, you literally need these transactions to verify that you are experiencing one elaborate ass dream.
11. While I understand the essentialist inclination to cut a direct path to that which you interact with in order to ingest, retain & readily recall large quantities of information, this often results the rapid dissemination of partial truths. In particular, the understanding that a hanging & a lynching are the same act. Lynchings leave remains, hangings leave bodies.
Lynchings take hours & involve methodical torture aimed at inflicting enough pain to bring the victim to the brink of death (via shock or blood loss) but the torturers cease before said line is crossed. Most lynchings involve castration, removal of appendages, and constant beatings. Hangings tend to be a bit more direct, sans torture. Also, lynchings historically were reserved for non-white males while hangings are tend to have greater demographic variety.
12. Be mindful of speech that is binary in nature. It reduces the subject to either/or resulting a limited problem solving approach being employed. The more options considered, the greater possibility that the solution arrived at will be more comprehensive in nature.
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