You are not alone-This is how it always ends.

You are not alone. Your body is a collection of microbes, fungi, viruses… and even other animals. In fact, you aren’t even the only animal using your face. Right now, in the general vicinity of your nose, there are at least two species of microscopic mites living in your pores. You would expect scientists to know quite a lot about these animals (given that we share our faces with them), but we don’t.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2014/08/27/3-things-didnt-know-mites-live-face/#.U_5q75DD9dd

This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life, hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah... It's all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise, silence and sentiment, emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world, blah, blah, blah... Beyond there is what lies beyond. And I don't deal with what lies beyond. Therefore... let this novel begin. After all... it's just a trick. Yes, it's just a trick. (Movie, LA grande bellezza)

herdsman

No herdsman, and one herd! Everyone wants the same; everyone is equal: whoever thinks otherwise goes voluntarily into the madhouse.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Zarathustra's Prologue, Friedrich Nietzsche 

It is not the ferocity of the beast of prey that requires a moral disguise but the herd animal with its profound mediocrity, timidity and boredom with itself.

The Gay Science : Fifth Book, 352. Why we can hardly Dispense with Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche  

Fortunately the world is not built solely to serve good natured herd animals their little happiness

Ecce Homo, Why I am a Destiny, Friedrich Nietzsche   

The long and serious study of the average man - and consequently much disguise, self-overcoming, familiarity, and bad intercourse (all intercourse is bad intercourse except with one's equals): - that constitutes a necessary part of the life history of every philosopher; perhaps the most disagreeable, odious, and disappointing part.

Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter 2, The Free Spirit, Friedrich Nietzsche   

the canary cafe, toronto, gone now!

MUNtag-august-2014

Magneto-Man-[selfie]

Massive

RED-Venice, Italy

guilt OR shame

“No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.” 

― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

The difference between guilt and shame is very clear—in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are./ LEWIS B. SMEDES, Shame and Grace

Which brings us to the pee-drinking.
This year’s drought has motivated California to invest $1 billion in new money on water recycling efforts statewide, a much more cost-efficient way of increasing potable water supplies. But reusing purified sewer water for brushing your teeth is not without its own set of issues. National Journal describes the biggest holdup:
The problem with recycled water is purely psychological. Despite the fact the water is safe and sterile, the “yuck factor” is hard to get over, even if a person understands that the water poses no harm. In one often-cited experiment, researchers poured clean apple juice into a clean bedpan, and asked participants if they’d be comfortable drinking the apple juice afterwards. Very few of the participants agreed, even though there was nothing wrong with it. It’s forever associated with being “dirty,” just like recycled wastewater

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/06/desalination_vs_purification_why_californians_will_soon_drink_their_own.html

no one else=U

"You are accountable for your actions, your decisions, your life; no one else is, but you." -Catherine Pulsifer

toronto beach

Venice , Italy

Your accountability!

Just remember it was you, that
You chose your perspective. 
You chose to blame. 
You chose to be right.
You chose your pride. 
You chose your games.
You chose your ego.
You chose your paranoia. 
You chose to compete.
You chose your enemies.
So fire up that krack pipe, it was your choice
Your accountability!

The wanted to push me outside, where the freaks huddled in the cold. Out there with the misfits, the broken, the glazed-eye types who can only watch as the normals enjoy their shiny new cars and careers and marriages and vacations with the kids.
The freaks spend their lives shambling around, wondering how they got left out, mumbling about conspiracy theories and bigfoot sightings. Their encounters with the world are marked by awkward conversations and stifled laughter, hidden smirks and rolled eyes. And worst of all, pity.” ― David Wong, John Dies at the End

[me back in 91, costa rica, ]

******

Drop NAPALM on Ferguson. End the grifting and looting. None of the"60percent" contributes ANYTHING to society. Be done with it. (Comment on the Ferguson episode, America in gold we trust, I was in the new haven race riots, the place was on fire and america is still on fire )!

Canada, Ontario, toronto

Burliegh falls, ontario

ROM, bloor st, ontario

Downtown, toronto

personality disorder

People have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. Those with narcissistic personality disorder believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

There is also the success oriented narcissist. She will be your friend and keep you close to her as long as you are useful. Once you do not have anything more to offer and she has taken all they wanted from you, you are history. You are no longer desired, wanted, or sought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_and_Narcissus

infinite number

Anyone who has not spent the last ten years on a desert island, has at least once heard of “the multiverse”, or parallel universes. As many of us have seen, parallel words, in theory, are worlds very similar to ours, with little (or in some cases, large) changes or differences. The multiverse theory speculates that there could exist an infinite number of these alternate realities. 
What’s the point? In a parallel reality you have already killed the dinosaurs, and you are lying under the ground at a depth of eight feet (because that’s what happened there.) In the other you might be a powerful dictator. In another you might never have even been born since your parents never met. Now that’s a memorable image.

At the very origin of art there existed the tendency of the imagination to struggle upward out of nature into spirituality. But, as yet, the struggle consisted in nothing more than a yearning of the spirit, and, insofar as this failed to furnish a precise content for art, art could really be of service only in providing external forms for mere natural significations, or impersonal abstractions of the substantial inner principle which constitutes the central point of the world.

 Stendhal syndrome, Stendhal's syndrome, hyperkulturemia, or Florence syndrome is a psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to an experience of great personal significance, particularly viewing art.[1] The term can also be used to describe a similar reaction when confronted with immense beauty in the natural world.

LOBO-tomia

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”

 ― Charles Bukowski

the last refuge

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

art for the day

Last days of july-2014

HDR-Ontario

I dropped out of the Communism class because of lousy Marx.

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the gap

minnow lake

dock, six-mile lake

sign

art, show, selfies,