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BRIDGE |
SILENT BACKUP |
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"St. Louis." |
Way back! |
It's not where you are; it's what's inside you. |
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"I'm so glad to see you!" |
At best. |
Just like old times. |
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"Long time, no see." |
Way back! |
I don't get around much I like it here or at home. |
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"Nice to see you." |
It's powerful. |
It seems limited. |
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"You look familiar to me." |
It's powerful. |
I know we have good food, but you can't move in! |
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"Why didn't go call me? Why didn't you tell me we were staying in the same hotel?" |
That's changing. |
The bellhop told me he let you know I was here. |
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"Do I look familiar to you?" |
That's changing. |
You're not just saying that. |
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"Where did you sneak in?" |
Way back! |
I don't remember. |
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"There's a hotel for you." [In a sleazy part of town] |
It's powerful. |
You don't know life at its worst. |
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"Is that where you hang out after work?" |
It's powerful. |
It's another slice of life. |
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"Are you trying to gyp him?" |
That's changing. |
Boy, did you miss an opportunity. |
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"I can put my foot in my mouth, and shoot myself in the foot, but I can't do both at the same time." |
At best. |
It's nice to have a choice. |
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"You're cute." |
That's changing. |
Just like in the old country. |
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"That's cute." |
At best. |
What do you want to kill yourself for? |
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"Hey, hey, hey, hey! Don't get cute!" |
At best. |
Without the pockmarks or streaks. |
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"What are they gonna do?" |
At best. |
One thing or another. |
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"Are they allowed to do that?" |
At best. |
It's not going to kill us. |
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"How do you like that? Cleveland is in Ohio." |
It's powerful. |
It just so happens. |
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"Like watching the Lawrence Welk Show." |
Way back! |
Blowing bubbles. |
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"You're a broken record." |
At best. |
I hope it isn't a big hit! |
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[Someone talking directly to your breasts] |
That's changing. |
Not shrewd. |
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"He's a creep." |
That's changing. |
No speed limits. |
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"How come you're so cute?" |
That's changing. |
Take a vacation That's what I would do. |
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"Where do you get such pretty clothes?" |
Way back! |
Not a lot at a time. |
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"How did you get to be such a creep?" |
That's changing. |
Not looking at a painting critically Looking at a painting to find one thing you didn't know. |
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"How did you get to be so infuriating?" |
Way back! |
People had a lot of fun in the old days. |
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"How did you get into all of this?" |
Way back! |
Milk and cookies every night. |
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"Come on inside I'll show you all my secrets." |
That's changing. |
M is for milk, C is for chocolate. |
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"Follow that guy in a black hooded sweatshirt and make sure he doesn't get in a cab and drive it out of here." |
That's changing. |
Another genius of our time. |
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"Nobody understands themselves." |
That's changing. |
Well, let's leave it there. |
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"It makes me feel horrible." |
It's powerful. |
Maybe you'll have sandboxes all over your yard Show me in the sandbox how you feel Well, isn't it time you didn't believe it? |
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"It's a shitty job, but somebody's got to do it." |
It's powerful. |
It's not a game for children. |
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"Where did you get that shirt?" |
Way back! |
Who can say? |
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"You could have asked people." |
That's changing. |
Beyond comprehension. |
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"I asked you once." |
Way back! |
If you think we muck around like this all day, you're right! |
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["They don't cheat at places like Harvard and Yale They have an honor code." "I know they cheated at Yale, because when I went to college, there were three hundred people in a class they didn't even know who you were." "Yeah, and at my college, I used to write papers for other people."] "See that, Richard?" |
It's powerful. |
Why didn't I know that? |
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"Don't you read the newspapers?" |
It's powerful. |
That's not a crime, you know. |
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"You don't have copy and paste?" |
At best. |
That's the coming thing I might as well learn that. |
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"Do you ever watch TV?" |
It's powerful. |
How much can you remember? |
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"If you're wearing those sandals to the club, I'm not going." |
At best. |
Mind of Buddha: wandering mind From where does wandering arise? |
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[Someone spitting on your shirt] |
It's powerful. |
Smart! Go through the wind As everyone knows, you just leave them alone and they ruin themselves. |
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"You look retarded." |
That's changing. |
Don't talk to me My friends will laugh at me. |
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"You're like a hockey puck that's kind of slow." |
That's changing. |
It makes you feel you've been pissing on the wrong tree. |
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"Look at all those friends sitting around with you I wonder why." |
That's changing. |
Ever popular. |
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"Is that your one and only friend?" |
That's changing. |
It's the rhythm section. |
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"Cool taxi psychobabble that only a true cab driver can digest. Awesome! Dredge on, dude ...." |
It's powerful. |
They rent themselves out as frogs, at parties. |
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"I think you are the only person who defines who you are." |
At best. |
That means all the gold is ours! |
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"You picked up a new trick telling the truth." |
At best. |
You don't want it to look real, because it isn't real. |
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"Too bad, I would have loved to see you cry." |
It's powerful. |
You have no idea how cheesy things are. |
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"It makes you want to move to Des Moines, doesn't it?" |
It's powerful. |
I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul. |
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"How much do they pay you a month for one of those?" |
That's changing. |
I'll have my money guy call your money guy Who's your accountant? |
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"How are sales these days?" |
At best. |
Time will tell. |
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"You live in San Francisco and you've never seen people standing outside a bar smoking pot?" |
It's powerful. |
Don't get heartbroken. |
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"Oh, those dogs are so cute!" |
At best. |
If you think about it, hurricanes are much worse. |
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30-OCT-1999.
Provocateur, or Child?
"There are certain people going around," David told us one evening while we sat in an old-fashioned circle inside a friend's woodshed, "who are fishing for people they can give trouble. If you let them have it, they'll never do it again. If you don't let them have it, they'll never stop." A provocateur will always stop when they can't find someone to pester, annoy or offend.
You can transcend both the intent of a person's words or actions, and the impact of a person's taunts and insults by seeing the other person as a child. Even then, you may have to consciously raise tension just a little to safely brush or steer them aside.
For instance, if a man carries on a conversation with a woman while staring directly at her breasts, his intentions might be unsettling to the woman until she realizes what's in his tent is, well, hard to give up. A person might feel that to be safe is to not have fun, but quite the opposite is true. Don't let anyone trick you into being a sadist. You can create a new frame of reference by talking to him the way a mother would chasten, not castigate, a four-year-old boy. If you just stand up to them, they give up.
Intelligence
Use your intelligence to have a good life.
Whenever anything bad happens, you wait a few weeks.
If you know the name of something, you know what it is.
Awareness is the beginning of consciousness.
19-AUG-2007.
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As follows
CODE WORDS: asked, bar, [breasts], Cleveland, clothes, creep, cute, Des Moines, dredge, ever, familiar, gyp, hang, hooded, horrible, hotel, infuriating, into, newspapers, only, paste, puck, record, retarded, sales, sandals, secrets, see, shirt, shoot, sneak, somebody's, [spitting], St. Louis, they, trick, understands, watching, wonder
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