gushgush’s blog

Hey World;

How's it going in VOXland these days?

I know nobody is reading this because I can see that this was a great idea that never reached fruition, as it were.

Well, I guess if I pursued it a bit more it might prove to be a bit more interesting, but I guess I have eough just doing the other things I already do with my computer. Also, I never really got comfortable with the navigation culture here (is that an actual concept?). Maybe because I already know my way around LJ it just seems much easier to get around there.

I'm not going anywhere but I probably won't be seeing very much of this place, or then again, I may just start coming here more often... who knows.

See Ya'

Fingers

I did it again.

Alas, I have not updated this blog in quite a while... yet I remain interested, at least at some level.

I guess this must count for something

Harry Weiss!!!

It'll be one year of aa on the 19th and I have discovered a few things:

-just because people are now sober and part of an organization that promotes spiritual serenity, it doesn't necessarily make them smart, or nice, or fair, it just means that they're sober maggots instead of drunk maggots.

-there are lots of instances of subtexts to the many fine principals that are often repeated during the course of the meetings and discussions -- for example,  a god of your own understanding is just fine as long as it fits into their ideas about who and what a deity should be. This is to say that there are many other examples of what's said being not-exactly what's practiced.

-many of the members don't realize, or care to admit, that they're actually performance artists who sit and recite their monologues at meetings as performance pieces, over and over and over again. For many of these individuals, sobriety is secondary to having a place to go every day where there is a captive audience that has to listen to their stories about how lucky the world is that they're no longer out there drinking and drugging and whatever else.

-remember High School? remember the ongoing popularity contests? remember the cliques?  Bingo!

-etc. etc. etc.

That's not to say that there is no good that comes out of aa.

There is very much healing and spiritual recovery that goes on which is beneficial to the lives of countless thousands of people all over the world.

But, like I said, people are still people, even if they're clean and sober.

Happy Mothers Day.

that is all...

OK, so I am here in Florida visiting the aunties, etal, and all I can say is far out.

I am tentative and anxious and many many other things at the same time.

What else is new?

Wow!

I had almost forgotten about VOX.

Does anyone still read me here...?

What are your top 25 most played songs? 

Do you want them in alphabetical order or in the order I listen to them?

How about in alphabetical order by artist's name?

But, there are so many more than just 25 so I don't think I can pare down my list to just that few.

Oh well...
Submitted by Cooxie.  

OK, what the fuck are "tags".

No, I'm not tlaking about the little pieces of paper attached to goods in a store that have a price printed on them, like the one Minnie Pearl had dangling from her hat.

I'm talking about the things that have been attributed to me by VOX that I had nothing to do with choosing or finding or posting or anything.

There seems to be such a rush to identify each user here according to some percieved tastes or likes or dislikes.

Maybe if I were a pre-teen I might be more inclined to post my "tags" so I can let my peers know who I am and thereby maybe figure out the same for myself. But I'm not and I don't care to.

This seems to be a trend in our "Information Society" these days: find out everything you can about each individual by gleaning all possible information from every drool and fart that is emitted from every crack imaginable.

And be sure to document all the gathered info because, you know, memory is cheap.

What's your favorite foreign accent?

Brazilian Portuguese, yes!

Followed closely by French, any variety.

Then there is also Italian...

But, a woman from the north of Spain can set my soul afire with her speech.

Ahhhh...