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Hey Mark,
My Tonka Caterpillar D-9 just arrived in the mail and I'm making a ceramic village scene for it to plow through, mounted on plywood which I'm planning to epoxy to the sidewalk in front of **unspecified location**, perhaps with a swath of raw meat behind it. Not very subtle, not entirely legal, but a little "humor" and disruption keeps the rage and hatred at bay.
If not this one perhaps we can collaborate on something else at some point. I was responding to the health insurance thing the other day and had a power outage in the middle of it. I've used the county public health office programs for the girl's insurance recently because the school district doesn't pay for their coverage anymore. Maybe they have something for adults if you check with them.
Where are you by phone these days? Let's talk soon.
Linus
Ooooh!
I wanna play, I wanna play!
Sweet dreams around the corner here has multiple bins if small cheap toys, perhaps they have some of those, old style, pink plastic babies to sprinkle in the wake.
And yes, I agree, humor can be a wonderful anger management technique. In fact, I've heard theories claiming that the human laughter response evolved as an alternate means to handle aggression, anger, and other such things in situations that really didn't require lethal force but would have rapidly escalated into it. And, even though humans didn't evolve the ability to stun another being with electricity , like an electric eel does, I think we could look at humor as the human equivalent of a stun gun.... oh wait, we already have stun guns. Scratch that. Humor is nothing more than a transparent display of psychological malady or disease: the retching or vomit of a disturbed soul.
How a soul gets disturbed is, of course, the fruit of another conversation. For if we are to be entirely scientific about this, we must first acknowledge that the two areas are, as a matter of factuality, entirely separate things, like fire and the house the fire burns down ;-)
Seriously though, I would love to be a part of this in any way. If you are doing it this month, I am free most of the time except for a few appointments here and there and the occasional conference with my divorce lawyer that I am sure will spring up. I started smoking in dec soon after I got the summons though, so I need to set a time to quit, most likely the first week or two of february. And given my success in quitting last year, I know from experience that I will not feel like going out of the house, or doing much of anything for a month or two after that.
Oh, before I forget, can I post this email of yours with my response on my blog?
I'm here most evenings and weekends (days too). The only standing appointment I have is monday nights, so just about any time is good to call.
Thanks for the suggestion of county public health. I'll look it up
talk soon,
mark
