Writers: Pretty Alice, Scoundrel Ghost and Scary Halloween. Someone wrote: Beware those who do not filter their own feelings, beliefs, or actions because of the potential consequences of other people’s opinions and judgement.
Friday, July 24, 2009
One Dim Light Bulb Away From Chaos
Monday, May 18, 2009
Island Living Because I Am Too Smart for Whores and Too Bored by Debutantes
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Survival Skills I learned in Kindergarten
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Guilt Is Magical
In most cases it is not, but in this case it was.
It occurred to me after the sudden and overdue departure of Pretty Alice,
my few, oh so precious few readers don't know how Pretty came to be
so angry, twisted and broken.
A long, long time ago as all fables begin, in a H. Ellison story
before Pretty's decay and renewal,
she was married!
Yes! She! and Yes, she was Married!
Married to a rebel of the the state. A wanted criminal named
Everette C. Marm. AKA The Harlequin.
He rebelled not for the sake of rebellion but out of conscious choice.
Pretty on the other hand was a conformist. Not that there is anything wrong
with conforming as long as it is done out of purpose.
However, Pretty conformed out of fear
It was her fear that killed E. C. Marm. She was a loyalist to the state,
but a traitor to her husband. She turned him in for his acts of rebellion.
And that guilt eventually destroyed her. It turned her
to the Pretty Alice you know today.
Guilt can be magical, it can be a weapon, it is a poison.
Though occasionally, given enough time and the right circumstances
it can transform a person.
For every action there is an equal or opposing action.
For every action there is a reaction.
Everything we touch, the words we speak, even the thoughts we think
effect the universe and its contents within.
Some consequences are magical, some are insignificant
and some are irreversible.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Scary Halloween
Of course the name Scary Halloween is really a name within a name,
but still just another name I call myself and I have a Fa Fa way to run.
So, why am I here? Alas, I have some bad news. Pretty Alice is gone.
Don’t get your hopes up, Pretty is not dead. Just on a journey.
Turns out not so tragic for us or Pretty for this matter.
This is what happened according to Pretty Alice. Apparently Pretty was embraced and kissed by a goddess of the universe. Whatever that means. And in that instant, that fleeting moment Pretty’s heart opened and filled with love, joy, kindness and faith.
Pretty went on to explain, we are static while time runs like a river around and over us. Some look back to see where the water is going, some look forward trying to predict where the water is coming from. But few experience the water as it soaks us. Our lives are like a city, parts in ruin and decay while other parts experience urban renewal and new development. All parts ARE the city as it was, is and will be.
Pretty was only in decay.
"Strange how something so angry, twisted and broken can heal something so angry, twisted and broken. Probably some universal law of quantum physics."
he killed her. Naturally so, some creatures just have their way about themselves.
I like to think it was Pretty’s way of retuning the gift.
“Some things have to be destroyed to be rebuilt. I just sped up the process.”
Well at least that is what Pretty told me while leaving one life to another. I think the mind set was while we are creating our life we are really destroying it.
I know that goddess just doesn’t realize she is in rebirth. Most likely rebirth at first is slow like waking from an intense dream. I guess that is what a poet meant when she wrote only fact could be so dream like.
So off on their journeys while I sit here and try to make sense of it all.
Nope, I just don’t get it and I am sure you don’t either. We don’t have to nor do we need to.
We have our own lives to live.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
In My Life I Love Me More
Well don't cry for me.... you or Argentina.
I am happy, normal and full of spirituality.
Each night after a long, fulfilling day I lie down in my hand crafted bed made of beautifully polished bones that I have painstakingly collected over the many years and fall right to sleep dreaming of what possibilities tomorrow will bring.
The joy and excitement that I experience each day brings me closer to revelation.
I spend my time on Al’s planet meticulously sharpening knives, cleaning guns, sorting poisons and checking them for expiration dates. There are certain medicines I need to gather, reconnaissance that has to be done, list that have to be made, shopping to be completed….Listen I could go on but I have probably said too much if you know what I mean.
And I think you do.
My point is simply this, I am happy in my little corner of my little world.
If you are so concerned with me you probably don’t have a life of your own.
Although I pity you, I have to say mind your own fucking business!
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Arbitrary Injustice
Example, in high school a friend of ours had is distributor cap stolen. So he was convinced that he had exacted his revenge on the thief by stealing someone else’s distributor cap. Talk about the skewed pay it forward concept. We were unsuccessful at getting him to see he had done to someone what had been done to him and he had not made his thief pay.
Now of course our friend was not the most intelligent or by far rational. But there are cases that have been told to me of victims of arbitrary injustice. Maybe conducted by people like my friend or maybe just mean assholes that enjoy this behavior. Personally it is not my style. I prefer an eye for an eye to my enemy not to a stranger in the name of my enemy.
If you are going through the trouble, why not relish in your enemies misery that you have brought down upon them?
One of the worst cases I have heard of was of a rock and a note wrapped in a pair of panties and thrown through a window of an innocent married man’s home.
The note read,
Now whether it was a wrong address or a cruel joke, it was an unexplainable situation to his wife. There was no way even in the most trusting of relationships that she would ever truly believe him. Always she would have a slither of doubt and a strong undertow of suspicion. Funny if it didn’t happen to you, but it is just cruelly unfair to him.
Now I don’t care about this guy. Everyday, worse shit victimizes the innocent in situations where nothing can be done about the suffering. I don’t want to get started on Devine arbitrary injustice.
That is a whole other posting and I can't go down that path here.
What I do care about is that there are plenty of people that do deserve such a thing. I can think of much worse to do to the assholes that I have had the misfortune to deal with in my life. I am sure they skate through life untouched by any type of justice.
So.
I plead to you.
If you get your kicks off of torturing total strangers with misplaced revenge, contact me.
I have a long list of people you don’t know.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Misery Needs Company
Why would you wish such on your “friend”?
They just want to pop your fun bubble
so they don’t have to stare at you in constant memory of how life used to be.
Now you are probably thinking I am only focusing on the dark side of marriage and children. Sure there are people happily married and people thrilled to have children.
By the way, notice I wrote “have children” instead of “to be parents”? Big difference.
I personally love having children.
“Thank God I don’t know where or who they are.”
So, who loves being married or having kids so much that they are compelled to aggressively sell you like some plaid suited hand waving insurance salesman?
No one.
Absolutely no one does enough to breach your personal life with a never ending constant offending assault that leaves you feeling emotionally violated and physically ill..
So, who hates being married or having kids so much that they are compelled to aggressively sell you like some pin striped suited bible clutching gun toting evangelist?
The severely sick and twisted.
They have an unaware need to justify the existence they have created for themselves rather than change it. This need allows them the gall to badger you incessantly. Using phrases that suggest you are lonely and unfulfilled. Like you are wandering Al's planet in limbo until you do what they did.
There is no help for this person and no way of stopping them. Just hold onto the simple fact that they are miserable and they need you to be too.
I’LL HAVE THE CAKE THAT NO ONE ELSE IS HAVING
I mean the sweet moist beautifully delicious cake.
So, after everyone has chosen their slice, corner, rose, middle, small slither or heaping glutton; I have what everyone else is not having, the rest.
Why not?
Everyone had their choice and they should know that coming back for seconds is just a shameful act of over indulgence. So once it is my turn to choose I choose what everyone did not. Usually the prime pieces are gone and I see it as doing a service. Like a vulture picking carrion clean, I dispose of what no one wanted or was not willing to shame themselves for larger.
The sad truth is they know not what they lose. Listen! I am talking about cake.
The let them eat it cake cake.
Have your cake and eat it too cake!
Cake is the ultimate prize! It is not fame and fortune. It is cake. And not the cake you make or buy. I am talking about someone else’s cake. That is the prize. The one they made or bought.
I am that, that takes the cake. For good or bad, life is about being the one or instigating the situation that takes the cake. It is the spoils that go to the victor!
This is no metaphor, allegory or analogy. I am talking about actual cake. And if you don’t understand the importance of what I am saying about cake, then you probably
Sunday, April 6, 2008
30 Dollar Fish Sandwich
Now obsessed, every 30 seconds the thought of sex has been replaced. And the rest of the night all conversations are interjected with,
“I could really go for a fish sandwich.”
But how does he get it. He fidgets with the keys in his pocket. Goes to the door and stares at his car. He knows if he makes a run for it his friends will be all over him. So this becomes a ritual for the next hour or so, fidgeting and starring, up and down, back and forth.
If it wasn't two in the morning he would just call his wife. But he is drunk, out too late and that is just not an option since she is home in bed asleep and thinks he is as well.
Eventually I get sick of his,
“I could really go for a fish sandwich.”
So I suggest that if he could really go for a fish sandwich, where there is no will power there is a way. In other words, have money will eat fish sandwich.
Fortunately for him, over the years I have developed a close relationship with one particular cab service. Well it is not an actual cab service. It is a husband and wife that drive people from place to place and take donations for the trip. So, it is wise to tip well if you want to see them again and quickly. Anyway, they know me well. So much so that on one particular occasion, I called them to bring a bag of ice to my house. We were in dire need and of course too intoxicated to drive.
So problem solved. That is if he is willing to pay 10 bucks to come get his money, 10 bucks to McDonald's and 10 bucks back to the house. He was. He had two for good measure and according to him they were the best things he had ever eaten.
Only in America could this kind of tragedy be averted. America truly is the land of opportunity and immediate gratification. I feel sorry for those late night drinkers all over the world.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Well Now You're Just Being Paranoid
Honesty is not always appreciated even when requested. People take truth as an insult rather than introspection to analyze and look deep inside and decide if there is some merit.
That is because they have been lied to all their life.
Truth as I see it might be at their expense but it is a price I am more than willing to pay. They can get angry and think that I am hard, cold and calloused. Why ask if they don’t want to know what I think. It is taken too personally and I only do it as a favor.
To be honest, I don’t really care, but they asked so why mince words? Life is too short for courtesy of lying. If someone thinks they want to know then I figure they need to know.
What they don’t realize is that I am not judgmental. Most are and I guess they assume I am as well. People can do whatever they want. I don’t care. It is my mere indifference that allows me to say what I think. It is also why my perception is so clear. It is not clouded with baggage of religion or social expectation. More power to the individual without any ghosts.
So I tell them what I think. Then they freak out. And I think why did I open my mouth? I do it every time. It is like a birth defect with me. I can’t stop myself. I suppose that is what they mean when they say honest to a fault. I’ve got time to waste and this is not how I want to waste it. Why did I think they could just listen and take it in? Now all the questions come.
All the self doubt, frustration and second guessing flood them.
Their mouths open up and spew.
“What does that mean?”
“Are you saying that I am…?”
“I can’t believe you think that!”
“Do I really…..?”
Calm yourself. I was only kidding. Now where is that remote?
Friday, March 21, 2008
My Ghost Likes to Travel p. gabriel
Sometimes my friends call me Stan.
That is their name for my alter ego as they see it. Only when I am being evil, deranged and out of control.
The way I see it is maybe I am Stan
and Pretty Alice is the facade.
Who knows really?
Listen to the ghost.
Regardless it has to be better than living as a rat in a maze
or a fish trapped by the narrow pockets of mesh.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Out Through the IN Door
You are the same person that blocks escalators, conveyor belts even when the polite voice on the intercom constantly repeats the behavior to stand to the right so that PEOPLE can pass you on the left.
You are the same person that does not know that it is a law to always drive in the right lane of the interstate unless passing. While in the left lane, driving slower than the speed limit without a care in your world unaware that someone else exists, isn't it possible we might like to PASS you and your Pacer. This one of the many reasons why road rage exists. That shiny reflective piece of glass mounted to the top center of your windshield is called a REAR VIEW mirror. Use it.
You are the same person that brakes, begins the turn and then uses the turn signal.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Deal Breakers
And everyone knows these are deal breakers except for the pet owner, the single parent and of course the social retard, the baby talker.
Let’s look at the Pet Owner. She has three dogs. They do whatever they want wherever they want. No guy is going to put up with that. Men are disciplinarians. Dogs and chaos is a deal breaker. The worst part for the guy is that the woman is totally oblivious to the fact that animals are telling her what to do and she thinks it is cute. He is on the couch trying to make his move and Fido is doing the laser beam stare with this high pitched whine meaning,
“I want a cookie, hurry up bitch.”
Spot is wedge up between them stretching out with the stiff leg maneuver because it is his couch and he needs more room. Last but not least Igor some large mange diseased heap of wet dog smell is at the guy's feet farting.
Ok kids. Don’t like them myself. Dirty, rude, smelly little fuckers. I know I was one too. But now I am not. Kids. Much like the dogs but more premeditated in the chaos. They can do a real mind fuck on all parties involved. And don’t think it is for any other reason than to get what they want whatever that is, candy, money, toys or for the pleasure that only pure spite can bring.
The baby talker. Really there is no excuse for this type of emotionally and socially retarded person. They usually like G rated movies, know all the lyrics to the Sound Of Music and either are a quartet singer or own albums. This person loves square dancing and collects comic books or figurines. The problem with a baby talker is that the baby talk doesn’t begin until you have fucked them. And then it starts immediately after the orgasm. Bone shattering and the guy will need Levitra for a long time after.
Breaking the deal. Everyone is flawed. Admitting your flaws first softens the impact. Second, throw in something positive about them, make it up if you have to. Lastly, don’t do the standard,
“It’s me, not you.”
bullshit. Tell them the exact reason.
“Your house is a fucking zoo and I can’t take it anymore.”
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Old Soul or Repeat Offender?
Old Soul?
I don’t think that is a good thing. I know what "Old Soul" implies, but I don’t see it that way. Aren’t you supposed to move on? Why can’t they get it right?
Of course if you don’t believe in reincarnation this means nothing.
“Pretty Alice!”
“Why did you leave traces of DNA behind?
Stupid, stupid, stupid just plain and simple stupidity!”
I know I am either in my first life or I am just a repeat offender. That’s ok; I just wish I could remember something from my past lives. Probably I just pick up where I left off. That is why I keep rolling my contempt and rage over into my next lives.
I find reincarnation comforting. It is like a cosmic do over. Maybe that is why I am a repeat offender. I don’t take it seriously. I know I will just keep getting second chances. Hell, might as well have fun and do what I want to do. I mean the Supreme Being needs to at least count to three or I’m never going to take him or her seriously. I’m a rule breaker. It’s my way.
The Christians’ God has got it right from a disciplinary point of view.
None of this fucking around with souls returning over and over again. It’s like being cosmic sperm. Ovum or no ovum too bad all that effort wasted.
You missed.
Game over.
Its not like you weren’t told.
You knew the rule but you just couldn’t help yourself. All those fantasies of making your own personal zombie slave so you wouldn’t have to lift a finger. You finally had to try it seven or nine times just so you didn’t have to pick up your own soiled underwear. And it didn’t work did it?
You stupid, lazy bastard.
Well I hope you are happy frying in a lake of fire and eternal damnation!
That’s why I am a Buddhist.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Con temp toe through the rage with me
“D…A...R…K.”What did she think it was going to be, bunnies, gumdrops and pixie dust?
Well let me just quote back to her.
H. Melville’s Captain Ahab
Another person said I write a lot about revenge, murder and hate. So what? Doesn’t everyone contemplate on this subject matter?......Whoops……ok maybe its just me and few other deranged individuals.
But really they are classic themes. These are intertwined acts of contempt and rage. It is not like I am all over the place. Today it is raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens and tomorrow it is death and futility.
My thought process and view of the world is consistent, consistently dark.
Haley Joel Osmond saw dead people, I see assholes. Fucking up to my eye balls with assholes and I am not only a member I am the President.
Maybe I use dark humor to curb the rage inside of me. Maybe my rage and humor are intertwined and I grapple with the demon me. Maybe I just think life is D A R K and that is funny to me. Better to embrace the demon than run away like the French.
I know, all the neighbors will say one day about me,
“Pretty Alice was a quiet person, kept to them self mostly, but nice. We are shocked, Pretty seemed like the perfect neighbor.”
Well it is true that fences and security alarms make good neighbors.