HappyUP!!!....Nutsterin around

I had been meaning - to make a reference to McNair Wilson's post a couple of weeks ago. This is when Kurt Vonnegut had passed away. Personally, Vonnegut is a difficult read for me. He does have some interesting philosophy and is highly quotable:

(Talking about when he tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope)

"Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."


I get this - I so get this. I love to go out and just be. I go to the bookstore. I spend more than if I could have got it on line. But, I get to experience life. There is no life in a computer. As Vonnegut says, there is no dancing

Formal dancing? - not my cup of tea either. I do like my own version. It's dancing as I go. I call it "NutsterinAround". I have for years. It used to even be on my answering machine (NOTE to Self: go change the new answering machine to the old message). Of course, I would NEVER THINK to put such a thing on my vc mail at work, would I? Big Brother doesn't like Nutsterin Around.

Oh...I more than thought about it - years ago, I actually did. Then, someone complains about an unrelated issue. Even though you did nothing wrong, because it doesn't appear that you handle things seriously, you actually must have been the guilty party here.

So - the vc mail gets changed. The behavior falls in line. The creative spirit is snuffed again.

CBS is getting a taste of this - they signed Don Imus up to fart around. They wanted him to fart around. Deep down and left to their own devices, people like people who fart around. Then, the wrong people complain about the wrong fart. CBS acts like they don't condone farting around even though they signed a contract paying Imus to fart around.

....and CBS will pay for this little piece of hypocrisy - is my guess. The farter will end up winning. That day will be a HappyUP!!! for me.

Gotta run - it appears there is a phone machine waiting for me to do something. Then, I am off to go Nutsterin Around.


PS - if you aren't dancin as you go, you can't go out to dance formally at a ball or nightclub. It was a new law that went in the book last year. Get out there and shake your moneymaker TODAY....when the music exists only in your head.