The news predicts how horrible a day will be. Not like it changes on a day-to-day basis, it's the same hash with a new face, but the anchor remains the same. Life will repeat, life will repeat, life will repeat everything you've done when you have changed nothing. So go ahead and wish and pray, becuase all that will happen is an useless exchange of air that would have gone to someone else.

The TV predicts today which drama/comedy/sitcom will be important. If it was really meaningful (which means, out-of-touch) then you and your empty friends will talk about it by the empty water cooler, at your empty job with your empty life, because the only thing important you have to say is over a dumb TV show. But the actor's are usually well paid.

The radio predicts that your life is an endless stream of commercials you never listen to. So go ahead and turn on that advertizement full blast, the one you've heard a thousand times yet never listened to. It was probably a product for dieting, or heart cancer, or your dog. Nothing important.

But, it's ok, because it's the American way. I've talked too much and said too little. The only ones speaking are the ones with big mouths and empty heads, the ones we all listen to and put in control. We arrest the monkey wrenchs that can stop the infernal machines that slowly destroy our lives. Our path to salvation has a detour sign and a cop pointing the other direction, edging traffic onto the emergancy lane. There is no easy button in life, or a second chance. Just rolls and rolls of red tape and paper cuts.

So this is it, my fifteen minutes of fame. My cue has come up, and it's time to say my one line; my one and only God-important line that will bring you that much closer to Zen. Only if I don't fumble the ball, or mix it up and go dyslexic, or just plain forget it. But I've got it written down right here.

All you need is love..... - John Lennon

See? That wasn't so bad now, was it? Now you can exit the screen and pretend you learned something today, watch the news, see the TV show, hear the commercial, and vote your leaders in. Thank you.

We will now return you to your regularly schedualed life.

02/17/2005

Posted on 02/18/2005
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