OUTSIDE THE INSIDE: September 2025

"Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." Kahlil Gibran I DO NOT RESPOND TO "FRIEND REQUESTS" FROM TOTAL STRANGERS, WHO DO NOT EVEN BOTHER TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES....... AND....Inane comments WILL be deleted! my interests are in the details, sometimes disassociated from the surround, sometimes oblivious; other times suggestive of a view of imagination sprung from the obvious, through the arcane, to veiled super-reality, frequently to mindless and unexamined places that remain obfuscated by ambiguity. “It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise” – Henry David Thoreau Cynics are simply thwarted romantic idealists with awkwardly high standards “There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” -- Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004). "Those possessing the most Power are the most corrupt.....that is the Nature of Apes"........Veristes "Free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.".......Robert Frost At best, I am a Concoctionist, not a Simulator.....a Johannes Factotum Dilettante,,,, Veristes In a Nutshell....a very large Nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbh5l0b2-0o&fbclid=IwAR0rFYFcyLNOrCYth7zaMjmFy9klx15d650eP7FWpa5l9KgLnlm_VxoqJwI "Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." Malcolm Muggeridge Life is a sexually transmitted disease. R. D. Laing “If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.” Lewis Carroll "Immortality is short lived" James Bidgood Empath....not by choice, but genetic destiny........ "He who is not busy living is busy dying" Bob Dylan "I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. It's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor ... and surviving." Apocalypse Now "Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before." W. H. Auden "I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can, Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me, Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all. Lifelong Insomniac" Walt Whitman "Always, no, sometimes think it's me But you know I know when it's a dream I think a "no" will mean a "yes" but it's all wrong That is I think I disagree" Strawberry Fields, Forever......The Beatles Ex nihilo nihil" A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices' William James Retrospectiveness is just the relative rusty dull past redecorated with icing and sparkles......such is the nature of Memory.........does anyone remember their childhood as less glamorous than it was when they were formulating memories of it? So....if you're under 30....don't worry too much.......when you're in your lazy-boy recliner, reminiscing about your Wonder Years in the interstitial spaces between memory granules, the Present will vaporize in the laser-focus of false memory and fallalery of wish-fulfillment after the facts dreams...........Now, is the only time there is........Let us be "all for one" in this moment, for it is this moment that brings the next.......... Anti-Social Commentarian ......Veristes (Aesthetic Nihilist, Provocateur, Neologistical Convolulus ) "We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." --- Tyler Durden (Fight Club) "Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair" - Joker ....(The Dark Knight) "How fearfully good. How frightfully nice of you." __ Gudrun Brangwen (Women In Love) “I write to discover what I know.” ― Flannery O'Connor“ Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You (Moral Psychologist at heart..........) "We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present." Victor Hugo admittedly, I am a fustilarian whiffle-waffling, frecking jargogler.... my interests are in the details, sometimes disassociated from the surround, sometimes oblivious; other times suggestive of a view of imagination sprung from the obvious, through the arcane, to veiled super-reality, frequently to mindless and unexamined places that remain obfuscated by ambiguity. I specialize in "post-attributorial nomenclating" ....make Art, without too much processing, look back...from a broader perspective.....decide what it is....name it......'Mona Lisa'. just a girl with a wry smile, after all..... I can't make a 'fake' smile appear on my face!......and 'settle' for a deadpan demeanor, unless I'm really feeling 'that way'...... “The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.” ― Michel Foucault "Love never arises from guilt or obligation" Old Buddhist saying FACEBOOK IS MY "PUBLIC" DIARY....... even a broken clock is right twice a day.... Insanity: "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein "I am tetrachromatic, seeing fine shades of color"..... "Yeah, I have plenty to say!".......Reed Savage "You get smarter as you get older.". Bill Gates "No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him." Viktor E. Frankl "I'm sick of Rap, especially after thinking "Lingua Fraca Rapper's Hot Corner Hip Hop" was "THE Lingua Fraca Ensemble' " Reed Savage "And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost." — Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) "well, then....o.k., I'm a creative fiddler with no strings attached......does that make you go for me?". Enigma's Palindrone “Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as it can be done. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.” ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury "I'm a diehard Glamorous Grammarist".... V. "“Why don’t you just start with the second paragraph?” Lucien Carr "I was gender-fluid, before it was fashionable, unlike Zayn Malik, who is a pop-fashionista stylist , but not gender-fluid. Gender is between the ears and in the genes not on the Pages or in the jeans" Veristes "works of art exists in a realm independent of conventional morality......" Court's decision in the trial of Gustave Flaubert..... “If you cannot define what you are doing as a process, you do not understand what you are doing.” -- W. Edwards Deming ......phones, televisions, radios, cameras, mattresses, decorative attire, huge circles of friends and acquaintances, kitchen gadgets, lawnmowers weedwhackers and edgers, jewelry, tablecloths, ear swabs......the list goes into the thousands........the one thing that we definitely do need, though, can only be had by giving it away...... I'm exactly who you think me to be.......depending on what you think you "see".....sometimes more...sometimes less! “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.” ― R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise "War is old men talking and young men dying". Odysseus “To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like that is hopeless. That way lies monomania. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.” ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine "going downhill's an uphill job!" Alan Bennett "Authority is the mask of Violence" Ralph Steadman "When you've got nothing to say, say nothing at all." David Byrne I avoid crowds! "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent: it is the one that is most adaptable to change." -Charles Darwin I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. "Civilization is just a temporary failure of entropy." Christine Nelson, Cray Research, Inc. Humans have a natural propensity, reinforced by societal customs and the need for congruent validation, to structure their thinking in ways that mimic the constructs that they see employed by those around them....."monkey see, monkey do"......among the conservative of humans, this extends to the rejection, even the annihilation of those who do not fall into these molds and even to the restructuring of natural instincts for membership in the hive, passing the detectors engineered by dna and rigid indoctrination to become ones with the great spirit of mediocrity and sameness.........I continually meditate on my uniqueness, but still fall to conformity in unthinking ways.....we are not so unlike other social creatures.... ants, bees, prairie dogs and chimps....i've never felt that i could afford the expense of conformity and have given shape to a rag-tag existence of pretty much my own creation.....or, perhaps I've merely tuned in distant stations to get modelling instructions or have failed to replicate, successfully, some of the basic structural components of hard-wired genetics........maybe I pissed them down the sink... "NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES IT IS DIVIDED, THE UNIVERSE IS STILL INFINITE, FOR EVEN WHEN LEFT WITH TWO PARTICLES, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM SEEMS TO STILL BE INFINITE, RELATIVE TO POINT OF VIEW, WHICH IS ALWAYS OUTSIDE THE INSIDE...... " Veristes (Hipster critic, poet, photographer, chef.....well...dilettante ) My interests are in the details, sometimes disassociated from the surround, sometimes oblivious; other times suggestive of a view of imagination sprung from the obvious, through the arcane, to veiled super-reality, frequently to mindless and unexamined places that remain obfuscated by ambiguity. A pragmatic sensualist, motivated by really deep instincts, actualized by willful imaginings and perpetuated by other's desires. Abstract, yet clear in purpose, honest, but abstruse, my moods change like winds and water with my confidences, and when ungrounded, i am both guarded and vulnerable, leaning, in darkness, to the Light, nurtured by instinctual feelings arising from a deep gene pool. Prognosticator/Tarot Reader/Luminous radiation detector.....

A friend recently mentioned a Prince performance from 1985.....which made me think of a beach visit, in the 1950's......Southern guys, in Huntsville, wore big legged "swim attire" with drawstring waists......except for one!.......When my "artsy-fartsy" friend sported this sexy bikini....I was inspired to hit the men's department of Black's, in Birmingham, where I found a blue spandex bikini with drawstring sides.....even more provocative.......Eager to sport my new suit, I wore it.....covered with a wrap-around beach towel....which fell off as I exitited my father's car........Shocked, he insisted that I wear a cabana set with sailboats and beachballs printed on the really 'square'....(the fashion in Alabama, then.....)It took lots of courage to do anything different in the 1950's South! But...I didn't want to wear anything that the kids in the second photo would have worn then..........Of course, those Birmingham kids, my age, would have lynched me....just for wearing my blue bikini, wouldn't they? Well, that was an oblique lesson on Alabama History, wasn't it? Even more reviled were 'fags' and 'yankees'.........these guys are all wearing penny loafers, white socks and solid color (khaki or denim) pegged pants, shortish hair and either white t-shirts or solid, horizontal stripe or plaid.......the Rigid dress code of the 1950's South......in 1958, I did not own a pair of penny loafers, woud not wear horizontal stripes OR plaid clothing........shopping, by then, only in Army/Navy surplus stores or Thrifts.....I returned the back-to-school clothing that my mother got from Brooks Bros. in Nashville (1963), getting a cash refund, that I later spend on horse races and gambling........I became a "clothes horse" out of Rebellion, I think.........