Brains!: Holiday Taxidermified Coins

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My blog could be considered a dangerous thing. I don't think it is. Everything I write is completely honest. Some posts are commentary, some posts are stories, some are boring, some are fun. Most often it's a window into the part of my subconscious that cannot be communicated verbally. It's meant to be the place I spill, organize and store my abstract hidden things. You can really access a lot about me through the blog, and it's partially there for that purpose. To find out the things I cannot say, and don't necessarily need to be said. But its also a tool for me, the process of writing/blogging is therapy in some sense. However, there's a lot missing. To read it, and to think that it is all of me, would be very wrong. That's why it can be misleading. A lot of people read it, and they misinterpret. No one really knows what I actually mean by a lot of the things I say, and that's not my problem. Like I said, its only there partially for the purpose of letting people into that part of me, the rest is there for me, for my subconscious to come out. To take it literally would be a dangerous thing for the reader.

Important Pieces

In that space where infinity above meets immensity below we see the first sign of a new dawn. Dark always gives way to light; for a brief moment nothing is forbidden, everything is possible. But what would we do if the light never came? Maybe we would lie down. Maybe we could go back to sleep. Maybe we could wake up. - Adbusters

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere; they’re in each other all along. - Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)

Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The poet Rilke was afraid that if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels as well. Of course the danger of clinging to our demons to save our angels is that our demons may well take over." - Tim Farrington

Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is-and still not caring.
- Tom Robbins

Coins
I discovered a 100 yen coin in my wallet. Later I found 1 Canadian penny. Someone in LA is handing out foreign money. I keep a small green piggy bank on my shelf for foreign change. Whenever I get new ones, I unplug the belly and pour them out to look. Today I discovered that the slot on the pigs back is bigger his belly opening, so a $2 Canadian coin is stuck in there! Well that's what you get for buying a small piggy bank for a buck from the $1 section of target. Oh well, it's not like I'm going to China, Jamaica, India, or even to Britain anytime soon. Better save them for when the America finally drowns. Seems to be going that way.

Turkey Taxidermy
Today I processed a claim attempting to gain monetary reparation for his damaged Turkeys. A client of ours, a sports warehouse chain, apparently had $45,000 worth of this guys trophies, he had both hunted and taxidermeified himself on displays in a branch. But they did not take care of the specimens according to his contract, and thus deteriorated, then the company files for bankruptcy and that's it. I wonder if he will get the money.
It's definitely one of the strangest claims I've processed. I could tell you about a dozen others. We've gotten hate mail "fuck this company they are evil". We've gotten "I am Jesus, Obama is Evil, Kennedy is an Alien" scribbled all over Claims. Claims from the elderly, saddened by the loss of a dear magazine company they were subscribers to for 50 years. Claims for life insurance, claims for medical bills, claims for chemical damage from pesticides...really anything you could imagine.

Corporate Holiday Parties
It's like Prom all over again. Girls at work keep asking me who I'm bringing as a date and what I'm wearing. Even Jordan wanted to buy a suit for his companies holiday party. These annual events are talked about for years to come. Who got drunk, who flirted with who, who wore a revealing dress etc. I'm showing up to mine for the raffle, chance to win a free vacation. They can waste thousands of dollars on renting out the Long Beach Aquarium for a party, with raffle prizes, but won't offer us benefits, or raises. If I win a vacation I can get away no expense, if I win a TV I can sell it and get away no expense.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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