Saturday, May 24, 2008

Pet Peeves (cont'd)















1. Department Store Washrooms

These are spooky places to go into and you never know what to expect. Some of them are so clean it is almost like walking into an operating room. There are gadgets and mirrors; even specialty hand dryers that use lasers to quickly dry your hands. The lab, I mean washroom, smells like a funeral parlor, so you aren't aware of what had previously happened in the room itself. The stalls are dark and it makes it hard to see where the toilet seat is.

This is where the worst "accidents" are found. It's where in a last minute search to find a washroom for their child a mother makes a mad dash into the haunted washroom. It has been here as long as the department store that you're great grandmother used to shop in but always exceeded the current washroom trend. The child is already crying from fright and peeing on their underwear and then dripping onto the toilet to finish as they also do a couple ploppers out of sheer terror.

When you enter the damage has already been done and the guilty party is gone so you have to now choose before peeing on yourself as well whether you want the un-flushed remainders or whether you want to try the other two stalls. The first one has the "accident" the second one you notice is filled with toilet paper and pee un-flushed and the third is the handicapped stall. If you go for the second stall you must flush to test whether or not everything will go down the drain. You may have a flood on your hands in which case you go for the handicapped stall. When you enter the last stall you find it spacious and delightful but no toilet paper. So you grab paper from stall two and pee at stall three. You laser your hands dry and leave feeling disoriented. Did you glimpse 'redrum' on the mirror?

Monday, May 19, 2008

Pet Peeves and Other Ramblings...


Creative writing...I don't think so. The only creative going on is what I put on a canvas messy with paint. I write like shit but I have a lot of good ideas that I would like to express. Maybe I may challenge myself to become personally responsible for what I have to write. (Actually this particular blog has made me realize that I am personally responsible for the things that come to mind.)

I came to the realization that I am everything and nothing and what I put out will ultimately come back to me. I just want you to know, dear Reader, I want only love. I mean no harm and I always want you to know you are safe. Why else would you feel you're reading something so personal. You are here to be a witness to my writing. It is a personal thing. You get to know the REAL me. Inside.
On that note just let me say that I have a lot of things on my mind and I wish to express them. I'll be doing that more often too.

So let me start...
Pet Peeves. There really are some things that bug me, but for a start I want you to know how much I despise public washrooms. I'm sure I've mentioned it before on this blog. Places of work that have had their own washrooms are just as bad. There are many "washrooms from hell" that I have seen through my experience of life. To save people some grief here are some descriptions of washrooms that rate from Good to Bad. Public washrooms are divided into 5 categories:

  1. Department Store Washrooms
  2. Restaurant Washrooms
  3. Work Washrooms
  4. Laundromat Washrooms
  5. Bar Washrooms
The lowest of the low are the washrooms at the sleazy bar. The best of the best for public washrooms are expensive halls where people expect the best and get a little slice of paradise as well as fill their purses with free "gifts" in the washrooms that include hairspray, bobby pins, hair ties and barrettes. What more would you need in "washroom heaven"...


I will be writing a piece on each as the blog progresses....

Friday, May 16, 2008

Hello...It's Me.

I've thought about us for a long, long time
Maybe I think too much but something's wrong
There's something here that doesn't last too long
Maybe I shouldn't think of you as mine

Seeing you
Or seeing anything as much as I do you
I take for granted that you're always there
I take for granted that you just don't care
Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through

It's important to me that you know you are free
'Cause I never want to make you change for me

Think of me
You know that I'd be with you if I could
I'll come around to see you once in a while
Or if I ever need a reason to smile
And spend the night if you think I should

This Todd Rundgren song is awesome...And it's how
I feel too.

My posts fall mostly on deaf ears...or should I say blind eyes.
No one has even looked at my posts!

Oh well...It's mostly therapeutic anyways.

It's been a while since I've posted anything as well.
I don't really know what to say.

I'm trying my hand again at starting my artwork business.
I look more official and put together this time
around and have had another showing of my pieces
...this time at the Fine Grind Cafe on James St.

There have been a few changes over the past year
including the passing away of my friend Ken Janzen.
I'm more motivated now to continue my art because of
realizing that sitting on what I have benefitsno one.
I've sold pieces now into the US and Canada via eBay,
clients and different auctions.

2008 is the year it all happens!
I always had a feeling it would be.
This may also be the year everything in humanity gets
devastated by the apocalypse. Sure, it could happen.
I have always thought 2008 was a pinnacle year for some reason...
I've seen droughts, floods, earthquakes, disease,
hunger, war and death in just this year so far.
I don't think things are going well for a lot of people.

Thank God I'm here!
And I am getting the word out to the world that I have arrived!
I will be expecting no less than a tumultuous year filled with
craziness but I hope there will also be a time of peace.
Would that be expecting too much?
With me added into the mix can only add to the chaos.

Oh well, I'm ready to take it on!
Fuck the bomb!
Fuck that rock coming out of the sky!
And fuck you!
All I've been trying to do is get the word out.
All I've seen since I've started has been people going
through the motions, but doing fuck all!
I extend my hand out and keep getting it smacked but I'm
going to keep trying until my hand is raw and bloody or
until someone out there is willing to take my hand
and show that they are ready for change. Change will
come whether you want it to or not.
Act like a responsible human and accept it.
Things will be all the better for it.

This is very general for all of the people
that may come across my blog (yeah, right!)

For everyone else I want to tell you that I have been
quite angry and very alienated. Sure, I'm not
denying that I may have done it to myself. But again I've
been extending out my hand to all of you
and have felt nothing but empty space.
Sure you say you love me, and I have to
believe it's true.
Sometimes believe is all I can do to keep from
leaving it all behind.

We have a lot of catching up to do so
I will bid you adieu for now because I have to work on my
other posts and do some creating to sell more art.

Do you even care?

Bless you!

I will write again soon.