Dumb to be Numb

When you allow a controlling person to get under your skin... you risk the chance of losing some feelings.

What Time is it! Where're my glasses?

Awake. I was dreaming thoughts. There wasn't a thing I could see. They kept happening, so many bumping into me.
All in a darkness I hardly cared... new ones, even old ones... an endless march of reminders forward and back.
Like an empty room filled with words joined together with smiles and frowns. I could feel myself almost awake leaning towards a hundred decisions I once made and a thousand more just out of reach and begging me to think.

Say it Loud

Sometimes taking just a few moments to have a few choice words with yourself can accomplish more than wasting your time thinking it over.

Try to See it My Way.

If frustration necessitates a showdown and all the cards are on the table... just spit out the reminder, "What if the tables were turned?" and be ready to walk away.

Half of what remains clear is still enough to maintain what you steer.

Oblivious

Hmm... Time to write another feature script. This time Aliens take over the planet by seeding the worst minds of humanity with such intelligence that it leads to great prosperity, greed and the misuse of technology which is followed by mass stupidity and the ultimate demise of everyone. The people of the planet eventually die out from being so full of themselves.
The title, "Oblivious."

A Wise Choice Earned is a Poor Choice Learned.

Some people choose to dilly-dally down their own, "Yellow Brick Road" while others choose, "The Path of Least Resistance."

Remember

Of all the things that you can learn in life there's one thing to remember that can save you a whole lot of grief, "You're just asking for it when you try to impress a fool."

"Fall on deaf ears."

I know of only one person in my time who really didn't say much but did so well to get their point across. They'd actually sit and listen to every word I'd say... make like they were absorbing all my efforts to communicate with them... nod their head as if to encourage me to continue and when I was done they'd shake their head and walk away like I hadn't said a word. It's amazing what one person can teach you in so few words.

Pulling A Fast One

Fourth grade, December 3, 1954. Sister Mary Jerome had a special thing. If it was your Birthday, that night you didn't have to do the homework assignment. Mine wasn't till the following Saturday on the 11th. As usual I was going to get screwed so I took the shot (no one in my class knew what day it was or gave a hoot) so I went up to her desk and said, "Today is my Birthday Sister. Do I have to do the homework?" She got up, sat me in front of the class and put the Dunce Cap on me and told me I better not ever try that with her again. Then she turned to the class. "Children, Mr. Magistro doesn't know the day he was born." That got a laugh. She also gave me a 500 time punishment assignment, "I must not lie to get out of doing homework." The following weekend I had to do it all over again for using a ball point pen and carbon paper. True story

RSVP

Today someone presented me with a question that they felt I was required to answer. No matter how much I tried I wasn't able to decide between, "I could give a shit" and "I couldn't give a shit.

Like

Satan?

It used to really annoy me that Satan was created just to tempt me to screw up and I could go to hell for listening to him. Well the Devil didn't make me do it... ever. I made my own mistakes and I'm not about to blame him for anything or deny myself credit for what I've accomplished because I didn't pay attention to his bullshit. That's all I have to say about that.

Dinner with Two

When it's just... you,
ya gotta have... two.

"The Ball?"- Old Adage from The Bronx

You think with three things:
"The Mind" "The Heart" and "The Ball."

As long as you keep, "The Mind" and "The Heart" together... you can never go wrong.
But, if you allow, "The Heart" to be influenced by, "The Ball."
Eventually you lose, "The Mind."

Recent Sicilian Saying

Yeah... Let'm do what they do and in spite of what they say.
It's just a tick of the clock closer to direct deposit day.

Fall Back

Blustery Sunday. Leaves of gold... welcome home.
Coffee's hot, toasted bagel's friend.
Fall back, an extra hour...
and savor the blend.

Old Sicilian Saying

Most opinions are made for the sake of quality.
The others are based on the desire to control.

Turn the Page

At times when you can't be on the same page with someone you need to just go back to writing your own book.

G'lookn'... G'lookn'!

Looks are deceiving, age is revealing. No matter what you got or who thinks you're so hot, soon enough you'll be old and gray... still a fool, when they cart you away.

Lighten up!

Life isn't a joke but it's good for a few laughs.