Old Dog

Abe Lincoln is still alive. John Wilkes Booth only kinda assassinated him. They froze his brain and his thoughts are transmitted to us....

"I bet when the Neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman." Jack Handey

ahhhh tangents!!!! J Geils also did Centerfold, a song about seeing a former crush in Playboy.... This woman, the lead singer of the Go Gos also appeared in Playboy Belinda Carlisle - In Too Deep

alright. Rick Danko was one of the original members of the Band and was a an extraordinary musician.... so much so that in his later years he was drafted by Ringo Starr to be a member of his first All Star band (of which Joe Walsh, Levon Helm, Billy Preston, Clarence Clemons, Nils Lofgren and Dr John were also members....) So ... here's Ringo.... Ringo Starr - Photograph

I was humming a tune to myself and had an epiphany. "When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody's help in anyway. But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured, Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors." The Beatles nailed it. The common source of disconnect for most of us is age. I will assure the majority of you young whippersnappers, that what you are feeling now, is the same damn thing all of us felt when we were young whippersnappers. Here's the thing. When we were younger we felt immortal. We may have been shy and introverted but we were shy and introverted "en masse." The way we socialize kids, the way it has been for generations now is that we grab all of the kids born in a particular year and throw them together. From the ages of 4 through 24, more or less, we are artificially connected to everyone else we know because that is what is expected. We have common experiences. We eat at the same time. We read the same books. We listen to the same music. We wear the same clothes. We urge each other to conform. We urge each other to rebel. We love the same things. We hate the same things. It's not 100% - we all have our things that go against the grain, but for the most part we are connected; we "belong." Then it happens. The cruel reality of the "grown up" world. You are thrust into society, naked. That group of people that fed your id, ego and super ego have vanished. They are still there, but not in your immediate vicinity. They are in other places in society, equally naked. It's scary. Some people have the basic survival techniques to become accepted and to accept rather rapidly. It doesn't mean that they don't feel the isolation, they just seem to cope better. I am sitting here writing this as a guy that has experienced everything you have felt. I still do feel much the same angst, the same disconnect in a lot of ways. The difference? Years. Lots and lots of years. I still find many of the things that my juniors, my contemporaries and my elders do or say, absolutely asinine or conversely works of genius. I am now a gregarious loner. A shy extrovert. A happy madman. Serenely out of control. A paradox incarnate. My connection to the real world? It's tenuous and unshakable. It is both fluid and static. Dynamic and immovable. I am just a regular guy that understands, in a changing world, that I will never understand. I live my life knowing that I will never know everything I want to know and know too much of what I don't. I am cool with that.

Ahhhhh the 70's... and the early 80's...... You have a hole in the sky? Hmmmm maybe there was a wheel there.... Journey - Wheel In The Sky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbVoDVWZsc Just one of those bands that automatically transports me back to a time when sex required 5 simple words.... "Are you on the pill?"

Standing on Laurier and seeing that the new bike lanes were plowed 5 times (each way) today between 8 am and 2pm, and the streets and sidewalks were left sloppy. That one biker we saw really appreciated the efforts.

have a great one! xox

She is an incredibly talented woman. It's sad in a way that a lot of people won't ever see her routines; that "morality" issue that pole dancing came from strip clubs and strip clubs are evil (definitely not my thoughts...) Her moves are athletic, artistic, sensual and unbelievable.

Aside from Gabi's and RG's helpful comments, there is a big secret to CERB that some do not realize. There are a lot of providers here who have inactive accounts. They sign on, post a few times and disappear. Left the business, moved to another city or found that CERB was not their thing. It happens. When you check a profile, look for "last activity" - you can see it below their profile pic. If there is nothing there, check "statistics"... it's the third tab directly under the profile pic. Now click "find all posts by XXX"... if the last post was in October 2011 or before, the likelihood is that you are NEVER going to get a response. She has moved on. Don't get discouraged... CERB is like the biblical land of plenty... manna from heaven. You will find that perfect experience!!!

fantastic pic!!!