Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Things You Should Know

Alright, just kidding. I have no idea if cats actually even paint, let alone why. Nor do I know who would buy this book or why. What I do know is:

  1. Next Tuesday, Oct. 9th, is the National Day of Prayer for Mental Illness Recovery and Understanding. The Global prevalence rate of mental illness, encompassing everything from substance abuse to schizophrenia and everything in between, is somewhere between 65 and 85%. Whether you're aware of it or not, you know someone who has been intimately affected by psychopathology of one type or another. Let's not wait for one day a year to pray for our brothers and sisters.
  2. In two days, we will eclipse the 50th anniversary of Sputnik I's maiden voyage into the final frontier. This is really three things in one. The first is the anniversary. The second is a plug for Orson Scott Card's Ender series; I find them some of the better sci-fi political/military commentary available. Third, how long would you ride on a space ship to reach another M-class planet?
  3. Eerily mirroring a movie I think I saw on the Sci-Fi Chanel at 3h30am one Tuesday night in college, brain-sucking amoebas are descending on our nation. Not good. Nose plugs might be un-cool, but not nearly as un-cool as having a pseudopoded microorganism feasting on your gray matter. Bleck.
  4. Existential human connection is a real phenomenon. I have experienced it, and it totally freaked me out. Believe me or don't, I know what I felt.
  5. I am now two years older than James Dean was when he died two days ago in 1955. What a lot I have accomplished in the last two years, and what a lot has changed. Sometimes I wish that we'd have had the chance to see Dean continue to grow and evolve, and sometimes it seems fitting that he remains unsullied by the corruption of time.

2 comments:

James said...

Believe it or not, I was reading about the brain-sucking amoebas yesterday. Very weird.

Anonymous said...

Not to mention terrifying. The only treatment available only slows your eventual demise!