tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57781008430003360782024-03-13T03:58:01.428-04:00The Freelance Human BeingA scattered, intellectually curious student of ideas and life, shares his thoughts about the "alleged" meaning of life. Sociological observations at truck stops on I-95 may also be analyzed here. Thank you for being here, now.C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-83741027750693821962011-03-16T04:03:00.003-04:002011-03-16T04:14:05.041-04:00Day 25, lungs and other essential thingsYes. I have made it to day 25 smoke-free. I am feeling good about this. The cravings are less and less. I feel very committed to this decision to live a healthier life without cigarettes.It may seem hackneyed but the photo above really does scare me! That is a lung with emphysema. COPD is a horrible condition, involving chronic bronchitis and/or emphysema. Basically the lungs are completely C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-559733623397426012011-03-08T19:59:00.000-05:002011-03-08T19:59:00.798-05:00The Struggle for FreedomI quit smoking, again. Yes, I know a few of you are going to view this with a cynical eye, "when will he start back up again?" and some of you are saying "GO Chris! You can do it! Good for you! That is Awesome!". I'm going to listen to the latter folks who offer positive vibes and feedback. I can't afford to be around negative people in this struggle to stay off cigarettes. I quit exactly 17 DaysC. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-48963477705233520832010-05-30T12:15:00.003-04:002010-05-30T12:29:02.058-04:00SabbaticalFriends, strangers and random readers: Hello and I hope you have been doing well. I was on blogger sabbatical for a few months. I suppose my creative drive to express myself in the digital domain was self-controlled. I am still afoot and still searching for the truth of it all. I hope you have been doing well, in whatever place or stage of life you find yourself. I am saddened by this massive C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-55556401247109324062010-03-06T02:01:00.006-05:002010-03-06T02:14:32.977-05:00PEACE INC.Jah guide, bring us peace on Earth. I am tired of this bullshit, people need to chill out and start loving each other. We humans have a choice, the more positive, loving action is taken in life, and if those people reproduce; (small caveat) future generations will have more love wired into their brains. We can SOCIAL ENGINEER Love, then we can scheme to plan the great WORLD PEACE. Think SOCIAL C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-69177697753040482002010-03-04T07:42:00.003-05:002010-03-04T07:56:56.477-05:00Life"Life is a sexually transmitted disease that ultimately ends in death". - Spoken by Dr. Wayne Dyer, author and spiritual guru, I am not sure if he originated this quote. Another similar quote, I heard years ago in a time and place I don't recall, "Life is a disease and we are all at different stages of it". - unknown. I really don't mean to start this day off on a cynical or negative note..I justC. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-77526439813292185052010-02-11T21:45:00.005-05:002010-02-11T22:08:28.995-05:00Peace and other idealistic thoughts I quit smoking on January 3rd, 2010. Have not had one, not ONE since then. It has not been easy. I am sick of cigarettes. Cigarettes were making me ill. Nasty, addictive nails. But I still can't get over that cute pic of Renee Zelwegger. I still have a crush on her.Is it just me or is anyone else really sick of those annoying commercials for "Activia? Act-tiv-eee-uhhhhhhh.. The masters of C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-78187390191594556232010-01-21T22:33:00.004-05:002010-01-21T23:14:32.248-05:00We.are.living.the.dream.Indeed, I am living the dream..I am not sure who's dream it is actually, but it is somebody's! Note the sarcasm. But hey, compared with a few million folks in Haiti this week we are ALL living the dream! So, it is relative, right? Are you "living the dream"? Who's dream is it? Or nightmare?This world is moving very fast. Too fast. Perhaps the real revolutionary today would be the Buddhist..C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-65812494208984627112009-11-08T12:04:00.002-05:002009-11-08T12:20:50.691-05:00Stop entropy. True That!I love how language can be used. Save us from entropy! Lol. I used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure.. After saving the planet from global warming, the next project should be to save the Sun, after all, it is burning out as we speak, and in many millions of years it may be gone...and no one cares! lol.. Save the Sun!! (good luck)I love this quote below...is it true? Who knows? How C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-66226648086043427482009-11-03T00:39:00.002-05:002009-11-03T00:44:53.524-05:00READ THIS: PEACE OUT(side) that isThis billboard speaks for itself.I second that motion expressed...Peace outhttp://www.values.comC. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-63370522386443117152009-11-03T00:12:00.003-05:002009-11-03T00:19:48.551-05:00LISTEN NOW! "Glass of Water"Ok...greetings from the First State...I LOVE, absolutely... this song by Coldplay, "Glass of Water". It is open to interpretation, "son, don't ask, how full or empty is your glass, spend your whole time living in the past". Is it about optimism, not living with regret, not trying to understand the future, living in the present? Up to you..The youtube video shows the lyrics, it is not an C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-29265794107894885272009-10-25T17:06:00.003-04:002009-10-25T17:22:40.012-04:00City of Blinding Lights videoLive from the Brooklyn Bridge, U2. I absolutely LOVE this song. It is beautiful. And this youtube video is actually quite good. I love NYC. I love U2.If you happened to watch the Democratic National Convention last year, our soon to be President Obama walked onto stage to speak, the beginning of this song was playing to his entrance on stage. I always wondered when watching that live, just how C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-68162748811136609202009-10-18T10:53:00.005-04:002009-10-18T15:23:25.329-04:00WELTANGST vs. peace of mindWeltangst.Anxiety and worries of the world. I googled its meaning..it is hard to find a lot about it. Basically, it's all the bs and worries in your mind...about the larger world....stuff on the world news...politics, crime, war, hate, struggles, oppression, hunger, fear, the destruction of the environment, the gross inequality of wealth distribution in the world, poverty, injustice, corruption, C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-6544820429903029182009-10-12T15:51:00.006-04:002009-10-12T16:31:08.666-04:00BBW!BBW. Some love the term, others hate it. You may know already, it stands for Big, Beautiful Women(Woman). Usage of the term is generally used in a positive light by men who prefer "plus sized", "voluptuous", "curvy", "zaftig", women. Not all "BBW's" like the term but it has become a mainstream term on the net and in personal ads and for social gathering events for those who are and like BBW's.I C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-58455645356725031222009-10-04T22:23:00.001-04:002009-10-04T22:24:42.988-04:00What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?Above music video: Elvis Costello, "What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?". It is by far one of my favorite songs and the lyrics ring true. Hope you like it. I recall watching it on MTV (back in the the good ole days of real rock video!) in the early 80's as a teen...I loved it then...and still love this song. Youtube has many other versions of the song to check out..live..acousticC. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-68434853952163813892009-06-26T12:05:00.003-04:002009-06-26T12:10:21.731-04:00Final Installment of Coldplay videosAs promised previously, the 3rd and final installment of 3 videos. Coldplay, "Life in Technicolor II", with lyrics playing and their official video. It's animated and quite entertaining. I love this song. Rock on Coldplay..C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-83668579968144933062009-06-24T11:21:00.000-04:002009-06-24T11:21:35.912-04:00Death and taxes on Coffee?The above picture is the chemical formula for Caffeine. The last, greatest, untaxed mind altering substance consumed by over 80% of the worlds' population on a daily basis...whether through coffee, tea, soda or chocolate. It is one of the oldest, natural legal stimulants. Since taxes are currently being added to just about everything (cell phones charges are on the list, cities taxing more waste C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-1687250864470900472009-06-21T13:38:00.005-04:002009-06-21T15:17:30.540-04:00Things I really miss..We've had many straight days of rain here in Jersey, on and off and it's giving me some cabin fever and longings for time's past. It's got me thinking about things I really miss that I was day dreaming of recently.1. Great concerts. I still reflect on seeing U2 at the old JFK stadium in Philly (since torn down) during their Joshua Tree Tour back in 1987. It was the best concert I've been too...C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-70848123774719620552009-06-08T16:29:00.008-04:002009-06-08T17:16:59.077-04:00Health kick while watching the dawg...I am fortunate enough to be watching my brother's girlfriend's dog Gunny again! He is the dog pictured on the right. I really think of Gunny as part of the family now, not just Julee's dog. He is the nicest dog. He is napping on my couch right now, chillin' out. When he's not excited about eating he is sound asleep napping....hey that sounds like someone else I live with! Gunny even let me C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-81369714759453064342009-05-28T21:08:00.001-04:002009-05-28T21:08:40.137-04:00Life In Technicolor 2 : Obsession Continued..The youtube video is the lyrics to Coldplay's "Life in Technicolor II" song. I posted two others related to this one...the original Life in Technicolor, then the extended version of the first version. This is part 3 of 4 total! Yes, one more is to come, that will be the actual video made for version II, an interesting animation video.I am not obsessed with this song, I am COMPLETELY OBSESSED withC. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-21734690009281411692009-05-21T21:43:00.003-04:002009-05-21T22:30:13.070-04:00Aspartame to Green Tea switcharoo (photo note) I shall continue my tradition of blurry light night photos with the above photo, free courtesy of pixmac.com, they just get to put their huge logo on the picture, not a bad trade since I did not take the picture!I gave up diet soda 6 days ago. Tomorrow will be 1 week, day 7 wahooo. Whether it be diet-coke, diet-pepsi, diet dr. pepper, diet 7 up, I was drinking it. Lots of it. DietC. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-5953650442489840832009-05-18T18:10:00.003-04:002009-05-18T18:49:07.230-04:00Collage Novel : Michael Betancourt(Image above: Michael Betancourt's textbook "Structuring Time" cover artwork) And now, hot off the presses, check out this collage novel by the artist Michael Betancourt. It is titled, "Two Women and a Nightengale". He has made the 1st chapter available for free and it is available by clicking here:http://www.michaelbetancourt.com/pdf/2Women_chapter1.pdfIf you are not familiar with Michael's C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-91991686026127481272009-05-15T18:01:00.006-04:002009-05-15T18:56:24.014-04:00Deep Thoughts for Friday..the Universe is REALLY bigThe above photo is of a cartwheel galaxy. Looks more like fireworks. I believe it is one of the photos from the Hubble Telescope. If you want to see some awesome photos of space check out the Hubble photographs, they truly are amazing to look at. The photos on http://hubblesite.org/gallery/ are amazing!The sheer immensity, diversity and beauty of the universe. At least the parts of it we are ableC. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-18398538112161595202009-05-06T02:18:00.000-04:002009-05-06T02:19:03.115-04:00The Nightfly and other Road OdditiesThe photo above is a tribute to the Nightfly everywhere, up at night. I am up late, I am blogging, it's all good. The photo is of the back of a plane in flight over a city on the West Coast, (I forgot which one) the night lights visual creates a beautiful blurred effect. It's a pun of sorts being the Nightfly. Flying at night. Blogging late at night. A tribute to Donald Fagen's song "The C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-68837435019429172382009-05-01T20:22:00.003-04:002009-05-01T20:34:34.304-04:00Meta-blogging...What is meta-blogging? Of course it is blogging about blogging. Just as meta-analysis is an analysis of analysis itself. Kind of self-referential in a way. Not to be confused with Metaphysical; that is the philosophical study of the nature of reality, with meta-subdivisions that include meta-ontology and meta-epistemology. Everything can essentially be sliced and diced and broken down to a metaC. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778100843000336078.post-48878266224999627802009-04-19T13:13:00.002-04:002009-04-19T13:20:53.410-04:00I still haven't found what I'm looking for...This is the youtube video for U2's "I sill haven't found what I'm looking for" from their Joshua Tree album. One of my absolute favorites from U2. This video was filmed in Harlem and shows the gospel roots in the song. I remember in high school being totally enamored with the album and themes of the album.. The song itself has felt like a life anthem for me as I have been a seeker and searcher C. Dylanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990148159195322152noreply@blogger.com2