Seeing The Light: Pain, Suffering, Stress, Pressure

I once heard that beauty is pain.  I think that to make steady progress toward any goal requires one to handle pain, suffering, stress, and pressure on a regular basis.  There is no easy path toward worthwhile endeavors.  I thought that you could bypass hardship if you advance toward your goals little by little.  It doesn't seem so in my experience.  If you want to live, survive, and possibly thrive, you will take on "heat"  at some point in your life.  Suicide might be an out but what awaits you on the other side may be worse than your present situation.  Human existence is competitive and brutal.  There is love, but love takes effort.  It isn't easy most of the time & for the long haul.  Life is a bitch but there will be a few high points and then you will die.  For those of you who were misguided in your early years, or unguided like me, keep learning every day what it takes to get yours, because what it takes can change from year to year, week to week, second to second.  Fuck the universe/may God bless the universe.

"Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone".  -John Cougar Mellencamp  song lyric

B.O.P.

P.S.  I guess you can tell that I was not one of the winners of the record $550million Power Ball lottery yesterday.

Goodness Factor

Jake Mendelson was an average nobody.  He was going through his life with no aspirations or grand plans other than to see himself through to the next day.  He was 19 years old, worked at a car wash, and still lived with his parents.  Jake's grade school and high school years were ordinary.  He decided not to go to college or to join the military.  He had only a few friends.  He never had a girlfriend.  He paid his expenses with the money he made at his car wash job.  He saved his surplus cash in a coffee can underneath his bed.  He had no plans for the money.  He just stashed it "for a rainy day".  Jake wouldn't call himself a religious fanatic but he believed in a higher power.  He would go to church every Sunday to pay homage to the powers that be who or what ever they were.  Jake was your basic good guy.  He lived a reserved life based on today's standards.  He didn't have much of anything but he was honorable and noble.  Jake didn't want much of anything.  He was happy to be able to party some of the time.  When he did party, he danced and drank.  He had good clean fun.

The powers that be looked into Jake's heart and saw an innocence that was usually gone by the time people reached Jake's age.  Jake's soul was clean and uncorrupted.  The powers that be thought it was a fluke so they tested Jake several times to see if he was...true.  He passed test after test.  One day they gave him an unpassable test.  They were going to corrupt Jake.  They thought it was time he "joined everybody else".  Jake failed a morality test.  He was brought to his knees and enveloped in despair.  Jake was a lost soul.

By some miracle, Jake overcame.  Some way, over time, Jake recleansed his spirit.  Jake maintained his faith and, with time, passed the unpassable test.  The powers that be were astonished!!  Surprise.  After the unpassable test, Jake was never quite the same but he was honorable and noble nonetheless.

Jake Mendelson is a fictitious character.  This is a mini-work of fiction.  Brain candy.

B.O.P.  

Conspiracy Idea

I was recently introduced to the idea of the "animal spirit" which may be another term for the libido.  Well, some animals mark off their territory by smell usually with urine.  I think the perfume & cologne industry own the world because we voluntarily put on their "scents".  We are marked as their territory.  There are a lot of scents out there: food, smoke, soap, B.O., etc.  The mind is inundated with smells.  Bill Gates has "mind smell" on us which explains why he is the richest man in America.  My two "scents" worth.

T.T.T. Update:
Found this Cadillac hub on the side of the road today in my travels.  I think someone is fucking with me because I saw the same (or similar)  hub on the side of the road a week ago.  I didn't grab it then.  Oh well, que sera sera.

Peace

B.O.P.

Car Show

I saw this older Ford Mustang at a local Wal-Mart.  It was looking good.  

This is a Chevy Bel-Air.  I saw this in a church parking lot on my way to KFC.  The owner said it has over 100,000 miles on it.  It looks like it is in mint condition.

                                                   "Beauty Is A Beast"


For D.C. (you know who you are) and all the exotic car lovers out there; this is a McLaren.  This is a photo of a magazine page.  I don't see many exotics live in my area.  The selling price is USD$265,750.00.  I'm getting mine next week :)


Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

B.O.P.

Two car man!

I am going to make the ladies salivate!

I'll have a 1994 Ford and a 1999 Nissan in my possession (they don't make the type of Ford that I have anymore).

A poor man's Lotus and Lamborghini.

Yeah boy!!!

I have to take my babies to get detailed soon ;\

BOP

Thank you God

Self medication is the ticket sometimes.  Get a little help from your friends just don't lean on them too much.

BOP

I Love My Church Thrift Store

Now I admit that one of these came from Walmart but, I think they are all rated "R".  I don't attend church services but I do go to the thrift store most weekends.  The two main ladies who "run the show" were probably smokin' hot babes back in the day but, hey, they still have some smoke left in their cigarettes!!  Fiesty!!  The 35 to 45 year old front end helper is probably married but she isn't trying & she is still...let's just say she has some juice.  Going gives me a sense that I am attending church even though I am really not.  I call it the lazy man's way of worship.  It probably doesn't count but I like to go anyway.  Keep running the store ladies, I love you all.

BOP
P.S.  When are you ladies going to start selling cheap cigarettes?  I'll be first in line!!

Cheech & Chong, Up In Smoke
Reservoir Dogs, directed by Quentin Tarantino
Urban Action 10 pack featuring Ralph Tresvant, Eric Lane, Lil' Troy