Thursday, February 19, 2009

Phenomena

So I was looking up recent phenomena and all of them are kind of dumb. There was one about a woman who heard voices and smelled dog poop. http://en.allexperts.com/q/Paranormal-Phenomena-3278/Recent-Phenomenon.htm. And so I decided that it was a stupid topic to talk about anyway. Well what really happened was I got caught up playing WoW and so I didn't really do all of my research. Sorry guys, it won't happen again. 

I realize that I'm better at planning to do things than actually doing them. This is pretty evident from how I love writing entries about what I'll write about, but when I'm fulfilling that promise I find it such a burden. But for you guys, anything to make up for our lost time together. 

Also there aren't really many jokes to crack about phenomena. Theyre just crazy ass shit that happen in our everyday lives. Sometimes they are interesting such as U.F.Os and Bigfoot, sometimes they are scary like people disappearing, or people who just know where you are. Btw I've met one of those people who can just pinpoint locations and believe me, it is pretty mindboggling.
As I was trying to recall what it is that led me to talk about this, or even want to talk about this, I couldn't remember exactly what my train of thought was but I do know that I went head first into it without a plan. WAIT A SECOND! JUST FOUNND SOME CRAZY ASS SHIT!

It is called the 100th monkey phenomenon. Let me lay it out for you. So there are 99 monkeys on an island. One monkey learns that washing his piece of sweet potato in the river makes it less disease oriented and makes for a longer life. He then teaches monkey number 2 how to wash the sweet potatos in order to help his buddy monkey number 2 also live a healthier life. Soon after, the entire island of 99 monkeys get taught by each other to wash their potatos for the
sake of good public health. However, a human scientist comes and says "Hey man. There's 99 monkeys. Let's just drop 1 in to make an even 100". And So the 100th Monkey is added to the peaceful colony of 99 monkeys. The monkeys soon befriend him and teach him the way of their island. For this is an island with good hygeine! And so he learns how to clean sweet potatoes as well effectively making him part of this monkey community. As soon as he does this however, monkeys on different islands all over the world begin to start washing their sweet potatos and this sweet potato washing trend, becomes a world monkey movement, all because of that one extra monkey.

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Watson alleged that the scientists were "reluctant to publish [the whole story] for fear of ridicule." He wrote that he had "to gather the rest of the story from personal anecdotes and bits of folklore among primate researchers, because most of them are still not quite sure what happened." (Taken from whowever this Watson is. It's a quote from somewhere I give credit where credits do I do not take any credit for this).
Hell if I said something like that too I would be all afraid to publish my thoughts. Hell that's like saying that The Knicks are good, or that  Warren's straight or even the forbidden I actually did your mother, mother joke. Either way, it's ridiculous and things like this happening makes me feel that the world I'm living in is a huge farce. And I love it. 


Phenomenons. What a wonderful world.
-The Postmaster

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Movies describe life

First of all I wanted to commend encyetoutou for his commitment to this blog. Love you man. Even when I give up you still are there commenting diligently. Let's all give him a hand clap in our heart.
Second order of business. It's been brought to my attention that I need an alias. And so from now on I will refer to myself as the "postmaster". Because I always deliver. YES! That and its a bad pun involving me being a deliverer as well as a master of posting. Suits me perfectly.

Third order of business. It has also been brought to my attention that I am lazy and full of false promises so I offer you today the first legitimate post of the year from me.
I realize that writing in a blog, it's hard to come up with content all the time. When the muse is upon me, I am not near a computer, when I'm attempting to write a blog the muse leaves. And so I decided that from now on I'm going to come up with a battle plan for what's going to be coming every week. So feel free to comment on what else you'd like me to write about but so far it looks like this week is going to break down into these subjects.


Tomorrow, we'll be talking about recent paranormal phenomenon happening in the world today along with look alikes and other random stuff. Be excited to hear about the craziest shit happening in the world and what I think about it. And believe me. It's not gonna be good for the phenomenons. Either that or I'm personally gonna be blown away. Highly doubt it though.




The day after tommorow we'll be talking about, "the day after tommorow". Or the global weather crisis. I know I know it's been talked about way too much, but with the weather getting so dam freaky, I believe its an issue that must be dealt with and dealt with quickly. The more people think about it, the greater the chances are that it won't happen, or it'll happen after we're dead. Which I'd be completely okay with.
Edit: Just after I wrote this post it started snowing. Phenomenon?!?! Involving John?



And we'll end the week talking about human trafficking. I actually recently saw Taken and was really impressed with it. It makes me almost want to join the government and almost want to have a daughter taken away so I can do that shit too. BUT. I don't want this so don't hold this against me! And if you want to take my daughter away, I don't got one you human trafficker! So fuck you! haha. But seriously. Human trafficking is a serious issue and deserves a serious opinion and a serious view on it. And because I'm such a serious guy with a serious view of life, I'll seriously be talking about this serious issue... Seriously.

I would blog on Sunday but it's the sabbath so I'm not allowed to. Sorry dudes. But I do encourage all of you to comment on Sunday. I may be commenting on myself as well. So that's the future look for this week, Maybe dustin'll write a little something. Maybe warren will. Maybe ken will. And if you want to, email me at jjangshift8@gmail.com and I'll let you know if you can. If it sucks I'll tell you how terrible it is and you can try harder next time.

Thanks guys!

-The Postmaster