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10.31.2011

Embrace ... What?

Random Quote of the day:
" Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. "
 -- David Cronenberg --

The name's Xoandre.* I'm a dreamer.

By embracing the silence I find in the little moments of a busy life, I have discovered a way in which I may become calm from the storm of insanity within and without my self.

I write fluidly, grammatically correct, and with attitude and passion. Sometimes I will write whole paragraphs that are legitimate and procedural sentences which extend to as many as 200 words or more.

In a life filled with tragedy, romance, passion, pain, (pathological lies,) desire, terror, and a dash of absolute schizophrenic hysteria, I have found that I must take a moment every now and then to cool my soul, soothe my rolling boil of a mind, temper the tantrums that are ready to leap from my calloused, perfunctory exterior of apathy and indifference... in order to retain what shreds of opportunity and personality I keep holding on to (with bleeding palms).

I consider myself a wordsmith, having educated myself in the United States Public School System which has been embalmed and is about to be thrown in the blazing furnace of cremation by the radicals who wish only to make a quick buck off whatever they can cut from their disappointing and malnourished budgets.

Politics, hope, hate, passions, and even Presidential ambitions will be posted on this blog. Yes, I said it: I would love to try my hand at running this country. However, I have come to realize that the act of residing in the White House may not mean that I can make, propose, or enact the sweeping changes I have envisioned for the USA or the world at large.


Aww, shucks, another fella who wants to rule the world. What else could I be?

I am apathetic to the causes which drive so many wild. I find myself enraged and confused at the acts I see and hear other people embracing as if everyone does and feels the same as they do: habits such as smoking; worshiping invisible people; consuming large quantities of alcohol; spending real, hard-earned money on fake, non-existent online gaming and worthless trinkets; and wasting their time in bars, watching sporting events, or even accelerating while approaching a red light or stop sign. GAH!

Yes, I am random, and I am madly going to call out the way people do things, why they do them, and why they should not even consider continuing to do them. 

I have lived a sheltered, unpretentious, difficult life filled with anger, fury, pain, and occasional peace or even joy. What I say here may put some of you off, enrage you, confound you as to my lack of knowledge on certain things, and - in general - make you re-think some of the ways you act or think in your lives.


What does it truly mean to "Embrace the silence?"
Embracing the silence is akin to "Stop and smell the roses" but has more meaning when you extrapolate what "the silence" could actually represent, and how you might choose to embrace it.


So, let me end this first posting on my new blog by saying the following:

To solve the problem of seat up, seat down, or seat wet all over, both men and women alike should simply close the toilet lid before they flush. Then, when the next person arrives to use it, they have to lift the lid regardless. This works in more ways than you may think: by closing the lid BEFORE you flush, you reduce the spray of micro-particles of urine and fecal matter into the air around the toilet (on to - say - your toothbrush)...




* Xoandre is pronounced (zoh -- and -- err)  Like Xander but with an "o"...