Chamblee54

I woke up. Today is the third day of the new year. The 2023 plan is to try intermittent fasting for a month, and see how I feel. Today is the third day. It is one thing to say what you are going to do. It is another to actually do it.
IF changes your relationship with food. The plan now is to eat from 2pm until 10 pm. The internet folks say to go from 1-9. I like to eat a late night bowl of oatmeal, to promote regularity. This may change as we continue.
@BkL0v “all good news about Damar Hamlin so far – despite the scary cardiac arrest and 9min CPR, his vitals are good, they restarted his heart, now they say he’s in stable condition. he’a gonna play football again! just watch !!!!” … The twitter news this morning is about a football player collapsing last night. The word is that many COVID vaccinated people have fallen over dead recently. There will be no way to prove/disprove that the vaxx caused these sudden deaths.
I am vaxxed. When they became widely available, I was skeptical, but not enough of a rebel to abstain. It is becoming apparent that the deep state government rushed the vaxx into mass distribution without adequate testing. The pandemic was seen as an emergency, and extreme measures were taken. The national debt spiraled out of control. Children essentially took a year off from school. We will be dealing with the quote/unquote cure a lot longer than we dealt with the disease.
Why do I continue to write these dispatches, when few people are reading? Last year, I wrote two posts about why I enjoy listening to Joseph James Rogan. The facebook friend who trashed JJR deleted the link. When I looked at the stats a few days later, NOBODY had read the post. Writing these dispatches is fun, and may elicit some worthwhile commentary. The fact that nobody is reading should not be a problem. The only expense is my time.
Why does the caged bird sing? I have heard that line for years, but am starting to understand it. The caged bird sings because he enjoys it. He does not care if you enjoy his tunes, or if you are annoyed by it. If you want to ignore me, that is easier than filtering out a bird that will not quit singing.
I have heard the line about the caged bird for years, but never read the poem that inspired it. It turns out Maya Angelou is not talking about a privileged white man expressing his wonderful thoughts on the information superhighway. The metaphor still works. If some fuddy duddy wants to cry racist cultural appropriation, that is their privilege. In the meantime, I will look for another metaphor.
The Rogan posts mentioned above deal with the COVID clusterfuck. “JRE does tackle serious issues. You should listen, and think for yourself. I heard about 45 minutes of the Robert Malone episode. A great deal of it was nonsense. One that rang true was the government prioritizing vaccines over treatment, with disastrous results. Typical is this story: Experts say monoclonal antibody treatment is not a substitute for COVID-19 vaccines.”
“The suspicion is that the covid industrial complex does not want you to think critically. The idea is to be good little sheep. Get the vaccine, wear a mask, and watch the government borrow $3t a year. Talk trash about anyone who does not salute the Pfizer-flag. When a popular entertainer questions the status quo, he must be ridiculed, along with anyone who listens.
Pictures today are by chamblee 54. These are haiku pictures, another underappreciated expression. You take a bit of text, usually off twitter or facebook. Highlight the words you want to keep, in the 5 beat-7 beat-5 beat format. Filter out the remaining text. Have a nice day.