Hope

Hope for redemption. Hope it's not too late.  

handful of fools

i walked down towards the Pearl last night. for those not living in Portland, that is a really nice and well moneyed neighborhood in the NW quadrant of town. 

Last night was night 3 of protests against Donald Trump. A handful of people decided it was a good idea to take baseball bats to businesses and spray paint on others. 

Donald Trump is our president elect. Unless we seriously find a way to not make that be, that is our reality. Busting up buildings is not a way to solve such things.

To the handful of fools, mark my words, if you are not careful, these outbreaks justify martial law. The feds have a lot of power right now. It's a time to be patient and observant, not foolish. 

In other news it's really creepy how Donald Trump has head next to no press near him at the moment. Keep your eyes and hearts open, friends. 

be free fellow earthlings

-abc

ketchup

Smoggie Catt's birthday was Thursday. 

i went to see Brand New's last show a couple weeks ago.  

I bought a lot of groceries. learning to cook myself meals again. 

i began rereading Alice in wonderland. 

singing more while I wander. 

working lots and working hard. 

learning more and more. 

writing is happening more. 

drawing never stops. 

US politics are fuvked. 

the leaves are changing colors.

fall is coming.  

the acorns are falling.  

let freedom bleed

how queer it is to watch Babylon fall. how strange it is to be anything at all. 

Liberty

my friend, Cass, was part of a Bernie Sanders themed art show last night.

Below art pics of the prints, contact her on Instagram if you're interested in one. 

i contributed some word for the second print. it felt good to write out my feels about the current politics so thoroughly. 

I encourage you to read it, if you wonder why I support Bernie Sanders more than any other candidate. 

Oregon and Kentucky primaries are tomorrow.  

Keep your hopes up, friends.

Bernie Sanders in no way can solve all our crazy problems on his own, but he has the servitude to start trying. 

Combine that with people rallying together and we can do whatever we want. 

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."  

-Thomas Jefferson

be free fellow earthlings.  

-abc

keeping up with the roses

drama doesn't wanna be solved

hearing sirens of the forest

yelling in my head

righto. 10 years later.

he went the extra mile

live like an animal 

sing it, hendrix

help me escape again

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ask me more 

i'll run away with you

keeping up with the roses

soaking in 

rainy days ahead

i don't mind

i smoked cigarettes

on the rooftop

you slept on the futon 

in the corner

ella fitzgerald

in the background

can you feel the love tonight?

noise

i'm a fool for the rock n roll

let me sing

let me be

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encourage their rage

is anybody listening?

there's a great void

wtf is a caucus?

this is the first time i've seen "caucusing" explained.

check it out.

i don't care who you're voting for. it's about knowing how the system works.

if you're already decided to not vote. i urge you to reconsider.

if you feel the "system" is hopeless. i feel ya.

i feel this is an opportunity to "play by the rules" and see if it really makes a difference. we can do it civilly. attempt to at least. 

the video is a little hokey, but hey it's politics. go with it.

time to take a nap. then clean up my house. 

be fee

-abc

There's a Debate Tomorrow

I went and listened to Bernie Sanders speak when he was in Portland, Oregon.  

I say listened because the NBA gymnasium he spoke in was filled with 19,000 people so I had to join another 8 or 9000 outside.  

Blah blah blah numbers. 

I've been reluctant to speak about the event on my blog because I needed time to let things summer. Vibe things out.  

People are really passionate at those rallies and I'm a skeptic. 

Bernie Sanders spoke with genuine conviction.  

He called his audience "brother and sisters". 

Those people who say if you don't pay your mortgage or student debt that the economy will crash.  

Numbers numbers.. Blah blah. 

They refer to you as "consumers".

not customers. You are a pawn in a never ending game of a chess or something except there's only so many pieces in chess. 

Focusing... I ask you.. All around the world.. Especially in the United States. 

watch that debate. I don't care if you have to YouTube it a day later.  

There is a corporate machine out there.  

Last election and the one before it was just mumbled about and mostly looked at as tall tale to most. 

now if you read the NYTimes or anything other than Fox News or cnn these names and super pacs are realities. 

I could ramble on this all day but there is a guy with a lot more knowledge and much better worded than I who wants that to change.

I don't know the language of this stuff there is a senator who does and has for a long time. 

I'm not saying he's a saviour. Most the work will have to come from ordinary folk.  

Listen to what he says and if we decide to continue to live in our ignorance than count me out. 

I know a lot of people would like to be ignorant to politics. 

i wish we could be a bunch of small countries and agree to disagree.  

Watch the debate. Then let's talk. Seriously we gotta start talking sooner or later.  

The world is changing. We must adapt. The age of convience is ending whether you like it or not.

-abc

Also if you got this far. This is an interesting article to read.  

Life Lately

My heart is scattered

No metronome 

Compass focused 

But still searching for home 

I bought a PA system finally. That means I sing at an audible volume with the dudes I've been jamming with.

 I don't know what's to become of this endeavor but I feel really good about it. 

I've met a lot of interesting artists folk this past week. 

One dude, Ellery, gave me quite the list of music to check out. I forget the other dude's name in this moment but fairly sure it began with an A. 

I love Belmont.

Also a guy named Josh who reminded me of a cross between Edward Snowden and Morpheous. 

Basically a badass ink and paper artist who I hope will contribute to zzzwalking so you guys can see his genius ness. 

Besides that making coffee and bits of art. Oh and still plowing through Slaughterhouse by Vonnegut. That shit is intense!!

Trying to write but the words fall short lately. So it goes. 

Also a lot of interesting stuff is happening in the world:

Baltimore, Nepal, Iran, China, not to mention all the mayhem about to ensue from election season in the homeland.

Be free Fellow Earthlings. 

-ABC

 

Head Thoughts

It's kind of like a puppet show but more frustrating. 

Maybe it's over fabricated in my head.

But we tried to attack Syria sometime back.

Don't ask me when I don't do so good with keeping up with time and politics.

I follow the basics. I follow intuition.

I take care of me and my own.

Less is more.

Anywho people kind of got worried. Drone talk was a pretty new scare I believe.

But now their is a big bad wolf in Syria and Iraq again.

Also at some point this 10 years I've been hearing about how the fucking troops are coming home.

That's a decade of my life man.

Enough time for us to live in fear and get lost in a whole new world of... stuff.

It all started with the War in Afghanistan.

Makes sense. Attacked by terrorist, that's hypothetically where the big bad wolf is.

A couple years later we get magic phones and social media

Every year there's a shinier and shinier toy and a quicker and quicker way to the interwebs

I'm not saying all these toys are bad. I think they're the best weapon we have.

Going back to now:

10 years later

New iphone 6 and now a some magical, future watch, gadget... thing.

Now Obama has stated he has the power to do what he needs in Iraq and Syria without Congress.

His speech is at 9pm tomorrow.

This is just moments before the 9/11 moment.

I'm not asking you to live in fear.

I'm just asking you to tune in and listen.

I'm going to listen, but it don't feel right in my stomach man.

I'm shocked I've been able to hold focus to still be typing words.

Also a news clip I watched with the Prime Minister dude in the UK said the war over there would take a long time. He spoke in decades I don't remember whether plural or just one.

But I've already seen a decade of this repetitiousness.

Change is happening. 

Even if it's another 10 years of fear and high tech gear.

It'll be more intense. The interweb is still very new to us.

Maybe I just have to much hope in man.

Take time to look up at the stars.

If you read this far, we're gonna be alright. 

Be Free!

< 3 -ABC

Words

Remember a year or so a go. Maybe it was less. Maybe it was more. I'm not so good with time you guys...

But do you remember when Obama let congress decide whether we attack Syria or not because we started a little rumble but somehow we still weezeled our way in there.  

It don't feel right guys. It don't feel right at all. I think the time to get rowdy is becoming more and more unavoidable. 

I gotta go make some more coffee. Just think about it for me. Be free!

48 Stars

I saw a 48 starred United States flag today. I wanted to purchase it, but decided not to just yet.

It reminded me of another time when the United States was simpler, before the World Wars, before whatever happened in the early 20th Century that made the world more power hungry than ever before. 

Something happened that shook the world. Maybe it's just fear. Maybe it was aliens.

All I know is when those two bombs were dropped on Japan there was no turning back. To contain an empire you need to instill fear. The worst kind of fear is the subtle fear. Fear to leave home.

I saw 48 starred flag today. It made me reflect. My ramblings could go on forever but there are jobs to found and life to be lived. Be free fellow Earthlings. Be Free.

So I Had A Thought

Call me crazy but... we could just cut out all the bullshit and all fly into Washington D.C. and demand to start over again. You know: rewrite the constitution, rewrite the law! Then there'd be no speculation on "what the forefathers intended".

Of course we'd need a level minded leader or we'd end up in the same predicament as Occupy Wall Street. Not that I don't respect what they did, but without a leader you're just an angry mob.

I mean we have planes and cars. It'd be a lot easier than any other time in history. But... we'd have to get off work, we'd have to get babysitters, we'd have to fit it into our "busy" schedules. 

I mean it's easier to sit around and gripe about and speculate about it all anyway. Isn't it?

I mean I know I don't fully understand how it all works. But of course you understand EXACTLY what's happening in Syria and Wall Street and in the Pentagon for that matter.

I know so many of you do, right? No, you don't. You just think you do. Do you believe what the internet memes tell you or that newspaper you read. Because depending on what region of this country you live in there is certainly some kind of bias to what you'll read.

It's true something needs to change. The education system is all kinds of messed up, we're still printng paper money that has absolutely no value, we're still policing the world, the gap in rich in poor is greater than it's been in a century, this list could go on and on. 

How about half us march outside the Pentagon and half in Washington D.C.?? Think about how much of an impact we could make. That's craziness though, right?

Since when has protesting ever worked? it's the United States of America and the year A.D. 2013; we fill out internet  surveys.

Something needs to be done and I can't do it alone. Until the Middle Class stands up and says enough is enough and demands real change things will remain mundane at best. Get use to it or quit bitching.

It's just a thought; I had to get it out of my head.

That's all I've got.

Have a nice day. Enjoy life.

Bring on the Violence! Bring on the Beer!

Hi, I'm A.B. Corduroy.

I choose to live like a rockstar for the duration of my friend Smoggie Catt's life after which I will devote my life to a more intense written form of my philosophies and deeper self exploration.

Change is inevitable. Evolution is guaranteed.

What's the real difference in enlightenment and insanity?

A.B. TV Ideas !?!? Talk to me!

I've been sketching out a few ideas for the next few episodes of A.B. TV. But I can't  pinpoint exactly what I want to talk about. What do you guys think?

​Religion? Conspiracies? Environmental Stuff? Factory Farming? 

Fuck... it could be anything!

I'm open to suggestions. 

Pick at my brain.

Go! 

There's A Weirdness In The Air

I don't know how to put it into words, but my mind is racing with thoughts. That's nothing new, but I want to write them out.

I don't feel so well with the current situations in Washington D.C.

No empires last forever. ​

Guess I'll just make more coffee and keep thinking thoughts. ​

The Gods Will Be Dead Before We Reach Them

It is not until we forget the expectations of our generation; to work, to love, and to multiply that we will be free to fly with the eagles, run with the antelopes, and sing with the birds.

It is not until we connect with the former world, respect the fragility of the present, and the potential of the next that the magic of the ancients will be revealed to us.

We as a specie (manimals that walk on two feet and think with logic and reason) have attained the greatest technology in recorded history but have forgotten we too will eventually be history.

With all that knowledge we should be more fixed on preserving the world we have worked so hard to understand rather than extracting all it's resources like there is no more tomorrow. 

Religions come and go. Polytheism is largely a thing of the past. The age of monotheism is the "modern way". Christianity leads the way with the greatest numbers in monotheism right now. Islam is a close competitor. Maybe in the next hundred years or so Islam will be the new major religion of the world.

What I'm trying to say is that none of that matters. We should accept it for what things as they are and agree to disagree. I’m not saying any of the said religions are right necessarily. I honestly think they aren’t, but if they give people purpose and they aren’t hurting anyone let them do what they want.

We are intelligent beings. The Greatest? That’s debatable, but we make great buildings, gadgets, and road systems that have mapped much of the known world. But our specie’s time as "king" is so relatively minute in the grand age of our planet. 

We are absolute nothings, but that is where we should find humility and look to be all we can be. It's true we are but a blink in time so why not let petty arguments rest and worry about the bigger things? We should strive for greater goodness.

If one meteor crashed into Central China the entire world’s economy would be thrown into chaos. Think about in just the United States how many products are branded “Made In China”. Think of the minerals that are harvested there for your fancy technology or the numbers of people that labor away to make the clothes on your back that would no longer exist.

It could happen anywhere. In the blink of an eye and destruction and devastation; we think just because we are so evolved the universe will not throw us curveballs. We should know better. Nature is a fierce beast who does what she wants. The Earth is ever changing; even if ever so slowly it’s still evolving. We use to be a planet of fire and rock and now we are lush with vast, blue oceans.

There was a time when Dinosaurs ruled the world. They were a “great” species as well, but then they were wiped away by a meteor and never returned. That was a long time ago you may say.

I would have to agree. That is very true. But who’s to say that wouldn’t happen to us? We are just one minor specie on a minor planet in a universe amongst thousands of universes. Take solace and humility in that. Live life to the fullest, but also respect the great web of nature that we are a part of.

With great knowledge also comes responsibility. Let’s be more resourceful with what we have on this planet. Treat the other creatures that we share this planet with some respect. If you are still enough you can understand them. Those who came before did.

I think it’s very probable that our planet will go traumatic experiences that will change everything we know. So while protecting our home it is also only reasonable to search out the prospect of new ones. Obviously there is plenty here, but we are soaking it all up fast.

And even with all these thoughts I know that humans will still fight, and they will still wage war. That’s the animal in us all. That’s a whole other rambling of thoughts for a later time.

As for now the only true gods I know of that have any validity and dependability are the stars. They have lit the skies for millions of years. They have been a source of directions to sailors and nomads. They tell us about ourselves; even directly affect our personalities. 

The Sun for instance is just a super star that gives us life. A star so great we can’t look at it with our bare eyes or we’d go blind. Without it we’d have no life at all. Even still with all its awe inspiring power our sun is not unique. There are many suns and many stars in the numerous galaxies beyond our comprehension.

We should be aiming to live amongst the stars. After all we are all star stuff anyway. Made up of the many chemicals and scientific stuff that I a commoner know nothing about except the same thing we are made of is what is in outer space and everywhere. We were just fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to take on this form. I’d be talking gibberish if I attempted to get into that.

Let us go strive to go back to which we came and put our petty wars aside. Let’s reach for the gods. The gods that will be dead before we reach them; that’s pure science, but that doesn’t mean we should stop the pursuit of a greater goodness.