A Big Margareitta is Coming My Way - I'm Lying in the Sun Reading Proust

Sand and Waves, Perdido Key Florida

At the pool – My Gal – She used to be my girl – tossing a beach ball about – there is a big Margareitta machine behind the bar – the Tiki bar – don’t bring drinks or food to the pool (the owner of the Tiki bar also owns the pool and only leases it to the Resort) . Remember you’re listening to sunny 105 today – thuda, thud da thuda – the boys sing – the girls they scream – it is hot – all the even remotely good looking women have babies in two – oh God, I’m on a family vacation – I go back to reading Proust. I have a choice – either I can sit in the hot sun or sit in a shade with a breeze as I read. Punk! Eric pounded the beach ball and it sailed over Leslie’s head – Dave is standing in waist deep water watching the grandkids – a fake waterfall cascades down behind his bemused smile – the sound of the water and the heat put me to sleep.

Among the few animal species in which sex roles are dramatically reversed – in which males make the greatest biologically mandated parental investment – males are also the choosy sex, and females are the chosen – David P Barash – How Women Got Their Curves – 2009 p112

The US government spends 15 times as much money on military R and D as it spends on Energy R nad D. Over the next decade it is estimated the the demand for biofuels will increase the cost of foods by 40%. It turns out that green energy may be brown. We already knew that war kills.

Or we can take the Ferry across the Bay / Scanning the washed view on our way / To Sausalito where the thing to do / Is look at yet another view / And take the Ferry back – Thom Gunn [Collected Poems] 1994 p411

We buried the last of them
       From our little imperial
            Affair
And the last drummer boy of
      Our last domestic dispute
      Had only recently expired
Then the doughboys of the Great War
Then our fathers who did no better
      That we might not live in vain
Now it is our generation and our
       Petty wars for which no one
       Can remember the causes


Oh God grant us a Great War
      Give us one that is more than fear
      And spawns more than just  hate
In thy name we pray

[D H] Lawrence was opposed to the world as is. The world is wrong. In this sense Lawrence was right, is still right, and always will be right. Every sensitive being aware of his own power, his own right, senses this opposition. The world however is there and will not be denied. The world says NO. The world is eternally wagging its head NO – Henry Miller – The Wisdom to the Heart, 1960 p160

A profession is an occupational grouping that has self authority to recruit, train and supervise its own members – Horchschild p103 - But the word Professional has now come to mean an occupation which is completely submissive to an institutions standards – we expect a professional demeanor from our employees.

Students and alumni of the University of Phoenix (the “As Seen It TV” university) have accured more than $5 billion in outstanding educational loans secured by the government

Starting outside, / you save yourself some time while working in: / Thus by the seen, the unseen is implied – Thom Gunn [Collected Poems] 1994 p379

Who is talking on their cell phone:
           Asians        384 minutes per month
           Whites        647
           Men           667
           Hispanics     826
           Women         856
           Blacks      1,331

Analogies decide nothing, but they make one feel more at home – Sigmund Feud