Friday, December 10, 2005
new friends

i've spent a lot of time with members of the president's broadcast staff lately. so what seemed the tedious task of overseeing a certain company project (with logistics as maddening as friday night payday) has actually turned out quite well. these guys were nice chaps, and when i say nice, i mean really nice. okay, so let me think of an apt comparison. they were as nice as the president they currently served was profoundly amoral. well, that isn't entirely fair, but you get the picture.

i'm glad to have new friends. they're all a bunch of regular guys when they're not wearing their "i-work-for-the-government-so-shoo" hats. in two days, i've gathered enough dirt on presidents, politicians and paramours to give me nightmares for a century. after all the aah-oohing, my eyes wide with sincere naiveté, my new friends warned me that if i even so much as breathed the details of my newly acquired knowledge to anyone, they would know and they would hunt me down. with a bazooka.

and then they laughed. so it was a joke. but i had to ask them if they were kidding. you're never really sure with these people. and did i mention that they were my new friends?

so one of them, the chief of special projects, is also a respected professor at a top university. he teased me constantly about being a veteran press agent (gross overstatement) and how rich i must be already with all the scamming i do (grosser overstatement). then turning serious, he told me about his job-related experiences—relief operations, war coverage, impeachment and all that jazz—and the ways he thought he could make a difference once he had seen his fellowmen at their most vulnerable. i was nodding my head as i listened. everything he said made sense. but because i have no social conscience, i knew i would never have his problems. yay for me.

then i wondered how complex the world is. those who have all the capabilities to touch humanity on a significant level are the ones devoid of the ego and ambition to take a seat in the government. and those who do have the ego and the ambition, well, they're too morally degenerate to even think about touching humanity. i imagine myself as head of state and i think: yes, the world is a better place without a supraliminal tyrant.

anyway, i would have shared this really great story about a politician. but then i'm wondering if my fingers are fast enough to write the whole damn thing down without dying by bazooka first. it may be that this effete country has a long way to go marauding online journals, but with the kind of people in office right now...one can never tell.

besides, i want to live long enough to finish reading eco's island of the day before. god, but that book is more drawn out than any tolstoy work i've ever read.

i rode north at 11:06 AM
25 kph

ennui pedaled up to say...

I miss you.
1:58 PM
JErm pedaled up to say...

transience:qWq2dI0QPqoEI
2:28 PM
transience pedaled up to say...

ennui >> i miss you, too. still listening to antichrist superstar?

JErm >> i don't get it.
4:25 PM
allister pedaled up to say...

Transience: Watch out, i've got friends in the government.

I really really would like to know what it is exactly you do. I might have asked this before. But it sounds like the same path i'm going down.
4:30 PM
transience pedaled up to say...

transience: damn straight. i DO have friends in the government. and they have a bazooka, playah.

i'm both an advertising copywriter and a public relations officer. multi-tasking, polychronic person that i am. what do you do?
4:48 PM
allister pedaled up to say...

That's amazing! I'm a Marketing and Advertising student. I've always wanted to meet somebody else in the industry. I'd love to be able to ask your view on things sometime. I've always wanted to get a good scope of the life from somebody actually living it.
5:19 PM
JErm pedaled up to say...

you're exposed, i have to write you cryptic messages now! :(
8:14 PM
Satanic J pedaled up to say...

The fact that you might get a bazooka on your ass makes whatever you are keeping secret that much more desirable to hear. On sexond thought, how interesting can it be? Afterall isn't that what we have rock stars for.
8:21 PM
transience pedaled up to say...

anytime, allister. you can email me. i feel like little miss professor already. =)
8:23 PM
karma pedaled up to say...

wow, you are a multi-tasking copywriter - and so am i!!!
what a small world (despite the bazooka threats)

am adding your link to my blog (is that okay?) still cannot figure out that damn blogroll :(
9:51 PM
transience pedaled up to say...

JErm >> oh no...

satanic j >> you're right, rock stars can be damn interesting.

karma >> i appreciate the link. good luck on your ordeal with the dentist.
8:48 AM
monsterspank pedaled up to say...

If I tell you then I have to kill you.. that is the general rule. See.. all that's left now is for you to die according to the rules. Next time tell the bazooka guys to keep it private. Total inconvenience you know, deaddom.
9:28 AM
transience pedaled up to say...

thanks for the vote of confidence. =)
9:36 AM
monsterspank pedaled up to say...

Just lookin' out for ya =)
9:39 AM
transience pedaled up to say...

at least now i can be a tragic poseur for real.
9:44 AM
monsterspank pedaled up to say...

Ouch
9:48 AM
transience pedaled up to say...

hahahaha! just returning the favor. =)
9:52 AM
monsterspank pedaled up to say...

Okay won't bother you anymore.
9:55 AM
transience pedaled up to say...

how dramatic. coward! =)
9:59 AM
monsterspank pedaled up to say...

forgive the ignorance but...president of what country?
6:33 PM
transience pedaled up to say...

if i tell you then i have to kill you. +D
2:09 AM
monsterspank pedaled up to say...

but i thought Transience acknowledges no president for she is without country?
2:10 AM
transience pedaled up to say...

i love it when you start quoting me. why are you still up?
2:13 AM
monsterspank pedaled up to say...

thinking of you.

and i could just imagine your bewilderment about our politicians' incapacities. you beautiful one without country.
2:12 AM
transience pedaled up to say...

oh yes, i am bewildered but not by our politicians but about you. and yes, i am beautiful, thank you very much. sleep now and dream of me. heh! ;-D
2:20 AM
monsterspank pedaled up to say...

only if you do too.
2:14 AM
transience pedaled up to say...

you know i do. every fucking night, heh!
2:16 AM
monsterspank pedaled up to say...

what do you dream about me?
2:18 AM
transience pedaled up to say...

don't start anything you can't finish.
2:20 AM
monsterspank pedaled up to say...

coward.

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