Reposted from antipope

Dear Producers. So, 2012 was your making? Most impressive, if it had not been for the consistent and at times obtrusive fuck-ups related to keeping my mediastreams non-parallell to me i wouldn't have believed that this could be "wrought" by an entity in the first place. (Matter of fact i still harbour my doubts, but letting my doubts go completely wouldn't be sporting...) The first thing that struck me with your 2012(TM) product was that it rehashed a whole lot of old science fiction stories. At times i couldn't really be sure if i was reading about president Obomi in Zanzibar or following my old friend Sun Boy from Cordwainer Smiths time. Honestly, are you reusing scripts that often just to get a headline in the news? I mean, it's difficult to compete with Justin Biebers allure, but you might try with some novelties for once. (Oh but you had those!) Variations on themes, that is what you are about aren't you? Good old yearmakers. Please remember that variations are all good and dandy, but unless you provide some novel material, humanity might fall into a nietzscheian obsession with the return of the eternal same, and we all know how that turned out. I'd call this an improvement on the famed 2008(TM) when you decided that all the year needed was a reissue of Blazing Saddles. Fair enough, it was a good movie, and we still love it, but Obama is spending his bloody good time setting up that faux village that the evil bankers and odd sorts are supposed to hullobalooba about, isn't he? Oh wait.... As always i'm just waiting for this to collapse into Lukuss, and luckily, it didn't happen this year either, thanks for that. It's going to be horrible, but we'll persevere. Which brings me back to another theme..... Can you please get it into your head that Socialism in One Country does not work? We have it here in Norway, and we're scared the fuck out of how the rest of the world is acting! Could your next update (2013(TM)2014(TM)) please contain bugfixes that enable us to own vital resources and infrastructure collectively on a global level? That would be neat-o! There is room for competition, and that room is in the non-vital services, let it thrive there and wither elsewhere. Sincerely A concerned and recklessly unanonymous Norwegian.

Settled

So, I'm settled now. New house, hopefully a full time job by february, union membership, party membership, loan (a huge one, to family though, so not to worry...), now is the time that things really start getting off ground. (Whilst i watch various european economies hurl themselves off into the abyss.) So granted, one day the state might not have the money to sustain its current welfare policies, and that irks me to no end. Of course, doing something with that inevitably comes up against the fractured rules and regulations governing the vaudeville act that is our current assortment of nation-states. Regulatory capture indeed. Hey, some good things might even come of this, and i would very much prefer it if the current trend towards further interdependence-creation within the EU were allowed to continue. Other than that the house is proving a joy to live in. My living room is unadorned with needless clutter, and i keep it screen free to the best of my ability. I will probably have a desk to work on there soon, and a nice desk for my computer upstairs. The fridge is stocked with a nice selection of the basic foodstuffs i need, and the freezer has some filets of fish and some spinach. Just what the doctor ordered. Work is on @1710 tomorrow, so I'll be off.

Regurgitations.

Panic in the building. No, not really. Panic in the world, it seems. Oh so be it, i am, apart from the media, very insulated from it. (Apart from the oh-so-sensitive being i do possess, and it's inability to avoid lookng, but alas). Lot's of things in the world are getting a real shakeup, it seems. It is, to be honest, quite amusing to watch from afar, though that is a cynical take on it all. But as always, i need to build myself in order to gain any traction here whatsoever, to diverge too far from that main objective wouldn't benefit anybody... I'm weirded out, all of a sudden i don't want any bookshelves in my new house. That is far from what i expected, but it makes sense. The books in my bookshelves have over the years become too much of a passive entity. I don't take them out and read them, they just sit there and brood. THat is no way to start a new hous, with a bunch of old and familiar brooding books. Though i kind of need them to remind me where i am going. As loose as my plan and my views are it is important to remember where i've been and what i found in the literary world that resonated with my outlooks. What i do need is a mental map, a better mental map. I've tried some digital solutions for making them, but they are cumbersome to work with, sketches are best made on paper. This is a priority. When i visited Henrik in Berlin he had some mental maps built in order to make his literary skeletons more visible to himself. Adopting the same idea makes sense. Other than that. My new living room will be a completely screen-free zone. It will be grand. Those monitors and tv-screens are real attention-suckers and i need less of them if i am to progress. (And slightly more willpower, but alas...) The laptop is allowed into the living room, but that is a machine i'm confortable working on, and that has good workflows attached to it. My desktop computer lacks these workflows, so i'll hide it in my bedroom (with a nice 27", so it won't be -that- hidden....) I have lot's of misses in my writing now. That is something that needs to be remedied, i haven't done this in ages, and my timing is off. So is my finger-positioning. Not good....

Longtimes.

So. I own a house now. That wasn't expected. But it is kind of amusing, so i will enjoy it a lot. (Or watch it all come tumbling down over my head in a day or two.) Weird family i have, i guess. And a patient one, at that. Sad fact is, i don't much go for the reckless exposure of myself that i once used to enjoy so much. That is actually really not a good thing, but i don't see how to regain that momentum without being free of anything to lose. And, hey, i don't have much to lose as of right now, but i just can't pose like i used to. This makes me feel more dishonest, so i really think i should do something to jolt myself into expressions of the past. Something with actual drive and engagement instead of bland statements of fact and superfluous commentary. In other news, i really really really really need to not consume these quantities of alcohol... Something does not sit right in the lower parts of my body the following days when i do that. I'd say kidney or liver, but i don't know the front from the back of my body. Other than that. GOt two months to end up in possession of the available position in the kindergarden i'm currently working in. That would be totally sweet, (until the point where everything is ruined by a lack of money that is). But i'm not too optimistic about getting it, they're likely to go for a woman with credentials, or somesuch. Not much to be done about that but to live with that i would have gotten it if they hadn't wanted somebody with those exact qualifications, and that means i'll get one some other place if i want it. (But do i? Yeah probably.) SO yes, i've become boring, risk averse, and full time employed, member of the local union and the labour party. What more can go wrong? But, as i said, As long as i end up somewhere in between outdoorslife, the sciences, creativity and pedadgogy i'm a happy camper. And that is where i am right now, so yaytime!