Am I Faking It? (MAYBE)
HEY, FAMILY!
Know what?
If I still Owned even one half the Erratic Rage that y'all think I used to have..
I never would have survived. I've survived. And learned, lots!

Ha! Perhaps I felt like I had something to Expound Upon...

And perhaps I just grow more alarmed.. and more tired of the whole FACEBOOK crapola.


WHAT/WHY is that entire phenom... overpowering my own personal Blogability??
I don't play fb games. I rarely linger longer than the 30 seconds it takes me to drop a quick post into my own News Feed,
and to note that NO ONE SEEMS TO NOTICE THAT I DO!!!!

So? I would ask myself... why I even bother. I found FACEBOOK thru a number of invites that I recived during the year that I was offline, and was tickled to find BLOOD FAMILY that I hadn't spoken to.
In years.

I've wondered about them:... from the ones that knew me as an online or telephone presence, to the ones who haven't shown much interest in many decades.
I think lots of them had pretty much forgotten who I ever was, if I'd ever even met them.
Again: We're talking BLOOD Relatives, who've left me wondering over the last 30 years or so just why they really never wanted to know me.. since I wanted to know them.

These are the folks that are 80% of my FACEBOOK friends! I was so totally thrilled to start the hookup
thingie with these people!

Yet? We're all doing this FACEBOOK thing... where we acknowledge each other as friends...but we still don't know Shit from Shinola about who we are, what we think or do, or care about.
WHY DON'T WE TALK TO EACH OTHER?

Yeah, I am Calling You Out, oh Relatives of Mine:
I am hurt. Also a little angry, but mostly confused about just exactly WHO'S JOB is it to try to re-connect any Family Stuff, eh? (This part of getting back on the Internet, reminds me of why I so easily (HA!) quit doing it a few years ago)
yet my own mother (whom most of you apparently LOVED) always told me to be 'ladylike' in your own head and heart..
Carol Pistel was pretty cool. Ditto double-ditto for her little sister, Claire Inhelder-White.

So who's the cool ones of us nowadays, eh? (Linda Is. Robin Is. Katie Probably is, TALK TO ME!!!!!!

I'm putting this HERE... so that I don't expose all 46 of my FACEBOOK friends to my bitchier side.
Being the dedicated Writerly Soul that I am.. I'll probably link this to my STOOPID FACEBOOK ACCOUNT,
knowing that anyone I actually am related to probably won't bother to follow a link LOL.
I now return you to the facade of the cheerful, polite, harmless little Magz ya all know n shake yer heads at.
And to my Dad, Conrad.. always.

Which of you BLOODs, will ever admit he was part of this?
Posted by magz at 8:03 PM

Roll On, Rover! Good Dog, Good Trick!

I'm feeling Tricky today.  Sort of like a juggler who's got maybe just one too many plates in the air

but juggles on anyways,  grinning and shuffling,  whether anyone's actually watching the Show or not.

Balance.  Yin/yang etc etc..  A really Neat Trick, and harder than it looks.

I'm a behaviourist, damn it, and an eager student of many disciplines.  My Interests are Wide:
ranging from psychology, to philosophy
(which always requires a bit of knowledge about the History  of Humanity)
to a little anthropology, to sociology.   Throw in some biology, chemistry, and genetic research,
and you've got all the makings of a very curious, and often busy mind.

It's all led me to where I am today,   my first/best  Spark Of Interest,  Animal Behavior.

I tie everything I've ever learned about Humans.. into what I know about animals!
It seems like a logical progression to me,  for despite most people's best effort to distance themselves
from their most basic instincts,  it seems fairly obvious to me that most people?
Are driven by the same motivating factors that drive all Life on this planet.
Survival.  And Reproduction.
First of the individual,  then of the species.

Or,  we can pander to the simplest definitions..  Eat  or Be Eaten.  Fight to Fuck  Whatever You Can,
as often as possible!  (Or the Female version:  Pick The Best Provider to Fuck,  So You May Safely Reproduce)

Walk Tall, With a Really Big Stick,  or Lay Low, and Count On Camouflage.
That's the simplest Survival Rules I've ever been able to define..
and it's worked for a lot of species for a long long time here on this home world.

So:  what the HELL does this have to do with me, or anyone else in our 'civilized' society?

This is my 'Issue' today.  I'm truly worried about the survival of our species,  since I'm seeing
less and less acknowledgement of these simple premises. 

We've gotten way too busy being the 'Masters Of Our Planet' to remember that in the end,
we're just another fairly well developed mammal.  A product of genes, circumstances, and
the Grace of God (or whatever higher power you relate to)  AND
just a part of a Whole System.
It's been a pretty good System,  from every bit of Scientific Knowledge that we've developed!

What gets me.. is the realization that according to the best of our Understanding..
it was going on long before we got here, and will probably continue to do so with or without our help.

Call It An 'Extra' Blog..

   It has much to do with the fact that FaceBook,  ain't cuttin it for me.


Before I Delete myself entirely from what seems to be the world's Biggest Social Network,
I'm going to talk a little about just why it bothers me.


Ha!  Before I stick this on my Wall, or NewsFeed inside Facebook,  I plan to Log-On right here,  everything that both amuses and alarms me about being part of the World's Biggest Network, facebook.


I've been 2 yrs offline, and 2 yrs of NetTime is like 10 yrs of the Real World.  facebook... was just a gleam in someone's eye when I left off here in cyberland.


There's good shit about facebook,  like finding real Live humans from your past.  There's bad things about facebook,  in that once you create a 'public' profile there..  you are Public!


This phenomenon works great, if you happen to be a very public person, or are dying to do so.
It's incredible!  Just how fast a meme, or U-Tube can become wildly popular!  I can see that if you're already Famous, or desperately trying  to be,  well then Hell-Yeah-


Your facebook Persona can help you ' spread the word'.


(After 2 yrs offline,  I had to do some research into exactly who or what this Lady Gaga entity was:  I'm awed.. by His/Her/It's success).


I read a lot of news.  Hell:  I read a lot, period!
If it catches my attention,  I do a lot of research to get the story-behind-the-story on all kinds of stuff!


In between my musings about Social Networks, and Blogs, and Live Feeds from everything from Hollywood Heros & Weirdos to the most Scientific Technical Details,  to Opinions:  both mine, and a whole bunch of people I respect.
I'm going to lay some links on ya here.  There's also going to be the links of stuff that's near & dear to my heart...  Critters.  All of them.
Some cute Animal photos, Stories, and Videos. 

Just stuff that caught my eye,


Out Here..

Where We Don't Have To Work On Maggiez Farm, No More.