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  • Movember: Men’s Health

    Movember: Men’s Health

    My interest in male talent is largely motivated by the Movember campaign and its efforts to improve men’s health and create awareness of prostate cancer and other issues. Through my studio and art projects my aim is to contribute to the Movemebr Campaign each November by doing masculine inspired art events as well as connect others to my Movember campaign at . Accordingly, I’ve developed my own branding, Body Of Benin, for an uncensored exploration of male health and body topics, from my own African-American male perspective. Honoring our male health and unique masculine gender expression as a cohesive group is often a difficult accomplishment. As men we create a great deal conflict over the reinforcement of an array of demographic biases that we hold over ourselves and each other. And while the particular contemporary discussion of gender focuses heavily on female empowerment and correcting the ills of colonial patriarchy, the task of progressive male health is to be corrective, establishing an inclusive, restorative patriarchy.

    For Men’s Talent development the Movember campaign is a great opportunity for ensuring good sportsmanship and care among men in the industry and in society to make healthier choices in mental, cognitive and physical health. The campaign is a move toward male body positivity, inclusive masculinity and patriarchal restorative justice. The Movember campaign is a way for us to rally around the most quintessential male things we do in a constructive and inclusive way.

    Intersex Erasure

    One of the worst human rights violations is the non-recognition of intersex people. Often derogatorily mislabeled as “hermaphrodite”, the mythology of non-binary sex assumes people are born male or female, or sometimes choose operation to become trans. However, this is a gross assumption that has led to discrimination, even at the medical, neonatal level. People who are intersex are born with natural variations but have been forced to survive invasive intersex genital mutilation (IGM) or social erasure. Ignorance of their existence may be a matter of fact, but forgetting that such diversity exists is a psychological genocide.

    Human Trafficking & Sex Workers Rights Awareness

    Often support exists elusively for women when we generally acknowledge lives taken advantage by exploitation and trafficking. We assume men are “undesirable” and are “marginal” and therefore insignificant number of cases of people who count as victims. However that is a myth and one of the biggest errors of the new SESTA/ FOSTA policies that have created erasure of sex worker voices, criminalization of sexuality professions and censorship of sex related content. But it must be acknowledge men survive (and overcome) predatory pimp and exploitative relationships. Young men, too, are forced to overcome the challenges of escape and transferring and developing skills for a decriminalized, autonomous existence.


  • Creative Careers

    Creative Careers

    Resume – Resumes give a concise record of your career experience. Varieties include functional, chronological, federal chronological, combination and curriculum vitae. Although there are a variety of approaches to resume writing, the key mission of the resume is to document work history. The secondary function is as a conversation starter with a hiring manager. The very last function is to serve as a marketing device. As far as components, be sure your resume uses a neutral voice, presents a succinct professional profile, and a concise, statistical description of your performance.

    • Portfolio – For those in fashion, modeling, the arts, culinary, graphic design.
    • Reel – For those entering film, theatre, animation, performance.
    • Press kit – For singers, musicians, bands, etc.
    • Copyright – Legal ownership of printed and published works.
    • Licensing – Legal ownership of digital and media works.

    Corporate, Independent & Professional Creative Careers Tracks

    Creative professionals like any in any industry engage in a craft or practice. Whether you are an illustrator, journalist, musician, life model, bodybuilder or even an adult actor you have a basic set of work ethics and specialized skills with the SAME inherent value as a doctor, lawyer, scientist, officer, politician or even soldier. If its crosshatching, editorial, falsetto, contrapposto, classic physique or BDSM, you burn an comparable amount of calories, invested a comparable amount of time and developed a comparable amount of customer service skill and finesse to ensure the happiness of your customers and respect from peers in your field. However, in the economic of supply and demand, often in capitalist free markets, we’re all forced to negotiate our value. And often time this negotiation isn’t ensured by socialized structures like healthcare, insurance and education. This means many professionals risk having little financial cushion and can potentially lose a great deal when the bottom falls out.

    Corporate CareerIndependent CareerProfessional Career
    Pros
    – Consistent workload.
    – High visibility market recognition.
    – Easy brand reputation piggybacking
    Pros
    – Creator owns all content
    – Full creative license.
    – High value retention
    Pros
    – High authoritative level for decision making.
    – Duties focus on pure design, planning and policy.
    – Major focus on cross-industry collaboration and advocacy.
    Cons
    – Company owns all rights to your content.
    – Limited creative license.
    – Consistent workload
    Cons
    – High customer service skills required.
    – Frequent marketing responsibility
    – Less project time
    Cons
    – Maximum communication required for both verbal and written, formal and informal reporting
    – Higher administrative duty at the expense of creative opportunity.

    Corporate Creative Work

    In the negotiation of the value of both your service and products you produce is the biggest battle in the market. When you work as an agent of a company, you sell your agency and traditionally you sell your rights to the materials that you produce for the duration of the contract. This has been a mixed bag for many creatives for long time. Often the exchange is for full benefits and the reputation of the company brand is gained by the creative, but at the expense on a negotiated amount of work and rights to the material that’s produced. Many great musicians and comic book creators with less business savvy found themselves spending their entire careers with one company, later realizing they sacrificed the best of their efforts to a shareholder created entity. This business style is helpful for creatives new to business or trying to gain foothold in a particular market or just build recognition. However it certainly has a shelf life to be aware of.

    Independent Creative Work

    independent contracting requires not just talent and creativity, but also discipline, communication, tact and business savvy.

    Sales and ecommerce solutions such as…

    Conceptual properties like… Publishing and Copyrights, trademarking, patents, licensing agreements, etc

    Talent management such as… Performance contracts, film waivers, adult verification, non disclosure agreement

    Legal compliance like… production permits, cabaret licenses, records keeping statements, tax forms

    General Audience Subscription ChannelsAdult Audience Subscription Channels
    Esacpeex

    Deviant Art

    Etsy

    Ebay

    ConnectPal


    Frontrow.center

    Patreon

    Soundcloud

    Peerspace


    Drag4.fans

    SextPanther.com

    Only Fans

    Chaturbate

    Just for Fans

    Allmyfans

    MassuerFinder

    Professional Work & Advocacy

    As your work capacity changes, the ultimate goal is to have built other certifications and degrees, published unit oriented products like videos, publications, etc, and then work as a consultant who shares knowledge, wisdom and guidance to upcoming professionals.

    The following organizations, their certifications, memberships and training can elevate your value as model into being a spokesperson, lecturer, columnist or even academic candidate. Consider joining these for career longevity and contingency planning.

    MainstreamMature
    The Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification
    The Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC) is the world’s largest rehabilitation counseling organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with disabilities. CRCC sets the standard for competent delivery of quality rehabilitation counseling services through its nationally accredited and internationally recognized Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) certification program and serves all rehabilitation counseling professionals through the CRCC COMMUNITY. 
    https://www.crccertification.com/

    Cosplay Is Not Consent. Org
    MISSION STATEMENT: To empower fan convention costume enthusiasts (aka “cosplayers”) to SPEAK OUT against inappropriate social behavior of a sexual and/or stereotypical nature for themselves and fellow fans… cosplay is NOT consent!
    https://www.facebook.com/CosplayIsNotConsent/

    Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE.)
    This year millions of school children around the world will benefit from D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), the highly acclaimed program that gives kids the skills they need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs, and violence.
    dare.org

    South Bay Youth Services (SBYS)
    Established in 2019 to meet the increased demand for services for LGBTQ+ youth and families and to increase access to vital support and programs, the SBYC will offer gender identity groups, arts programs, social activities, tutoring and discussion groups. A therapist will also be available on site.
    https://thecentersd.org/programs/youth-services/south-bay-youth-center/

    Comic Book Lega Kool Defense Fund

    “Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the First Amendment rights of the comics medium.”
    http://cbldf.org/

    The Committee to Protect Journalists
    The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. We defend the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal.
    https://cpj.org/

    Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA)

    “SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals.”
    https://www.sagaftra.org/

    International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)

    “Founded in 1893, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees represents workers in the entertainment industry. Our members work in all forms of live theater, motion picture and television production, trade shows and exhibitions, television broadcasting, and concerts as well as the equipment and construction shops that support all these areas of the entertainment industry.” —https://www.iatse.net/

    Model Mayhem

    “Model Mayhem is the #1 portfolio website for professional models and photographers. Create a profile, upload your photos and connect with other professionals.”
    https://www.modelmayhem.com/

    The Modeling Alliance

    “The Model Alliance promotes fair treatment, equal opportunity, and sustainable practices in the fashion industry, from the runway to the factory floor.” —https://modelalliance.org/

    Hollaback

    “We work together to understand the problem, ignite public conversations, and develop innovative strategies that result in safe and welcoming environments for all. We believe that we all deserve to be who we are, wherever we are.” —https://www.ihollaback.org/

    American Civil Liberties Union

    “The ACLU’s mission remains realizing the promise of the Bill of Rights for all and expanding the reach of its guarantees. Beyond one person, party, or side — the ACLU dares to create a more perfect union.”
    https://www.aclu.org/

    Electronic Frontiers Foundation

    “The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.”
    https://www.eff.org/

    Pineapple Support

    Pineapple Support Society is a free support and therapy service for all persons working in the online adult industry – no matter their gender, ethnic origin, social status, age or sexual preference. We have an ever growing team of sex-worker friendly, kink-aware therapists who offer face-to-face and online video therapy sessions. We operate 24/7, and we raise funds to help with the costs of professional coaching, counselling and therapy for those who need it.

    Joe Kort, PhD. & Associates
    Dr. Joe Kort is a leading expert on sex and relationships.  He specializes in Out-of-Control Sexual Behaviors (OCSB)/“sex addiction”Relationship Problems and Marital ConflictSex Therapy, and Sexual Identity Concerns, Depression, Anxiety and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  His practice is located in Royal Oak, Michigan but he welcomes clients from all over the Metro Detroit area. Dr. Kort is also available for long-distance coaching and consultation.
    http://www.joekort.com/

    Justin LehMiller, PhD.
    Dr. Justin Lehmiller is a social psychologist and Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute. He runs the Sex and Psychology blog and podcast and is author of the popular book Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life.
    https://www.lehmiller.com/about-sex

    The Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians
    The Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians promotes the sexual health of individuals, couples, families, and communities by advocating for culturally sensitive research, informed clinical practice, and culturally sensitive educational curricula.  The organization seeks to foster ongoing dialogue in an effort to reduce and or prevent adverse sexual health outcomes.  As a welcoming and affirming organization, we advocate for sexual, racial, and gender equality.
    http://www.theabsc.com/about-us/

    Adult Performers Artists Guild

    “The goal of the Adult Performers Artists Guild is to earn employee rights, set performer artist responsibilities, negotiate fair practices, and help performers provide themselves with a better future.” —https://apagunion.com/

    Free Speech Coalition

    “The FSC represents the adult industry in legislative and regulatory processes, and educates the general population to alleviate common misconceptions, build bridges, advocate for our communities and their rights.”
    https://www.freespeechcoalition.com/

    International Entertainment Adult Union

    “The I.E.A.U. is a non-profit labor organization approved by the Department of Labor since 2015. Currently, there are three registered subordinate bodies (chapters) under the I.E.A.U. with more to come.”
    https://www.entertainmentadultunion.com/

    Kinsey Institute

    “For more than 70 years, the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University has been the trusted source for scientific knowledge and research on critical issues in sexuality, gender, and reproduction.”
    https://kinseyinstitute.org/

    Somatic Sex Education Association

    “The Mission of the SSEA is to offer public education, professional trainings and ongoing professional development in support of somatic sex education and sexological bodywork in Canada, the United States, and around the world.” —https://somaticsexeducators.com/

    Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education

    “People are seeking sex educators who are willing to work with embodied practices that address trauma, support healing, and expand what is possible for them sexually. But they need to know that they can trust you! Our extensive training, professional associations, and clear guidelines for ethical practice make trust possible.” —https://somaticsexeducator.com/

    International Professional Surrogate Association

    “IPSA supports a worldwide community of professionals in the field of surrogate partner therapy, which includes surrogate partners, therapists, and individuals in need of and supportive of surrogate partner therapy.”
    https://www.surrogatetherapy.org/

    SEEDS Educational Services, Inc.

    SEEDS Educational Services, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that specializes in curriculum development, training, and speaking engagements regarding Social-Sexual services for people with developmental disabilities.”
    https://www.seedseducation.org/

    Sex Coach U

    “At Sex Coach U, we train sex positive individuals to transform their passions for sexuality and for helping others into a thriving and successful business as Certified Sex Coaches™.” —https://sexcoachu.com/

    The Association of Somatic & Integrative Sexologists (ASIS)

    “Healthy sexual embodiment and sexual pleasure are our birthright. The Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS) is dedicated to enhancing people’s lives through supporting individuals to achieve their full potential of sexual embodiment, building awareness about the profession of somatic sexology, and providing professional criteria for practitioners working in the field.” —https://www.the-asis.org/



  • Portfolio Development

    Portfolio Development

    Headshots Baseline

    Headshots – Baseline expression, plus three expressions at three angles. Choose from expressions reference. Street clothes.

    Headshots add relatability and connection with audiences. While many think headshots are limited to people auditioning in Hollywood, its important to understand that media industries are international and decentralized such as South Korea, Bollywood, Nollywood and various Telenovela genres in Latin America. Additionally the headshot and production standards have proliferated not only into social media profiles but also innovative job market methods like video resumes. Quality and versatile headshots allow you to execute a variety of your most effective expressions and get to know your baseline. Often if you have the colloquially known poker face / RBF (resting b*tch face), its good to popularize a nice laughing or smiling image. While for fashion and erotica often a serious look is common, it isn’t always universal especially as even bodybuilders are expected to bear an electric grin for posing.

    Example expressions practiced for baseline.

    Physique Baseline

    Physique – Baseline poses, plus three bodybuilding poses at three angles. Choose from bodybuilding reference. Oiled, posing strap, jock or nude.

    The aesthetic appreciation of the body with roots in life modeling. Body types first include kinesiology spectrum of bone and muscle structures of mesomorphic, endomorphic and ectomorphic. Then physical conditioning crosses a variety of professional modeling genres from fitness to erotica which includes plus size, chub, samson, twink, lean, fitness, bear, otter, bodybuilder, average, etc. While fitness was glorified by the 50s pin-up industry into the steroid aesthetic of the 80s and 90s, society has entered a sustainable and diverse revolution for body positivity. This is a helpful development in the face of building challenges with psychiatric disabilities of anorexia, bulimia, bigorexia and other body dysmorphia disorders.

    Example of poses for baseline.

    Classic Muscle – Three poses from three angles. Choose three pinup poses. Oiled, posing in strap, jock or nude.

    Get some fitness pointers via my training approaches below:

    Stretching

    Weightlifting

    My weightlifting style incorporates ayurvedic flexibility techniques along with traditional weightlifting.

    Advanced Boudoir & Avant Garde

    Creative & Boudoir planning – Discusses poses, costume, toys, music, props, supplies, preparation and aftercare.

    We assume all people have access to the sexuality of their own or negotiation of others be if flings, casual relationships or formal partners. We also assume that everyone has an easily distinguished physiology, gender and orientation. However these assumptions are a foundation for bias and bigotry. Some of the most egregious discrimination are in the largest communities, heteronormal community and the sexually able-bodied community. Often in heteronormative communities the assumption of strict reproductive sexuality is assumed while non-reproducing, single individuals are seen as wasting resources. Human value doesn’t decrease if someone is barren and such a stance is supported by the Childfree movement. Additionally, the able-bodied community often assumes that the disabled body is incapable of being attractive or even worth sexualization. One of the most problematic extremes is in the gay community in which ideas of “clean” persist regarding HIV and modern medical advances like Truvada/ PreP as well as undetectable status is often overlooked.

    Sexuality is a human need like eating. And as we all have diverse origins, we all have unique conditions of attraction and interaction. Accordingly this means we have a variety of sexualities–including majorities and minorities. However we overlook minorities of sexuality who are often people with disabilities, minority intersex sexualities or from minority orientations.

    In modeling and being talent we have to realize that our aesthetic delivers beauty, attraction and sometimes even opportunities of expression for people with less opportunity. And especially as models from those minority backgrounds, we serve as a spokesperson of body positivity and sex positivity to attest that our minority demographic also can be sexual, emotive and beautiful. As the only male, ethnic person with a disability, lgbtqia, non-cisgender, etc. model  available and present, you fight the biggest threat to diversity: Erasure.

    Elements of Boudoir and Avant Garde modeling:

    • Mannerism – In modeling be it life modeling, fashion fit modeling, fitness, bodybuildng, or pin up, the stance, the posture, the look, etc. all convey certain emotional overtones. From crossed arms to a raised pinky, mannerism communicates.
    • Grooming and allure – There are a variety of styles from military buzzcuts, disco glam, gothic rock, rugged woodsman, punk rock, rebel, etc. styles. Each aesthetic has its own nuances, but equally interesting for anyone who chooses it.
    • Gender styling – Long misunderstood, gender was finally clarified by Judith Butler as a performative expression. While genders of masculine, feminine and neuter have played musical chairs over the years, all are exciting artistic rule to break and recreate in styles of clothing, colors, postures, etc.
    • Orientation and Sexuality – Described as a spectrum or ultimately as fluid, human beings are the only mammals on the planet (besides bonobo apes and dolphins) that also use sexuality performatively for social communication in addition to reproductive functions. With this performative quality it also fits into aesthetics and the performative gender hypothesis.
    • Fashion – Fashion also serves purposes beyond functionality. From body adornment to elaborate costuming, fashion communicates a variety of social statuses including gender, class, profession, culture, group-membership, etc.


  • Understanding Male Image Psychology

    Understanding Male Image Psychology

    When we participate in photographing and being photographed we are also engaging in mirror-gazing, but in a positive and prolonged fashion. Artistic figure modeling allows us to understand the plastic nature of our bodies and how we have enough power over our aesthetic to affect all the formal artistic principles such as negative and positive space, symmetry, radial balance, color theory, mood, etc. In the nude we find liberty and separation from both our form and sexuality. We find out which parts of our bodies imbue us with strength or which parts imbue us with vulnerability. And like any practice in Mindfulness, photography freezes that moment in time so that we can meditate upon it and seek enlightenment. It allows us to realize that we have no “flaws” but instead just rich, meaningful detail which we can accentuate as loudly or as quietly as we’d like. Scholars Phillips et. al. & Veal supports an approach for CBT that creates a healthy ethic when we mirror-gaze composed of several points:

    1. ) “Use mirrors at a slight distance and use ones that are large enough to show most of the body”;
    2. ) “Focus attention on the reflection in the mirror rather than on how you feel”;
    3. ) “Use a mirror only for an agreed function (e.g. shaving, putting on make-up) and for a limited period of time”;
    4. ) “Use a variety of different mirrors and lights rather than sticking to the one you ‘trust’ “;
    5. ) “Focus attention on the whole of your face rather than on selected areas”;
    6. ) “Do not use mirrors that magnify”;
    7. ) “Do not use ambiguous reflections (e.g. windows, the backs of compact disks or cutlery)”;
    8. ) “Do not to use a mirror when you feel depressed: try to delay essential use until you feel happier or find other things to do until the urge to mirror-gaze has passed” (Veal 2001, p 131).

    Veal essentially outlines an approach on how to look at ourselves aesthetically. Just as in art appreciation, even with ourselves, there is a formal and trained way to look. Not just an intuitive “good picture” or a narcissi tic, isolated selfie.

    Top self-image principles are:

    1.
    Achieve absolute confidence

    2.
    Feel relaxed and great naked

    3.
    Become comfortable in your own skin

    4.
    Embrace of your inner exhibitionist

    To establish a psychological baseline about your self-image are the following self-assessments. These of course should not be taken in lieu of actual physician’s advice. However these are helpful in gauging the nature of advice to seek, goals to set, etc. with a trained clinical professional.:


  • Gender Toxicity: Detoxifying Masculinity

    Gender Toxicity: Detoxifying Masculinity

    The male image as any gendered image exists through art, drama and sexuality. However we are in an era in which cisgender traditions have culminated into crises in the public arena such as domestic violence, homophobia, misogyny and mass incidents of sexual terror such as groups like Incel. Through historically uninformed, pop culture driven imagery, manipulation by political ideology, and other mental health factors, gender expression for men has become increasingly narrow, confining and warped.

    QABPROSERV holds the hypothesis that using art therapy such as photography, modeling and role play, men can be cognitively, psychiatrically, physically and sexually empowered and rehabilitated in the effect of reducing homophobia, sexist anti-female bias, sexual dysfunctions, body dysmorphia and general antisocial personality disorder related behaviors. Using conventional, boudoir, physique and Avant Garde film and photography to produce “process film and images” in which male clients can be guided by image counseling to transform themselves for surrogate viewers of their modeling work. This approach combines cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), appreciative inquiry and motivational interviewing to achieve holistic self-empowerment and realization of egalitarian sex and gender goals through the performance of visualizations.

    This approach was presented for both the San Diego State University Sociology 2019 Praxis in Education Conference as well as at the 2019 Japan Black Studies Conference in Kyoto. This research underlies the approach to male imaging at QABPROSERV and the goal of helping men find pluralism is various degrees of their masculine expression in the ultimate goal of inclusive masculinity and detoxification of warped “man enough” ideologies.

    Continued in main article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mens-rehabilitation-thesis-q-a-bradford-ms-crc-1c/

    Anger Management Training: https://www.veterantraining.va.gov/aims/

    Old Patriarchy/ Toxic MasculinityNew Patriarchy/ Inclusive Masculinity
    Male body negativity: Penis negativity, circumcision, ableism, fat shaming, fag-shaming, anti-fem, etc.
    Oppression of women: Women as property, child marriage, infanticide, dowry exchanges and genital mutilation.
    Male Expendability: High risk jobs, war collateral, short life planning, lack of choice/ freedom..
    Antisocial tendencies: Communication aversion, low emotional intelligence
    Class Status Nepotism: Hierarchical stratification along racial, religious, sexual, gender, wealth, etc. and the reinforcing the valuation of lives and cultures accordingly.
    Male body positivity: Penis positivity, intactivism, interdependence, body diversity, sexual fluidity, gender negotiation, etc.
    Liberation of women: Women as equals, adult marriage, communal child-rearing, egalitarian civil unions and all-sex intactivism
    Male Valorization: Low risk jobs, peace negotiation, full life stage planning, right to lifestyle choice/ freedoms.
    Collaborative relationships: Communication orientation, high emotional intelligence.
    Egalitarian status distribution: Egalitarian stratification that overlaps racial, sexual, gender, wealth, etc. and reinforcing the valuation of lives and cultures evenly.

    Boylesque Performer Marvin “Pho King” Garcia, QABPRODERV.COM 2020

    In my own approach I provide a person-centered perspective from being a model with barriers–a dark African-American skin male, masculine demeanor, artistic experience, Pacific Rim heritage, etc. I also share some of my own very unique and verifiable scientific understandings from my studies in psychology, sociology, fitness, counseling and more. I also have a unique gender studies approach that highlights Men’s Studies, female-empowering-masculinity and activism. Because my first peer-aged role model is my older sister, I feel it is my duty to stand against the problematic issues of the industry: models who are underage; the imposition of male aesthetic standards upon women; glass ceilings for performers; and incomplete and exploitative business models.

    IFBB Professional Bodybuilder Nick Bustos, QABPROSERV.COM, Spring 2018

    While there is still much stigma towards the black male body, homophobia, etc. it can be a powerful journey of self-realization and empowerment. The first modeling baseline I took was for a classmate’s art school portfolio. Although he held a powerful exhibition, I was still working through body image issues. Showing the pictures to friends upon my return, I got a negative response and threw away the prints. However these were important steps in realizing my acceptance and rehabilitation of my own image. Growing up and being called “dark” for my skin tone, or “spider-boy” for my leanness was a scarring i was unaware of until I took the time to look. Often times we misinterpret “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” to mean that beauty is relative when in fact that larger meaning is that beauty exists in the ability to behold something–anything! And from that first modeling experience I was actually able to see myself for who and what I was and begin my journey of appreciation.

    NFL Los Angels Chargers Linebacker (#48) Alvin Scioneaux Jr., QABPROSERV.COM 2018

    As “non-standard” looking men in a place like Southern California, we often have less opportunities due to the obsession with the Nordic looking blonde hair and bronze skin models that are in high demand. Opportunities for Black, Asian and Latino models can be fewer. In fact often when we are noticed or scouted, we take offense. But its not because we are ugly, but instead a conditioning that we’ve been bombarded with through unnatural images and messages that we are “exotic”. But truth be told, the Nordic image of Southern California is unnatural, created historically through eugenic sterilization of minorities for decades and a steady talent stream into Hollywood and the upper echelon. So while it is an established fact that the Abercrombie & Fitch look is nice, QABPROSERV is dedicated to helping spotlight the entire gamut of masculinities aesthetics (masculinities)


  • Myriad Masculinities, Myriad Talents.

    Myriad Masculinities, Myriad Talents.

    “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”

    –Voltaire… and Spider-Man!

    Modeling–often both over-glorified and undervalued–is an integral part of our human experience be it in testing applications of experiments in science and empirical observation; understanding light and texture on form in the arts; role modeling to help people master interactive processes; or in performing a role for an artist, photography, voice acting, stage, fashion or marketing. In any case, modeling epitomizes our mastery of gender and sexual performance of roles in masculine, feminine, neuter, dominant, submissive, etc. And within each of those performances exists a broad range of expression in color, style, attitude and nuance. And most of all–unlike many institutions may lead us to believe–each gender expression carries incredible and equal power both inherently and relationally.

    Although most only acknowledge modeling in passing, an detailed science is behind it all. One of our brain’s largest regions, the occipital lope, functions like a video card to help us display a constant amount of visual information from which we are able to emulate, learn and synthesize into our lifelong adaptations. Although the popularly known “Modeling Industry” focuses especially on commercial marketing, the birthplace has scientific origins as old as the Renaissance. Old masters like DaVinci and Donatello initiated some of the first scientific observations studying dissection, anatomy, life drawing, mood and even gender and its effects in capturing and communicating to their audience.

    Profoundly, mastery of modeling allows us to epitomize professionalism which can often encompass a variety of things. While we generally imagine vocations like education, psychology, law and politics at the heart o professionalism, modeling allows us to tap the power psychology of the most glorified fields of entertainment, spots, military, etc. Through building confidence and self-efficacy, we expand our capacity for vital skills such as customer service, initiative and well crafted intentional appearance to leave a lasting impression.


  • MEME: Jock Rules

    MEME: Jock Rules

    We all are invested to some degree with our health wether that be physical, emotional or cerebral. For those trying to keep up with their physical health, here’s a helpful series of rules that can reduce messy gyms, dirty lockers and invasive homophobic thoughts.

    Let’s stay body positive and embrace our physical human experience as diverse as it may be across our interactional identities. Your age, gender, sex, ethic heritage, disability status, etc. all are unique and beautiful traits worth appreciating. Forthermore your body is a wonderful mechanism that is perfectly designed by nature.

    There’s a term in Japanese that guys use called “tureshon” an dits kind of the male equivalent of when women excuse themselves to freshen up. My friends there taught me that body confidence and self-acceptance starts with bearing the skin you’re born in. And be it at the hot springs or public bath, the only thing that matters is your health and relaxation.

    Lockers are like spas: shower off sweat, shave away stubble, chat in the sauna appreciate gains in the mirror. Letting awkwardness or homophobia interfere with our mutual cultivation of our *masculinity (health, gender identity) isn’t just immature, it’s inhumane. Leave competition on the field. Society’s about cooperation.

    Photography by David Gray/ YogaBearStudio 2015.(https://www.modelmayhem.com/yogabear)


  • Men’s Rehabilitation Therapy Thesis

    Men’s Rehabilitation Therapy Thesis

    Men’s Rehabilitation Therapy Thesis

    We’ve come into a dynamic and challenging era in the new age of Gender in the United States. As sexual equity has increased, creating more egalitarian opportunities for both men and women. The challenges of sexual fluidity, the marginalized intersex community and the cohesive definition of gender remain as frontiers to be mastered. This challenge is prevalent in our lives as it determines our proclivities, anxieties and coping mechanisms in our most basic Belonging Needs as outlined in Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. As a man navigating gender equity and my role as well as future as a holder of the XY chromosome, I’d like to ensure I can understand how I fit and pass that on to my own offspring if I am ever so fortunate to bear any. As a rehabilitation counselor, privileged to be a sexually fluid, cisgender masculine identifying male, I’d like to expand my practice to specialize in men’s rehabilitation. I feel my Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling; my work experience in counseling; and my strong network into both the straight and LGBT male communities provide me a demographic from which I can both gather and provide transformative data. As well, I feel my Bachelor of Art in language; my art studio; and my professional experience in both fitness and modeling; can help me form effective experimental designs as well as therapies to assist men in navigating, mastering and finding satisfaction in both their male sexuality, orientation and gender identity. In a Ph. D program, I’d like to pursue the hypothesis:

    Through art, drama and sex therapies focused on photography, modeling and role play, men can be cognitively, psychiatrically, physically and sexually rehabilitated in the effect of reducing homophobia, sexist anti-female bias, sexual dysfunctions, body dysmorphia and general antisocial personality disorder related behaviors. I’d like to pursue this using conventional, boudoir, physique and Avant Garde film and photography to produce “process film and images” in which the client (a male), counselor (myself) and the surrogate (art viewer) can use CBT, appreciative inquiry and motivational interviewing to achieve both internal and external results of self-improvement accordant to gender and sex egalitarian goals as depicted through the performance of visualizations.

    To properly discuss male rehabilitation with the challenges of our new era of sex and gender freedom and transitions, we need to ask and define what the terms of the conversation mean. Many terms on the tables that have grown out of Feminist and LGBT discourse have been under attack and not objectively analyzed. And as a result, the core technology we use in this discussion to improve society—language—has become convoluted. Complicated questions have arisen like, “What’s the difference between unisex vs gender neutral?”; “Does toxic masculinity mean masculinity is toxic?”; “Isn’t feminism only for white women?”; “How is a masculinism movement not inherently misogynistic?” etc. Because of cultural and policy factors of the USA like abstinence only until marriage education (AOUM), inadequate sexuality education for students with disabilities, etc. education on the basic terms of sex and gender are too much of a dire risk for the public and professional world assume (Fine, 2006, p.307-308).

    Because the conversation is so sophisticated, before we fully engage we all have to scale back our questions to more simple elementary basics that we thought we knew, but are actually more complex, like, What is sex? What is sexuality? What is gender? What is orientation? I’ll initially explore these terms and as the paper unfolds, I’ll explain and apply other terms as they arise in an analysis of my hypothesis.

    What is Sex?

    Sex is both noun and verb. While it can apply to action that incudes procreation, it also serves as mechanism of stress relief, social bonding, reconciliation, trust building, performance and even business. However, as a noun it classifies how we are born from our mothers and our genital descent. The sexual types are not just male or female, but usually termed intersex: hermaphrodite (herm), male hermaphrodite (merm) and female hermaphrodite (ferm). Intersex hermaphrodites usually have sexual organs and features solidly in the middle. Intersex male hermaphrodites present as male, but internally have female organs. And Intersex female hermaphrodites present as female although their internal equipment is male. In more medical language, the varieties of intersex are congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) and especially rare, 5-alpha-reductase deficiency (5ARD). However, when we look at forms, we are only offered “male” or “female” (our sex). There are never any squares with “male, merm, herm, ferm and female” nor forms with “XX, CAH, AIS, 5ARD, XY”. As a public, we are ill-informed and our understanding of the varieties in which we humans naturally (without human tinkering) occur is quite low and tend to be restricted to limited segments of the medical community.

    So, when it comes to the public, the proliferation of both non-information and misinformation forces the public to confuse sex with gender and restricts our discourse on both gender and sexuality. Gender identity discussions become even more convoluted when “cisgender” discussions tend to be heteronormative and focus on male vs female, while discussing the intersex minority remains taboo if not marginalized. When people explore more common non-traditional sexuality and gender realities like transgenderism or transsexualism, the common focuses are male-to-female (MTF) or female-to-male (FTM) dynamics. It is virtually never that you see male-to-intersex (MTI) or female-to-Intersex (FTI) procedures nor patients who seek it specifically as a goal. When people discuss cisgender privilege or how case documents should have “male”, “female”, “transgender”, it often is a faux pas of heteronormative privilege. In a culture of pathological binary thinking, the intersex-positive stance can revolutionize and reenergize discussions between the sexes and balance some of the arguments of the transgender/ transsexual movement. Transitioning sex to either male or female is a privilege for anyone of a cisgender birth, while born Intersexual individuals never had the opportunity to choose formal identifiers of “male”, “female” and especially their birthright term: “intersex”.

    Sexual Physiology continuum

    What is Gender?

    Oftentimes when discussing human sexuality and gender, controversy ensues because not are the two confused, but there is also a large degrees to which gender is non-biologically socially constructed and rooted in communication, art, language, etc. In order to succinctly understand it, the public must establish a valid definition of gender in order to meaningfully discuss it as well as govern it. Often in society we carry the misconception of gender based in Sex Role Theory (SRT) which “fosters the notion of a singular female or male personality, a notion that has been effectively disputed, and obscures the various forms of femininity and masculinity that women and men can and do demonstrate” (Courtenay, 2000, p. 1387). This essentially points out that the idea of gender is one we continue to conflate and confuse with sex. While SRT tries to convince us that sex and gender are not only binary, but they are synonymous as well. However, the research and science support that both physical sex as well as social gender are neither binary, yet both varied. However, Courtenay goes on to elaborate on a few ways gender works:

    • From a constructionist perspective, women and men think and act in the ways that they do not because of their role identities or psychological traits, but because of concepts about femininity and masculinity that they adopt from their culture. (Pleck et al., 1994a).
    • Gender is not two static categories, but rather “a set of socially constructed relationships which are produced and reproduced through people’s actions” (Gerson and Peiss, 1985, p. 327);
    • It is constructed by dynamic, dialectic relationships (Connell, 1995). Gender is “something that one does, and does recurrently, in interaction with others” (West and Zimmerman, 1987, p. 140; italics theirs);
    • It is achieved or demonstrated and is better understood as a verb than as a noun (Kaschak, 1992; Bohan, 1993; Crawford, 1995).
    • Most importantly, gender does not reside in the person, but rather in social transactions deemed as gendered (Bohan, 1993; Crawford, 1995).
    • Gender is viewed as a dynamic, social structure.
    • Gender is constructed from cultural and subjective meanings that constantly shift and vary, depending on the time and place (Kimmel, 1995).

    For a physiological comprehensive answer definitive to both gender and sex, Trogrimson and Minson state:

    “Accordingly, it is imperative that scientists and editors come to a consensus on these terms to alleviate any confusion in their usage. These words have specifically different etymologies and meanings. In the most basic sense, sex is biologically determined and gender is culturally determined. The noun sex includes the structural, functional, and behavioral characteristics of living things determined by sex chromosomes. Sex (noun) is derived from the Latin word “sexus,” meaning either of two divisions of organic nature distinguished as male or female, respectively (8). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, sex (noun) has a definition as “the sum of those differences in the structure and function of the reproductive organs on the ground of which beings are distinguished as male and female, and of the other physiological differences consequent on these; the class of phenomena with which these differences are concerned” (8). Gender can be thought of as the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex. Gender (noun) is derived from the Latin word “genus” referring to kind or race (8). Gender (noun) is defined as “a kind, sort, or class referring to the common sort of people” (8). It is through an understanding of these principal definitions that scientists can apply these terms in a specific manner to sex-based research.” (Trogrimson and Minson, 2005, p. 785).

    Gender Socialization continuum

    The reason for this clarification is rooted in a couple of deficiencies of the medical science community that were made apparent during the 1985 US Task Force on Women’s health that prompted the rise of sex-based research. The task force found:

    1. Until the 1990s many American trained physiologists had been unclear on the difference between sex and gender although information proliferates other fields: “Increasingly, researchers are becoming aware of the appropriate use of the terms sex vs. gender. Still, some scientists are vaguely aware that a distinction exists between these terms or that this difference is an important one.” (Trogrimson and Minson, 2005, p. 785).
    2. And the technical specifications of the medical establishment were configured to male health (the medical norm group was that of a 70kg male) at the expense of female health: “The prominence of research investigations using the established “norm” of a 70-kg man shaped an understanding of human biology that lacked information in regard to female specific biology, anatomy, pathology, and treatments for disease. As a result, in 1985 US federal government declared that women’s health care sciences were insufficient and prompted legal action towards “sex-based research” that has fundamentally changed modern American medical sciences.

    What is Sexual Orientation and Fluidity?

    Breaking down human behaviors into basic points of solid, semi-solid and fluid—like the physics of hydrogen bodies sex and gender vary across geography and time. All human behavior should be similarly varied and accordingly proper analysis between the sexes should show a relative fairness in distribution of both heterosexual and homosexual behaviors.

    Evidence of human sexual and diversity exist it the “two-spirit” and “berdache” phenomena throughout indigenous North and South America; In both Europe and America, there not only is a controversial and vibrant LGBTQ culture, economy and politic, it stems out of ancient traditions as old as both Roman and Greek empires—traditions that even the modern churches still wrestle with today; Africa and the Middle East both exhibit historically demonstrate an organically occurring participation in gender and sex fluidity despite the prevalence of inhumane and prescriptive religious dogma. Although modernly prohibited, phenomena such as eunuchs have proliferated male dominated Middle Eastern cultures. And additionally, many indigenous African cultures featured matriarchal female leadership traditions’; And again in Central and Eastern Asia, sexuality although has often been formally cisgender and heterosexual, infomral agreements and market culture have lent themselves to vibrant and distinctive alternative sex cultures.

    Despite the timeless information on the flexibility and relativity of human sexuality, modern sex culture tends to stay polarized in a variety of ways like sexual activity versus sexual inactivity; heterosexuality versus homosexuality; sex for profit versus sex for free; sex for meaning versus sex for pleasure. To answer what is sexual orientation and fluidity, we also have to ask what are all the social, psychological and physiological functions of sex as well. Fahs touches upon a variety of interesting qualities that include “performative sexuality” (Fahs, p. 433, 2009). In the context of bisexuality and its common erasure or marginalization as temporary, choice, or farce (Fahs, p.434). Which goes to say that “performative sexuality” can be demonstrated hypocritically to one’s identifying sexuality; it is mechanically achievable despite notions of attractiveness or preference; it is aesthetic; it is flexible. The definition is derived from Fahs, “performative bisexuality”:

    “where women often deny the significance of same-sex encounters even while engaging in them, thus further challenging the meaning of bisexuality as a permanent or meaningful identity”.

    In the context of women’s sexuality more readily adapts to cultural scripts and expectations and therefore indicates a plastic nature to human sexuality (Fahst, p.435). Feminist theory highlights the plasticity of human sexuality in the female context, but this also can be generalized to male as well. Although literature tends to focus solely on what sex is most inclined to “erotic plasticity” (Baumeister, p.133, 2004), the real indicators for objectively recognizing and universalizing the phenomena is to look at the conditions that facilitate orientation in not just women, but also men—which this paper aims to do.

    From a sociological viewpoint, comparative studies of men’s vs women’s erotic plasticity in a time period and cultural context in which dominate the sociopolitical landscape seems Western-centric and predictably skewed. And as modernization touches upon the world, it is important that we consider factors like time, geography, politics, etc. to make any accurate statement regarding orientation as it relates to gender and behavior between the sexes. Then we also have to acknowledge our contemporary factors as they influence the sexual ideas and habits we classify as “normal” in order to maintain a scientifically informed idea of average orientation and sexual fluidity.

    From survey analysis of scholarly articles, women tend to be a major focus for orientation studies. Many articles are written under the presumption of ambiguous orientation for women, often describing their behaviors with terms such as ‘bisexual”, “sexual fluidity”, “sexual plasticity” or “erotic plasticity”. However, a quick glance of male focused studies—which tend to be segregated by either gay/ homosexual or straight—use the term “situational homosexuality” (Anderson, p. 112, 2008). Other terms that arise are “heteroasculinity”, “heteromasculine currency”, “good cause (for homosexual behavior)”, “heterosexual social identity threat”, “masculine capital”, “inclusive masculinity”, “feminine coding”, “sexual object appropriation (gay or female for power)”, “queer sexism” (Anderson, p. 110-112, 2008). In this discussion of “orthodox masculinity” versus “inclusive masculinity”, we get to see a framework on how bisexuality and fluidity become negotiated and labeled—no remain unlabeled altogether.

    Orthodox Masculinity

    Men are sexually fluid however depending on their gender take different approaches. Orthodox masculine men will “slightly alter a traditional, sexist version of masculinity by inviting gay men to participate in their anti-feminine attitudes (Anderson, p. 111, 2008). They condone homosexual and bisexual activity and even group sex, but not feminine expression (queer sexism) nor activity that includes gay identified men, and must be without the admission of same-sex desire.

    Inclusive Masculinity

    On the inverse is inclusive masculinity which makes masculinity available to gay men and femininity available to straight men. What’s most interesting is how Anderson describes the not only non-toxic, but socially reparative effects of inclusive masculinity:

    “These informants even celebrate the expression of femininity among men and stigmatize men who act in orthodox masculine ways. To these men, Carson is a source of pride. Thus, men exhibiting inclusive masculinity not only separate the hegemonic powers of sexuality and masculinity from heteromasculinity, but they contest the privileging of orthodox masculinity over inclusive masculinity and (to a lesser extent) the privileging of men over women” (.p111, 2008).
    Inclusive masculinity men don’t require a heterosexual, conquest “good cause” motivation. Inclusively masculine orientation also sees various forms of homosexual contact (kissing, oral, masturbation) as compatible with heterosexual orientation.

    From Anderson’s study, the frequency of same-sex behavior between both the orthodox masculine and inclusive masculine qualitative test groups was equal (p. 111). This reinforces that bisexuality is not unique strictly to the female population. In addition it means that men do navigate between the two polarities of orientation—homo and hetero. However the incidence of sexuality seems more frequent, varied and competitive than the women. This is suggested in the data that highlights the group sexual behaviors and the transactional logic of Orthodox masculine sexuality orientation (which is masculine currency weighed) as well as with Inclusive masculine sexual orientation (which is non-judgmental).

    The Multitude of Masculinities

    Finally gaining an understanding of male sexual fluidity fills in some of the gaps especially due to the sexist bias in medicine and sexology evident in the 1985 Women’s Healthy Taskforce and the lack of research on male, non-gay bisexuality. Away from the traditionally assumed categories of men—straight or gay (opposed to women’s straight, bisexual, lesbian), it can be now seen that masculinity for men is even more varied: straight, bisexual (orthodox masculine, inclusive masculine) and gay. Thanks to this deeper understanding of male sexual orientation, it can also be applied toward female studies as well, demonstrated in the following figure.

    The figure displays an orientation continuum that accounts for gender currency as well as physical sexuality.

    What is Men’s Rehabilitation Therapy?

    After the analysis of Anderson regarding the structure of male sexuality ad gender, the heavy lifting of the said concepts constitutes the reconstruction of varied, socially sustainable masculinities. Anderson identifies Orthodox Masculinity that frames the male definition of sexual experience: transactional, competitive, prescriptive, hegemonic and misogynistic. The definition clearly facilitates an ambivalent male gender and sexuality, free of social accountability nor repercussions. It serves for exclusion and “them vs us” psychology. However, Inclusive Masculinity achieves the opposite as it is often unlabeled, gender-fluid and sex-fluid. But first we have to look and ask, just how is Orthodox Masculinity problematic and in need of reform? What are the major social challenges that we have now and how might the exacerbated or alleviated depending on the approach of masculinity?

    In exploring gender and all its complexity, my personal interest and motivation is in male gender expression, sexuality and masculinity of men. Feminist Theory has posited a plethora of positive points and contributions towards the empowerment of women as well as the recruitment of feminism allies. It has also spurned motivation throughout LGBTQIA communities. However, as the knowledge unlocked from feminism has bettered society, it has also reverberated into producing negative effects: polarization of WASP men as well as paternalistic, female-negative men; the lack of minority men in nurturing positions; homophobia and marginalization of the sexuality of feminist male allies; male chauvinist MTF transgenderism; retaliatory insensitivity toward male children; and many other, seen but not heard social problems.

    But through the conclusions of feminist theory—that gender is performed—I feel I can help the male world through the art therapy of modeling, performance and a safe space for the exhibition and artistic appreciation and eventually holistic rehabilitation of masculinity. Men’s Rehabilitation Therapy (MRT) takes on a restorative approach to negotiating masculinity and explores these areas which will be detailed later:

    • The Performance of Gender and Drama Therapy for Rehabilitation
    • Performance Catharsis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder
    • Differentiating between Fitness and Bigorexia
    • Gender Dysphoria versus Sex Dysmorphia

    References

    Anderson, E. (2008). “Being masculine is not about who you sleep with…:” heterosexual athletes contesting masculinity and the one-time rule of homosexuality. Sex roles, 58(1-2), 104-115.

    Baumeister, R. F. (2004). Gender and erotic plasticity: Sociocultural influences on the sex drive. Sexual and relationship therapy, 19(2), 133-139.

    Fisher, V., & Kinsey, S. (2014). Behind closed doors! Homosocial desire and the academic boys club. Gender in management: An international Journal, 29(1), 44-64.

    Fahs, B. (2009). Compulsory bisexuality?: The challenges of modern sexual fluidity. Journal of Bisexuality, 9(3-4), 431-449.

    Kiesling, S. F. (2005). Homosocial desire in men’s talk: Balancing and re-creating cultural discourses of masculinity. Language in Society, 34(5), 695-726.

    Hickey-Moody, A. (2015). CARBON FIBRE MASCULINITY: disability and surfaces of homosociality. Angelaki, 20(1), 139-153.

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    Torgrimson, B. N., & Minson, C. T. (2005). Sex and gender: what is the difference? Journal of Applied Physiology 2005 99:3, 785-787.

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  • Qamarisms: Selected Tweets

    Qamarisms: Selected Tweets

    “Summer Moon at Miyajima” (“Natsu no Tsuki Miyajima”) by Doi Hangaren

    Confidence roots in shamelessness. Imperviousness to embarrassment constitutes immovable pride. –QABradford

    2014-02-15 07:00:07

    Our most debilitating fear is being seen for who and what we aren’t. Inevitably we become less.

    2014-02-07 16:08:26

    Our most debilitating fear is being seen for who and what we aren’t.

    2014-02-07 16:07:13

    The tools we create are innocuous in themselves. It is our ill obliviousness to our intention that is injurious.

    2014-02-05 12:17:58

    Abstraction makes a principle incarnate. Principles tangible in immediate action or manufacture aren’t principles.

    2014-02-05 11:02:01

    Lust and Desire epitomize holiness and divinity. It ascends from adherents and descends from divinity.

    2014-02-05 09:50:10

    Parents and children who exercise daily have communion with the divinity of their neurons and synapses.

    2014-01-31 14:28:04

    What if the theists and atheists are both wrong? What if “God” is simply human speak for an energetic resonance? A vibration? What then?

    – 2014-01-21 08:16:37-  

    Goodness’n’t to do with category. Heaven will change that. Goodness’ to do with cardiography. We change that.

    – 2014-01-19 04:44:05-  

    Self-proclaimed “originality”s a cheap curse to megalomania. Potency’s in the paths of natural derivatives.

    – 2014-01-17 20:01:41-  

    Your scars as a whole mark your resilience. But if their details don’t add to your legend, don’t expound.

    – 2014-01-10 22:24:09-  

    Reality’s the interstices between our sense and the world. Positivity’s in your capacity to feel and nevativity’s in your inability to not.

    – 2014-01-10 07:17:52-  

    True negativity emits not from arbitrary statements or actions. It emits from a fatalistic narrative of human nature.

    – 2014-01-09 01:14:24-  

    The root of the present tense is not past tense but instead pretense.

    – 2014-01-08 23:55:22-  

    Dare not tear off the butterfly’s wings and insist it grows up nor toss the caterpillar and lie that it’s flying.

    – 2014-01-08 22:43:54-  

    Is oil painting masered without peering into every corner of the canvas? So how can you your own body without looking?

    – 2014-01-06 22:27:24-  

    @WhiteHouse the taxation system is feudalistic and erred since the Boston Tea Party. A corporate share system’s ideal. Citizens= shareholder

    – 2014-01-05 00:04:38-  

    The human mind is made up dichotomies, yet we mistake it for the Earth which is simply made of conditions.

    – 2014-01-04 23:12:43-  

    The higher maintains power by catalysis. The lower maintains power by dissemination.

    – 2014-01-03 01:37:26-  

    To quantify one’s true beauty minus the number of uglies of your mind from it’s beauties. Beautiful souls often have little to subtract.

    – 2014-01-02 08:14:30-  

    Umoja is a manifesto and Imani is a promise.

    – 2014-01-02 08:08:23-  

    Hate’s rooted in taking for granted what we have. Love’s rooted in granting what we have to be taken.

    – 2014-01-01 12:19:10-  

    人間界の性格は決まっていないだ。その基本に曖昧の所は文明の元だ。

    – 2013-12-30 08:58:19-  

    Goodness’n’t to do with category. Heaven will change that. Goodness’ to do with cardiography. We change that.

    – 2014-01-19 04:44:05-  

    Self-proclaimed “originality”s a cheap curse to megalomania. Potency’s in the paths of natural derivatives.

    – 2014-01-17 20:01:41-  

    Your scars as a whole mark your resilience. But if their details don’t add to your legend, don’t expound.

    – 2014-01-10 22:24:09-  

    Reality’s the interstices between our sense and the world. Positivity’s in your capacity to feel and nevativity’s in your inability to not.

    – 2014-01-10 07:17:52-  

    True negativity emits not from arbitrary statements or actions. It emits from a fatalistic narrative of human nature.

    – 2014-01-09 01:14:24-  

    The root of the present tense is not past tense but instead pretense.

    – 2014-01-08 23:55:22-  

    Dare not tear off the butterfly’s wings and insist it grows up nor toss the caterpillar and lie that it’s flying.

    – 2014-01-08 22:43:54-  

    Is oil painting masered without peering into every corner of the canvas? So how can you your own body without looking?

    – 2014-01-06 22:27:24-  

    @WhiteHouse the taxation system is feudalistic and erred since the Boston Tea Party. A corporate share system’s ideal. Citizens= shareholder

    – 2014-01-05 00:04:38-  

    The human mind is made up dichotomies, yet we mistake it for the Earth which is simply made of conditions.

    – 2014-01-04 23:12:43-  

    The higher maintains power by catalysis. The lower maintains power by dissemination.

    – 2014-01-03 01:37:26-  

    To quantify one’s true beauty minus the number of uglies of your mind from it’s beauties. Beautiful souls often have little to subtract.

    – 2014-01-02 08:14:30-  

    Umoja is a manifesto and Imani is a promise.

    – 2014-01-02 08:08:23-  

    Hate’s rooted in taking for granted what we have. Love’s rooted in granting what we have to be taken.

    – 2014-01-01 12:19:10-  

    人間界の性格は決まっていないだ。その基本に曖昧の所は文明の元だ。

    – 2013-12-30 08:58:19-  

    @SanDiegoAirport A great idea from Narita International Airport are complimentary strollers. It would cut down check-in time substantially.

    – 2013-12-29 20:51:27-  

    Its the straightface that maintains a road that’s safe.

    – 2013-12-29 03:40:52-  

    The public flicker of your glee only highlights the depths of your hidden melancholy.

    – 2013-12-29 03:40:41-  

    Ecological capitalism.

    – 2013-12-28 20:01:21-  

    Nothing in this world will ever be as vulgar as the mind that sees evil as naturally innate.

    – 2013-12-12 12:07:23-  

    Fools misconstrue emotion to chaos and logic to order. But emotion’s opposite’s numbness. That’s true chaos.

    – 2013-12-05 08:40:07-  

    良薬は口に苦し: Good medicine is bitter.

    – 2013-12-02 07:41:58-  

    根回し: Aerate the roots.

    – 2013-12-02 07:36:33-  

    Awkwardness is the purest expression of emotional inability. Aggression, emotional stupidity.

    – 2013-11-27 03:27:04-  

    A true artist of cultural innovation wants imitation. But a cheap market hack loathes it.

    – 2013-11-26 05:12:53-  

    The elder may know every answer, but the child knows every question.

    – 2013-11-22 22:07:58-  

    Encompass the wabi-sabi: one part polished, one part ratchet.

    – 2013-11-20 07:09:31-  

    Rejecting images that imitate the self is a metaphorical action of self-loathing.

    – 2013-11-16 07:47:06-  

    Martial arts are an ordered method of fighting. The first war is of wit: lexicon, syntax and morphology.

    – 2013-11-13 05:21:02-  

    The martial arts’ most determining aesthetic’s it’s philosophy. It’s on par with religious theology. It must produce a standalone narrative.

    – 2013-11-13 05:13:03-  

    The martial arts’ most determining aesthetic’s it’s philosophy. It’s on par with religious theology. It must produce a narrative resista …

    – 2013-11-13 05:12:14-  

    Achronological science is as ineffective as ascientific spirituality. Observation takes time and time is a blessing.

    – 2013-11-13 04:48:28-  

    Once, a find. Twice, an err. Thrice, a study. 一回目、発見。二回目、錯誤。三回目、勉強。

    – 2013-11-09 15:09:06-  

    。三回目、勉強。

    – 2013-11-09 14:38:05-  

    Once, a discovery. Twice, a mistake. Thrice, a study. 一回目、発見。二回目、錯誤

    – 2013-11-09 14:37:52-  

    「一石二鳥」は仕事なら良い/ 人間関係なら悪い/機会は数えられね/ 誠さが数えやすい。

    – 2013-11-08 16:26:28-  

    自分の内不唖不動明を広がる。

    – 2013-11-05 03:27:29-  

    To grow. Eagle endures the drop, Sequoia endures the snow.

    – 2013-11-05 03:26:01-  

    Allot a child not to witness their challenge of the threshold of adulthood and you retard them. Give space, don’t put them in “their place”.

    – 2013-10-29 22:12:03-  

    Raise a child without allotment to witness their challenging the threshold of the adult and you retard them. Give space, don’t put them …

    – 2013-10-29 22:10:17-  

    Laws that do not coach and coerce society into form are dishonest in correction and predate upon honest mistakes.

    – 2013-10-25 18:27:29-  

    There are both honest and dishonest mistakes. As well, there are also honest and dishonest corrections.

    – 2013-10-25 18:25:11-  

    Dishonest rules are made by dishonest leaders who take advantage of honest mistakes.

    – 2013-10-25 18:23:14-  

    The root to criminality is the short cut. Even the explanation for the quick method is long. Effort is key.

    – 2013-10-25 16:34:46-  

    Winners? Losers? There are none. There are only the influenced and the influential.

    – 2013-10-24 01:18:58-  

    We living things can never be adjectives. They are peripheral and formless. But we have hearts and cores.

    – 2013-10-23 06:20:32-  

    Photoset: rollership:   http://t.co/tjxH6pgXOb

    – 2013-10-17 05:35:00-  

    The competetive mind’s nature’s red herring for the collaborative mind. ‘Tis’nt really jealousy, ’tis admiration. ‘Tis’nt really defeat, …

    – 2013-10-16 18:14:51-  

    A competitive mind’s nature’s red herring for a collaborative mind. ‘Tis’nt really jealousy, ’tis admiration. Submission? ‘Tis ingestion!

    – 2013-10-13 01:23:59-  

    A mayor should fund projects via nonprofit startups. I was a student at San Miguel when the library went into plan. 25 years?! #sdmayor2013

    – 2013-10-02 05:37:46Favorites 1ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d help cyclists by suggesting speed bumps as part of normal intersection construction. End California roll culture.

    – 2013-10-02 05:37:40Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    The most accountable debate is digital. Hold a public web forum and broadcast point by point. @MeanestBossEver

    – 2013-10-02 05:37:36Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    @jeffolson503 @nbcsandiego @WendyNBCSD @JanIGoldsmith Chalk washes away. Vandalism only for the petty.

    – 2013-10-02 05:37:18Favorites 1ReTweets 1RETWEET

    Specifics like “who’s connecting homeowners with startup investors rather than shortening bank sentences?”@kevin_faulconer @EliRubenstein

    – 2013-10-02 05:37:04Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    Its not about loudness. Its about specificity.@kevin_faulconer @EliRubenstein

    – 2013-10-02 05:36:38Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 Lazy and dim politics ride on reputation. But real politics that make nations–those that founded America–ride on ideas.

    – 2013-10-02 05:36:28Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 Leadership is less about style and more about purpose. What are your goals?

    – 2013-10-02 05:36:23Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    @EliRubenstein @kevin_faulconer Enumerate upon and detail out what that style exactly is.

    – 2013-10-02 05:36:17Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 Mayor races are so competitive, weak candidates cover points by endorsement and debate. I cover points by issue and solution.

    – 2013-10-02 05:36:13Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 to create well paying work, a city can’t just tax. It has to offer various municipality programs, subsidies and benefits.

    – 2013-10-02 05:36:09Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 Everyone knows progress comes from attainable incentives. We have to give locals much more attainable incentives.

    – 2013-10-02 05:36:03Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    Help make it happen for The Encanto Sangria Project on @indiegogo http://t.co/A7cWp7UVfJ

    – 2013-10-02 05:35:59Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #SDmayor2013 Relying soley on our good climate for our hospitality is erred. The school districts must emphasize it curricularly.

    – 2013-10-02 05:35:46Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 SD City has to offer multitudinous avenues of business start-up support so that even high schoolers are business savvy.

    – 2013-10-02 05:35:40Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 Maybe it’s silly, but we should flood flood plains and expand marshes. Mesopotamia, Egypt, the ancient world proved it pays.

    – 2013-10-02 05:35:33Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 Remind big business here that local buisness comes first. We don’t have to be a “touristplantation” if we innovate a culture.

    – 2013-10-02 05:35:28Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 SD citizens should have the right to invest. It’s radical, but leaving the tax-vote system to a share-vote system’s futuristic.

    – 2013-10-02 05:35:17Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 SD City immigrants struggled as much as generational natives. I promote special rights upon proof of residence and education.

    – 2013-10-02 05:35:11Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d really push for etiquette and stewardship PSAs. Public service announcements are positive propaganda.

    – 2013-10-02 05:35:06Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d definitely pressure city departments to coopetate with cycling groups. Sidewalk depressions should be at near 90°.

    – 2013-10-02 05:35:01Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d commit my language skills to making our port competitive with LA and attractive to Asia.

    – 2013-10-02 05:34:55Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d champion pep rallies, city memorabilia sales, merchandising and spirit. I’d establish city symbols like trees, birds, etc.

    – 2013-10-02 05:34:33Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d push school boards to develop a more practicum-apprenticeship oriented curricula and court downtown for local youth spaces.

    – 2013-10-02 05:34:28Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d have local schools and businesses investigate the applications of palm fibers from those trees that grow splendidly here.

    – 2013-10-02 05:34:23Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d reduce brush by investigating application and harvesting of “invasive” species like mustard plant and arundo donax.

    – 2013-10-02 05:34:16Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 As mayor, I’d develop passive solar desalination stations along the coast and resultant a sea salt industry.

    – 2013-10-02 05:34:09Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d ask and consult local higher education to help do most of my heavy lifting via their curricula, internship courses.

    – 2013-10-02 05:34:05Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d applaud local schools and parts of the tech sector that investigated local applications of regenerative medicines.

    – 2013-10-02 05:34:00Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d pressure local media to intelligently cover positive local issues like births, graduations, culture and the economy.

    – 2013-10-02 05:33:55Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d alleviate border issues with a sophisticated work-study holiday program with Baja-California.

    – 2013-10-02 05:33:50Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d explore securing San Deigo by ok-ing the creation of local government validated militias, rather than rampant gun sales.

    – 2013-10-02 05:33:45Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d encourage solving coastal environmental problems via terra-formation by banyan tree and coral reef planting.

    – 2013-10-02 05:33:40Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d also look into a sort of point system so generational local people can fight economic discrimination..

    – 2013-10-02 05:33:35Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d consider the development of a prevention-based city-wide medicare program.

    – 2013-10-02 05:33:30Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d draw up some ideas on better traffic safety and organization for commuters and pedestrians.

    – 2013-10-02 05:33:24Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d push for higher bilingualism in local schools via increasing local volunteer programs using immigrated residents.

    – 2013-10-02 05:33:18Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d encourage non-profits and faith-based groups to enforce “Teach a man to fish” policies.

    – 2013-10-02 05:33:12Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d support creating sister city programs between local cities for more educational, professional and industrial opportunities.

    – 2013-10-02 05:32:57Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 As mayor, I’d look into the development of a Japanese styled police-box system to reduce crime.

    – 2013-10-02 05:32:39Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 If I were mayor, I’d increase attention to medical tourism n San Diego.

    – 2013-10-02 05:32:35Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 As mayor of San Diego, I’d focus ethic enclaves centrally downtown via underutilized buildings, zoning, and business ventures.

    – 2013-10-02 05:32:31Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 To reduce brush and inefficient water usage I’d push for fibers and micro-agriculture research in higher education.

    – 2013-10-02 05:32:26Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d court local tech companies on revamping the city website into a digital municipal administration.

    – 2013-10-02 05:32:20Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d rely heavily on local art schools and universities for innovation to improve–not just beautify–the city.

    – 2013-10-02 05:32:11Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I’d court local tech companies to get free Wi-Fi on MTS trolleys.

    – 2013-10-02 05:32:04Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 As mayor, I’d develop passive solar desalination stations slong the coast and resultant a sea salt industry.

    – 2013-10-02 05:31:50Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 If our city has fire issues, I’d pursue agriculture subsidies for water usage to increase incomes and reduce fire hazards.

    – 2013-10-02 05:31:46Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    #sdmayor2013 I could run for mayor. Daygo needs a post-LA to neo-LA makeover.

    – 2013-10-02 05:31:40Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    All and absolute truth is hypocritical.

    – 2013-10-01 17:21:45-  

    Manipulation of others is the epitome of sloth. Though cerebral, its result is amorality and a diabetic metabolism.

    – 2013-10-01 17:20:09-  

    “Nakedness is a lack of cover. Nudity is simply you wearing just your body as dress. “

    2013-09-22 14:28:37

    “You are a soul adorned by a body. Why do we adorn our bodies? Because they aren’t our souls. “

    2013-09-22 14:28:06

    “No matter how beautiful you think of another– if they think of you ugly–they were never truly beautiful.”

    2013-09-21 08:43:21

    “Never personalize ‘amateur’. You don’t need their approval. Internalize ‘DIY’. Your will and effort are all that matter. “

    2013-09-14 02:24:57

    @HBCUBuzz If HBCUs are a vestige of African-American ethnic and cultural heritage, hoe should they forefront US pedogological innovation?

    – 2013-09-13 23:12:32-  

    “They, confusing noun with adjective, cry ‘vanity’. I, choosing name over noun, deem ‘Qamarist’. I’ve my methodology. They’ve got convention.”

    2013-09-11 09:10:13

    Kujichagulia, Self Determination. To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.

    – 2013-09-09 06:48:41-  

    ted for, and spoken for by others.

    – 2013-09-09 06:47:39-  

    Kujichagulia, Self Determination. To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves instead of being def …

    – 2013-09-09 06:47:37-  

    Obsequiousness is the only path.

    – 2013-09-09 04:43:45-  

    Although the highest priest must defecate somewhere, neither he nor his stool are outlawed.

    – 2013-09-08 06:39:57-  

    Punishment only exists to those blinded by the delusion of righteousness.

    – 2013-09-06 05:41:00-  

    Adjectives are colors laced in the adverbial interstitial space between nouns as they verb about the intersections of prepositions.

    – 2013-08-30 21:29:39-  

    “A human being, you are a perfection of oceans of DNA. Have shame in no part of your physiology. Changeling of the natural world.”

    2013-08-29 05:57:24

    “Free your words from sentiment and you free your mind.”

    2013-08-26 13:49:25

    “A mind’s a slave to habit. A pill’s a placebo. But performance art’s a medicine that liberates a soul.”

    2013-08-25 23:21:39

    “Sensualize your life as Gustav Klimt works; Near Eastern spice palettes; Centraller polyrhythms: and Precolumbian skies.”

    2013-08-25 23:05:47

    “Imagine your life as a digital quest of Zelda or Final Fantasy. Or perhaps literary as King Arthur or Goroba Dike. Whichever, Imagine it.“

    2013-08-24 07:09:28

    The bees run not the beehive, nor does its queen rule it. All are instead run by the flowers and their endless libido of pollen.

    – 2013-08-22 09:41:36-  

    People like a happy ending. Always finish happily for others.

    – 2013-08-22 06:25:36-  

    A nation can do nothing for its people by making negative examples of their incidental situations.

    – 2013-08-20 12:45:00-  

    Symbol a mind of what? Of proprietarieness and facets.

    – 2013-08-20 05:19:03-  

    The freedom of fortune and forgivess. Slavery never to one. Let no murder steal richness.

    – 2013-08-20 04:27:47-  

    An ignored grievance is an oppressor triumphant.

    – 2013-08-20 02:27:34-  

    “Nothing sacred” means not “no thing is sacred”. It means that even the void is precious. Proliferate calm.

    – 2013-08-20 02:18:53-  

    “Nothing sacred” means not “no thing is sacred”. It means that even tbe void is precious. Proliferate calm.

    – 2013-08-20 02:18:27-  

    Symbol a heart of what? Of reciprocation and multiplicity. Valves reciprocate and cells multiply.

    – 2013-08-20 00:57:21-  

    Our objects of obsession are so only because we fail at emulation. Become all.

    – 2013-08-19 23:57:30-  

    Weirdness epitomizes soft-power. An influene that disturbs harmony also proves another’s weakness.

    – 2013-08-14 13:51:27-  

    True dance is the art of not stumbling over the feet of oneself or another.

    – 2013-08-12 07:35:16-  

    “Perfect harmony” is the most cliché of oxymorons. Harmony appeals because in it noise and silence are at war.

    – 2013-08-12 07:33:55-  

    Sincerity is measured by a ratio of words to action. Excess words or actions: insincere. A balance of both: heartfelt.

    – 2013-08-12 07:29:34-  

    Those convinced you should go without are often those convinced to go without you.

    – 2013-08-11 04:24:13-  

    We are griffins, chimera, hybrids. We are human.

    – 2013-08-10 08:49:13-  

    Be compassionate, cool, bountiful, rich; an aquifer of sustenance: a colocinth.

    – 2013-08-09 22:47:49-  

    Be susceptible, be empty. The arsenal filled with air explodes the flesh.

    – 2013-08-04 13:18:05-  

    What is Qamarism? Write your name. Then add “-ism” to it. And now you are planet unto yourself.

    – 2013-08-03 07:55:13-  

    The mind cannot be led but where it yearns to go.

    – 2013-08-01 10:47:51-  

    The line between “didn’t know” and “didn’t care” is fine, fine and easily broken.

    – 2013-08-01 04:59:13-  

    Knowledge is materialistically disappointing. But the application of knowledge is revolutionary.

    – 2013-07-31 19:31:22-  

    Talking is as simple as breathing loudly, but script is sacred and requires spirit.

    – 2013-07-31 12:43:42-  

    Our physiological vertical symmetry is like a celestial alignment. Left and right; north and south; perpetual rotation; transformation.

    – 2013-07-31 11:04:02-  

    You’ve not one body, buy several. Ones of mineral, ocean, heat and cold.

    – 2013-07-30 14:21:42-  

    My self-abasement is an appeal to your kindness. How much shamelessness does it take for true kindness?

    – 2013-07-30 14:11:45-  

    If ever you “know” where you are, in reality you are actually lost.

    – 2013-07-30 06:15:56-  

    Inherently existence is infatuous. The more our affinities, the more beauty our eyes can behold.

    – 2013-07-29 15:35:34-  

    Your natural physiology in itself is a God–a divine manifestation of natural order. Cultivate it or delapitate it.

    – 2013-07-28 01:15:06-  

    For every ten efforts, one expectation makes him stronger. For every ten expectations, one effort makes her weaker.

    – 2013-07-20 19:27:43-  

    The underlying root of conflict is we think of others as ourselves. The root of peace is to think of yourself as other; peculiarly.

    – 2013-07-13 15:15:23-  

    Our true nature–though unseen–is indicated by tbe adjectives we use most. Especially about our dislikes.

    – 2013-07-13 14:50:52-  

    Trust is a currency valueless unless you hoard it.

    – 2013-07-13 07:34:35-  

    Love thy friends, but smother them and ye shall blot out thine own eye.

    – 2013-07-13 03:13:56-  

    Though the table legs may be crooked, it still works as a table.

    – 2013-07-12 08:34:12-  

    Sometimes isolation is an effective medicine.

    – 2013-07-12 03:46:31-  

    Though we desire to have what others have and to tell them about it, our possessions will never be the same.

    – 2013-07-04 22:21:49-  

    “O you who have axes ready to hand, deal the final blow to the tree of superstition; be not content to prune its branches;” #marquisdesade

    – 2013-07-04 04:16:22Favorites 0ReTweets 3RETWEET

    If an idea hatches in a brain and no one is around to comprehend it, does it make any sense?

    – 2013-07-04 03:52:47-  

    Let Kawaida be a sort of African Confucianism. And to the market we bring Abyssinian craftsmanship and to religion Songhaian sensuality.

    – 2013-07-04 03:01:36-  

    Guilt, regret and shame are emotional devices to encourage learning. Feel them not and our synapses die.

    – 2013-07-01 16:18:38-  

    For the destruction of a single tree, humanity destroys a thousand alveoli of the beings near it.

    – 2013-07-01 14:23:29-  

    Hell exists nowhere in the universe. It’s merely a misnomer for the things from which we’re too cowardly to extrapolate wisdom.

    – 2013-06-29 15:37:37-  

    True altruism isn’t about helping someone who’s “worse off” than you. It’s about helping anyone. The judgment does more harm than help.

    – 2013-06-26 07:19:25-  

    Let’s run until we hemorrhage.

    – 2013-06-26 05:56:02-  

    Even the most guilty of us are victims of circumstance; the most innocent of us, victimizers of the circumstantial.

    – 2013-06-20 22:48:44-  

    Sensuality is the realization of the asexual, agendered, yet innately arousing beauty that exists in everything.

    – 2013-06-20 22:12:17-  

    Though I know what yyou think I’m not supposed to. It doesn’t mean I know everything. Your supposition’s incorrect. Come correct.

    – 2013-06-20 17:45:55-  

    Hermano puma ingrains in himself athleticism. Not because he is competitive but because it’s his religion.

    – 2013-06-17 15:45:44-  

    Lavender like wysteria. Falling like raindrops.The jacaranda have peaked. Summer is here.

    – 2013-06-13 17:01:27-  

    We all function off of confidence which is rooted in our ability to confide. The hushing of conversations, people and thoughts, weaken us.

    – 2013-06-13 16:19:41-  

    Desire is an emotional anemia that pours relentlessly. It’s only cure is reciprocation, otherwise it consequences in elimination.

    – 2013-06-13 15:51:55-  

    Proprietariness, exclusivity and “or” epitomize true hate. Limitlessness, imitation and “and” epitpmize true love.

    – 2013-06-08 00:56:48-  

    Victor over markedly fundamentalist and inhetently subtractive religious extremism, ensure religious powers recreate a hundred Renaissances.

    – 2013-06-08 00:17:28-  

    Religion, nationalism and culture are psycho-sociological technology. But so often we are inept at our own and finicky about other’s.

    – 2013-06-08 00:06:30Favorites 1ReTweets 1

    Religion’s a conceptual discipline existent in the tangible’s interstices. Worship that binds to intangibility, binds to folly.

    – 2013-06-06 13:32:23-  

    If you have not to ask, I certainly have not to give. If you won’t do for self, you certainly cannot do for anyone else.

    – 2013-06-06 07:40:10-  

    We want to redeem each other. But you can only save those who want to save themselves. The redeemed cannot be redeemed.

    – 2013-06-02 00:01:21-  

    My master taught me “respect all, fear none”. Those who don’t respect obviously fear.

    – 2013-06-01 04:26:32-  

    Parents, my inheritance. Brothers, my confidence. Sisters, my conviction. Children, my courage.

    – 2013-05-30 22:21:37-  

    The worse we’re treated, the better we get at making bad decisions.

    – 2013-05-30 05:08:12-  

    Bragging of newfound love reeks of immodesty when the God of Loneliness’ beckon trumps your God of Love.

    – 2013-05-29 16:01:28-  

    Chauvinism: Hope without any reasonable skepticism.

    – 2013-05-29 01:51:11-  

    Jealousy: when competitive pride mutes desire and infatuation. Then unsaid compliments fester into greedy expectations.

    – 2013-05-29 01:49:40-  

    Paranoia: Skepticism without any reasonable hope.

    – 2013-05-28 22:51:08-  

    The weak reduce their strengths upon others’ doubts. The strong reduce their weaknesses upon others’ assurances.

    – 2013-05-28 22:09:15-  

    “…the wretch who has lived a stranger to joy, dies, alas, unrewarded.” #MarquisdeSade #PhilosophyInTheBedroom

    – 2013-05-27 17:33:24Favorites 1ReTweets 2RETWEET

    “Each day adds to the incredible esteem you so richly deserve.” #MarquisdeSade

    – 2013-05-27 17:32:26Favorites 3ReTweets 1RETWEET

    “There are times in life when the desire to wallow in disorder is such as not to be sated by anything…” #MarquisdeSade #Juliette

    – 2013-05-27 17:32:00Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    “The wretched are wont to seize at straws with such avidity,… that they fabricate most cunningly all sorts of illusions!” #MarquisdeSade

    – 2013-05-27 17:31:26Favorites 1ReTweets 2RETWEET

    @Quotable_deSade: “Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.” #MarquisdeSade

    – 2013-05-27 17:31:06Favorites 1ReTweets 3RETWEET

    “I do not understand you, any more than you have understood me.” #MarquisdeSade #DialogueBetweenAPriestAndADyingMan

    – 2013-05-27 17:30:40Favorites 4ReTweets 4RETWEET

    “I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit…” #MarquisdeSade

    – 2013-05-27 17:30:20Favorites 0ReTweets 2RETWEET

    The opposite sex doesn’t exist just to appease our libido nor amusement. Its why our genitals are simple and our brains, complex.

    – 2013-05-27 17:29:43-  

    When you quit just because brothers, sisters, or friends copy you, you fail them and yourself too.

    – 2013-05-26 15:13:36-  

    Friendships are relationships of confidence exchange. What your friends can do, you can somehow do too.

    – 2013-05-26 15:10:55-  

    兄弟姉妹友達はあんたを真似したから辞めたら、彼らとあんたの自分を失敗している。

    – 2013-05-26 15:07:33-  

    友達の関係は自信交換の関係だ。あんたの友達が出来る事はあんたの何となくも出来る事だ。

    – 2013-05-26 15:03:44-  

    もし、あんたの自分の夢になろうとすれば、この世も夢幻になる。

    – 2013-05-25 21:51:44-  

    Projecting pessimism–denial, condemnation, misdiagnosis–empowers witches and warlocks. Gods, saints and nature thunder out bolts of hope.

    – 2013-05-23 22:53:41-  

    Masculinity and feminity in both male and female are chromosomally innate. Any other observations are studies in degrees of neutrality.

    – 2013-05-22 14:43:21-  

    The last always begets the first. From the Omega springs forth the Alpha.

    – 2013-05-21 17:29:46-  

    Belief begets desire and vise versa.

    – 2013-05-20 23:05:13-  

    Quality theology: measured strictly by number of teachings; quantified by number of translations; multiplied by variety of metaphor.

    – 2013-05-20 23:04:26-  

    Quality science is measured strictly by results, quantified by their number of trials multiplied by the variety if their controls.

    – 2013-05-20 22:29:32-  

    Fear doesn’t indicate the negativity of the external. It indicates our negativity towards our inadequacies.

    – 2013-05-20 22:27:02-  

    We tend to believe our ears, more than we believe our eyes. And we tend to believe our eyes more than we believe our minds.

    – 2013-05-19 15:49:44-  

    That which we fear, we joke of, feigning bravery.

    – 2013-05-19 00:13:13-  

    Family is an institution. A business. If things as trivial as sex are allowed to make or break it, we deserve autocratic domination.

    – 2013-05-15 06:48:35-  

    恥の無い存在を抱け、子供の知恵のために。

    – 2013-05-13 06:58:25-  

    The wise government makes a law of conservation for every law of liberation.

    – 2013-05-10 07:56:02-  

    Better and worse are delusions. There is only similar and dissimilar; growing and decaying; solid and fluid.

    – 2013-05-09 17:39:57-  

    The right way is predictable. But one’s own way is the seat of divinity.

    – 2013-05-06 00:18:18-  

    Confidence is to muse in confiding in a self no matter its revelation to others.

    – 2013-05-05 22:43:00-  

    Those who use us appreciate our value. Those who ignore us give us not even a zero.

    – 2013-05-05 15:10:40-  

    Emotional vocabulary correlate colors correlate electricity. Death, dark. Despair, gray. Passion, bright.

    – 2013-05-05 15:09:37-  

    Why do have good and bad moments? Because we are inherently neutral. Yet society is clouded with positivity and negativity.

    – 2013-05-03 17:22:22-  

    The culture in which you exist… Did you make it all yourself? If not, you lay no claim to it. Leave it to those willing to permutate it.

    – 2013-05-02 20:17:53-  

    Accountability lies in accountancy. What we cannot quantify absolutely is the responsibility of no one… or is it everyone?

    – 2013-05-02 02:30:08-  

    An external enemy such as “a liar” is a farce. The true enemy is the gullible and ignorant mind. All facts are relevant… and relative.

    – 2013-05-01 01:55:57-  

    Information is a method of belief system acquisition. The more things in which you believe, the stronger your formation.

    – 2013-05-01 01:40:58-  

    Are you ashamed of winning? Are you ashamed we are all winners?

    – 2013-04-26 16:54:28-  

    “Irregular” is a synonym for “unique” not “wrong”. Thrive off of it.

    – 2013-04-25 00:09:18-  

    “What do you mean by Creator, and what do you mean by corrupted nature?” #MarquisdeSade #ConversationBetweenAPriestAndADyingMan

    – 2013-04-22 03:20:41Favorites 4ReTweets 1RETWEET

    “Profit from the fairest period in your life; these golden years of our pleasure are only too few and too brief.” #MarquisdeSade

    – 2013-04-22 03:19:33Favorites 3ReTweets 1RETWEET

    When they tell you don’t work so hard, look them in the eyes and ask, “are you going to do it for me?”

    – 2013-04-21 21:59:44-  

    Appreciate myself, I’m Qamarist. Appreciate me, your’re Qamaristic. Appreciate you, you’re youist. I appreciate you, I’m youistic.

    – 2013-04-19 04:38:12-  

    Rejection? Exception?! From your inception/ You were an immaculate conception!

    – 2013-04-19 02:23:50-  

    We are each our own religions: our cells, adherents; minds, theologies; bodies, cathedrals.

    – 2013-04-19 01:15:53-  

    Too small we are to claim absolute knowledge, yet too large we are to claim ignorance of anything.

    – 2013-04-18 15:38:51-  

    Love is the warmth of the sun and it is not exclusive. Imagine how the forests would wither if the solar romance was but for one tree.

    – 2013-04-16 16:19:04-  

    Text are vibrations of photons that comfort eyes. Words: air that comfort ears. Heartbeats, hearts. Embrace naturally contains us for free.

    – 2013-04-14 14:37:19-  

    Divinity’s in the mind. Despair’s in the heart. If you’ve a mind, you’re a God; a heart, a demon. There’s no side to choose.

    – 2013-04-14 13:20:46-  

    “May humanity, fraternity, benevolence prescribe our reciprocal obligations…” #MarquisdeSade #PhilosophyInTheBedroom

    – 2013-04-14 13:13:57Favorites 1ReTweets 1RETWEET

    “That we cannot devise as many laws as there are men must be admitted; but the laws can be lenient…” #MarquisdeSade

    – 2013-04-14 13:13:00Favorites 1ReTweets 1RETWEET

    “it is a terrible injustice..that men of unlike character all be ruled by the same law: what is good for one is not at all good for another”

    – 2013-04-14 13:12:40Favorites 2ReTweets 1RETWEET

    There’s self and anti-self. We are kernels of electricity, surrounded by a field of momentum of particles. We’re a relationship of nature.

    – 2013-04-14 11:04:51-  

    Because he has given up helping, he is people’s greatest help.

    – 2013-04-06 12:37:50Favorites 14ReTweets 25RETWEET

    True words seem paradoxical.

    – 2013-04-06 12:37:41Favorites 24ReTweets 67RETWEET

    There may be a few wagons and boats, but these don’t go anywhere. There may be an arsenal of weapons, but nobody ever uses them.

    – 2013-04-06 12:36:50Favorites 7ReTweets 16RETWEET

    “Rather than fatigue your children’s young organs with deific stupidities, replace them with excellent social principles;” #MarquisdeSade

    – 2013-04-06 12:35:00Favorites 1ReTweets 1RETWEET

    “Let a simple philosopher introduce these new pupils to the inscrutable but wonderful sublimities of Nature;” #MarquisdeSade

    – 2013-04-06 12:34:32Favorites 1ReTweets 1RETWEET

    Life’s never been about what can be lived without. Its always been a quest of what can be lived with. Life’s opportunistic.

    – 2013-04-05 04:05:41Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    DNA’s hybrid perfection. But spiritual disciples’re like artwork. Each disciple a copy of an original. A faked art, a fraud!

    – 2013-04-04 03:09:49-  

    DNA is always a perfect hybrid. But a spiritual disciple is like an artwork. Each disciple a copy of an original. Unoriginality a perver …

    – 2013-04-04 03:01:17-  

    Ridicule’s an abuse of excess attention. Neglect’s the abuse of none at all. Used to either, sometimes we need the medicine of the other.

    – 2013-03-29 12:28:52Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    Strategists defame strongmen as “brutes”. Strongmen defame strategists as “cheaters”. Both are human.

    – 2013-03-29 12:04:38Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    Perhaps we cannot sacrifice like Christ because even holy wars’re greedy. But men can be like Avalokitesvara; women, Quan Yin: Full of love.

    – 2013-03-28 10:33:54Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    下品は上品の元だ。

    – 2013-03-28 10:03:58Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    内蔵は無いぞ。

    – 2013-03-28 10:00:25-  

    体は空だ。

    – 2013-03-28 09:59:20Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    The truth is a pie to which we all own a share. But upon learning each slice has a rich distinct flavor, we choose to play favorites.

    – 2013-03-23 13:15:06-  

    When you cannot discuss anything on another’s terms, you cannot discuss anything.

    – 2013-03-20 03:49:03Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    Love confessions are investments of eggs in baskets. All in one and they all may break. But an egg here, an egg there. Love begets chicks.

    – 2013-03-19 06:22:48-  

    Those who can never share their view from the top can only lead dandruff.

    – 2013-03-16 03:06:56-  

    Monotheisms, polyrheisms and atheisms are great religions, but their theologies on difference detract from their unitary effectiveness.

    – 2013-03-14 05:24:27-  

    Faith is the genius of foresight. And Wisdom is the genius of hindsight.

    – 2013-03-10 19:45:55Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    The same guilt for burning bridges lies in the same place as the guilt for building bridges out of paper.

    – 2013-03-08 22:21:02-  

    The worst deceit is lying about caring.

    – 2013-03-05 16:02:30-  

    Eyes pure enough to condemn a commoner are also eyes pure enough to be his salvation. If not, gouge out your eyes.

    – 2013-03-03 02:47:19Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    Jealousy makes you fall for another’s similarities. Love makes you fall for another person.

    – 2013-03-03 00:08:42-  

    Marriage and family are about need. Friends and confidants, desire. The former, unspoken. The latter, screamed.

    – 2013-03-02 22:52:31-  

    If God produced all human behaviour and genetic material, it is blasphemy to deem any of it “unsavory”.

    – 2013-03-02 22:29:31-  

    Give a heart what it desires. The harshest words cannot revoke good deeds. A conversation cannot cure the longing for touch.

    – 2013-03-02 22:21:15-  

    Silence “I’ve had it worse”. Life isn’t a competition. Say “I know how you feel” and live a thousand times.

    – 2013-03-02 22:19:04-  

    Love confined is not love. Hate unrestricted is not hate.

    – 2013-03-02 20:02:54-  

    The higher our capacity for affinities, the higher our capacity for sincerties.

    – 2013-03-02 19:25:12-  

    Our human bodies are religion into themselves. Its denominations organs; adherents cells; affinities, heavens; aversions, hells.

    – 2013-02-26 08:39:15-  

    Which is more effective? Social control via deterrent or encouragement?

    – 2013-02-26 07:26:19-  

    The wisest men know that God is offensive. And offense is to wisdom as pain is to strength: Good.

    – 2013-02-26 03:11:49-  

    @Qamarism Poor leadership criticizes people. Rich leadership criticizes laws.

    – 2013-02-26 02:52:40Favorites 0ReTweets 1RETWEET

    Ridding oneself of a thing because “its unbearable to look at” is the central principle of bigotry. Beauty’s the presence of any detail.

    – 2013-02-25 17:04:43-  

    They say never insult another’s religion. The Earth has been a religion since before time and still is to some. But see how they waste it.

    – 2013-02-25 06:14:53Favorites 1ReTweets 1

    When leadership is rich, critique the laws. When leadership is poor, criticize the people.

    – 2013-02-23 20:50:42Favorites 1ReTweets 1

    I’m not a virgin, though I might be a saint./ Those are my sacrifices, not evidence of taint.

    – 2013-02-23 01:05:00-  

    Offense’s the pungent odor of stupidity burning. Wittiness is its searing flame.

    – 2013-02-22 19:25:20-  

    If you always hide your feelings from me, how can I ever confide in you?

    – 2013-02-21 11:47:59-  

    My erratic behavior can only be attributed to your erratic treatment.

    – 2013-02-21 11:42:46-  

    Sadistic kindness is what you do for others. Masochistic kindness is in what you let others do for you. One without the other isn’t kind …

    – 2013-02-21 06:01:12-  

    Privacy dehumanizes.

    – 2013-02-21 02:36:23-  

    Impersonal communication immolates the humanity of the person being spoken to.

    – 2013-02-20 06:29:31-  

    Panacea or placebo? Diagnosis or deterrent? Each answer a question. Each question an answer. All exists as a riddle.

    – 2013-02-19 22:31:27-  

    Hate and Love are both the same thing. Strong and consequentially harsh.

    – 2013-02-19 19:31:05-  

    How easy to hate the infamous and famous. One never has to know them.

    – 2013-02-19 19:29:49-  

    (\__/) (.__.) (“) (“)

    – 2013-02-18 12:52:48-  

    The arms of Quan Yin are like the cilia of your mind. Focus upon one hair and an amoeba will eat you. Move all and momentum’s your saviour.

    – 2013-02-18 12:37:46-  

    Your mind is a matrices with a million cilium. Qamarism is that phosphorus fluid in which it swims, light as air, dynamic as water.

    – 2013-02-18 01:15:34-  

    The martyr will shame. The minion will fetishize.

    – 2013-02-18 01:02:05-  

    Concealed hearts from the start/ only offer sabotage/ even when our words may spark/ insides’ just a mirage.

    – 2013-02-15 00:35:33-  

    “…not that nice” is not that nice for saying so. Nothing-good-to-say is even worse for not making something up.

    – 2013-02-14 23:43:32-  

    “Dick” is a pejorative. And it’s noun is inseparable from it’s adjective no matter how subtle be it’s subject.

    – 2013-02-14 00:54:00-  

    His human body one with his brothers and benign. His seed forever hers but being always apart.

    – 2013-02-14 00:30:21-  

    Focus upon my attribute and fall into my dynamism. Focus upon my dynamism and land upon my attribute.

    – 2013-02-13 23:21:21-  

    Sometimes we fall in love with a like person. We’re experiencing an enamourment with a self of future, past or future’s past.

    – 2013-02-13 18:34:43-  

    Souls salvage security then lament for liberation lustfully seeking an else-self, sanitized.

    – 2013-02-13 17:59:40-  

    “Blame” is criminal vernacular for one’s own “accountability”.

    – 2013-02-13 00:48:39-  

    Words telegraph emotions. Emotions are the light of the moon. Let the moon shine upon you.

    – 2013-02-12 22:45:55-  

    I make an exception for you and your peers. But others I will not. This is not deception. Even the sun eclipses.

    – 2013-02-12 18:49:50-  

    Sensuality is in everything. But sexuality only exists in cellular division.

    – 2013-02-12 16:46:02-  

    Reality and the universe are made of compromise. Our souls, thought and emotion. Neither compromise

    – 2013-02-12 08:23:27-  

    An adult mind that cannor entertain innuendo is obviously not an adult mind. Give it space and time.

    – 2013-02-11 22:49:21-  

    Love is a concept of blind amplification. That which is limited, reduced, or suspspicious is will never love.

    – 2013-02-11 22:38:29-  

    The Alpha’s child witnesses it become Beta and concludes somedays as an Omega lead to being a Psi.

    – 2013-02-11 05:35:51-  

    Supposition on another’s situations’s always nonsensical. Match all of their conditions exactly and you’d turn out the same every time.

    – 2013-02-11 05:27:00-  

    Our demons are doubts/ our deities are dreams/ at war for attention/ at our hems and our seams.

    – 2013-02-10 20:38:49Favorites 1ReTweets 1

    Anger is a motivator to realize expectations which were once unrealistic.

    – 2013-02-10 06:03:56-  

    As long as human societies bear different results, human beings will be different animals.

    – 2013-02-10 06:01:39-  

    The ultimate marriage is that of DNA. No human polity can compete with nature. Let such social contracts have expiration dates.

    – 2013-02-10 02:21:32-  

    The storms within individual human bodies rage so loudly the social universe must realign.

    – 2013-02-09 21:02:03-  

    What we cannot write, we cannot think.

    – 2013-02-09 08:07:38-  

    The accountability of words are in writing. The accountability of actions in quality of thought.

    – 2013-02-09 08:06:36-  

    As we’re all someone’s children we naturally inherit their same feelings. Lets make a future based off of their optimisms and reassuranc …

    – 2013-02-08 15:20:30-  

    Flying buttresses of bone and brawn/ Eucharist of esophagus and sight/ Corpus a cathedral of wisdom and might.

    – 2013-02-07 21:59:15-  

    Live for infinite affinities.

    – 2013-02-07 19:55:58-  

    Minds and hearts are not games therefore with they cannot be played. But they can be second guessed, putting everyone in distress.

    – 2013-02-07 10:04:54-  

    Childhood is a study of responsibility and potential. Adulthood is a study of accountability and endurance.

    – 2013-02-07 07:28:56-  

    Truthfulness is confused with Righteousness is confused with Narcissism is confused with Confidence.

    – 2013-02-07 07:23:19-  

    We talk to others the way we’ve been talked to ourselves.

    – 2013-02-03 20:21:33-  

    If it can be either won or lost, its probably actually all a lie and consequently not worth having.

    – 2013-02-02 02:38:44-  

    Censored, controlled, obscured? Mustn’t be so vulgar. Publicized, reproduced, translated? Mustn’t be so sacred.

    – 2013-01-31 23:14:56-  

    Eukaryota and Earth; Humanity and ethnicity; Bacteria culture and petri dish; function and form.

    – 2013-01-31 22:00:21-  

    There are no weeds in an ecosystem. The rather is an ecosystem.

    – 2013-01-31 17:42:07-  

    Becoming aged will never equate to becoming a luddite.

    – 2013-01-31 12:48:38-  

    The neo-malthusian, doomsday idea of overpopulation denies terraforming and agriculture.

    – 2013-01-31 12:46:37-  

    Love is in your language. What you hate to say is what you’re doomed to become.

    – 2013-01-31 11:54:08-  

    If women raised boys to pee sitting down, we men wouldn’t have to be bothered by the emotional abuse for the inconveniences of standing up.

    – 2013-01-30 19:24:48-  

    .. that’s manipulation.

    – 2013-01-29 20:53:23-  

    Meeting a standard of beauty is often judged as being manipulative. Wrong. Holding someone accountable for your slightest feeling withou …

    – 2013-01-29 20:53:22-  

    Easy to judge a person in pain as desperate. It reminds you of your own. Harder to ignore your own hurt to hold their hand.

    – 2013-01-29 20:50:33-  

    Spiritual men don’t cry because we’re weak. We cry because killing those who poisoned the well will only add to it’s impunity. Stop pois …

    – 2013-01-26 07:09:50-  

    Truthful conversation if full of contradiction: while, however, but, although. Dishonest conversation, however, is always absolute.

    – 2013-01-25 19:19:14-  

    Watching Korean news. Fukui Japanese is j u s t like Korean.

    – 2013-01-24 04:42:17-  

    Respect lost was never respect but instead just an empty shell of decorum and fear.

    – 2013-01-23 07:13:36-  

    Better communication: bad words. Worse communication: bad actions.

    – 2013-01-23 06:48:14-  

    Good woman: Coy on the entire date. Bad woman: Coy the entire marriage.

    – 2013-01-23 06:42:02-  

    Good man: will do a n y t h i n g legal to do the job done. Bad man: won’t do a n y t h i n g legal to get the job done.

    – 2013-01-23 06:40:55-  

    Good anime-geek: immature (yaaay!) Bad anime-geek: pedo (somebody get mah gun!) Lol!

    – 2013-01-23 06:38:57-  

    Good role model: coaches calmly. Bad role model: criticizes anxiously.

    – 2013-01-23 06:34:37-  

    us of his slander campaign.

    – 2013-01-22 21:22:30-  

    Hypchondriosis/ Is the real prognosis/ But doc’s a eugenicist/ Weakness his nemisis/ Money is his game/ Got your women on a chain/ The p …

    – 2013-01-22 21:22:29-  

    Boy be good, boy be bad, boy still not be a man. Law be old, law be new, law never enough to define him.

    – 2013-01-22 19:33:23-  

    Sony to introduce new tablet computer to lure customers from Apple, Samsung | http://t.co/wyQD4Ob3

    – 2013-01-21 20:27:40Favorites 4ReTweets 23RETWEET

    Depression in men – How To Recognize It and What To Do – The first step is seeing it for what it is. http://t.co/bSzBePSK

    – 2013-01-21 20:27:22Favorites 2ReTweets 7RETWEET

    Faithfulness is a product of time, not eventuality, nor deed nor sin.

    – 2013-01-21 19:18:26-  

    Speech and words are merely an innocuous displacement of air particles. Violent reaction beyond reply to such signifies a soul in despair.

    – 2013-01-21 18:40:53-  

    @fox5sandiego Its ideal to create direct and symbiotic relationships between high school and community college to increase resources.

    – 2013-01-21 16:17:15-  

    @fox5sandiego Police I’m sure are underpaid, over-pressured and understaffed. The public needs create a minimum force ordinance.

    – 2013-01-21 16:10:12-  

    @GoodMenProject One’s for fun. The other’s obligatory. But whether social or matrimonial and what order is debatable. Bonobo’s don’t care.

    – 2013-01-21 16:03:46-  

    @GoodMenProject Because they refuse to form gangs like men, lionesses and elephants do. Stay divided, stay conquered.

    – 2013-01-21 15:59:52Favorites 1ReTweets 0

    Nine Japanese killed in Algerian hostage crisis: government source http://t.co/pIvWwkNG

    – 2013-01-21 15:57:53Favorites 11ReTweets 83RETWEET

    Tyrants of time aggressively refuse to ask yet passively need to know your schedule.

    – 2013-01-20 17:09:02-  

    Try seeing the philosophical concept of yin-yang as a spiritual interpretation of biological mitosis.

    – 2013-01-20 06:14:26-  

    Human relationships are much like the education system. Virtually 50% of the grade is just for attendance itself.

    – 2013-01-19 15:59:20-  

    *ideal

    – 2013-01-17 22:59:21-  

    Californiaism: An idea local CA curriculum K-12 should emphasize city-county smarts. The apex with CSU-UC theory and Communi-Voc practicum.

    – 2013-01-17 22:58:59-  

    グチャグチャやれやれ!

    – 2013-01-17 16:02:18-  

    Never fear information. It provides an internal order that weathers the external chaos.

    – 2013-01-17 16:01:48Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    Followers predict wars. Poseurs predict revolutions. A true leader’s earmark’s a penchant for starting evolutions.

    – 2013-01-17 15:19:29-  

    Awesome. SMS linked to Facebook linked to Twitter. One command, three aggregations. I’ve impressed myself for the day…

    – 2013-01-17 05:10:08-  

    I was locked out of this account for a while. Finally back.

    – 2013-01-17 04:23:03-  

    @GreyhoundBus After visiting Japan I was impressed by how their bus and train stations are major retailers. Maybe Greyhound could do it too.

    – 2012-08-05 01:25:54-  

    @OIGUSPS Japanese Post offices also offer banking, savings and easy access to government bonds. Work with the US Mint to be a service point.

    – 2012-08-05 01:09:19-  

    @OIGUSPS Another great idea is to aid people in keeping in touch by coordinating greeting card printing and mailing services online.

    – 2012-08-05 01:07:37-  

    @OIGUSPS Its more beneficial to keep it and loan it out at a fractional cost to local businesses, especially education and agriculture.

    – 2012-08-05 01:05:03-  

    @OIGUSPS Many high value economies do that. USPS can especially create a market for boutique breweries and alcohol connoisseurs who’d pay.

    – 2012-08-05 01:00:25-  

    @OIGUSPS Formulate the post office off of 711, Mailboxes Inc., KinkosFedEx and UPS. Offer bill pay, tax filing services, and light retail.

    – 2012-08-05 00:57:17-  

    @OIGUSPS Invest into local courier systems based on local transport like bus, rail and light rail systems.

    – 2012-08-05 00:53:23-  

    @OIGUSPS A better idea than to sell the real estate, use it to diversify business. Imitate Amazon or Alibaba and get into web distribution.

    – 2012-08-05 00:51:17-  

    @portofsandiego Working with land developers to build artificial beaches like Odaiba or Akashi of Japan would better our economy.

    – 2012-08-05 00:48:48-  

    You’ve got mail — or not. The job destroying attacks on the US Postal Service. http://t.co/hZM4rT6m

    – 2012-08-05 00:46:13Favorites 3ReTweets 22RETWEET

    Opinion: No Mitt Romney, Mexico is not like Palestine http://t.co/0omeFyXN

    – 2012-08-05 00:43:23Favorites 1ReTweets 9RETWEET

    When we look at a thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold #OWS #occupywallstreet

    – 2012-08-05 00:40:45Favorites 1ReTweets 1RETWEET

    For the PR and HR of any company to not use Twitter for collecting direct, candid opinion rather than just for advertising is an admin fail.

    – 2012-08-05 00:35:38Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    Both Spanish and California history could be taught if school boards required reading Segas de Esplandian, the namesake of our State.

    – 2012-08-04 22:51:12Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    Currency depends on industry depends on agriculture. SD County can make more by liberalizing local marsh, canyon and sea farming industries.

    – 2012-08-04 21:45:47Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    この存在はモヤシ。金は決断して、神経は意味なし。

    – 2012-08-04 11:09:08-  

    “I’ll pull your crooked teeth/ Make you perfect just like me” –Ava Adore, The Smashing Pumpkins. They suck without the first lineup. Smfh.

    – 2012-08-04 04:18:45-  

    How can we transform San Diego County tourism into an Ibiza, it’s education into an Oxford, it’s industry into a Tokyo?

    – 2012-08-04 04:13:39-  

    Buddhist imagination of the day: a literal lotus car. Don’t think of it Scholastic. Think of it aerodynamic.

    – 2012-08-04 04:06:44-  

    No ones hiding anything from us. We just don’t respect them enough to ask… again. We defraud ourselves.

    – 2012-08-02 02:38:42-  

    Red, white, blue, black or yellow, I don’t care. How many generations American are you? Ask what state they’re family’s from? Country, last.

    – 2012-08-02 02:32:54-  

    To cure these still present bouts of restless isolation, I’ll work and socialize more. I’m a “foreigner” no more. “Foreigner” no more.

    – 2012-08-02 02:24:36-  

    Getting used to an healthy sexually humored office is awkward… A relief, but awkward. My, the websites we protect you and your kids from!

    – 2012-08-02 02:16:14Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    If she spends her time telling you scary stories, assuage her fear, ignore her words. To cure her paranoia, she needs clarity and quiet.

    – 2012-08-02 02:11:32-  

    @USATODAYnews Sad how the highest benefits are hoarded for the coupled–gay or straight. America feels the young are undeserving apparently.

    – 2012-08-02 01:59:46-  

    @USATODAYnews The only biological marriage’s the irreversible merging of DNA. People are fighting over statuses and benefits. Play nicely!

    – 2012-08-02 01:56:18-  

    @USATODAYnews What makes this a silly issue us that marriage Is a practice that’s varied. No one’s attacking it or cares to.

    – 2012-08-02 01:49:51-  

    Words are merely the smoke we generate from the engine we call our mind. Only the mosquitos are bothered by it… Did you just hear a buzz?!

    – 2012-08-02 01:43:39-  

    Kujichagulia: to think, speak, name and create for ourselves instead of being thought, spoken, named and created for by others.

    – 2012-08-01 14:59:16-  

    Not liking today… This month… This year… Maybe this century even. Its Obama’s fault. I blame Obama.

    – 2012-07-29 19:25:16-  

    Outside of killing or oppressive violence, never let anyone intimidate you into thinking you don’t deserve fulfillment. We are all divine.

    – 2012-07-29 17:37:14-  

    that is, an appearance of diversity, but with “actual uniformity.”

    – 2012-07-29 15:17:43Favorites 7ReTweets 27RETWEET

    without any serious compulsion to follow the party line, the end result comes out pretty much the way he described it –

    – 2012-07-29 15:17:34Favorites 4ReTweets 20RETWEET

    but they’re free to disregard it. Nevertheless, the outcomes are not unlike what Goebbels describes. Without central authority and ”

    – 2012-07-29 15:17:27Favorites 3ReTweets 19RETWEET

    Here the press is essentially free to do what it wants. There are efforts on the part of the government to influence the press outcome,

    – 2012-07-29 15:17:27Favorites 3ReTweets 21RETWEET

    Maori, Tagalog and Hawaiian all seem like inverted versions of Japanese that would be blast to speak and learn. Viva la Oceania!

    – 2012-07-29 12:31:33-  

    We college grads aren’t competitive. We just want to be trusted, relied upon and collaborated with to make the system 10x better than it is.

    – 2012-07-29 12:21:26Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    Odyssey Comix copyrighted. Tq LegalZoom!

    – 2012-07-29 12:17:51-  

    Been going through the whole Lauryn Hill Unplugged album confession BS. But def. without the Edward Scissorhands scary church-lady bit. Smfh

    – 2012-07-29 12:15:10-  

    American high school is like American football. None of us are better or worse. We merely have specialized skills. We’ve just to be honest.

    – 2012-07-29 10:02:23-  

    Only thing I wanna do is start a company that brings jobs to Daygo, makes LG the spot to be with a pricey mall, a high school and brainy CC.

    – 2012-07-29 09:55:45-  

    I think I’ve exorcised most of my demons… For now. So please be kind to me. Anyhow, new goal: I’m gonna gear up for Comic-Con 2013. Watch.

    – 2012-07-29 09:29:02-  

    Looking back, never doing sports in school and only martial arts outside, I got the dysmorphic idea that my legs were too big.

    – 2012-07-29 08:00:55-  

    The Hawaiibera is an awesome shirt. I gotta get one if those seeing that I’m a kama’aina.

    – 2012-07-29 07:56:15-  

    Folks were so silent on men’s issues, when I first JOed, I believed the tv about it being ‘bad’ and would scold my hands in the faucet.

    – 2012-07-29 07:53:52-  

    Secret to a long life is in conversion of years. Make every ten years equal one. So in that case, I’ll turn three in a decimonth or so.

    – 2012-07-29 05:32:20-  

    Guten Morgan (sp)

    – 2012-07-28 18:14:06-  

    @Tsuyoshior Its Taoism: Flip the coin.

    – 2012-07-28 09:32:01-  

    @Tsuyoshior To see an off turned mind witness a person in a coma on life-support. We must be careful what we wish for.

    – 2012-07-28 07:43:35-  

    Post workout adrenaline rush passed, I crashed and woke up. Now its kinda late…

    – 2012-07-28 07:40:03-  

    おにぎり鬼義り

    – 2012-07-28 05:48:35Favorites 1ReTweets 0

    The xx are like a cross between Depeche Mode, Morrisey and Feist but on a John Lee Hooker audio esthetic… Like UK post-punk trip-hop.

    – 2012-07-28 05:34:47Favorites 1ReTweets 0

    Ughhhhhh… Restlessness…

    – 2012-07-28 05:28:45-  

    The XX fuckin’ rock. I need some Daygo rocker friends. Being ‘cool’ all the time is def. not where it’s at. Carpe diem, pendejo. Carpe diem!

    – 2012-07-28 05:27:47-  

    Steady like an Asian. Verbal like a European. Sensual like a Polynesian. Patterned like an African. Robust like an Amerind. I’m Californian.

    – 2012-07-28 05:15:51Favorites 1ReTweets 0

    Then there’s another SoCal Amazonian entering the gym so I thought out loud: “Catwoman”. I’m a dork and very satisfied by that.

    – 2012-07-28 04:56:27-  

    Homie Randy and I’re at the gym and there’s this amazing chick with red hair. So I said “Look, it’s the Black Widow!”. “Natasha Romanoff”!!

    – 2012-07-28 04:54:27-  

    Is there a lounge in DTDaygo that feels like a seventeenth century opium den in the way that 94.9’s Big Sonic Chill does? That’d be awesome.

    – 2012-07-28 04:43:25Favorites 1ReTweets 0

    Wow. Mainstream UK sorta told Mr. Romney is full of bloody bullocks.

    – 2012-07-28 01:11:10-  

    RIP Lupe Ontiveros

    – 2012-07-27 17:19:20-  

    @GoodMenProject This is a men’s blog. Inverting the question would be more appropriate.

    – 2012-07-27 16:34:23-  

    Humility is the ultimate moral. Humiliation is the only road to humility. Humiliate yourself or be humiliated by others…

    – 2012-07-27 16:26:55-  

    Soar like an eagle? And eventually fall hard? Screw eagles. I’ll be a gator. Gators don’t fall.

    – 2012-07-27 15:49:43-  

    Never get offended. Just give wiser words and more compassion. Lower expectations will always be met.

    – 2012-07-27 15:47:24Favorites 1ReTweets 0

    “We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.” –Abigail Adams

    – 2012-07-27 15:11:18Favorites 0ReTweets 1

    Realizing religion is like an OS for a person’s psyche. Taoism is binary. Buddhism is C++. Abrahamism is like Linux, Windows and MacOSX.

    – 2012-07-26 02:03:25-  

    Got a crazy idea for produce adverts. Thinking Matisse and Tahitians with exceptional product placement.

    – 2012-07-26 01:44:18-  

    @RichAsGates Time for a transfusion!

    – 2012-07-26 01:32:57-  

    I need art/photo rebellious and confident art/phot model volunteers: fat, skinny, strong. Mr. Lazzara’s class taught me everyone’s awesome.

    – 2012-07-26 01:29:48-  

    The nature of the Earth is reciprocal, so always remember this: Takes one to know one.

    – 2012-07-26 01:07:51-  

    I gotta save up or make more so I can get some art projects off the ground…

    – 2012-07-26 00:33:28-  

    If the other person can’t conjugate “conversation” from noun to verb in all tenses to adjective to adverb, the conversation isn’t with it.

    – 2012-07-25 16:59:14-  

    When you’ve been raised with the intellectual seriousness as I have and pursued it, too, you need some really jackass shit to relax to.

    – 2012-07-25 06:20:53-  

    ‘Dark Knight Rises’ star Christian Bale visits victims of Aurora theater massacre http://t.co/700oiP5H

    – 2012-07-25 06:02:53Favorites 1ReTweets 10RETWEET

    After seeing beaches in Monaco with and those 50+ ladies and their gleeful watermelons, I concluded nudity in itself is n o t sexual.

    – 2012-07-25 06:02:21Favorites 1ReTweets 0

    After having a 60+ old lady public bath attendant see my naked ass in JP, if you’re 18+, I don’t care at all… It ain’t that special.

    – 2012-07-25 06:00:11-  

    Just saw some white dude praying to the sun god Ra in the parking lot of Miramar 24 hr fitness. Welcome back to humanity BC.

    – 2012-07-25 03:10:57Favorites 1ReTweets 0

    Getting more disgusted with the Internet everyday I filter it. It needs massive government regulation.

    – 2012-07-24 23:43:13-  

    The problem of the world is that people rather millionaires than trillionaires, employees than employers, parents than great-grandparents.

    – 2012-07-24 21:16:42-  

    Instead of holding our system accountable for corruption in its most basic governing units–family and church–we rather target each other.

    – 2012-07-24 21:00:39-  

    I guess friends and family betray one another because those traits which were the terms of our initial meetings become prisons of our minds.

    – 2012-07-24 20:55:23-  

    We are not our words. Our words are limitless and free.

    – 2012-07-24 20:07:46-  

    福井県の冬の間俺は意味の無い人間を考え出した。その考えは毎日の黙想に成って来た。俺は俺の言葉では無い。俺は人ではない。俺は動作に限定の液体だけだ。

    – 2012-07-24 20:07:07-  

    Deeply saddened by the passing of pioneering astronaut and Californian Sally Ride. She inspired millions to reach for the stars.

    – 2012-07-24 09:02:00Favorites 4ReTweets 36RETWEET

    Fight words with words while they’re still words. Anything more is very, very unwise.

    – 2012-07-24 08:51:36-  

    “Hunger hurts, but starving works when it costs too much to love.” — Fiona Apple, “Paper Bag”, When the Pawn…

    – 2012-07-24 08:42:36-  

    Temple gates adorned with demons obviously house something precious. Temple gates adorned with angels obscure Pandora’s box.

    – 2012-07-24 01:44:20-  

    Not one mosque in Turkey nor Cathedral in Switzerland I went to was as serene as the complex on Mt. Kouya, Nikou nor Eihei… I’m restless.

    – 2012-07-23 08:39:07-  

    White collar criminals are stupid. They’ve the resources to better our ecology. People at the lower level are merely silly and emotional.

    – 2012-07-23 07:51:08-  

    @californianewsn But they’ll still call SE Daygo ghetto with that silliness up there.

    – 2012-07-23 07:47:03-  

    @AP There is a major story in asking “Who’s read Anders Brevik and how can they be tracked, monitored and stopped?”

    – 2012-07-23 07:44:18-  

    Brevik and Holmes are demonstrators of a new terrorism akin to Islamic Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. Must Christianity be more scrutinized?

    – 2012-07-23 07:41:49-  

    @Reuters Journalists and criminologist would identify this Christian extremism as “the Anders Brevik Pattern” and begin tracking purists.

    – 2012-07-23 07:28:10-  

    If your name isn’t Stephen Hawking, you can understand more… Dude’s a quadriplegic. Think about it.

    – 2012-07-23 07:21:25-  

    To me, Buddhism teaches that the path to “God” is knowledge. To love anything is to know it and suffering, itself, is ignorance…

    – 2012-07-23 02:42:03-  

    I know folks like to think of SD as the Mediterranean, but wouldn’t Zanzibar be so much more fun?

    – 2012-07-23 02:32:09-  

    Mom cooked!!

    – 2012-07-23 02:27:29-  

    @24hourfitness Thanks for improving the San Diego locations. Now vanity seating in the men’s lockers and more staffing would be awesome.

    – 2012-07-23 02:25:48-  

    The more I talk to my mother, the more her childhood sounds like Huckleberry Finn.

    – 2012-07-22 22:43:43-  

    Don’t confuse what acutely sides with or against you to be God or divinity. That’s always your or someone else’s ego. Divinity is neutral.

    – 2012-07-22 22:27:39-  

    The heart and eye’s functions are systemically related: Our eyes are 50% the sky, 50% the mind. Our hearts, 50% our neurology, 50% our mind.

    – 2012-07-22 21:46:39-  

    I want to disrobe with friends and go to the beach. Not even our ancestral Kumeyaay wore this much clothing. Smh.

    – 2012-07-22 21:30:50-  

    I still think Christopher Nolan did a beautiful job with Inception. It was an essay on emotional observation, but themed upon the optical.

    – 2012-07-22 20:59:48-  

    We must be critical of politics, economics, religion, academia, culture and ethnicity because they are systems of, but not for our survival.

    – 2012-07-22 20:50:51-  

    Profanity itches. Negating a person’s potentials, intelligence, validity, authority, creativity, significance and relevancy scar bone-deep.

    – 2012-07-22 20:45:10-  

    The pervasive stereotype of “black” SE Daygo obscures its large SE Asian community. Only if we could market Asian hip-hop and reggaeton…

    – 2012-07-22 15:47:48-  

    Decent tips at Tina’s yesterday evening. Much simpler than Sushi Time ever was. Thank God for a simple menu. Gonna sleep in today…

    – 2012-07-22 15:28:06-  

    Headlines: Colorado? Check. Batman? Check. Pride? Right… You crazy kids have fun. Haters are merely raging Ms. Garrisons on the inside.

    – 2012-07-22 04:34:05-  

    When we’re not addressed by name, we’re an exception. When we are addressed by name, we’re exclusive.

    – 2012-07-22 04:18:44-  

    Dark Knight Rises was awesome. Anne Hathaway pulled off Catwoman despite my doubts. Chris Nolan has to stop recycling actors, though…

    – 2012-07-22 04:06:28-  

    Quality people question how. Quantity people question what. We do better teaching others how to think instead of what to think.

    – 2012-07-22 03:56:31-  

    Friendship is an industry. Do business because you like your customer. It’s the only thing that makes their money of any value.

    – 2012-07-21 16:33:48-  

    The weirdest genre of websites rated today–aside from “adult baby/ adult diaper porn” (fucking eww!): An onslaught of family nudism… Wtf?

    – 2012-07-21 01:54:39-  

    The mostagical and intoxicating sound on the market out of Barbados isn’t Rihanna. That gold goes to Santigold: punk rock plus power pop.

    – 2012-07-21 01:37:33-  

    Rhianna has PR intelligence. In a voyeuristic culture, let the paparazzi be yours. Why flee services that are free?

    – 2012-07-21 01:34:50-  

    To you spies, drama aplenty. To friends, my utmost sincerity and apologies for a lackluster performance.

    – 2012-07-21 01:33:33-  

    Columbine was in CO too. Wtf.

    – 2012-07-20 21:39:49-  

    CNN is like extra with–well it used to be bigger words–bigger drama.

    – 2012-07-20 21:34:23-  

    Passion, initiative, perseverance, competitiveness, desire–are all facets of anger. But unfortunately, so are greed, envy and fear.

    – 2012-07-20 08:25:28-  

    Every time we say we “hate people” or “love something more” we endorse the extinction of Amerinds, Aborigines and minority ethnicities.

    – 2012-07-20 08:19:18-  

    #Australian aboriginal youth suicide rates are among the world’s highest so how can communities save them? | http://t.co/GMkMWGAz

    – 2012-07-20 08:16:29Favorites 7ReTweets 82RETWEET

    The issue with teaching information is that phonological orthography is relative. Words can be breathy, aspirated: “kh”. Or just fast: “k”.

    – 2012-07-20 05:35:14-  

    There are no insults in this world. There are only truths and half truths. Halve not any truth and no one shall ever feel any insult.

    – 2012-07-20 05:29:19-  

    Free your Dharma (your word). Mind your Mudra (your delivery). Minimize your Kharma (your cyclic actions).

    – 2012-07-20 05:24:17-  

    The “angry black male” is a figment of society’s imagination. There is only anger hurled at us both for being male and for being black.

    – 2012-07-20 05:12:35-  

    An image can skew, especially up close. Correct it: Vacate from that angle and try another… Go right, left, north, south, east, center…

    – 2012-07-20 03:36:59-  

    Never deflect self-hate, just accept It. No pain, no gain. Rage towards the external originates from self-dissatisfaction smiles can’t fix.

    – 2012-07-20 03:25:26-  

    Mocking the kid who performs in class with “teacher’s pet” isn’t stopping the bullet train of Karma that tailgates anyone.

    – 2012-07-20 03:16:35-  

    If I haven’t even raised my voice, simply giving you an imperative, why wouldn’t I find your screaming and slamming to be violent behavior.

    – 2012-07-20 03:08:05-  

    Playing a game of cards with with a hand illustrated with happiness isn’t a friendly game. It’s a duel.

    – 2012-07-20 02:58:48-  

    Good tips, no snobs, great music at Tina’s. Otsukare.

    – 2012-07-19 18:27:31-  

    Most popular now on the site: “Does Thinking Really Hard Burn More Calories?” http://t.co/6NTzAE4a by @ferrisjabr

    – 2012-07-18 20:44:45Favorites 22ReTweets 42RETWEET

    My mom has ultra chic taste in spirits: amaretto, khalua (sp) and Irish creme. With coffee, they make a relaxing drink.

    – 2012-07-18 20:35:52-  

    Google is on a quest to save the world’s endangered languages http://t.co/aKYpnTCY

    – 2012-07-18 16:14:10Favorites 0ReTweets 5RETWEET

    Researchers Turn Skin Cells Into Brain Cells, a Promising Path to Better Parkinson’s Treatment, Johns Hopkins Un… http://t.co/ZgqhDsxY

    – 2012-07-18 16:13:53Favorites 2ReTweets 4RETWEET

    Amazing would be a Taj Mahal stretched across the Great Lakes; Kiyomizu Temple perched upon the Grand Canyon; Notre Dame within Appalachia.

    – 2012-07-18 09:31:32-  

    It took pepperoni pizza, J. Lassey and Japan to realize that pork, too, is delicious.

    – 2012-07-18 07:43:14-  

    Each day that passes, the trauma of culture shock goes away. My religious software just needs and the suffering will be at bay.

    – 2012-07-18 03:10:54-  

    Charlie Sheen Quits Twitter http://t.co/3yY7tYNZ

    – 2012-07-18 03:03:45Favorites 0ReTweets 4RETWEET

    Free wifi at Staples.

    – 2012-07-18 02:59:35-  

    Wanna save time in the busy morning for the kids? Pack hygiene supplies in the backpack have them freshen up before class and after meals.

    – 2012-07-17 21:25:45-  

    Too conservative with plants, they’ll dwarf. Too conservative with children, they’ll cower. Prune to propagate, not prune to amputate.

    – 2012-07-17 21:23:34-  

    Tumblr’s a little too unregulated. The office has analyzed it as 20-30% NSFW. I’d say 10-20% of it should be reported to the authorities.

    – 2012-07-17 02:19:45-  

    Put Sandusky in a room full of evidence and two of the victims mothers at a time and lock the door. Rage, guilt or biology will do the job.

    – 2012-07-17 02:15:28-  

    Opinionated over a topic you’ve read a few of articles about? Ok. Opinionated over a person you’ve had a few convos with? Stupid.

    – 2012-07-17 02:09:16-  

    Fondness for people never disallows forwardness of your opinions. Its actually integral for mutual advancement.

    – 2012-07-17 02:03:35-  

    May be on board for Tina’s. Awesome!!

    – 2012-07-17 01:56:27-  

    Dance our the demons/ Let Eshu mount you/ Rediscover Mawu-Lisa/ Invoke Dahomey’s pantheon through you!

    – 2012-07-16 21:13:46-  

    Primary Buddhist philosophies: impermanence, interdependence and selflessness.

    – 2012-07-15 19:45:16-  

    Went to 10 am Buddhist services.

    – 2012-07-15 19:44:10-  

    Isolation! Iiiisolation!

    – 2012-07-15 03:09:59-  

    Kitchen sink drain unclogged. Just took failed Draino and a lot of vigorous shoving. I enjoyed the shoving. Hated that pipe design though…

    – 2012-07-14 18:09:27-  

    The moment you begin thinking about what your friends “are”–the ones you’ve already known–you’ve backstabbed them. Trust is blind.

    – 2012-07-14 08:25:02-  

    If you want it… From the tiniest sense of an urge–whatever it–you have to go get it. And accommodate your obligations, abundantly.

    – 2012-07-14 08:11:49-  

    Japanese business owners not hiring directly from the colored collegiate pool goes against the logic of Marcus Garvey AND the 黒龍会。

    – 2012-07-14 08:11:47-  

    How insane’s it that Tina’s in my neighborhood–the black spot in Southeast Daygo–is Japanese owned… And can’t play Hifana nor employ me?

    – 2012-07-14 08:11:47-  

    Why does he like Japan so much? Because he found a loophole by internalizing Afrocentricity. Through the roots of the tree, it’s branches.

    – 2012-07-14 08:10:36-  

    The beauty of truthfulness is that reflects nature. And words naturally will become hypocritical as the earth too is naturally polarized.

    – 2012-07-14 02:01:44-  

    Let the assholes drive for speed. We’ll drive for stopping distance. When they’ve crashed ’cause of a blow out, we’ll drive around.

    – 2012-07-14 01:24:33-  

    Even Ebonics has a proper orthography… Fight illiteracy!

    – 2012-07-14 01:22:06-  

    If wearing one article of clothing makes you look like the opposite sex, you must have a freaky androgynous looking body. Jessayin’.

    – 2012-07-14 01:21:30-  

    Dictation for Fluency was the worst material to teach from, imo.

    – 2012-07-13 19:21:33-  

    There’s a drug bust going on two doors down. Apparently a white dealer moved into the hood.

    – 2012-07-13 16:49:10-  

    Expletives too are positive words. Negative words are “can’t” “don’t” “shouldn’t” “couldn’t” “won’t” and “isn’t”. They negate what follows.

    – 2012-07-13 16:15:54-  

    Pen, paper, pixels and keyboard exist so you may empty your mind. The FBI can’t track all your thoughts. Couldn’t even stop Timothy McVeigh.

    – 2012-07-13 16:10:36-  

    Want to read my mind? Read my writings. Reading anything else is just sex, lies and video tape.

    – 2012-07-13 16:05:46-  

    Was at 24hr yesterday. Fitness is like a video game. After pectoral, calves, hamstrings… Still want to keep the game going.

    – 2012-07-13 16:03:36-  

    TGIF

    – 2012-07-13 15:45:18-  

    爪先ナビ!

    – 2012-07-11 06:58:17-  

    Monkeys have tails. Apes and humans do not. Scientists definitely don’t relate us to monkeys…

    – 2012-07-11 06:58:17-  

    Going to a factor for pain is like calling a gardener when a tree drops it’s leaves. It’s natural and without it there is no life.

    – 2012-07-11 06:58:16-  

    City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products http://t.co/NsaRyyRq

    – 2012-07-11 06:56:08Favorites 0ReTweets 7RETWEET

    “I am not your rolling wheels/ I am the highway/ I am not your carpet ride/ I am the sky.” –Audioslave

    – 2012-07-11 06:54:53-  

    We outbursts of minerals, virus, fungi, bacteria, plant and animal cells from a God of the same, powered by a sun, lubricated by water.

    – 2012-07-10 00:32:17-  

    The negativity of a person can be indicated by their proclivity to use the word “negative”. The “positive” rarely need to use it.

    – 2012-07-10 00:24:40-  

    Language and behavior are too subjective as indicators of morality. The truest indicators are our regrets in the context of human history.

    – 2012-07-10 00:10:54-  

    A good way to understand the zombie craze is the debtless calling the indebted “undead”… Innovation revives economies. Not segregation.

    – 2012-07-09 23:47:33-  

    One creature’s courtesy is another’s inconvenience. True happiness’ in knowing how to recycle the tangible and intangible. Takes work tho.

    – 2012-07-09 06:56:44-  

    You’ve gotta watch Rocko’s Modern Life. I grew up on it and it’s so full of double entendre and innuendo, Nickelodeon pushed the envelope.

    – 2012-07-09 01:30:49-  

    I’m extra-hausted (exhausted)!

    – 2012-07-08 22:18:42-  

    You know you turned Japanese when your unconsciously habitual bowing cues the nissei behind the counter to copy you like you’re his Granpa.

    – 2012-07-08 16:22:58-  

    The moment we suppress our language, we suppress our imagination. They’re just words. Like Takuan Soho says, the mind must flow.

    – 2012-07-08 14:33:21-  

    I delete, therefore I tweet.

    – 2012-07-08 08:12:56-  

    Ever read Shel Silverstine, the guy who published The Giving Tree and A Light in the Attic? Read Different Dances. It will astound you.

    – 2012-07-08 08:12:20-  

    I’ve a love-hate relationship with Ebonics. I wasn’t allowed to speak it, befriended folks that mocked it, but I can orothographize it pro.

    – 2012-07-08 06:05:26-  

    @_spell the Spanish translation of “live”, as in broadcasted, would be appreciated.

    – 2012-07-08 05:42:48-  

    Oooooooooooh! Cali has a stock exchange in the works.

    – 2012-07-08 05:41:44-  

    Pro luchador un la canal 12 es vive! (sp?)

    – 2012-07-08 04:37:47-  

    Parental love’s known by idealistic teachers who given their all. It’s the remorse felt when they graduate and you’ve nothing more to teach.

    – 2012-07-07 21:46:12-  

    If our friend sees us unbuckled, we don’t push them out the car. Nor from it do we jump. Why let insecurity do so in friendships.

    – 2012-07-06 06:46:57-  

    I do greatly loathe the appearance of sophistication nor it’s likeness. I’d much rather the thing itself.

    – 2012-07-05 16:25:48-  

    Shion would throw his pencil and scream. Nozomi would have a fit when she’d lose. I would have been whipped. The love of Buddhist parents.

    – 2012-07-05 16:24:40-  

    Many days I curse that my dad handed me Shambalah: Sacred Warrior to read in high school. Why not Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.

    – 2012-07-05 15:29:04-  

    The only creatures with forked tongues are amphibian and reptilian. Humans are merely misunderstood.

    – 2012-07-05 15:23:30-  

    Strength naturally is a 1:1 ratio of power and control. Both excessive power and insufficient control are weakness.

    – 2012-07-05 15:22:02-  

    If your question is rhetorical, save the question mark for a period. No one likes a loaded question.

    – 2012-07-05 15:15:12-  

    @TreeHugger Why just one spot. Why not a cantilever solar roof. Imagine a blue roofed Todai-ji.

    – 2012-07-05 15:14:10-  

    The most basic technology that sustains us all is agriculture. If a person can’t be trusted to sustain a plant, a person can’t be trusted.

    – 2012-07-05 15:10:46-  

    Quotations are used for marking something that was said.

    – 2012-07-05 15:08:45-  

    If we can conjugate it, we can overcome it.

    – 2012-07-05 15:07:34-  

    Beware people who overuse the phrase “I don’t think”. It indicates how often their brains are in the off position… which is quite often.

    – 2012-07-05 15:06:48-  

    One human’s pleasure is another’s ordeal. But for certain, your experiences are your most valuable possessions. Appreciate them shamelessly.

    – 2012-07-04 17:41:21-  

    If one ambushes a dirty male cat into a shower and with the shower nozzle high gives him a thorogh shower, does he make a sound?

    – 2012-07-04 17:30:11-  

    Make one defecation a meditation. One ingestion, a meditation. One conversation, a meditation. One inebriation, a mediation. Get it?

    – 2012-07-04 17:25:00-  

    I argue a prayer and meditation in act are equatable. A prayer invokes a divine power. A meditation specifically invokes divine clarity.

    – 2012-07-04 17:18:45-  

    週中の祝日:掃除の日。

    – 2012-07-04 16:33:59-  

    . @Sweden Welcomes @Netherlanders to Twitter, when will @Mexico, @Argentina, @Colombia et al join? http://t.co/zP6YQ2gG

    – 2012-07-04 04:37:02Favorites 0ReTweets 2RETWEET

    Sometimes a crook reassures to do bad and a guardian frightens to do good.

    – 2012-07-03 07:27:50-  

    Not all that frighten are bad, and not all that reassure are good.

    – 2012-07-03 07:26:14-  

    The Buddhist wheel’s ingenious. It’s grid fits the cross, David’s star, the crescent, the ankh, yin and yang and he dikenga.

    – 2012-07-03 06:58:38-  

    Let’s go! Let’s go! 喧嘩する!大切な物Protect my balls!僕が悪いso let’s fighting! Let’s fighting love!

    – 2012-07-01 01:45:19-  

    “Conservative”? Time decays all. “Liberal”? Like anarchy! “Progressive”? But Earth goes in circles. To preserve life, say “Propagationist”.

    – 2012-06-30 09:05:57-  

    The epitome of gratefulness is appreciation. Appreciation is an accruement of value. Valuation takes time and effort.

    – 2012-06-28 23:32:21-  

    Be extra critical of young parents. Their fields spring either cultivars or cancers.

    – 2012-06-28 16:53:52-  

    I loved grunge. After studying punk, it’ll be my next pursuit. Actually, why not simultaneously…

    – 2012-06-28 14:59:12-  

    I want company but I’ve no idea who’d say “yes”…

    – 2012-06-28 05:00:52-  

    The more you look down on your subordinates, the less a chance they’ll be around for you when you’re down. And trust me, we all fall down.

    – 2012-06-27 07:53:57-  

    As a perfectionist, when they call you “ungrateful”, hold your ground. You know they forget God is in the details.

    – 2012-06-27 03:52:15-  

    Working out with my dawg Randy at 24hr once and zoned out. Almost crashed into two Filipinos. Randy: “Watch out. Sandwich.” Me: “Laganisa?”

    – 2012-06-27 00:43:03-  

    I remember one veteran in his 60s who’d come in every week to check on his case. My boss was like “Sorry, There’s nothing we can do.”

    – 2012-06-25 06:38:35-  

    “The promotion of a culture of life is most important.” #ListentoMe2012 http://t.co/gtzDqHSY

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    Gay Coach Fired over Two Goofy Facebook Photos “Proving” He is, Indeed, Gay http://t.co/HG8rXL9U #lgbtq

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    I desire a local pub, drinking songs and a gang of Yankees, red, white and blue, black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow.

    – 2012-06-25 06:04:36-  

    My Bonnie lies over the ocean!/ My Bonnie lies over the sea!/ My Bonnie lies over the ocean!/ oh bring back my Bonnie to me!/…

    – 2012-06-25 06:01:42-  

    John Jacob Jingle Heimer Shmidt! That’s my name too! Whenever I go out/ The people always shout:

    – 2012-06-25 05:56:06-  

    No matter how much we fought, I miss my big sis cause she’s the only one who I could play silly English word games with. 日本語ならヤスクニ様だ。

    – 2012-06-25 05:53:13-  

    They drive on the left here but it’s all right.

    – 2012-06-25 05:48:27-  

    Oppose Internet Censorship! http://t.co/XLCmRaNR

    – 2012-06-25 05:47:21Favorites 0ReTweets 2RETWEET

    Nursery song: If you’re happy and you know it/ and you really wanna show it/ If you’re happy and you know it/ Crap your pants!/ Crap! Crap!

    – 2012-06-25 05:46:57-  

    At AMVETS we had a young, confident veteran come in. Our boss told him he’d have play down his confidence for a quality rating. Skeptics.

    – 2012-06-25 05:43:13-  

    Virtually 75% of my non-black friends have said something offensive about black people and I forgave. I expect the same in return. Always.

    – 2012-06-25 03:37:37-  

    Why #immigration is a solution, not a problem http://t.co/9EIng9Dl by @StephenKeppel

    – 2012-06-24 23:59:41Favorites 7ReTweets 30RETWEET

    Remorsefulness is pitiful. Remorseless is criminal. Parenting and teaching are remorseful jobs; youth are victims of another’s existence.

    – 2012-06-24 18:42:29-  

    Youth exists to be resonated with. Not to resonate with you.

    – 2012-06-24 18:25:54-  

    Empathy and compassion are never accomplished by comparing horror stories. That’s a shaming process. Hearts are joined in finding resonance.

    – 2012-06-24 18:24:29-  

    I value veterans who’ve truly sacrificed. But after working at AMVETS I’m weary of those who play to the ratings board. They’ll con you too.

    – 2012-06-24 18:11:52-  

    Respect is of boundaries. Love is of boundlessness. They contradict one another.

    – 2012-06-24 17:37:25-  

    As a parent, never give a fuck about if your kids respect you. What matters is if they love you. Love and respect are mutually exclusive.

    – 2012-06-24 07:35:48-  

    @OccupyArmy That sounds almost like a sociopath justifying a reason to marginalize another’s validity. Flesh and blood make real.

    – 2012-06-24 07:11:38-  

    A Korean-Japanese friend introduced me to TI. Castle Walls from No Mercy resonated. There’s no one here at all behind these castle walls.

    – 2012-06-24 07:08:45-  

    Middle school was agonizing. In yearbook Austin punched me in my face, Daniel spit in my face and I endured it… Kept to the comic books.

    – 2012-06-24 06:49:40-  

    I had a black Outlander backpack in high school and I’d illustrate on my books. I thought Melinda’s Jansport bag was better… name brand.

    – 2012-06-24 06:39:03-  

    Tonight’s in the doldrums.

    – 2012-06-24 06:23:32-  

    As I age I realize said words are harsh, but unsaid words are harsher. Even in your positive advance there lies a wake of negative silence.

    – 2012-06-24 06:22:39-  

    Thinking about the lesson under Maruoka-jo after Ms. Takeda’s late starting, overtime conversation lessons. What a place to live.

    – 2012-06-24 06:17:49-  

    Sincerity means you may annoy me, disagree, call me names, but if invaders attack, I’ll defend. Niceness means good times only. I’m sincere.

    – 2012-06-23 23:43:55-  

    It’s amazing how our country has synonymized “real” with lo-fidelity, illogical, lazy pessimism. If that negativity is real, fuck that shit.

    – 2012-06-23 16:44:02-  

    Revision: If you won’t give me a “Good morning”, I won’t answer any question you have until you do. Respect the order.

    – 2012-06-23 15:27:48-  

    Japanese news media ignore a 45,000 person protest over the PM decision regarding the nuclear situation. Wtf.

    – 2012-06-23 11:20:30-  

    Under-acknowledged evil dichotomy: slut-shaming vs fag-shaming. The arsenal of subconcious Satanists everywhere.

    – 2012-06-23 04:41:19-  

    If that friend hasn’t rejected you over anything, why are you so trigger happy? Oh yeah, it’s ’cause you hate yourself.

    – 2012-06-23 04:15:09-  

    I swear kids shouldn’t even be trusted with parents or older peers. They need a private 24hr Chuck E. Cheese’s that’s educational.

    – 2012-06-23 03:51:39-  

    The news is so disgusting right now… All the terms are dirtier than any cuss word could ever be… Even dudes name.

    – 2012-06-23 03:49:17-  

    Boys be ambitious, girls get aggressive. We’ve gotta save the world cause the Oligarch’s oppressive.

    – 2012-06-23 03:20:38-  

    Vanity isn’t measured by how much time you spend in the mirror but by how much time you spend being it. Take a long good look yourself.

    – 2012-06-23 02:44:06-  

    Kindness is not a competition. If you’re quantifying it, you’re doing it wrong.

    – 2012-06-23 02:36:09-  

    I don’t distinguish between “real” and “fake” friends because I’m not sociopathic enough to say “no” if you’re pinned under a car.

    – 2012-06-23 02:28:39-  

    Tonight’s in the doldrums.

    – 2012-06-24 06:23:32-  

    As I age I realize said words are harsh, but unsaid words are harsher. Even in your positive advance there lies a wake of negative silence.

    – 2012-06-24 06:22:39-  

    Thinking about the lesson under Maruoka-jo after Ms. Takeda’s late starting, overtime conversation lessons. What a place to live.

    – 2012-06-24 06:17:49-  

    Sincerity means you may annoy me, disagree, call me names, but if invaders attack, I’ll defend. Niceness means good times only. I’m sincere.

    – 2012-06-23 23:43:55-  

    It’s amazing how our country has synonymized “real” with lo-fidelity, illogical, lazy pessimism. If that negativity is real, fuck that shit.

    – 2012-06-23 16:44:02-  

    Revision: If you won’t give me a “Good morning”, I won’t answer any question you have until you do. Respect the order.

    – 2012-06-23 15:27:48-  

    Japanese news media ignore a 45,000 person protest over the PM decision regarding the nuclear situation. Wtf.

    – 2012-06-23 11:20:30-  

    Under-acknowledged evil dichotomy: slut-shaming vs fag-shaming. The arsenal of subconcious Satanists everywhere.

    – 2012-06-23 04:41:19-  

    If that friend hasn’t rejected you over anything, why are you so trigger happy? Oh yeah, it’s ’cause you hate yourself.

    – 2012-06-23 04:15:09-  

    I swear kids shouldn’t even be trusted with parents or older peers. They need a private 24hr Chuck E. Cheese’s that’s educational.

    – 2012-06-23 03:51:39-  

    The news is so disgusting right now… All the terms are dirtier than any cuss word could ever be… Even dudes name.

    – 2012-06-23 03:49:17-  

    Boys be ambitious, girls get aggressive. We’ve gotta save the world cause the Oligarch’s oppressive.

    – 2012-06-23 03:20:38-  

    Vanity isn’t measured by how much time you spend in the mirror but by how much time you spend being it. Take a long good look yourself.

    – 2012-06-23 02:44:06-  

    Kindness is not a competition. If you’re quantifying it, you’re doing it wrong.

    – 2012-06-23 02:36:09-  

    I don’t distinguish between “real” and “fake” friends because I’m not sociopathic enough to say “no” if you’re pinned under a car.

    – 2012-06-23 02:28:39-  

    What gets me excited about ALVH’s that it’s crossing genres of history and horror. It’s a break from our illiteracy induced crap media.

    – 2012-06-23 02:12:14-  

    Hey kids, big people use expletives to give sarcasm an edge and to save simple clauses from understatement: i.e., “fucking insatiable!”

    – 2012-06-23 02:07:51-  

    Asking someone to accept you when you refuse to accept yourself is the ultimate deceit.

    – 2012-06-23 01:10:31-  

    It takes 82cal/hr to text. It takes 68cal/hr to talk. Sincerity is aching of effort. It takes more effort to text.

    – 2012-06-23 00:49:39-  

    Giving your kids “more than you have” is vain. Spend it loving them “more than you were loved”. Quality time’s a precious, irrevocable gift.

    – 2012-06-23 00:23:04-  

    Rated in Japanese today and rate dropped to 50%. Sheesh…

    – 2012-06-23 00:04:24-  

    28まで他者に誠実、誠実は自分に28からです。

    – 2012-06-22 12:38:50-  

    北米男子は連れションが無理理由は社会である役割として皆時間の百%生的な性格があるはずそうだ。だが、皆その振りやっているやろ。中にYMOの「Superman」の歌詞を考え出させて「I don’t want to make love」って言う瞬間が普段。

    – 2012-06-22 12:29:02-  

    連れションって若いアメリカ人が男子なら、全くわからへんやろ。もう競争し過ぎてすでに「ゲイ」パラノイアあるので純粋に何でも出来ないやな。

    – 2012-06-22 12:14:17-  

    甘月のマイちゃんが可愛かったね。アキちゃんも‼ここの女子は可愛らしいが嫌いから大変よ。何時もセクシーはどんどん激しくなるわ。

    – 2012-06-22 12:01:12-  

    サンディエゴの男性なら命は大変。若い内に責任を守っても他者は理解してくれなかった。でとしをとってから皆は責任が多くてまだ理解してくれない人間が多い。

    – 2012-06-22 11:52:39-  

    日本語を勉強した理由は国民よりも上手に成りたかったからではない。理由は俺の自分の国語は意味も感情が減らして来た。言える言えない言葉は心理的な刑務所に成って来た。

    – 2012-06-22 11:43:29-  

    Don’t frustrate yourself and take it out on me. If you chose to be satisfied earlier, we’d have no problems at all right now.

    – 2012-06-22 02:33:59-  

    Dissection of giant arctic squid on PBS. It’s outta this world.

    – 2012-06-21 06:31:56-  

    In life, when you don’t get something, don’t be a moron; ask a question. And in life if they don’t get, don’t be a snob; explain.

    – 2012-06-20 16:44:55-  

    Waiting on the first paycheck when accounts are at zero is demoralizing marathon.

    – 2012-06-20 16:42:50-  

    Sending out prayers for Sgt. Michael Lassey, surviving an IED and in critical condition.

    – 2012-06-20 04:00:14-  

    A gripe about the complainer rather than the complaint’s the same as a gripe about the teacher rather than the lesson. It misses the point.

    – 2012-06-19 17:11:25-  

    田中ヤスタカ is a music production virtuoso.

    – 2012-06-19 08:04:27-  

    @RuralED Simply by aligning school boards and educational institutions with the Wikipedia foundation, US Education can advance.

    – 2012-06-18 13:14:02-  

    Lovejoy was a great series on PBS.

    – 2012-06-18 06:13:55-  

    I’m allergic to our cat 🙁

    – 2012-06-18 06:04:12-  

    What Obama’s immigration move means for undocumented youth: http://t.co/MGfViCnI

    – 2012-06-18 06:02:46Favorites 2ReTweets 12RETWEET

    Coming from another culture, people say you distance yourself out of pride. Nope. It’s ’cause rejection pains you into choosing confidence.

    – 2012-06-18 06:02:23-  

    The dude from Dark City was a pom. I wish my English was throaty and seductive like a pom…

    – 2012-06-18 05:15:34-  

    God, I missed Masterpiece Theatre!

    – 2012-06-18 05:11:34-  

    Tonight will end in a nightcap of PBS’ Masterpiece theatre as my father raised me on. Good story, good direction, good English.

    – 2012-06-18 05:04:09-  

    Mr. Cu is a godsend for saving me from my own isolation.

    – 2012-06-18 05:02:57-  

    Mr. Buyo picked has an awesome taste in apartment and an older bro. who knows botanics well.

    – 2012-06-18 05:01:39-  

    Mr. Buyo’s girlfriend taught me orange slices go great with light beer as lime does with medium.

    – 2012-06-18 05:00:20-  

    Mr. Forsythe is the greatest unsung barber I know.

    – 2012-06-18 04:59:08-  

    Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. is really interesting. It tells me why when I look in your eyes, I know you’re so much more.

    – 2012-06-18 04:56:08-  

    If together you’ve never sat around naked and asexually there will be grounds for distrust.

    – 2012-06-17 20:00:08-  

    A luchadore detective game would be so awesome to play.

    – 2012-06-17 19:24:08-  

    Fun again on channel 12!

    – 2012-06-17 06:59:05-  

    If you propagate a thing, you spend less energy trying only to conserve it.

    – 2012-06-17 05:37:30-  

    It’s stupefying how young the USA is and how many states choose cultural preservationism over cultural innovation and propagationism.

    – 2012-06-17 05:36:47-  

    Differentiating weird from normal is as vain as fighting molecular diffusion. Just enjoy it for the happiness others get out of it.

    – 2012-06-17 05:12:27-  

    Sometimes the only way to understand our hearts is to word them and let them flow into the air passively until we hear something refreshing.

    – 2012-06-17 04:54:30-  

    An American my age or older who didn’t find Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Reading Rainbow or any KPBS kids programs enriching is suspicious.

    – 2012-06-17 04:45:31-  

    I think I’m in love with Kyarypamyupamyu きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ。It’s like teaching the Hello Song or playing Musical Chairs in a pop act.

    – 2012-06-17 04:39:43-  

    Human societies should be as safe, stable and forgiving as a preschool.

    – 2012-06-17 04:35:13-  

    If you get any benefit proprietarily back in return from it, it is neither true help, true altruism nor true grace.

    – 2012-06-17 04:30:58-  

    If the US Governments planned things off a Nintendo format, we’d all be much happier.

    – 2012-06-17 04:19:40-  

    Iiiiiiiiiii wanna go to a sixties styled club like the one on channel 12 right now. Their liberalness is so conservative.

    – 2012-06-16 08:51:51-  

    Sans regret, these days it takes me 3 to 6 months with regular interaction to get know people. And it resets to 2 to 4 after a year hiatus.

    – 2012-06-16 05:37:31-  

    I only excuse Ebonics when properly punctuated with apostrophes and good phonetic spelling.

    – 2012-06-16 05:24:32-  

    Everones sexy on channel 12. Wtf. I swear I saw a 70s film version of Three’s Company. A gray hair was ballin’ with two chicas. Crazy man.

    – 2012-06-16 05:23:38-  

    I really believe religious institutions need regulation in ensuring the employment of people in the liberal arts and social sciences…

    – 2012-06-16 05:20:39-  

    If you type with corrective annotations, you’ll always be right… Like showing your work in a math class.

    – 2012-06-16 05:15:45-  

    You know you’re a San Diegan when your best weekends are watching “por tu canal”! (sp).

    – 2012-06-16 05:14:44-  

    Anyone wanna hang out with a pack of Pabst and watch channel twelve en espanol?

    – 2012-06-16 05:13:43-  

    “I think, therefore I am” is an unproveable and unaccountable statement. I speak, therefore I am.

    – 2012-06-16 05:12:23-  

    Government only frightens those incapable of governing well themselves, let alone others.

    – 2012-06-16 05:12:23-  

    禺ッラ~ブ!♪

    – 2012-06-16 05:12:22-  

    @TsuyoshiOrihasi Hella cool! Shigeroo!

    – 2012-06-16 04:35:53-  

    A dog walking backwards is still a dog. So a Satanist is still a Christian… Just backwards and full of shittier theology than usual.

    – 2012-06-15 14:35:33-  

    The Spanish burned our ancient Americans’ codices because words, like DNA resurrect identities. Identities make a civilization.

    – 2012-06-15 14:04:47-  

    Each linguistic permutation of a script unmastered puts you closer to the fossils in the Smithsonian. Words? Actable. But acts? Unwordable.

    – 2012-06-15 14:00:28-  

    If confiding your thoughts into a composition of clauses is tedious, who do you expect to have confidence in you? A lover? A child?

    – 2012-06-15 13:53:01-  

    Words are beautiful. Don’t be intimidated by spellings and dictionary entries. You are your words. Let them be confident.

    – 2012-06-15 13:41:51-  

    The sound of mourning doves in the morning. A fleeting peace. Daylight comes.

    – 2012-06-15 13:39:53-  

    Ectomorphic obese or endomorphic bodybuilder, your are art-worthy. Know your body culminates millennia of God’s organic engineering.

    – 2012-06-15 13:37:10-  

    Missing great aunt Cleora and great grandma Elnora right now. Aunt Cleese would humor Andrina and me by removing her dentures.

    – 2012-06-15 12:51:40-  

    Happy 4:44 AM. The hour of death has come and gone again.

    – 2012-06-15 12:45:36-  

    The amount of my opinion seems to ebb and flow like tide pools affected by the gravitational pull of the moon.

    – 2012-06-15 12:44:08-  

    Grossmont, Downtown and Miramar @24hourfitness are gems. But College and Imperial need mote bilingual signage and more staff. Hella ghetto.

    – 2012-06-15 12:42:35-  

    It’s impossible to be loyal to any child not any adult if you can’t be loyal to your own childhood first. Those memories sustain us.

    – 2012-06-15 12:25:46-  

    Want to go to the gym and work on quads and calves with squats, but it’s late… Decisions, decisions…

    – 2012-06-14 07:28:31-  

    Mind when Little Richard sported make up, curly locks, high on rocks and did anything that walked–old folks called those the good ol’ days.

    – 2012-06-14 07:02:32-  

    “Age doesn’t make you forgetful. Having too many stupid things to remember makes you forgetful.”

    – 2012-06-14 05:52:09-  

    Want to test the grace of a guest? Keep your home shitty and your appearance unkempt. If they flinch, they’re Judases.

    – 2012-06-13 17:12:22-  

    Slow and steady winds the race. Fast and erratic just makes waste.

    – 2012-06-13 17:09:30-  

    When SDGE contractors visit. Instead of “May I turn on the light in here?” it’s “Don’t you have a light?”. Bad Spanish begets bad English.

    – 2012-06-13 17:06:34-  

    “The world seemed incomprehensible and crazy, but then I realised opulent sociopaths were running it; now everything makes perfect sense.”

    – 2012-06-13 06:12:38-  

    Previous gardener weed-whacked our yard to death each month for $30! WTF. Anyone could do an imperial bonsai treatment instead for free.

    – 2012-06-13 06:00:58-  

    Hot Latina on channel 12!

    – 2012-06-13 05:52:17-  

    @RichAsGates Great ideas, like veins and stomata, inherently form on a plexus.

    – 2012-06-13 05:49:41-  

    If spending your time not complaining is so positive, then you should be 100x richer than Jay Z by now. God knows his music’s 100% happy.

    – 2012-06-13 05:47:35-  

    Remember, if someone uses a characterization of the opposite sex to insult the rest of humanity, their self-esteem is -50%.

    – 2012-06-13 05:00:02-  

    Thinking about Great Grandma Elnora, Great Aunt Cleora, Grandma and Grandpa Allen. They mention you rarely, but you matter to me everyday.

    – 2012-06-13 04:41:53-  

    Let children be judicious. Let teenagers be cynical. And let adults be idealistic. Teach judgement. Teach sarcasm. Teach sacrifice.

    – 2012-06-13 01:53:38-  

    @YodaTrading And people who can’t use chopsticks are more likely to suffer from gangrene or lack of insulin.

    – 2012-06-13 01:45:54-  

    If they call you inconsiderate and disrespectful remember they are voicing their fear and depression. You are liberated and courageous.

    – 2012-06-13 01:26:23-  

    If they call you spoiled or conceited remember they are only voicing jealousy which is based in their cowardice and despair. You are loved.

    – 2012-06-13 01:24:05-  

    If I verbally respond to you without physicality–even sparingly–there is respect and love… Remember that.

    – 2012-06-13 01:20:21-  

    Amazing how people obsess over respect and fear, even confusing them for one another, never realizing neither have a thing to do with Love.

    – 2012-06-13 01:14:31-  

    Anyone born post 1960 be grateful for skinny jeans. A lotta y’all wouldn’t have been born had your mom not secretly peeked your dad’s junk.

    – 2012-06-13 00:24:32-  

    “No matter how big and bad you are, when a two-year-old hands you a toy phone, answer it.” –anonymous

    – 2012-06-07 08:07:35-  

    Anger’s cured by sanctuary; loneliness, attention; jealousy, sharing; vengeance, understanding; lust, affection; pain, pleasure. Reach out.

    – 2012-06-07 04:31:26-  

    I’m a very sensitive guy… Sensitive like Bruce Banner or maybe the Joker.

    – 2012-06-07 04:23:38-  

    RIP Ray Bradbury. You made film as lit awesome.

    – 2012-06-06 15:51:28-  

    When I am dark, they say “lighten up”. When I am light, they say “darken down”. They are tyrants.

    – 2012-06-05 12:17:57-  

    Peanut butter stew and squash with hot soju. Perfect dinner. A little WestAf, a little SoKor, all good.

    – 2012-06-05 05:39:37-  

    South Park is so stupid it’s hilarious. Always a good break from thinking.

    – 2012-06-05 05:03:22-  

    As a San Diegan, we are entitled to the mountains and the sea, the deserts and the valleys. Our county colors are red, white and green.

    – 2012-06-05 02:48:53-  

    Lost a solider in Afghanistan. RIP. TG it wasn’t Sgt. Lassey or Sgt. Peters.

    – 2012-06-05 01:33:34-  

    I’m sure. The style. Of speech. I choose. To you. May appear. Vile. And yet. The style. Of speech. I choose. Is actually. No style.

    – 2012-06-05 00:52:34-  

    Zion Marketplace has cheap soju, bottomless kimchee, cheap beef and plenty of veggies. Pure joy ni da!

    – 2012-06-05 00:48:11-  

    Be like Brother Gopher. He likes in the soil, eats tubers, grubs and insects. Gopher knows humility.

    – 2012-06-05 00:38:50-  

    First day at job. Went well. Very laid back. It’ll let me ease into the Japanese.

    – 2012-06-05 00:35:22-  

    On 60 Minutes Neo-Nazi son murders Neo-Nazi father. Ethnic enclaves are our asset. It’s global corporate prostitution that’s our cancer.

    – 2012-06-04 03:41:56-  

    But all classes in all class societies invariably put the political criterion first and the artistic criterion second #OWS

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    “Just check out Shakespeare, or world history of the last 5 thousand years. There is nothing new under the sun.” — http://t.co/yFmfXtwy

    – 2012-06-04 02:28:05Favorites 2ReTweets 3RETWEET

    Someone dies everyday. Someone is born everyday. Which is bigger news to you?

    – 2012-06-04 02:25:41-  

    Even the trunk of a drooping Chinese elm does not extend beyond her branches. Progenitors are to relax under the canopy of their progeny.

    – 2012-06-03 21:03:36-  

    Any human resource department doing it’s job correctly is recruiting the best from both local high schools and colleges.

    – 2012-06-03 20:56:31-  

    http://t.co/RPbNSAQs

    – 2012-06-03 20:54:32-  

    Be honest with yourself. Be honest with your kids. Your best years you never get back. Instead of empty dreams we need blatant sincerity.

    – 2012-06-03 05:35:12-  

    “You know what poison is? An eight year old girl, full of deceit. That’s poison! Jen! My only family… My only enemy.” –Very deep, CTHD.

    – 2012-06-03 05:17:41-  

    CTHD is about a upper-middle class WAFM (white Asian female Manchurian) wanna-be thug rampage with a glock.

    – 2012-06-03 05:03:47-  

    I think Li Mu Bai did du mon hung with a sword in CTHD. Movie would be great with a Jade Fox prequel.

    – 2012-06-03 04:06:29-  

    Had pho at Panda Restaurant, weeks ago. Quite good and maybe the only in Lemon Grove.

    – 2012-06-03 03:32:03-  

    It’s funny. One message of CTHD is that no matter your place, you must hold it in society–peacefully.

    – 2012-06-03 03:25:27-  

    Ah, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Nothing like a subtitle with scale, two great Hong Kong actors and a score of depth by Yo Yo Ma.

    – 2012-06-03 03:21:06-  

    I still the we Yankees should use Ben Franklin’s orthography for privacy from the frogs and the poms. Oh US, prostitute not to the world!

    – 2012-06-02 23:49:50-  

    I’m pretty sure the significance of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Rome and Nazca was aquatechture. Even to this day water distribution is imperative.

    – 2012-06-02 22:20:37-  

    Judging others for trying too hard’s like smashing appleseeds for sprouting. How else will they be a tree without the stages in-between?

    – 2012-06-02 22:08:08-  

    Kindness isn’t indicated by actions as much as it is indicated by the quality of standards you keep and the degree of deviation you allow.

    – 2012-06-02 20:29:08-  

    Dissatisfied with your childhood you buy your children toys, when they want societal duties you fear, yet still you busy them with busywork.

    – 2012-06-02 20:11:35-  

    Hinduism focuses on karma, which maintains the stratification. Buddhism focuses on dharma–the teaching. Karmic thought’s not progressive.

    – 2012-06-02 06:26:36-  

    John Malkovich is an acting genius. Pretty sure he’ll be the next Christopher Walken as far as generation gap pop-cult followings go.

    – 2012-06-02 06:04:43-  

    What I’d give for an easy going friday evening with friends…

    – 2012-06-02 02:23:14-  

    The youngest of a household has the most genuine sense of appreciation simply because their experiences are the newest and most unjaded.

    – 2012-06-01 18:50:07-  

    Maturity means you can rid all your anger in a cuss word–which they are designated–and never spite or violence. Spite is vengeful too.

    – 2012-06-01 18:25:45-  

    In all ateji for romaji, let’s just say “vinegar (酢)”.

    – 2012-06-01 18:22:00-  

    County should mimic State should mimic Nation.

    – 2012-06-01 16:34:47-  

    Had California a compulsory state literature, for namesake, Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) would be indispensable.

    – 2012-06-01 11:40:05-  

    Had CA a pledge of allegiance, I’d use “California, Sweet Homeland of Mine”; had a state anthem, “I Love You, California”. @JerryBrownGov

    – 2012-06-01 11:06:28-  

    Why does California have a state tartan rather than kimono, poncho or even a kente? We’re not all Scottish. I think it should be expanded.

    – 2012-06-01 10:48:33-  

    California’s independence day from Mexico is June 14th.

    – 2012-06-01 10:37:27-  

    Never give up. Enjoy both pleasure and pain. Fight until you’re out of limbs to thrash and until you are irrevocably unconscious.

    – 2012-06-01 01:03:19-  

    Trusting your folks is 25% good. Grandfolks 50% better. Great-grandfolks 75% best…

    – 2012-06-01 00:14:14-  

    I’m pretty sure the Reagan agenda was a eugenicist one back then.

    – 2012-05-31 23:41:34-  

    I found rhizomes today!! I wonder if they’ll grow…

    – 2012-05-31 23:40:53-  

    Confucian society keeps us reassured to make sure we are productive. Freudian society keeps us fearful so we are always consumptive.

    – 2012-05-31 23:18:10-  

    The remorse is the root of the apology; vengeance the root of the violence; joy the root of the jubilee; contentment the root of the peace.

    – 2012-05-31 18:55:47-  

    Some labels are objective, positive and useful: black, professional, Californian. Others useless, negative and subjective: old, poor, smart.

    – 2012-05-31 14:07:18-  

    Going crazy waiting to see Prometheus.

    – 2012-05-31 05:53:16-  

    Men like me aren’t affected by our esteem as much as we are merely innate wingmen. Share your goal and we’ll help build a road.

    – 2012-05-31 04:46:12-  

    Employablity over enjoyabilitu. Employable keeps your profit margin. Enjoyable keeps your delusion. Profit buys food. Smiles buy smiles.

    – 2012-05-31 00:46:26- 

    As the younger in any household beware. When the oldest angers you will feel the pain.

    – 2012-05-30 21:44:10-  

    A parent with past dishonesties and lack of a push to perpetually reform will always be distrusted by children.

    – 2012-05-30 21:40:16-  

    Ageism is a social ill. Even in the least racist home, age-rank is used to intimidate and frighten. Only use logic. Even chimps use logic.

    – 2012-05-30 21:18:53-  

    “I’m smart; you’re dumb. I’m big; you’re small. I’m right, you’re wrong. And there’s nothing you can do about it.” Danny DaVito in Matlida

    – 2012-05-30 21:16:27-  

    The more pragmatic your communication and style becomes, the less sincerity it actually expresses. But out sentimentality, we repeat words.

    – 2012-05-30 20:48:24-  

    The morose hate to argue. But the intelligent live to discuss.

    – 2012-05-30 04:46:12-  


  • The Art of Photocounseling

    The Art of Photocounseling

    A CBT Approach to Photography

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    Bela Dornon at NothingSacred.com‘s Elements, FleshBots, Naked Men Talking Series, and more. (San Diego)

    When we participate in photographing and being photographed we are also engaging in mirror-gazing, but in a positive and prolonged fashion. Artistic figure modeling allows us to understand the plastic nature of our bodies and how we have enough power over our aesthetic to affect all the formal artistic principles such as negative and positive space, symmetry, radial balance, color theory, mood, etc. In the nude we find liberty and separation from both our form and sexuality. We find out which parts of our bodies imbue us with strength or which parts imbue us with vulnerability. And like any practice in Mindfulness, photography freezes that moment in time so that we can meditate upon it and seek enlightenment. It allows us to realize that we have no “flaws” but instead just rich, meaningful detail which we can accentuate as loudly or as quietly as we’d like.

    My photographic approach at QABPROSERV,COM focuses on these aspects in Western psychological health, Eastern awareness and African-American creative channeling. As a working model for several years, I share my personal guidance on physical awareness, poise, libidinal expression, spiritual inspiration, professional negotiation, masculinity and more. This information is also accentuated by professional-level education in Linguistics, Arts, Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling and traditional Korean Martial Arts. And to top it off, I include my cultural intuition and understanding about the nature of Artist and Muse via my African-American heritage that has a lineage traced from Negro Spirituals and Hoodooism to the Continental source of Vodun, spiritual mounting and masquerade.

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    Hanayuishi Takaya (Kyoto) & GQ Japan

    Incorporating philosophy, counseling and arts has been a evolutionary process built off of professional training and experience spanning martial arts, visual arts, education, counseling and academia. My modeling experience includes simple fashion, editorial, traditional life drawing, highly adult erotica. One of the most valuable lessons I have been able to apply from counseling is understanding Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy as they apply to human capacity. Not only is my physical artistry inclusive of a second degree black belt in martial arts and cross training in yoga and weightlifting, my formal education on the arts includes curriculum on the Renaissance, modern art, Japanese art from Osaka University of Arts and a rich philosophical basis in Pan-African arts. As a model not only do I bring the sensual mastery of my body, I also bring a sophisticated epistemology of aesthetics.

    Read more on my unique philosophy on modeling on the long-running blog Favorite Hunks.


    ① Marketing Sessions:

    IFBB Pro Nicholas Bustos, c/o QABPROSERV Photography

    This session is more casual and allows you to capture and develop your general professional image. Much like fashion analysis, this allows you to cover the general gamut of your confidences and also gather personal data on your own psychology with an assortment of optional exams. like DiSC, Myers-Briggs, RIASEC, etc. The session includes portrait, body measurements and figure analysis.

    This session is ideal for individuals interested in fashion photography or just developing professional images for their job search.

    Marketing Sessions are prerequisite for sessions 2 and 3 unless a supplementary portfolio is provided.

    1. Application Interview/ 2. Assesssments/ 3. Video Interview & Headshots


    ② Physique Sessions:

    IFBB Pro Nicholas Bustos, c/o QABPROSERV Photography

    This utilizes photography to give you an analytical view of your form and assess what you like and where you’d like to improve. Combined with my own philosophical health and fitness approach Gekkyoudou™, we’ll develop strategies you can implement including establishing concentration areas of isolated resistance training; specific limbering exercises for maintaining musculoskeletal health; all-context confidence building exercises to be exhibition-ready in any public arena; and lastly styling and fashioning aesthetics, focusing on what male styling–hairstyle, body hair, body art, fashion, etc..–are ideal is establishing your brand and aesthetic.

    Physique Sessions are prerequisite for session 3 unless a supplementary portfolio is provided.

    1. Baseline Training/ 2. Gekkyoudou Tutorial/ 3. Physique Shoot


    ③ Boudoir Sessions:

    IFBB Pro Nicholas Bustos, c/o QABPROSERV Photography

    We arrange an evening and review some basic poses and angles for photography. And then strategically catch the allure of the model using the natural early morning light. For professional reasons the boudoir session cannot be hosted in-studio. However in the private environment, confidentiality can be maintained along with the signature of liability release and waiver. The session allows you to bridge the gap from simplistic intimate awareness as an individual to becoming the exhibitionist channel of confidence that an artist’s muse exudes about even the most private aspects of their bodies. In this we create an environment where you feel appreciated, valuable and substantial about your entire physical geography. This photography incorporates principles of intimacy following a format as close to the principles of the International Professional Surrogate Association as possible–an ethical foundations I admire and aspire toward.

    Boudoir Sessions are ideal for actors, performers and bodywork professionals who are actively marketing in their profession and want to maintain a sharp awareness as they are both spokesperson and technician behind their brand.

    Marketing and Physique Sessions are prerequisite for session 3 unless a supplementary portfolio is provided that demonstrates both Marketing and Physique,.

    1. Intimacy Assessment/ 2.  Pose tutorial/ 3. Boudoir Shoot

    “I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.”

    –Corey Stoll

    Not Just A Woman’s Problem

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    Ellih Russ Photography

    According to the Phillips, et al. studies have indicated that as much as 43% of American men have dissatisfaction with their bodies and its subsequent appearance (Phillips 2001). The research finds that men seek non-psychiatric treatment like plastic surgery, dermatology, supplements, fitness, etc., often under the impression that there is an ever evasive “defect” about their bodies. Many men are reported to spend large amounts of time seeking treatment for their skin; seeking plastic surgery; or obsessive detail in their exercise and diet. The research notes “Men with body dysmorphic disorder are most commonly preoccupied with their skin (for example, with acne or scarring), hair (thinning), nose (size or shape), or genitals.” (Phillips 2001, p1).

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    Ken Serg Studios with Henning von Berg

    The manifestation of these obsessive problems contribute to body dysmorphic disorder/ dysmorphophobia and muscle dysmorphic disorder/ “bigorexia”. “Bigorexia” can be especially unique in that men who experience it are not only muscular, but sometimes exceptionally or ideally muscular (Pope 2005). In all cases, the condition can often be noted as disabling when it impairs socialization, job performance, attaining employment, quality of mental health; and has significantly lead to the abuse of anabolic steroids, severe isolation or even suicidal ideation (Phillips 2001, p1). In a another study even the increased likelihood of violent behavior was also suggested (Lucas 2002). The evidence that a healthy self-image for men is an absolute necessity rather than just a narcissistic luxury is more than apparent.

    Learning How to Look Again

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    Fortunately Phillips et. al. also indicates that Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is also as effective in establishing healthier body norms as the use of medication (Phillips 2001, p2). Veal supports an approach for CBT that creates a healthy ethic when we mirror-gaze composed of several points:

    1) “Use mirrors at a slight distance and use ones that are large enough to show most of the body”;

    2) “Focus attention on the reflection in the mirror rather than on how you feel”;

    3) “Use a mirror only for an agreed function (e.g. shaving, putting on make-up) and for a limited period of time”;

    4) “Use a variety of different mirrors and lights rather than sticking to the one you ‘trust’ “;

    5) “Focus attention on the whole of your face rather than on selected areas”;

    6) “Do not use mirrors that magnify”;

    7) “Do not use ambiguous reflections (e.g. windows, the backs of compact disks or cutlery)”;

    8) “Do not to use a mirror when you feel depressed: try to delay essential use until you feel happier or find other things to do until the urge to mirror-gaze has passed” (Veal 2001, p 131).

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    Washio Taro (Osaka & Tokyo)

    Veal essentially outlines an approach on how to look at ourselves aesthetically. Just as in art appreciation, even with ourselves, there is a formal and trained way to look. We have to understand it is not just the arrangement of paint or shapes on a canvas or plane–nor is it just the configuration of skin, fat, muscle and bone structure around our souls–but its also the story, emotions, thoughts and meanings that make the aesthetic and value. Veal finds the fundamental flaw in thought is “overgeneralization in which the ‘self’ is identified only through the external appearance (the person is an aesthetic object) and all other values and selves are diminished.” (Veal 2001, p131) And rightly so, we are more than an aesthetic object. Like all artwork we are objects of meaning that coincidentally also hold an aesthetic value over which we have significant influence.

    Citations

    Phillips, K. A., & Castle, D. J. (2001). Body dysmorphic disorder in men : Psychiatric treatments are usually effective. BMJ : British Medical Journal, 323(7320), 1015–1016.
    Pope, C. G., Pope, H. G., Menard, W., Fay, C., Olivardia, R., & Phillips, K. A. (2005). Clinical features of muscle dysmorphia among males with body dysmorphic disorder. Body Image, 2(4), 395–400. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2005.09.001
    Lucas, P. (2002). Violence may be serious in men with body dysmorphic disorder. BMJ : British Medical Journal, 324(7338), 678.