Gap

Managed to push myself away.....and you as well my dear.

Miked

The Cycle Continues......or is it just narcisism?

When I was a boy (like I'm an armadillo now (Thanks Billy Crystal)) I spent a lot of time in my formidable years talking back to people and challenging authority. Not just that, but I would take time out of my day to say shocking things and push the envelope on inappropriate behavior. I am not really sure why but I would love to see peoples' reactions. Also I think I did it because I really wanted people to step out of what was normal and considered socially acceptable. It is true that I still enjoy pushing the level of absurdity from time to time and certainly my taste in art points to all things surreal or outside the "normal" definitions.

Jump ahead twenty plus years and although I still have an affinity for pushing the good taste envelope I have some friends who have children that were born around the time I graduated High School. In speaking with the mother of these children she was lamenting about her kids were not show ing her the level of respect she demands. I started to think about all the times I had said things in order to shock or dismay people and theorized that my work during my previous life could now be showing up in the complete lack of respect in her children's generation.

Of course, this could also be the whole "parents never understand theor children" argument as well. Maybe it is just narcissistic of me to even think I had any sort of role in it.

Miked

Pushing.....And Shoving?

When confusion sets in and decisions can't be made in haste, starting swimming.


Miked

Blue Steel Beer

It is tough not to get wrapped up in your insecurities. But laughing in the face of what scares us the most is still laughing. It helps to humor this madness. The Truckstop interviewed the gentleman in the photo and he is an out of work blacksmith that is forced to do stunt double work in animated feature films. Adapt and conquer your fears. Laugh right in their faces.

Part three in an ongoing series.

Miked

Of Optimism and The Packaging Jaugernaut

Peaks and valleys and mixed interpretations. Learned behavior notwithstanding how else would we behave? Societal pressures attempt to tell us right from wrong but who told them? The quest for proper packaging is near and with it optimism for the future. These things should not be taken lightly. With this opportunity for optimism comes the return of a peak and a ramp to the positive. That's right unless of course I'm wrong.

Miked


Part two in the series.