Human Puppet

Best Friend?

by Forest Thomer on Jul.28, 2010, under Uncategorized

You truly are one of my favorite people in the world! 
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From the smoke, I choke, gluttonous gloat, capsized the boat, built the moat, tearing us apart!
From the start, it didn’t have a shot!  Now I plot, wishing what I got I had, back when touching your hand didn’t revolve around another man.
Grass sways, feelings stay, you tell me to throw them away, move on, get gone, it’s a phase!
A violin plays, as the days continue to pass, wilting grass from a thermal overdose!  Feelings a wondering ghost.
I know you care, loves not fair, why’d I give another a shot?  Now I regret the empty parking lot my fields transformed.
How quickly deformed the simple allure of feelings galore.
The pavement begins to settle, tissue transforms to metal, robotic melodies become melodic, the rift expands, my heart’s demands, capsized from my own lies.
To go back in time to make you mine, I’ve wanted you this whole while, yet out of denial, I let you think you were but a trial.
I should of spoken up, but now I choke on the smoke from this fire that won’t tire!
You lit the field, caution yield, set it ablaze, left me dazed, I’ll never find myself out of this maze.
I wish you were a phase, that I did what I use to for you.  Back when I held the cards, when these actions were not absurd, back when you felt they were deserved. 
Back when I was the object observed, that brought fourth a smile upon the dawn!  When I was the one for whom you fawned!  Before I spoke of these feelings that now drown, that have transformed a knight into a clown, who wears a frown you could turn upside down, how I wish for another round.
To blow away the smoke abound, that I choke upon now.

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www.indiebychoice.com, Serene River’s, and a realization!

by Forest Thomer on Jun.23, 2010, under Uncategorized

So today after teaching the kids at the library more about Yu-Gi-Oh, I met up with Mercedes from www.indiebychoice.com to film the intro video for an Ellen contest we’re starting!  Basically, humanpuppet and indiebychoice want to offer underground talent the ability to show us what they got!  Thus we’re offering people the ability to download my song, “The Ellen Song: Do the Ellen” and remix it their way!  Thus officially work for the coolest contest in the world has began!  More details on DO THE ELLEN YOUR WAY will be available as the contest takes root!

 
 
On a strange and interesting twist, while out and about I ran into Serene Rivers!  For those of you who are not aware, she is the very talented women who helped make the Ellen song possible!  If you’ve heard the song, odds are if you’re reading this you have, she’s the girl who brought the whole project together!  To those of you who aren’t aware, she also happens to be my ex girlfriend, probably the only women in the world to truly break my heart, and hands down one of the coolest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of crossing paths with.  I was very pleased to learn that she too is also pursuing her dreams and spiritual aspirations by literally up and moving to LA!  Apparently she is leaving next week!  I truly do wish her the best of luck and happiness in her countless pursuits!  Secretly between you and I, it was really cool running into her again!  I’m very pleased that some force in the universe granted me the ability to see her before she left.  Why that is, who knows?  But to literally be standing there in my cowboy hat, T-Rex chain, and lookin like my normal gorgeous self, as all the girls keep emphasizing here as of late, really made me feel good!   
 
Something about running into her forced me to reflect on all the experiences that have happened in my life since the second time she dumped me LOL!  Excluding the really cool Zimbabwe girl I just met, with a so very sexy British accent, and my Smibbit of months ago, and the other random girls here and there, I’m no longer the same person I use to be!  Since my last bout of heart ache concerning this particular women, I’ve grown in tremendous ways!  For starters, I can officially say that I’ve helped someone else live out their dream!  I can say that I’ve been on CNN, was a finalist for Big Brother 12, literally was a phone call away from being on national TV, finally laid eyes upon one of the greatest creatures ever to walk the earth, Sue the T-Rex!  I did the Ellen dance at the Chicago theater, I’ve made great advancements in the development of my site!  I’ve made so many cool friends and learned the importance of staying focused!  To literally be able to tell people that I was on the radio discussing my mission, to say that I’ve shaken the hand of Mr. Ebert, to be able to say that I’ve done my Ellen dance with thousands of people, and have rediscovered the courage to refuse to accept cultural social constraints from preventing me from pursing my passions, is ridiculously empowering!  The things that have already happened to me and the many cool things that will have become concrete in some manner.  I’m no longer a man with a dream!  I’m a man with a dream who has vested interest and support from numerous individuals within his community!  I can’t even begin to verbalize the way this girl effected and affected my life!  Because of this I truly can say that I’ve been in love, that I’ll always be in love to a certain degree!  The impact of the breakup was something I don’t care to discuss to much to risk looking like a cry baby bitch as my Smibbit would say, but to be able to stand there and realize that I’m still standing!  That life goes on!  That great things have happened to me in a short period of time only helped me recognize how resilient I truly am!  As much as I’ve been sulking these past few days about not being on CBS, I know other opportunities will come!  Other opportunities will come because I made the first ones come along!  I am resilient, I am strong, I’m focused, and I have faith in my own capabilities to keep the momentum goin strong!  To literally be standing there and talking to a girl I had so much of myself invested in and not be phased by it, that is how I know I will overcome any and all pit falls along my Ellen journey!  I have dreams, I have ambition, I have love, and I have enough compassion and courage to change the world!  Love, ambition, and a dream are all that it takes to truly make the world ours!  
 
I am Forest Thomer!  I’m the Self Proclaimed Midwest General in the fight for Ellen world domination!  To some I’m the Ellen guy!  To others I’m that guy!  To many I’m sexy, to a few creepy!  But at the end of the day I know what I’m made of!  I’m going to do great things!  I’m going to help people!  I’m going to make my own heaven on Earth!  I will forever aspire to inspire!  I will not lose focus!  I will not give into the negative and I will always seek to find the benefit of the situation at hand!  I’m Forest Thomer and I know what I’m made of!  If you’re reading this, I wish you much luck and prosperity!  But I can truly say with confidence in these words, whatever spell you had on me has been broken! 
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Chicago, twitter, and other stuff!

by Forest Thomer on Jun.19, 2010, under Uncategorized

Right now I have to admit I feel quite defeated!  My dog of 13yrs died yesterday, despite being one of fifty finalist for one of the coolest reality shows in the world, I’m not going to be on because I don’t fit into the cast puzzle, and I got kicked off the Chicago Theater property for dancing!  To top that off, I didn’t even get any of the amazing footage of all the people I had dancing with me in Chicago because security told my camera guy he was not allowed to film.  This was very confusing because they allowed other people to film!  What makes it even more heartfelt is that staff came out and gave free tickets to people waiting around to see Ellen and I was not allowed on that side of the street?  I don’t understand how dancing with Ellen fans at an Ellen show is wrong, but apparently when you get entire crowds to show their support for Ellen World Domination, at an Ellen DeGeneres comedy show, someone didn’t like that!  The one security guard told me I was not allowed to solicit material?  I was handing out pieces of paper, some to Ellen’s staff, that stated I want to dance with Ellen DeGeneres?  Oh, last night @TRexBling and myself tweeted @TheEllenShow 1,000 times in a row asking her to dance with me!  Still haven’t heard anything back.  I guess that means I still have a long road ahead of me!  I also found it weird to see so many Ellen fans in one place who were afraid to dance!  How can you call yourself a true Ellen fan if your afraid to dance to your own beat?  What was even more shocking is that I was the only person with an Ellen mask.  How can tons of Ellen fans come together and I’m the only one with an Ellen mask for Ellen World Domination?  I assume that’s why I’m the Midwest general!
 
On the flip side I met Roger Ebert, totally handed him a www.humanpuppet.com flier, an ex gf bought me dinner, and I survived a night in one of the scariest hotels ever!  All part of the journey to Do the Ellen dance with Ellen DeGeneres!  I don’t really feel like writing anything elaborate right now!  I don’t even feel like getting out of bed and it’s almost 1:00pm!  That was three hard blows back to back!  I’m still standing though, I won’t lose sight of the goal, and I’ll try to turn these negative events into positive ones!  I think the most positive thing about this week, outside of @TRexBling trying to kiss @SUEtheTrex is the fact that I have made history by being the first person ever to introduce The Ellen Dance to Chicago!  TO further emphasize that claim, I’m the first person to introduce The Ellen Dance to Ellen fans at an Ellen DeGeneres event?  Cross your fingers I can get some of the other events I have in the works to pull out something big!

PS: This cool guy put me in his video from Chicago! http://www.youtube.com/user/louenriquez#p/u/0/_WGbOFKpgK8

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Chicago Forest Fund (CFF) to see Ellen Fund and a Fringe Fest!

by Forest Thomer on Jun.14, 2010, under Uncategorized

Thank you Knockback Nats, Karen Wesdorp, Michael Burch,Nicholas Sweeney, mom, my Aunt, and numerous other people from downtown Cincinnati for your contributions to my Chicago Forest Fund (CFF) to see Ellen Fund!  I appreciate all the help I’ve received and will receive on my road to Ellen!  I’d also like to thank the Cincinnati Fringe Fest and The Know Theater for giving me a taste of what’s to come!!! 
 
To the one mean women of my past few days, who pretentiously accused me of not being a true supporter of the art’s, and simply an attention whore, I hope you find much success and happiness in your life!  The entire time you were fumbling to make a point, at times insulting my T-Rex chain, I just wanted to let you know that I was thinking about important stuff!  Important stuff like the American education system, which obviously needs to be reformed because you’re a by-product of it!  Important things like evolutionary mechanics.  Honestly people like you make me question just how important intelligence really is to the procreation of our species!  Important things like why you’d hide your lovely figure behind such an awfully dreadful dress/curtain!  T-Rex took offense to what you said, but then some chick started making out with him and he forgot all about it, BITCH!  Ya that’s right, I just called this evil women a bitch for being mean to T-Rex!  I meant it in a bad way, not in the you’re cool way!  Thus out of our lovely conversation I present to you… 
 
“Why Doth a Playwright Write?”
 
Why doth a playwright write?  Curiosity lived out the pen’s delight?  Is it right to write and accept what is written to be something worthy of one smitten?  What is proper in the articulation of life distraction as a mechanical contraption transcribes a soul’s secrets, the life transposed confides and defines the essence of lives beautiful bribes?  Why doth a playwright write?  Bringing fourth intangible experiences and neuron interpretation of our senses, generating symbolic relics, which mean nothing without an other to bother a brother, a mother, or some other form of genetic combination capable of comprehending all that transcends from one so condescending?  Who defines art, where doth thy pin point place that dart?  Of that word, that nasty art word, I truly believe to define it is absurd.  For when you constrain expression, that is simply a recipe for deception.  For when you define expression, you bring fourth an undeserving oppression.  You nip thy loins of transgression, forcing countless untested and unseen unknowns into regression.  For you to say that art is defined by rules, is like me deciding rocks aren’t tools!  You’re a bitch and T-Rex doesn’t like you!
 
I’m glad I got that out my system!  With this I say to all the artist of the world, and everyone is both an artist and a work of art given the “right” perception, don’t let someone rain on your parade!  If what you do makes you happy, if it allows you to communicate concepts, if it helps define who you are, then keep doing it!  I also recommend you don’t talk shit about my T-Rex!  If he eats you, who am I to stop him?
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UPDATE!

by Forest Thomer on Jun.08, 2010, under Uncategorized

All journeys have highs and lows!  The difference between people who keep trekking to the top and those who completely derail is that those who succeed don’t get discouraged when they hit a low!  They simply focus on what has gone right and how much potential resides with the future!  They do not fail, they simply acknowledge what did not work out and figure out how to fix it.  When we focus on failures and acknowledge them as failures, then we not only discourage ourselves, but we waste energy and time focusing on something we can not change.  I do not fail, I may have set backs, but they are not failures.  This journey, much like any other is simply a learning experience.  Everyday brings new experiences and new opportunities!  Such as yesterday, while working on some things I ended up talking with a dude who is friends with the man who supplies Ellen’s green room brownies!  Who knows where that will take me, but that is something totally unforeseen!  It’s moments like this that make the experience exciting!
 
A lot of cool things are goin on and it’s time that I get back to it to keep the momentum going.  Within the past month I’ve been on the radio, had a video vetted and ”promoted” by CNN ireport, talked to thousands of people, and other stuff!  So I need to keep at it!  With that said, I’m off to wear my new Ellen DeGeneres underwear!  Yes, I made myself Ellen DeGeneres underwear!  
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Really Miss Washington? Really?

by Forest Thomer on Jun.05, 2010, under Uncategorized

What is it about the silent chase that draws my thoughts to a simple taste?
What is it about the simple pleasure executed by a dimple?
How is it that one holds more than another?  That one is better than an other?  That choice is both the greatest gift and worst decision of thrift we can rejoice?
The more I flirt, the more I hurt, the more I erode to dirt.  I put in all the work, only for circumstances to distort, to lose a friend I had promised I’d stand beside to the end.
Of raw emotion, I can’t question my devotion, like the waves of the ocean, my thoughts reside with unnerving motion.  Rocking back and fourth, caressing the bed of your perceived worth.
Your laugh gone, it feels wrong, but my decision, executed with precision, is your choice to rejoice.  
 
I’m not your pet, I’ve paid my debt, and I’m not about to be the loser in this bet.
I played your game and gave you the prize, I wish I had the chance to learn my answer from your eyes.  If you meant what you said, as my tears caressed the bed, as I further lost the mind inside my head, how dare you lead me down the path I tread.  What concoction of joy and selfishness did you blend, to force me to throw it in the open, no restraint with an open gait?  You say, “Go ahead, tell me!  Tell me, it might change the situation!”  It did as I followed through with your bid, it changed the situation, it removed me all together, like shedding some useless feather, you didn’t even attempt to fight, you agreed like everything was alright.  How am I suppose to confide in a person who would let me walk, let me walk without the slightest attempt to talk?  You let me go after forcing me to let you know?  This is why I say goodbye!  You know what I want, I’m tired of the taunt, I’m tired of the shadow, either I’m the one casting it in this blip we all get, or I’m gone, despite the fact I can never be, because you’ve trapped me. 
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Largest Ellen Line Dance in the History of the World and Toddler Gods!

by Forest Thomer on Jun.04, 2010, under Uncategorized

 
As Ellen’s Midwest General I’ve managed to get on the radio and begin one of many attempts at complete world domination!  Last Saturday went amazing and it’s only going to get bigger and better from here!  Lot’s of other cool things are in the works, I’ll keep ya all surprised!  Nothing wrong with a good surprise!
   Laugh, Dance, Conquer! 
 
While on facebook the other day my friend Ada posted an article, “http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm” discussing the fact that humanity has officially created life!  She posted the following comment.
 
“Dr. Verber: “If we can really get cells to do the production that we want,…” So… what that really means is once again, in efforts to learn more about genetic engineering most geneticists’ attempts at creating [from] and consequentially destroying these Knows to obtain their components without knowing how to reconstruct the Knows. …To create new life, we destroy what is, however, we don’t know how to recreate what is.
We can only manipulate the Given to create what isn’t, and without
knowing how to return to the Given, there is no escape in case we
absolutely fuck up humanity. We are toddler gods let loose in a
university lab like it’s the playground at the mall. Scant on parental supervision of the future.”

  

In reality she’s right!  We are the only species publicly disclosed, just in case you believe in ancient astronauts, that have the capability to manipulate so much of what we control.  The great paradox being that we truly do not control anything.  When a species has discovered the mechanics behind life, resulting in the ability to disrupt billion year evolutionary trends simply on a whim, that puts us in a league of our own.  Don’t even start to think down the path of technology and microbiology combining together.  That concept alone implies that humanity has the capability to create a unique phylogenetic chain in and of itself!  The repercussions being much like all things regarding existence, totally unknown and taken on faith!  This is so cool, but so very scary!  The fact that cellular machinery can be turned on and off, reanimating some organisms, provides a whole other level to the interpretation of what life is.  Thus the gist of what I’m getting at from this is that we really have no way to define what life is, what the spark that defines it is about, why it’s important outside of some code doing a  job!  When I think about things like this it helps me put events into perspective. 
  
Upon realizing that we can’t truly define something anyone reading this is doing, LIVING, how in the world can you take anything to heart?  How can you ever truly be offended?  How can you find excuses not to enjoy life?  When realizing something like this, how can you take attacks personal?  To expand the argument, we can’t define our own emotions!  What is love?  What is jealousy?  What is passion?  What is hope?  What is anger?  In one aspect all these things are nothing more than some chemical reaction, the result of some astrocyte, neurotransmitter, synaptic threshold.  Why do we put so much into the meaning behind a gesture, why not just enjoy the pleasures of life, whatever that is?
 
Maybe one of the reasons I’m pondering all this is because today I had to get rid of one of my closest friends.  I love her, but timing and circumstances apparently will never be right.  Even when things felt right something had to come along to mess it up.  I know I love her because I’ve made a valiant effort not to.  I’ve done everything I can do to push her away and I still can’t let go.  I waited to long to say what I needed to say.  I let someone else come along and claim her.  I thought that would help ease getting her out of my head, but it didn’t.  It made it worse, it made me dislike a genuinely nice guy for no fault of his own.  I don’t like being that person, I don’t like disliking someone because I gave them an opportunity they took. 
 
I don’t know when things can be right.  Is it ever the right time to create life?  Is it ever the right time to take on faith the positive implications of generating your own microorganism?  I enjoy talking with her, her company, even her smell.  But I don’t think I can do it anymore.  It’s going to be painful either way I look at it.  But I can’t be the shadow, I won’t be.  Every time I hear her voice or see her face a smile comes to mine.  It’s like the chaos of existence simply dissipates.  Decisions don’t need to be made because I don’t have to think, I just do!   But every time I talk to her, it drives me crazy, in good and bad ways ;)
I love you baby doll, it doesn’t bother me to say that anymore.  I feel sorry for myself that it did.  I hope you stay happy and whenever times get rough you need to realize what you let walk away.  I’m good looking, tall, blonde, and amazing at like everything.  I won’t have any issues, but you will always own a piece of me.  I’m actually listening to “Nobody knows it but me – babyface” as I type this.  Somehow I’ve become one of those dudes I make fun of.  I don’t know what romantic love is, because like so many other important aspects you can’t define it.  But I know I love you because that’s the only answer that makes sense in my head.  It’s the only way I can rationalize how I feel.  So fuck you, have a nice life, and don’t ever think I’m not thinking about you.  You know me better than I should of let you.  Why is that? 

  

“To create new life, we destroy what is, however, we don’t know how to recreate what is.”
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UPDATE: Largest Ellen DeGeneres Line Dance in the WORLD!

by Forest Thomer on May.23, 2010, under Uncategorized

Yesterday I talked to approximately 600 people about the event taking place this coming Saturday at 1:00pm! I want a 100,000, a 1,000,000, I want an entire block covered with people doing the Ellen, holding Ellen’s face! In the process of talkin to everyone I got thrown out of some art show/expose/fundraiser in a back ally for not having a pink bracelet! Ended up shouting at the top of my lungs that I as proud to be black at some African American Heritage event goin on at the square, walked through the OTR fringe festival, and hung w/the NO, NO, NO More venue! It’s amazing what kind of trouble one can get into when they make it a point to get into trouble! Crossin my fingers to keep this up! Largest Ellen DeGeneres Line dance in the history of the world! It’s going to be amazing!

Laugh, Dance, Conquer!

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A question of Savagery

by Forest Thomer on May.19, 2010, under Uncategorized

 

20 million Driver ants sweep across the African jungle. Weighing some 20 kg they kill all invertebrates within a 300 meter radius. They come across a slug and in a matter of minutes cooperation allows them to dry it out by piling mud all over its mucus membranes. They then rip it to pieces. A grasshopper and a cockroach flee in fear. Yet their exit is guarded by ant birds, birds that have recognized the ant feast as a means of taking easy prey trying its best to escape. Some escape, but in the end most will die. Constantly killing and devouring at the cost of maintaining the colony, the ants cooperation leads the colony on a never ending search for food.. When they consume all of an areas protein, they simply move on looking for another paradise. It is such logic demonstrated by Americans concerning the untamed west. Like an unstoppable flood we entered into another’s area and decimated their land, devoured a culture, and ruined a people. We did such a thing simply because it was our “right” and in our best interest. It was done mindlessly and organized in a frenzy which revolved around a simple concept, greed. It is the intent of this paper to demonstrate the true meaning of savageness. Can one say the acts of the driver ant are savage? Is not their decree simply to provide life to their cause? Is it not their natural purpose, divine right if you will (because they have been placed in such a position to control this realm of reality) and their duty to act in such a manner? We must step back from the onslaught of the standard view of the American West and question if the Native Americans where truly savage; we must analyze the meaning of civilized, and then question the acts of a civilized nation. In a sense savagery and civilization are interlocked in an intricate swarm. For though they are two different entities they appear as one simply because civilized nations tend to focus on economics as a way of establishing power.
As so many know, the west has been romanticized about. The cowboys upholding that which is grand about American. Defending our law against the ignorant savage pest known as the Indian. But this concept is oxymoronic in a sense. For the ones calling the other savage, are living in a nation whose progress was developed off of the savage Indian. An article entitled “The Founding Indian Fathers” which was scribed by anthropologist Jack Weatherford, describes such a situation. This article explains how the European settlers knew little about democracy. This being the result of their ancestry coming from countless monarchs whose right to rule was established by God. Upon settling in America a major concern was established; according to the Articles of Confederation some thirteen separate and sovereign states where to make up one country. How could this be true if they did not yield their own power? This problem was solved by Iroquois chief Canassatego during an assembly in 1744. He explained to the settlers how his people developed a union called the League of the Iroquois. This union united 5 principle Indian Nations- the Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida, and Cayuga. This organization was developed under a constitution some time between 1000 and 1450 A.D and involved these principle sovereign nations meeting on set dates to discuss issues. Thus under this concept they where unified. The League of the Iroquois intrigued many of the founding fathers, like Benjamin Franklin whose job included publishing the records of various Indian assemblies and treaty organizations. Eventually this concept developed into the House and the Senate. It is in this sense that each state holds individual power yet meets to discuss issues as a unified whole.
Assistant professor of History, from the University of Wisconsin and Pulitzer Prize winning (1932) Frederick Turner wrote numerous books about the American West. He was considered one of the leading experts on the subject. Yet through his readings one comes across ideas like

“So long as free land exist, the opportunity for competency exists, and economic power secures political power.”

“The frontier is the outer edge of the wave-the meeting point between savagery and civilization.”

One must ask Turner if by civilization he means a society that values intangible concepts like wealth which places value on paper over recognition of culture and cooperation. Countless times we have an expert describing the West and its inhabitants as savage inferior obstacles. It is with such thinking one begins to question our own form of government. For being based off these savages in some sense, we have come to a conclusion. Greed is more important than society. It is a self replacing idea that is being demonstrated over and over again. Today this example of greed is what is leading to the destruction of our biodiversity hot spots and our own environment. It is this obsession towards money, expansion, economic power, that has become our driving force. This idea does not better or civilize an individual or society but leads to its demise. For through our lustful need to fulfill some void with tangible purpose we are removing the essence of ourselves. We are separating ourselves from the land. We use barbaric and driving means to deny concepts like equality and righteousness to help maintain our own corrupted means. Like the Driver Ants we swarm, taking everything for ourselves without regard. Then when we no longer have it, move on.
Is this Civilization, is this the Best of Civilization Proposed by Pulitzer Prize winning Jane Tompkins in her piece, “At the Buffalo Bill Museum“?
In this article she comes across a picture with a moose in it and she questions if an act of preservation is occurring. For in the picture a man from a canoe is about to shoot it.  She comes across a picture entitled “His First Lesson”, in which a horse is being tormented by some men. She can not decide what the lesson is in. To obey?, to behave?, stand still?, etc? Yet all of the subjects she mentions involve the control of life. The manipulation of movement. While in the museum she also observes the countless trophies of elk, buffalo, moose, etc. These animals all haunted by people who admired them and respected them. What are museums keeping safe for us, after all (593) Is this the Best of Civilization? This concept to control and overpower? To demonstrate warped views of rights? From this article one comes to a conclusion, people fear their existence. A point developed by Tompkins is that a museums purpose is to act as a safety deposits box. To allow the world to know we were here; it is through this idea that we find ways to express this. As pointed out the museum was all bone and claw. Is it the act of a civilized nation to focus on control?
“There will he see the field where his busy brain and thinking hand can find space and material to work, and an opportunity to rear from its virgin civilization institutions which shall bless generation yet to be.” this quote by (C.W. Dana) addresses a strong fallacy about the west. For how can one describe such an area as having virgin civilizations and institutions? The league of Iroquois was developed some 600 plus years before the invasion and settlement of America. How can complete ignorance exist.? Is this the fallacy of civilization? To be settled in a standard way.
 In nature, an organism that does not evolve goes extinct. This concept is very evident in America today.  If we do not make it a point to learn from the mistakes of the past, to recognize the value within the savage, to carry on conversation with open mind and heart.  If we do not make it a point to listen and observe the truths hidden to us because of countless blinders we accept as normal, a great many losses will result.  If we allow greed to consume us, if we accept the mechanics of tangible monetary value, our insatiable appetite will cost us a great many resources.  If we are unable to take a step back and reevaluate the reason behind why we do what we do, we are no better than a Driver Ant.  We are no better than an insect functioning off “instinctive” behavior.  Is that the definition of civilization? 
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The day has just begun!

by Forest Thomer on May.19, 2010, under Uncategorized

So today I found out that one of my videos was vetted by CNN, making me an official CNN ireport superstar!  I then attended my great aunts funeral.  It was a different experience, “Amen, praise the Lord, hallelujah!”  It was one of those things that you had to be there to witness to truly get.  It made me giggle.  Not to come off as creepy or weird for laughing at a funeral, but my great aunt was an amazing women.  Outside of being hands down one of the greatest bakers of all time, she probably smoked two packs a day and could drink more than her fair share of whiskey.  Considering that she was 88, I think we can agree she fought the good fight!  Even in death she looked more intimidating than most the gangsters I’ve come across! 

 
While sitting in the church my grandmother and aunt (her sister) got into a tiff about reincarnation.  I don’t know how or what I do, but it never fails that I end up in the middle of an argument between two aggressive women.  I couldn’t help but reflect on the fact that aggressive women are what I’m all about.  To my right we got my mom, who has busted a nose or two in her heyday.  Then to my left there is my grandmother who still has red hair!  She’s the definition of what you don’t mess with.  Get on her good side, cause she can be heartless when she needs to be.  Behind me is my aunt, who keeps making it a point to poke me in the back, trying to recruit me to come to her church and listen to her sermon!  The whole situation is just hilarious, “Amen, praise the lord, hallelujah!” because the entire service is taking place in a predominately black church.  The “preacher(s)” had bling, “Amen, praise the Lord, hallelujah!”  So that in and of itself already added a whole nutha level of awkwardness.  But it was cool, nice to know that other members of my family have defined themselves as individuals.  Doing their own thing, no matter how unconventional!  Anyone reading this really has to take into consideration the context of the whole situation, just so many cultural cues and exchanges that made the event enjoyable and fun, despite the circumstances!  
 
But in the mist of reflection it was nice to see that side of the family together.  It’s kinda sad that we never make time for each other outside of weddings and funerals, but one can always find some good in circumstances they otherwise shouldn’t.  I know that while waiting for the sermon to start I talked to some old women who broke her wrist in a motorcycle accident.  You have no idea how awesome that is!  It’s sad that she got hurt, but the fact she got hurt riding on a motorcycle is just crispy!  But as stated before, the women in my family and/or who affiliate with my family are some tough broads!  Honestly when I hear the boy’s talkin bout gettin their boys sometimes when I’m out and about, I always know that I got my mom and grandma.  Take it from me, they will mess you up!
 
Shortly afterwards, ”Amen, praise the Lord, hallelujah!” I went to a local park that over looks Cincinnati to scream, “I love Ellen DeGeneres!”.   While standing atop the hill I ran into this old white dude totally mackin out with this young hot black thing!  So obviously I had to go over and check out the situation, she had a lip ring!  I then ran into someone doing some local campaigning for office and my day hasn’t even started yet!  Tonight I have to go to party in the park, recruiting more support for Ellen World Domination!  So who knows what stories and adventures await me there?  If you all take nothing else from this, take the fact that fun and excitement are always available.  Even in the mist of gloomy times, the memories that make you sad for your loss are soothing.  You never know who or what your goin to run into!  Props to the old white dude making out in his sweet ride with his sweet girl.  Props to my great aunt for leaving behind many friends!  Props to old women who ride motorcycles!  Props to anyone who chooses to keep it happy.  The day we learn to embrace a smile instead of focusing on all that is wrong with the world, that is the day we can truly get to know how strange the world we live in is!
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