Riches Await!

Anyone ever use those cash for gold promos where they send you an easy-breezy envelope while, in the commercial, happy people with piles of practically forgotten precious metals make their fortune with no effort?

My favorite is “I do, now I don’t”

Rock.  I don’t know why that makes me laugh other than the vivid imagery that pops into my imagination on hearing it, and probably because I used the old school version of cash for gold – the corner hawk shop – when I retracted my first “I do”  Even then, I have to say it’s wasn’t a complete DO from the get go, it was a silly “I guess” at best.  It’s fair to say a good number of young people ‘guess’ at their first shot at being adult. 

Some months, my ex-guess asked where my ring was.  I don’t know if he was hinting that he wanted it back, as knowing what motivates the mind of a broken human is often tricky.  I told him it was on the corner of Main Street and Washington.

“You pawned your wedding ring?”

“No, no.” I shook my head “I sold it.

He was genuinely shocked, reasoning unknown again, but I suspect he thought I got a tidy sum for a barely 10k band with diamond specks.  I asked if he wanted the 25 bucks I got for it.

Now that’s it has been many, thankful, many years since all that I know more about gold, and can see it’s price every day in the newspaper if I chose to, I don’t suppose I understand how anyone could be shocked at the value of their shit.  Maybe I’m just jealous of those people and their piles. 

-DM

Gonna yell, gonna scream.

At a post holiday event I asked my brother in law (I have 3 in varying forms, one that I could do without and for the most part do) what we were all about next.  He and I have had like-minded discussions about politics and state of affairs plenty in the past, so when I asked "we," it implied "the people like us."  The said something along the lines of -being all about occupy-

I'm not blind or deaf to the splashes of news and outcry snippets but I truthfully don't know the details.  To say I know that people are fed up and protesting would be understating what I do know, it's more than that... but exactly what it's about I don't know.

Right so, this is for him, until we've had a chance to discuss it at length.  I was extremely hard pressed to find anything on youtube shorter than 13 minutes.  The average occupy ranter's tirade lasts between 8 and 11 long winded, passionately shouted minutes to invoke chanting.  That said, I have really no clue why the below video is happening but I would be alarmed if swat teams were forming up in my city.  Maybe it sounds naive, but martial law looking events aren't something normal to me, in America.  If something looks wrong and you don't even know what it is.. well, looks like a duck, walks like a ?  Could be.



-DM