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IN THE CITY: EVERYTHING'S A RERUN
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Reporting Stories So Fresh That Some Of Them Haven't Even Happened Yet
February 14, 2004                                                                    ©2004: JAN COX

 




Notes one man:
“The great thing about being a DJ is that when you run out of anything to say,
you play someone else’s recorded efforts:
your entire performance consists of presenting someone’s work,
(same with being a book publisher, a sports announcer, and oh yeah:
an ordinary mind.)"
 

Cooking News.
Men try to use other people’s ideas as extenders for their own  --
they end up however being substitutes for.
(But not to concern yourself: no harm’s done to ordinary men’s mental stomachs.)
 

The more a man talks about himself the more he believes that others talk about him.
(Life wants it noted that it originated the concept of: “Neat!”)
 

Paternity Refolded.
One man told his mind it was illegitimate just to see how’d it react.
 

A man who went for long periods without seeing other people said:
“Well  --  not talking to yourself is better than nothing.”
 

One man started calling his dick: A Thrill A Minute
just to make his mind mad......no, to give it a laugh.....no.....
 

For a man who understands what’s going on:
in the cultural world: anything can be a plan  --  anything can fly.
 

Playing the good parent, one man sometimes says to his mind:
“Don’t make me come in there.”
 

Delivering condemnation to humans makes even an ass sound insightful.
“Ah! --  praise be for hectoring,” exclaimed one poor, pitiful, pathetic man

with only two legs.


And in a related story: a man from Liverpool says:
“What is greater fun than being able to tell someone: 'You’re wrong old dear!'"
 

The Inner & Outer Climes Of The City.
Ordinary minds like to hear other people talk;
the few only enjoy hearing themselves think.
 

In the beginning it takes books to arouse you from the-sleep  --
then essays  --    then paragraphs, and finally: just a few words,
(a quick jolt to the old wiring system.)
 

How Mind Works.
City college’s football team made its recent extraordinary gains
by exchanging their game scores for those of the basketball squad.
    (“Hey! – if smarts don’t get used in academia  --  then where!”)
 

A delegate at the recent convention announced that he knew
what kept things from working  --  but never did reveal to them what it is.
(“Wrong audience,” he noted, gesturing toward the planet.)
 

Anatomical News.
A few people have a second tongue which allows them to laugh about things
in a particular way completely unknown to everyone else.
 

Anyone who speaks of the injustices in their life
can’t be thought of as undeserving of same.
 

The passion in ordinary men’s words are a substitute for their lack of content.
 

One man does his best thinking while swimming upstream.
 

Two followers of a spiritual teacher were talking and one said:
“The great thing about knowing someone who is awake
is that it makes you feel more awake,” to which the other replied:
“But it makes me feel less awake.”
The difference it turned out was that the first follower had bought more of
the leader’s books than had the second.
 

Retail News.
One man’s city mind posted this warning:
“Do Not Take Advantage Of Our Return Policy.”
Note: The certain man takes advantage of every thing: every program  --
every authority  --  every allowance and every prohibition, and above all:
he takes unrelenting advantage of that native noise in his own nervous system
that attempts to tell him what’s what.



Only by himself  --  alone amidst his own silence --
can the certain man ascertain what is really going on with life.
 
 

J



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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