Monday, November 28, 2011

you think your sooo like this or that but honestly the universe iz constantly shifting reality so that one day u might wake up 


and feel that somehow this role u are playing is not u and the wind is blowing fiercely towards an unknown destination and 


you look inside your heart and know...

RESOLUTION:

There is something else THAT you need to know about me: I resolved to TAKE my prescribed meds on schedule without FAIL in June 1996 and, so far: I have done so with the exception of the Risperdal fiasco and ONE time since being prescribed Prolixin shot in the ass in the fall of 2002.  Otherwise, it has been without fail!  What is more is THAT I have further resolved since the ONE failure to receive the Prolixin shot: TO take the Prolixin shot for as long as the doctors deem it necessary, which means "the rest of my natural life," if IT comes to THAT; the WHICH I am sure that it will!  Are we understood?  Now, as far as the sleep aid goes THAT the doctor prescribes me: THAT IS A PRN, prescribed as needed, OR, on an as needed basis and I do INDEED take IT when I think THAT I need IT.  So, are we understood?  I got pretty close to several real women today.  Like within 10 feet!  I go outside.  It nice day.

MANKIND HAS PASSED THROUGH HIS DARKEST HOUR AND

HE STILL HAS NOT BELIEVED.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

3 LIFE LESSONS THAT I LEARNED FROM A DOG NAMED "TRUST"

"It just keeps on leaking."

"Never thought that I'd hate bush."

"Bush feels too damn good to resist."

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Aggravated Illness by Bearishly Mans Jeers

The Press Herald September 21, 2011
PORTLAND — Police want Portland residents to be aware that there should be no barriers for people who seek mental health support services in the city.
The department held its first Family Forum on Tuesday night at the police station to promote those services and make its position clear: no one, regardless of their situation, should be denied help in a crisis.
Outside, Portland, ME is dark at 4pm in November.  Suffering from a spell of cabin fever on one such evening in 2011 and the dog needing to go out, I ventured out not suspecting what I was about to experience on the street in front of the house where I have lived for ten years.

Some ten years ago, I lived in the West End of Portland before I moved to where I presently stay and have resided for ten years.  

When I lived on the West End of Portland, On or about June 11, 2001, I was stopped by three burly officers of the law in cruisers at Longfellow Square and was asked why I was crowing like a rooster as they had reports of my yelling slurs. I explained that I was not slurring people; that I hated nobody and that I was crowing like a rooster because miscreants were calling me a chicken adding: "I was walking in VD Port the other day reading the Casco Bay Jerkly when all of a sudden one of those high school kids and you know how they hang out down there up and says 'have fun going home with your dog tonight.' So, being a clown I tooted my bike horn twice like a clown does." One of the officers said that this was good, but told me to go home and go to work. I did.  

(For the full story: google "Mental Illness Prophecy"). 

I was hospitalized for SZ in July 2001 after being beaten down in my rental apartment on the fourth of July, 2001 at 1am by the landlord's underage drinking buddies from Portland HS when the landlord and his wife had been out of town and I caught the kids fucking over the chickens in the back yard being awoken by their party. I had called the police, but when the police came, they said not to call them anymore as the kids had hidden and then reappeared after the police left. I was hospitalized for SZ after the Fourth of July, 2001 and released from the psych ward on August 3, 2001. On August 4, 2001, one of the kids from July 4, 2001 shouted at me when he saw me and said that he would "kill me." I proceeded to notify my doctor, my parents, the landlord's friends down the street and the doctor told me to tell the police and file a report, the which when I went to the station, they escorted me to the hospital yet again.

I was in approximately ten police paddy wagons, cruisers and ambulances between 2001 and 2002 in Portland, ME taking me for five hospitalizations due to an illness aggravated by miscreants (or otherwise known as other people's kids) and bad parenting in the community.

On the night in question, Tuesday, November 15, 2011: I was suffering from cabin fever and ventured out for a few minutes with my dog for air.  When I opened the front door and stepped out onto the walk where I live, I noticed a police cruiser with lights flashing and parked.  Another cruiser was up the street.  A police man standing next to the nearer cruiser was texting and a large group of kids (no more in age than 15yo) were running around on the next block apparently going up to different houses and "knocking for suspicious activity" (as I was to find out later is what's dubbed: "Community Policing").


"The Portland Police Department is committed to a community approach to policing our neighborhoods. This requires officers to become immersed in the neighborhoods they serve and become a resource for residents as well as law enforcement."


Apparently, Community Policing is fifteen year old kids knocking for suspicious activity.


Then, as my dog made his usual rounds on the corner with my "rubber necking" some, I was about to turn back into my house when at least six of the group of +/-twenty kids I had seen, ran up to me on the corner while my dog relieved himself, confronted me, and told me to take my hands out of my pockets: that they were going to ask me a few questions.

Having seen a urologist for that particular side effect due to my experiences with other people's kids, I curtly told them to "fuck off," turned around and walked back to my house.  I was standing on the walk way to where I live at the foot of the steps for the front door of the house and the police man whom I had seen texting strode up to me out of the dark and said in an authoritative tone:

"Why were you rude to those kids!?" 

I replied:

"I saw a urologist for that particular side effect."

"What does that have to do with what you told them?" he retorted.

"It means that I don't do what kids tell me and you should know that," failing to mention "Lance the dispatcher" and his knowledge of me my having listened to a police scanner 24/7 for six months once upon a time.  I heard "Lance the dispatcher" tell an officer jokingly that he would order the officer to go after "Jimmy," (assumedly me in my mind), if the officer didn't follow another dispatch order.


The officer standing on the walkway to the house where I live continued:

"Well, those kids are performing a community service.  You shouldn't have told them that.  Do you have ID?"

"Well, I'm schizoid," I told him.  "I saw my doctor today.  I was just coming out to walk my dog.  I live here," I told him.

I gave him my ID and then asked:

"What!?  You going to take me to jail?"

"I might," he retorted as he called in my license number and found out from the "Lance on duty" who I was and my history with police in Portland.

"Hey!"  I told him as he was calling into a dispatcher:  "I counted to 24-1000 on December 8 last year.  I haven't done anything."

Upon retrieving information on my license, he said after he told me to be quiet so he could tell me something:

"If I hear of you being mean to kids again, I am going to arrest you."

Then, I asked:

"Can I tell you something now?"

He acquiesced and I barked:

"Kids were mean to me once upon a time.  You tell those kids NOT to be mean to me or I'll sue!"
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A Pennsylvania man won $50,000 after he was cited for flipping off a cop.


"The U.S. Supreme Court has consistently held that speech may not be prohibited simply because some may find it offensive," said Ira P. Robbins, a law professor from American University in Washington D.C.  "Virtually every time someone is arrested for this, assuming there's no other criminal behavior... the case is either dismissed before trial or the person is convicted at trial and wins on appeal."
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In my experience, Portland's programs for Mental Health Support Services and Community Policing are divergent, contradictory and aggravate situations.


"howler and spider monkeys diverged from a common ancestor".
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"FUCK YOU: YA ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT KIDS!"


Arrest me.

Monday, November 14, 2011

"The Page of News Bites" - infinite boobs

1. Election 2010Maine Governor. Paul LePage (R). wins with 39% of the vote.
2. In what was dubbed "an open conversation with Colby students and Central Maine residents," 
    only heavily vetted questions most palatable to LePage were ever asked.
3. He had a rough start to his administration, with one distraction after another making Mainiacs shake their                        heads and wonder...
4. On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr., Day, Maine's governor Paul LePage told a local television station that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People can "kiss my butt."
5. Governor Paul LePage's answer to a question last week has prompted last minute claims that he is endorsing both sides...
6. Two polls: one shows him surging in popularity. The other? Not so much.
7. Paul LePage ran away from home at age 11 to escape an abusive father.
8. Paul LePage has now proposed mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients.
9. 29% of Maine’s total population is on some form of welfare.  Was LePage on some form of welfare at 11yo?
10. Governor Paul LePage wants to cut in half Maine's reliance on oil for heating homes....
11. Gov. Paul LePage wants education leaders to pressure lawmakers to pass his cuts to the Department of     Health and Human Services’ budget. If they don’t, he said last week, he’ll cut education budgets.
12. Paul LePage says Maine's teachers are not doing enough...
13. Comments from the governor are that some Mainiacs are staying on unemployment because the benefits are good.
14. LePage said some industries are bringing in workers from Jamaica for jobs that Mainiacs could fill, but don't: opting to stay on public assistance.
15. Maine’s largest state workers union has filed a formal complaint against Gov. Paul LePage and his administration for allegedly negotiating a new contract in bad faith.
16. The governor’s spokeswoman called the complaint "a 21-page press release filled with inaccuracies."
17. He has pledged to back right-to-work legislation that union officials have said would cripple them.
18. Gov. Paul LePage ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting Maine's labor history from the lobby of the Department of Labor.
19. Paul LePage and his allies eliminated same-day voter registration in Maine.
20. On election day, voters chose by a 61-39% margin to restore same-day registration.
21. The Boston Globe has reported that in 2010, Maine registered 60,000 new voters on election day and there
were no proven claims of voter fraud.
22. Paul LePage has pledged to continue the fight to restrict voting rights.
23. The governor pledged to stay out of the casino campaigns.
24. Following the casino's rejection on Tuesday's statewide ballot, some in the former mill city feel betrayed by their native son, Gov. Paul LePage.
25. Where does LePage get these crazy ideas?

26. Paul LePage pledged his support for an all-out effort to deal with the problem.
27. Paul LePage merits praise for acknowledging the problem and pledging his support for corrective action and called his governorship "A cheap shot to Maine people...."

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Polymorphosis

Polymorphosis - KJV Adaptation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1m1URS_yn4


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1. In the end, Man created the times and the square.

2. And the square was with edifices, and replete; and neon was upon the façade of the
city. And the Currencies of Man tarried upon the façade of the society.

3. And Man said, Let there be blackouts: and there were blackouts.

4. And Man saw the blackouts, that it was evil: and Man multiplied the blackouts from the neon.

5. And Man called the blackouts Blackouts, and the neon he called Rights. And the electricity and the cocktail were the last right.

6. And Man said, Let there be a network in the midst of the societies, and let it multiply the societies from the society.

7. And Man made the network, and multiplied the societies which were over the network from the society which was the underbelly society: and it was so.

8. And Man called the network Times. And the electricity and the cocktail were the cardinal Right.

9. And Man said, Let the societies over the times be scattered individually into many thoughts, and let the wet-brains disappear: and it was so.

10. And Man called the wet-brains Square(s); and the individual scattering of the societies called he Seers: and Man saw that it was evil.

11. And Man said, Let the square spring forth liquor, the dealer-wielding-weed, and the nut-cases wielding craziness after their differences, whose weed is out of others, under the square: and it was so.

12. And the square sprung forth weed, and dealer-wielding-weed after their differences, and the nut-cases wielding craziness, whose weed was out of others, after their differences: and Man saw that it was evil.

13. And the electricity and the cocktail were the cardinal Right.

14. And Man said, Let there be blackouts in the network of the times to multiply the blackouts from the neon; and let them be for misnomers, and for illogic, and for right, and forgettable:

15. And let them be for blackouts in the network of the times to give blackouts upon the square: and it was so.

16. And Man made two puny blackouts; the puniest blackout to submit to the rights, and the greater blackout to submit to the neon: he made the nook & cranny also.

17. And Man set them in the network of the times to give blackouts upon the square,

18. And to submit under the blackouts and under the rights, and to roll the blackouts with the neon: and Man saw that it was evil.

19. And the electricity and the cocktail were the cardinal Right.

20. And Man said, Let the societies spring forth sparingly the still culture that hath death, and miserly that may bury under the square in the closed network of times.

21. And Man created puny sperms, and every deathly culture that tarries, which the societies sprung forth grudgingly, after their differences, and every binged miser after their differences: and Man saw that it was evil.

22. And Man cursed us, saying, Be crazy, and divide, and empty the society out of the seers, and let misers divide out of the square.

23. And the electricity and the cocktail were the cardinal Right.

24. And Man said, Let the square spring forth the dead culture after their differences, glitterati, and striding person, and urchins of the square after their differences: and it was so.

25. And Man made the urchins of the square after their differences, and glitterati after his differences, and every person that strides upon the square after their differences: and Man saw that it was evil.

26. And Man said, Let us forsake woman in your porno, before your differences: and let them have submission under the semen of the seer, and under the miserly of the grime, and under the glitterati and under all of the square, and under every striding person that strides upon the square.

27. So Man created woman out of other porno, out of the porn of woman created he her; hermaphrodites created he them.

28. And Man cursed them, and Man said to them, Be crazy, and divide, and empty the square, and fuck it: and have submission under the semen of the seer, and under the miserly of the grime and under every 'quick & dead' person that tarries upon the square.

29. And Man said, Behold, you-have-withheld-me-no-dealer-bearing-weed, which is under the façade of all the square, and no case, in the which is the craziness of a nut wielding weed; to you it shall be for vomit.

30. And to no urchin of the square, and to no miser of the grime, and to no person that strides under the square, wherein there is death, you have taken no kind weed for alms: and it was so.

31. And Man saw no person that he had created, and, behold, it was evil. And the electricity and the cocktail were the cardinal Right.
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Polymorph is a mage spell that transforms the enemy into a critter, removing it from combat.

Monday, November 7, 2011

LINKS

Atilla the Dunce - a clown's story


Personal Ad - M4W in Portland, ME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwenpoMEr2o



"The World is Schizoid"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkqcgraoNMM



Katrina Ode (Hurricane Katrina Lament)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLd3qK8CsR4



A Still Small Voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXH9CIWV4g



"The Coincidence of Two Places"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLzwJrY3G0k



The Devil Basking in Moonlight Morgue, visual/audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rRx2Y-i2s



Snip! Snip! - readers' theatre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny_pF3Ioxj0



The Step - readers' theatre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Vi62j23TU



Three Strikes Oman - readers' theatre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__WPFuwudZg



Katrina Ode - readers' theatre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onDDiDsu4Mc


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Fictional radio drama performed and produced live in March of 2000 on WMPG community radio:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheCoincidenceOfTwoPlaces

33 seconds of slow pitch, reverberated, deep tone "devil" noises as if basking in "Moonlight Sonata:"
http://www.archive.org/details/TheDevilBasking

Sunday, November 6, 2011

"Ban Stick-It-Over-Regulation" - 4 PARTS

PART 1:
As far as picking up after a dog with a plastic bag goes as opposed to leaving the doo where it drops, "plastic" is the key word and more of a scourge on the planet than leaving the doo.  It makes more sense to fix scores of 1950's plumbing that leaks raw sewage into ground water for $10,000 before picking up after dogs and fining $250 for violations.  Then, what about homeless people: do they have to pick up after themselves?  Here is one proof plastic, not doo, is the real scourge: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/10/31/141879837/how-soda-caps-are-killing-birds
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PART 2:
Dear Representative:

Greetings!
My ticket for parking on maybe one blade of grass when park rangers park all four tires on the grass like today is an example of "'stick it' over regulation."

You have to be rich to live on water front. I am not rich. The East End is about the only place in Portland where I can snorkel and kayak with my dog. I swim all year because I love to swim.

I have to risk spraining an ankle going down to the back beach over rocks at the East End with my kayak, paddle and dog in tow because I can't use the public boat launch for the kayak, according to the park rangers.

Only if I am going out to a mooring do I get to use the public launch with my kayak while 12ft and under boats with motors use it free, according to park rangers.

Then, there's the four handicap spots. Too many. 2 or 3 spots at most. All those spots are hardly ever filled at one time except by people with no placard.

I saw two cars get 200$ tickets at one time in those spots just the other day and I see no placard in a lot of cars that park there. I've paid attention.

So, my peeve is the "stick it over regulation." I cannot imagine the public being averse to a person with a kayak using the public boat launch when 12ft and under boats with motors and trailers use it free;

just as I wouldn't dare park on another single blade of grass again, but park rangers (NOT an emergency vehicle) park on grass willy nilly and don't get a ticket.

Why else the "no parking on grass" sign other than it kills the grass? Nobody parks on the grass on purpose anyway, except the park rangers!

Maybe my ticket for parking on the grass was the city in my hay day stalking me and sticking it to me having been in ten to fifteen police paddy wagons, cruisers and ambulances over the years in Portland without a criminal record to date. (The ticket was a number of years ago).

And, I won't get into the "breathe easy" laws other than writing "ban kids instead: I have found used diapers buried at the beach."

Maybe I am just giving back some of my own. How bout that? Have fun in the hurricane! I am going windsurfing Sunday, maybe.
-JB

JB -- These seem like legitimate complaints and suggestions to me. I generally agree with you. Kayakers should not have a harder time launching than larger vessels. The city should from time to time survey how much the placarded parking spaces are actually used. Don't know about the parking on the grass but it would be nice if there was a reasonable alternative if possible. And I can't stand when officials, if its for no good reason, do the very things that other people are prohibited from doing. Good luck with this. JH
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PART 3:
"Facebook Share:"

The dog was named Parrot. 
This was taken moments before Parrot was murdered by the cop. The cop drove his knee into the middle of Parrot's back while stretching Parrot's forelegs behind him, as one would do with an armed criminal. Without waiting to determine whether this technique would calm Parrot, the cop grabbed Parrot, lifted him off the ground, and brought him to the top of the concrete staircase. 

He threw Parrot over the banister, down twelve steps, and onto the concrete floor. Then, the cop stood at the top of the stairs, drew his weapon, and executed Parrot. Aaron, the animal's owner, cannot recall the number of shots fired. Witnesses state that Parrot was not harming anybody and was simply frightened by the cop. At no time did Parrot try to bite the officer, all he did was start barking.

It doesn't matter if you are a part of an Occupy movement, PETA, Republican, Democrat, Independent Religious or not, if you are a part of the human race this should be a wake up call that something is very wrong with our society.

Isn't brutally killing animals something that most Serial Killers do right before they switch to killing humans?
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PART 4:
The irony of the dog 'Parrot' share is not only the name of the dog, what happened and how 'we' came to share it, but to me: it has significance in what I have done to throw the cops off my tail from the old days in this town. The last violation I had three years ago now was for not wearing a seat belt. I paid the ticket and on the same day, I mailed a donation in the Portland Police Dept's name to the Animal Refuge League using a postal money order with "no dog seat belt" in the memo. Since, I have made one other multi pronged attack by mail to finish the job, which also included a postal money order for $44.44 with a 44¢ stamp in the Portland Police Dept's name to the ARL. I haven't been bugged since.  The other part of the attack is posted as "Ban Stick-It Over Regulation' addressed to representatives in local government with a response from a senator in my district.  'Parrot' is larger than life now and viral.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Hearts-A-Fire: Opening Minds...a definition of art

Incipient so bovine, art is perpetual births of intelligenti from decimated duplicities on blank slates. Blinks, saplings, roes, calves, fledgling stars, etc. are germs of wisdom encapsulated from pain into supple nurture. From warmth into cold, hard worlds and "home" again sitting by hearths nursing frail and feeble minds in illuminati works is art.  Art, like life, is illusive(s): apparitions which render infinite minds and seers of visions, if perspicacious.  Art begins formless.

Friday, November 4, 2011

"at variance" appears twice in the KJV

OT
Sir.8[2] Be not at variance with a rich man, lest he overweigh thee: for gold hath destroyed many, and perverted the hearts of kings.

NT
Matt.10[35] For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
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at variance = at odds
The OT verse is Solomon and the NT verse is red letter.

Questions:

What conclusions, if any, can be drawn from each of the verses individually and together as a whole message?  Was the OT verse about plutocracies and the NT verse about the overturning of plutocrats, as seen with Jesus and money changers (authority) in the temple?

If so, can parallels be drawn between independence movements throughout history to date with "Occupy?"

Will democracy prevail or will plutocrats continue to establish laws which amount to "money talks, bullshit walks" while sending sons and daughters to die or be maimed in war with no aid from the very plutocrats who sent them so that we get what we have today in America where America wants it: America gets it!?

What does America get?  What do you get but being at odds (at variance) with everybody and everything, congressional gridlock over taxes for the richest 1% when 46% of congressional members are millionaires and a poke in the eye for the 99% occupying!

"Whether 'tis nobler in mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them."

Katrina Ode jpg

Katrina Ode

EYE
WEEPING
EYES, RENT IN TWAIN, STRAIN TO SEA
WIND WEARY MAGNOLIA TREES AND
WYNTON BURRS REIGNING FREE
SEE ICY SEAS FACE CLIFFS
WHY RELAX MOON EYES
DRIVE WEARY STRAIN WAN
RACE LEFT A NEST A FELT SEA
WE SAW NEW DABS WAX & WAN
BE IT TO THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
WYNTON WIND AND EYES RIVE TO BE
WEEPING 
EYE

Magnolia is the state tree of Louisiana.  Wynton is Marsalis, the jazz musician from New Orleans.  Race reference is the aftermath of Katrina shown on TV with seas of African American faces herding out of a cesspool stadium where they sought shelter.  'Dabs' is like a jazz note or as if a paint brush stroke on canvas, etc.  The star is six pointed, as if the conditions in New Orleans were of the devil or as the result of poor infrastructure for the nation's poorest resulting in dire consequences and the spotlight comment that the President at the time didn't like black people: which hints racism or evil or of the devil and hence, a six pointed star.  Finally, the 'Katrina Ode' is composed of pseudo-anagrams from an original phrase thinking of the 'wide cliffs of Dover.'  The phrase was "see icy seas face cliffs, why relax moon eyes."

Proof

The existence of God is proved by the existence of Darwinism and both concepts coexisting from one thought: many, which mirror nature (God) itself as a whole.

Qoh.1[4] One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

"Global Warming," a man-made event due to the "industrial age," will cover earth as if with a blanket: a toxic fog which will suffocate life leaving earth barren save: microbes, odd specie and sparse peoples.  After that time, earth's ozone and climate will morph into incipience, as if a lilly burgeoning from a buried corpse lending nutrient for growth.

Dinosaur extinction was due to: build ups of gas in earth's ozone; continental shifts over eons; a changing and a lack of food sources; over population; etc., much like the state of earth in human times.  Evolution will see life as we humans know it: extinct!  Or, evolved into placarded eons as lonely, bony remains to be discovered by galactic interlopers, if any remnant of "human thought" exists at that time other than bones and pyramids.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

One Year: No Beer; Nov. 3, 2011

No amount of AA alone could have relieved my alcoholism; not even five meetings in a day at one point could have relieved my polydipsia, which caused my being a dipsomaniac.  "Polydipsia" simply means "excessive thirst" and "dipsomania" means "alcoholism."

In order to make one year possible for me after 25 years of drinking beer excessively where one is too many and 12 is not enough: it was a combination of AA, a doctor who prescribed a sleep aid and ginger ale.

AA enabled me to think differently enough to try ginger ale a year ago and at first not liking it thinking it tasted like medicine, I have now acquired a taste for ginger ale.  I acquired a taste for beer when I was twelve years old and was told that beer is an acquired taste: instilling in me the desire to acquire a taste for beer at twelve.

Having tried many different "soft" drinks including: Cola, water, fruit juice, beer shandies, etc., and finally trying ginger ale with a splash of lemonade and ice last year never having tried it as a "drink of choice:" I have found the magic elixir to relieve my dipsomania.

I now treat my polydipsia with ginger ale, which has electrolytes and does not cause fatality as does excessive water drinking or the "runs:" as does Cola and fruit juice.

"Drink Canada dry" is my new motto along with AA's "Think think think," although 7-11 sells "Schweppes" at 1.06$ for a refill 40 oz "double gulp" where I buy my 2-4 "double gulps" of ginger ale per day.

Still, I am not averse to AA or doctors or help of any kind to stop drinking and will be going to a meeting soon to pick up a year chip and announce my program of "drink Canada dry" in order to carry "the message" to "the still suffering alcoholic."