In the Alley we got nothing
We ain't got much to lose
We ain't got no momentum
'Cept good ole moody blues
But there's one thing we got plenty of
Not on no five o'clock news
It's something the correct ain't never got
We say just what we choose
Welcome to The Alley page of cosmicflyswatter.com. This page is dedicated to regular folks, not necessarily alley dwellers, but we won't leave them out. And we suggest, like we have on our Aliens page, that you wear a hard hat while you are here even after the construction of this page is complete.
For starters you should know that we don't believe that all knowledge can only be obtained in books. It is true that many useful things come from education. In fact we suggest that everyone gets as much book learning as they possibly can. If you've got a mind for science or technology we could all use your talents, thank you very much. But something happens to a lot of folks when they go to college, especially if they go to Ivy League colleges. They become part of a club. And they love the club so much that they are willing to practice any fashionable delusion that secures their position in that club. They indulge in bad Language Arts, and pretty soon they have restructured their Lens Poles to override a normal balanced perspective. In short they obscure their own common sense.
Well... we intend on asking those who may or may not have much formal education to help them out of their partial delusions. After all it's a good thing to pursue the way things really are even if we cannot all agree on it. And a dose of common sense just might be good for everyone.
We have already recruited several folks who are willing to participate. Two of them asked if they could be anonymous. We told them it was not a problem. If they begin to contribute regularily, we will have to cook up a user-name for them. We will let you know about them soon. Three others have told us that if they do participate they have no problem with using their own identities. So stay tuned.
We will start posting this stuff after the first of the year. We have photography coming and we will have audio from street interviews to be obtained by an independent film producer friend of ours. The interviews will be strictly audio since it will be easier to get folks to participate this way.
As a sample of what we will be doing here, we will offer this first entry:
I stopped at an ATM in Duarte CA after going to Home Depot. As I went back to my car parked at the curb, a pretty ratty looking fellow was sitting on a bus bench reading the New York Times. He dropped his paper and said good morning to me. I returned his friendly gesture and asked him if there was anything in the paper that was interesting. He said there was only election news. I asked him what he thought about it. He answered,
"It's all silk purses and sow's ears."
"How so?" I asked.
"Well you had the Republicans telling everyone they could make a silk purse out of a sow's ear," he said.
"And what about the Democrats?" I asked.
"They just told everyone they are the silk purse," he replied....
Jingo was his name, and I want to thank Jingo for our first entry.
We have a page coming for entries just like Jingo's above. There is not much on it now. We are gathering content as we speak. It's our Street Talk page. We should have it loaded up after the Bowl games.