l.p. - luminous pondering - hmm...

Reports coming in from Atlanta (it has to be true if it comes from A-aaaaaa-tlaaaantaaaaa!) are turning out to be... hmm... quite alarming really! A deadly bacterial illness appears to be spreading - becoming more common among the masses in general... Whereas, before this trend was noticed, only a certain percentage of the population was prone to it. That percentage of the population that was hooked on antibiotics, ironically... Hmm... And of course, epidemiologists are clueless as to the "why" of this... now... at this particular time and conjoncture! They were all bracing themselves for something else - and here was sneaking up on everyone THIS one - since 2003 in fact...! Thousands have died, it is now revealed... Hmm... with health prevention like this, we need not a full-fledged pandemic I think...

... Some songs inspire us grand things... Some titles of songs are misleading too - likewise for the titles of certain albums ... Such as Shakira's album pictured here... But that is another story! *lol* What of songs' titles that, when coupled with the band's name... make absolutely no sense?!? As in the case of one of the tracks that you may be listening to right this instant as you read my whimsical bit - track #9 on the playlist to be found just down below here... "HOPE" by the little-known group called "Anathema". Hmm... what is wrong with THAT picture? Can there truly be any "hope" for the anathema?!? One needs to know the meaning of the word anathema of course in order to know... Or merely attempt to make any sort of call on that rather... ah... touchy subject still? Touchy... but barely so nowadays! Who cares anymore about such things as the purgatory, limbo, hell, excommunication, the difference between seven deadly sins and seven v...

This museum exhibit in Boston seems to be trying to make the case that Star Wars "science" and real science are getting closer and closer with each passing day... Yes, folks, we may very well be driving around in our own private little Land Speeder one day, soon... hmm... well, maybe... However, until they make them nifty light-sabers, I will not be convinced - nor satisfied! But of course, light-sabers are to be handled only by enlightened ones, as on the big screen now! For reality sure needs to imitate art if they ever do make them light-sabers - like, commercially!? Imagine them becoming available in an all-American Wal-Mart near you: any nitwit could pick one up, just like, I dunno, just like they buy a gun, for crying out loud! It should be restricted to an elite customer-base, really, for we do NOT want fanatics, lunatics or other "ics" strutting around brandishing weapons like that, now do we? They better ponder the question carefully before making any more...

Surely you know what Ted Turner once said... Surely every single one of you heard it before... That thing he said about Christianity - that it was the religion for LOSERS...? Teddy Turner may already feel like he paid dearly for that - I mean, where is he now? He lost his Jane, lost his WCW, got tossed aside the moment his company became the multi-mediatic conglomerate it is now...  (AOL/Time-Warner - see any Turner left in there?) The true morale here, is this: when you are fortunate enough to have been a winner for a fleeting moment in time, do not burp and do not gloat with conceit. An overwheening opinion of one's rank, one's creed or oneself in general will only be met by disappointment and bitterness to the utmost degree, in the end. For there are not merely dozens of losers - we ALL lose.  There is this classic song that claims ''Everyone's A Winner - That's A Fact!'' What it does not say is that we all win - sometimes. And then we all ...