Malibu morning picture of the day - Friday, November 21, 2014

Dear Family, Friends, and Gentle Readers,

Another Friday has arrived. We have run full circle from Monday back to a (near) cloudless blue sky.

































No Santa Ana winds blowing ill today. As I walked up the stair to my office building, all flags were hanging flaccidly down.

This was yesterday at the bus stop; took 3.5 hours to get home,
but maybe seeing this for a few seconds made it worth it.

While we're on that metaphor, best wishes to all you gentlemen out there who need to fly at full mast sometime this weekend. If you've been following public news discourse lately, looks like there's a growing belief that males need to have an "off switch" that can easily flipped.

IF ONLY male sexuality worked that way, we'd have a lot less trouble in the world. Since there's a drought on in California, dudes can't even take cold showers ...

Same scene, just 30 seconds earlier...

The Buddhists got that one gold-standard right--desire is at the heart of human suffering. However, let us remember, that if male desire is constant and predictable, it is then a force that can be manipulated by skillful people (men and women both--but advertisers and fashion designers mostly), who know how to use social coding to great advantage.

Malibu hill turned vermillion last night while trudging down
to the bus stop; it ain't Arizona/Utah but nice anyway.

Come on people! Train your daughters to be expert ball-busters, or drop a truckload of etiquette rules on your sons and shame them about their bodies' impulses like in the good old days. Suggestion: shame works a lot better coming from religion than from Uncle Sam ...OK, I admit it. Sometimes I'm a Hobbesian-Calvinist-Buddhist-Randian, but only when it suits me. I'll probably be Zoroastrian tomorrow.



You still here? Sat through all that boring bullsh!t? Get a life and start on your weekend, full staff!

Love (and Desire to you),
Pops