
There is apparently a religion stupider than ours.
"Bitch, whore... these names reserved for female dogs and politicians. Babylon has fallen, as did Norton Air Force Base. From whence do the new Babylonians dwell? Highland, mother of all STD hordes of whores. On the street that north most intersects Piedmont, near the Wal-mart does she resideth: The Whore of the New Babylon. Highland, Ca. Woe is he that taketh her in for she will clog your toilets, drink your spirits, and urinate on your carpets and couches. She causeth your 'friends' to sleep with her and argue with you over very nature of digital television as if it were high definition. She debateth not what she knowith and demandith sympathy for every transgression she claimeth happened her. Heed not her crocodile tears because she will fuckith your 'friend' when you lookith not."
--Pre-Evangelations 12:16-34
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.Of course this could be coincidence but then I found this picture of her and I couldn't help but wonder...
--Revelations 17:1-6
Lately I have seen someone so frequently that I can draw them from memory. That someone is Death. I speak metaphorically of course, but if I was the nocturnal emission of Ingmar Bergman I would challenge my newfound adversary to a game of chess... speed chess. Let's face it, in this fast paced world we have schedules to maintain.
My latest meeting involved someone too damn young to be abducted by a pasty-faced scythe wielding druid. The last secondary job I had was doing security at a sleepy mountain town resort where I befriended said individual. He was the son of my boss; a feisty woman with a pension for tyrannical persuasions; when left to her own devices; who ultimately drove me away with her inability to maintain a Fonzy-like presence, which is necessary in modern day management. He showed all the symptoms of an iconoclast: an inability to fit in fashion wise, the disregard for rules, speed limits, boundaries, and suggestions. He was known to even defy me even though he and I knew it was an exercise in futility.
Drake was amanboy after my own heart. I say boy because he was not allowed the luxury to grow into a man. Fate, cruel like a media critic, took a premature swipe at him and left him without a future. He was not allowed to fulfill his destiny as a computer hacker, a mastermind criminal, or even worse, a CEO of [insert successful corporation here]. At 14 he died from massive head trauma due to an untimely automobile accident and left a few hundred people at a loss for words.
At the service I was moved, yet not surprised at the attendance.