I need a bigger scanner now that my sketchbooks are bigger.

Anyways, since you liked the sprawing doodle style, I thought I’d toss one off in your honor, doc.

These things are pretty much stream of consciousness. Like most content on this here blog.

In my twisted future, Abe Lincoln makes babies with John Lennon and produces the figure in this image, a patriot for Cognitive Rights.

This little guy embedded above is a djinn about the size of a cat or an owl, and he nibbles on the nerves of liars and crooks in the washing dc region, and the fox news channel. His name is Scootch, and he likes buy his friends drinks, especially when he knows they will return the favor, sooner or later. He is cool like that.

As Media Matters has documented, during the Bush administration, the media consistently allowed conservatives to dominate their shows, booking them as guests far more often than progressives. The rationale was that Republicans were “in power.”

It appears that old habits die hard. Even though President Obama and his team are in control of the executive branch and Democrats are in the majority in Congress, the cable networks are still turning more often to Republicans and allowing them to set the agenda on major issues, most recently on the debate over the economic recovery package.

[Thinkprogress.com]

I’m not the most informed man in the world when it comes to politics or the media, but to me there seems to be a fundamental flaw in seeing Republican dominance on cable news as something born out of favoritism. The Republicans are just more interesting right now.

We already know that news is a part of the entertainment industry, but people forget that they follow they same rules. The spotlight has to follow the drama. All of Obama’s cronies agreeing with him doesn’t really make for compelling television, but leather faced christian dudes with a bone to pick does, especially in light of all the good vibes the city dwelling parts of the country seems to be feeling.

The Republicans made this really interesting gesture by giving a zero vote in the house for the stimulus bill. They are essentially aligning with Rush here, because they are banking on the economy getting much worse than it gets better. They want Obama to fail and they want to leverage some respect/fear back into the people so they can reclaim their shrinking base of power [and undo all those anti-lobbyist laws]. In the same stroke they have also demonstrated that they are powerless to stop the momentum of the new administration, which is great. But lets face it, even if the stimulus has a positive effect, it will never ever be positive enough to not be labeled a failure. The question is, does anyone really buy what these guys are saying anymore?

The media gives these guys screen time with a serious face because they are being contentious, and it makes for dramatic tv, but I don’t think it matters too much. I don’t think people are interested in hearing what they have to say, really. That’s not why they are given screen time. They are put on there so we can see whats happening in Washington. These guys who certainly have zero of my interests in mind are making all the fuss they possibly can, and we watch them just to see just exactly how they will fall apart in the face of the changing tide.

It is kind of like a curse. A curse of black magic against someone makes them do either one of two things, go down a path of destruction, or evolve into an entity unrecognizable from the one with the curse on its head. Sometimes a little of both happens, and thats what may actually happen here.

The Republicans are going to need a bailout of their own, right now their tactics are going to lead them in a very bad place, and I don’t think they can survive like that if things go well in the world, and they just might. If that happens, I see the Republicans and Christian Right dealing with an identity crisis. (Note that priest scandals are also a media focus right now.) Someone may actually come out of the woodwork and become the Right’s answer to the Obama savior-figure. I see this figure as being someone who takes it upon himself to recontextualize the core values of ‘good Christians’ [think 7th Heaven] and repackage it into something without all the baggage of pro-life, anti-sex, and corporate dickery, while also taking a stand on current issues that matter.

Rather than make the Democrats out to be reckless spenders and radical liberals, Republicans will have to swing in the other direction somehow. Move away from fear, and onto radical love. They need to make Democrats seem pious, boorish, and part of the wreckage of ages past. There is only one way I can think of to make this happen, and it would be if they got their act together with finding the right way to pitch Cognitive Rights and Drug Freedom to America before the Democrats are ready to even touch that subject.

Obviously this is pure fantasy and hippy wank, but Ganesh is hoping that one day his image in the Republican logo will transmute into a little something more like this:

Honestly I’m just hoping Cognitive Rights to be a bigger issue on the table by 2013, and somehow rewiring the ailing Republicans seems like the most interesting way to do that. They are essentially very religious people, willing to go out on a limb for their moral values, but what would happen if you Turned them On and had them meet their god face to face?

This rant is creative fiction, but at least I’m honest about it, unlike the cable news networks.

In truth Christianity all the way back to Zoroastrianism is based on living the pure life and keeping things as straight edge hardcore as humanly possible, although the rules get more lax the farther away you get from Ancient Persia. But hey, there are lots of Christians for Cannabis groups out there, and if they can make any headway in making the Christian zombie nation to do things that I would appreciate, that would be pretty Slack.

On a side note: There are lots of people out there who apparently think Obama is the Anti-Christ. I really want to take the time to make an Obama as the anti-christ website, but spin it in the sense that I am someone who is aware of this but also turns out to be a Satanist who is rooting for his man. It works on so many levels! I suppose an interesting way to tie this myth into the Psychedelic Republican myth is to spin the angle that Satanists don’t want people to have Cognitive Rights [or at least are unwilling to ever share their stash], which would put the pressure on Christian America to head for the other direction.

…yeah, I’m pretty much full of shit. I wish CNN would do a show called “What If…” much along the lines of the old Marvel series. This cover pretty much synchronizes with everything I just ranted about, so I must be onto something.

If all of these things happen, please don’t burn me at a stake.

Drawing on bus stop windows, originally uploaded by chaoflux.

Making the best of the rain…

it has farm animals all over it. got it for like 5 bucks. style. motherfuckers.

this is old memes to most of you.

I got lots of emails and dialog about my ‘looking for’ post.

Sorry to everyone I haven’t gotten back to yet, I want to give the attention you deserve.

Overall you folks helped crack my sullen expression and made me more comfortable with being pretentious.

I know that is part of who I am, and there is no use fighting it anymore. ^_^

My sense of community is renewed, now with a wider scope and aids free.

On the art front, my supplies are just being shipped TODAY, after ordering it so long ago.

I’ve been aching to get started on my master plan, I have the logo, brand, and scheme all cooked up.

It feels like everything I do that isn’t this project is just wasted time, and I’m glad I wont be held up much longer.

I only really posted this nonsense because I finished my lunch break food pretty quickly, because it wasn’t much, and I had time to kill. Twitter had nothing popping so here I am, wasting your life as I waste mine. Cheers.

New LOST is pretty good. Essentially it seems like a payoff season, and face to face Dharma time is an exciting prospect. I’m rooting for Ben.

Also: cocks.

individuals.

individuals with experience.

individuals with genuine artistic talent:
Not crafters.
Not illustrators.
Not editors.
Not marketers.
Not schemers.
Not even witless pranksters.

Artists.

individual artists who are not:
strung out
act strung out
incapable of holding a dialog
exceedingly hip
stupid

individual artists who are:
intelligent
interesting
honest
humorous
self aware
self directed
multifaceted
magical

ideally:

Individuals with experiences with occult techniques, but not ruled by them. Experiences, not just knowing about them, or what to expect they would be like. Individuals who have had such experiences who indulge in their enjoyment, without looking back bitterly upon when their rationality and leashes abandoned them. Rather, those who are ready and able to enjoy all possible realities, for whatever they bring to ones own personal mythic narrative of life.

Individuals aware of Intellectual Decompression, creating a space and time in which belief of consensus reality falls away in favor of a subjective, dreamy, cathardic, and artistic playground. The realm of the Muse, where magic and creativity are spawned. Intellectual Decompression means that outside of this time and space, there are no machine elves, no ghosts, no gods, and no monsters. Although creativity of course, cannot be locked up in such confines.

Individuals who want to meet individuals who fill these qualifications. Individuals who are serious when it comes to their passions and their muses, but can laugh at just about everything else. Individuals who are diciplined, who can get into character, those who exceed at playing pretend, but don’t lose sight that its a game.

Individual of style, and the ability to freestyle, at the drop of a hat.

Individuals who can forth bring enriching experiences without even intending to. Individuals not entirely interested in selling out and making a profit. Individuals free of dogma, free of taboo, free.

Individuals who don’t need to convince people. Individuals who don’t find anything charming about alpha bully attitudes. Mature individuals, who want to play and who want to create.

Wide eyed idealists with hard heads and smiling faces, welcome.

chaoflux23 [atttt] gmail, with no real plan in mind, besides fun, friendship, and art.

I need to test an outlet to make sure the voltage isn’t too high or too low for my vinyl cutter, and I’ve been struggling to get this thing to work, without doing things I don’t understand which I’m afraid will kill me.

There are lots of warnings on my vinyl cutter too that say not to eff around when it comes to the voltage you plug this thing into, which could also lead to death and doom.

This post is mostly directed at NobleKale, my robot building comrade of awesome. What should I do/not do?

Cutter specs: