Kattte Blog Comments (78)

RE: Cs profiles

Add some Bay leaves to the salt while the profile "cooks" in your mind...

RE: Philosophical Fiction

All the above has already been done and expressed from the early days of the Dadaists, in verse, free verse, musical scores, songs and even ballets and films; same with aural Cubism. See some of the films by Dali or the noted Dada artists from the 1920's in German and French. Many compositions embracing all manner of Surrealism were done for the "Film Noir" genre, a mostly French style of film, later taken up by some American film makers in the late 30's to mid 40's. In the 1950's it was again taken up by some Hollywood producers that did films on and about the Beat Generation and incorporating the Jazz Be-Bop lingo of the late 40's right up to the mid 60's . One singer Cleo Lane was really quite versed in singing it and her albums sold rather well as did recordings of Dada type poetry. See all of the films by Dali. They are both hilarious and "far out" as the saying went. It may open your mind as to what took place before you came to be. Explore the past before you declare a future as it has either been tried and done before. There is nothing new under the proverbial sun; things just recycle over time.

RE: why do buses have adverts for mars bars on their sides and not sell them ???

If buses carried sample products of all items they have ads for, there wouldn't be room for passengers...duh...
what if one bus advertised funereal homes and caskets...would you expect the bus to have a sample coffin on board and a funereal director handing out brochures or discount vouchers....

RE: Philosophical Fiction

Lovely; Allan Ginsberg meets and recites Bach ....pure electric sandwiches...

RE: Things To Do In 2018

So, you now wish to live indecently...very good! I hope that it all turns out for the best as living indecently is way more fun and interesting than just that boring old and staid stale life that most people strive for.
Long live indecency and debauchery!!

RE: Is it me...

Hey Dedo! Hate to tell you, but it shouldn't come as a total surprise to you, the numbers of writers or would-be writers that can get wasted before, or during their compositions are very few and very far between... there are no budding Harlan Ellisons or Hunter H. Thompsons lurking in this dingy dusty, broken-down ol' cantina let alone any new James Joyces either sitting at the table or wasted lying on the floor with all his notes scattered about...
Let's share a bottle of good ol' slivovitz...

RE: I’m getting a new mattress today

Hey, remember that it takes 2 men to carry a mattress into the house and up stairs....

RE: Ratman And Bobbin

"According to the locals it all started when the massive automobile, resembling Batman’s Batmobile, stopped in front if a cupcake warehouse in Malaysia. It was driven by somebody who looked like a lighter version of Batman and the only passenger resembled a broader Robin.dancing ".....

Find many of the original Batman and Robin movies from the 1920's and 30's on U Tube...the one from ,1929 if I recall correctly, Batman is FAT...he can barely run after the bank robber; gets winded and barely wins the fight with the street hood...Robin...minces around; it's a wonder that he's a boy at all...Those original movies are a riot of laughter ....

RE: The American Nightmare

For perhaps the laugh of a lifetime, just Google 'people of wall mart' and watch the vids from many stores all over the US...You will find ALL the stereotypes from Mr. & Mrs. Sixpack to Mr. Frontporch to Ms. Minnie Anne Backstoop from Ronkonkoma, NY to Teutopolis, Illinois to Vinegaroon, Texas to Alien, Michigan to Boring Oregon City...anBedbug, Calif. and back to Mars, Pa....a real kaleidoscope of the US( and very odd place names...)

A Perspective: Men and the Myth of The "Midlife Crisis"...

itchy witch, apology accepted; we're all prone to making remarks that others find startling or surprising ...You're a very level headed woman and many of us value your opinions and thoughts on all manner of topics.
There are so many factors that influence the 'average' words or actions of male/ men's wide range of irresponsibilities: geography, social class; level of education; their culture, etc. Irresponsibilities are the easy out for many which usually only exacerbates social and economic wrongs, most especially wherein gender becomes an over-riding issue when it should not. Psychologically the perpetuation of inequality is living within a society built of lies; being in a state of 'professional hypocrisy' which affects their minds. People are tired of lies and hypocrisy and hopefully males, especially in North America, will abandon the charades, the lies and the perpetuation of all gender inequalities and mature into what I perceive as 'real men'. Maintaining inequality is the same as telling lies and full equality is like admitting the truths; one doesn't need to remember what lies they have told if they never lie in the first place. I see the better option being truths and equality; it makes for a much better society for everyone. ( I seem to get carried away with some things that I see as just plain wrong...my apologies)

RE: On the bright side of the blogs

Wow! Your comments/ assessment of people here is the best I've read in years; truly a positive person you are.
Sao Paulo! I loved that city! One of the very best in South America; much better than Rio especially all the people that I met there.

A Perspective: Men and the Myth of The "Midlife Crisis"...

Redex•12 hrs ago•Northumberland, England UK
Morning Kattte i reckon TK is got this one in the bag.

If you have ever read the book by Desmond Morris The Human Jungle, he reckons two humans together for all their lives (marriage) is asking too much. He reckoned we should all just sign contracts, first one stay together until children have grown, then iether opt out---as we will have changed concept of living, OR sign back in. Then next date would be when retired, as again as humans should and do change the way we view the world and ourselves scold scold roll eyes roll eyes no mention of red cars though.

Hallo Redex: I rather like Desmond Morris and have several of his books. In the Jungle, he presents a good case for the signed agreements/ contracts, etc. but he rarely addressed the issue of children and that entails the age old practice of keeping lovers, concubines etc. Children born of any union are left out as heirs that have welfares to administer; Ha! my next blog topic! Redex•12 hrs ago•Northumberland, England UK
Morning Kattte i reckon TK is got this one in the bag.

If you have ever read the book by Desmond Morris The Human Jungle, he reckons two humans together for all their lives (marriage) is asking too much. He reckoned we should all just sign contracts, first one stay together until children have grown, then iether opt out---as we will have changed concept of living, OR sign back in. Then next date would be when retired, as again as humans should and do change the way we view the world and ourselves scold scold roll eyes roll eyes no mention of red cars though.

A Perspective: Men and the Myth of The "Midlife Crisis"...

I have no problems with reality or any of the old age hangups so many have but I certainly do try and refrain from the more crude manners of expressing myself. Thank you for your eloquence, I'm sure.

A Perspective: Men and the Myth of The "Midlife Crisis"...

Has anyone ever heard the phrase "biological imperative"? If not find the definition. Biology or any science doesn't take PC ideas or ideology into how it operates or influences us. Get over it.
Women as a general rule drool more over shiny new cars than the male drivers...they are attracted by 'flash' and of course, cash which the driver is presumed to have to spend on them...all strictly mercenary for however the attractions last.

RE: Still the same

My profound sympathies for being forced to read and re-read Wilbur Smith "epics"; seems that is all he wrote though one of his actual novels did get me started on a rather over long 'career'; "Dark Of The Sun"...loved that novel and the film, especially after seeing all the news coverage of the Congo uprising and then all the successive 'uprisings' from the 60's to the 70's with Mozambique and Angola. During a 2 week on and off again siege by tens at our firebase near the Zambian border we had to endure 8 or 9 showings of Dark Of The Sun! It was the only film that was sent to us from Salisbury...we knew all the lines from all the characters...what a way to fight a war! Try getting some books by H.P. Lovecraft or even Frederik Forsythe...he did a few novels that took place in various part of Africa and was a better writer in my view. Smith always seemed 'too British' for a South African writer...(yet born in what became Zambia...somewhat strange) . Smith seems to have latched unto writing "epics" that mainly appealed to Brits with delusions of still running everything in Southern Africa..and they bought more of his books than South Africans did. Though it was a South African BSAP officer that recommended the British writer Tom Sharpe to me and gave a copy of his infamous novel 'Riotous Assembly'....Loved it and found copies of all his other novels...Sometimes any are much better than the current crop of blogs of rants and raves... Welcome back.

RE: Did you know...

Reading all this has been as insane as watching old Benny Hill reruns...

RE: Adventures in caving, or spelunking

3rd try...CENOTES !

RE: Adventures in caving, or spelunking

CENTS and caves!

RE: Adventures in caving, or spelunking

Head for Yucatan in Mexico; more cents and caves per kilometre than any place in the world...just fantastic. Many will require scuba gear the closer you are to the ocean.
Found an accent pre-historic cave while repelling down amounts in Rhodesia during an op. It was filled with paintings and hand prints. The archeologists loved it. The Red Sea coastal areas has many still unexplored caves into the Gulf of Aden including ancient shipwrecks both in water and on land. Natives are at times gun happy in that part of the world...but that is part of the excitement...

RE: Interesting Times in Southern Africa

Reconciliation with the past, especially in conflicts can take generations. It all depends on how much energy is wasted trying to keep old animosities alive and festering. I rather like what the "God father of Soul" James Brown said once: If you gonna change the world, the first thing you gotta do is change your hearts!" Many do not and will not change...shame.

RE: GO TO YOUR ROOM AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU DONE

Being sent to one's room is not always a negative experience...as Leonardo Da Vincy said:" Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large rooms cause it to go astray.." (meaning it causes the imagination to grow and imagination sets one free of all walls. Childhood demands imagination to live and not simply exist.

RE: “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

"“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”


"Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning." Cardinal Neuman
but then again: one's life may lose it's meanings once you see how meaningless life is for so many...it is like a virus...Life is tough.

RE: Be careful

Love Harlan Ellison...truly, one of the 2 greatest American writers ever...the other being Gore Vidal as far as I'm concerned...Read on!

RE: the antisocial

RE: although

Well said Free. That's why I loved to travel so much to see and experience all the different peoples of our planet; their cultures, their ethnicities and diverse languages....and their cuisines...A joy for the mind and the palate!

RE: "Calm before the storm."

One can't fully understand history unless one understands its flowing, its current and the way leaders move within such forces. A leader, especially this so called 'leader' must perpetuate the conditions which demand his type of leadership. This type of leader requires outside forces, such as NK. This leader may evolve into the State, into a church, while can elevate him further with the old barbaric form of an Epic, the popular dramatic ideal...heroism, even dances, wildly abandoned. It stimulates the imagination, it makes people feel the lack of that which the leader takes from them. The worst thing he takes is their right to participate in history. He has the power. The fallacy of power is that ultimately it is effective only in an absolute; a series os situations but the basic lesson of our relativistic world is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power and the only sure test of which is the greater power is by war. There is no there way.
Peace depends upon solutions, but we never reach living solutions; we only work toward them since the so called end of WW2 while nearly all of Asia was still and remains in some fashion, at war...A fixed solution is, by definition, a dead solution. The trouble with Peace is that it tends to punish mistakes instead of rewarding brilliance.
To paraphrase a NYC councilman quoted in a NY Times Magazine article of years ago, as we debate the matter of North Korea, that sword of Damocles is hanging over Pandora's box...

RE: Waking up Tomorrow Morning as a Man or Woman

Perhaps I should as today "nostalgia" for an illusionary past that never existed is like a virus; a return to "the good ol' days ; of people wishing for things that never were.
The positive memory is the one that stays. Over several generations the positive memory tends to weed out more and more of what really existed, of how things really were, refining it down to a distillation of human desires. Those desires become more and more artificial and more of a real obsession. Those of unsound minds will believe the artificial; the made-up fakery of reality. It's their way of coping. It's pathetic.

Abandoned Homes and Symbols Left Behind...

Hello Redex
I had a somewhat similar experience in a 12th century cemetery in Germany beside an ancient castle, wherein a knight and his lady were buried both having died shortly after their reunion They were separated over 20 years he a knight at the Holy Land. Reading of their life carved on the tomb's stone for both, left me with a profound sense of joy and sadness' both did their duty to God and to each other and both were reunited with each other. I could easily imagine them, arm in arm there strolling still deeply in love and totally devoted to each other...the cemetery not so crowded, the flowers in bloom on a summer's day...truly a walk with love and death. The image was intense and remains so yet. Be open to the possible vibrations around homes, be they castles or just an old house and enjoy the sensations at what you may experience.

RE: They say that the Woman loves what she hears

So, you're saying that a woman wants to "sleep" with god...ok. If you're a male, then tell her you're god and she then 'sleeps' with you...a bit boring all that needless masquerade...

RE: hot

Rule 1 in the Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy; always have your towel with you...