Pointerz II (continued from "pointers" post below)

- did you see/hear Elmherst, the neighbor’s cat, sneeze?

- “Bay Area”: what do these words evoke for you? Try not to think too much, just let yourself feel the words. When you read the words do your eyes just see them? or does your mind instantly start reading them and give them content. Now try replacing “Bay” with “Bat” or "Day"… ready? what happened? Notice anything different, unusual? (ie. is someone staring at you in the check out line at trader joe’s? are you wearing green pants? are you texting someone with longer than usual finger nails? Is your name Turkey McDover or is it Lars T. Heirloom?) Think about these things, pay attention to detail. If applied thoroughly this method should show the insight that “Bay Area“, or any other expression, such as "office hours", "traffic jam", "momma hendrick’s pot roast",… are just a combination of sounds/words, verbal/mental constructs lacking inherent substance.

Realizing that, you are free to:

- buy an extremely powerful flashlight/torch and use it on the person sleeping next to you. If no one is sleeping next to you, go find someone who will,

- move OUT of the Bay Area, leave, scram, beat it, and go live someplace where rent is cheap or stupefying-ly higher and people are not web designers & don’t know what sushi is. Face life. Step out of Disneyland,

- lease a steamboat and live on it for a few years. Start a school for children who can’t do somersaults,

- find that portal between the rational world and Bobby Hendrick’s bait shop in , observe keenly and see what happens to your sense of decency. Bonus tip: see if Bobby’ll lay down in bed next to you while you operate the flashlight. If he says “yah, sure”, then you know you’ve found the portal.