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April 11, 2018
Joining the Dots – a New Podcast
A podcast from G. Michael Vasey featuring two short stories from The Pink Bus – a collection of short fictional stories by G. Michael Vasey.
Introduction music – Crazy written and performed by G. Michael Vasey
Ending Music – Fire written and performed by G. Michael Vasey
The Pink Bus is available in Kindle, Paperback and Audiobook formats.
Crazy and Fire are available at all digital music outlets including Spotify
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March 2, 2018
Edge of Day
Memories painted in my mind
Tapestries spun from emotion
Hanging as if to dry
A long and windy road trod barefoot
As if in requiem to another yesterday
The wind howls a deep sigh
Inside my head the pictures float
A technicolor movie of my life
Endlessly showing to a crowd of one
Somewhere, the Sea crashes over the rocks
That sit at the core of my being
Will a B movie actor suffice?
My road is forked
My path lies which way?
Eternal sunshine
Or, I simply fall away
I am a dreamer dreaming
I am an observer observing
A growing point in time
Treading a weary line
The footprints in the sand lead nowhere
Except around and around
Edging inwards away
The mountains in the distance
Beckon me on to I know not where
On the very edge of day
My path lies before me
I take it one step at a time
Not knowing where it leads
And looking for a sign
I am a dreamer dreaming
A believer still believing
That I will find her in time
Reflected in morbid rhyme.
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February 25, 2018
The Dilemma of Fatherhood
Well, my next book is about demons? vampires? black-eyed kids?
NOPE – it’s a short collection of poetry called The Dilemma of Fatherhood….. hopefully out soon on Kindle.
It won’t sell but I don’t care – the poetry has an edge…..
And the cover features yours truly too….
I hope someone enjoys it as much as I did writing it……
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February 24, 2018
Online Dating
I’m looking for a date
Despite it getting quite late
I’ve tried Tinder and Badoo
And OKCupid too
Yet, all I find are bots
And scams and attempts
To defraud
Porn star pictures
Some of them dead
A simple reverse search confirms
A profile to dread
I send messages
That go unanswered
Poems and thoughts and things
That might interest
Photos of course I select only
What I think to be my best
I’m a real catch for someone
But this makes no sense
Online dating
It’s a lottery
The ladies in waiting
Never reply
I an’t get their interest
I feel I need to lie
About my age
To get a look in
I want to shout
Look at me!
I’m wealthy, creative
I look younger than I am
I have wisdom and I am fun
I am special
I am the one
But it’s a waste of time
Speaking with bots
Fakes and no hopers
Worn out elopers
On line
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February 23, 2018
The Creator’s Smile
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February 18, 2018
A Kiss
What I would give for a kiss
A hug by a warm log fire
Someone’s hand in mine
To feel loved by a woman
Who cares for me
What I would give for summer
Hand in hand on a beach
Eyes staring into mine
The warmth of her silken skin
Loved and happy
This loneliness is hard to bear
Moment to moment I despair
My heart is an empty shell
And life a living hell
What would I give for conversation
Over a bottle of red wine
Candle light flickering a while
Casting light into the darkness
That I now call life.
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February 17, 2018
Words of Power
Just recently, someone called me a ‘denier’. I suddenly found myself thinking about the things we call people – the words that we use and how we use them. It struck me that these are words of power. Words like ‘sexist’, ‘racist’, denier’ and so on. They carry a weight and a magical intent that has been placed their by the intent of the many times those words have been used. The are in a way a sort of egregore ( an occult concept representing a “thoughtform” or “collective group mind”, an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people.) in a word.
Let me return to the word ‘denier’ as in climate change denier. When someone uses this expression against you it has the desired effect of belittling, but perhaps more importantly, it effectively destroys the expertise of the person being called a denier. You become just another ‘foolish’ person who denies the ‘truth’ of climate change. It stops any further useful conversation with its negativity and simplicity. It carries the weight of popular opinion against the person it is being used against. It has become a magical word with magical results for the negative.
The same with many of these words. Once you call someone a racist – they are one in effect with all the utter negativity that invokes. You have summoned the weight of the word in common usage and essentially sent off a negative magical arrow that encumbers the person termed such. Now there are racists and there are sexists – don’t get me wrong. What I am trying to say is that these words have become part of the lexicon of avoiding debate and of shifting someone from a probably reasonable position into one of defensive argument. You can use these words to do immense damage to someone who is not a racist or a sexist or whatever word is used.
I throw this thought out there…. maybe I’m wrong but I feel in today’s world, this is about creating a negative brand or an attempt to destroy a personal brand or reputation. One of the first things I learned as a marketing executive was how to destroy or at least eat away at the competitor’s credibility by using certain negative phrases or words. However, when these words are used over and over, they take on an occult power that can have – and is meant to have – damaging impacts.
When someone in a discussion on climate change calls you a denier, they shift the whole conversation through the weight of that word. It doesn’t matter what expertise you may have, whether in fact you are expressing a doubt about an aspect of climate change – nope. It robs you of credibility, robs you of your expertise and reputation and it puts you down.
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February 13, 2018
Dead Porn Stars and Facebook
I maintain a facebook account and if anyone wants to friend me, I am OK with that… I assume they read my books or somehow know me. Just recently though, I have been inundated with lots of friend requests from really sexy looking young women. As usual, I just said Ok and carried on. But these new friends appeared insistent upon talking to me. Well, I’m not averse to talking to nice looking young women – or anyone for that matter, so I chatted back.
The first strange thing I noted was that each of these women seemed to have very bad luck. One told me she was raped and now has an 11-year son from that who she is raising by herself. Her mother died in childbirth and her father in a car accident several years ago. She hasn’t had a relationship for 11-years and someone older and more reliable would be nice. OK? But you are in Los Angeles so what has this to do with me? Ah…. well maybe you could send me some money?
Well, I have to tell you that I am a very suspicious person and I was suspicious when these women started messaging me. I was even more suspicious at the hard luck stories and why they would tell me intimate life details like this so quickly. So I did what I think Facebook should do automatically when someone registers – I reverse google searched the pictures on their profile. I went along with the flow knowing that the pictures were indeed fake and mainly of dead porn stars until the point that they asked me for money. At which point, I sent them the results of the image search, reported them to FB and blocked them.
Now here is the interesting thing. You would think that FB would delete these profiles right? Nope. They told me only to block the person because unless they were inciting race hatred or something, FB would tolerate their ‘criminal’ activities…
So there you have it. Dead pornstars are tolerated by FB who appear to believe that fake accounts designed to scam are just hunky dory.
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January 28, 2018
The Frog Prince
She grew up as a princess
Spoiled through and through
Graced by good looks and a photogenic face
That took her far and wide
Never needing to stand up for herself
As rich men took her under wing
Italy, Monte Carlo, and guilded palaces held her tall
Moet and Cavier, Ferraris and five star
Haute couture and the disco
Paid the money that she saved
The rich guys paid for her lifestyle
And now it fades away like all things do
The looks, the body, slowly fade
She now has a home in Tuscany
Where for now, she can relive
The ghosts of her life
But she is really alone
And always will be
For her heart does not know love
Every time she found it
She had reason to turn away
And as she approaches end of day
I wish for her another way
Because whatever she does say
We all need to be loved
We all need to be loved
But it seems that being the object
Of all that male attention
By being able to use her looks
She truly lost her way
I loved her once it’s true
It was fleeting like good looks
But both true and bold
She was my Princess
The looker on my arm
But in the end
I discovered
Her fear of being loved
She said I was her frog
She hoped would one day
become a Prince
But I was the Prince she sought
all along
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January 14, 2018
Should I Podcast?
I have been wondering about doing a podcast for a while now – something creepy perhaps? What do you think? Something like this – a video I did a couple of years ago now.
Podcasting may be a little easier than building the video so maybe I will give it a try.
Meanwhile – pop over to My Haunted Life Too for a bunch more terrifying ghost stories….
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