Pay/die

In 1965, aged 90, with no living heirs, Jeanne Calment signed a deal, common in France, to sell her condominium apartment en viager to lawyer François Raffray.

Raffray, then aged 47, agreed to pay a monthly sum until she died, an agreement sometimes called a "reverse mortgage". At the time of the deal, the value of the apartment was equal to ten years of payments. Calment lived more than thirty additional years.

Raffray died of cancer in December 1995, at the age of 77, leaving his widow to continue the payments for twenty more months.

* Ms. Calment has the longest confirmed lifespan in history at 122 years 164 days (44,724 days in total).

318. The Negotiation

Negotiations are all about controling things... about being in the driver's seat. And... make one tiny mistake - you're dead!

I made one tiny mistake.
I wore women's clothes.

(Michael S.)

_insert hiatus here_

One must feel art in order to appreciate it.

For a while I'll be going 'subjective' ergo writing on my subjective log.
It's time for me to use a loathsome word; hiatus.

Betrayal

It was the summer of love and I thank the stars above

Because the woman took her lovin over me

And just to gain her trust, I bought a microbus

Because I sold off all my personal property

A tie-tie-dyed dress, she was a psychedelic mess

We toured to the north, south, east and west

We sold some mushroom tea,

We sold some ecstasy,

We sold nitrous, opium, acid, heroin and PCP

Now I hear the police coming after me

Now I hear the police coming after me

The one scarlet with the flowers in her hair,

She's got the police coming after me...

Ignorance Will...

Someone once said 'Love Will Tear Us Apart...', right before it really DID and he died.

One might say in this world, both literally and metaphorically, love is being replaced  by ignorance.

It's just the road we're under, and we should embrace it. I sometimes do... I'm surrounded by meaningfulness, which I am the only one who can appreciate it. My ignorance is 'by forced choice'; a mere response to ignorance.

Maybe we should all get high. That's what dreamers do, right?

"Badfish": 

I swim but I wish I never learned

The water's too poluted with germs