The Dean Noble Zone.
Journal May 17, 2006: Today is my 230th day in Dawson Creek, and it, in fact, matches my record of being out of Vancouver. The last time and only time I was away from Vancouver so long, was in Thailand, in 2001. I plan to stay and stay and stay and never go back to Vancouver.
"I intend to last the entire thirty days." -Ben Richards in Stephen King's 'The Running Man'
I intend to last here for a long time, in any rate, never to go back to Vancouver.
The other day, I was cleaning the washrooms at the Alaska Hotel. I have a part time job as a weekend janitor. On the toilet of the men's washroom, was a very generous pile of cocaine! It is the largest pile I had ever seen that was just discarded.
Probably against my better judgement, I had a couple of dabs of that cocaine and put it on my tongue. God, the coke was good! I mean it is better than it used to be! Even with that nominal, miniscule dab, I could still detect that classic telltale gasoline taste of good coca. For a half a second, I imagined that I went into the spirited cosmic speedy parambulation, the sweaty, heady swoon that coke always brings. The sudden burst of indistinct confidence and enthusiasm, a clinical tightness in the chest, and then just as suddenly and subtly, an exquisite melancholy, a triste, and a bad, evil, scary feeling that the tables have turned on you. But it was just in my head. I did not do all that much. I wonder if one puts enough cocaine on the tongue if it the cocaine would be caustic enough for the capillary action of the blood vessel openings on the tongue to carry it to the brain.
I wiped off the remainder of the pile with a good swipe of a bar-cloth. I thought at the time, if I were to do this drug, it should be under more dignified settings!
A little later on that day, I looked thoughtfully, cocainistically, at a poster in my room of a Canadian bird, a loon with its chest puffed out. Then there was the, usual with cocaine, a quiet, private hour long fight I had with myself, "I should have done the whole pile, no, I should not have even done any at all, even to the extent of dabbing it on my tongue!" Nah, it was probably all in my head. I really did not do all that much.
Recently, I applied for a volunteer job with the Dawson Creek Volunteer Society. I am looking to work with old people. I am entering a mystical phase in my life where I will be visiting the realm of the Whitehairs, ie, the old people. Many people never spend time with any old people except their grandparents.
I think old people would be delighted and would look forward to meeting someone like me. They are usually stereotypically lonely, anyways.
Now if someone from the Volunteer Organization says to me, "Why are you here? You are not here to scam old people, are you?" I would say, "Old people have 30 or 40 years on me. If anything, I would have to watch that they don't pull something over on me!"
My life here is not over. In fact, it has only just started. Or maybe, it has not even started yet!!!!
Smoking pot, the good stuff is too cloying. It is like drinking saturated sugar water every day. One has to have a break from it. I am smoking shake and that is just fine. Shake is not so intense.
Sobriety is the best state of mind. Drugs are a parody of sobriety.
Marijuana is the best drug. All other drugs are incidental, arbritrary, and an inferior parody of marijuana.
My problem was not smoking pot, it was my just not getting hooked up to anything. In Dawson Creek here, there are at least 10 things I could do:
1) Volunteer Dawson Creek -Circle of Friends senior's program
2) Nawican Friendship Centre - looking for a paid janitor and volunteers for the soup kitchen
3) SPCA dog walking program and cat program
4) Salvation Army Church -6:30 pm Sunday nights
5) Salvation Army Thrift store seeks volunteers
6) Museum - talk to the cute college girls there who like people to visit them and chat
7) Lee's Restaurant - dishwasher job. If I don't think anything about going back to Thailand from Dawson Creek, I should not think anything about working for a Vietnamese restaurant. Except for 3 restaurants all of the 6 Chinese restaurants in Dawson Creek are owned by Vietnamese.
8) Co-Op Grocery store - looking for a full-time inventory clerk
9) Northern Lights College - free nightschool courses
10) St. Mark's Anglican Church - looking for volunteers for the soup kitchen
I think that I will stay in this town. This town has nice people and for months on end, on a daily basis, have I gotten good surprises, little things, but enough to make me stay here in this town.
'STAY', with Ewan MacGregor and Naomi Watts
I think I will stay, as the title of that movie admonishes. A town is like a jewel, each year spent in a town reveals a different facet. If you want to see the many facets of a jewel of a town, you have to stay for many years.
Dawson Creek is an idyllic jewel nestled within a range of emerald green rolling hills. However, in this town, I have not, as yet, found any sushi surprise, I mean, sushi supplies. I even wrote to the local Dawson Creek Newspaper and television station in regards to this.
Just offhand, CJDC News in Dawson Creek is currently without a female anchor. Ogho Ikhalo is the only female personality on CJDC News but I have only seen her on the anchor desk on just one occasion. She is usually relegated to being a field reporter doing local stories. I miss Angela Baron and Carolyn Cartwright. I hope that CJDC hires a female anchor soon, so that Mr. Tarek Hagamad could have some female company. Mr. Hagamad is, indeed a very photogenic news anchor, but I would prefer to watch anchors of the female variety! There have been a lot of successful and famous male anchors like Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and Kevin Newman of Global, and Anderson Cooper of CNN .
Angela Baron's sister is on channel 47 Global Edmonton at 10pm. Her name is J'Lyn Nye. The family resemblance is unmistakeable. Very beautiful ladies.
News Flash: There is now a new girl at the CJDC News in Dawson Creek. Her name is Lindsay Warner and she is an extremely pretty young blonde!
A week ago, on July 10th 2006, I met Mr. Tarek Hagamad. I asked him where the name Hagamad is from. He told me that it is a Lebanese name. I wonder what he thinks of the situation in Lebanon. This is what I think:
There are fears that this will turn into a full scale World War as various countries start taking sides. Whether or not it will turn out that way is another thing.
I think that this will be a self-contained war limited to the area of Northern Israel and Southern Lebanon and is reminiscent of the previous Lebanese Israeli war of the late 70's and early 80's. Iran control Syria and Lebanon. Syria is an enabler and is an accessory to the murder of hundreds by Katyusha rockets.
"The Assyrians came down like wolf on the fold, Their cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." -Tennyson. That kind of thing!
Lebanon was and still is very much tied to Iran.
The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated in not so subtle terms that he would like to see the State of Israel abolished, and the leader of Hamas has also stated his personal mandate of the destruction of the State of Israel.
This makes the days of Sharon and Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat hiding in his bunker in Ramallah while it was being bombed in stages seem like the good old days. Since then, Arafat's Party Hamas has won the election and is the ruling Party in Palestine.
I don't know if Israeli President Ehud Olmert was actually elected what with having been installed as an interim leader when Ariel Sharon went into a coma, but he should be elected as he passes his first crisis with flying colours.
Hesbollah is a private Lebanese terror force, like the Viet Cong were a private farmers' army, separate from the government NVA.
Watching television last night on July 18, someone on CNN said that this is an attempt for Iran to exert its influence in the area and to make its true power known.
Christiane Amanpour said on CNN that the goal of the Israeli government forces was to create a buffer zone, an area to the South of Lebanon, a DMZ; a demilitarized zone.
Indeed, an Israeli government spokesman said that they are not interested in invading and occupying Lebanon as they left Lebanon six years ago. They just want to tamp out the fire that is Hesbollah.
I was going to mention the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers at yesterday's writing of this posting, but after the hundreds of deaths since, to talk of two kidnapped is a moot point. An old Lebanese woman draped in a burkah was interviewed on CNN as she was passing and she said, "All this for two Israeli rats." referring to the two soldiers who were kidnapped by the Hesbollah.
Judaism and Islam are the other halves of each other. The schools separated into two when the sons of Abraham founded Judaism and Islam. Not only that, Judaism, Islam and Christianity, I believe are tripartites separated from the Old Babylonian religion. Judaism represents intuition, Islam contains the intellectual codes, and Christianity is the superhero aspect of the religion. Like Zoroastrianism also from that region emphasises a superhero aspect. The Christ myth could easily be ascribed to be borrowed from the old Babylonian mythology of Nimrod Semiramis and Tammuz*. In this myth Tammuz is necessarily sacrificed but returns from the dead. In ancient Babylon, this festival was celebrated with hot cross buns.
And also from the Egyptian's Osiris buried under a tree for three days as a result of his evil brother Seth's schemings, rises from the dead to inseminate Isis. Who gives birth to Horus who later slays Seth.
Why are they fighting? The Jews and the Arabs are genetically the same people. So this is not a racial war.
This is also not an oil war as there is no oil in that specific part of the world; the Northern Israeli/Southern Lebanon region.
This is clearly a religious war... The term 'religious war' is an oxymoron! Because religions teach against war.
Also, in the strictest technical sense, this is a conflict since there has been no official Declaration of War on the part of any country.
I think it was Nick Spicer on CNN who said that to call this World War 3 is innaccurate. He said something to the effect that this is a necklace of incidents. A ground incursion in Iraq, mobilizations in Afghanistan, and now more internecine warfare in Lebanon. Each of these places mentioned is a few hundred miles apart from each other.
It is like a bunch of high schools otherwise unconnected to each other, in British Columbia all of a sudden deciding to hold afternoon basketball games and then having an outsider who is a sports commentator calling it the Provincial Varsity Basketball Playoffs. This latest Lebanese Conflict does have one feature in common with World War I, however. In the First World War, two people Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in this case murdered, was the powderkeg which started the war. In this case two people two Israeli soldiers in this case abducted was the catalyst that started this crisis which was probably coming for a long time.
*source: David Icke
This miracle aspect of religion is very important to the technnological Western society as all technology could be seen as miracles.
"Inventions that work the very first time always scare me." -Thomas Edison.
That kind of thing!
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May Your Thoughts Be Noble,
Dean Noble
