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Charley Tuna

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Who I am: Not so much a fish out of water as a great, winged beast trying to live in a tiny little fish bowl. I'm the last inch of fuse just before the blasting cap in the stick of dynamite that blows to bits the silly notions of "can" and "can't" that hold your own little fish bowl world together. I'm the little tuft of feather floating in the stratosphere that jams up the engine of the top-secret jet that's carrying the neutron bomb, bringing the apocalypse to a screeching halt. I'm the insignificant lower-case letter in the middle of an average word in the middle of the title of the story of how the world got flipped on it's head when humans learned they could fly. No, not really... underneath all the words, ideas, possibilities, passions, faith, beauty, history, love, artful wrath, creative destruction, and an always growing collection of stories; I'm just like you, and I'm nothing... and as we all know, nothing is perfect.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Other people who know they're nothing and know they're perfect. With the guts to say it, and the will to hear it. People who aren't too chicken-shit to make waves and rock boats. With better things to do than bitch about what's wrong. Writers. Rock stars. Revolutionaries. And pretty ladies. It never hurts to know a few more pretty ladies.

My Blog

The Speaker

This piece is dedicated to peace activist Ron Kovic.If the name doesn't ring a bell,please check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_KovicThank you.      I am speaking to you. Here...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:09:00 GMT

LEFT RIGHT

    Seaside breeze freezes The fickle train of thought That caught me unawares and ensnared me in the muck              just righ...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:32:00 GMT

Fogged Windshield

  Today I took a stiff, dirt caked cloth              Usually used to wipe clean the drips from an often neglected dip stick From the ca...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:48:00 GMT

Give Us Back Our Childhood

"In approximately 17 countries around the world, children are direct participants in war. Denied a childhood and often subjected to horrific violence, many thousands of children are serving as soldier...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:04:00 GMT

From salty bed to birth

         Standing where the sea's salty spray breathes the taste of things moist and live On sands pounded by the pulse        Of uncount...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:41:00 GMT

Shadow Play

On the shores of familiar fictions      Amidst the attendant frictions        &nb sp;  Of consensus conceptions crashed  ...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:44:00 GMT

Auditory Atrophy

    I've got a splinter in a fingertip that proves painful when trying to coax certain sounds out of blacks and whites             ...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:23:00 GMT

The Price and Worth of Freedom

"...If Americans feel themselves to be truly free, and assured that their rights and liberties are duly protected, then they should celebrate their freedom on this day [July 4th] in whatever way they ...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:44:00 GMT

No Such Thing as Alone

For everyone I know -- and don't know -- who may be doubting that they're loved. Step just a bit to the side, shift perspective, and notice how the shadows disappear; then see me smiling at you where ...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:59:00 GMT

Lighten up!

Stolen from Szasz's blog; re-posted without permission. Somehow, I don't think he'll mind.according to latest studies, california lab rats have been known to cause cancer.seems we all have to die and ...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:47:00 GMT