Mind after Death

by Kalu Rinpoche

(Luminous Mind: The Way of the Buddha)

ONE LIFE OR MANY LIVES?

All spiritual and religious traditions agree on some type of existence beyond this life, and all of them prepare us for that future. If after death there were nothing, if our existence were limited to this lifetime, we could be satisfied with worldly knowledge and activities. A spiritual practice, no matter what it is, would be unnecessary.

The idea that death is a complete end followed by sheer nothingness is the product of an extremely narrow mind. It is as if someone who lives in France were to conclude that beyond the country’s borders the human species ceased to exist!
While religions might be in general agreement about the existence of an afterlife, the various traditions do have distinct perspectives about the nature of that afterlife. Some teach that death is not followed by more lifetimes, but by one eternal life, while Dharma teaches that death is followed by many lifetimes until enlightenment.

On the surface, those views might appear to be contrary, but they actually aren’t. It’s really just a question of presentation. Let’s say that you’re in France and you ask someone what Switzerland is like, and the person replies that Switzerland is a nice place. That response may be accurate, but it is quite general. Another person might give the same positive response, but add a more detailed description, explaining what it is that gives each area and each city its charm. This detailed description does not invalidate the first person’s response in the least.

Likewise, Christianity, for example, offers a general presentation of the afterlife, teaching that there is life after death and that the conditions of that life depend upon the way in which you live your present life. For a Christian, virtue leads to heaven and sinfulness leads to hell. That’s the basic idea. Dharma, on the other hand, teaches the possibility of many future lives, that negative actions in this life lead to suffering in future lives while positive actions lead to happy future lives and finally to enlightenment.

These two traditions are in perfect agreement about the need to abandon the negative or harmful and adopt the positive; they also agree on the results of negative or positive actions. There is no contradiction between them. The difference is that Christianity offers a briefer presentation, while Buddhism offers a more detailed one.

DEATH AND THE CONTINUITY OF MIND

Space is beyond time; we can’t say that space began to exist at a given point in time or that it will cease to exist after a certain amount of time has passed. Similarly, the mind’s emptiness is beyond time; mind is essentially atemporal. By nature, mind is eternal, beyond births and deaths. These exist only at the level of the mind’s illusions.

When the mind does not know its nature and is therefore caught up in the path of illusions, it transmigrates endlessly in illusion, from life to life. Conditioned by ignorance and karma, we have had to live out innumerable previous lives. In the future, we will be forced to live out many more. The mind transmigrates from life to life, from one illusion to the next as long as it has not attained enlightenment, the awakening of a Buddha or great Bodhisattva.

In our present state, we cannot recognise our previous lives; we don’t know where we came from, where we’ll go, or what condition we’ll be reborn into. Meanwhile, what we experience is actually only a transition, one passage among an infinity of possible lives and worlds beyond our conception.

The Spear of Mindfulness ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Alas for people in this age of residues!

The mind’s wholesome core of truth has withered, and people live deceitfully; so their thoughts are warped, their speech is twisted. They cunningly mislead others—who can trust them?

In the golden age, the age of perfection, there was no need for sunlight or moonlight, for beings radiated light from their own bodies. They could move miraculously through space, and they lived without needing any solid food.

All creatures naturally abided by the ten virtues. But, as time passed, they began to harm each other, to be ruled by their desires, to steal, and to lie. They lost their natural radiance and had to depend on sun and moon for light; they lost their ability to fly; they began to need solid nourishment, and when eventually the spontaneous harvest and the bountiful cow
disappeared, they had to toil to produce their food.

Now in our present epoch, all that remains of the qualities of the golden age are residues, like the unappealing left-over scraps of a sumptuous feast. Anyone with eyes of wisdom seeing the miserable condition of people in this decadent age cannot help but feel great compassion.

In this age of conflict people are ill intentioned and full of deceit. They put themselves first and disregard the needs of others. Whoever flatters them they regard as a friend; whoever contradicts or opposes them they see as an enemy.

As these attitudes gradually distort all their actions, words, and thoughts, people become more and more warped and twisted, like crooked old trees, until finally their mentality degenerates so far that any notion of right and wrong is completely lost.

We are in an age when anger, craving, ambition, stupidity, pride, and jealousy are the rule of the day. It is an age when the sun of Dharma is already sinking behind the shoulders of the western mountains, when most of the great teachers have left for other realms, when practitioners go astray in their meditation, and when neither lay people nor the ordained act according to the Dharma.

People may obtain some transient advantage from the misguided values of these times, but ultimately they are cheating no one but themselves.

The poisonous emotions that saturate people’s minds in this dark era are the principal cause of their wandering in the endless cycle of saṃsāra. To deal with those emotions we need to keep a constant vigilance, following the example of the Kadampa masters, who used to say: I will hold the spear of mindfulness at the gate of the mind, And when the emotions threaten, I, too, will threaten them. When they relax their grip, only then will I relax mine.

– Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book "The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones"

SPEAKING GERMAN IN TEXAS

SPEAKING GERMAN IN TEXAS:

In Texas there is a town called New Braunfels, where resides a large German-speaking population.

One day, a local rancher driving down a country road noticed a man using his hand to drink water from the rancher's stock pond.

The rancher rolled down the window and shouted, "Sehr angenehm! Trink das Wasser nicht. Die kuehe haben darein geschissen."

This means, “Glad to meet you... but, don't drink the water. The cows have crapped in it.”

The man shouted back, "I'm from New York and just down here campaigning for Biden's presidential run. I can't understand you. Please speak in English."

The rancher replied, "Use both hands."

HOW NICE TO SEE YOU, SATAN!

HOW NICE TO SEE YOU, SATAN!

Given byVen. Tong Songchol (1912~1993), one of the great Zen masters in the last century was also called the Living Buddha of Korea.

Let me tell you how much I sincerely respect you and worship you since you are originally a noble buddha.

 
Unfortunately, however, both you and Buddha have been given such false names as "Satan" and "Buddha".

 
People despise you.

 
But that's only because they don't know who you really are. When people do realize who you are, such thoughts as "good and bad”, “love and hate" disappear.
Then people can clearly see that you are Buddha.

 
And only then will they learn to treat both devils and saints as buddhas, as their teachers, as their parents.

 
With this realization that you are fundamentally Buddha,

 
relative dualities and conflicts disappear, and people come to know the real comfort and happiness of this world. They come to see that there are no such things as misfortune and anxiety and that these things exist only in our minds.
The path is one of seeing you, Satan, as you really are.

 
Then they're completely content to see the whole world as it is, as fundamental BUDDHA.

 
It's like seeing a magnificent lotus arise out of the mud — how stunningly beautiful! What splendid truth this is! And once people realize this, how could they ever look elsewhere for Truth? Searching for Truth other than this is like searching for water in water.

 
When people see you Satan as you are, as Buddha, all problems become fundamentally resolved.

 
It's only when people see things in terms of "black and white" and "good and bad" that they really burn in hell.

 
When we no longer see good and evil as opposites, when we integrate them into one, we come to see a world filled with blossoming lotus. When we see the true noble nature of Satan, we then realize that each lotus is a buddha and every place is a buddha field!

How can we be sad when sitting in a colorful garden of blossoms! The birds and butterflies are singing and dancing together, so let's all join them!

 

Joe Biden 2024!

 

𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒.

𝐀𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲! 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰 … 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬.

The Synergy of Paris Hilton

The Synergy of Paris Hilton

Disclaimer: I like Paris Hilton. Wish her well. ["Well." As if. Wishing Paris Hilton well is like asking God to maybe consider polishing up His act. You couldn't get any weller than That Gurl.]

Paris is a married woman now. To one Mr. Carter Reum. This past Thursday, November 11. The whole planning and thinking fuss leading up to the three day event is chronicled on “Paris in Love” which debuted on Peacock this past Thursday.

By her own telling 11:11 is a special number for her and her relationship with her husband. If you have even the tiniest “New Age” bone in your body, you will recognize that number. 11:11 is that mysterious, magical, mega moment in time when the heavens open, all wishes are granted, and there is a portal opened to step out of the space-time continuum into astonishing and wonderful new vistas.

Okay, that’s about the timing.

Now, get this … Her shoe size is 11. There are two feet on The Gurl. Do the math.

In case you missed it when I mentioned it before, the TV show debuting on her wedding day, that is on the 11th month on the 11th day. Another 11:11.

And, the real synergy kicker, she's got a new venture named “11:11 Media”. It’s an umbrella for all her ventures.

You can’t make this stuff up folks. That gal is a winner. The apotheosis of the romantic myth. A princess. Maybe in true fact, a goddess. The gods certainly smile on that one. At least, if you take all that is presented as her "real life" as, well, real.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if not too soon there will be college credit courses in the field of “Paris Studies”. She’s a socio-economic phenom. And, way then some.

STOP POLLUTING GRAVITY!

Yes, you read it right. Stop polluting Gravity. 

Huh?

So here’s the deal. Gravity. You probably have heard of it. Yes? It’s what holds the universe together, bruh. Locally, it’s what keeps you from flying off the face of the Earth. It's also that pesky thing that makes things break when you drop them. 

We all know about Gravity. And, how it works. If you’ve ever dropped one of Mama’s prized teacups and it breaks on the floor, you know from Gravity. Heck, every kid at a very early age who played at stacking blocks — and who hasn’t — knows about Gravity. Maybe not in words, or even the whys and wherefores; but, on a preverbal level: them blocks gotta stack up straight if you want them to stay stacked up. Capeesh, Italiane?

So, now that we’re on the same page about how Gravity is, what’s the skinny on “polluting Gravity”? Maybe better to put it, wasting Gravity. “Disturbing” would also fit. Actually, "ignoring" and "not appreciating" can go on the list of pollutants.

Let’s first talk “pollution”. Pollution is simply what when you put something in whatever you have that don’t belong. A pollutant is that what is harmful to what you put it in. Nasty. Unhealthy. Dangerous. Like plastic in the oceans. There’s the soot and foul gasses in the air. And, the poisonous chemicals in the dirt. Lead in the water. Like that.

If you’re paying attention, you may have an idea that it’s a big deal. Silent Spring-time. If you haven’t heard of the Club of Rome, get on board. They called the alarm way back in the early 1970s.

Now, Gravity. Gravity is a field. As such it surrounds the Earth. It is constant, ever-present. Ineluctable. [That last big word means that it cannot be denied.] Yet … yet, we are inured to it. [That is, we’re accustomed to it; so much so that we don’t notice it.]

The human body also has/is an energy field. The human energy field should be in synch with the Gravitational field. No? Who would argue that? Like in water, the proper relationship for fish and humans is the same … you swim.

So, how do you swim in Gravity?

If you asked a fish about the water, they’d say, “What water?”. Gravity for humans is like water for fish. When’s the last time someone asked you “how ya doin’ with Gravity?”. Never.

So then, how to be “in synch” with Gravity? Better, why that be importante. Since we know that structures need to be stacked up and be level to endure under the influence of Earth’s Gravitational Field, we build things “plumb and square.” Those stack of blocks, writ large.

And … and, same for how our body stacks up. By design and the laws of Physics we know the human body is supposed to be stacked up vertically, symmetrical [even] side to side, and level [the major segments placed horizontal front to back. Think of the pelvis like a bowl; needs to be level to hold its contents. Not like so often, tipped forward.]

So how do you pollute Gravity? By living out of sorts with the basic and obvious need to be balanced in the makeup of the body. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a quaint tourist destination. It’s a major polluter of Gravity. Gravity has feelings too. When you’re off-kilter, Mother Nature is offended. It harshes the vibe, bruh! Like how sloshing your hand in that still pond sends vibes through, and all the fishies get all upset and all. You’re rocking the boat, so to speak. Don’t do that!

What to do? This is a big subject. As you can see from here I got plenty to say. So let’s cut to the chase. What to do? Take steps to be sure your body is in balance. Balance according to the dictates of Gravity. I’m a professional in the field of balancing the body with the Gravitational field of the Earth. Don’t call me! First … see if living in simple alignment and balance with the pull of Gravity is something you see as valuable. Something you want for yourself. Then, give me a call.

You got children? They grow bigger and stronger automatically. Balance in the structure of their body has a large learning component. You send them to school to learn how to operate in the world, in society, in whatever area of interest they will explore. How about schooling in the basic use of their body. Not some didactic set of concepts and explanations. But, ingrained into their very tangible bodily sense.

Living in balance with Gravity. It’s good for you. In general. And for performance and full expressiveness. Oh, and, it feels good!

Dig it! Don’t waste it.

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Emmett Hutchins on Structural Integration

Emmett speaks with Amber Burnham from Guild for Structural Integration on Vimeo.

Holistic dentistry regards teeth in the larger context of full-body health. The mouth and the teeth are no longer viewed and treated in isolation but as part of the rest of the body.

According to Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D.:

“Holistic dentists use natural therapies (often in combination with conventional ones) to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases of the oral cavity.

Oral health is crucial for overall health. The oral cavity is the starting point and portal for many microbial infections to enter the bloodstream. Oral health may be a risk factor for, indicate the presence of, or exacerbate the effects of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. The human immune-deficiency virus (HIV) may first exhibit symptoms in the mouth. People with periodontal disease have more difficulty controlling their blood sugar. And 95% of Americans with diabetes have gum disease.

The incidence of premature and low birth weight babies is linked to gum disease as well. Those with respiratory infections may have greater difficulty breathing when oral health is compromised.

Poor oral health also contributes to depression and other mental health conditions. It can affect social interaction, intimacy, and contribute to low self-esteem.”

It is believed that each tooth is linked to the health and wellness of some other part in the body, so a toothache in a specific place in the oral cavity can be a sign of some other health issue.

The meridians that connect to the teeth include:

Incisors and canine teeth are linked to the kidney, liver, and gallbladder.

The meridians from bicuspids and molars are connected to the large intestine and stomach.

These meridians link the teeth to various organs, glands, muscles, and joints in the body:

Molar pain can be a sign of rheumatism, anemia, stomach and intestinal ulcers, breast health, chronic gastritis (inflammation of the stomach lining), hemorrhoids, bladder infections, and chronic inflammation of the pancreas.

Wisdom teeth can signal headaches, heart disease, high blood pressure, eczema, liver disease, and pain in the extremities.

Pain in the upper and lower incisors can be a symptom of kidney, bladder, and ear infections as well as issues with the lymphatic system and reproductive organs.
Moreover, these links can be also explained in details:

Pain in the first incisor indicates prostate or tonsil infection.

Chronic pain in the canine teeth signals liver or gallbladder inflammation.

Pain in the bicuspid (premolar) teeth can be a sign of colitis, pneumonia, allergic reaction, or intestinal flora imbalance (dysbacteriosis)
Pain in the fourth teeth (top and bottom) can be a sign of joint pain and joint disease, and issues with the lungs and large intestine.

Bottom canine teeth are linked to the circulatory system and pain can indicate atherosclerosis or lung dysfunction.

Pain in the lower molars might signal respiratory illness, varicose veins, or polyps in the colon.

In case you want to treat the toothache in a more comprehensive way, do some research and find a well-trained holistic dentist in your town.

Source: dailyhealthpost.com

Hashin' It Out with Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj ... Getting Real

Questioner: What you say sounds convincing, but of what use is it to the private person, who knows itself to be in the world, and of the world?

Maharaj: Millions eat bread, but few know all about wheat. And only those who know can improve the bread.

Similarly, only those who know the Self, who have seen beyond the world, can improve the world. Their value to private persons is immense, for they are their only hope of salvation.

What is in the world cannot save the world; if you really care to help the world, you must step out of it.

Q: But can one step out of the world?

M: Who was born first, you or the world?

As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt that the world is in you, and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course, your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.

All scriptures say that before the world was, the Creator was. Who knows the Creator? He alone who was before the Creator, your own Real Being, the Source of all the worlds with their creators.

Q: All you say is held together by your assumption that the world is your own projection. You admit that you mean your personal, subjective world, the world given you through your senses and your mind. In that sense, each one of us lives in a world of his own projection. These private worlds hardly touch each other and they arise from and merge into the ‘I am’ at their centre. But surely behind these private worlds there must be a common objective world, of which the private worlds are mere shadows. Do you deny the existence of such objective world, common to all?

M: Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to whom to happen, a conscious separate centre. But Reality is all and nothing, the totality and the exclusion, the fullness and the emptiness, fully consistent, absolutely paradoxical. You cannot speak about it, you can only lose yourself in it. When you deny reality to anything, you come to a residue which cannot be denied.

All talk of jnana is a sign of ignorance. It is the mind that imagines that it does not know and then comes to know. Reality knows nothing of these contortions. Even the idea of God as the Creator is false.

Do I owe my being to any other being? Because l am, all is.

Q: How can it be? A child is born into the world, not the world into the child. The world is old and the child is new.

M: The child is born into your world. Now, were you born into your world, or did your world appear to you?

To be born means to create a world around yourself as the centre. But do you ever create yourself? Or did anyone create you?

Everyone creates a world for himself and lives in it, imprisoned by one’s ignorance.

All we have to do is to deny reality to our prison.

Q: Just as the waking state exists in seed form during sleep, so does the world the child creates on being born exist before its birth. With whom does the seed lie?

M: With him who is the witness of birth and death, but is neither born nor dies. He alone is the seed of creation as well as its residue. Don’t ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind.

Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

TAXI DAVE 2021

𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟑𝟏𝐬𝐭.
𝐈'𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐞'𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧' 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

Hey, Anna Wintour, you the high priestess of the fin-de-siècle,

pre-apocalyptic all out what the hell let it all rip orgasm of the zeitgeist 

of excess of pop culture manipulation of the hoi poloi.

[Someone had to say it.]

"𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥!!!"
"𝐘𝐞𝐳𝐳𝐳 ... 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐞𝐚!"

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞.

𝐀𝐧𝐝, 𝐧𝐨, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐒𝐨 𝐰𝐞 "𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝". 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐥𝐨𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.

 Betty White. Say no more.

"𝐒𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐲𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧?"

"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭. 𝐖𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡."

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐭!]

"𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧?"

"𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐠𝐨!"

𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧' 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐡𝐚 ...

"𝐆𝐨𝐢𝐧' 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐚. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐝'𝐲𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞?"

"𝐈'𝐦 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠."

"𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞."

"𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐲."

𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 "𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐆𝐨, 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧!"

𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐠𝐨, 𝐀𝐥𝐢 [𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐡𝐢/𝐌𝐒𝐍𝐁𝐂].

𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 "𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬" 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞.

"𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠! 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 ... 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥, 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠! 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲!

[𝐀𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.]

𝐀𝐧𝐝, 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲!"

[𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐧𝐨? 𝐁𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐲?]

"𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓!"

"𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐛, 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐡! 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐝!"

I'm David S. Pumpkins ...

"𝐁𝐮𝐭 ... 𝐛𝐮𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬!"

"𝐍𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐡. 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐞!"

"𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨, 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐬?"

"𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 ... 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟒!"

𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐈𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭.

"𝐀 𝐅𝐔𝐍 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋."

Just to remind that all this silliness is about Halloween!

"I want to go 'downtown'! And, make it 'slick'!"

"Don't call me slick!"

𝐘𝐨, 𝐊𝐢𝐦! 𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐥! 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐭? 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐭 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚? 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚-𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐋𝐌?

"𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐡! 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚? 𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐚!

" 'Fuck'? No! Let's Go Brandon!"

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨, 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐬?
"𝐀𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬!"
[𝐁𝐓𝐖, John 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬.]

Firm grasp of the obvious ...

𝐖𝐡𝐨𝐚!

It's R. Crumb's world, we just happen to live in it.

"𝐇𝐞𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞! 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠! 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 

𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 '𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫' 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬!?"

𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞: "𝐎𝐡, 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲!"

 "𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 ... 𝐧𝐨𝐰?"

𝐓𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜, 𝐧𝐨?

"𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐳𝐨𝐬'."

[𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝.]

𝐄𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐤: 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫.
𝐀𝐧 "𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐧"! 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚: "𝐇𝐞𝐲, 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞? 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚! 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐭 𝐮𝐩?"

[𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐬𝐢𝐫. 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨-𝐫𝐚𝐲-𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐚? 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐲* 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭? 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭?]

* 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐮𝐩, 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭.

I don't know, bruh. That not my familiar way to go!

"𝐇𝐞𝐲! 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫-𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡-𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩-𝐚𝐧𝐝-𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞?

... 𝐖𝐡𝐨'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐲 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝?"

"𝐆𝐨𝐬𝐡, 𝐛𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲! 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐰!"

"𝐖𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐮𝐩 𝐃𝐨𝐞? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐳?"

𝐇𝐈𝐌: "𝐃𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐡!"

"𝐆𝐨! 𝐆𝐨!"

"𝐇𝐞𝐲! 𝐀𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞?"

Yes, sir! Anywhere you want!

𝟎𝟎𝟕: "𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐝."

"𝐍𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐚."

19 years old and already 10 Grammies!

𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧' "𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞" 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐬. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠, 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧' 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧' 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐬.

𝐀𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢ng Michael 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥, 𝐧𝐚𝐲, 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐱𝐢 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭.

“𝐀𝐡, 𝐲𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 [𝐨𝐫, 𝐬𝐨 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝]. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐣 … 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐣𝐚𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐢𝐫, 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐢𝐦𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧, 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞, 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐥, 𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐚𝐰𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐢 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢-𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐦 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐢, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐬.”

[𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝑯𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖.] 

𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 Justin Fornal — 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐚𝐤𝐚 "𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐚". 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐫; 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬; 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐫; 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐡; 𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭; 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫.

𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 "𝐓𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞". 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚, 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐤𝐢𝐧? 𝐎𝐡, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 … 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐏𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐤𝐢𝐧!]

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞r, Marion Rubin, is 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐚𝐱𝐢 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫.

Marian, I 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐱, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 ... 𝐠𝐨 𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐬!
[𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧y "Rubin-esque" 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬.]

𝐀 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 ...

Not everybody is your customer.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 "𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐨𝐠". 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 "𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐠". 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐤𝐨𝐨𝐛𝐲-𝐃𝐨𝐨, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐠𝐬; 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲, 𝐧𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐮𝐦 ...

"𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐠." [𝐚𝐤𝐚 "𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞" 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝.] 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤! 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨!

I gotta have more Wes Anderson!

𝐈'𝐦 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭.

𝐒𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 [𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰].

𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞, 𝐚𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐤𝐢𝐧.

𝐀 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩.

𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 "𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭".

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