Saturday Afternoon

[nightdog_barks]

This is why I love reading the NY Post on occasion: Former NY Knicks player says he was abducted by aliens two weeks ago.

“Now I’m sharper and s--t,” he says of the abduction’s aftermath. “I am retaining information.”

And perhaps a pertinent part of the story?

Also, he has been taking Percocet to offset his pain from surgery to repair the patellar tendon in his right knee, the injury that sidelined him in May 2012.

:D

There's also a Heartwarming Story™ of an FDNY worker rescuing a dog from a window ledge. With film! *g*

Comments

[pwcorgigirl]

Aww, that's so sweet about the dog rescue. And what a good dog for being so good about being grabbed by a stranger.

[nightdog_barks]

And it was a BIG DOG! Heh, I loved the part where he gave it treats and a water bowl. What a great guy. :D

[taiga13]

What is it with aliens abducting just Americans? Why don't we ever hear about them abducting Ethiopians or Mongolians or Bolivians?
That was a sweet story about the dog.
I just got back from a hike in Yoho National Park, it was gorgeous. You can see where the recent flooding has changed the landscape in places.

[nightdog_barks]

Duh, it's obviously because us Muricans are the bestest/most important people on Earth, with the most low- high-value information to give! ;-D

We've been to Yoho National Park! We stayed at Emerald Lake. It was AWESOME. We would go back in a heartbeat.

[taiga13]

That's where we hiked, Emerald Lake! The lodge is beautiful too, a wedding was taking place there.
I see Zimmerman was acquitted. Maybe the aliens want information on THAT.

[nightdog_barks]

We stayed at that lodge! Wow, it would be so beautiful to have a wedding there. We walked partway around the lake when we were there, and managed to actually see a little red-backed vole that poked his head out of the undergrowth to look us over. :D

Maybe the aliens want information on THAT.

God, no kidding. What a hot mess. So much sadness. :(

[taiga13]

At lunch I met a chipmunk who is clearly used to getting treats from hikers - he almost climbed right into my lap. One of the group kept scolding him "shoo! shoo!" as if HE was invading OUR home instead of the other way around.
Re Zimmerman, I understand that there's no proof of what happened that night with Martin being dead and all, yet Zimmerman was walking around with a gun. Maybe it's the cultural difference, but I just can't understand why someone would do that unless they were planning on shooting someone.

[nightdog_barks]

Yeah, in the U.S., you can carry a gun for self-defense -- it's not that you're pre-meditatively planning on shooting someone.

Zimmerman should have stayed in the car. The 911 operator told him to stay in the car. And he didn't. If he had stayed in the car like he should have, Trayvon Martin would most likely still be alive.

[silverjackal]

Heh to the drugged-up alien experience. Apparently when people take Ayahuasca they tend to experience lizard people who claim to be from other planets, so...

The dog thing made me smile. The firefighter did an excellent job (though I was saying "Snare pole, where's the snare pole?" (Every police and fire department here has at least one snare pole - ample wildlife, ample reason to use it.) I'm also impressed with how gentle and accepting that Chow Chow was. As a breed they tend to be less tolerant, and I very much thought the man was at risk for being bitten. Happy ending, though! :)

[nightdog_barks]

I don't think he was a firefighter, though, even though he was part of the FDNY. I do think he should've been equipped with a snare pole, but maybe he didn't have one with him in his cherry picker. And I was equally surprised at how laid-back the Chow was! :D

Apparently when people take Ayahuasca they tend to experience lizard people who claim to be from other planets, so ...

cough*DavidIcke*cough*cough. Heh.

[silverjackal]

So *he's* the source of that nonsense about Queen Elizabeth being a lizard. :D Oh hell. :D :D :D Er, I think it's obvious that I have a bit of contact with the more unusual side of life yes? Some stuff is just so crackers that I can't believe anyone takes it seriously though. Actual LOL to your "reptoids". I suppose it's up there with "Truthers" (the folks who claim 9/11 wasn't as it appeared, not because of some mysterious geopolitical jockeying -- which could be argued -- but because those jets crashing into the towers couldn't have caused them to collapse). I just about blew beer through my nose when I first encountered that argument. Basic physics, have they heard of it? A fully loaded jet with a full tank of fuel flying at that speed? Oh hell yes it has the power to mow through concrete and steel! D:

Edit also, apologies dor the excessive profanity. I feel no pain, thanks to tasty liquid analgesic this evening.

[nightdog_barks]

Yes, lizard people everywhere! And Birthers and Truthers! IT'S AN UNHOLY TRINITY.

:D

[silverjackal]

The Ayahuasca thing seems to be a legitimate phenomenon, though. Multiple people, after taking the drug independently and not hearing about it from other people, report the same thing. They have visions of intergalactic lizard people who claim to be the hidden rulers of the universe. To which the shamans counter "... They're lying, of course..." and then explain more of their traditional cosmology. Given that mammals are just a fancy offshoot of reptile, I suppose the drug might be triggering something in our minds. I have no proof, for example, but I suspect a lot of dragon lore might be based on people "remembering" things like Komodo dragons as well as assorted crocodilians. Have I ever mentioned going down into the sacred well that used to house crocodiles at Kom Ombo? It was amazing, and a part of me kept expecting the holy reptiles to still be there for all there have been no crocodiles near that part of the Nile for centuries.

[nightdog_barks]

Is Ayahuasca the one that makes you vomit and be sick as a dog? I know there's one of them that does that.

I am childishly delighted by the idea of intergalactic lizard people lying their butts off about how important they are. :D

[silverjackal]

Yes. Some others do, too, but Ayahuasca is known as the one that's supposed to make you vomit. That, and the whole preparation by being chewed by other people and spat into a pot, from which the celebrant then drinks it with a straw... even if I was they type to be tempted by drugs this would not be one. :D

And yes -- intergalactic lizard people with grandiose megalomaniacal fantasies.

[nightdog_barks]

LOL. I will admit I have sometimes thought I'd like to try something like Ayahuasca, just to experience it. But I wouldn't want to try it that way. Ew.

[silverjackal]

I admit to curiosity myself, but there are other ways of taking DMT (the psychoactive ingredient) without vomiting up everything one has ever eaten. I did try a different botanical once for spiritual purposes, and it did not go well. A dosage that should have been barely perceptible (it was a salve) made me hallucinate incoherently (though I knew what was happening, and was completely shocked that I was reacting) and then I was horribly sick the next day. Not worth it, alas. It could be that I'm sensitive, given how much I smell/taste, etc. but a life of drug exploration is obviously not for me. Boorring! Yes, I know. :) (I chewed coca while I was in Bolivia, too. No lime to activate it, no effects, and it tastes not-very-good.)

[nightdog_barks]

Mister Nightdog, being a child of the '60s much more so than myself (I was born in 1958), tried quite a few of the mind-altering substances that were available in a university town and says today that he liked/enjoyed at least a couple of them. He was particularly amazed by the lysergic acid diethylamide, and how it seemed to present the inter-connect-ed-ness of all things.

I will also say that Levoquin, which I took for a short time during chemo, has the potential to produce some VERY INTERESTING dreams. :D

[silverjackal]

I've heard from others how remarkable their experiences with various pharmaceuticals could be. It's a shame that the U.S. government is so paranoid about coca because the anti-nausea and analgesic effects could be very useful for folk suffering through things like chemotherapy. The whole line about what is an acceptable drug (alcohol, nicotine) and what is not (marijuana) is absurd. It's not an automatic slippery slope that letting people have access to pot also means letting them have access to heroin.

...has the potential to produce some VERY INTERESTING dreams.

Not the same but I've taken a couple of different forms of malaria prophylaxis (since the varieties of the disease in different parts of the world differ). I was on Mefloquine for a long time while I was in East Africa, and after about a month and a half I started having these bizarre unpleasant technicolour dreams. There was no other possible cause, since I had ingested nothing unusual and wasn't even drinking more than the occasional beer at the time. The dreams tapered off on their own, thankfully, and since then when I've needed anti-malarials I've used Malarone with no ill effects.

Flip side, I've been engaged in some fairly intense personal practice to cope with everything life is flinging at me lately, and I've been having these strange dreams representing various griefs/losses/fears. In one case I was walking across a gravel stretch absolutely covered with the corpses of giant, bird eating tarantulas. Drugs? Who needs drugs? And on that note I should say good night! :)

[nightdog_barks]

*hugs*

♥ ♥ ♥

[pwcorgigirl]

I think he was a telecommunications worker for the Fire Department. They must have some kind of dedicated equipment on utility poles because the guy had a cherry picker truck.

I was also surprised at how easy-going the Chow was. Poor thing probably realized she was in a real fix and needed a person to get her out of it.