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Two Years ago...almost...I noticed a customer at my little nightspot I had downtown, "Sumshee's". He never talked much...about anything. He wasn't there a lot but he just seemed to delight in being there at Sumshee's. He grinned ear to ear most of the time he was there. He stayed close to the perimeter at all times, coming in whenever he could afford the night out...maybe once every two months.
I had spoken to him a few times, trying to bring him out a bit more. He was always very pleasant and appreciative. He was rather new in town and, although born in Mexico, had lived in L.A., Buffalo, Detroit, Omaha, Miami and Phoenix...and Berlin. Yes, the Germany Berlin, for about six months.
I DID ask him once if he was gay...Hey!, that was the majority of the patronage. He said, "No, but I HAVE thought that I SHOULD be, as much as I love to come here.". But he furthered that he wasn't really attracted to guys...he just liked the freedom that seemed to be prevalant in that crowd. One of the attractions , to him, was the fact that, along with the gay crowd and it's removal from every day experience in his daily life, a gathering of another group to Sumshee's was what pulled him in.
The Goth crowd.
He likened that group to the Hippies and the Beat Generation...the fringe and exploratory.
He is of North American Native blood lineage but his ancestors always lived in Mexico as far back as he knew.

Senor Boundari'es came here in his early twenties, hungry to understand why we are as we are in America.
Igno'res has had a BUNCH of experiences in life...some quite learning, as he will, no doubt, prove to you.

My familiarity with him has grown quickly, lately. Since the closing of Sumshee's ...which devastated him...we have been seeing a lot of each other...and lot's of emails.
His opinions and observations are interesting...sometimes extremely bold... many of which I can understand and with which I am empathetic. He knows that I am sometimes, myself, very impatient with our lack of real and logical progress in these United States.
He has tried repeatedly to convey concerns and perspectives to me from his outsiders point of reference.
I, therefore, asked him to contribute to my forum to any of you who come here.

Understand please, he is not always diplomatic, although he strives to be, at least, polite and patient...albeit a bit graphic in his language sometimes.
Hang on to your seat and prepare for...









( Number Three )
(Late March 2008)
by Ignores Boundaries

(Previous installments, working backward, follow this one)




I heard from Ignores last week. He’s been hanging out in El Paso again...says he has some family down there.
Curious as to how he feels about the pre-pre-election circumstances, I asked as to who he thought was going to win here and there and why.
Yes, Ignores had something to say.

-Sumshee


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March, 2008

Hola,
I never should have started that crazy bitch going on the political thing. Sumshee kept going on about how shit has likely been rigged and fixed for years with the elections...but just in case, she’s pulling for Obama.
And she talked me into enough of a frenzy to send in some viewpoints.
Actually, we think a lot along the same lines, in many ways: We both think that we should dump the current CEO and board...and hire another, even though the current group has already cashed in their lucrative stock options in spite of all the losses to the company store during their time in charge.
That’s the American Way.

The whole concept about elections being rigged is not a new idea. And it’s not really all that far-fetched of an idea.
If you folks don’t cut the fuk out of this idea of electronic voting, I think that you CAN assume that all elections will be pre-determined.
Folks, I happen to BE an American citizen.
I am being as vocal as possible about it. I DO let my reps know how I feel about it.
If the populace lets electronic voting stroll right past them and become installed, then it means that ANYthing can happen...like maybe being led into decimating the crap out of a whole country, going in there armed with a lot of bullets, bombs and of a bunch of fabricated “facts”...
Oh, yeah...that’s been done.
It’s amazing how many folks are still not seeing through that whole charade.

So...will the situation change when Barack Obama moves into The Black&White House?
Will he really go in the implied directions of his speak?
Does he HAVE that latitude?
I surely hope so.
And it is sounding as though the swing is heading in his direction.
I was listening to NPR the other day....I KNOW, it’s been getting lame on NPR lately...but there ARE some good moments at times. They haven’t spun ALL the way down the drain yet....
ANYway, on this live call-in show, some broad was citing a situation where she was in some conversation with ...well, a kinda “cracker/redneck sorta guy...and they were talking election/politics on SOME level.
She was floored with something he laid on her.
Now, she “cleaned it up” for the radio. By that, I mean that she pranced around all NPR-like and politically correct and all and stated how “...he actually said THE WORD...you know...the N-word....I won’t say it here....”

So, the guy she was talking to forgot Obama’s name at the moment and said, “ What’s that guys name?...that nigger?.........Well, THAT’S who I’M votin’ for!”

She was floored. She was expecting derogatory and denigrating remarks....based on his labeling system.
But, just because he was a bit rustic in the labeling of the cake, that didn’t mean that he was forgetting the importance of the ingredients.

And as for his Pastor’s comments, I think Obama was a genius in his response. He tugged on MY vote immediately. With tactics like that, Obama will be either impeccable in moving our country in a new and better direction or he will, at least, fuck us with a new flair, refreshing in it’s difference.
I will be hoping for ...and kind of expecting the former option.
I sure hope he survives the process.

Clinton?
I guess the jury is still somewhat out at this writing. It IS possible, albeit a waning possibility.
I wouldn’t be all THAT horrified if she became president.
After eight years with Bill, this country was in pretty damn good shape. And you KNOW that if Hillary got the job, Bill would be right there...of course.
As Sumshee has been saying for years, it never was “Bill”, it was “Billary”.
And “Billary” did a good job before, why not again?
I would even vote to pass legislation to enable Bill to get all the hallway blowjobs he wants and whatever THE MRS. wants....service the lady.
If they can run the country, fine.
I just always kinda feel a little nervous seeing anyone of the old guard in there.

I HAVE been a bit anxious for years to see a woman in the White House. I really DO think that, overall, women have more smarts than men in the ultimately-more-important ways.
But Hillary faded a bit on my radar when I heard her baring her bitch claws on Obama with a comment she made. She wanted to make the “point” that Obama might not have the nuts to make the right decisions “under fire”...the right decisions in foriegn policy. He might not have the nads necessary for potentially having to kill masses of people...if necessary, because of his lack of experience around such matters. She wanted us to know of these shortcomings. So, alluding to Obama’s lack of support of The War since the beginning of it and referencing a speech by him to that effect in 2000, she said,
“Well, Senator McCain brings (such and such) to the table and I bring (such and such) to the table and Barack Obama brings...a speech he made in 2000”.
I don’t remember the exact declarations in those such-and-suches, but that’s the gist off it.
The lady lost me on that.
Have you ever heard a cat go into a fight?

Maybe Barack will surprize me and be total establishment...a warmongerer...a greedy bastard, lying through his teeth, all the time telling us that everything is fine and the way it needs to be and we are better off...while fukking us deeper by the moment...
The American people AREN’T very smart, en masse. They will fall for anything.

But if he can make it in, I DON'T think he will disappoint us.

There ya go, Sumshee.

Gracias,
Ignores



( Number Two )
by Ignores Boundaries


Hola,
I am so happy to find what kind of emails have been coming in since last weeks little thing that I wrote for Sumshee. She said that probably 25% of her address book responded back. What is that in head-count, Sumshee?....3....4?
No, really! There was a pretty good response, considering the whole crazy idea was thrown together at the last minute. And no one has ever heard of me except Sumshee and those two fags who used to try to see how many times each night they could go in and out of the door during After Hours at Sumshee's place downtown. It was like they were gonna get a BJ for every hinge they wore out. Go outside...pose....go back in...pose....go outside....pose....
I talked to them and Sumshee more than anyone else down there. They actually would listen to 15-20 whole words in a row before hittin' that fukkin' door again. I felt quite accomplished. No one ELSE ever got them to sit down....in a CHAIR, I mean, not a lap. They sure did buy a lot, though...nothing but water. Not even coffee or espresso. I don't think I would WANT to see them with caffein in their scrawny little bodies. Water seemed to keep them rather keyed up. Downright nerved out, they were. And talk about wide awake! No coffee for those boys! It wasn't necessary. I guess they were like that naturally.
Uh-huh

I wasn't going to write another piece until after the new year, maybe the first of February when I get back from down south. I'm goin' to see some family in El Paso. (Did you know that it's OK to swallow prune pits in El Paso?)
Well, I thought that considering what is about to hit the economy, maybe I should pass out some of my famous-from-border-to-border sage advice.
Sumshee and I were talking about this depression that is about to hit the United States.
Everyone knows that it is coming.
Many folks say that it's already here.
It has to do with how much money is being spent and how much money is being made and what kind of things there are to be ABLE to buy.
At least, that's how it seems to me.
This depression is almost on us now. It hits SOME people long before it hits others. It depends on how much money you have. When you see that your money isn't gonna go far enough to hold you over...that's depression settin' in.
And it's ONE main reason why I am gettin' the f*** outa town...NOW...before it gets any worse....'cause I DON'T like being depressed. And when everyone starts that bullshit crap of making you feel guilty for not gettin' them something for f***ing Christmas when THEY got YOU something ...but, "Oh, that's OK...it's nothing....just a little token....a reminder...it wasn't necessary for you to get ME something...I just though that you might like this..."
THAT'S when the great depression sets in.
I ain't talking about stock markets and The Fukkin' Federal Reserve and fukkin' Ben Bernanke.
I'm talking about the REAL DEPRESSION ....Christmas!

Yeahhh...start in on me, now. "Scrooge...Killjoy...DAMN HERETIC!!!"
Let's TALK heresy. You wanna talk heresy? Do you really know what a heretic IS?
A heretic is anyone who goes outside the overall, current norm of WHAT IS ACCEPTED AT ANY GIVEN TIME by those who claim to be among (usually) a religious order.
THAT means that in ALL religions, there have always been heretics. Whatever WAS the norm and the accepted, WAS the Holy. Anything deviating FROM that norm is/was heresy.
SO, it's kinda relative isn't it?...'cause at one time, there was no Christianity. Christians came from the Jews. The Christians were the dudes that came up with this idea that God, whatever He...or SHE...was, sent down an emissary on his/her behalf to tell everyone what to do to "get in good with God".
So, Christians were a buncha freakin' heretics. And now, ANYONE within the Christian faith , who bends or twists or adds ideas to the mix...anyone who changes the chants or rituals or such that a group of worshippers over in that building, over there, are agreed on...anyone who goes against their grain...at any given point in time and history... HERETIC!!!
The Pope is a doggone heretic. He sits in Rome, overseeing a vast empire of money, real estate and popular control, claiming that he is spreading the word of God, the way god WANTS him to, with all the moves and lyrics to make a great Broadway play. Well, all that is heresy...according to the past...the ORIGINAL preachers. They all had fukkin DAY JOBS. They would go and stand on a rock so that everyone could hear them better and spread the gospel. No one bought them wagons and houses and Empires.
They worked like everyone else. Carpenters, masons, cooks...whatever. They passed on to the people what they thought was the truth because...well, they thought it was the truth: reality.
And THEY were heretics to the Jews.
And the Jews were heretics to someone before them.

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The following is according to Retired Bishop John Shelby Spong of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark.
I found this quite interesting. He told me that the Christian Creed was adopted in the fourth century... at a convention?
A buncha church dudes got together and went off to some other town to party ...and while they were there, they decided to lay down the rules and definitions of their religion. But they decided to do this AFTER the religion had been around for some 300-400 years.
HUH?
The Virgin Birth! There was no mention of it at all in the writings of Paul between 50 and 64. Wasn't that supposed to be the whole hoopla as to why shepherds dropped their staffs in amazement, wise men came a runnin' and little boys drummed their drums. And the main dude who was documenting this stuff just happened to fail to mention it until some 15-20 years AFTER their Virgin-born Saviour was dead?
"HUH?", again.
Gotta manger in your yard?
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OK, if anyone can come up with something proving me (rather, John Spong) wrong, bring it on.
Spong has been a scholar on this topic for a few years now. And why would he potentially discredit himself by coming up with a buncha hooey.
Of course, if you DO claim his word to be hooey, YOU will be a heretic...
...to HIM.

Does it freakin' matter?

Ya know, there are a lot of religions, beliefs and buyers clubs out there in this wide world. In their own little relative way, they are all correct...and on the money.

Is it worth running up your credit card to celebrate it?

Yes.
If that is what makes you feel good, do it.
If you are willing to deal with the finances, do it.
Christmas is a wonderful time of the year. The intentions behind Christmas are laudable. Anything which brings people together is worthwhile.
Just keep it in the right perspective.
And when I ...or someone else... is sounding critical and thoughtful and you think I am JUST being a heretic, a blasphemer...a human...
...remember the Ten Commandments before you come looking for me.
Religion....no, change that to FAITH. I don't like the word religion. Faith is supposed to make you feel better, not hateful. It should widen your horizons, not limit your scope.

And if you want to truly believe in THIS century's mode of belief...or this MONTH'S current religious structure...go for it. It's YOUR head...YOUR heart...YOUR bills in January and February.
Big business WANTS you to be religious....REAL freakin' religious. They will LOVE you for it.
Almost as much as Jesus does.

See ya after the storm, Babies!
Ignores

P.S.#1
I was about ready to send this to Sumshee, to put up on the site and my old hippie girlfriend, Wanda Freeley came sauntering into the room, read my stuff and said,
"...but Sumshee said, on the webpage, that your next piece was gonna talk about how advertisers are trying to find new ways to get you to buy things.".
Now, Wanda is pretty smart. So I listen when she points out something like that.
( Of course, it helped to get my attention when she flicked the back of my head with the back of her hand )

I guess I COULD have been a little more pointed about that topic.
Advertisers are scufflin' real hard, all the time to get you to buy shit you don't need...to make you think that you need it and they stoop to all sorts of low levels to do that. Some tactics are more casual. Some tactics are pretty callous. They will imply that you don't love your children if you don't buy this product. You are not only going to be more beautiful with the use of their product, you are way LESS than beautiful and you NEED their product to merely compete in the meat market.
DON'T READ BEAUTY MAGAZINES...THEY WILL ONLY MAKE YOU FEEL UGLY!!!
They tell you that they are doing it for you...THAT'S why they are in business...for you.
BULL! The ONLY reason they are in business is for profit. Now, that is...sorta OK, but...
Hell, this is a whole 'nuther topic, deserving of another time and space. Just 'cause Sumshee shot off her mouth telling folks that that was what I was gonna talk about....
Let's wrap this up and get to the point about The X-Day.

Do you really think that Jesus-The-Person, as he is depicted, ever wanted you to bust ass to buy a store-bought present for every friggin' person that you know...to celebrate his life?
The whole idea of it all came from the deal with those folks who supposedly came to see this magical, supposedly virgin-born saviour of mankind. They came bearing gifts to honor him. But, they brought common shit that they already had hangin' around...a buncha spices and good-smellin' stuff. I know that Wal-Mart is open all night but somehow, I don't think these dudes rode their camels to the nearest major interstate off-ramp to go shopping for frankincense and myhr. They (supposedly) gave up something they already had on the back shelf at home...something that had a personal importance and worth to THEM. That's WHY they had it on a back shelf at home to begin with.
They gave of themselves.
So, if you want to give a gift to all those people in your family and at work and who are coming to a beer blast at your house this holiday season, don't run out to the stores and run up your credit card. Just start grabbin' up things around the house: that new DVD player, the new soup pot, some artwork hanging on your wall... your car!
Give them THAT stuff. Now THAT would symbolize how deeply you feel about things.
Got a manger in your yard?
(OK Wanda. Feel better now?)

P.S.#2
Oh, I ain't gone yet. I just called Sumshee and said that I was emailing all this over to her. We got to talking...again...and I was reminded of something she wrote a buncha years back. It blew me away when I read it last summer. I guess you could say it "sums up" a lot of things mentioned here.
So, I want to include it as a finale to my stuff. Hell, I don't mind sharin' the billing.

Oh...that's right...this is HER webpage...right.

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POINTS ABSURD

Religions are a noble thought!
Though they try, they just are not
complete in what they do begin:
asking what is God and sin.
The problems that do seem to be
are in the vast complexity
of trying to convince this man
to do the very best he can.
Tablets, scrolls and manuscripts;
no one really knows which fits
the key hole of our universe.
There are so many what is worse,
they all just preach the Golden Rule.
I don't think myself a fool
in need of children's teaching-tales
of burning bushes, gobbling whales
and stories long since stretched far out
beyond the truth and into doubt
with story tellers' flailing arms
and parables all full of charms
of things that simply could not be.
I find it hard to think that "HE"
wanted all this to transpire,
when all we need is to acquire
an understanding of some right,
so that we may sleep at night.

-Sumshee




( Number One )
by Ignores Boundaries


Hola,

Oh, WOW!!!
Sumshee wants ME to write a column? I am honored, to say the least. I mean, how often is someone offered a chance to "speak" to ...what?...10-12 people?
What's the circulation for this web-page? I guess you call it hit-count, actually.

Yeah, I'll put in my two-pesos worth.
I got the announcement about this late last night. NOW, I gotta put out SOMEthing... and I didn't want to wait.
I will now suggest how to strip veneer and gloss-coat for impeccable appearance.

(WOW...this is really happening?...She's gonna let me say what I want?... )
SHE?
HE...SHE....You people have got me doing this gender mess-up shit in my head.

THERE'S something!... If I am not wrong, I heard something about how this city can make a business hire someone who is queer now...Is that right?
Some sort of "equal" law or something.
I guess that's a good thing. I mean, what difference does it make when you're putting a plate on a table or changing a tire or writing a ticket to a speeder...if you're a guy who sucks dick? Right?
I guess that goes right up the ladder to...DAMN!.... CEO's, ministers, rich people ...top city officials of ALL kinds...right, Jerry?
EVERYone in the city can slide into bed with anyone they want and they can't be fired because of that!
COOL!
I think it's a good idea. Let's all thank His Honor, The Mayor... and all his city hall buddies who made it all work, so everyone in your city can work. Thank him. I am sure he was doing it for YOU and was being selfless.
I have had a few talks with Sumshee about another related issue. I heard that NOW, some of you folks aren't happy with just that.
Now, some of you are tryin' to get some of those prancy drag queens from Sumshee's and Connections and back alleys in on the gold rush.
Am I gonna have to hold my tongue someday when a lady cop stops me for a traffic ticket and says, "License please" in a voice like Harvey Firestein ?
Might there be more testosterone than estrogen in the YWCA offices someday?
How is this gonna affect beauty pageants?

I guess that's all OK and all...I LIKE the twists and turns of life. I LIKE the back-hand across the net once in a while. It keeps us all on our toes.
I love the whole crisscross thing. It makes life more alive. It seems more fair, but... I mean... if a guy goes girl....and he ...well...just doesn't ....well, CUT IT....well, SHOULD a business ...and a classroom full of first-graders... HAVE to accept that? ....REALLY?! ....in THIS country? Folks!, Your country is too fukking immature to handle it. You ain't ready for it. Your KIDS could handle it. But not if the adults are more childish than the kids.

I QUESTION this concept! I am NOT...I repeat, I am NOT... against the idea.
But your country is NOT ready to handle it.
THAT is the question I raise.
The validity of a move like this IN THIS COUNTRY ... at this TIME!? .....NO!!!!
YOU, as a country... CAN'T...... HANDLE IT!
YOU'RE TOO... FUKKING... REPRESSED.

And THAT is what could fuck up your kids (and other juveniles, in adult bodies), because since YOU aren't ready to handle it. The KIDS, therefore can't possibly be primed for it yet.
Sumshee was wrong about me, in a way.
She said that I had lived in Berlin. THAT is right, but I spent a bunch of time in Paris and London, too.
There are people of all kinds in all places, but the climate in Europe is way ahead of America regarding sex. The attitude is more like, "Well, some people like this way....some people like that way....yeah, so?".
As Sumshee says, it should be a non-issue. And sexual variance isn't ENOUGH of a non-issue HERE...YET.
A house can only be built so fast. THIS bull ain't ready to go into the ring.
Too many people would be damaged. Hell, there is still a lot of question about the don't-ask-don't-tell gay thing in the workplace...it's still too new. Get over that hill first. The two issues are close but are not on the same exact level.
Let the market decide for now. Don't try to legalize and enforce something like this and expect to have it go statewide and/or national.
I would love to see that happen, but you ain't ready.
Grow up first...then your kids can, too.

Gracias,
Ignores
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