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It’s my Grandfather’s funeral tomorrow and I will be reading this for him. The question is, can I get through it without crying…

How long is a man’s life, finally?
Is it a thousand days or only one?
One week,  or a few centuries?
How long does a man’s death last?
and what do we mean when we say “gone forever”?

Adrift in such preoccupations, we seek
clarification.
We can go to the philosophers
but they will grow tired of our questions.
We can go to the priests and rabbis
but they might be too busy with administrations.

So, how long does a man live, finally?
And how much does he live while he lives?
We fret,  and ask so many questions -
then when it comes to us
the answer is so simple after all.

A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us,
for as long as we carry the harvest of his dreams,
for as long as we ourselves live,
holding memories in common, a man lives.

His lover will carry his man’s scent, his touch;
his children will carry the weight of his love.
One friend will carry his arguments,
another will hum his favourite tunes,
another will still share his terrors.

And the days will pass with baffled faces,
then the weeks, then the months,
then there will be a day when no question is asked,
and the knots of grief will loosen in the stomach
and the puffed faces will calm.
And on that day he will not have ceased
but will have ceased to be separated by death.
How long does a man live,  finally?

A man lives so many different lengths of time.

Brian Patten

It’s a goat glued to a wall, or a magnetic goat. Or something.

Eitherway it’s cool. And therefore worthy of GOATBLOG action.

Yesterday I needed to call O2. So I did.

Chap answered the phone, saying “Hello 02 this is Damian speaking”. I replied that was odd as my name was Damian too. He then asked for my password for the account. Now without giving anything away there may be something in my password to do with goats. Damian said, “Odd, what’s that all about?”. I explained I just liked goats. He said “That’s really weird. So do I.”

I wonder if there is a link between being called Damian and liking goats. If you are called Damian, or Damien and like goats, get in touch. We can form a facebook group or something! It will be SO web2.0.

Well thank god. Finally, after a lot of letter writing, I have managed to secure the freedom of the dozen goats wrongly imprisioned in the Congo.

Amnesty helped a lot too, to be fair.

Horray for free goats.

For sorting my redesign so quickly.

You rock.

You remember www.huhcorp.com? Course you do. Brilliant spoof agency site.

Today, I say this and it instantly reminded me of HuhCorp. But it is serious:

Look how wacky they are! It’s just their eyes! See how “fun” they are!

This is on the home page:

“We focus on the right audience, the right channel and the right voice to build loyalty that lasts. Couple this with sophisticated brand-planning processes and it’s not uncommon to see our concepts leveraged across the entire marketing mix.”

Fucking wankers.

Girls

If you decide to get stroppy with someone via text message while he is cooking you dinner don’t send a text saying “well just forget it then” and then 3 hours later when you are drunk send more text messages.

Especially if he replied suggesting he was cool with forgetting it.

Makes you look a bit mental.

The Look of Love, live, in 1971, the year I was born.

Via Boing Boing
Yes! How damn cool is this? An elevated goat house. But wait, there’s more…

That place is in Coombs, BC, where the goats live on the roof. Oh my. From Rachellelynn’s Flickr

Thanks very much to The Girl for the goaty linkage. Made my day.

OK. I work online. So I use instant messaging a lot. Weird as it sounds, it is a big business tool in the adult industry. Adium is probably my most used app. Anyway, I got an ‘add request’ from a stranger. This is the discourse. Remember, I have never spoken to this bloke and this is his sales technique:

happychappy Hi there, just looking throught your content and was wandering if you had ever thought of adding other billing options?

Damian Jennings Who are you

happychappy sorry, scott from globaladultbilling.com

Damian Jennings hi

happychappy working late as well?

Damian Jennings I work all the time

happychappy lol

Damian Jennings are you looking at the link from the aff sites or the main site?

happychappy followed your content from 3waycash

Damian Jennings right, that’s a CCBill only tour for affiliates
obviously, because they’ve been doing PRS for 5 years on Sky, they already have contacts for alternate billing

happychappy I probably know the suppliers, lol however we are an agregator in the UK and have global options for your non creditcard holders

Damian Jennings obviously, because they’ve been doing PRS for 5 years on Sky, they already have contacts for alternate billing

happychappy no worries thanks for your time have agreat evening!

Damian Jennings bye

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Fail. On many levels. He should learn that basic sales techniques start with questions, not statements.

Also, I’ve never heard of them. Which is unusual.