...I don't have!
 
I just got contacted by the FBI via email, saying they are gonna help get some money owed to me as long as I send $250 to some Nigerians! I can't wait!
 
These Nigerians are crafty people when it comes to using email. I know not all Nigerians are involved in these internet scams, it just seems like it. A few don't even have internet access and must scam you in some old fashioned way, like guns, rocks and spears. But they are among the happiest people in the world!
 
It's funny how China can block YouTube and the Apple Store can block Myspace and Best Buy can block Facebook and Canada can block my podcast on iTunes and yet the U. S. and A. can't block Nigeria. I guess it's best we don't the make the best cocoa, I think.
 
The line at the store looked short so I got up behind a woman at the checkout who had a fist-full of Grocery Coupons and got all of her cart load for FREE! On the way out I asked her how and she said it took a lot of work. I bet!
 
At Borders I picked up a new book I wanted to get when I first heard about it. The surprising part is I got it for $5! "In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre" by Josh Frank and Charlie Buckholtz is a facinating story about the unsolved murder of Peter Ivers in his loft in L.A., his experimental television show, "New Wave Theatre," his many friends like Harold Ramis, Paul Michael Glaser, David Lynch, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, Devo, Beverly D'Angelo, John Belushi and many many others. It's been the best $5 I've spent in quite some time!
 
One of the cool things I uncovered, but the connection was made by me and not by the authors, is that a phrase David Lynch is fond of saying when something is super good to him is, "Beyond the Beyond" and I found that it was also a part of Peters Iver's Hindi mantra given to him by his Yogi Alan Finger.
 
http://www.ishtayoga.com/
 
Peter Ivers co-wrote with David Lynch this iconic song for "Eraserhead"
 

 
And here is another version by The Pixies:
 

 
Author Josh Frank & editor Ian Marshall discuss Best of New Wave Theatre:
 

 
Backstage Pass: Punk Rock Report with Ivers:
 
Punk was a great movement where money had no use, where you were in it for something else.
 
Tracy in Hollywood sent me an iPod loaded with stuff and I went to sleep with the earbuds firmly in and Eckart Tolle talking softly in my ear. I fell asleep and had the most bizarre dreams I believe I've ever had! Seriously. Strange. I can't remember everything about them, just a foreboding sense of doom. Overcast. Gloomy. I know I had somehow been offered a book deal and began writing women's romance books. Nice ones. Not too corny. With a bit of supernatural in them. I felt they were beneath me, but money looked like it might start really growing and there was the promise I might start doing what I really wanted to write. A fanbase for me was growing and I tried to call Tracy from a Book Event in a wonderful old hotel, but all the lines were busy. No network connection. Suddenly at the Romance Book Convention it was announced to me that one of my books was gonna be a best seller on the NY Times list. Very exciting. Party. Drinks. Then some girl walked into the room and started crying and a few more people walked into a suite in a hotel and stopped the music and turned on the TV. The President had been killed in some kind of explosion and the next thing I know the whole world collapses financially. Everybody is out of money. Money somehow doesn't mean anything anymore. And I'm on the street it's months later at night and I'm with about five other people and we're scrounging for food and shelter. There were packs of wild dogs and people roaming the streets and burning buildings. We wade across a river, the skyline is lit by flames in the skyscrapers, there are no lights as electricity is gone and we end up standing outside a house just watching it thinking how we could break in and steal what these people might have inside. I turn to look at these other people, one was a young woman and I could see in the men's eyes they were gonna kill who ever was in there just for the food. I wanted to get away so badly, but I was scared and hungry and I knew if I ran they would kill me to.
 
It was so terrifying a dream I woke up in a sweat. It was that heavy a dream. I don't know what Eckart Tolle was saying while I was dreaming all that, but I might have difficulty listening to him before going to bed again.