forced materialism

not sure if that's a term i coined or not, but so true for this time of year. take a second and look around. the hustle and bustle of american society goes through the freaking roof @ xmastime every year. and no matter how non-conformist you are or want to be, buying things to keep favor with your family becomes necessity for most of us. not that giving gifts isn't good or rewarding, it just seems like it shouldn't be made necessary for one particular day. i'm not writing this to sound cool or holy, nor have i ever been to africa, just wanted to tell you (whichever 3 of you still have time to use computers) about a particular organization that i have recently taken great interest in: the blood:water mission. no sense in me writing a long description, they have a website: click here. $1 will provide clean drinking water for an african person for 1 year. wow. considering 6500 africans die per day from AIDS, often as a direct result of a vast clean water and clean blood shortage - this is seems so outrageous to me, while standing in line @ target. and that shit ain't making the news everyday anymore. i'm not a good person. i don't give money away like i could or should. in fact, i will probably only think about this .5% over the next year. that sucks. all this to say, go ahead and find a way to help for real this year.