e COFFEE IS THE BITTER WAY TO START THE DAY

E Pathos may be the operative word today and what a beautiful word it is, regardless of what it means. It looks beautiful. It sounds beautiful. And its meaning, soft and caring, is exactly what you would hope such a beautiful word would mean. Why pathos today? Personal reasons. Setting up a new challenge to write about nothingness while major somethingness brews in the heart of LA. Is there a residual nothingness of the somethingness that squeaks through the invisible protective shield I have set up?ISN'T THIS BACKWARDS?. Does anyone care? Does anyone have the faintest idea what I am talking about. "IS ANYNE OUT THERE" is one of them. Pathos. A man writing about ALLEGED nothing, day in, day out, secretly craving a something in reward for his honesty in talking about his nothing. But once he receives his something, the game ends and he is taking a bow for not wanting to take a bow. Is this the way we are wired? We seek the approval of our peers even when the approval we are seeking is for not seeking the approval of our peers. Without the approval of our peers we are left with the approval of ourselves (and God). God does not seem to be a player here so we can eliminate him. Is LA's own approval of itself sufficient to give it the satisfaction it craves? Can LA be its own peer? Yes, but what a lonely world. What if we settle for feint or modest approval of a few people, just as a way of keeping us from madness? Would anyone begrudge us that? Would anyone say "you've now killed the premise of the whole enterprise?" Since there may not be anybody, this is highly unlikely. And if there is anybody reading by this point, they will be sufficiently on LA's wavelength to feel compassion for its unique problems. Pathos. Pathos. Pathos. The three musketeers.ASIDE FROM THE ENDLESS REPETITIVENESS THERE IS SOMETHING VAGUELY MASTURBATORY ABOUT THE PREVIOUS TWO LINES BUT BLOGG THINKS IT IS TOO DISGUSTING TO GET INTO--NOT THE MASTURBATION, THE SLOPPILY HIDDEN QUEST FOR UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.