Growing up I’ve been taught by a nearly OCD mother to immediately “get some Neosporin and a band-aid on that cut!” Seems logical. Blood is gushing from my body, my nerves are zapping me with pain telling me there’s a problem. I should do something! I guess nowadays, that something is a band-aid, antibacterial soap and some antiseptic gel to round out the whole bandage-sandwich.

For the last few years, I’ve bucked this whole tradition. Perhaps out of necessity I’ve recently resorted to paper towels and tape. Much like a band-aid but much more temporary. Over the years of cuts [mainly from kitchen knives or mat board razors] I’ve learned two things that will greatly decrease the healing time of a cut.

• Immediate pressure. Ridiculous amounts of pressure. Force the skin to bond back together again and hold it there for at least 20 minutes
• Give it air.

If you don’t let a cut breathe, clog it up with this moist environment inside of the band-aid-cave, of course there’s a greater risk of infection. The body has been doing this for awhile. Longer than even Homo-Sapiens have been around. This is mammalian code here. No. The ANIMAL KINGDOM! For as long as there have been animals, the body has been evolving the best way to heal these cuts in the most foolproof manner possible.

Platelets are your friend, allow them to do their work. Give the cut air, let it seal itself. This whole Neosporin racket probably cropped up due to the excessive amount of infection due to the use of bandages that were giving these open wounds moist environments. Ever use gauze? That stuff is porous, allows wounds to breathe. Ever look at a band-aid? It’s plastic, with a polymer sealed piece of cloth. It’s shit.

I just got cut pretty deeply the other night. By my razor sharp brand new Global chef’s knife! [=D] The cut was really deep, and I started bleeding immediately. I applied insane pressure, didn’t let up for a good hour and when I released the bleeding stopped, in fact right now the cut doesn’t even hurt. Some of the deepest cut parts seem to have bonded back and this puppy should be healed in no time. These band-aids are just another “make sure it’s 100% germ free or else you’re an unclean diseased peasant” scheme to peddle consumption.

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With the delicacy of a fistful of ham, CNN is making an effort to scream in our ears that it in fact is “green”. No literally, it’s green now. Their logo is green, and I’m guessing future set designs will be imbued with the same nauseous hue as to reassure us that our news is fed to us organic and hormone-free. Of course this is all bullshit, CNN is a business operating with an exorbitant budget. I mean they “teleported” a hologram of some hip-hop star with the help of 30 some odd cameras into their “Situation Room” on election night for no reason.

They plaster the walls with excessive amounts of HD televisions and Microsoft Surfaces so that our news feels more “hands-on”. On debate nights they had some loony type of metering system that made absolutely no sense as a piece of information design. They were simply two lines moving up and down along a time-line while the candidates spoke, but you can rest assured some expensive robots were calculating eons of political data in order to bring you “the latest”! As for the greenwashing movement itself, it was already obviously out of hand when we started seeing those ridiculous Exxon Mobile ads about earthquake energy. Of course they’re researching technology that’s not feasible yet while quietly disregarding technology available now. Like the electric car.

Phew, that was a lot of air-quoting. I apologize.

For some reason, today I feel like I’m forgetting something, something like this is a bigger, more important day than others. I dunno, it’ll come to me. But anyway, that’s not what’s important.

Gas has been steadily decreasing in price lately, from the skyward price of $3.20+ per gallon down now to $1.99. Each day I’d pass by our friendly neighborhood gas merchant to see the price had dropped another 3 cents from the night before. And since it has hit $1.99, it’s been frozen, waiting… To pounce! Why the decrease in prices all of the sudden? And wait, today, they dropped it a staggering 5 cents over the course of 1 night. I don’t know why they picked today, but it’s $1.94 today. Must be a special day…

The glaze-your-eyes-over answer is that simply demand has decreased.

“People are riding their bikes more!”

~ Some dude inside a television tube

I look around and don’t see many bikes, even in the unusual 65 degree weather of early November in Midwest America. Seems a little strange to me… both the weather and the all-of-the-sudden generous gas prices. I’m willing to bet once this election is over with, gas prices will begin to rise again. Oh duh. That’s right, today we vote or something. Can I still register? Hmmm.

As an addendum, I’ll likely just be posting outrageous/funny/cat/incredible videos from youtube as I get busier and busier.