Lost Horizon, Regained

C'mon you apes, you wanna be unenlightened forever?

Da-da knows that all the banksters and war mongerers and profiteers of the world, despite their worst apocalyptic intentions, cannot thwart or dispel the spirit of hope flowing unchecked through our projected screen of reality. These fiends may do their worst, may destroy our entire system, but then again... it wasn't much of a system, anyway. And those fiends haven't really done anything that lasts so very long. They are your brothers, your relatives, and even awful relations deserve a second chance -- after you've sobered them up, made them lose weight and burn all of their velour sweatpants... and disarmed them, o'course. That which is loved never dies. Except maybe velour sweatpants. And we all have friends in high places. And we all now have the opportunity, even those of us who've done so very wrong, to not only DO THE RIGHT THING, but to rebuild the world in a way that we can all be proud of, giving ourselves a future we can look forward to, and that will be good for us. (And yes, you can always buy more velour sweatpants.)

The Brother of Contention

Da-da and Ma-ma thought long and hard on timing, and willingly planned to whelp the monkies closer together (well, Ma-ma did the actual whelping; Da-da offered moral support and got his hand crushed). This planned birthing was done deliberately so the two siblings, "could be friends." "They'll be buddies!" was the rationale. Yeah. Buddies. 

Bronko and Nagurski popped out 19 mos. apart and have been at each others' throats ever since, vacillating between Banana Brother and Pirahna Brother status. Da-da has spoken to adults who themselves have siblings close in age (anywhere from 15-22 months apart) and with only ONE exception (out of about 30 people), when asked if this made them closer to said other brother or sister, they paused and looked at something Da-da couldn't see and answered: "No." Yet another pie-in-the-sky theory tossed into the Dustbin of Good Intentions.

Someone's gonna die.