Caution: Disclaimer Ahead

Oops! Sorry! I just realized that I haven’t posted a complete set of the disclaimers for the material contained here. Please consider this a general purpose and retroactive remedy for my prior oversight. Some users have reported mild to total changes in consciousness while using this blog, including:

• drowsiness
• sudden outbursts of laughter with or without comprehension of why something is funny (drinking milk while reading can complicate this condition)
• outrage
• sexual stimulation
• drowsiness
• deep feelings of all sorts
• bumps and bruises caused by taking the physical thought experiments too literally
• fatigue
• full enlightenment
• hunger pangs
• nausea (only 1 reported instance; could have been something she ate)
• a jittery “gotta get up and do something NOW!” kind of feeling
• drowsiness leading to napping and thence to dreaming and while the management and staff of Drumming in the Dark recognizes that it may occasionally influence a dream, we cannot take responsibility for the content of every user’s subconscious mind—so if I’ve ever given you any uncomfortable feelings, I’d like for you to know that I didn’t mean for you to have those. I was probably just in some pissy mood at the time and I vented on you. I still love you.

In addition, please be aware of the following:

• Do not read Drumming in the Dark while driving or operating heavy machinery.
• Some medications can increase the frequency and the severity of the side effects that have been associated with the use of this blog. If you aren’t sure if Drumming in the Dark is right for you—ask your doctor, pharmacist or pretty much anyone else you trust.
• We recognize your right to own and keep the weapons of your choice, but we recommend that you refrain from discharging a firearm at your computer’s screen or components in response to anything you might read in this or any other blog.
• We should also point out that all investments come with a risk and we cannot guarantee that you will make a profit.
• Drumming in the Dark is for topical and internal use, but cannot be used as a substitute for common sense and awareness of where you are and what you’re doing.
• The above statements have not been reviewed or approved by any governmental agency and the management and staff claim copyright to this material if they ever want to use it in official publications or media.
• There are no low-fat or low-carb versions of this blog, but it contains NO TRANS FATS.
• Drumming in the Dark is, always was and always will be set as “adult content” even though users will see very little in the way of nude skin here and only a tiny, mild, almost meaningless occasion of poopy language. We keep the “adult” setting in place because we don’t expect children to know how to use this material, not because of the frequent and improper use of the word “adult” as a way to imply something sexual as though there is nothing else that an adult does that a child does not do. The word “adult” means more than just sex and the management and staff of this ******* blog would like to take this opportunity to go on record as saying that we dis*******agree with sending out the cultural message that being grown up is all about sex because the management and staff of this ******* thing isn’t getting any.And we are still an adult. So?
• Drumming in the Dark contains over 99.9% pure make-up-your-own-mind and should not be thought of as support of any partisan position whatsoever.
• There is no “acts of god” clause in this disclaimer because “god” is a word that means “good” and why do you need a disclaimer against good stuff?
• One can lead a horse to Drumming in the Dark but horses cannot read and even if they did, they wouldn't leave a nice comment.
• In many—but not all cases—you are free to select all other components of your “atmosphere” as you read this blog, the sole exception being the inclusion of music within the blog itself. If you notice that an entry contains music, we ask that you please shut off that mindless drivel you’ve been listening to and pay attention to the music I’m trying to put into your head. Work with me here.
• In all cases, you must make a comment. The management and staff of Drumming likes nice comments, but we’ll listen to a negative comment as well. We’ll listen to anything you want to say, but if you don’t say anything, we tend to feel let down and abandoned, as if we reached out—searching for some connection with the humanity that we can sense out there, but our reaching was in vain because we touched no one. That makes the management and staff of ravings very sad and then they just want to go away and hide and never, ever write anymore in that place, that place where you scream at the top of your lungs and no one hears you so you try whispering and there’s still nobody there and you try all kinds of different voices and disguises and…every once in a great while for no particular reason, a tiny voice says “LOL” and then the management and staff feels a lot better.
• Drumming in the Dark is not intended as a treatment for internet addiction, but could be used that way.
• Clothing is optional while reading or writing this blog.

That should cover my ass…I mean cover the subject. If I remember anything else, I’ll edit it in later and pretend it was there all along. Okie-doke! See y’all in cyber-space!

Love,

B

P.S. Do not use this blog as a fly swatter unless it has been printed onto paper suitable for use as a fly swatter. And don’t waste paper because paper is trees and trees is oxygen and the removal of carbon from the atmosphere. Paperless is green.