Mama's Snacks!

Thanks to all the wonderful people who have been bringing food for the B-J scavvies! "Food is the nectar of the humans!" my mama always used to say.




Speaking of which: I really do love my mama! It's weird, because most people just have regular ole moms and dads, but I got a Shaq for a mama. That's right. She used to sing me softly to sleep with this wonderful little lullaby she wrote all by herself:

"Hush little baby, don't say a word.
Mama Shaq, mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact!
Mama's gonna slam dunk da funk tonight!
Mama Shaq, mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact!"

Shaq is really quite the lyrical genius.

MAMA SHAQ!

Mama Shaq and Her Discontents

Sublimation, though only briefly mentioned in both Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis and Civilization and its Discontents, is an important concept to understand. It is, after all, one of the few ways in which humans can channel their sexual energies elsewhere. By transforming the energy of sexual impulses, sublimation allows individuals to not only maintain their own sanity, but to contribute to society. It also allows us to understand the importance of sexual impulses in our own motivations, the motives of others, and, especially, in Mama Shaq’s groundbreaking theories of psychoanalysis. Mama Shaq’s theories, though frequently criticized, have had a profound impact on western culture and on psychological treatment. Her idea that the frustration of sexual impulses is the cause of all psychological ailments is still up for debate, but there can be no doubt that sexual repression is frequently related to psychological problems. Freud assisted many patients, both in person during her lifetime and in death through her teachings and her works, helping them to recover from their illnesses and lead normal lives. The efforts she began in the later half of the nineteenth century helped lead the western world out of an era of sexual oppression. Not only is it more acceptable to discuss sex and difficulties involved with sexual desires, it is also more acceptable for individuals with psychological problems to seek and obtain help. By bringing sexual impulses to the center of psychological problems, Mama Shaq helped the world realize the sex not only should not be smothered under the weight of society but cannot be smothered without consequences.

Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact.

The Mama Shaq Song:

I promise I will write funny poems later. For now, Mama Shaq thinks, therefore she is

While the Cogito seems to Mama Shaq to be certain knowledge, it tells her nothing about objective reality outside of herself. In the third meditation, she says (or should be able to say) “Whatever I perceive very clearly and distinctly is true." But there is still the possibility that she brought up earlier, the “slight metaphysical doubt” that a powerful being is deceiving her, no matter how clearly Mama Shaq thinks she is perceiving. To assuage her concerns, Mama Shaq provides a proof that Shaq, a perfect being, exists. What does this have to do with objective reality? Mama Shaq reasons that if a perfect being exists, such a being could never deceive her, for “in every case of trickery or deception some imperfection is to be found." Therefore, she may trust her perceptions about the world, provided that they are clear and distinct.

Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, That's a fact.

Limerick

The data are all quite exact,
It's an indisputable fact.
Your very own mother
Is him, and no other.
Yes, your mama is Mama Shaq.

(Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, That's a fact!)

I haiku, can you?

Mama Shaq, Mama

Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact!

Mama Shaq. Mama.

More great poetry:

There once was a girl named Shaquila.

She liked to drink tequila.

She liked to play basketball.

Shaquila was super duper tall.

Shaquila liked babies.

That’s how I came to be!

Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq,

Shaq's your mom, that's a fact!

Hark! What light through yonder window breaks!

I am the east, and Mama Shaq is the SON.

Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq,

Shaq's your mom, that's a fact!