Amusement from Insipid Places
When I was younger I would ask people the following question: If you could be immortal and all you had to do was chop off the head of the person you most love, would you do it? Most people would look...
Tag: reflections
“LOST”: Sublime Transcendence and… Hey Sawyer, Take That Shirt Off!
A lot of my intellectual friends (the sort of people who, with a dignified cough, announce that they do not "indulge in mass media entertainment," and other, less extreme types) repeatedly ask me why...
Soundtrack: An iPod Epic
This is where this particular story starts: I was listening to my iPod, and I had set it to shuffle. I don’t necessarily like the shuffle function. I resort to it. Some folks enjoy the surprise of...
New Year’s Resolutions
In this Southern North American region, it is expected of the women to make impassioned New Year's resolutions to lose weight and look younger. Some of us are sincere in our resolve, others make the...
Our Culture
I don’t know if it’s human tendency or just human laziness to sum up a socio-cultural period in a few basic concepts, which may or may not represent the whole. But it sure as hell is human...
Looking Back At Us
For Kaouther Arms brighter than the light of a long summer day, breasts and hair to the taste of Hannibal, ginger, hale, and supple. “Has she no part in you, your mother?” I used to wonder aloud....
The Sounds of Morning
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Jr. download I stepped outside for a few minutes about 6:15am. The sky was just beginning to lighten in the east, and the waning moon was high and bright in the west....
Thanksgiving, My Grace
I've been, naturally, thinking about the whole thankfulness concept, and what, in particular am I thankful/grateful for right now. I was reminded of the mess we went through with child #4 starting...
The Demise of Logic, Sanity, and Innocence: Part II
The degeneration of logic, sanity and innocence has caused enormous chasms in the configuration of normal life and in this chapter we cite three more logic-deficient frustrations which American...