“A man’s subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”
P. G. Wodehouse
Apr
4
Occasionally someone will write to me saying nice things or horrible things about a story I’ve written and either way I appreciate them having read it. The correspondence I most value is where they share a little something about themselves as they talk about what I wrote because it reminds me every time that what […]
Apr
20
David Grey owns the diner. It was a slow day so he told the waitress she could leave early, which left him alone to both work the counter and cook the food. David looks surprisingly similar to Dennis Quaid … but this is not his story. Not David’s and certainly not Dennis Quaids’. How I […]
Apr
18
A little bias is to be expected when you’re hearing stories about artificial intelligence taking over and getting rid of humans. Films make it very clear the hellish world it would become if the machines ever usurped us. The Terminator for instance. Most humans believe this to be a pretty fair appraisal of how the […]
Apr
15
Recently I became desperate to try and understand what was taking place between my ears. This desperation led me to try and tackle a book called Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky. I tackled it in much the same way a Pee Wee football player, all 85 […]
Apr
8
Location: the Ganden Monestary, Dagzê County in Tibet. A Lama (spiritual master) sits crossed legged in front of a man who appears to be a Westerner. The Lama says the following; “If you wish to dream about being a bookmark it is best to sleep between 19 blankets and 3 mattresses.” The Westerner absorbs […]
Apr
7
They say we know more about outer space than we do about the deep ocean. You know why they say this? Because it’s safe to admit that about the deep ocean. You want to know what most men know even less about than space? The vagina. Specifically about what’s going on in there during a […]
