“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jan
22
Every time I open my big mouth I put my soul in it. It takes so much to be nothing, to shroud the mind’s eye from the gaudy theater of the head. Fallness noon on the mind cluttered with discarded fantasies nerve paneled corridors of imagination opening on hidden universe glimpsed in the echo of […]
Feb
3
(originally posted 9/3/2024) Roger, host of the obscure Roger That podcast, sat back and began to wrestle with how he planned to present the day’s subject matter. Recently he’d had an incident that bordered on an epiphany. While on a lengthy drive he noticed that his windshield had collected a large number of splattered […]
Feb
2
(originally posted 11/4/2024) He eats the whole peanut. Shell and all. You could hypothesize that he worries about having the dexterity to break the shell and remove the nuts without dropping them or you could argue that he believes that there is some nutritional value in consuming the shell. Either way, eyebrows are typically […]
Feb
1
(originally posted 9/23/2024) Ask any Tom, Dick or Harry and they will tell you about the conventions. Gatherings of large numbers of people who share the same first name. They’ve been going on for generations, these conventions. The John get-together being held at a small stadium. The Ambrose affair? Not so much. Recently I […]
Jan
31
(originally posted 5/24/2024) I was thinking about the similarities between writing and sculpting. If there was ever a first sentence that made the reader suddenly wish to be reading the ingredients on a box of breakfast cereal instead, that surely has to be it. (If there was ever a second sentence that made…) Hear […]
Jan
30
(originally posted 1/28/2024) I stopped watching professional sports a few years back, exhausted by all the antics of the entitled dimwits and their blatant disrespect of the fans that pay their exorbitant salaries. I was not alone. Now the question must be asked, how do they get us back? Obviously I don’t want to […]
