“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
13
Yesterday was the first relatively nice day of the year. Temperatures soared into the 50s. I realize that when you’re talking about temperatures, the word soared is usually only used when those temperatures are in the 100+ range, but when you’ve gone through such a shitty cold winter as I have experienced, I’m going to […]
Feb
12
(originally posted 2/23/2024) Every week he stops into the facility to inspect their bottle cap openers. There had been talk about these visits becoming monthly, or even quarterly, similar to what he’d seen happen to his peers that certify fire extinguishers and elevators, but so far clearer heads had prevailed. It had only been […]
Feb
11
(originally posted 3/4/2024) How her peers didn’t see the caterpillar inevitably becoming the butterfly is beyond any reasonable explanation. It was as simple as Clark Kent removing his glasses. Sometimes high school and college are a lot like the newsroom of the Daily Planet. On the other hand, it was easy to see how […]
Feb
10
(originally posted 6/17/2024) The bank robber entered the bank, the ideal place for a bank robber to enter if they have a hankering to rob, waved his gun around a bit and announced that he had a hankering to rob. Tellers threw their hands up in the air and customers hit the floor as […]
Feb
8
(originally posted 2/4/2024) She used to rub her feet against mine under the covers. Which was fine, great actually, except she had long toenails and more than a few calluses and it was like she was affectionately running a pair of cheese graters up and down my leg. It wouldn’t have surprised me to […]
