Sitting in rush hour traffic sucking poison air belched from metal monsters, I thought about our trip to Belize this summer. I thought about the clean air and fresh food and natural wonders all around. I thought about the happy people. Then I thought about how that was just vacation. An illusion granted to us for our commitment to the machine for fifty weeks a year. And I thought about how sitting in traffic, and working at a computer, and…
Angels constantly swirl around me. Some are beautiful. Some are violent. Some have bad teeth. They protect me from those who would rip out my soul and string it up on telephone lines by clothes pins. Those who malevolently peer out of strollers as they’re pushed along by parents in designer jogging suits. My angels whisper to me that I’m safe. Only, I know that I’m not. None of us are. The wolves keep long hours. And angels are easily…
No one ever takes clients around to meet the marketing department. The marketing department is invisible. We don’t build the products. We don’t land the big sales. We don’t have offices in the corner with couches and windows. We are billy goats who get off on getting people we’ll never meet in person to think twice about something. To get them to consider a new idea. A new perspective. Our only glory comes from each other, and from savvy business…
I’m from Scots-Irish descent and grew up in Florida in the 70s – before sunscreen was a thing. As a result, I used to burn fairly regularly. I love the sun, and continue to enjoy being outdoors as an adult. Albeit with plenty of sunscreen. Last year I noticed a tiny spot on my chest and scheduled an appointment with a dermatologist. He diagnosed the spot as basal cell carcinoma. Skin cancer. A week later, the doctor took a hot spoon…
Dear All Dogmatic American Party Liners, We Unaffiliated American voters are pissed off at what you’ve done to our country. How about this – how about you stop voting straight ticket because it’s the party of your Daddy, and use your fucking brains to decide how to vote? Stop looking across the aisle for enemies and start looking in the mirror? Our country is a fucking train wreck because of YOU. Not me. Not Boehner. Not Obama. Not affordable…
Earlier today I watched this video, and it made me sad. Then I read about how ISS astronauts are preparing to monitor a comet passing close to Mars later this year. And that made me sad. I became sad because it occurred to me how life is so big that we never get to experience everything we’d like. No one can do every cool thing there is to do, or have every cool job they’ve ever dreamed of working. Instead…
