I Believe... [Most Are NOT Outraged]
...that the unwritten purpose of most media today is to make you think that the views of 17 percent of the country are actually the views of 83 percent of the country. The media doesn’t want you informed, they want you outraged. You being informed doesn’t make them rich. You being outraged does.
On the Nature of Heroes and Victims
According to the vast wasteland known as the internet, the most defining characteristics of heroes included bravery, integrity, courage, conviction, honesty, willingness to protect others, and self-sacrifice.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 14, 2021
In my opinion, pineapple can go on pizza. But the idea of drizzling gooey cheese on a piece of warm pineapple repulses me. I have been working through this complicated realization for a week now and the logic is not any closer to revealing itself.
The Destroyed Object Is Resurrected - A Prosepoem
I feel better at home, though when I go into the kitchen the staff have turned into simian creatures. Not quite human, not quite monkey. Something gleefully in between, well-dressed as ever.
Blink
He blinked again. His cheek no longer soothed by the wooden floor beneath it. A wisp of intrusive dust drifted towards him, settling on his lashes. A laborious blink, his only remedy, then another, the particle unmoving.
I Believe... [When the Self Righteous Decide to Educate]
...that the impulse of both the hard left and hard right to ‘educate’ the rest of us is seeped in the arrogance of the self righteous. Also, genuinely boring. Show, don’t yell.
Rats
His mother worked two jobs. One was good, and one was bad. The good one, she said, was good because people left her alone.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 7, 2021
You’re not getting your steps in, you’re going for a walk. Just the same as I’m not flexing my sphincter, I’m taking a shit.
Retiring the Tribal Language: An Individual Choice
If the goal is to come together, maybe the name calling and labeling should shift more kindly.
What Critical Thinker Aaron Rodgers Believes
Aaron Rodgers believes that Big Bird isn’t real.
AI, Robot
Skynet is Meta. Skynet is also ZoomInfo. Aside from the luddites in the world, casually refusing to participate in the digital world at all, everyone is captive and tool of the coming human extinction.
I Like to Watch | Eternals (2021)
My wife asked me what my favorite moments were and I was struck dumb. I couldn't think of a single moment. "I loved the end credit scene?"
I Believe... [Dems Need a Press Agent]
...that Democrats have, in a year, cut child poverty in half, added 5.3 million jobs, managed the most ambitious vaccine rollout in the nation’s history, and passed a $1.2 trillion investment in the water, roads, bridges and broadband. Lead with that, piss ants.
The Beginning?
How did we get here? Was it a Supreme Being or an intelligence which created the universe with all of its rules?
Maybe both?
The Era of Unrelenting Comparison, The Age of Poisonous Envy
Zuckerberg was that loser incel who bullied his way into tapping into to our most base snake brains. He made us like him.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of October 31, 2021
Tattoos are bumper stickers for your skin. The difference is that tattoos are classy.
No One is Teaching Critical Race Theory in Public Schools
Are public school teachers teaching children the complexities of systemic racism to children unable to critically parse things out or more thoroughly teaching about our country's racist past?
Comedy is Not Harder, It's Just as Hard as It Ever Was
The best comedians joke about the realities we refuse to see and make us laugh. That's no different than any other time.
Las Vegas Tour Company
on the corner
of Casino Center and Colorado with the studded thongs and the leashes around their slim necks and those high- waisted hot-pants hiked up to that sinched waist terrified by the possibility of beauty, while forgetting what
it might
be
...slowly
losing
life
I Believe... [Can a Black Man 'Punch Down?']
...that when an African American man is accused of punching down, the true source of inequality is revealed. It’s about class, not race or gender....that when an African American man is accused of punching down, the true source of inequality is revealed. It’s about class, not race or gender.
The first chapter of an in-progress novel.
“The voice began on a Tuesday morning while Monte Walsh was standing in his kitchen, holding an unopened package of bacon over the garbage can.”