Gather Your Miracles
Synchronous Timings are often reduced to mindless coincidences. I swim in glad, freeing circles and smile now in the cooling water about memories of the past and visualizations of the future. READ MORE »
Monthly archives for May, 2012
HACK № 44: Jaunts & Joints
Howdy Transients, welcome to the forty-fourth traversal of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, we are now at the point where the tangent meets the circle.
I don’t know what’s worse…knowing that you don’t have a summer vacation and that it’s all going to be work even through the summer OR being reminded every year that you have a whole life, a whole spectrum of experience that must CEASE in September and pushed to the bottom of the well until late-June.
I guess it’s a matter of personal actualization. There’s no reason why I can’t do all the healthy, spiritually invigorating “summer” habits the rest of the year round. It’s just a lot HARDER. Look, I don’t mind working for a living. I just don’t understand why it has to be so consuming. I don’t mean in a personal investment sense, I mean in the sheer number of hours we must spend thinking about nothing else–putting our entire lives on hold.
Anyway, here are some places I may frequent this summer because they’re close to where I familiar, and relatively cheap. I tried to keep the list short because it quickly started to get out of control. Perhaps other places will show up in another HACK.
For those of you that live in the Tri-State area, I recommend taking jaunts to check out these joints. If you live too far away, keep these places in mind if you’re ever in the area… READ MORE »
Letters From God: Mindless Flies 103
I will begin, as I often do, with an apology. I am heartfully sorry that I missed out on last week’s post. Now let’s move on, shall we?
What has been bothering me lately… Well, I’ve taken up a summer class at Dutchess Community College. Human biology. I am in the second week of the 6 week course. I did not imagine that a 6-week biology course would be easy. I was wrong. READ MORE »
I Don’t Belong Here: Things I Learned From Batman
I don’t think it’s a big secret that I love Batman. In my personal pantheon he ranks somewhere on the level of Jesus Christ and Bugs Bunny. And there’s a lot of reasons for that. Mostly because Batman is awesome. Obviously. But the reason I am going to explore today is because of all the things I learned from Batman. Or at least as many as I can name off the top of my head.
I don’t mean necessarily in terms of the wit and wisdom of Bruce Wayne. I don’t mean like anything the character directly said, necessarily. I mean more in terms of all the interesting things I learned — life lessons, fascinating trivia, obscure authors — through my contact with Batman in various forms of media for the three+ decades of my life.
My Substantial Affair With Life: Shades and Blinds
Shades and Blinds: Let Light In
“We get by with a little help from our friends.” has been the primary tune in my head for a couple of weeks now. It is like a very welcome ring-a-ling in my head. I suspect it is also a part of the gnawing enlightenment on my pathway. READ MORE »
HACK № 43: Insensatographies
Howdy Authobiographicals, welcome to the forty-third exposé of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, don’t forget the footnotes.*
Insensatography (n.) – the life story, real or otherwise, of an inanimate object.
ITC 3.2: Crew Vs. MOB (2005)
When Season Two ended, Towel Boy had been savagely gun-shot by feared criminal Attila Szendrodi. Now, Attila is back to finish the job, and he brought his MOB with him. Can The Crew withstand the brutality of the MOB? Or are they simply too thugged-out to defeat?
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I Don’t Belong Here: Liberals Saved My Life
Events have overtaken me. No new piece this week. Here’s one worth seeing again from a few years back:
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My Substantial Affair With Life: Summary
Summary:
My Weekend.
“There is not a star in the sky but one searchlight, the moon gleams with a smile.” my daughter announces to me. READ MORE »
HACK № 42: The Weaning of Life
Howdy Meltedcheesedeks, welcome to the forty-second continuation of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, there’s a silver lining just over that horizon behind you.
OK folks, here’s how this is going to play out. First I write a few self-referential paragraphs to get it out of my system, while simultaneously holding everything else in. Next, a nice little story about Vineland, NJ to help us forget that any of this is (not) real. Finally, a bunch of unrelated, recently taken pictures. If we have a deal, you may read on… READ MORE »
Letters From God: Fear
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
- Marcus Aurelius
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