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HACK № 59: Where the Hack Am I?

All I see only looks the same / The picture is the frame

~Dr. Dog

So where are we? Let’s get our bearings. It’s the early 21st century, planet Earth, itsthecrew.com. And this is my HACK. OK, got it. See, we’ve been offline for a while. The cause: procrastination. The delay: me. Actually, I took action 3 days after the site went down, as soon as I could afford hosting. The next 7 days have been an annoying series of troubleshooting phone calls and e-mails. I’ll spare you the details. I wish I could’ve spared myself the details. Life is easier when you don’t have to do it yourself but then how could you live with yourself?

Did I forget something? Oh, yeah, the little opener before the cover photo. How about… READ MORE »

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HACK № 58: Bromidic

Bromidic

You can’t find a moment alone. No matter where you go they find you. Cameras and eyes. Try to disappear and you sacrifice more than should be necessary. Privacy is no longer a right, it’s a luxury. Can you afford to avoid the dynamic shift in consciousness occurring all around you, throughout this entire planet?

I know it hurts. READ MORE »

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HACK № 39: A Conspiracy of Blessings

Howdy Mediocritons, welcome to the thirty-ninth extremity of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, I’ll go out on a limb if you promise to catch me when I fall.

Dichotomies: What are we going to do about them? What aren’t we going to do about them? Is one side more real or more preferred than the other? Or do they exist simultaneously depending upon the conscious observer? Do my rhetorical questions have answers? Or are the answers simply more questions? I could do this all night folks, or I could not. Let’s pick the latter and move on. READ MORE »

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HACK № 38: “Paperlate!”

Howdy Transients, welcome to the thirty-eighth histrionic of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, ‘histrionic‘ was not a noun until I just made it so.

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This week I have an overactive bladder, an underactive imagination, a reactive reality, inactive indifference, a proactive perspective and a radioactive half/life about as long as my refractory period. So that doesn’t give us much time… READ MORE »

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I Don’t Belong Here: Digressions, 2004-2012

For the first time ever, here’s all the Digressions! Digressions #1, #2, and #3 were originally published in If You Don’t Give Me Heaven. Digressions #5 and #6 were originally published in Heroes And Hierophants. Digression #3 has never been published anywhere, and Digression #7 is brand spanking new! Whatever THAT means.

Digression #1: The Kingdom of Heaven and the nature of magic
Digression #2: Everything vs Nothing, Jesus, and Conway’s Game of Life
Digression #3: The Existence Of God and Crypto-Solipsism
Digression #4: Metaphorical evil and the EZ-Pass
Digression #5: December 21st, 2012
Digression #6: The Eye in the Triangle
Digression #7: People don’t believe what they believe they believe

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HACK № 29: In Defense of Social Networks

Awhatup Avatars? Welcome to the twenty-ninth ego-entity of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, I remind you of the immortal words of the still mortal immortal Paul Godmore…

It’s hard to argue with that logic. Yet I will do just that. This is for all of you out there that hate on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, dating sights and anything else about the good ol’ Internet. READ MORE »

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Letters From God: No Excuses

I believe I have mentioned before that I work at a copy center. If not, I work in a god-forsaken copy center. I do not know what it is about the copy center, but it is like a magnet for disabled people. By disabled I mean people who seem to have no abilities. The concepts of thinking things through, simple math, reading, typing, and communicating are just too advanced for these people. Not to say there aren’t gems out there. Thank goodness there are people who can handle those tasks. But nevertheless, I seem to be constantly dealing with human beings that do not seem to possess any common sense whatsoever. READ MORE »

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I Don’t Belong Here: Wake Me Up When It’s The Future

I give up guys, I’m gonna go just do my thing, you guys have fun with your presidents and shit, and we’ll try to stay out of each other’s ways. ‘Kay? Wake me up when we’re in the future. Know why? Because I want to see space, that’s why. It’s totally within our grasp and we’re pretty much ignoring it. So wake me up when it’s the future.

I mean, literally. Wake me up. In the future. When you guys have the means to resurrect the essences of the dead. I’m not stupid. I know it’s not going to happen in my lifetime. So when it happens, wake me up. I’m done with the present.
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HACK № 20: Until Dead Inside Do Us Part

Howdy Lovers, welcome to the twentieth consummation of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, don’t forget tomorrow is Give Your Wedding Ring to A Single Person Day. As per sacred tradition, the single person gets to bang the spouse of the person who gives them their ring, while you get to go out and bang everybody else’s spouse who is single for a day.

Last week I brought up two subjects I have no direct experience of: marriage and kids. I have neither. I once went steady with a girl when she had been separated for only four months. She eventually got the divorce and shared custody of her daughter. They are both my dear friends to this day. Later on I dabbled in the colors of a deaf artist with two hearing kids, a girl and boy. The kids’ father (also deaf) was somewhere south, seriously trying to get off the grid. So I’m not married and I don’t have kids but I’ve at least had a few years of experiences acting the part.

This week we’re going to take a closer look at that those spiritually legal unions that everyone thinks are the only the kind of unions that should be recognized and sanctioned by society. READ MORE »

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Prose Before Swine: The Fucking Apple Store

The fucking Apple store. I’m just not hip enough. There’s one here in Smallbany – in the most ghetto cheese shopping maul within 100 miles. You walk in and it’s like a scene from Demolition Man, where neutered men in white uniforms follow you around and suggest things to you with a level of tenacity not experience since the apex of the Radio Shack Empire. Handy Dandy Tandy Computer Candy anyone? READ MORE »

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HACK № 7: You Have No Right

Greetings Grasshoppas, welcome to the seventh teaching of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, don’t forget to update your privacy settings.

“You have no right to ask me how I feel.
You have no right to speak to me so kind.”

I’m sick of hearing about rights. Our Bill of Rights, your right to bear arms, the right to life, I have the right of way, etc. We justify our ego-based existence on these rights. After all, we (or our ancestors) fought for these rights, which are natural, God-given, and well, they just exist. They must exist, or we’d never have gotten this far. Right? READ MORE »

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I Don’t Belong Here: War Is A Good Thing

War is a good thing. Sorry, Edwin Starr.

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Good God, ya'll!

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