The unseen are immersed in scurrilous activities. They are working hard on propagating their ongoing and ultimate conspiracy: the conspiracy which makes us think everything else is a conspiracy. But they can’t fool me. I know their game; I sense their charade. Their sleight of hand is (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘life’
crisscross
Posted: January 8, 2012 in Observations and CommentaryTags: beauty, conspiracy, crisscross, humor, lies, life, nonsense, not humor, random, Roswell, truth
the cat that doesn’t blink
Posted: January 7, 2012 in PhotographyTags: animal, Bin Laden, Boomer, cat, Darwin, freak, life, pet, random
I'm looking at you
Meet Boomer. Boomer is a freak of nature, a furry ball of chromosome confusion. He missed a step on the evolutionary ladder or, if you prefer, (more…)
psych out
Posted: January 5, 2012 in TrasklandTags: INTJ, life, Myers-Briggs, psychology, random, test, work
“You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that’s part of the experiment? I’m like that all the time.” – Steven Wright
I have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test several times over the course of my working life. This test is designed to identify how you perceive the world and, as a result, function within it through psychological preferences. Ideally it will help you understand (more…)
oh christmas tree
Posted: January 2, 2012 in Humorous BitsTags: Christmas, Christmas tree, Druid, holiday, humor, Kardashian, life, Paris Hilton, random
The holiday season fades away. We’re speeding headfirst into January and the heart of winter. As such I can now reveal the sad and deplorable truth: Our Christmas tree is a shambles, a droopy mess, a meager and utter disgrace to the mighty tradition of Christmas trees worldwide. If our Christmas tree were a movie it would be Glitter without the glitter, Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo without the incisive social commentary, Little Fockers without (more…)
at the stairs
Posted: December 28, 2011 in FictionTags: fiction, flash fiction, leaving, life, Photography
She said meet her at the stairs. Meet after the bars closed, after the last street wanderers slipped away into the night.
She said meet her at the stairs. Meet at the only place in this pitiful excuse of a city that reminds her of that romantic European spot, the place it started all those years ago.
She said (more…)
crowded house
Posted: December 26, 2011 in TrasklandTags: bookcase, books, Jed Rubenfeld, John Steinbeck, life, lovely Ms. Trask, Patti Smith, purge, random, space, Stephanie Plum
For a while now books have pushed hard against the boundaries of the house, threatening to burst through the walls in search of more space. It’s not the first time I’ve been through this. Most of my life has been crowded with books, although for a brief period I enthusiastically ran in the other direction.
About ten years ago I was possessed with a newfound desire to adopt a minimalistic lifestyle and living space. I craved air and light. I required clean lines and (more…)
merry christmas
Posted: December 25, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Christmas, holiday, life, love, peace, Princeton, tree
Merry Christmas!
Here’s wishing everyone in Blogland and beyond a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season! Live well, be happy and visit the lonely. 🙂
the gift that keeps on giving
Posted: December 20, 2011 in Observations and CommentaryTags: Christmas, family, friends, holidays, life, people, random
Did you ever notice when you reach a certain age it’s much more common for a name to drop off your holiday card list rather than make its way onto it? I find my list shrinks every year, if only by tiny increments. It’s a curious thing. There was a time everyone, and I mean everyone, who occupied space in my life at that moment received a card. I guess simply knowing that many people was (more…)
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higher power
Posted: January 10, 2012 in Observations and CommentaryTags: choices, destiny, fate, free will, higher power, life, random thoughts
Regardless of what form the higher power takes it does not guide or help us navigate our way through life. We exist in a gigantic cosmic crapshoot with no preconceived outcomes. The future is uncharted until it actually arrives. Fate does not exist, not in the way people describe it. Fate is an (more…)