You could say that the main idea that came to me today was precisely that new ideas are scarce. Reading Homer and viewing Homer Simpson, I found that much the same things were covered; and looking over this weeks's list of NY Times bestsellers, I found that my parents and grandparents were offered the same choices way back then. But of course ( Read more... )

What I am saying is that if you jumble the alphabet, the relative importance of certain letters will be altered in some way --much as if an alert sounded as you were saying something: "What I am saying is that if you jumble ...szzuh!szzuh!szzuh!szzuh ( Read more... )

I saw through a wave as it broke on a beach in a remote island in the Sargasso Sea and I saw the Bermuda Triangle reconfigure itself as a broken window to the past. Here was the shattered moment I'd been looking for where all sea passages of my ancestors converged, where all baskings at the seashore converged, where all talk of the immensity of ( Read more... )

I was looking through the papers today and found m,any instances of doom and gloom. I must say that some doom is worse than gloom, and, on the other hand, some gloom is far worse than some doom. Sometimes it's a toss-up. But, essentially, doom and gloom are usually found together and it is usually a good fit. The world's explorers, voyagers and ( Read more... )

I was driving blind tonight through the heteropolis missing exits and oblivious of lanes as they merged and dismerged --all due to being unfamiliar with the neighborhood, which really means that driving at night through unfamiliar streets leaves you at the mercy of the mis-shapen urban landscape and can drive you insane if you let it overtake you ( Read more... )

There are times when I notice that the same words can be used to say something banal when they just as easily could be made to say something that flies off the page like some super-hero canapes filled with wondrous powers such as truffled tidbits of extreme culinary artistry.

Everybody warned me, "There is no such thing as a clean start!"But I didn't listen, did not quit packing, did not reverse my decision to close my bank account, did not throw out those travel brochures, did not stop embroidering on my resume, did not quit packing. And so I took those initial steps, looked back on my failures, looked back on my ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention all the little things that my mind pauses at as it flaps around the world I carry it to. My mind is made to look at the hangnails, the twisted toenails, the pre- and post-toiletpaper, the razorblade, the callus, and it notes it all in some arcane way and stores it all away. I'm done now.

I find it strange that things that appear real are quite often veneers or facades and are no more real thanis the news as depicted on the evening news. So now some people are saying that Jay Leno's joke about Bush being the ventriloquist puppet on Cheney's knee is not real. It looked real to me, So if that image is but a veneer, what, in fact ( Read more... )

Amberphlame has cautioned me (very politely) about my wanton use of CAPS and I have agreed that if I continued to do that, people would soon go deaf. I will, in the meantime, search for a suitable font that will satisfy my craving for caps and at the same time make my appearance seem less crass, insolent and obnoxious. ANY SUG...gestions?