Part I - Prototype My first memories are of an absolute state of confusion. The hundreds in attendance applauded wildly as my awareness blossomed into full-blown sentience before their eyes. Their efforts ensured that my mind was preloaded with all I needed to know about my situation. My state as a collection of harmonized senses…
What a wonderful time to have been born. Old enough to have seen the digital revolution roll over the timeline’s horizon but young enough to feast upon the ripest of its fruit. It took social media almost two decades to settle properly into the mortal lexicon. It was a given, taken for granted, and when…
A dog story, start to finish, about a friend I had to say goodbye to yesterday.
Hey kids! Do ya like the vid-ja games?? I’m so down with the pac-man and the Fork Night! Just kidding I fuckn hate people like that, who look you eye to eye, like a goat, trying to relate to you as though you were some kid (who would still think that person is an idiot).…
Many moons ago, I was in my fifth year as a desk monkey for one of the textile mills that had a near-monopoly on local employment. I had been recently promoted to sales analyst, which basically meant I had new responsibilities as well as all my old ones. I liked being a numbers guy, not…
An Echo of Wisdom When I was younger, my mom and I moved around, living with family members, during which, there was a few-year stint where we lived with my grandparents. My grandfather was a hard-working man who seemed to know how to do everything, including playing the guitar. The upper floor of our farmhouse…
We’ve all been there: hurt, frustrated, straight-up pissed off or completely enraged. Someone did something to you and you want karma to do its thing so badly, because extracting even an iota of vengeful satisfaction against the person / thing that wronged you is likely to land you with a prison term that’ll last far…
I go with the times. I don’t bitch when something changes, like a new feature or tweaks to the layout of a favorite site or app. Most people shit the bed when this happens, you hear about it for like a week, as it’s this era’s water-cooler banter about the weather or big sports win…
This Earth: A Fantasy World 