An almost high school hallway but it never ends, doorways on all sides. I’m too old for these childish games but just the same, I’m trying to fit in with this half-dozen or so of The Cool Kids. We’re all laughing and I think we’re laughing together but they’re laughing at me. Like I’m The […]
We’re at each others’ throats, people from work and myself. These should be simple enough visualizations of easy-to-graph data but they still keep missing these subtle but critical aspects of each. “My mother could graph better than this,” but that sounds like an insult to too many parties to be fair in any respect. They’ve […]
War! Revolution! A corporation and a hospital vie for control of the same building. Although it was originally built as a hospital, they sought financial aid from this company. Ever since, the two organizations have been at each others’ throats, trying to secure total control over the building, adding to it (arcology-style) as they go. […]
We have gone to a small mountain (like Mt. Philo but not) to go sledding. The whole hike up, all I’m thinking is: What’s the point? There’s hardly any snow anyway… And besides, I seem to have forgotten my sled. Nevertheless, at the top, this group of so-called friends belittles me for having forgotten my […]
A. and I have a minor quibble about our vacation plans. It seems that when I thought I’d scheduled our trip to Turkey a year from now, it was actually only two weeks away. Those international vacation plans now conflict with our more local, family-and-friends-related vacation plans. Startled and appalled by my own reckless actions […]
There is a house that A. and I are interested in buying. It needs a little work but it’s all cosmetic. We’ll rip out some carpet, tear down some wallpaper, that sort of thing. At least it seems “all cosmetic” and so our interest is piqued but it isn’t long before our agent and A. […]
Through inexplicable humanitarian means, A. & I have acquired some kind of hybrid animal — a chimera that’s got the head of a Rottweiler and the body of sea lion (however, far more conveniently sized). The creature has the Rottweiler fur and needs to wear a wetsuit in order to keep the proper hydrodynamics for […]
Hard to say what’s up with the last couple nights’ worth of dreams. There have definitely been dreams but by the time I awake… There’s nothing substantive. Nothing to write on. Which is weird because I also wake up with a feeling that I had just been through some epic, truly Homeric adventure. Last night […]
Why does Creighton live in a castle? And why is he slowly morphing into Steve Jobs? And why is he really excited about this project to convert a Nalgene water bottle into a Bluetooth mouse? Complete with drinking straw?
Point-of-view: third-person, detached; think Cops. Narrator/camera pans to follow two teenage boys walk, approaching a building. The camera is already too close to see the full building but it has a vaguely institutional feel to it (architecturally) and the vibe we’re catching off the two boys is that this is a safe place for them […]