Lighter Than Air

Flying paper airplanes off an aircraft carrier.

Doing the Diner for Thanksgiving

Concerning Love

A man is never more vulnerable than when he wants a woman to love him.

Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll

Drugs give you something to do when you're not having sex and the nice thing about rock n roll is that you can listen to it while doing both.
Just another sign of the infantilization of our culture.

Sanity

If you begin thinking you're the only sane person, doesn't that make you insane by default?

Market Penetration

A snapshot of where the readers of this blog are reading it.

I Need a Part

If you involve yourself with anything that’s been assembled sooner or later you’re going to need a part. Often the search itself becomes more important than the part or the purpose it was for. After all you could replace the whole thing but parts are generally cheaper than what they fit and no one likes to rethink their strategy.

The Creation Myth

I’m not really sure it’s a myth.

I mean you’re here.

File This Under Culture

It’s Christmas beer season!

Retelling from Memory

The other night I couldn’t fall asleep and instead of counting sheep wondered if I could retell the movie The Wizard of Oz from memory. I’d seen the movie many times so it wasn’t very difficult but I fell asleep before I could get her back to Kansas.

The Creature

It often seemed of indeterminate origin.

The Center of the World

The geographic concept of the center is fast disappearing.

The computer as compass.

Nattering Nabobs of Negativism

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Spiro T. Agnew

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Spiro T. Agnew

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Spiro T. Agnew

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Spiro T. Agnew

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.
Spiro T. Agnew

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Spiro T. Agnew

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Spiro T. Agnew

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
Spiro T. Agnew

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Spiro T. Agnew

It's a strange time when you can take comfort in Spiro T. Agnew quotes.

Becoming Aroused in Yoga Class

Precisely why they won’t let me attend yoga class.