I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they're new. It's wrong to call them benign. You could just as well call them cruel and senseless, they are all of those things, but the reality of them overwhelms halfway conceptions. -Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Words. He had a list of words. Weird words, like auric and bumbledom and chimera. Words like cachinnation and doryphore and epicaricacy. He looked down the list an...

 Take this soul, stranded in some skin and bones. Take this soul, and make it sing… -U2, Yahweh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HE: Ha! So you went skydiving? All I have to say about that is you must not love your life very much. ME: that’s where you’re wrong. I went skydiving because I DO love my life very much.********* Richard Dawkins once made the obvious statement that we are all going to die. But the thing is, he went on to say, is ...

 HE: (while sprawled across coach internet surfing with his laptop) Ha! Now get this! It says here that the experts are sayin’ that ‘sex begins at forty!’ They even have an interview with some woman who says when she was in her twenties she would just lie there and mentally go down the isles grocery shopping while her husband humped away, but now in her forties with her second husband she’s all about it. Now ain’t that some shit? SHE: (curled up under a bl...

If your friends that are broke aren’t making fun of you, then you are not on track. I read where some financial guru named Dave Ramsey said that and I thought, hmmm… you could take that quote right there and cross that over to a lot of shit other than just money management. Like… If your friends that are still going to titty bars and driving home shit faced in the early ay-em aren’t making fun of you, then you are not on track. Or… I...

Disclaimer: yeah I know. This shit isn’t for everybody. I just like to post stuff like this to fuck wit ya…~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Fartlek’s a funny word but no, it doesn’t have a thing to do with your ass –except maybe for burning it off perhaps. What fartlek means is “speed play” in Swedish and it has to do with, well, lemme let the dictionary tell ya:   A mixture of aerobic and nonaerobic exercise: a method of training, especial...

 ROUND HOLE: Ever notice how you never fit it? SQUARE PEG: Heh, yeah. But it damn sure ain’t for lack a tryin’. ROUND HOLE: Ain’t that the truth! Here you are day in and day out, but you’d a thunk by know… SQUARE PEG: Naaaah, it’s an old story RH. Us’n Square Pegs are used to it. If ya don’t fit, then ya just don’t fit. It’s really quite that simple. ROUND HOLE: But…sometimes I get so bored with all the ...

 Mondays. God love ‘em, they’re really just another day but they get such a bad rap for their name.Monday.It means the first day of the week, when you up-and-at-‘em gotta go back to the proverbial salt mines after two days of real living.But then, for me, this is a day off –the LAST day off of six days in a row I had to burn or I would lose ‘em back to The Job. Heh, and ain’t NO WAY I was gonna give up my time of real living back to The Job. No way i...

I would rather take my chances out there on the ocean than stay here and die. -Tom Hanks as Chuck Nolan in Castaway~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I wasn’t really designed for this New Life I’ve been trying to live. I mean, I was actually created for the purpose of living in lazy excess, ya dig? Like smoking and drinking and eating too much and partying and sleeping in.  …And so far I’ve done a fairly good job at it too. But… this?...

Okay, I know this is about as exciting as watching paint dry. You know, look at MY slide show! But what the hey! Here it is. I hope the link works. 

"Fucker," he swore softly under his breath as he slowly ever-so-carefully wiped the lens of the scope clear of sweat. For late April it was already hot, damn hot, and for the millionth time he wondered how he had always managed to endure it. He refocused his eyes again and peered through the crosshairs of his scope and slowly played it in an easy arc across the playground from his high vantage point on the water tower across the street.BAM! He imagined. He could just see all of them&nb...

 Leviathan. That was a good word to describe how he imagined the ship to be –a one big huge-ass giant leviathan. He was lying on his bunk in that twilight between wakefulness and sleep and for some reason he was dreaming that he was floating outside the big, hulking beast of a ship and watching her drift along to God-knows-where in all the vast, deep dark emptiness. Emptiness. Vast and deep and dark. BEEP-BEEP-BEEP! His alarm sounded. He sighed deeply and muttered an old exp...

 Wowza. So today is the yin of yesterday’s yang outside (and in more ways than one). Sunny and warm. Instead of hearing rumbling thunder and rain, it’s all about birds chirping and the back-and-forth drone of some not-so-distant neighbor’s lawn mower. Looking out the window I see that everything has been washed clean and I begin to get a true feeling that spring has finally sprung in Texas.********* “Rollercoasters are intentionally designed to be uncomfort...

 

Buddah,

 Where do I start? Right now it's around ten in the Pee-em and as I usually rise-and-not-so-shine at six in the ay-em, I should be in the bag, fag (not that I'm calling you a fag per se, but...you know. One of those expressions I picked up in sixth grade).

 Anyway, where do I start?

 Okay. I'll start with how fucking-sick-I-hate-it how JU has become. And hey! I tried, dammit! I mean I really, really, REALLY tried but...fuck a duck. I JUST CAN'T...