While in line at Chipotle today, I read their sign announcing early closure on New Year’s Eve and complete closure on New Year’s Day. The final sentence read: We sincerely hope you can survive waiting a couple days for your…
Category: Awareness is Never Enough – It Must Always Be Wonder
Why We Get Sick
I have been sick for nigh on a week now. Since first thing this work-week. I went to work Monday, stayed home Tuesday, went to work Wednesday, stayed home Thursday, and went to week Friday. This is probably not atypical…
On Mars
So there may be rocket fuel on Mars. It’s in our drinking water and now it’s on the Red Planet. What would we be more likely to find as the remains of a past civilization, a past effort, than this…
Chaos (Theory?)
Authorities revealed Tuesday that a man carrying a loaded shotgun was arrested in January near the U.S. Capitol, and explosives left in his truck nearby went undetected for three weeks. –CNN/AP, 26 March 2008 If we all comprehended all that…
Good Friday
I am not a Christian. A fervent believer in God and the extant importance of higher order and morality, I have not been a Christian (or a devotee of any organized religion) since late 1992 or early 1993, when I…
What’s in a Year?
Wait near the end of September. Wait for some stars to show. Try so hard not to remember what all empty playgrounds know: that sympathy is cruel. Reluctant jester or simpering fool. But six feet off the highway, our bare…
Be Here Now
People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one dared Disturb the sounds of Silence I think “Sounds of Silence” may have been about cellphones. There’s been a whole new level of…
Chto Dyelat?
Al Qaeda: The Looming Terror An AC360 investigation into the formation of al Qaeda, where they are now, and their illusive leader. Tomorrow night, 10 p.m. ET -CNN.com, 11 November 2007 A little over ninety years ago, Vlad Lenin completed…
At the Zoo
Early this morning, we posted a new video for The Mep Report, my former podcast with which I still interact from time to time: Most of the material is old, but it’s repackaged in a nifty new way intended to…
Transcript of Notebook Jottings from October 2007 Fast
The following is a direct transcript of the notes I took while immersed in my ~40-hour fast in the woods (41.5 hours of water fasting, 31 hours in the woods). Background information available here and here. I briefly thought about…