The Name Shame
(There was no Musing for Monday, March 18. Thank the capriciousness of the gods, and the Blogger site crapping out in the hours I tried ... (more...)
Archive: March, 2002
A Minute of Your Time
There are two kinds of people in the world: The first kind will ramble on and on about any and all type or taste of opinion ... (more...)
The Help Desk Tarot
The Fax Machine – Long past its prime electronic device demonstrates a desire ... (more...)
Fragments From the Memory Log, Entry Three
When I was a kid, I was indestructible. Now that's not to say I'm some sort of titanium-skinned super being from another galaxy, or was blessed ... (more...)
Confused Similes
As useless as a broken ice tray not yet in the freezer. As distracting as those bouncy head things you see on desks... I mean ... (more...)
Brief Poetry Deconstructed, Briefly
Deceptive Archetypes and Death in "Roses are red" Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you. The erotic realism at the end of this well ... (more...)
It Takes a Telephone Solicitor
The weird thing about a community is that it's filled with people. Well, not that that's weird. I mean afterall, how exactly do you get ... (more...)
A Brief Story Interlude (Mr. M and the Ants)
In the faraway land of Z, a once kindly sort of man who went by the name of Mr. M had gone mad, and so ... (more...)
A Conversation With Orley (Soul, Man)
K: "Hey Orley, I need to talk to you about the new file server." O: "No no, sorry Kaf, no time for talking about such things." K: ... (more...)
Zen and the Art of Sarcasm: Foot On Path
One thing few people apparently get is that Zen is funny. Even a large number of students and practitioners of Zen seem to completely ... (more...)
Kafkaesquí’s Offensive Rules of Forum Use
I've been online for some years now, and part of those some years has been spent on Web discussion fora (plural of forum - latinesque!), ... (more...)
Bright Neon Meat
I've been rereading Kurt Vonnegut's 1987 novel Bluebeard. I have a small collection of Vonnegut's writings; a couple signed works includes a ... (more...)