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Aldous

In Idiots We Trust

In Aldous, Uncategorized on 19 August 2008 with no comments

I’m on jury duty. I’ve been waiting for years for this opportunity. Honestly. I know it’s not 12 Angry Men or Law & Order: Melodrama Unit; that’s not what I want. What do I want? I’ll tell you.
I want to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with people I don’t know, who’ve been assembled [...]

On Empathy

In Aldous, Foolishness on 13 August 2008 with no comments

You’ve got this friend, see, who gets car sick. But you don’t, and so lacking any grounding for empathy, you motor like you’re competing on So You Think You’re a Stunt Driver, and said friend gets tastes lunch again. Your friend remains your friend despite the fact that you’re an asshat, and this [...]

First Impressions: Off the Grid

In Aldous, Foolishness, Uncategorized on 12 August 2008 with no comments

When it’s a commodity like connectivity to the internet, which in itself is not demonstrably injurious, you’ll be hard pressed to achieve solidarity in your bid for personal discipline. That is, “I’m a slosh of a ‘net user, and I have a dream to write gratuitously violent children’s slasher stories, so I need to focus” [...]

A Requiem for $random(crap);

In Aldous, Family, Muse, Technology, Uncategorized on 12 August 2008 with no comments

The Other Time Bandits
I whore my attention out to any enterprise no matter how dull its flash or shallow its mapping to what I consider my core interests. I have considered this at excruciating and ironically protracted length, and hypothesized enough ways that I suck to fill, like, a big thing where you’d all, [...]

Wayward No Longer

In Aldous, Muse, Uncategorized on 17 July 2008 with 2 comments

The Pathfinders
Of all the memes wriggling across The One True Web (that social network that includes and exceeds the digital), I suggest that the greatest compels some to describe helpful normative domains, and compels others to seek such out.

Not Even Wrong

In Aldous, Muse, Uncategorized on 9 July 2008 with 4 comments

I’m afraid to write. I’m afraid to sketch. I’m afraid to math. Sometimes, I’m afraid to put on a shirt.
This isn’t a story about neurosis. This isn’t about *phobia. This is a story about how it’s wrong to want to be right. That I’m concerned about cliché is only [...]

Bring Your Leader to Me

In Aldous on 4 July 2008 with 2 comments

Tell Them I Sent You
Next week, in all likelihood, I’ll be on the phone having a conversation like this.
“So, you’ve been hanging around for years, resisting my hints and jabs. I’m going to ask again, one last time: are you, or are you not, going to start managing this team?”
Silence. Like it’s a [...]