May 2010
12 posts
Jury Duty, observing more than “the facts.” Mental notes: who these people are, what they do, and how they react to being cooped into our civil equivalent of an internment camp. The law bodes inconvenient to those who are employed, yet the retired and unemployed sigh with the same discontent. The case lacked heat so upon our lunch break we ventured out into the sticky humidity that...
What if fish swam through the sky and birds paddled through the ocean? Imagination is a question mark following a what if. Those what ifs we conjured up as children. Breathing fabricated life into a mundane one. The what ifs that make alternate realities a reality, that push masses into religious wars. The what ifs that kick up dust and are dismissed when it settles. The what ifs that make people...
Like those splotched horses of the western United States roam free, we sprinted mindlessly around the cement basement. It was more of a gallop, really, hence the reference. The novelty of it all: of living with healthy livers and without clouded rooms, of living wild and free. That’s what childhood is, a sensation of being free. I’d use the term youth but I’d argue that...
Chillin’ In The West- Bernie Williams
I sat on the edge of my bed with the silence pounding against my eardrums, a slight squeal resonated in my head from my roommates computer, or something of the sort. What ever kind of thing would make that sort of electronic squeal. It always seems that way, a deja-vu of sorts in that silence is never actually silence. It’s always broken, ever so slightly by something stirring. A reminder...
Alleviating Poverty and Muhammad’s Microcredit
For information about the Grameen Bank: http://www.grameen-info.org/
The woes of the poor and chronic poor alike are endless, we all know this. Ten cents a day can be sent to an obscure village and feed an entire family, adopt a child overseas and in return get a Polaroid of their progress all enabled by your small donation attached to a postcard....
Jack Knows Best, On Cuffs →
“Some guys shun them because they think they’re old-fashioned, but I think they can be quite modern and I also appreciate their functionality—aside from nicely catching the odd piece of loose change, they’re actually designed to add weight to a pair of pants in order to give them shape and make them hang nicely.”
