It sure is easy to be a genius nowadays isn’t it? What a relief for all of us who had any doubts, hidden deep within ourselves or worn plainly on our sleeves. With all the ease of access to capture, replay and memorize any form of media: film, music or editorial, we’re all packing the […]
This issue's word:
minutiae
mi•nu•ti•ae plural noun
the small, precise, or trivial details of something : the minutiae of everyday life.
This issue's writings:
Chad Calease ponders the sounds of the shoes /
David Browne ruminates about counting stir-sticks /
waxieus contemplates histrionic wrappers and cans beside the road of time /
Ed Eibel muses on the rise and fall of the prozac empire /
DaveTheGrinch investigates the new political studs /
Chad Calease reflects upon the tented arch and whorl /
Minutiae
The Triple Venti® Royale® with Cheese®I have counted more white, plastic hot beverage stir-sticks than you can possibly imagine. Count ‘em in and count ‘em out, goes the saying around The McDonalds Corporation’s management training school - affectionally and officially known as the Hamburger University. I am a graduate. My diploma is a plastic wall clock bearing the perma-grinned Ronald […]
{More»}More on Minutiae
Dawdle»
he just stood there watching the flight of birds as they flew through and the train pulled away which would have us believe he didn’t need to get on but what else would he do with all the conductors raising their eyebrows at him? what would he be doing there? must be waiting for someone […]
The Downfall of Our Civilization»
I was told once that there were no cases of schizophrenia before the industrial revolution. This was allegedly because, suddenly, people were thrust into factories all and then had their family life at night. This was a great change from agrarian life, where one would live and work on the farm and only wear one […]
The Hunterson Effect»
I come from good stock, Senator, stock that knows its way around the political stud farm and, best yet, I’m a young Democratic colt with a glint in his eye and fire in his loins. And you, Senator, are no mare but a political filly, galloping through the halls of Our Nation’s Capitol.
The Downfall of Everything [The Rebirth of Playfulness in Intellect]»
Fingerprints (in HTML)»
short ridges, island bifurcates and reunites points of interest, short ridges branching off a single ridge divided into two ridge endings - a ridge that ends with enclosures - a single ridge that is splitting into two abruptly
