We all get annoyed with people. It’s inescapable. Rather than allowing that annoyance to stoke within us a sense of superiority and arrogance, however, we should remember we are people. People get as annoyed with us as we do of “them.”
Month: February 2017
Unpacking Something Happens
The story up to this point has been fun, but hasn’t answered a rather important question. Why is Will so special? Now we begin to see. The Last Debacle The Mark VI was Nobody’s first attempt to power a motored transport with an “Applied Imagination Battery.” Theoretically this battery could have lasted for several months…
Fiction Tuesday – Something Happens
Today’s blog continues my long-neglected satirical fantasy, In The Land of the Penny Gnomes Agent Other escorted the group off the train and loaded them on to some military-looking vehicles parked on a nearby dirt road. They’d been instructed to remain silent until they’d been properly loaded, which Nobody seemed to forget every sixth step….
“Fake News” and Social Media Reaction
I’ve been seeing a great deal of social media shares declaring how “Don Lemon stormed off the set” when someone called a segment “fake news.” This “storming” was, alternatively, cheered and condemned by partisans looking to score points in the culture war. Frankly, there are days when I think progressives and reactionaries deserve each other…
Hacksaw Ridge
It’s rare nowadays to see a story in which faith plays a central role, but is neither a caricature of a protagonist nor the villain. In a great deal of modern popular culture, faith either makes you a crazy cartoon character or a wicked person who wants to see the world burn. And then there…
Bird in Flight
Temperatures reached the mid-60’s yesterday, a blessed reprieve from typical Winter temperatures, so my neighbor and I decided we were long overdue for a photowalk. We headed down to Palmyra Nature Cove and headed out on a path down which we’d never walked. We headed straight out from the science center and out on the…
