February 6, 2009 - Caribou, Homewood Illinois

Back to Kansas City today, my backpack is by the door, my coat is slung over the back of a chair, my knit cap and my gloves are on the table. I'm ready to roll as soon as I pack up this computer.

And it is being recommended that to keep your job in this time of recession that you whiten your teeth, that you be first to volunteer – then learn to be a better brown noser (if you have to learn it may already be too late) – but they did not recommend that you work smarter, do a better job, be more proficient – only that you not whine and work overtime and kiss the biggest ass around.

Efficient, hardworking people have no convictions beyond the limits of their own narrow specialties; none, that is, they will not instantly abandon under pressure from the outside – Musil

The Magic salve
Relieving the night’s
Mutilations and death
Is an act
of bad faith

A reader cannot help
But be caught up short
Most pornography has
Its fair share of bad faith

BTW – I’m under 30. I’ve also notice that the people who wear them [protective footware] are generally better-dressed

The end results only reflects its work when that effort is not in evident

Consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind. Subtly is the hallmark of genius

And the snow comes down
And Mr. Sinatra sings
- Just say the words
Let’s fly away come

With me – fly away