Archive for March, 2007

The Rest of the Story

March 28, 2007

(For those of you who didn’t tune in, BestOfOmaha.blogspot.com was the original home for this blog.)
I killed it. Best of Omaha is over…
However, in an effort to exude a little more freedom in my storytelling, I moved to another site. If you feel like visiting, it’s hidden.
For some interesting sites, check Alternium, Jason’s Bass Blog, [...]

he uses the chicken to measure it

March 15, 2007

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hateful mantra

March 15, 2007

I hate this placeGod help me pleaseI want to leavewithout a trace.

The Best News: No Email Fridays

March 13, 2007

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2939232&page=1
I am SO in love with this idea!! I wish that the Air Force would have been so wise. But then it’s the U.S. Government, I can’t hold my expectations *too* high.
(Since I first wrote this…I have a better all-around opinion of the military, and a much worse opinion of the no email on Fridays [...]

Poetry from 2001

March 11, 2007

Poem 1: 1-1-2001In the heart of me, I know I am goodI know my soul still existsI know, approximately, what I amI’m like everyone else – not quite sure where I’m gonna goHeaven or Hell—-But I know I want to do bettereven if my real ambitions never reach so far as my wishes
I want to [...]

"Tuesday" 1-20-1998

March 9, 2007

The wisp of stark white hairflows across the highwayit’s entrancing, and the man is sorrythat he must simply ignore it all.The time is short as he drivesfaster than the speed limiton the ultra-slick interstate.His rear-wheel drive slipsevery now and then as hishigh-performance summer tiresmake only a modest effort to grip the road.As he drives the [...]

"Monday" 1-19-1998

March 9, 2007

Golden eyes peer from withing the dark carthe eyes, always watching and waitinghardly creating anything within his lifeBut the smallness of his life makesanything and everything he ever doesinto something larger than life, something tremendousthat his heart flies, soaring above his spiriteven for only a while.
It does so when she smileswhen she agrees to a [...]

The Acceptable Drug

March 9, 2007

The loss of myself, the gain of something in the other world. Something fake, but real to me. The loss of the physical, the gain of the other world, a place of fake monies, fake relations, fake friends. Strawberry Fields in the World of Warcraft, Everquest, everything under the sun. So much to lose by [...]

Carlinesque

March 8, 2007

I believe it was George Carlin, who wondered if, given a random crowd of people, what the worst thing any of them had ever done in the crowd. I also believe it was the movie Unbreakable that put the thought into action. There is a scene where Bruce Willis’ character, who can sense evil by [...]

Ways

March 8, 2007

Why are old people in the way? Why can’t we respect their lack of expediency, as their lack of expediency is something in our own future? Why such the hurry?