Thinking Out Loud

     (Continued) 5      Already standing above me at the open lid of my pod is Cooper.  He places my virtual goggles back on my head.  "You didn't get the job done, did you?" he scolds di…

    My audio plays before the optics appear and Cooper is already ranting and raving his usual conspiratorial spiel, while Alex fearfully shushes him knowing the consequences.  Cooper is fearless, however, as he earned his social toke…

    Past the bright red brick exterior into a white tile interior reflecting a desirous outside gleam before fading to the dim soul-deadening hallway reaches, we're led to rows of menacingly tall doorways all isolated by closed thick, heav…

    Not so long ago, I was known as the Oxygen Guy.  Everywhere I went on my job, I would hear, "Hey, it's the Oxygen Guy", "There's the Oxygen Guy".  I would reply, "That's me, your breath of fresh air"; a corny retort, I confes…

   The fleshed ones never seem to notice me until I cause them annoyance. Such a peculiar and useless emotion that seems to be—annoyance. Then again, aren't all emotions? What are those reactions of which they are programmed to recei…

    Upon the very day of releasing Part I of this blog, two interesting news stories were reported.  Alec Baldwin was charged and arrested for shooting his costar, Halyna Hutchins, with a prop gun, which is very reminiscent of Ronald …

    etymonline.com defines the word "illusion" in synonyms such as "mockery, scorning, derision" as well as "deceit, deception ... jesting, jeering".  This website gives the etymology of "illusion" as stemming from illudere, meaning "…

       The living room window must be subtly highlighted by the perfect accent of drapery; this window facing due east to allow an immaculate luminescence over my obsessively selected sofa set. I study through my pretend camera…

     Between the town of Corona and the city of Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, it was reported that the Roswell Army Air Field had recovered a flying disc. This was quickly retracted and covered up by the famous report of a mistaken …

    When we think of Charles Manson, we think of a murderous, criminally insane cult leader as well as various other pejorative terms.  I, personally, think of a comedic, entertaining psychopath deranged by the traumas of MK-Ultra.&nb…

       To some he was known as the loser’s champion, to others he was known not at all—just another raw boxer grueling through the obscurity of continuous defeat. Merle Gordon, as a frequent passenger of the Las Veg…

    You and I today look at names as if a mere random selection from a baby book.  If you ask someone what their name means, they'll usually tell you they don't know or that it means nothing.  It's just a name.  Yet this is …

    A driver in a rush to nowhere weaves in and out of traffic recklessly, careening around curves and battling every obstacle thrown in his path.  He risks life and limb to cut, at best, a couple minutes of drive time if only he can …

    By those who know him, Edison Haize is referred to as the last of many things. The townsfolk call him the last pioneer; at such a young age he explored every square inch of Cayceville, Mississippi. His teachers, regretfully, call him t…

    The marketing masters have always used the same formula: get'm while they're young and you'll have a customer for life.  The same has been applied to mass hypnosis through the animated film industries.  Bright flashing colors…

    The sciences once told me there are four oceans.  Apparently these geographical sciences were incorrect and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration decided to add The Southern Ocean.  Did the nature of earth and a…

       One morning, some time ago, David awoke one minute and twenty-three seconds before his digital alarm was scheduled to sound, rolling over to see his wife, Samantha, dressing in front of the vanity mirror.    …

    July 6th, 2022, a day that will not live on in infamy; a day that will likely not live on at all; a day that will most likely be forgotten, yet should not, for upon that day, the first day of the pagan Roman holiday of Ludi Apollinares…

    Coins were once created to overtake the economy of trading and bartering of goods and services.  This gave lending power to a select few and thus empowered them beyond their intrinsic value to the village.  We became one step…

    I remember the man—the myth-seeker turned mythical, himself; to be sought after like the very legend he helped popularize—Kevin Nazareth: the name he abided before the shedding. He established our o so profitable magazine, …

    When a house burns down, leaving nothing behind but smouldering ashes that eventually settle into the dusts that scatter and fertilize the grasses and weeds of tomorrow, did that house ever really exist? It still exists in photographs,…

    According to the National Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children program, 2,300 children go missing every day in the United States. Every 40 seconds, according to F.B.I. statistics, a child goes missing or is ab…

       I had no idea why we were hiding in the attic of Mr. Schmidt’s, my Father’s invidious boss and cause of endless tirades that tainted our every dinner conversation, who now seemed to work for us, providing foo…

    Women's fashion of 100 years ago was extraordinarily different from the fashion of today.  The flapper dress was as risque as it got.  Women wore high-waisted trousers with tailored dresses and large, ornate hats.  The l…