Creative Choice

The Average Family

Kansas, 2050. - The shit has hit the fan, years ago. The Surveillance State has diabolical proportions and every citizen gives voice to dissent, shows abnormal behavior or otherwise deviates from the average, is arrested. Family Grey has always lived comfortably, and during the first months after the crises (a term that was used mostly ...

28 February, 2014

average, FEMA

Essays, Laughs, Resistance, writing

Personal story: How to tell the story of our car explosion

We're doing fine. I'm sitting in a bar in Zaragoza, watching an old man waiting, a glass of brandy in front of him. He looks at his watch. The Chinese children on the bar are yelling, and the television plays football. It is eight and I am here to write. Words are increasing their subjective ...

16 February, 2014

car, explosion, narrative

Essays, Laughs, The good life, Travel

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation introduces vaccine against Affluenza

SEATTLE, Washington - Following recent outrage over a 16-year drunk driver who got convicted to only some rehabilitation after killing two and wounding several other people, because he suffered from "affluenza" (the disease of being insanely rich), a spokesperson of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that they have successfully developed a vaccine ...

15 February, 2014

affluenza, Gates, vaccine

Essays, Laughs, Resistance

Let It Snowden

Oh the government spying is frightful, But the data is so delightful, And since he has no place to go, Let It Snowden, Let It Snowden, Let It Snowden It doesn't show signs of stopping, And I've bought some eaves for dropping, We've gotta be smart and lay low, Let It Snowden, Let It Snowden, ...

29 November, 2013

9/11, Benghazi, let it snow, NSA, Snowden, spying

Essays, Laughs, Poetry

Republican Senator Defies Gravity

Senator Ab Pallin has given a short speech yesterday, denouncing the scientific status of the theory of gravity. "Like all else our scientists come up with except marketable products, we are dealing here with just a theory. Don't let them tell you anything, my dear fellow freedom loving, god fearing citizens. Here's all there is ...

10 November, 2013

climate change, democrats, gravity, satire, taxes

Laughs, Resistance

I don't sing in the shower because I'm happy - I sing in the shower to make myself happy - Austin Showers

Habits addendum

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article here about our fundamental quality as creatures of habit. In a short addendum, I'd like to mention my own experience with regards to changing habits. Just a month or so ago, I watched a short video about squatting, but not the kind you would typically do in ...

13 October, 2013

habit, squat

Laughs, The good life

Modesty

“A great man is always willing to be little.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “A modest little person, with much to be modest about.” ― Winston Churchill I want to stretch out my tentacles to tackle the idea of modesty. Sound the clarions, hoist the flags, this self-proclaimed writer marches in to lecture about a virtue ...

8 September, 2013

Laughs, philosophy, The good life

Sarcastic rhyme about gun control – do not read

For the next school shooting - may God prevent it - for all those cynical left wingnuts out there who still don't think that when guns evolve as a solution, one should also invent the problems it can solve, here's a distasteful song that you may reprint for free. If you are personally affected by ...

31 December, 2012

.223, AK46, AR15, Bushmaster, freedom, gun control, parody, Santa, school shooting, Second Amendment, Winchester

Laughs, Resistance


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