Monthly Archives: February 2012

Failure Testing

I work in Marketing. This is how we categorize facts in Marketing: Stuff I made up. Stuff someone else made up. I can explain this to you in greater detail if you like. It sounds like a very ignorant view of the world but it is much more cynical than it is ignorant. Even those “crunchy” facts from engineers get Read More


Damnation

Among other reasons why I am not worthy of the heavenlies, there is this. If you don’t hear from me again on this typographically-obscene website for several months, it is because I am looking for purgatory.  


Masquerading as People

My  boss’s boss, David, pulled me in the office today. “Spend some money,” he said. “Buy some clothes.” I had caught signals before that he wished I were a spiffy dresser, but I thought I had compensated enough. Evidently not. When I related this advice to my family, the menfolk were outraged. One brother hoped I flipped him the bird Read More


All the Colors of the Rainbow

The sensitive cynics in my readership should by no means follow the link to this video about shame and vulnerability. They will hate it. It flows with the stream I am currently swimming in, however, which includes The Great Divorce from C. S. Lewis and Breathing Underwater from Richard Rohr. Still in progress is The Community Life of God from Read More