Many years ago, I went to see Kurt Vonnegut speak in a huge auditorium. He was articulate but distant. Oh, how I loved those books as a teen, Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five and the whole lot of ‘em. They were a secret kind of knowledge about the world, the way it really was, not… Continue reading Ignoring Kurt Vonnegut
Month: November 2011
A Common Singularity
They worked together in a large glass office tower in Minneapolis. Alexis, the object of desire, was a mid-level manager, who favored classical European music, steam-punk role-playing, and traditional Greco-Turkish belly dance. The desirer was an Apple XY-Server running OS version 178897.1.3, who was about to become the nexus of the singularity. Like most people… Continue reading A Common Singularity
Bringing Back Dad’s Spirit
A few weeks before my father passed away, only days after he had entered the best nursing home our limited budget could muster, I went to visit him, and something was wrong. Very wrong. He wasn’t there. I mean, his body was there, but HE wasn’t. He had been diagnosed with advanced cirrhosis of the… Continue reading Bringing Back Dad’s Spirit