In 2004 I was nearly catatonic over my addiction to rolled, filterless, american spirit tobacco in rizla papers.  I couldn't go 45 minutes without a fix. 

 I had quit for days and even weeks, but I was surrounded by cigarettes, my gf smoked and all of the anarco kids and… Read full post »

Captain Xark passed on into the netherworld of nom de plume's yesterday, succumbing, perhaps acquiescing to other parties on the web interested in his namespace. 

He gave it a lot of thought, and so have I.  Which is why, I, Admiral Grout Panache, will also be sailing forth into the… Read full post »

(CX awoke briefly, he think he's been in a different time or dimension, AGP)

"Ive got these three projects and they are all in totally different directions.  I'm torn between them and it's led to inaction.  It's all caught up in my identity and I am really trying to get… Read full post »

I decided long ago that I never wanted to be busy.  I think it was about that time I lost my thousandth friend to the disease and went into my first great silence.  

I decided that I wanted to be someone who would answer his phone and emails,… Read full post »

Where were they in August when 700 billion dollars were being given away without any record even being kept of who was given money?

Where were they when 20(+) billion went missing in Iraq?  

Now they are concerned about pork barrel projects and Taminy hall politics?  (Well they have to… Read full post »

(note: this diverges starkly from my usual cultural/political posts...at first, towards the end it will be obvious that it does not.  I typically reserve this type of thing for theabstractexponent.com, which is an awesome website, btw.)

Consider: A Windows PC is brought in to the shop where I w… Read full post »

(Well, you, of all companies, asked for it Lexus, here you go...)

The biggest problem with American Culture is staring at us right in the face, demanding innovation:

People are not just being immensely rewarded for doing very little, they are being immensely rewarded for screwing the whole place… Read full post »

Stop Consumer and Industrial Waste with Admiral Grout Panache's 7 Point Plan

#1 Halt sprawl nationwide, by law.  Will freeze every city limit for twenty years and end the speculation/overbuilding feedback loop.

#2 National Telecommuting Initiative, will subsidize purchase of networking and vid… Read full post »

-Her condo has been leased and she has moved in with his sister-in-law's grandma, in a part of town closer to family. 

 -Her diagnostic test report said that she is not fit to work and the doctors were concerned that her symptoms represented a 'Frontotemporal Dementia' and that she should… Read full post »

Im in shock, an American TV show that embraces the true nature of human existence.  Rather than dropping back in to easy, flashy, shallow answers, as series like Lost have been prone to, BG gives us the real deal, the real fate, the real state of consciousness in an empty universe. … Read full post »

Shortly before Christmas, or as he calls it, The Holiday, Captain Xark slipped into a namespace coma. 

He's poor, so his hospital bed will be kept deep underground in a frozen chamber just a few centimeters of granite above the sky of Zambibiconia the Hollow Earth land of Chipmunk Nightmares.… Read full post »

Title says it all.

A little girl, CARRIE ANNE LYNNE, with blonde locks is playing with a flower in a backyard.

A woman, MOTHER, CARRIE ANNE DIANE, exits the back door of the house and begins to yell.

MOTHER

Carrie Anne Lynne! Where did you go!  You are supposed to be cleaning the kitchen… Read full post »

My mom was a refugee after the divorce in 1993.  A simple church woman who had been a stay at home mom banking on a lifetime of conventional marital bliss was finally freed from my father's sociopathic emotional tyranny with no alimony, full custody of three boys, and half of the… Read full post »

1. Too Big to Fail = Too Big

2. The Tax cuts didn't improve the economy and neither did the 'Print A Trillion Dollars and Give it to Rich People' plan.  If any American mentions 'Economics' and 'Trickle' in the same sentence ever again, they should either be deported immediately or… Read full post »

My mom, my two younger brothers, my middle brother's fiancee, our churchy, single friend Cathy and I all went to Florida when I got back from my mission to Germany.  I had already left the mormon church and had started drinking whiskies, but hadn't yet migrated to scotch.

We stayed at… Read full post »

THIS IS CRAZY!!!  By submitting an application, they can pose illegal questions to all of my former employers, get a credit report and hire a PI to investigate me.  Then they need my urine, which they may at any time ask for, and then still fire me for no reason… Read full post »

Line from 30 Rock, Jack says,

 "Rich 50 is Middle Class 30"

I'm middle class 30.  So I wonder, am I just working for the next twenty years to be able to pretend that time hasn't passed?  So I can have a 23 year old girlfriend in college for 1600 +… Read full post »

note: please excuse the formatting here, centering in this window is a pain.

note: yeah, I know I should send it to an agent, but whatever.  Sometimes I'm just tired of sitting in the slush pile.  The seasons already over and this is topical.  

THE GAZILLION DOLLAR BILL… Read full post »

Contemporary American Conservatism - A Failed Ideology

...and We Must Not Let Them Forget It

    As they reel from their recent defeats, Contemporary American Conservatives claim they intend to recapture some essential essence of their ideology.   In so doing, they intend to b… Read full post »

Hi Mr. Will,

I've been meaning to write you for a few years.  The article I read yesterday in some paper at a restaurant was the final nudge to do so.  I always figured it would be pointless to try to communicate with you at all, your great smugness, pretention and obvious… Read full post »

In a previous post, I asserted that the 'Grass Roots' and 'Special Interest' dialectic was bad language, a set of manipulative euphemisms which serve mainly to preserve the naivete of the powerless. 

The Main Street/Wall Street construct is not much better.   Worrying about Main Street in… Read full post »

In case you've been reading my other posts, you might notice that I'm somewhat radical. 

So you can imagine that I was dismayed by President-elect Obama's selection of Rahm Emmanuel as Chief of Staff.  

This guy loves Israel and hates welfare.

I, on the other hand, think that Israel… Read full post »

Conventional wisdom holds that the financial panic was caused by shaky/shady financial instruments and weakness/overprinting of the dollar. 

 While both of these are good causes, they overlook the elephant in the room. 

 America doesn't export much anymore.  

 The treme… Read full post »

From here:

"Asked why he expected the U.S. to break up into separate parts, he said: "A whole range of reasons. Firstly, the financial problems in the U.S. will get worse. Millions of citizens there have lost their savings. Prices and unemployment are on the rise. General Motors and Ford… Read full post »