"There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall — now they're even small enough to carry in your pocket like electronic rosaries. It is an unquestioned part of everyday life. Kneeling before the cathode ray God, with our TV Guide concordance in hand, we maintain the illusion of choice by flipping channels (c...
In times of old, great kings ruled, magic was wielded, across the land all kinds of species (both sentient and not) roamed the land, and there were a lot of naked people. Wait, what? Naked Fantasy Life takes place in the realm of Nuderia (original I know). You take the role of a peasant, noble, hero or anything in between within one of the many kingdoms of t...
Death and dying. It is not something that most of us like to think about. I would go so far as to say it is a subject that a lot of people avoid. Yet when someone in the public domain dies, as Steve Jobs did this week, we are forced to consider it...if only for a moment. Of course, the Internet, Facebook and Twitter are full of articles, commentaries and eu...
This essay is part of a series in which I compare the ideas of philosophers on the subject of Aesthetics. I'm attempting to extrapolate from their superior knowledge and writings what I believe are important points on the creation of and critique of Art, Beauty and the Soul. I hope there are some artists/scholars out there who can appreciate my works- Beca...
Wanted: Subjects wanted for scientific research. Get Pad top dollars for time spent away from work or school. Leave message@ [email protected] “Do you think this new invention will work?” Lenny asks Thea, his girlfriend, as they get in the first co-ed tanning room. They put on their ultra-violet sunglasses as the doors hiss open right before they enter. Lenny...
Montgomery's glands. Not something that pops into my mind every day. It is one of those moments when you feel like you have stopped time. An agent in the Matrix. The world is dynamic and moving fast but this moment freezes long enough to analyze. And right in that split second you see them. In front of you as though they never existed before that moment. L...
I sat back on the hotel bed, TV on and volume turned up, very pleased with myself. On the floor at the foot of the bed little Lena was strapped the Blue Crate, straining hard against the various ropes and arching her back as hard as she could. Even from across the room I could see the sweat glistening on her back. I unconsciously stroked a long, thin cane wh...
Chapter Six—For Tess "For you, Tess. For your pleasure. Naturally." Dr. Williams had written on the note card which was taped to the gift. The gift or present or whatever looked to Tess like a small hair accessory. Non decorative. "If you can't determine how to work it, give me a buzz," he'd ended the note. After a five minute assessment, Tess's curiosity...
I know that you can't tell, but I originally wrote this in pen. I spend so much of my time analyzing and overthinking everything I do for fear of making the same mistakes that I fail to live in the present. What I feel at present is compelling me toward total honesty with you, but I fear what it would mean for us. What do I feel? Right now, at this very mom...
"So, you finally succeeded." The Director follows the man in the lab coat down a bland, immaculate hallway to a security door at the end. The sound of her high heels echos up and down the hall as she walks. "Yes we did." The lead scientist says proudly. "As always with these long-shot R&D projects, all it took was a drunk intern...