Tone Deaf* and Stiffs
*Unable to perceive differences of musical pitch accurately.It’s not a disease, though there are many of us (not me) who have it; some are frightfully impaired while others are merely limited to a small extent – dependent on what you think small means. It’s kind of like explaining what is, is. I have a younger...
Read More Oh, No! You Can’t Say That!
They’ll think you mean something like _____* sex. That’s what I did mean. Well, you just can’t say that. People will think you’re thinking about it. What people are you talking about? You mean the adults out there who are thinking about the same thing or things I happen to be thinking about? Did you...
Read More How to Fail
Guarantee: Don’t practice your craft and you will have failure all wrapped up in a neat little package. My surprise is never ending – endless. The novice always comes forth with ignorance constantly enhanced by inactivity of the mind. In other words, if you think you have a chance to hit the ball without the...
Read More Humor in Our Workplace
I stand accused and convicted without the necessity of a trial, judge, or a jury of my peers. What is a peer anyway? ACCORDING TO WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY: A person of the same age, status, or ability as another specified person. Well, allowing for the fact it is almost impossible for a person of reasonable stature...
Read More A State Of Affairs
As reported to me by an erstwhile member of our congress of these United States of America: “As the one and only Harvey Kalmenson (self-elected official), I do hereby stand alone and completely informed by the same elected official, placed in office by me, I hereby so direct his (my) function to continue on, and...
Read More I Accepted the Job
I accepted the job figuring that I would just be passing through and before long, I’d be back working as a Production Stage Manager. I guess it’s a safe assertion that I considered being out of work far more of an insult than the meager 200 dollars a week that the corrupt asshole was willing...
Read More Comparisons Made – To What Avail?
The destructiveness in a small town Connecticut school is beyond the realm of mere insanity. And yet as we grieve, enduring the seemingly insurmountable realizations of life’s turmoils, what remains is the unseemly task of carrying on and moving forward with what we have left – vocations and avocations without real substantive meaning. But giving...
Read More Solitary
Solitary Solemnity Solemnity “Keeping time,A marvelous asset,Free from the entrapment of a timepiece of any kind;Forever yours, if you so choose.When dreary, feeling what once was,Rewards still remain,Always they’re within the time kept;Forever yours, if you choose!” – HK …Was it that long ago? Four thousand men and some women and children remained gathered...
Read More Things That Only I Know
At long last I have agreed to write a series of rather important documentation for the entire world to see. Since I have been God gifted with so much more knowledge than the average human, it was pointed out to me (by one of the individuals who makes up part of the hordes who love,...
Read More Proselytize
Was it the late great Harry Hamlet who said: “To Proselytize or Not To Proselytize”? “To proselytize or not to proselytize” – It shouldn’t be the question but how often it is. What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine as well. From the dictionary: Proselytize Convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one...
Read More