Entries from July 2008

July 12, 2008

Applied Logic

General William Sherman once opined, “War is Hell.” If we accept that as true, and give credence to Pat Benatar’s assertion that “Love Is A Battlefield”, through application of the transitive property of equality we discover:
WAR = HELL
LOVE = BATTLEFIELD = WAR
LOVE = WAR = HELL
LOVE = HELL 
Proving Matt Groening’s thesis that Love Is [...]

July 10, 2008

Fiction: An Open Letter to the Man at the Bus Stop

Dear T. Simonson (Bus Pass #14457),
I didn’t want to say anything, but the way you were looking at me yesterday morning (as you waited for the 7:03 West 3rd Avenue Commuter bus), I was sure you were going to pick me up. But you didn’t.
Today, it was the same thing. In the seven [...]