If you have been a reader of this blog from early on, you will know that I believe the ten years I spent as a student and employee at my former university represent an almost spiritual experience of self-development. Yes, it was that important to me, and it even haunts my dreams. However, if you joined […]
Spam data and collection is becoming an increasingly enormous task. I have one more poem to post after this riddle is solved, then I am taking a hiatus from spam recycling to lazily trash what comes in. Instead, I’ll devote my time to attempts to cleaning out my drafts folder and finishing some promised posts. But […]
Not a natural conspiracy theorist, it took me a while to recognize my spam contains secret messages. Can you decipher the message in the poem? Wisdom from the Spam-Master: Coded Secrets, Ozone Conspiracy bikini has left without any forms to meet in the red you should be concerned you require buffering peltate summons yarn out […]
I have so much spam, and I deleted so much more… which means spam poetry this week. I’m giving everyone advance warning so you don’t delete your darlings, but rather save them and recycle them. Let’s turn our trash into treasure! Generally, I follow the rules of the spam poem as set out by the Subversive […]
Reblogged from Tim Zimmermann: Mr. Money Mustache (okay, that’s his pen name) retired at 30. How? he and his family don’t over-consume and aren’t wasteful. And they are happy: To hundreds of thousands of devotees, he is Mister Money Mustache. And he is here to tell you that early retirement doesn’t only happen to Powerball winners […]
Holidays, pseudo-holidays, and all the special occasions that are marked by Hallmark as a money-making bonanza tear at me. Mother’s Day is the most difficult. I don’t buy into the greeting card sentiment, that motherhood is the purest form of love and care, a giver of the gift of life. It is that in part, but […]
I grew up in a prairie river valley in Saskatchewan, and every spring I made the climb out of that space to the flat plains above, searching for prairie crocus. Known as the pasque (Easter) flower in some parts of the world, this harbinger of spring is an anemone and not a true crocus from […]
I’ll be clogging everyone’s reader this week. Sorry for this. The Subversive Elkement got a Liebster Blog Award, which led to her passing it on to me and a few others, and in that, process, it came back again from The Unemployed Philosopher’s Blog. Thanks to both of them. We’re in a very small blog world. […]
For lots of you, I’m new in your readers, and you are new to this blog, and while I’d like to say it’s going to be exactly as advertised, I cannot. Every once in a while this space succumbs to the questionable intentions of a semi-subversive group of maverick blogging geeks. This is when the weird stuff happens. Like […]
