I have no ass and I must poop!

[Doktor Howl]

How ya doing, Dok?

Smiling.  I have a mile wide grin.  Oh, yeah.

Oh dear.

Am I going to have to do The Smile Sermon again?

I don't think it would help, to be honest.

It didn't help Squiddy either. 

On Sunday, I'm printing a 3'X5' color poster of her smile and putting it up on my office wall.

[Adios]

How ya doing, Dok?

Smiling.  I have a mile wide grin.  Oh, yeah.

Oh dear.

Am I going to have to do The Smile Sermon again?

I don't think it would help, to be honest.

It didn't help Squiddy either. 

On Sunday, I'm printing a 3'X5' color poster of her smile and putting it up on my office wall.

I think I need to see this smile.

[LMNO]

Kind of surprised Alphapance didn't weigh in on the last 2 paragraphs of this.   

I'm ramping up to pre-vacation PD levels.  If I try reading everything all at once, my brain will implode.

[Doktor Howl]

How ya doing, Dok?

Smiling.  I have a mile wide grin.  Oh, yeah.

Oh dear.

Am I going to have to do The Smile Sermon again?

I don't think it would help, to be honest.

It didn't help Squiddy either. 

On Sunday, I'm printing a 3'X5' color poster of her smile and putting it up on my office wall.

I think I need to see this smile.

Will post again from home.

[Doktor Howl]

Kind of surprised Alphapance didn't weigh in on the last 2 paragraphs of this.   

I'm ramping up to pre-vacation PD levels.  If I try reading everything all at once, my brain will implode.

Ah.

[Payne]

How ya doing, Dok?

Smiling.  I have a mile wide grin.  Oh, yeah.

Oh dear.

Am I going to have to do The Smile Sermon again?

I don't think it would help, to be honest.

It didn't help Squiddy either. 

On Sunday, I'm printing a 3'X5' color poster of her smile and putting it up on my office wall.

Print several, put them up on other peoples office walls.

Actually, I am begining to wonder if there is a possible way to combine all the dread aspects of leading Horror mongers on PD into one gargantuan visage of Terror^tm.

Squiddys smile, your eyes. Cainads nose etc.

If nothing else, it would make interesting cubicle art, and could inspire some truly insane jabbering content.

[LMNO]

And that's what makes all of this so interesting...You know something's not functioning as advertised, but you can still give a pretty damn good imitation of being you, and you're kind of stunned by that fact, as you watch yourself get through the day without causing any undue alarm in your friends, family, or coworkers.  That's amazing, because your head is full of bad wiring and broken glass, and you really can't fathom how nobody is noticing it.

I get that, I see that, here in the cubicle field.  I listen to the chattering voiceboxes by the photocopier, and it's the vocal equivalent of a screen saver: pre-programmed content, running idle as the body goes through its daily chores.

I saw that on the faces in the airport, as they gazed at the screens by the gate showing redacted and bowlderized news programs... minds put on hold, brains in stasis.

In Montana, people asked me what I do.  I told them, "I'm a musician and an analyst.  One keeps me alive, the other makes it worth living." 

[Adios]

And that's what makes all of this so interesting...You know something's not functioning as advertised, but you can still give a pretty damn good imitation of being you, and you're kind of stunned by that fact, as you watch yourself get through the day without causing any undue alarm in your friends, family, or coworkers.  That's amazing, because your head is full of bad wiring and broken glass, and you really can't fathom how nobody is noticing it.

I get that, I see that, here in the cubicle field.  I listen to the chattering voiceboxes by the photocopier, and it's the vocal equivalent of a screen saver: pre-programmed content, running idle as the body goes through its daily chores.

I saw that on the faces in the airport, as they gazed at the screens by the gate showing redacted and bowlderized news programs... minds put on hold, brains in stasis.

In Montana, people asked me what I do.  I told them, "I'm a musician and an analyst.  One keeps me alive, the other makes it worth living." 

Does it seem to you, that some days the people are all doing this in syncronized  slow motion?

[LMNO]

You have to pull back enough to get the large view, but yeah.  It's like an enormous, incredibly boring dance, and just like in the original Cinderella, they won't stop until they bleed to death.

[Doktor Howl]

I get that, I see that, here in the cubicle field.  I listen to the chattering voiceboxes by the photocopier, and it's the vocal equivalent of a screen saver: pre-programmed content, running idle as the body goes through its daily chores.

I saw that on the faces in the airport, as they gazed at the screens by the gate showing redacted and bowlderized news programs... minds put on hold, brains in stasis.

In Montana, people asked me what I do.  I told them, "I'm a musician and an analyst.  One keeps me alive, the other makes it worth living." 

1.  They've all been, as Mr Waters put it, Amused to Death. 

2.  I tell people I'm the maintenance chief at a chemical refinery.  Especially if they're hippies.  And a Doktor.  One keeps me alive, and one lets me punish the silly bastards that want to define me by my job.

[Adios]

Excellent analogy. Glad I'm not the only who can see this. When I allow it to happen I am torn between wanting to shake them to wake them up or to leave them all to their trances. The few times I have tried to wake them up didn't work so well.

[Doktor Howl]

Excellent analogy. Glad I'm not the only who can see this. When I allow it to happen I am torn between wanting to shake them to wake them up or to leave them all to their trances. The few times I have tried to wake them up didn't work so well.

Why not?

[Adios]

Excellent analogy. Glad I'm not the only who can see this. When I allow it to happen I am torn between wanting to shake them to wake them up or to leave them all to their trances. The few times I have tried to wake them up didn't work so well.

Why not?

Remember the old movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Most of their responses were a lot like one of the invaders. They just wanted to point at me and scream.

[Doktor Howl]

Excellent analogy. Glad I'm not the only who can see this. When I allow it to happen I am torn between wanting to shake them to wake them up or to leave them all to their trances. The few times I have tried to wake them up didn't work so well.

Why not?

Remember the old movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Most of their responses were a lot like one of the invaders. They just wanted to point at me and scream.

I consider that a success, of sorts.  Sure, they didn't wake up MUCH, but they at least understood that something was going on that didn't fit into the sleep/work/drink/TV/sleep model.

[Adios]

Excellent analogy. Glad I'm not the only who can see this. When I allow it to happen I am torn between wanting to shake them to wake them up or to leave them all to their trances. The few times I have tried to wake them up didn't work so well.

Why not?

Remember the old movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Most of their responses were a lot like one of the invaders. They just wanted to point at me and scream.

I consider that a success, of sorts.  Sure, they didn't wake up MUCH, but they at least understood that something was going on that didn't fit into the sleep/work/drink/TV/sleep model.

But they immediately closed their minds and resorted to the same behavior.