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Hmm... seeking entertainment and you came here? Well it is free. This is that awkward small-talk part of introductions. You know, where I am supposed to say something interesting but not over share, and you are supposed to nod approvingly regardless of what it actually was. Remember that? It creates an opportunity for monloguing which has the potential for filibuster quality boredom. For this reason I would like to be brief... because brevity is the soul of wit... or something. But I know better. I am a damn fool.So while MySpace is the self proclaimed 'place for friends', I actually don't want to be friends with most of you. Nothing personal. Its just that I don't need 200 friends who never keep in touch to feel important. My suburban garage is similiarly cluttered with dusty tools. I don't know why I have them either. And I don't mean we're different. We're not...There are two kinds of people: The kind who think there are two kinds of people, and everyone else ( I think that's Oscar Wilde)But I remember high school cliquery like it was yesterday... or Lord Of The Flies... which might have been yesterday actually. I don't feel like preening, or posing, or hitting on people. That stuff makes my mullet grow uncontrollably... a disturbing thought. There could be parachute pants. And Wang Chung. Lets leave that memory in its Reaganite Oblivion. I think I related to Lloyd Dobler best when he said: "I don't want to sell anything bought or processed... or buy anything sold or processed or process anything sold, bought or processed... or repair anything sold, bought or processed. I don't want to do that."Did I just call you a tool?Except I live in a suburb, which means I have bought lots of useless things and have no where else to put them. And sell things that have been processed. And I process things that have been sold. And beneath all that crap, somewhere, is real beauty. Full wonder. And if the ripples calm just enough there's a glimpse of something incredible that becomes quickly obscured. And then someone sends a friend invite asking me to join their freaking band site or pay for porn site. UGH. But I foolishly seek the wonder... a wondering fool. But its not necessarily serious. I am too easily amused by little things. They probably make a medicine for that... I should know. It doesn't bother me that life's not fair. Why does lamb get a 'b' and ham doesn't? That's not fair. And why all this talk about religious dogma? Why isn't it Godma? I don't know.So I have managed to filibuster for something in the vacinity of 400 words, hoping to bore the easily bored. If you're still reading, you might be an OCD, or just a garden variety misfit, or *gasp* a nice person. Hmm... any of those are interesting. If you're still reading we've survived the monologuing. Its now your turn to say something. Send me an email.Oh... and this is a cool new tool I found... look:

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Most of my favorite people are dead. And they've added their two cents. Mostly bony and stinky now, so dinner with Descarte and Hunter Thompson would stink. I'd like to meet the two people who solved a problem with tools from different eras: the typewriter guy and the computer guy. Newton and Hawking. Otto Benz and Robert Goddard. Matisse and Pollack. ee cummings and Shakespeare. Guys like that.

My Blog

My Life's Not So Bad... Just Ask Janet Lumumba

I've been working diligently to get a job now for 4 1/2 months. It seems impossible on so many levels. Still, all there is to do is press on, and I am reasonably close to putting an end to this chapte...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:38:00 GMT

Today I know productivity

I was alone today. Sure, other people were there, but there isn't room for much else when a mind is beset with big thoughts. The problems with big thoughts are legion. They are seen in everything, ...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:29:00 GMT

...Busy Making Other Plans

Preface: I'm tired of talking about being unemployed. This blog will be more or less free of it. I've not yet reduced my family to living as Potato Eaters yet. Instead, life actually goes on. Ho...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:44:00 GMT

Machiavelli and Facebook: A Factotem Pole of thoughts

Unemployment is a malignant consumer of time. Blame and excuse is pointless and I won't offer up the causality of unemployment and speechlessness. I stopped writing in any kind of earnestness really...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:40:00 GMT

Palm Beach County Voters

It seems the voters of Florida again seem wholly incapable of comprehending the space-aged ballot technology employed there. Their ballot has two arrows that are not filled in the middle and it req...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:52:00 GMT

It Is Finished

Its been a while since I wrote anything. The wheedling of a few good friends has reminded me of the infinite nature of observation by this more or less predictable conversation: "Why aren't you wri...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:36:00 GMT

Time To Move On

Is it me, or is it men who, more than women, identify with their profession? Am I starting out this blog with a Jimmy The Greek misogynist blast when I only mean to generalize about myself? Could ex...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:12:00 GMT

Freudian Slippers

The lousy thing about reality is its damn infinity.  There's just too much to take in.  One moment passes into the next, one infinite moment to another.  Like anyone else, I catch bits ...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:33:00 GMT

Infinite Monkey Theory

It was late last night before I finally settled to bed and I was giggling off to bed with snippets regarding The Infinite Monkey Theory.  My poor wife must have thought I'd been up reading Fear a...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:58:00 GMT

Progressive

It is finally happening.  In the back of my mind I've wondered if we would, when it should, when we could.  There is no rehearsal for this surreal play.  You just show up on stage with ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:40:00 GMT