March 18, 2010 – 11:22 pm
Okay, so I’m an idiot. I received my electricity bill from Southern California Edison, set it aside with a thought to look at it again as the due date got closer, then put something on top of it, then something on top of that. This morning at about eleven am, while composing a Tweet (yes, [...]
Okay, so I had a heart attack in January. Don’t worry, my health is improving. I was treated in a local hospital where, as I had just recently given up my insurance as a cost cutting measure (timing is everything) they made sure I was going to live, put me on a ton of medication [...]
Yes, I’m verbose. _______________________________ Geoff Hoff is co-author of the best selling satirical novel Weeping Willow: Welcome to River Bend
April 14, 2008 – 10:36 am
I think the whole “six degrees of separation” theory is based on faulty science, but has become so ingrained in the American Zeitgeist that anyone daring to disbelieve it is at best considered an idiot and at worst labeled a heretic. That being said, I recently had a series of “small world” experiences. I decided [...]
Spy Magazine, that wonderful satirical magazine that slowly started losing subscribers as it slowly devolved into a bitch fest, had a great feature called “Logrolling In Our Time” which presented two members of American intelligentsia giving favorable, often glowing critiques of each other on their respective pulpits. It was surprising how many pairs of mutual [...]
August 21, 2006 – 3:04 pm
Third and Fourth Day Back, Sunday and Monday, August 21, 2006 After high school and college, I did a lot of traveling. I remember all the motels would have the come-on, “Free HBO!” Now it’s “Free Wireless Internet!”. At least one of the motels at every one of those little oases for travelers on the [...]
August 19, 2006 – 2:56 pm
Second Day Back, Saturday, August 19, 2006 The seminar was wonderful, informative and powerful. I am a changed man. The very foundation of existence has shifted. Life as we know it on the planet will never be the same. The universe has shifted three degrees into the blue. God wept. Okay, enough of that, this is [...]
August 11, 2006 – 2:47 pm
Second Day – Wednesday, August 10, 2006 Utah is in a different universe. And as you go further east (at least on the 70) it gets more and more alien. The western end has green and looks normal, but it starts to get strange very soon. I was told that, as you travel along the [...]
