Tip# 16: A Century of Fakers

Jokes not to make during a foolishly self-important team meeting:
-Whispering "I Love You" to a coworker three feet away.
-Suggesting that a merchandising "swat team" instead be referred to as an "assault force."
-Contributing nothing else to the entire proceeding (best joke of all).

Business speak seriously depresses me. Not kidding. Hearing words like "proactive" used without a thick shellac of irony is an instant reminder not only of my own cowardly collusion within an organization that promotes the grotesque proliferation of blind greed and hateful corporate manipulation, but also of the crushing collapse of the world at large into a drooling cesspool of unthinking pleasuredrones.

The apartment's getting better though. Much cleaner, and I have a bed now. Still don't like to leave my room though. I'm safest alone.

Neurosis is creeping back in. Welcome home friend.

"You'll never get ahead givin' head to the man.''
-Bobby Conn