The only way is to experiment and act inventively and exuberantly via diverse adventures in living

Buzz Holling paraphrased on ecosystem and social collapse

I like it!

Definitionism

The tendency to excessively define (and occasionally thereby create) things, so as to bring them under control and demonstrate one's superior understanding of the world.

With apologies to D Coupland.

Imaginary wages

Imaginary wages war. Real wages. Fantasy land on downtime. 9 to 5 he said. He told me. Cody. Imaginary wages war. There for all to see, and them to ignore. Still there some thirty years on. The moment I was born, I never thought I'd live to see 30. Still don't. Fenestration collapse, two more to follow. Seed funds. Take it to the bank. Drift Floaters. Everyone's throwing this expression around and I don't even know what it means, though it sounds good. Wait for it. Foam.

Marketing

"The industry's regular task is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories."

Noam Chomsky, you've done it again.

1000 snuggles deep

When I first met him it was funny, because I was his daughter. But I was still admittedly nervous. We went upstairs for coffee. Things began to ravel from there, much as they always do when one refuses to relax the sphinctre of life. Sceptre of death. He's just a snappy dresser.

I grew up wearing suits. I tried jeans but I never felt comfortable as my testes often got caught in the back pocket. Go figure. Everybody knows that the good guys lost, by the way. Stoudemire, Bosh and Davis.