This session of the Church of the Infinite Chasm is hereby called to order. As an addendum to last week’s diatri… I mean sermon, a few additional thoughts. To refresh your memory, or inform the FTAs (Failure To Attends), I rhetorically wondered why people can readily accept a “bad guy” in books, movies, TV shows, et cetera (whether fiction or …
I HATE MONDAY: Funerals, Part II
There’s a lot to hate about funerals. That has recently been noted in this very space. It is widely said that death is “natural,” but nothing seems more unnatural than death. Broadly speaking, it is the saddest event humans experience. It’s sadder still that we face it so often until, finally, others experience it when we die. There is something …