The Principles of Economy

"While I'm no servant to my own self-apology I would be much obliged if you would pick up your pen and cassette tape recorder. Recall that you were hired to transform my typical daily happenings into a beautiful and elegant montage of a revelatory nature with an added segment including intense emotional music and powerful still-frame photos. Just keep that in mind." Indeed Miguel "Merchy" Mossod had been brought on board an admittedly sinking ship in order to bring some peace to the mind of the Honorary (and recently knighted) Berger Stemsruud - the neo-eccentric social android and global patriarchal figure who is credited with the phrase, "Here it is, your moment of Zen," commonly heard on the currently popular John Stewart Show. The biggest challenge for Miguel, discovered in an ironic cup of morning tea, was that Mr. S really was a servant to his own conscience. He was overly determined to make a dynamic appearance of himself; to show his revolutionary and culturally significant sub-conscience to the outside world. He wanted to show the world that he was a face-melting lava flow, devouring the outdated with burning wind and pyro-clastic destruction and creating a standard and fertile base for the new. He was so hung up on doing this, in fact, that he thought about this endlessly, and became a fixed machine within his white-stone palace, which was neatly nestled between a chocolate factory and a lettuce farm - places which kept him calorified, but not emotionally capable of dealing with the manufacturing of his soon to be released soul album. The "soul album," of course, was what he planned to call this whole fuckin' thing once it was completed to his satisfaction. He sat in his comfortable looking pillow chair all day in his knee-high socks and penny-loafers, shaking his head and swearing; sometimes under his breath, sometimes outloud into the breeze from the air-handling units. Miguel, with his down time, was developing a system to call his own..."

And so a saga, of sorts begins. Not that which I just mentioned, but a long and arduous process of starting anew on my part. Just a hint: I watched Mazes and Monsters while listening to iDoser and Burroughs lectures. As a sidenote, several searches for "the dangers of iDoser," have brought internet users to this site. More on all of this later.