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Philosophy and speculation about life in the 21st Century with a focus on the impact of technology and cultural transformations on life, creativity, relationships, family and spirituality. With humor. By John Sylvain

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Impossible Things Before Breakfast

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Impossible Things Before Breakfast · 1Y ago

The Importance of Nothing

The Infernal Ewok woke me up at 5:30 this morning for his morning constitutional. As usual, reason had no effect and emotional appeals were likewise ignored. A self-centered monster of willfulness with a piercing little bark, he gets me to do what I know I should but have no desire to do.As a result

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Impossible Things Before Breakfast · 1Y ago

On the Excruciation of Bad Theater - Part 2

It was gratifying to have someone ask me what show I was talking about in my last post. It's nice to know that someone's reading. This person (Allen Lulu) encouraged me to write every day, so I will try to.I didn't want to mention the title of the show because the show was so friendly in it's awfuln

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Impossible Things Before Breakfast · 1Y ago

On the Excruciation of Bad Theater - Part 1

Last night I saw a terrible show. It was so bad it was sublime. It approached perfection in it's awfulness.But it wasn't a horrible experience, which was surprising given the fact that watching bad theater is a wretched ordeal - close to dental surgery - that explains why this red-headed stepchild o

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Impossible Things Before Breakfast · 1Y ago

Drilling Into Gooey Blocks of Story

A big part of storytelling, and for the purpose of this essay let's assume that all creation is storytelling, is revelation. I don't mean a revelation from god, I mean the way an author reveals the details of setting, character, theme and plot. The way the argument unfolds.I always visualize a story

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Impossible Things Before Breakfast · 1Y ago

Our New Dog

We have a new dog named Minuit. That's french for midnight and it's pronounced (by us) Minwee. I won't go into the charming reasons my teetering-on-pretentious eight year old chose the name. Suffice it to say that Minuit is a boy dog with a strangely feminine name and demeanor. Small, mostly black,

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Impossible Things Before Breakfast · 1Y ago

Producing - Web

Over the years I have worked on a number of high profile web sites including www.familyguy.com for FOX www.startrek.com for Paramount and www.toystorymania.com for Disney. More recently I produced two award winning sites for the Blitz Agency.

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Impossible Things Before Breakfast · 1Y ago

Humor as a breakdown of metalanguage or why farts are funny

I just got an invitation to the 25th Anniversary of the Purple Crayon, an improv group I was a founding member of back at Yale (I also came up with the name...more on that in some other blog). The Purple Crayon is the source of some of my happiest memories and strongest relationships so I'm really l

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Impossible Things Before Breakfast · 1Y ago

Memory

I want to ask you all a favor. I want you to remember this. Pay careful attention and remember this experience. I mean the one you are having right now.I have these very specific memories that are scattered through my life. I have this one memory that has stuck in my mind for years. When I was about

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Impossible Things Before Breakfast · 1Y ago

Good News, Bad News

I've got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that 9 miners got trapped in a flooded mine for 3 days. The good news is that they all got rescued! The good news is that the Stock market was up over 400 points today! The bad news is that it's down over 2000 points from a year ago. The goo

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Impossible Things Before Breakfast · 1Y ago

Scary

ScaryOctober 29th, 2001I don't like Halloween.I don't like it for a couple reasons. One I had this awesome Great Pumpkin costume in 1st Grade and I followed that up with a fantastic Headless Horseman costume in 2nd grade and everything since has been a let down. The second reason I don't like Hallow

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