THE JO-TEL …believes some of what Nathaniel and John say, but believes England is still our sovreign

One funny side-effect of this whole blogging/internet community scene is what we refer to as the “Network Voltron Effect”. To begin, “The Network” is basically our small group of internet buddies that send emails to each other at work. Pretty simple, but the people in this group have become good friends even though I’ve only […]

For once to pose questions here with a hammer and perhaps to receive for answer that famous hollow sound which speaks of inflated bowels. […]

Re-read The Metamorphosis upon returning home and find it bad.
-Kafka

#5
So turns out that the words “going forward”, as used liberally by HR personnel, are two of the most pointless words you’ll ever hear. “The new TPS report cover page will greatly help us to improve administrative efficiency going forward.” Oh! Going forward! […]

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex … More fittingly than the fair sex, women could be called the unaesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor poetry, nor the plastic arts do they possess any real feeling or receptivity; if they […]

Pure Being is pure abstraction and consequently absolute negation, which taken in its immediate moment is also non-being.
-Martin Heidegger
#11
Last Saturday was The Quail’s birthday (observed). I was having a good time and getting mightily drunk until about 20 minutes into our sojourn at the Noc Noc Tavern in Lower Haight. After finally […]

-Hip E

WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?
Answer: Hilary Swank

Every one of the world’s “great” religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain — from cosmology to psychology to economics — has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture.

Everything of value […]

Here is the letter that I wrote to Editme after they blocked access to our site a few months ago.
Dear Editme Contact:
I am a regular contributor to the editme site “The Jo-tel” (jo-tel.editme.com). Our group has subscribed to editme for nearly two years now and during that time have upgraded our service once. […]

I have this problem where when I’m trying to trim my sideburns or beard (in the good old days when I could wear a beard) so that they are then same shape, the left one usually looks the way I want it to but the right side tends to slope backwards. This is in […]