this describes each word day of my life.

Wait, you mean people are fucking off at work to read Slog? Oh my God!

I couldn't agree more. Im in the same boat.

Don't despair, you (and people like you) help keep the lowly cubicle farmer in business.

Are all of your posts going to be about kissing our asses?

I like the multi-functionality of the rope. Both fashionable and a portable means for the Big Exit.

I couldn't have said it better myself. However, I prefer to call my office a cube village rather than a farm.

Also, chill out Fnarf. You remember how exciting your FF was, don't you?

That was beautiful, and so very true. Paper pushing was slowly crushing my soul until I found the Slog. Of course, as a consequence it now takes me 8 hours to get through 4 hours of actual work, but no one's noticed so far.

Shush your mouth. My Freaky Friday was a masterpiece of art. I was just pointing out that both of Kid's posts so far have effusively slobbered on us, the hoi polloi.

And where the HELL are Aislinn, Infrequent, and It's Mark Mitchell? It's after ten.

hey harrogate! i used to live there. do you mean 'cup of harrogate' as in taylors tea or yorkshire tea? have you ever been to betty's?

"Currently Hanging"

@10 - Taylors. Black as midnight on a moonless night. Sad to say, I do not know this Betty you speak of.

Best. Tie. Ever.

I wonder if that's against the dress code at my particular cube maze. I think it'd really complement my hunched shoulders and soulless eyes.

stoopid work. (not slog.)

There's a theory floating around the office that goes: All the anger and bitterness in our comments is less about us and more about redirected rage and self-loathing coming from people who hate their desk jobs. That theory just got a little more support...

where the HELL (is) Aislinn?

That's what I'm screamin'!

betty's tea room is owned by the same family and they serve taylors of harrogate tea. i went there a few times with my parents for cream tea. i myself prefer my old stand by of yorkshire tea, not that taylor's blend isn't good but i like the yorkshire tea boxes.

ahh! be careful! don't get fired for hating your job on the internet!

And what a nice piece of hemp you have worn to remind us all of the dark towers and Harold the barreled....

I paticularly like the way the librarys' computer during warm up mode freezes the image of your neck line stretching up and then blurring on this screen until we are at bandwith capacity.

Lou Dobbs and the question of why this writing is here at this picture... cont.)

As per usual I got aced (me thinks..my dear Lucia) at one of the time counters... so here is the writing intended for the picture from Ballard yesterday...

Lou Dobbs: Independents Day
Awakening The American Spirit

In his book from 2007, Lou Dobbs comes right out and lays his pride on the table and in the same introduction reminds us of the word diversity.

Mr. Dobbs,

Trusted faces are todays passports to the new commodity, your Soul.

Many people like to talk the talk about sprituality, politics or economics and the compartmentalizations of topic subject matter and also the digressions of passionate feelings that can and frequently sidetrack lack of judgement; which in turn makes impulse decision risk taking individualisms dangerously attractive.

That's the premise for my answer to your introductory questions from your 2007 book, Independents Day.

As I identify with the authentic grit of Edward R.Murrow, generational differences that que up the profoundly small nuances that each of us share have helped define the seperations between old school get your hands in the dirt Mr. Weatherman if you are the weathervane almanac journalist, and the ever increased pace of the elitist's that now control the forcasts of embedded and prepackaged news blocks that the trusted faces such as yourself recognize.

I recognize, (as others that sometimes smile with discretionary wonder, that to consider that there is only so much time between the shifting futures of the past and the present, the make believe and the fantasy, and the hard concrete news reporting and comic relief that midlle America identifies with as warm soul food....( that the exogenesis of what reminds us all of the hey day of Walter Cronkite and the new idea of a fresh and exciting t.v.dinner), is very much like like living in the thought you are what you eat.

Information 24\7 is the new read on you are what you think and garbage in is garbage out is more common in the corporate world than some of us like to uncompartmentalize.

As I get older and unplug from the media each day long enough to feel the lull of a mind quieted down, the ultra high frequencies todays broadcasts generate the inbetween spaces of people grinding out their daily lives and bread; and I like others leaning more to the international side of decommpression look for solace in the recognizable models of success.

Pablum for the sleepers is not a new slogan, yet regeneration of our American influences in news, entertainment and business greed that is bordering on corporate malfeasance with voracious appetites is in essance, a call for diversity.... if only couched in terms of inspirational variety.

The next generation of trusted faces and nearly Murrows or potential Lettermans that understand the games of Jacks and Sophias can and will be prepared to lift up all of the spiritual truths that are shared by the lack luster grind of corporations out of control and dehumanistic, which is in turn a poduct that substitutes the diversity of the group for the isolation of the individual.

There is also one other thing that may speak of less compartmentalism I'd like to add.

That's the image of Richard M. Nixon raising his peace sign and his famous infamy.... " I'm not a crook ".

Perhaps in 2008, we should review that sentiment and all that it implies on the road to the election of the next Supreme Court.

That's why today you get my recommended vote to listen to Trent Reznors musical cd Year Zero if you haven't all ready...

don't consider it an add plug... consider it multigenerational diversity.

I do not nor ever have worked for Trent or his company... I'm just a guy who likes the message and energy.

Dan Kieneker
Seattle Washington

@ Kid,

Awww, that is so suhweet. And it sums up the situation for most of us. Introduce yourself at Slog Happy sometime and we'll have a beer. Better yet, let's get baked.

@ Eli,

Possibly, but I've noticed that the regulars in these here comments tend to be on the very charming and snarky side, especially in person. Some people just need to vent/get off on provoking others in the intertubes. I mean, have you ever read the PI's comments? Yeeeessshhh. And I don't even bother with the right-wing websites since they're sanity-free zones.

I like the photo - a little obvious, but hard to ignore the applicability to my life. I think some of those in cube farms should frame it and hang it on their "walls." See what happens.

Remember when you and I talked about bands while working a crappy job like this together?

Those were the days.

@ 22 - Totally. It was all about the Bivouac.