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Many of you who read this site are lucky enough to have not been to my place of employment before. I work in what I disaffectionately refer to as the “asshole of Indianapolis,” just a very ugly, often smelly part of town. A recent report by the Indianapolis Star said that the area I work in has something like three times the air pollution of the rest of the city. When taking people by my office, they often say something like, “You actually work over here?” Yes. Yes I do.

You might think that my actual office could be a sort of sanctuary from the ugliness that surrounds it, but you would be wrong. It’s really, really dirty in there, and no amount of cleaning will ever rectify the situation. The worst part, for me, is the bathroom that I’ve got to use. Words can’t accurately portray its grossness, so I took some pictures. There is also a shot in there of the wall in my office just to show how dirty it is in the building. I’m probably going to get Black Lung if I keep working here.

I saw this last night and it made me laugh. Maybe they are trying to get the kids to play safe, I don’t know.

I came into work this morning and quickly sunk into my usual bad mood. I felt the same sense of general despondency that I seem to be regularly afflicted with these days starting to creep over me, and I decided I was going to be in a good mood. So far just telling myself that has been working, but we’ll see how I feel at the end of the day.

I’m going to run another excerpt from this week’s edition of Tuesday Morning Quarterback.

In July, Larry King featured psychic Char Margolis on his show. Read the transcript here. Margolis, who specializes in contacting the departed, explained her powers to King thusly: “I connect people to the spirit world on one level. I believe that we don’t die and that love never dies. And that E=MC². Energy has to go somewhere. And I believe that energy, of who we were, that we all have our own energy thumbprint and when we die we are still that individual, and that we still have a consciousness, but on another plane.” Wait a minute, E=MC² means that energy equals matter times the speed of light squared. TMQ believes that too, but what does it have to do with eternal consciousness?

Margolis proceeded to attempt to demonstrate her incredible powers by reading the mind of people calling into the Larry King Live. She said she could determine the names of the person on the caller’s mind. To be charitable, TMQ assumes that no call-screener was whispering information about the callers into Margolis’ earpiece. Here are highlights of what followed: Read the rest of this entry »