Dream: I am living in a dorm at Oklahoma University, one in which I share a suite with six other guys. It is temporary because my hiking friend Don Ferguson (a real person who I have never actually met) is coming to take me to the airport to go on my Mormon mission. Robert Stinson…

Predictions from the Blakk Bük… It’s easy enough to pat yourself on the back. The hard part is to keep society from kicking you in the nuts. When the year 2000 arrives, all farts will be bloody, all toilets will be plugged, all AM radios will play my propaganda, and all the women who slept…

Here are some more erudite ramblings from the 1990’s Blakk Bük… Like Pavlov’s dogs, I begin unceasingly salivating at the mere sight or mention of the word “waif.” I knew some guys in 1983 who called weed “Python Salad.” If you bought radio and TV time that claimed that eating a vegan diet can slow…

After several weeks of dreaming that my bathrobe was the boogie man, I’ve decided that I am too creative,too imaginative, too intelligent. Hey, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath both ended up taking the gas pipe. So instead of deep breathing exercises to help calm me, I’ve started breath holding exercises to kill brain cells until I’m stupid enough to enjoy books about…

Although it’s biologically equal in significance to the Holy Grail, you don’t hear much about the Holy Chamber Pot If I lived in a house made out of faux adobe, I’d have a faux personality. I would greet you with, “Fauxloha!” Robotmania! I think about 80% of the population would prefer the company of robots…

On top of most current consumer-level digital cameras is a setting on the exposure mode dial that is usually a green picture of a camera. In this exposure mode, the camera takes care of pretty much everything, from white balance to autofocus mode and everything in between. To be polite in class, I call it…

Abby and I put up the Christmas tree and some of the decorations today. The tree itself is an artificial Brentwood Spruce of Wal Mart lineage, and came pre-lit. Last year, however, the strings of lights on it began to fail, and when I plugged it in today, only about a quarter of them worked….

Just woke from a nap in which I dreamed I was playing a complex, physically interactive video game at an observatory. The more I played, the louder it got, until I discovered there was a vacuum leak in the pedestal. Someone, presumably the commander, told me to fix it, and while I was doing so…