No One Can Hear You Scream

In the short story, "Kaleidoscope", by Ray Bradbury, we find several astronauts floating adrift through space, victims of some unspeakable horror that had recently befallen their ship; sending the surviving crew hurtling into an endless and certain cold, black tomb. But that's just unwritten back story. The tale picks up where everyone is already spinning out and away from the point of origin. No one sees any one. They can hear everything. Desperate conversation. Mad raving. Uncontrolled screaming. Deafening silence. As is the nature of so many Bradbury stories, here we watch as, one by one, these pathetic individuals eventually drift into oblivion.

Fortunately for all of you there is only one desperately raving mad person screaming into the cold black void of this medium. Me. As is the nature of such things (blogs and infomercials) the opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of the staff and management of any of the companies I happen to mention inside these bands of HTML code. For better or for worse I have written as I have perceived things through my particular brand of myopia. Don't rush off to the ophthalmologist, myopia isn't contagious. Its hereditary. You get it when you're become exposed to people speaking their mind; calling it as they see it; owning the belief that a harsh truth holds more virtue, is more constructive than a sweet lie. This condition is worthless however void of any desire or hope for change or repair or restoration. Usually a rant from me is my own attempt to work that out; to come to terms; to reach some kind of balance. It is not always evident.

I am not the guy drifting through space toward certain death who is logically mulling over what may have gone wrong and all the scenarios of possible rescue while controlling his breathing in order to preserve air. No. I am the guy flying helter skelter toward who-the-hell-knows-what screaming at the top of his lungs so much that everyone hoped he would get hit by an asteroid.

Wow, look at that big bright fiery ball coming this way....