Professor Blastoff Afterthoughts: Magic
My grandpa’s favorite magic trick was the “got your nose” gag. I never understood why he thought my nose looked like his thumb. I just thought he was going senile and didn’t want to make him feel crazy, so I played along. I feel like theme parks and haunted houses have taken the place of...
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Professor Blastoff Afterthoughts: Time Travel
According to the butterfly effect, if I wanted to stop myself from writing this blog all I would have to do is build a time machine, go back to 1997 when I was 14 years old and buy myself a Super Nintendo. That simple act would have triggered a series of events that would have...
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Professor Blastoff Afterthoughts: NTK
Where do thoughts come from? My mind is a meadow where thoughts cultivate and grow, but the guy harvesting my thoughts seems to have a problem with letting them ripen. What I’m often left with is bushels of green blatherings. I do the best with what I am given, though. If that means I have...
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Professor Blastoff Afterthoughts: Altruism
When I was younger I used to cry every time I lost my Grumpy Bear care bear. I was helpless without him. To this day, he is the only one who truly gets me. He and I see eye to eye when it comes to man’s inhumanity to man. He helped me survive my darkest...
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Professor Blastoff Afterthoughts: Sustainability
One evening, as a child, I failed to finish the food on my dinner plate so my parents took away my brand new Nintendo 64 and said, “waste not, want not.” After asking them, “What the Christmas Story expletive does that mean?” I bravely declared a hunger strike and demanded they return my gaming console....
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