Semi-Coherent Musings - from one of the leading masters of this questionable art form!
13 Oct 2023 15 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
counting objects on a shelf: time consuming but not exactly complicated One of the central complaints right out of the gate is that the inventory is wrong. His explanation is what would seem on the surface a thoroughly obvious one: of course...
12 Oct 2023 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
but one of the many new war zones The next step is a day long conference up in Boone, near the Slingshot headquarters, where they’ve rented out some space in a nearby hotel. For this outing it’s the somewhat unusual crew of Duane, Karen, Des...
11 Oct 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Healthy Shopper Market on the brink of opening “My numbers better be good, ya hear?” Craig says in an old mobster’s voice, having approached Edgar in one of the grocery aisles. He has cocked his index finger and thumb in the shape of a gun,...
10 Oct 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Office art installation: a metaphor for the hippie mindset? The office water cooler sounds like a puking cat. These are the kinds of things one never notices — are maybe impossible to notice — in a more diffuse environment. He can’t even thi...
9 Oct 2023 17 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Dying days of a former superpower Southside’s closing fills them all with unspeakable sadness. Many walk around snapping photos of what is now an even dingier location, with the product stripped from the shelves, and various case lights no l...
8 Oct 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
This sensation of reliving a previous experience, altered just enough to make it weird, isn’t limited to strictly the Liberty store. It continues to surface everywhere, and none more prominently than his current home base, Palmyra. The shuffli...
6 Oct 2023 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
A potential empire in ruins Catching even the top brass off guard, this bombshell about the closure sends Duane, Rob, and Mr. Locke immediately scrambling for a replacement store. Though they make a weak attempt at arguing with the strip mal...
5 Oct 2023 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
paper notes are still surprisingly useful in this day and age — assuming you can make sense of them The twelfth and final column in the new items spreadsheet concerns case quantity. This has never truly mattered before, but is a nice conveni...
4 Oct 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Tentacled creature that also meows — and a decent facsimile of certain persons in the building Everyone expects that the Liberty Avenue store will be the next to close. It’s staggered along on life support for years, so much so that for the...
3 Oct 2023 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Partial view of the growler and singles beer section at Palmyra This move back to the store is like everything happening in reverse. It’s possible Edgar even gives Duane the exact same response, verbatim, in shrugging and saying, “wherever you...
