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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Take It or Grieve It

It’s not that I’ve often
taken leave of my senses
but that I can never
take a hint

Other works by Chris Gaither...
If the Devil Meets Your Price, He Underpaid

The reason every man has his price is because he always fails to real… 1. that he can never get what he w… 2. this makes his desire priceless
Some Men Buy Trucks

I bought a Toyota because it’s bulletproof to compensate for the fact that I’m not even rubber bulletproof
The New Risk Economy

When I started telling my employe… Apologies in advance! they still felt compelled by decor… No apologies needed which was how I ended exploitation
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s First Name Means “Famous Warrior”, His Last Name Means “Stone of Wit”, and, Famously, He Showed Us That Our Real Battle Is Not to Outwit Ourselves

Per Wittgenstein Words only gain meaning through th… And they are always used in the co… Of the game being played in the mo… So, when we use words
Would’ve, Could’ve... Shall I? I Shouldn’t Think So. But I Will, so, I Shall.

I was waiting for my ship to come… But maybe I should have made like… And built a ship Especially since my neuroses all c… You’ve probably heard of them–
Epic Flail

My ego is too big
Not Now, Not Ever

We spend most of our waking lives alternating between procrastinatio… and delayed gratification as if by putting things off we’ve bought ourselves more time
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Where I Come From, There’s Only One Rule: Don’t Talk Back

A boundary is a line until you cross it when it becomes a binding leaving you all tied up with nowhere to go
Define Late Capitalism

It’s when all the signs say Everything must go
We Are All Implicated

My wife fixed me with a stare that said Really, what haven’t you done for…
Capitalists Worship Money, Socialists Worship Themselves

Capitalists and Socialists Have two things in common: Neither of them wants socialism And they both want control and pow… Capitalists want to make lots of m…
I Used to Live in the Elbow Room; Now I Live in the Bizarro Elbow Room

If you give people enough space You’ll be amazed By their flexibility If you give people enough cyberspa… You’ll be aghast
“Fathom, old English measure of length, now standardized at 6 feet, which has long been used as a nautical measure of depth”

Contemporary pacifism attempts to… One full fathom deep But repression is just short for The return of the repressed So, you can tell a modern pacifist…
Life Consists of Love and Work, and Love Is Analogous to Work

When people ask Business or pleasure? I want to say Life’s only pleasure Is unfinished business
Have a Coke or a Smile

When I was a kid the rule was one kid got to pour two glasses of Coke and the other kid



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