Blog Feed: The Zenformation Professional

SEX AND ART, ART AND SEX: A Conversation on Lustful Living Under the Influence of Maestros

Published on 2010-03-08 17:09:00

Image via Wikipedia"What's wrong with feeling sexy in a museum?"- Recent online chat.My father's brother was an artist, a painter and printmaker.He died years before I was born, before my parents married, cancer snuffing out his future as a creator o > read more

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE? WHICH CONSUMERS? On Sustainability, Need-Based Lifestyles, and the Naturally Green Choices of a Cheap Fucking Bastard

Published on 2010-02-12 19:19:00

The astronomical growth in the wealth and cultural influence of multinational corporations over the last fifteen years can arguably be traced back to a single, seemingly innocuous idea developed by management theorists in the mid-1980s: that successf > read more

SHORT TAKES & SUCH: You Really Are What You Eat, "Intimidating" Kids Through Auto-Tuneless Hip-Hop, and Hating on Motherfucking Snow...

Published on 2010-02-06 19:40:00

OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- I'm a creature of habit, have my daily routines, my rituals.I usually, for instance, get up at just before five in the morning. Unless I get to bed after 11 p.m., which like clockwork leads me to sleep in until about seven in the > read more

BALLADS OF LIFE, DEATH, & EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN: A Month-Long Journey Along the Mortal Coil's Wide Paths

Published on 2010-01-15 17:38:00

When I first heard the news that my grandmother was dead, the world stopped spinning and my legs gave out beneath me. Within a nanosecond, from what I remember, I was on the ground. Or I fell into the kitchen table, slid down into a chair.In all ho > read more

"WTF? Where Are You...?!?" On Hiatus Through the New Year

Published on 2009-12-09 14:06:00

Due to the death of a close family member and a series of recent tragedies, mishaps, and other less-fun things around Oxford, The Zenformation Professional is on a [much needed] hiatus from December 10 - January 15.I'll be back with something. Seriou > read more

I AM A PASSENGER; I RIDE AND I RIDE... Taking Pleasure in Life's Simplicity Beats the Alternative

Published on 2009-11-25 16:22:00

NEAR THE OHIO-INDIANA BORDER (ZP) -- The crispness of autumn roars through the cab, the Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated" rattles away in the speakers.I turn up the volume, light a cigarette, and floor the accelerator for no reason whatsoever.There's jus > read more

THE OXFORD (FUCKING OHIO) DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS:New Wave Legends, House Guests, Dealing with Preacher Profs, & The Post-Grad Blues

Published on 2009-11-13 16:44:00

"I don't want to kiss you, I don't want to touch. I don't want to see you, 'cause I don't miss you that much."- ELVIS COSTELLO,The song "No Action," [VIDEO]This Year's Model (Radar UK, 1978)Because, well, my life decisions, while frustrating, are way > read more

COSMOPOLITAN STRANGERS: Globally Conscious Childhood Development, Without Ever Leaving the Country, Leads to Seriously Un-American Americans

Published on 2009-10-20 18:59:00

OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- It's easy to tune out the rest of the world, in a - let's be honest here - rather isolated rural college community surrounded by the college-aged children of some of the wealthiest, most culturally sheltered Americans ten months > read more

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CONVERSATION WITH AN EX-OTHER MAN'S EX: Of Breakfast Meetings at Dawn, Pointless Bickering, and Growing Apart with Age...

Published on 2009-10-03 18:34:00

RICHMOND, Ind. (ZP) -- For a guy who's spent a good portion of his life as a professional night owl, I'm perpetually surprised at how much I actually enjoy breakfast dates.Sitting in an ancient diner full of ancient Hoosiers, sipping weak Midwestern- > read more

NEW MOONS & PALE ASSES: On Being Comfortable & Uncivilized, Meditating Naked, Alone, in The Woods

Published on 2009-09-19 03:28:00

Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.- JULIAN OF NORWICHFourteenth century English mysticOXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- It's a rare thing, anymore, for a supposedly > read more