Europe has different things by custom and design. Let’s take the most basic of essentials — toilet paper. In Europe, the sheets are rectangular. Ours are square. It’s an odd thing to notice. Two of their sheets is three of ours. So for smaller tasks with a single sheet, you can actually do more with …
Author Archives: Shawn
Sojourn
If you haven’t been paying attention on some of my other platforms, you wouldn’t have known that I got back from a two-week trip around northern Europe. But that’s OK if you haven’t, because I’ve been remiss in posting about it here, since Phaysis is my first love, my primary voice, my public face to …
Martyr
Ours is a time when we go around screaming, “Kill your gods”, but get squeamish the moment we have to kill our gods. From one direction: just how dedicated are you to your cause? From the other direction: is your cause actually worth the dedication? The structuralist would say the answer is somewhere in the …
Smart, Meet Ass
Pump
The shit I could’ve accomplished in life if I had been given the least bit of confidence in what I was doing early on. It’s not the dance, it’s not the singing, it’s not the performance, it’s the proving that you can and will rise above the baseline and move into the spectacle that will …