BLOG CATEGORIES
TWEETINGS
SEARCH timelliscomedy
THESE ARE TAGS
11/11/11 11-11-11 47 percent 47% 4th of July 99 percent Abstract Expressionism Academy Awards acting acupuncture advertising alternative comedy America android invasion Andy Kaufman Award Andy Rooney Anthony Weiner Apple Applebee's Arnold Schwarzenegger art artists Ayn Rand bankrupt bankruptcy Barack Obama bed & breakfast Best Actor best of comedy blog biology Boston Red Sox botany Brad Pitt breakfast Brooklyn brunch Carroll Gardens casual casual pimpin' celebrities Christian Mingle Christmas classic literature Cobble Hill commercial communication consumption dating death debate Denial of Death ding dongs Earth Day Edvard Munch election day eleven evolution Facebook Facebook petition famous catchphrases fashion film flat tax flatbread sandwiches Florida food Fourth of July Frankenstorm fraud funny song Gay gender George Clooney Giselle Bundchen Go Green goes to 11 Going Green Golden Globes Great Gatsby greatest hits Halloween Harlem Shake health & healing history holidays honey wagon Hurricane Irene Hurricane Sandy IFC Ikea Independence Day Infinite Jest internet iPhone IRS Jason Collins jcp Jean-Luc Godard John McCain juvenilia Kenneth Branagh Kim Kardashian Koan Law & Order: SVU LGBT Lindsey Graham love Main Post Office Major League Baseball marketing massage McCain and Graham McClure's Pickles McDonald Land meditation memes men's fashion mindfulness Minimalism Mitt Romney movies music musical comedy National Sandwich Day NBA Nemo New England Patriots New York City NFL NY1 Occupy Wall Street office supplies Olympics Onion News Network Opening Day Oscars out of business Park Slope parody Paul Ryan PBS Peanuts Peoples Improv Theater Philip Seymour Hoffman philosophy PIT pizza political humor political sexhibitionism politics presidential election procrastination psychology rants rap saddest thing Scarlett Johansson self-love Smith Street Spinal Tap Sports Stephen Colbert strike summer Super Bowl Sweden Tax Day taxes technology Thanksgiving The Scream Tom Brady top ten travel T-shirts TurboTax Twitter U.S. Presidents UCBEast USA vacation vagina monologues Valentine's Day Wallander weather Werewolf Wesleyan Where's the Beef? yoga Zen

Entries in Koan (1)

Friday
Dec022011

THE EXISTENTIAL LENS: FedEx Koan

Fedex stands for Federal Express, right? So this means Federal Express Express. Does that mean it’s faster than regular Fedex? Or that it's not federal? Is it federal? Maybe this is some kind of Zen koan demonstrating the limits of human logic. Yeah, that’s what it is…my mind is short-circuiting and spinning into emptiness. Fedex Express. What can it mean? I’ll never know, and knowing is not the point. It means nothing...and everything. Whoa! Now I feel at peace, released from all burdens, in touch with the ultimate reality. I think I’m enlightened! Thank you, Fedex Express, for delivering me to Nirvana.