The History of the Concept

Dreamed up in the mentally castrating, repressive environment of Cubicleville, CSA (that's short for Corporate States of America) this blog is meant to be a soothing reminder to all office drones such as you and I of our own mortality. Just knowing that you are going to die someday can be an exciting and fun factoid in the middle of your flourescent light-induced migrane headache just before lunchtime when you are pretending to be more busy than you are just so you don't get saddled with busywork fit for a high school intern.

The concept of the blog started one day google chatting with gaya bukkake and contemplating my own violent demise. This particular morning I was yearning for something to violently grab hold of my face and do away with me. I was sleep deprived and bored as hell, and after getting off the Highway to Hell where there was a 26 mile traffic jam I had to contend with, I simply wanted to do without the instrument that allows me to percieve my own desperate state -- my brain. So I sent this message to her:

sometimes work is so boring you PRAY that some sort of blood-sucking octopus grabs ahold of your face with its tentacles and sucks your brain out through your eyes

I also emailed it to my freind Angela who in turn emailed it to her own friends. And everyone got a kick out of it. Why? Because we are all in the same situation. We are all bright and creative people, but the majority of our day consists of meetings where no one can decide on what to do, typing up boring reports that are going to be glossed over and then thrown away after we spent 10 hours correcting the smallest detail, and pretending to be both entrhalled with our work and really busy. And even if we were in a position of higher power, we really wouldn't get to make our own decisions because there are 10 managers at least on each project and all of them have their own idea as to how things are supposed to go.

So in the vein of the above comment, gaya and I decided to start this blog. This will be a user-focused blog, consisting of many contests and themed user submissions. Because we want to give you, the worker drone, a chance to both face your own mortality and be creative in your downtime at work. But be sure to keep an important looking spreadsheet open in the background so if your boss walks by, you can quick click on it and look like you are doing work for a second!!!

JohnnyCougar