Author Archives: clynn

“Violated, outraged, vulnerable, angry, betrayed, anxious, apprehensive, and even vengeful are normal emotional reactions to being robbed. Given who I’ve been working for over the last few years, I have most of those feelings before I get dressed to go to the office. ” Cusper Lynn The Occidental Ape By Cusper Lynn SARASOTA Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—4/29/2013—Violated, [...]

“My contemplation of the day’s many victories was interrupted by the door to my office bursting open to reveal a 27-year-old sneer. The sneer, which was appropriately situated on the face of a 27-year-old man, was a familiar one. The narrow frame, blond hair and blue eyes had entered the world with an innate contempt [...]

“Standing in the parking lot of the big box store off of Route 41, I realized that it was official. I was now part of the problem. Commando in gray gym shorts, wearing sandals and an ill-fitting, nearly thread-bare 20-year-old souvenir T-shirt, I was about to join the denizens of the night.” Cusper Lynn The [...]

“This was, after all, my fault. If you leave two chimps alone with a gun and the safety off, there is a predictable outcome.” Cusper Lynn The Occidental Ape By Cusper Lynn SARASOTA Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—2/4/2013—“You promised him WHAT!?!” Matt Tomlinson bellowed. “You heard me,” I said calmly. “Fifty-fifty on all initial sales, and sixty-forty on [...]

“For years, and long after the holiday’s more clearly identifiable fictions were exposed to me by the well-meaning and the vindictive, I sought to be the good I would find in this holiday. I could spend months planning and preparing. In the weeks leading up to it, I would sing, skip and generally annoy the [...]

“If I stopped for every person who was foaming at the mouth in the state of Florida I would never get more than a quarter of a mile from my house and I would never be able to get my grocery shopping done.” Cusper Lynn The Occidental Ape By Cusper Lynn SARASOTA Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—12/10/2012—Flush with [...]

“Success has many fathers and I was about to have the pleasure of explaining the questionable parentage of this child to its proud Papa.” Cusper Lynn The Occidental Ape by Cusper Lynn SARASOTA Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—11/19/2012—“It’s all there in black and white,” Matt said of the contract he’d dropped upon my desk. The day hadn’t been [...]

“One of the basic rules of the motivational speaker narrative is that the crisis you are sharing with your audience be well and truly behind you. Or, failing that, that you are sharing with your audience a unique solution to the crisis that is working to place it there . . . . It was [...]

“Can an ego so damaged ever be fully revived and, if so, how long and laborious a task would it be to return it to its former glory?” Cusper Lynn The Occidental Ape By Cusper Lynn SARASOTAFlorida—(Weekly Hubris)—10/22/2012—The human ego is, despite all representations to the contrary, a fragile thing. A single horrific shock can [...]

“Given the number of religions that allow for one to ‘fall’ into evil ways, and attribute the evil in the world to a third-party malevolent force, you would think evil would be easier to achieve than this.” Cusper Lynn The Occidental Ape By Cusper Lynn SARASOTA Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—10/1/2012—All evil requires a volitional act. Absurd? Yes. [...]