I went to the National Mall on Saturday for John Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity. It was a nice day and Shrii and two of her friends, Sarah and Natalie, drove from Ann Arbor to stay at my place and attend the rally together. The rally was huge and though many were straining to hear John Stewart instead of commingling with the other gatherers, it ( Read more... )

Call me a nerd, but I wrote a poem about Triolobites. I tried to take out the nerdiest parts. I hope I left the best parts.
New Eyes

Create you, so fortunate monster, eyes for your own sockets!

Schizochroal to long-future watcher's eye's gaze

return as stone.

Burrow shallow in the benthic murk,

wait and hunt by scores lenses for flinches

of abovelight ( Read more... )

"two days until we mourn for Matthew Shepard, who was taken from this world, and who has become a beacon of strength to all of us. Matthew Shepard...We all miss and love you." - Christopher Cole

Chris Cole never knew Matthew Shepard. For full disclosure, neither did I. After all, the young man was taken before I knew that the word gay could possibly ( Read more... )