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So this is how I'm starting this paper
" In expanding use across much of Web 2.0, there has come a relatively new slang term for an extremely old practice of behavior. The white knight, on online fora and blog comment pages, is a commenter who leaps to the defense of someone who has been attacked, whether or not they need defending. The antithesis of the troll, who antagonizes for no ( Read more... ) -
And I'm still behind on all sorts of things
I had the strangest of morning dreams: for the space of an hour, time slowed down ( Read more... ) -
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Post-apocalyptic Occupy-style communial survival settlement headed by the dude from the Moth with the greasy ponytail on one end selling used clothes for a buck each and the Con Bard on the other end selling smelted metals, look out for the radioactive materials that might get deposited over there, keep your tiny kid away from that space. He'll be ( Read more... ) -
Tired as fuck.
NYCC's over, and the paper due in 15 minutes is just barely half-complete. It's a no-sleep night after four long days. It feels like my life's accelerated to the point that Twitter is in fact the right medium to document it. I have so little perspective on what I'm doing that I have to cling to the few flashes of long-view I get and just hope it's ( Read more... ) -
Plurk
"we in the future have time-vortex captured the full playable cast of FF7 plus a random smattering of celebrities! Let's plurk whatever they say once every ten minutes and analyze it for coherence ( Read more... ) -
These never last long with sunlight on my face.
A deep dark lagoon indoors, craggy rock running up to smooth tile encasing it all, two arced points of black glassy rock formation not quite meeting, the greenish water between them swirling almost black. A warp point. Not enough for a Gate. Good ( Read more... ) -
Presented without further comment.
"The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being." As well as a strong and successful political appeal to the discontented who now don't bother to vote in national elections, Mr. Galbraith sees three plausible possibilities for change to ( Read more... ) -
Wordvomit.
Holy hell how is it only 9pm ( Read more... ) -
Well. THAT's never happened before.
Big ol' clump of mud RIGHT in the middle of my bundle of spinach.
What the hell.
** ETA: Alright, this deserves a little more unpacking. See, they sell two kinds of spinach in nearly every standard grocery I've been to here in the big city. There's your normal no-frill twisty-tied bundle of >> SPINACH << , with the barcode and three different ( Read more... ) -
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I was walking rapidly down Mercer Street, trying to hold in my tears ( Read more... )