Around the far side of the sea,
Where the dark things still hide
In the crags and the deep
And old waves cascade endlessly,
The last stone of heaven's gate rests.

Unknown since the black day it fell
Amongst driftwood and detritus,
Cast down by celestial conflict,
And carried by gravity's impetus,
It erodes under wind and sea crest.

Waiting through the ages,  ( Read more... )

When asked what two innovations defined the 20th century, extensive polling shows that men are most likely to choose the electric guitar and the carbine-length automatic rifle. Women are most likely to choose the birth control pill and the microwave oven.

I found some beer this morning around four, as I was making the rounds of the office complex. Twenty-three cans to be precise (it would've been twenty-four but one was leaking). Totally freakin weird; the junk was just sitting on the lawn outside of a building, but the cardboard case was ripped up like it had dropped out of the sky. Most of the ( Read more... )

I believe the United States have the potential to become industrially self-sufficient, meaning more and better jobs in the industrial sector, all at a cost of what? .10 a bar of soap? $1 a pair of jeans? Better to pump that cost back into the working base than to throw it away on people we may face down with rifles someday (China I'm looking at you ( Read more... )

Hurricanes will spawn and wrest the life from sea and shore ( Read more... )

It's a solitary sound, wakes me up in the night ( Read more... )

The moon, in summer's ecstasy
lay down behind the myrtle tree.
No single star, nor cloud distract
a simple silhouette.

It's said that when visiting a place as mysterious and different as the far east, the trip doesn't stop upon returning to home soil ( Read more... )

The first few years of my life were the happiest, and though my family moved often, music was the thing that provided stability. Didn't matter where we lived, the LP collection remained the same, with Stevie Wonder (amongst Holtz's "The Planets" and Carly Simon) ruling the record player many a night, and through rainy and uneventful afternoons. I ( Read more... )

My father made point earlier today about not growing up with video games or the like, but ( Read more... )