I came home late this evening, around 11:30pm. No small black cat came running to greet me, which was a little odd, but I didn't pay it much mind. Around 1:30am I went up to bed. Spooky's bowl still had food in it, which was also odd. He was sleeping on the bed and meowed at me, which he very rarely does (he is a silent little man). I went to ( Read more... )

"Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy, you have not yet begun to live." -- Thomas Merton, 1915-1968 ( Read more... )

I KNOW, right?

"This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath"

-- Regina Spektor, "On the Radio"

I read through the archive of Goodbye Chains today. If you like comics with stories, historical fiction, protagonists who are basically bad guys, and The Gays (I'm looking at you approximately two-thirds of my friends-list), you'd probably like it a lot!


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I am a creature of words
I need to shape every urge
Into an ocean of verbs
That we can swim in
We can live in

You give only so much
Only what you intend
I give all of it up
I'm so eager to bend

Today, planting trees with kids at a public housing development in south Baltimore ( Read more... )

So, I've been told that combining tequila and coffee is a particularly weird thing to do. Is this true ( Read more... )

I have a new car -- a lovely silver '03 Honda Civic EX coupe with a cd player and a moonroof. 88k miles on it. Life could be worse ( Read more... )

In under the wire! Check out Ben's cute comic.


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