Lacking substance, I scratch anywhere on my body and instantly feel bone.  Except my stomach, where my festering insides churn and retain and construct the eventual spewing of my thievery of space/matter/mind.  My eyeballs have been feeding but it's the fungus I need to cultivate.  I want someone to paint with.  Does someone have an art studio?   ( Read more... )

I wish I had a shirt that had a captcha image on it, and people would have to confirm the word for me before I would speak to them.  And it would change for each person that approached me.  That would be great.

So the last dream I had involved some kind of shape-shifting aliens that were mimicking a surrealist character from a children's book (not real -- manufactured by my dream-state mind) and causing a general panic in my neighborhood.  I remember looking out my back door window and seeing where one had left some kind of flag with fascist slogans on it ( Read more... )

Right.  Time to get to work on the old new album.

After sleep.  And before.

and during.

maybe.

I hope.

I was looking at someone I used to have a vague, weird sort of connection to and noticing once more, with the same old worn out chagrin, how similar we are.  Now, as then, it unnerved me, though there's no particularly good reason for it to do so these days.  In addition to the familiar recognition of similarity, the same nuances of disgust also ( Read more... )

Okay, so here's the part where I reveal how geeky and perhaps dorky I am.

I had the biggest rush of excitement when I was driving down a street a couple of days ago, and then it was followed by the dorkiest of outrage, and then by gigglesome bemusement at myself and the situation.  Here's what happened.  I was just driving down the road, minding my ( Read more... )

Everyone has had it happen.  They must have.  Shortly after beginning a drive to somewhere, you observe that there is a bug on your windshield.  Sometimes it looks kind of distressed at all the wind-age that is happening to it.  You kinda worry for it.  You come to a stop sign or red light, and are relieved because surely this bug will do the ( Read more... )

So I want to do this:  http://faculty.etsu.edu/zavadam/summer08course/summer.html

But I don't have the three to four thousand dollars necessary for either of the options I'm interested in.  What total poop.

...

Anyone want to fund this for me?

Or better yet, fund it for me and then come along with me?

Nobody told me there'd be days like these.

Strange days indeed.

Happy Darwin Day everyone!

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