So I was reading Jen's blog over at http://symphonic729.blogspot.com and thought the most recent post (pertaining to patience and inspiration among other things) needed a companion spot somewhere ( Read more... )

This is my vision of the future. I do believe it, but the details here are poetic, not factual, and there's a lot of room for interpritation. This is also hopelessly idealistic, but I still think it's accurate. Perhaps the future is a good place, not a bad one. Anyway, this is it ( Read more... )

Ok, so a couple weeks ago I was smoking some Hindu Kush and I discovered the meaning of life, also known as: "the great answer to life the universe and everything", and "the reason for consciousness" among others. WARNING: This isn't beautiful. It's really quite anti-climactic ( Read more... )

Ok, so I just have to write about that drive home from work ( Read more... )

"Above the clouds, it's always blue ( Read more... )

Ok, so I wrote this years ago, but its still my favorite thing I ever wrote. It's in here now to move less well-written things down. Anyway, here's the story: I fell asleep at my first apartment I ever had (Greenville, NC) one night on my bed without a frame. My moniter was on top of the tower next to my bed and I laid my keyboard vertically ( Read more... )

Ok, so between real jobs (and considering going back to school) I've been serving coffee at a Borders in San Rafael. Tonight there was nobody to cover for breaks so I had to make real drinks even though I'm vehemently opposed to learning the craft of the barista from a chain like Seattle's Best. But I took my first post as barista as an opportunity ( Read more... )

(I'm not sure if this is going to work... or if I'm even going to post it. But there's a metaphor I want to express... a connection that may merely be semantics, but that I like, and it makes sense to me ( Read more... )

The muse struck her with alarming speed and she quickly put down the smoking bong, cut the t.v. and ran to the other room to start typing - it was finally there. Before she knew it her latest creation had a gender, a personality, and ( Read more... )

OK, so when I first got to California I got horribly sick. Spent a few days bed-ridden. I felt at the time that California was simply a fickle mistress, but I realize now that I was being purged of any traces of North Carolina. The state's power needed to prepare me for a whole new life-style where everything's possible and the best-case scenario ( Read more... )