Meet my latest aquisition: Aoshikyo ("glowing green death"). She is custom, she is high durability duel-grade, and she is awesome :)

(BTW, this is my first attempt at video editing, so please be kind...)

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Alot of nice sentiments making the rounds these days, but the truth is (dare I say it?): It doesn't necessarily "get better" for everyone. And even if it does it doesn't necessarily stay that way. There are a lot of very unhappy, lonely, hopeless adult gay men around. People who can't say with honesty that "it got better". That's what crosses my ( Read more... )

Spirit Of The Cross thinks they're the only game in town. I'm still waiting for someone to explain the whole Gay Christian Fundamentalist thing to me.

Went and toured the damage scene this morning. Didn't bother taking pictures cause it wasn't anything that hasn't been all over the internet already.Was interesting tracing the path as it cut a swath from Old Town, magically skipping over the Five Points intersection (which I'm glad for, not only because my mother was there - and wasn't kidding ( Read more... )

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Added a few new images to my Abstractions photo set at flickr:


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In the twenty-plus years since New Order recorded Love Vigilantes for the album Lowlife, the song has taken on a strange, ironic, and very tragic, if not downright prescient, significance - a fact not lost on a few contemporary artists. Below are two recent renderings by some fairly well-regarded acts:

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Just got a look at Pitchfork's "20 Greatest Songs of the 00s". Apparently they perceived the decade as one big party with white powdery lines adorning every available surface. Not a trace of Wilco, Interpol or anything approaching emotional resonance or power save for a brief token nod to Arcade Fire's "Neighborhood #1". Not even White Fucking ( Read more... )