I dreamt that an airplane engine crashed into my bed, like in Donnie Darko. In my case, though, there was no rabbit to call me out of the room. Had I been sleeping in the centre of the bed, I would have been crushed. I survived because the engine, rather smaller than in the movie, landed on the side I leave open for imagining you. The resulting ( Read more... )

The authors of most of the blogs I follow have temporarily but drastically reduced their blogular output to focus on their real work in the real world. Having no such business in extravirtual reality, I’ve been scrawling sprawling multi-page treatises that never end up on eel_grass because they have no beginning or ending, just a whole lot of ( Read more... )

My recent entry on cosmology solicited some awesome questions that led me to more research, more contemplation and more diagram drawing. Welcome to Part 2 of our who-knows-how-many-part series: Kendra v. The Multiverse…

The universe is infinitely large. It was infinitely large when it was half the size it is now. It was infinitely large 14 ( Read more... )

I wrote more about cosmology,
And drew diagrams the likes of which have never been drawn before,
And I wrote Indefensible City
A fairy tale foray to extended metaphor.


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The Big Bang theory is the idea that about fourteen billion years ago all matter and energy was contained within a single point, which then expanded to the current size of the universe and is still expanding. Matter and energy are different forms of the same stuff so let’s just call it Stuff. For long enough to draw some diagrams, let’s pretend ( Read more... )

Another report from the graveyard at longshine:

I.

There are two apple trees.

The one that shades the baby Mary has lost its blossoms,

Beauty is most beautiful when brief, she says,

And an indulgence at the best of times,

The eating’s in the apples.

Tree two has as many left as it can hold,

And though they are shrivelrimmed with brown,

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“Trevor, if I’m going to help her, you have to tell me exactly what happened.”

“I’d been out mowing the lawn. I came in for a break and she starting making us iced tea. She poured the water and added the powder normally, chatting away. Then, right when she took the ice cube tray out of the fridge, she screamed like I’ve never heard. I jumped up ( Read more... )

I am in bed against my will. Twelve secretaries with fake fingernails hold me here. One hundred twenty cuts are waiting if I try to stand. And I can just see my face contorted. And I can just hear my screaming. But I have a plan: Survive a while. Mine the gold. See the people if you can. Cross the sea to the old town. Fly in spirals up the mountain ( Read more... )

Delusions of grandeur, you say?

There was once a great mountain,
It said, “I am mountainous.”
And The Echo echoed,
“Mountainous, mountainous.”

And the next day the mountain
Said, “I am mountainous.”
And The Echo echoed,
“Mountainous, mountainous.”

And the next day the mountain
Said, “I am mountainous.”
The Echo played a prank,
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Knee high rubber boots,
Graphic tee, blue jeans,
And a white cowboy hat.
Not a word of a lie,
I stood like that,
As a truck went by,
On a cracked up road,
With a yellow line,
To match the ditch-damned dandelions,
Serving no other purpose.


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