Malfeasance frolics slowly in the corner of your eye

like dust

falling out of the sky

diver.

Inflated prose breeds in the minds of philosophers

feted caricatures lean on the

rotting of your insides

out.

    An old cowboy goes into a bar and orders a drink. As he sits there sipping his whiskey, a young lady sits down next to him. She turns to the cowboy and asks him, "Are you a real cowboy ( Read more... )

Oh man, Randall Munroe (the guy who writes xkcd) came and gave a talk here yesterday. It was awsome. Though really, I think the best part was being able to walk out of the auditorium and feel like the coolest person alive. Really, you haven't seen a geeky crowd until you visit a webcomic talk at MIT. Damn. Oh well, it was entertaining. There are ( Read more... )

And at the blindness of my spirit
They screamed,
"Fool! fool! fool!"

-Stephen Crane, "I Stood Musing in a Black World"

A poll:

Do you think that matter exists?

That is, do you believe that things exist outside of your mind when you are not perceiving them? If they do exist, are things just thoughts in the mind of something else (e.g. god)?

Cesare Zavattini said that the perfect film was a day in the life of a man to which nothing happened.

I had a dream in which nothing happened to me. That dream was nothingness. For that time, my mind did not exists, and the whole world was gone. There were not thoughts nor hopes nor sense perceptions. I was unified with the void. For all the time ( Read more... )

Catagorical Imperatives, $1.

In other news, I need to finish school and find a place to live.

So, I'm back in Massachusettsland.It's still disappointingly warm, but we might get some snow soon. I found a christan scientist temple when I went for a walk today. That was pretty exciting. I also found a whole foods, so I had a picnic with a pomegranate and some other food. I'm glad to not be in school yet. I'm excited about all of my classes, ( Read more... )

In homage to causality, the future is, right now, slipping inexorably into the past ( Read more... )

10:51, 2 mile.

6 down, 1 to go. well, i guess i could go anywhere.