a pretty good survey ( Read more... )

"No person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..."

"No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers..."

"Guests at barbecues and picnics may sit at a picnic table or some other form of outdoor furniture. If the picnic is in a park (especially where fireworks are held), a picnic blanket may be set on the ground and participants eat the food sitting down on the blanket."

Now I know how it's done.

"You got any problems with your friends calling you a fag an' shit 'cause of the clothes you wear?"

-guy at a gas station, after I emerged from the restroom, where I had changed my pants.

"It's a wonderful thing to be clever, and you should never think otherwise, and you should never stop being that way. But what you learn, as you get older, is that there are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will certainly be lost-swallowed up in the ocean-unless you ( Read more... )

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this ride is the dusk
of my childhood; the fire-
flies are strange tonight

-AKC

I need some new music!

If you are my friend, send a song, that you think I might like, to circumspice at gmail.

So I worked a full day today ( Read more... )

Behind the door
Hand to face
Conscience is the wound

A week ago this evening I stood on Main Street in Ann Arbor and tried a door handle, finding it to be locked. With that act, I concluded a year of graduate school and, having just quit all three of my jobs earlier that day, was finally free of the oppressive business (as in 'busy-ness') that had fallen on me several months earlier and prevented me ( Read more... )