I find myself in the company of people who call themselves magicians in the broad light of day, and do not mean parlor tricks ( Read more... )

Really we are the product of an experiment in social engineering vaster and more blankly cruel and faceless than even Orwell pictured, at the hands of not some government that could conceivably be overthrown and replaced, but by the blind forces of our own economic systems. Not some deep-rooted far-flung conspiracy of great and evil minds, but the ( Read more... )

Dora is my witness, I did not mock her when she described feeling pretty seriously threatened by a group of about 12 raccoons, but this did not keep me from having my own raccoon experience.. not helped by an unusually nasty headace and general sleepy not-with-it-ness... there we were, finally at the campground getting set to fix up some nice ( Read more... )

Just found out my darling 'brother-in-law' Lincoln, Shelley's wonderful ( Read more... )

Really, I think the crucial difference between crazy and not, between crazy and functional, lies in the ability to not be too bugged by the times when reality doesn’t fit your models, and believe in your right to choose what to believe, subject to the ability of the universe to demonstrate you wrong ( Read more... )

Content was all over my dreams this morning, in old familiar parts of dreamland and present as an acting character in more than one dream story line, and it was really nice. It was like having a good friend from later in life show up in some awful high school dream, being just as cool as they are in real life and with you there in the depressing ( Read more... )

Digitomancy?

I love this thing, I'm glad it's still out there.

http://manor.york.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cards.sh

I kid thee not, this is the name of the company that bought out my nice cozy gym. I walk into my nice quiet gym that suits me so well, and the nice young girl behind the counter has been replaced by this overeager-middle-management looking guy in a bright shirt and a very bright tie, who explains to me (with that tv smile)that the gym has been ( Read more... )

Hearing the party at/around the admin house on the second evening, from the near side of the hotel bldg ( Read more... )