I saw that Alexis posted an old Cherokee myth on MySpace and so I'm gonna post some old Creek myths and legends, me being roughly one sixteenth Creek:

THE CREATION OF THE EARTH

In the beginning the waters covered everything. It was said "Who will make the land appear?"

Lock-chew, the Crawfish, said: "I will make the land appear."

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I just bought Nine Inch Nails' new album Year Zero and Mastodon's Blood Mountain. Both great albums. The new NIN album is about, um, 10,000,000x better than With Teeth.

Today I was looking at Alex Grey's Net of Being painting, when I discovered that the swirly things in the top and bottom of the four-faced gods' heads are (I think) universes, or galaxies, reinforcing the sense of the infinite in time and space implied in the painting.

Look for yourself:


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This was a cool Wired feature a while back - six word stories.

We'll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.

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They repeated the episode of House last night at 10:30.

So I was minding my own business watching House on FOX, channel 4, when Dan Henry the insufferable weather fag interrupted and told everybody that tornadoes were coming. Okay, I thought, whatever, It'll only last a second. Right? RIGHT ( Read more... )

Today's pretty peachy. Me and my friend Parker spent the last night making a movie of oursleves shooting each other. He's editing it on Adobe Premier right now and we're gonna put it on YouTube and become internet celebs. Boo creepy foot doctor! Hooooraay lazy Saturday!

Driver's Ed makes everything hectic. I get home from school everyday at about 3:50, leaving me an hour or less before I have to go to Driver's Ed for two hours at five. That is not including Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, when Alexis and I walk and I get ZERO minutes before driver's ed. Then I get home from Driver's Ed at seven and I have to do ( Read more... )

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin ( Read more... )