If only the wonders we created through idle imagination could be brought to life by the power of longing ( Read more... )

The rain is thundering against the weather beaten skeleton of my air conditioner...  a lovely sound, like marbles bouncing on a drum ( Read more... )

to construct elaborate conspiracies and cover-ups when your own brain will do it for you?

Granted, they're all inconsequential and erroneous in the most trivial of ways, but that's beside the point. The point is that I believed it, believed it to the extent that when I looked back upon it in my mind's eye, there, implanted in my memory were the ( Read more... )

SUPPORT OLD TOWN LANSING!

To vote in the contest and help Old Town to win a Main Street Makeover:

1. 
   Visit www.ikea.com/business/mainstreet
2. 
   Click on  Old Town’s video, titled “Old Town Lansing, Just a little past normal”
3. 
   Click on the “Vote for this” blue button
4. 
   Click on “Non-member, Join the contest. Register now”
5. 
   Enter ( Read more... )

Tonight was the candlelight vigil for Julie. It was silent and strange because those there who should have spoken couldn't, so we waited in silence and let their grief fall heavier and more potent than any sermon.

In less than one year, 2 people who have been co-workers of mine have been murdered at gunpoint in murder/suicide incidents.

Both of them ( Read more... )

Please note the official name change.

Effective immediately upon recognition of membership into the occult of the "QRV".

At which time, all forms of drawing will be executed with a flourish of small scratchy marks via india ink and/or other black and white method.

Extraneous announcements, irrelevant phrases and lackadaisical observation will become ( Read more... )

It would be nice to be able to give aide in America without having to double check to make sure that the people you're giving aide too aren't scamming the system.

There's something terribly sad about that... from every angle.

Your Harry Potter Spoiler of Doom is:

Moaning Myrtle kills Voldemort in the lounge, with the candlestick

http://www.masquerademaskarts.com/memes/harrypotterspoiler.php

I love this quote from Simon Canning of The Australian:

Books, once the domain of bespectacled geeks, were suddenly very cool, thanks to the adventures of a bespectacled geek.

Come forth, o' bookish dweebies, and haunt openly the hallows of those cozy nooks and sunlit crannies in which you've longed to wedge your text hunched bodies! OUR TIME HAS ( Read more... )

Outside of the window, the glowing red eyes of sleepy tail lights blink at me as  someone drives off to begin their morning shift at the processing plant, a shadowy figure slips along the sidewalk growing shorter and taller as it steps in and out of the streetlights on its slow amble home in hopes to sneak back into the house without its spouse ( Read more... )