Full throttle forward march down a road of bones:
The Captain's voice is hoarse and harsh
as we lift and drop our boots in time to his commands
but I never learned the language.

I can only guess at what the captain is shouting
and this motion is foreign to my rubbery American feet
and I loudly hate the crunch of fingerbones and femurs,
falling out ( Read more... )

...go to this site and feel better about things:

www.fivethirtyeight.com

CIphering until dawn, then too riled to sleep, watching the sun rise over the lake. Define: beautiful.

French people slamming in French, with an overhead projector explaining that "God is Dead, and Nietzche hung himself," in comic sans.

Strolling the campus with Feasles; reading Merle Curti in the basement of the U of Wisonsin's Historical ( Read more... )

You know what else sucks: Fews & Two broke up and I found out about it via the internet.

They broke up and then they reformed, Fews Minus Two, Two Minutes Too Few, Fews Un-Two, the list goes on and on... who fucking cares, but the thing is, I found out about it on the internet.

LOLLLXXORS ohmyi teh G, pwned. IM brking ^ w/u.
Funny.

No, but ( Read more... )

I used to wear my grandfather’s army jacket
to high school, rolled the sleeves up
in the summer and safety pinned
acronyms and adjectives
Sublime and Crass, AFI and NOFX
on a faded-green camouflage background.

I wore that jacket every day without thinking
of a twelve-year-old boy
riding a hollow-body bicycle packed
with explosives into a tangle
of tents and ( Read more... )

kyland's fingers have earned their gravity
and the keys of his piano are all turned blue
and the slow cry of nightbirds and
the smell of spring earth are there
but the haste and the tumble is not
autumn leaves or someone falling down stairs
the haste is dawn rising
on the smoke and vapors
and burning fog away

Everything is fine, as long as you don't  trust anybody.

**This entry edited posthaste courtesy of the wisdom of the savvy-flavored
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The internet is the biggest, loneliest, emptiest truck stop ( Read more... )

Oh my good gravy

Adobe Audition has changed my life

Somebody tell me how to put music on the internet, I want to show you what I made, it's...

...it's AMAZING

Now US scientists want to try it on humans

PUT ME IN, COACH! I'M READY, COACH, PUT ME IN!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7267586.stm