Ok, so here's p'shat.  I was talking to someone online and we were to meet, this person has a history of not showing up, so I (jokingly) said something about killing myself if they didn't show. They didn't show. I (obviously) did not kill myself. Now, at Berkley's graduation my sister was asked if I had died recently, to which she emphatically ( Read more... )

My metaphorical garden is all shiny. It glows with the bright smell of synesthesia. The grass is the overgrown, super-photosynthesized foreboding of my soul. My words are a fountain of creative brain-diarrhea as my prose flows, chunky and loose from my fingers. As I walk forward, searching aimlessly for parts-of-speech hidden amongst the ambrosial ( Read more... )

גאָט וועט העלפן
אויב נאָר העלפט גאָט
ביז גאָט וועט העלפן

Gott vet helfn
oib nor helft Gott
biz Gott vet helfn

God will help
If only God would help
Until God helps

I can't write, recently. It's worrying me a lot. I'm not entirely sure what to do about it. Writing brings me such joy, and these dry spells are depressing. I think I need help, but I don't know what formt hat help should take ( Read more... )

So I'm to make a "collage" for graduation. That just seems too cheesy for me. Friends, give me ideas as to what to do with photos that would be cool for graduation.

Oh shit, I was supposed to email Bethany, shit. Oh well. I'll get to it tomorrow
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This Is My Life, Rated Life:
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Mishnah: Exile comes to the world for idol-worship, sexual promiscuity, murder and the failure to leave the land fallow on the sabbatical year.

Commentary: If this is true of an exile b'gashmeus, how much more so an exile b'ruchnius. When one engages in these things, he feels like an exile within himself, empty and clawing for something real. The ( Read more... )

I'm a photographer, and I find I prefer photography to painting and even drawing. I do not put the world through the imperfect filter of my brain and write it in paint, because I don't think one can truly capture beauty if he creates it himself. There is a reason everybody masturbates to photographs but nobody to a painting. As a photographer, I ( Read more... )

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