This world is a vast, incomprehensible, amazing, wondrous place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi2CfuqcUGE

Somehow, silly little songs still make me cry.

"powers of two"

i
am
full
ofterror
whenicontemplate
howsmalliambesidetheemptyunverse
anddeprivedofstructureiamsetfreetocreateandconquermyownwholelife
andsoihidebehindbarriersandiconstructlimitssothatimaynotquiverinfearbutimaystepforwardeachdayandlive,pushingdownthisabjectterrorbutifearthatmycowardicewilldevourme,

I am not a writer but sometimes I like to pretend ( Read more... )

I wanted to keep the original bit intact, so I'm putting this in a separate post ( Read more... )

This, in some ways, is an homage to Borges' "The Circular Ruins." As a response to an unrelated piece I read recently, I began thinking about how magic might work in a world of my imagining. This is one possibility that occurred to me ( Read more... )

I moved away.

For I am Bryan, Lord of the Absurd ( Read more... )

Today's top stories:

IT'S LATE O'CLOCK
VENOMOUS SNAKES MAKE POOR BEDFELLOWS
AY, AVAST - LAND HO
BUT I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND MY YOM KIPPUR

That is all.

Lots has happened this past week. More later.