Months ago Dale wrote a Facebook note that was a list of 15 albums that changed his life. It was one of those in which you tag a bunch of friends so that they write their own list and tag you back. It appears that he took his note down. I remember thinking after I read it that it was very well written and had a lot of interesting things to say, ( Read more... )

1. One book that changed your life:
Philosophy and Religion

2. One book that you've read more than once:
Fahrenheit 451

3. One book you'd want on a desert island:
Being and Nothingness

4. One book that made you laugh:
Catch-22

5. One book that made you cry:
I've never cried while reading a book, but the movie inspired by The Positronic Man does ( Read more... )

Now, what's this post about?

I do like to establish 'the point' early on; not necessarily get to the point, but establish it, at least. Preamble without a notion of relevance can be confusing ( Read more... )

Today I felt the sand of Mars; its grains fell down and off my fingers as if in half-time through an hourglass, give or take one or two of the leap days that happen there like heart murmurs, lurching off tempo into a protracted moment, finally in temporary time with perception. Remember when the Roman Calendar acquired new months like the Empire ( Read more... )

Dear ethereal and jaded gypsy, this meek ( Read more... )

The serenity of night is unstable ( Read more... )

Turning his head to the noise as he passed through the door frame, Joe noticed that there was a radio on across the room, sitting alone on a shelf held up by a broomstick. He leaped over the counters in his way, traversing the distance quickly. The crunching wall of sound that was the music made by the heavy-metal guitars emanating from the tiny ( Read more... )

She rolls her eyes around the time my tongue clicks on the third syllable of “cryonic” and she begins to give less consideration toward my hesitant cadence than to the stillness of the ceiling and the silence surrounding my speaking, the calm created by my nervous lack of passion, my stoic revelation of desperation. I have a tendency to project my ( Read more... )

Your Linguistic Profile:
40% General American English35% Yankee15% Upper Midwestern10% Dixie0% Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
My only complaint with this is that #6 should include "bubbler" among the choices for an answer; it wouldn't change my score because personally, I do actually say "drinking fountain" but I think that it ( Read more... )

"I've never felt this way before about a... stranger," she said without looking up from the image of her reflection in her wine glass.

"I don't believe I've ever known of anyone -- who has felt this way -- feeling for anyone other than someone who was a stranger at first; or, at least it's true that no one else has ever told me what you just did ( Read more... )