The Cripple

The office door slides past, its metal and white frame close to my head. The office is laid out before me as my body strides smoothly and confidently in to its space. The wooden floors feel solid underneath me, the wide, open spaces and low walled cubicles are no barrier to my vision, and I take a deep breath looking around, proud and ( Read more... )

Samson Lahti-Parsell
Professor Miller
English 324
April 20th, 2008

The Philistine’s Plea:
Escaping the theoretical construction of Native American cultures

The murder of Native Americans was systematic and uniform from coast to coast. They were hung, burned, tortured, hunted, shot, starved, and broken by any means necessary, in a manner which ( Read more... )

There is a subtle importance to studying the plight of the minority, which thanks to my liberal education I have had the opportunity to do. A minority faces a far different set of problems than the majority, and yet they operate within the same framework, a framework necessarily designed by the government to appeal to majoirty. But it isn't exactly ( Read more... )

As I confront this new round of conflicts, I do it more effectively than I ever have. I'm still going to work, to school. I didn't break up with my girlfriend, I didn't go cheat, or drink, or get in a fight. Niether did I spend an excessive amount of money nor did horde it in fear. I simply feel conflicted, but I am truly grateful that I can see ( Read more... )

Some people make better art than I can fathom. The movie American History X is one of those things. Depth, that is what is the hard part. The real scary part, the most horrific aspect of that movie, is when the Derek is spouting rhetoric, and I can hear myself. I see his eager, forward posture, and all i can think is, that's how I sound. That is ( Read more... )

A heater is pinging in this room I'm typing in. Like my mind, the metal is colder than the heat, and it is expanding then cooling. Pop, expand, tap, cool. But this heater is doing it in rapid succession, so it seems there is man hiding behind a wall, perhaps an Indian, banging out his lonely beat, trying to annoy or attract the attention of the ( Read more... )

I think perhaps the collective unconsciuos reached out today and asked for help. I woke up this morning obsessing about Brittney Spears, and protecting her from the Papparazi goons who take her picture all the time. I had seen, on you tube or whatever, many different videos of her trying to go to starbucks and order coffee, and some 20 or 30 camera ( Read more... )

 What's better than meeting important people in large organized groups ( Read more... )

 Today I did, which is very good, but now I have to shave. Time is bleeding through my fingers, and I feel that kind of healthy warm tiredness that means I could just drift off to sleep in a moment. Cockroaches, bedbugs, skin infection....I need to see a docotr. I won't be able to until the end of february. Money. Money. Money ( Read more... )

I am in need of meditation. "Meditation brings wisdom. Lack of meditation brings ignorance. Know well what will lead you forward, and what will hold hold you back."

The financially dire straights of January have rushed upon me. Now february is here, and I feel as if I am going to drown before I ever reach march. March where the currency flows with ( Read more... )