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I dream a little dream of work

starmessenger Oct 02, 2006 03:49

Tonight, I was doing an ethnographic study of some users. The users were two bums in matching motorized carts that weren't exactly wheelchairs. We were on a street corner in an American city bigger and rougher than Pittsburgh; maybe New York, maybe Boston, definitely east-coast. I was also in a motorized cart, tagging along with them, taking ( Read more... )

Fiction Mojo

starmessenger Aug 03, 2006 03:13

I'm creatively tapped. It's been months since I wrote anything that isn't related to work or all this JeffreyP-inspired LJ outreach. I've written no fiction since 2004. It's making me dull and crazy and soggy with unprocessed sensation. I realized last night that when I'm not working or spending time with friends, this non-thing I feel is ( Read more... )

What happens when a stressed-out INFP gets a tarot reading?

starmessenger Jul 30, 2006 15:09

The people I love best are those who give me permission to be irrational.

Livvie came upstairs this morning with French press coffee and a deck of Tarot cards.

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Brillo Box - Lawrenceville/Bloomfield

starmessenger Jul 26, 2006 21:13

Stars: 4 out of 5
Cost: $$
Food: Fresh, fusiony home cookin' -- stuff you'd find served at parties thrown by people who both knit and ride motorcycles. Empanadas, hummus, "gouda buddha burger." Lots of vegetarian and not-puke-making vegan options. Their wings are interesting -- very hot (temperature-wise) and crispy, with a weirdly artificial ( Read more... )

Public Speech vs. The Corporate Machine

starmessenger Jul 23, 2006 11:45

Joseph Beth is a chain bookstore in the Lifestyle Complex where I work. While I was dicking around on LiveJournal yesterday, I learned that the Joseph Beth corporate machine fired one of its employees over the contents of his online journal.

I read some of this person's journal. Nothing I saw seemed particularly critical of J.B., though if you're ( Read more... )

writing, speech, freedom, corporations

Heatbroken

starmessenger Jul 22, 2006 15:12

Lightning storm late last night, with strange thunder that seemed farther away and smaller than it should be. I questioned nature's verismilitude, or whether my liminal no-sleep state encouraged auditory/optical weather illusions. This morning it was a different world. The past weeks' heat has been an overlay on my living space, like those wax ( Read more... )

Writing without rewriting

starmessenger Jul 22, 2006 02:14

I've been thinking about how people wrote before we used computers and word processors, when we had no drafts or undo and when editing your text meant rewriting or retyping entire chunks of it. Has easy editing made writing any better?

I decided to try and write as if the option to delete or easily rewrite is not available to me. Starting now, ( Read more... )

Maybe I'm too dumb to sleep...

starmessenger Jul 21, 2006 03:34

I've always disdained insomnia as a logical impossibility. If you're tired, what choice do you have but to sleep? Sleep is like digestion. It isn't optional. You can fight it off but eventually you have to submit to it.

Lately I've been falling into a few hours of transient half-sleep around midnight and then waking up at 3am. It's been ( Read more... )

What's this?

starmessenger Jul 16, 2006 02:26

Up late tonight, copying music to the CowBook and bobbing along on the internet. Found this:

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Is this really happening?

starmessenger Jul 16, 2006 00:51

After this, what's next? A Chlorox commercial for anal bleaching?