since feeling is first ( Read more... )

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“Each day, the towers of central London seemed slightly more distant, the landscape of an abandoned planet receding slowly from his mind. By contrast with the calm and unencumbered geometry of the concert-hall and television studios below him, the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis ( Read more... )

"Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessel are the written mythologies of memory and desire ( Read more... )

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our immune systems are simply amazing (except for mine because it has quit working ( Read more... )

"yeah but it's based on an idea of mine ( Read more... )

"Most eras have distinct 'ways of seeing' that end up defining the period in retrospect: the fixed perspective of Renaissance art, the scattered collages of Cubism, the rapid-fire cuts introduced by MTV and the channel-surfing of the 80's. Our own defining view is what you might call the long zoom: the satellites tracking in on license-plate ( Read more... )

I've never been to Iceland but it's the same temperature there today as it is in Beloit.
It's 86 degrees in Costa Rica.
70 degrees in Orlando
61 degrees in Tucson
50 degrees in New York City
40 degrees and rainy in Juneau, Alaska

It's 45 and sunny right now!! (but i'm still wearing my snow suit)

I'm still not a fan of the midwest, but i gotta say i love some of its urban areas. I'm in minneapolis right now at a conference with my mom and the city is totally not what i expected-and i've seen every single episode of the mary tyler moore show ( Read more... )