Perusing the internets before going to sleep, as is my custom, and I come across this news story about a man (or possibly multiple men) in Norway who set off a bomb at a government building and then gunned down 80+ children at a summer camp being held on a small island.

Maybe everyone will be talking about this soon, I don't know. We don't tend to ( Read more... )

 Cause you know
I don't do sadness
Not even a little bit
I just don't need it in my life
Don't want any part of it

I don't do sadness
Hey, have I done my time?
Looking back on it all, and it blows my mind

I don't do sadness
I've so been there
Don't do sadness,
Just don't care

"And when it comes it moves so slow
Kinda like it's saying 'I told you so.'
Looking back before she goes
Tomorrow's gonna hurt."

 All the pretty girls on a Saturday night ( Read more... )

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a horse,
a horse,
my kingdom for a horse.

My mom is in the hospital for a while. With any luck we'll only have to do this one round.
After the surgery she looked like she got hit with a freakin train.

I don't do so well in hospitals. Something about the smell, all the equipment going in and out of people, it's like the pain leaks into the air and just becomes palpable. My knees lock up, my ( Read more... )

There are certain people.
Every time I see them, talk to them, touch them, it hurts.
It hurts because they represent some mirage of contentedness I am never going to reach.

Using humor to keep everything at arm's length has this unfortunate side effect of working.

"Let's have a country where everyone is not only born equal,
                                 but damn well crushed down and made equal."

- Fahrenheit 451

Listen. I play the piano because I love doing so. But I'm not gonna deny it. This is all true: