Kids  Are Weird.

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In your twenties you make choices.  Doors are open.  Anything is possible, and you can make things happen.  The trouble with that is you have to start paring things down, because everybody who's anybody knows that the more choices you have, the more chaotic things can become.  That's why kids throw temper tantrums, by and large.  Overstimulation.   ( Read more... )

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Everybody, mark your calendars NOW so that you don't bitch out at the last minute - this years (POE)monobo Halloween show is going to bring the fire. I was excited about it to begin with, but since brilliant Will Dodd reminded me brilliantly of the story "Murders on the Rue Morgue," I am even more excited.  Also, laudinum.

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"I kindly wanna put my arm 'round you for a minute. Then I'm gonna git up an leave outta here." - Carl Childers, Slingblade

I just quit OtherJob today to free up some time to work on grad school stuff. And I'm aiming high here, so I want to impress! And sparkle! And glow in the dark! I did pretty good on my GRE, so that's a hopeful thing ( Read more... )

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were ( Read more... )

This showed up in my mailbox anonymously, I thought a couple of you might be inclined to read it, because you read the Dear Rick column as regularly as it is produced.  For those of you who do not read the Dear Rick column, or who are not familiar with Dear Rick, it is probably because you don't understand, or your legs are broken, or you are in ( Read more... )

bless me, lord, i'm only after
what you promised me;
so break me, lord, and with the pieces,
make another tree.
make another tree.

he spoke to me, he spoke to me
he said "take only that which you can
carry on your back;
just leave the children in the yard -
in time, they'll gladly turn to dust."

let me lay here in the grass for
all eternity -
let the wind and ( Read more... )