I am a tremendously unstable person. The past 2 years, though, have been relatively uneventful, on the emotional-breakdown front. I've managed to scrape together a heretofore unknown quantity of sanity. This all comes at a price, however ( Read more... )

"The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. Still less can they hope to tell us the 'meaning' of later discoveries and developments which were, when they began, either ( Read more... )

There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart ( Read more... )

...and thus, a draft ( Read more... )

We all live under a "blue moon" tonight ( Read more... )

While standing in a 7-11 tonight, I became very conscious my my gray hair; 7 or 8 strands of silver among the brown, right at the part. I was surrounded by kids...which is to say, people maybe 3 years younger than I am. One was trying with little success to smoke a blunt outside, while his friends, guys in sideways skewed hats, swaggered and yelled ( Read more... )

I was not alone, I think it was the first time ( Read more... )

But if you are feeling sinister ( Read more... )

Just after 5 AM and there is already dim light in the sky outside. This is bad...natural light is the enemy of the all-nighter, being exposed to it sets off all sorts of bodily alarms. Such alarms are distinctly toxic to productivity ( Read more... )

Some people have love, some people have work...everyone has that one thing that gets them out of bed in the morning. I have wonder, a strange aesthetic sort of thing, a characteristic that is context dependent.

So when I woke up this morning and saw that E.O. Wilson's "Encyclopedia of Life" had been actualized, I knew that any lethargy or ( Read more... )