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Cultivate small discomforts,
That pain may cease to be an adversary
And instead become a trusted companion.

Hmm...a little dusty in here, but the lights still work.

We just returned from dinner at The Herbfarm. It'll be a while before we've completely returned to Earth ( Read more... )

Keith Olbermann is the closest thing we've got to Edward R. Murrow. May he be as influential, for the dangers we face are greater in many respects than in Murrow's time.

I posted this over at my Vox journal, but I thought it would be important to post it here as well.

Please read Garrison Keillor's editorial now.

Now, this was unexpected. I took the "Which Sesame Street Character Are You?" test:

Snuffleupagus
You scored 60% Organization, 63% abstract, and 59% extroverted! This test measured 3 variables.
First, this test measured how organized you are. Some muppets like Cookie Monster ( Read more... )

I'm lying in bed at an odd angle, with my head propped up against the wall. I have a gash down the right side of the back of my neck, held together at the moment with an elaborate network of adhesives and polymers. My hair's been shaved partway up the back of my head, and what's still there is caked with blood and Betadine. Some of the hair on my ( Read more... )

It's 3:14am (pi time! wish I had some pie...). I'm unable to sleep, due to the combination of neuralgia from the bone spur in my neck, lingering migraine headaches and nausea from the myelogram earlier in the week, and the side effects of the bizarre cocktail of drugs I've been taking to keep all of the above barely under control. I'm no stranger ( Read more... )