Violence, even terror, always exists on the periphery of empire. They are the means by which empire is consolidated, defended, extended. Similarly, empire must respond to attack, or its basis is forfeit. All that is new about September 11, is that it didn't occur on a distant horizon. It was as if Rome had been attacked 2000 years ago, at the ( Read more... )

eeeeeek! i talked to my prince charming on the phone this evening, and it made me soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy ( Read more... )

this weekend will be spectacular, prince charming... i promise you. jesslyn, tom, you're in too ( Read more... )

this update is being made from my new computer... my imac... fuckin' right. lots of improvements need to be made to it, but it's a start, and i'm happy with that. i'll still have my laptop for awhile, because the transition is going to be slow ( Read more... )

We gather in Carnival resistance for many reasons: political, symbolic, religious, personal, spiritual, ethical, utilitarian.. But who can deny the lust for kicks?

Just because you're not paranoid...
...Doesn't mean you're not being stroboscopically photographed from space.

i am happier than i've been in years... nobody can take it away from me right now. nobody. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you ( Read more... )

i don't mind spending everyday, out on your corner in the pouring rain, look for the girl with the broken smile, ask her if she wants to stay awhile. and she will be loved ( Read more... )

this newest layout for my livejournal is dedicated to steven, for reasons i'm sure he can understand.

the plays went well.. for that i am glad.

not a pertinent update, really, i just wanted to post something for the sake of boredom.

i was a convincing jesus.

-andrew

on the paper she had written
"you"

and she told me,
"that's a list of the people,

who are standing too close."

"It wasn't radioactive,"
the doctor said,
"It was a brown recluse spider."

"Fuck that,"
i said,
"My spidey sense is tingling."

"That's nerve damage,"
he said.