...is a beautiful feeling. Like musical math in graphic form. Who doesn't like that ( Read more... )

I don't think about motoric minimalism that often, but often when I do, I share that thought with another person. Here's my thought ( Read more... )

"Die Perfektion eines trefferlosen Spiels besteht ganz und gar im Werfen und im Defensivspiel. Seltsamerweise denkt niemand, wenn der Angriff den Ball nicht trifft, an ein trefferloses Spiel. Im Baseball ist ein trefferloses Spiel seht große Sache. Das zeigt schon das hohe Ansehen, in dem ein Defensivspiel gehalten wird. Ein ,,perfektes'' ( Read more... )

Anyone every write a book called On Holding It?

[the more I think about it, the more blogs seem like really sophisticated rhetorical question technology to me]

The Whoopie Stack, from bottom to top:
a frozen blueberry waffle (heated up)
melted mozzarella cheese
a sweet potato pancake (w/ generous amount of ginger)
a small patty of imitation ground beef
homemade applesauce (with the skin left on)

Result:
Interesting. Edible, complex, lots of textures. Great to eat? Maybe. Fun to make: fer sure.

A lot of things in the world resemble small bears. This is a pleasing thing.

There's a tendency in this run up to a new decade we've been experiencing that's contrary to how I feel, and I'd like to touch upon it briefly. I think it has to do with attempting to evaluate the historical events of the decade/year that's passing and expressing something to the effect of "boy the aughts were crappy in terms of geopolitical ( Read more... )

I keep forgetting to put on deodorant, to brush my teeth in the morning, to damp the upper keys when I'm playing saron or demung. It is these things in this time period.

BUT I'm done with my first semester of graduate school as of today. Whew and yippeee.

About a month ago I encountered Liz Phair's "Flower". I always put off obtaining this record during high school, I knew it was something I ought to get into but never made it. It caught up with me.

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Cursory internet searches seem to indicate that there's no public consensus on the syntax of Jack Ruby's sentiment that he shot Oswald to show that Jews had guts. I wonder if there's a more direct record of him saying this, it's a quote that fascinates me deeply.