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For The Dead Travel Fast
There's an odd vibe amongst my friends here this week. Nearly every casual conversation has reverted to the nuances and dynamics of interpersonal relationships-of personality versus "essence", of personal accountability, of projecting our desires and failures upon others ( Read more... ) -
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Houston is good ( Read more... ) -
It's beginning to look a lot like Houston
What a sublime weekend.
It saw the Remanifestation of the Dark Crescent Pylon, a sizable Yule feast to accompany it (with contributions from all), a Sunday night Buffy-thon, and later last night, a jaunt over to Havok, which effectively undermined what little sleep recovery we* gained earlier in the day.
(* - we being: halo_ov_fire, hespeth, and yours truly ( Read more... ) -
December
1. It's "whoa" cold today in Houston. I'm not complaining; I'm observing. I wanted to wear a sweater today and Houston obliged, with interest ( Read more... ) -
Crescentwood
I have always associated monarch butterflies with some blurry semblance of "home" and good luck. When I was a child, it seems Southern California was blanketed with them. I recently learned that monarchs are the state insect of Texas. Strange, that. They always felt like "California" for me ( Read more... ) -
Breathe
This morning I stepped out into an October I had nearly forgotten in all the distance I’ve put between myself and Southern California over the years.
No sooner than I had locked the front door was I startled by a heartfelt fall breeze, cool and exquisitely melancholy.
Mina and I then stopped for a pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks before driving into ( Read more... ) -
Homecoming III
New Orleans still has a pulse, but it’s been years since I’ve been plugged into it. It shows in the near comical contrast between myself and other evacuees here in Houston. They can’t wait to get back; I can’t wait to see their backs. The idiotic pride some of these clods take in their contrived “uniqueness”, i.e. their unabashed lack of social ( Read more... )