Never read it before today. Lovely gem.

Admonition

If you dissect a bird
To diagram the tongue
You'll cut the chord
Articulating song.

If you flay a beast
To marvel at the mane
You'll wreck the rest
From which the fur began.

If you pluck out the heart
To find what makes it move,
You'll halt the clock
That syncopates our love.

Why the hell does a movie review have to make me feel more like crying than going to see a movie?

"We tell ourselves childhood is a time of joy, of play, of wonder. We tell ourselves that because, if we didn't, the pain of childhood, in our memory, would be unendurable. We spend childhood at the mercy of large, distant adults who define a ( Read more... )

"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear-fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer ( Read more... )

p. 180, Chapter 9

“In a symbiotic relationship, each symbiont must be capable of metabolism and reproduction, but the degree of dependence in some relationships is such that one symbiont cannot live independently. This may have been the case with Proterozoic symbiotic prokaryotes that became increasingly interdependent until the unit could exist ( Read more... )

I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin' changes
learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers
and that's how it's supposed to be

We gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we ( Read more... )

"In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual. The ontogeny of an individual is not considered ( Read more... )

Now a level 50 lock with a felguard. Is it nerdy to want to do it with your demon?

You know how sometimes when you start to miss something, you might wonder if you have something of it left somewhere, like in a picture, but it's funny, when you look, it's pretty hard to find. You start rummaging through everything in hopes that maybe it'd be there, even if it was just in the background of the focal point in the image or something ( Read more... )

I like to torture myself by venturing to places that I know will hurt. I hate to know that assholes are succeeding, but I plant myself around their prospering life.

Last night I realized that music is the only thing I know of that still blows my mind constantly. Of course, I can sit and look at tilemen and be so utterly dismayed by how they work, and later wonder how roads were created over normal land, and how virtually everything on the planet was created from something, and have it blow my mind, but music ( Read more... )