( I sent a menacing message on facebook today. )

( 'Special Glasses' by Billy Collins )

"We in the first world cannot continue to isolate ourselves in our wealth and good fortune. If we do that, those who feel dispossessed or excluded will come to us, in a terrible form."

_Karen Armstrong (The Spiral Staircase, 2004)

Cute...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA

A fight over a fish mural has landed in federal court ( Read more... )

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Persuading patients to accept free help was difficult sometimes. Debts based on friendship are debts to be repaid. If you are not in a position to return a favor, you are reluctant to accept it -- like the old man who entered my office with a fast-growing tumor on his palate. The moment I saw him in his sheepskin hat, leather boots, and ( Read more... )

The next time I visit Tampa, I'm playing poker at a casino. Hopefully with Kristen. I don't care either way for the game, but I do care about honing my poker face. It's an early step on my way to becoming a professional bad ass. Slash mathlete.

Feeling pretty shitty about date number four. I guess that's over with. It's time for a little Elvis and a lot of Buffy. Maybe some hot chocolate in the morning.

I was so looking forward to companionship. From someone kind. It would have been a nice change of pace.

I met a guy who on our first date brought up zodiac signs. And other xenophilic ideas. But this is JP, and if you aren't familiar with the two initials, know it is the capital of funky love and progressive ideals. The city is beautified by frequent murals, like the one of boobies across the vet hospital. If I tell you that a man by the name of Tea ( Read more... )

Currently most boring topic in the news: the slip-up and re-do of the first oath. There is no news here. None. Zippo. Currently most disturbing commercial: Comcast's genetically-modified, hairless rabbit wearing turbo jets and a man who also looks like he's been genetically-modified, but I guess it's just the caffeine. Eew ( Read more... )