December 2007
35 posts
“This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in...”
– Alan Watts, The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Really Are
Selections From my Poetry Notebook circa 1997
i wanted to do more with my life
but i ended up just sitting in english class
chewing on my pencil
and staring at sally’s
long brown legs
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i like movies
better than i like girls
movies are interesting
and they don’t cost much.
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my mind may not work systematically
but i am still a robot
and i remember once having long hair
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today
i remember staring at the...
Post Modern Prayer
“The world is irrevocably fucked up, and there’s nothing I can do about it. So I aspire to be smart and lucky enough to acquire as much comfort for myself as possible, so I won’t have to deal. Amen.”
whispered day and night around the world to the god-head of the culture of death
hot or homeless?
vashtie: you coming tonight?
ben: i haven't shaved in a week. my hair is dirty
ben: i look sort of homeless
vashtie: that's in right now
vashtie: how hot are you. ha
ben: so hot right now
ben: check out my open sores
ben: you wanna take me home and give me a bath, pretty lady?
vashtie: hahahaha
“This is a worldview that detests anger as a motivating force, that distrusts...”
– David Brook’s great op-ed on Obama
Christmas booze melon massage times
My Current Project
My apartment. I’m currently in phase one: the purge. I’m throwing away everything I can possibly part with. This includes dozens of 80-page notebooks packed with notes, theories, and diagrams. I used to think they would one day be valuable; now I feel like they need to not exist anymore.” — jakoblodwick
my e-mail response to jakob:
be careful of throwing away all those old...
Life is an Experiment
No matter how I’m feeling, I try to remember that.
Let's Redefine "Pro-Life"
living things are flexible and supple and changing
dead things are hard and brittle and unchanging
same is true of living ideas
same is true of dead ideas
i pledge my allegiance to the former
“thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
is a disciple of death.
whoever is soft and yielding
is a disciple of life.”
- tao te ching (stephen mitchell trans)
Rove to Obama? →
chain of waste, paradigm of death
jakob and i were connecting these dots last night:
agricultural subsidies = meat and other bad food (corn syrup) is too cheap = people are obese = health care costs
oil subsidies = gas is too cheap = people drive too much = people are obese = health care costs
agricultural subsidies + oil subsidies = meat and oil are too cheap = overuse and overproduction = excess greenhouse gases = global...
Missed Connection →
At the Movies...
if I had to choose between a well-told story and a series of beautiful/compelling images, I would choose the latter.
(if I’m only looking for a good story, I can read a novel and use my imagination for the images.)
Frank Rich on Obama →
Uses of Images
Images contain information. But they also evoke emotion.
A “movie” as we have come to know it tends to be a series of images that present pieces of information in a determined order so that the story can be understood. Deciding how and in what order to present this information is an intellectual process known as “directing.”
But an image also evokes emotion. And...