5/2/09

I hesitate to long
To move along
From where I am but don’t belong
To where I wait too long.

5/1/09

The dandelion exists to be puffed away by the idle child. A species’s reproduction enables another’s.

4/30/09

“You see her / You can’t touch her…”

I fought this fight for over 5 years.

“…Never / Come back here again…”

4/29/09

”Inside this box is a vial of either a deadly poison or a vital antidote.”
Schrödinger’s deathtrap: you are simultaneously alive and dead.


A younger, squasheder-headed Calypso.

4/28/09

Scientology is as valid a religion as Neoplatonism and as valid a philosophy as psychotherapy.

4/27/09

It’s either allergies or swine flu.

4/26/09

One shouldn’t need to convince oneself that the correct answer is to spend a gorgeous afternoon lying in the park. For nature isn’t a jerk, passive-aggressively blaming others for its own failings.

4/25/09

On a scale of 1-10, with

1 = I hope you have an excuse for not seeing this so I can stab you and steal your excuse to get out of attending;
2 = I've seen better performances put on by KARL and MPR;
3 = it might be a decent play but it stands for everything you loathe;
4 = flip a coin;
5 = if you can get in for free (and I know you can), go for it;
6 = yeah, it's worth seeing;
7 = yeah, it's worth seeing and I'm not just saying that because the PAD has a gun to my head and is telling me to tell all my friends or they'll shoot please tell my sister I love her;
8 = I feel your aura would appreciate it
9 = seriously, see it, and talk others into going;
10 = I will hunt you down and kill you if you do not attend;

where does Mother Courage fall?

4/24/09

Partial attendance counts.

For such a small person, you cast a huge shadow.

4/23/09

Oppression is a plague, but you take it out of your own cup.

I don't need friends to do the job of enemies for me.

4/22/09

hm I already picked up mail today.
The postman always rings twice?
Is that by Hitchcock?
I was going to say Norman Mailer, but that might just be Postman -> Mailer.
I just thought Norman Bates, but that’s Norman Mailer -> Bates.
And Norman Bates -> Hitchcock.

4/21/09

Free cone day. The best things in life aren’t.

I’d like 0 orders of beef lo mein, but without vegetables. And hold the rice, but make it brown.

4/20/09

Obama and Chavez shake hands, and diplomatic, economic, and geopolitical stances are all hyperexamined as part of a new era.

Obama and Chavez shake hands, and thousands of miles away I have to look up a book (“Open Veins of Latin America”) risen to #2 on amazon.

“It’s the same old song…”

4/19/09

“And flew back to Phoenix to finish the year as it started…”

Rising from ashes, one line traced from the previous to the next, a trail of dactyls leaping forth in rules of 3. That’s the limit: it can’t be the same, it can’t be any more. One knows exactly where one is, what one looks like, and can tell it to anyone one wants.

Mario 1, not 3: you can’t go back.

“…When I said, ‘I hate what I've become’, I lied: I hated who I was…”

4/18/09

Why would I ever not get the confetti.

“This is like an experience I never had.”

4/17/09

Chocolate goat cheese takes exactly like you wouldn’t expect, because it tastes exactly like chocolate and exactly like goat cheese.

4/15/09

“Today seems like a good day to burn a bridge or two…”

Sometimes the realization of finality just explodes like microwaved water.


“…Nothing to see, show’s over: people, just move along…”

4/14/09

“The third one is when you want something overpoweringly <grunt>. The second has the hotness of Eowyn. And the first one is the first one.”

First and foremost.

Pirates 3 was no The First One.

Shrek 3 was also no The First One.

4/13/09

Apologies for the childishness, but it is intended in good fun.

This is EmpTyger. I'm being... vigilant.

4/12/09

Watched Sunshine Cleaners. Pathological liars trying to find honest work.