i never wanted to achieve anything, not without her ( Read more... )

I got back from choir practice that March 3rd and was exhausted from having eaten nothing while going through a voice lesson, choir practice and a performance at Mass, a piano lesson, and a good 3 hours in the Practice Room trying to get another piano piece started ( Read more... )

I'm tired. Fought with The City and lost. It was for me like Ali/Frazier the second time. Never knew how Ali beat Frazier, really. Frazier landed punches that could have overturned an aircraft carrier ( Read more... )

An open letter that I should have edited:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/fishrobot/2005/12/16/

I once attempted to start a fictional blog about a terrorist hunting CIA agent. It didn't quite work out... I ran out of material rather quickly. Here's one thing from it that did go well:

At the MallSunshine filtered in through the part of the mall with a glass roof. It was very hot outside during the lunch hour, and I was certain that most of ( Read more... )

The other day I was thinking about the incredible number of girls and boys I've met who have never been yelled at in their lives ( Read more... )

"I have been terrified for young Uyghur mothers who become pregnant when the Chinese government say they shouldn't; and I have been horrified when their pregnancies have been forcibly terminated. I have been terrified for the Uyghurs' ancient culture; and watched horrified as the Chinese authorities have stooped to burning Uyghur books. I have been ( Read more... )

http://www.incharacter.org/article.php?article=32

This is a gorgeous meditation on the relation between art & politics, and I do not want to comment any more, because I want you to be free to make up your own mind...

"Our American shallowness is spelled out in Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, with its "politically usable and intellectually dubious truths." The truths that Jefferson declared with "passionately rational certitude" were made politically usable by Madison, a much wiser man who did not share Jefferson's certitude. The cause responsible for ( Read more... )

This could be the most evil thing ever, but I love it:

http://nytimesweddings.blogspot.com/2005/06/bloomsday.html

(I would imagine it speaks for itself, no?)