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Ok, I was just squeeing some more over VM w/salience and he was amused at my postulations, but refused to tell me anything ( Read more... )

Ok, I know I'm late to the party. For the record, I knew I would like it two years ago when I caught part of an episode, but I never caught up with the first two seasons and I didn't want to miss out on the total beautiful novelty of the unfolding. Then it turns out starling321 and rws1st have it (of course), and, well, you know ( Read more... )

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Last week, instead of unpacking the balance of my apartment in SC, I skedaddled off to Greenwich. It's great to see such a previously spartan canter enjoying his earnings and his living space more; he now lives on the first floor of a beautifully renovated, well-lit house of hardwood floors, marble kitchen counter-tops, light-wooded cabinets... a ( Read more... )

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A little delayed in mentioning, but...

Last Wednesday I went to go see the Canadian Brass Quintet w/tildedave and his friend J. They were a fun group, with what I'm sure is their trademark sense of lightness, shown by: white sneakers with their matching suits, slightly-better-than-NPRish-style humor between sets, and an abridged act-and-play Carmen encore ( Read more... )

Soldiers and women. That's how the world is. Any other role is temporary. Any other role is a gesture.

'Will you kill people, Henri?'
'Not people, Louise, just the enemy.'
'What is enemy?'
'Someone who's not on your side.'

...the dominoes, where skill is paramount and chance is there in disguise ( Read more... )

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire --
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

The third hell of Dante's Inferno exists to punish those whose greatest vice, while on this great earth, was lust. Souls who embraced their desires, overcome by passion. Wanting, needing, and above all, going after their needs and desires - even and perhaps especially above, over, and against more reasonable, balanced judgement.

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I am too tired to give descriptive details now, so instead I shall spam you w/pictures:


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