Last weekend a  distant cousin of my GF died, and I decided to go with her to the funeral taking place in a mystic location called Watonga, Oklahoma.
.A place that was so quintessentially "Middle America" it could serve as an illustration of everything that is right and wrong about the US


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 A great story from my Nebraska trip.

The town of Grand Island was first settled by Germans. Like most Americans, they  took pride in their heritage, and preserved the culture and the language of the land they came from. One of the oldest buildings standing in the downtown area was a German Friendship Society.

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Oxytocin is a very dangerous drug.
No, not oxycontin, the "hillbilly heroin".
Oxytocin is the drug that among other names has been called "the cuddle drug"., and the love hormone.  If you know anything about life, you know that love is the most dangerous and addictive thing on Earth.


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For a long time my friend Brian and I talked about the fact that certain languages seem to work particularly well with certain styles of music.

German is natuarally the language for industrial music. We even wanted to do a fake German industrial band, even though neithert of us speaks German.

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Threnody

Lilacs blossom just as sweet
Now my heart is shattered.
If I bowled it down the street,
Who's to say it mattered?
If there's one that rode away
What would I be missing?
Lips that taste of tears, they say,
Are the best for kissing.

Eyes that watch the morning star
Seem a little brighter;
Arms held out to darkness are
Usually whiter.
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 While Browsing the forums of Barbelith Underground, I came across a thread for abstract discussion of Happiness & Sadness.


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