Lisa and I recently came back from a trip to the desert, Southwestern US to be exact, and Northern AZ to be even more specific. As usual Lisa figured out all the logistics in advance and the trip itinerary was chock full of natural wonders. We flew into City of Sin, Las Vegas, and spent a night in a shamelessly over the top hotel, stuffed our faces ( Read more... )

Updating this on Thanksgiving cause I've got a bubbling writing fever and there's no where else to splooge stream of conscious ruminations,..at least not without heavy editing. Plus, I don't have to endure obligatory "I'm so thankful" posts, nor the predictable politically correct (and factually correct) finger-pointing at Christopher Columbus et ( Read more... )

Rattlesnake Won't Shake ( Read more... )

Livejournal is too daunting and I know I will end up writing too much->pushing beyond the initial creative impulse->copying and pasting the entry to notepad, where it can be promptly forgotten. I only used to go on Facebook to post thoughts when I was pretty drunk, and then I just stopped going on there altogether to write. Sometimes I write on ( Read more... )

To go to Japan (finally) and not make a Livejournal update would be a terrible thing to do. Anyone who still pokes their head in here from time to time can probably recall when I was semi-obsessed with everything Japanese. A cursory look through 2003-2005 archives reveals lotsa wishing to visit and/or live in Japan. There is too much to say about ( Read more... )

I am only updating because I saw Leon Sadler's post on his Facebook linking to shis recently updated livejournal. It is very hard for me to update it and it has little to do with moving on to and becoming familiar with more convenient platforms. Nearly everything I write in my own privacy is delayed and stunted by word choices, over-analyzed for ( Read more... )

Because I am in the midst of a writing frenzy it feels necessary to post on Livejournal. Entering into any kind of creative "frenzy" seems to occur less and less as I age. This thought makes me incredibly upset, as I do not find lasting pleasure in many other activities. Most of my euphoric memories are related to maniacal spurts of creativity ( Read more... )

It is not about living in a bubble but rather about not living with thoughts immersed in the representation of reality, or as I often have referred to it, "consensus reality ( Read more... )

Christmas Meditation ( Read more... )

Sometimes I want to react to things with you [the Internet], but I remember growing up with the rise of mass-produced personal computers connected to the web. I distinctly recall the wise meme, "never reveal your true self online." I also think of how much I revealed on Livejournal about myself, at the time I was either, or both, a)more naive, b) ( Read more... )