YouTube is, quite accurately, my latest addiction. while i don't find myself craving it, i have been signed up a little over a month now and have watched over 1300 videos. at an estimate, this is about 2 hours a day...less than some spend on tv, but i still don't know where i fit it in. ADD is good for that. i'm contemplating jumping on the ( Read more... )

this morning was filled with promising, empty dreams of death ( Read more... )

what would the theme song for the little out-in-a-blaze-of-glory end of your life be if you had to choose one right now?

this week, mine would be Weapon by the Matthew Good Band.

floyd-esque overtones in the intro. safe, poppy lyrics and carrying tune, but dark-edged enough for me...they remind me a bit of Live the more i've been listening ( Read more... )

i always manage to keep perspective on my own problems by looking at those of others...though i think it makes it harder sometimes to deal with what i see are the *easy ones* when anyone else is involved...

Like the pink, plastic barrette 10-year-old Jasmine Lombard found on the dank carpet of her flooded room. It's the kind sold by the dozen for ( Read more... )

i'm at the tail end of a long week and the partial upswing of a short bout of uneasiness with my personal state of things. i'm really hoping my mood stays good for tomorrow. unfortunately, i've been waking up in the mornings after not-really-nightmares that leave me with no real desire to open my eyes to see if the world really exists any more, ( Read more... )

ok...

i was listening to Pandora and a cover of the Stones Wild Horses came on. i was thinking to myself, "meh", as it wasn't anything new and i've heard many better versions. but then i started remembering things i associate with different versions of it and it got me thinking, though, that it's actually one of *those* songs that can drag up ( Read more... )

i'm honestly curious about the results of this. if you're going to do this, do the part outside the cut first and then the part behind the cut afterwards. if you decide you can't be honest about it then don't respond, cause i want truth and details ( Read more... )

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after dinner at my parent's house last night we got talking about conjoined twins. quite an interesting topic to speculate on. eventually i wondered...

Poll joined at the hipyou can read more about the particular twins mentioned here: Read more... )

i finished The Collector last night. amazing. i loved every second of it. it was a perfectly rendered snippet of personality reality. i can't wait to read more Fowles. that puts me at about 18% of my reading goal for the year...video games and teh intarnets are still winning, but i'm gaining. i've been slacking on languages. i don't have a ( Read more... )

earlier, cutieyum posted a link to this article earlier, wherein it is stated:

"If you listen to the rhetoric of the pro-life movement, a two-month-old embryo has the same moral status as a two-year-old child. However, if the South Dakota legislature truly believed that, it would have made the women who have abortions subject to prosecution for ( Read more... )