Struck just now by a memory of my mom, on my prone dad's back, popping pimples. How fully is my sense of love informed by those private scenes. The simply inclusive power of the tactile. The mundane intimacies whose warm windings resist morals and grotesqueries.

I've spent hours looking at stuff on YouTube. Most recently researching Parkour. I love the element of urban reclamation, dynamic and fluid adaptation to obstacles. There are a bunch of kids into it for the acrobatics, but some of the older guys seem to flow through it like a discipline. Hot ( Read more... )

http://www.fugly.com/videos/5131/dog-riding-a-bike.html

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Now I can't sleep.

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

We got the Church and will be moving in the beginning of next month. I'm supposed to be working, but my insides are a'quaking.

This is my favorite Craigslist spam artist. There's a series that never changes, but keeps recycling. The style is meandering, troubadourian. Stories that in trying to assert the woman's authenticity become increasingly unreal. Also, there's probably a language gap:

( knock dead attractive )

I was gonna write a post about identifying this mood or tone I've been in for maybe years now. A post about attempting to be authentic, and dismantling maybe too many motivations and/or at least their manifestations to their inauthentic cores. Maybe this began in earnest with Hellerwork. Maybe Eliade really sucked the wind from the sails in ( Read more... )

Very nice few days. Walked around behind a minivan from the passenger to driver side. There was a bumper sticker with either police or military related shields, and the words "Judge me by my actions." As I came around the driver's side was open, a man's ass was all that was clear as he climbed into his seat. He let out a great series of farts ( Read more... )

Tonight I was the only one yoga-ing in the living room of the house where I go to yoga. Asking the instructor for some variation I got a lecture. He seemed, as he often seems, more concerned with being a teacher than what is learned. So I refused to do well to secretly invalidate his method of instructing ( Read more... )