I have a couple of long entries waiting in the background, one mostly-written, both fun in different ways, and also there are some I did in OD that I should crosspost to LJ... but something else interrupted me two evenings ago ( Read more... )

Did anyone go see Let The Right One In? I'm telling you... :o)

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This is going to be one of those things that's trite and obvious except that it has teeth. ---> Living in a complex society, writing randomly online, and living in a complex society that is undergoing a complex crisis period all have one thing in common: There is a ( Read more... )

I've written very little this January, haven't I? Well, I'll have to fix that.

Before we go on, may I very strongly recommend the movies City Lights and Modern Times, by the great Charlie Chaplin ( Read more... )

Or something. Not everybody is a @#$%&* goldfish!

From the Telegraph:

Otto the octopus wreaks havocLast Updated: 12:22PM GMT 03 Nov 2008 ( Read more... )

It would be nice to think of something beautiful to write right now.

It is terrible to be alive, and look around and see color and hear the sound of a fan and know the shape of a moment, and not be able to pass it on. Here. I found this. It was real. I am real. You are real.

It's a sunny winter-end day - which makes such a break in the sequence of gray days that it alters the mood remarkably.( Read more... )

An important thing I've learned over the years has been to not let go of oddball questions. The old ragged encouraging saying, "There are no stupid questions," has always been not quite right, and we all kind of know it: there are some stupid questions, and you never know for certain whether your question may be one of them, until afterward. But ( Read more... )

I said in my last entry that I would repost one of my old entries from my first diary next. (I would like to get into a pattern of reposting more of it. Some of it would be the first time I had written about things "out loud", and it shows in interesting ways, interesting to me anyway.)

Here it is.

Rain-shadows: strangely quiet controversies - ( Read more... )

I had intended to write something more about the Max Hardcore/Paul Little case that I wrote about here. ( Read more... )

(Going to cross-post a couple of entries that I wrote in OD, up to current; I fall behind in crossposting to LJ...)"It's a long way / to Jubelale..." I can't resist singing it, whenever I am tossing down bottles of Jubelale, the seasonal beer from Deschutes Brewery. (And I never sing it normal, either; it's always this very bad Welsh male voice ( Read more... )