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All Shook Up
So much of the complication in my life comes down to frantically trying to avoid situations where I know I will get flustered. I hate getting flustered. Flustered situations echo in my head, I recriminate for years. It's unpleasant.
That's really what I have to learn to get past: either learn not to get flustered, or learn not to get bothered by it ( Read more... ) -
A Random Dream
It was the strangest thing. Last night I had a completely random dream. Nothing but unintelligible shapes and random words strung together. It was a little enervating, the whole thing had a feeling of distress, like it should have made sense but didn't. I woke up wondering if I'd intercepted a message from space.
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Goodbye Dreamwidth, Hello Again LiveJournal
Well, after migrating my entire blog, posting my sweet "Putin Is A Gay Clown" meme here for the Russkies to find and moving over to Dreamwidth, and attempting to make my very first Dreamwidth post, I am right back here at owned-by-communist-bigots LiveJournal, like it all never happened.
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A Missed Opportunity for Accord
I had to run home from the cafe around the corner because I forgot some papers I needed to work on. As I got to my front door, there was a guy strolling up the other side of the street playing the accordion. I watched for a moment as he walked up to the corner and away ( Read more... ) -
A Grammatical Advisory
It occurs to me that "nachos" is singular, like "kudos". There's no such thing as "a nacho". -
Old Now
I went to visit a friend last week out in the Central Valley. He's living with his girlfriend and her 10-year-old son Carlo. I was apprehensive about spending the weekend with a kid underfoot but he was actually pretty cool, charming in a way. Spends his entire life in front of a screen, but often with his headset on, playing Metal Gears Killshot ( Read more... ) -
Same guy, wrong planet
Of all the daft, utterly senseless things I've heard a million people saying lately, I have to say none disturbed me more than today, when I read that Tony Visconti, David Bowie's longtime producer (!), said in an interview: "I'm looking for virtuosos like Hendrix, Cobain, and Bowie ( Read more... ) -
New Directions in Mid-life Crisis: Music As A Prime Pursuit, And Consequent Rumination
Music is realistically the only way I'm going to distinguish myself. I'm probably better at prose, in most regards, than music; but in a couple of hours you can write two or three minutes of music that will change peoples' lives. I know I have a book in me-probably some sort of abstruse treatise on life and why we laugh and why horror movies are ( Read more... ) -
A Respite
Enjoying a few minutes chilling post-chiropractor in one of my favorite little hiding spots ( Read more... ) -
The Beaked Shall Inherit The Earth
I believe after humans wipe themselves out a generation or two from now, the eventual next dominant species on earth will be descended from corvids. Most people think it'll be cockroaches, but corvids are already as intelligent in some ways as human children and comparably good at problem solving, they have the biggest brain volume per body mass on ( Read more... )