do you think that kundera's passages on bowler hats in unbearable lightness of being had anything to do with magrittei'm trying to figure out if this is one of those cultural references in literature that for years i don't see and then one day i realize (like finally getting the belle and sebastian lyrics in "like dylan in the movies" and feeling ( Read more... )

Last night I was the only person in the subway station for awhile (granted it was late on a Monday night). I ended up having a nice long conversation with a (perhaps bored and lonely) MTA custodian (janitor? what's politically correct here?). We talked about the wind in the station (and what it does with trash), how some of the homeless people are ( Read more... )

does the phrase "true digital reality" really make any sense? it doesn't to me. commercials are weird.

carbon units

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why do we always end up back in the same spot (that spot where we are unsure of what to do next)? rereading my old journal entries, rereading friends' old LJ entries--we are never satisfied. we change apartments, change jobs, change cities. what are we looking for? what will make us happy? settled? do we move on because we have to? because we don't ( Read more... )

Interesting bit about discovery of 10th planet on PBS the other day ( Read more... )

In 1957 the Game and Fish Commission of Tennessee and the National Park Service decided to “reclaim” Abrams Creek for the rainbow trout, a non-native species popular to fishermen. To this end, workers poisoned the creek with Rotenone in an attempt to kill off the less-popular fish native to the creek. They succeeded in killing most of the species ( Read more... )

Here’s a nice little anecdote to get you through the weekend ( Read more... )

Fidel Castro-the evil of my childhood (along with the U.S.S.R.), until Saddam Hussein replaced him as the most-talked-about bad guy (we always need one)-has temporarily stepped down as president of Cuba. This child of the ‘eighties, for one, senses another victory over those darn "commies" close at hand. Oh, how things have changed since then, ( Read more... )

my to do list just got crossed off down to just one thing. that's not possible right? i can't have done everything i need to do.