last night I had this tiny dream. Or, less a dream than just a simple picture that manifested in my brain as I was napping. Just an image of the ground seen from perhaps 18 inches away- about like if one were kneeling and looking down.

dark dirt.

Loam, if you know that word; it means dirt, but really good dirt.
except look:

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and the days, they sail away like living in a boat.


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sometimes we remember things wrong.
for example, the following ditty:
lean to your left;
lean to your right.
Stand up!
Sit down!
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!was misfiled in my brain, under "Vonnegut, Kurt; (Kilgore Trout ( Read more... )

(fast forward to the present)

I got a lil' ol' mp3 player for my birthday from my parents, and among the songs I immediately dropped onto it was the following gorgeous tune by Fred Thomas. I saw Fred play last year at a friend's house, and I bought the (as it turns out tour-only) CD which contains this song. When I tried to look up the lyrics ( Read more... )

After you die...
Parallel Universe

After death, you will continue to exist as if nothing has ever happened. You will continue to be yourself, but because you are in a parallel universe, some things will be different. You may not have married the same person, you might live in a different spot, but you will be the same person underneath it all ( Read more... )

realize the sun doesn't go down- it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round.

Not such a big breakthrough, this¹; seemingly.

But it hit me at some point that this simple truth is possibly among the most important ever. It is part & parcel to the old geocentric vs. heliocentric debate [which sadly only "most thinking people" { ( Read more... )

I just got back from the friendly and nice downtown providence federal building. I had been to that location several times in the past, like for example in 2002 when I actually filed my tax return, because I had been for-real employed rather than "non-employee compensated" which most potential payers want to consider me (since the government ( Read more... )

I wrote this like in april or something, but never posted it yet. (or did I? I can't find it in my own archives, anyway.) Here is the second half.

This morning I was sitting downstairs (where it's warmer) watching mr rogers, who at that moment was talking about how mad healthy it is to have a daily stretching routine, which same conclusion I had ( Read more... )

The concept of "day off" is different for a person who is self-unemployed; I wonder if people with trust funds or who otherwise don't need to generate income share this... well, this ennui, this sense of having to play along with everybody else's patently ludicrous misconception that this day is different from that day? My bet would be that most ( Read more... )

today's word is "recombinant teleology".

its two words, I know... roll with it. seriously.

oh, also, I'm not going to tell you what they mean!

(how's that for "mean"!) [cymbal crash denoting terrible pun]

also, since I've been leaning heavily away from images lately:


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