Oct 2007
- Oct 2
- movement while staying still
I have yet to determine when the ideal time to have my last cup of coffee is. I feel like if I don’t have it before 6 p.m., I’m totally going to fall asleep, but if I have it at 7 p.m., then I’m going to be awake all night.
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- el camino escondido del dios
in that space unrecognizable,
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scotomata perforating your visual fields
the mind fills in the gaps
elides the ragged, raging ends of
punctured, gaping reality
all is well with the world
as far your aching mind is concerned
ignore something long enough and
trust me
it will eventually go away
and all bleeding stops eventually - Oct 3
- el camino real (un poco y poco)
Autumn on this desert shore
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sputters and drifts, stutters and stammers
skipping/scratching/scuffing/grooving
and it’s DJ G O D in da house, muthafucka - Oct 3
- active stillness revisited
Oh her blog, S. (not S) posts this quote from T.S. Eliot:
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- desperate housewives derides philippine medical degrees
Not sure if you’ve come across the latest outrage du jour. Apparently, Teri Hatcher’s character in ”Desperate Housewives” thinks her gynecologist is a quack because he just diagnosed her with being perimenopausal, and she demands to know whether or not he graduated from a medical school in the Philippines.
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- Oct 4
- aqualung "black hole"
I swear my iPod is becoming sentient. Somehow it always manages to pick the right song at the right moment.
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- obviousman strikes again
Truism #31415: No one likes being called an asshole. Especially when they deserve it.
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- inconceivable!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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- interweaving patterns everywhere
You can always find a bit of synchronicity if you look hard enough. Also known as the Forer Effect.
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- between
writhing with frustration
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aching with desire
wrestling with indecision
still as a mountain top looming over the City - Oct 6
- forcing
Even a nuclear bomb up my ass
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might fail to move my sad sack, bloated body off of this chair
stuck stupid and slack-jawed, gaping at this screen
(to filter through reality
like stripped shorn pantyhouse in front of a sewage drain
leaving the cigarette butts and used condoms to wallow
in that sepulcher of corrugated metal and chemical despair
letting the fecophilic micro-organisms,
the rich culture medium of turd
float out in the cold of the unforgiving sea) - Oct 7
- fall from grace
I forget what exactly I typed into Google, but somehow I ended up at this archived discussion about the motif of static history in stereotypical fantasy. It’s true, Western Civilization seems to be obsessed with the idea that things were better in the past, and things really suck now. Tolkien called this idea ”The Long Defeat,” specifically referring to the Fall of the Noldor, from a state of Valinorean grace to becoming refugees fleeing Middle-Earth furtively in the night.
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- even the environment pushes back
The Lord of the Rings vis-a-vis the Cold War and the War on Terror
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- synchronicity: two is only a coincidence
I find it funny that I’ve never heard of Michelle Monaghan before, and all of the sudden this weekend I’ve watched two movies she stars in: ”The Heartbreak Kid” and ”Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang”
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- infixation
Neil Gaiman brings up the linguistic phenomenon of infixation, which is extremely rare in English, but is part and parcel of Austronesian languages.
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- visions and revisions
Gary the Tolkien Geek has been reposting blog posts that analyze the text of
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, so I haven’t tried to reread the thing itself. (Despite the fact that I’ve read the book multiple times, it’s absurd the things that I’ve managed to miss: for example, the insinuation that Eärendil’s ship Vingelot may be a spaceship or the fact that the place name Nargothrond actually occurs in the text. - Oct 8
- sun stricken
Where have I been? What have I seen?
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- unsung heroics
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- Oct 9
- michelle malkin: a disgrace to all filipinos everywhere
I have to ask you, Michelle:
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- corruption and the developing world
There is this punk on the Alibata Yahoo Group that I find myself arguing with whenever I participate in a discussion. Calling himself Malachi, he uses tactics that are reminiscent of the average troll. But for some reason, people never call him out for it.
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- rehab (even amy winehouse had to go)
OK, I’m not talking about my drug problems. I’m talking about the terrible shape my body is in.
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- responsibility
Inspired by a random blog post.
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- hypochondriosis
You would think that being a trained medical professional would make me immune to supratentorial disorders.
· Read more… - Oct 16
- there and back again
So like the absent-minded fool that I am, I left my psychotropic medications in L.A. Because of the terrible, terrible withdrawal side effects, I was compelled to pick them up after finishing work.
· Read more… - Oct 19
- again with the indecision
Right now I can feel my plasma glucose levels slipping. My liver seems to have exhausted all of its supply of glycogen or something, too.
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- back. way back.
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- Oct 21
- comings and goings
You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you came from.
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—Unknown - Oct 21
- lone wolves: a misnomer
A biography about Charles Schulz’s biography was recently released, and the blogosphere has had a field day analyzing it. While the Amazon reviewers are apparently disgusted by the dirt that Michaelis dishes up, other readers have found it wonderful to discover/have it confirmed that the creator of such a well-known cultural phenomenon as Peanuts was all too human.
· Read more… - Oct 22
- world on fire
In Southern California, autumn does not bring the changing of the leaves, nor the bluster of the cold. Rather, it brings fire and ash, as the Santa Ana winds dry out all the brush, leaving behind powder-keg conditions. All it takes is a stray spark, or the mindless malice of an arsonist, and literally all hell breaks loose.
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- the cry of the wind
Kevin Drum is incredulous about Joan Didion’s description of the Santa Ana winds. While it is probably a little over the top, there is a change in the atmosphere when those blasts of moisture-stripping wind barrel through the canyons and passes, howling and shrieking, and making your house shudder every once in a while.
· Read more… - Oct 23
- fiery rant
Leave it to San Diego politicians to turn a natural disaster like the fires that are currently running rampant throughtout San Diego County into a partisan issue.
· Read more… - Oct 23
- the time for pointing fingers, I guess
Me and a colleague speculated over why San Diego County can’t seem to protect their citizens from something as regularly cyclic and expected as wildfires. Everyone knows the drill come October. The Santa Anas come blowing in. The brush dries out. Eventually something is going to catch fire, and the fire is going to spread. Fast.
· Read more… - Oct 24
- san diego politicians make me sick
While Governor Schwarzenegger, Mayor Jerry Sanders, and Representative Duncan Hunter continue to fellate each other about what a good job they’re doing, I’d like to point out that the evacuation effort actually underscores the fact that the victims of Hurricane Katrina were grossly mistreated and neglected.
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- duncan hunter is a cunt
But you knew that already.
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- adrenalitis
It’s quite possible that my adrenal glands have finally given up. The wall-to-wall 24/7 coverage of the wild fires has worn me down. I don’t remember being this wired since the destruction of the WTC or maybe not even since the L.A. riots.
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- last thoughts for the day
As I try to clear my head from the fires, S. gets me thinking.
· Read more… - Oct 25
- unholy light
After grabbing some grub and buying more toilet paper, I noticed for the first time the unnatural, diffuse glow that seems to envelop all of San Diego. The sky is this bizarre faded and yet deep blue, like the color of the light filtering through an aquarium, maybe, or maybe more like a TV screen that’s on but without any input coming in, not even static. Or maybe more like an overexposed picture, and just as grainy.
· Read more… - Oct 27
- rails vs php
I don’t know why, but suddenly I had the urge to try yet another blog engine, even though I haven’t really hacked into SimpleLog’s internals and given customization a chance, which was the whole point of using it.
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- priestly duties
It has been about six months since the last time I had to give The Talk™. It’s not something I’m particularly good at, although I’m better than I used to be. In the end, it’s about getting to the point: your loved one is dying, and everything we’re doing to her/him is only prolonging suffering. Will you give us permission to stop these things, and focus on making her/him comfortable?
· Read more… - Oct 28
- on silmarils and arkenstones
Still reading The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff. There have been loony theories around the Internet which ponder whether the Arkenstone from The Hobbit is in fact a Silmaril.
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- us vs them
Anil Dash objects to the subtle mockery that Apple throws towards Windows, and I do see his point. It’s yet another sign of “immaturity”, in the same vein of the shit-talking found in the Mac vc PC ads.
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- past tense
As I shot down the I-5 listening to my iPod, this song came up, bringing up memories from my first year in college, way back in 1994-1995
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- changing tides
It still remains to be seen if the U.S. can be salvaged from the claws of totalitarianism, but I remember the dark days of the botched 2000 election, when the Supreme Court stripped the people of their sovereignty and selected the guy who didn’t win the election, and I remember the cynical use of the destruction of the WTC as an excuse to foment war in Iraq.
· Read more… - Oct 29
- flashback: the unit
Love is watching someone die.
· Read more… - Oct 30
- some reasons why san diego sucks goat dick
The more I think about it, the more unlikely it seems that I’m going to end up staying here in S.D. While the weather is nice and I have some connections that would make it easier to find a job out here, I think I’m just sick and tired of most of the people here.
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