tags: chance

Random Chance strikes again. (In the end, I suppose it all evens out, and nothing changes. It sort of frightens me thinking about what sort of horrific situation I’d be in if I didn’t have this meager sort of luck.) If I had met him just a couple of years ago, I would’ve been a writer for sure, damn the consequences.

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November

2001 Nov 10

Whelm

Neither under or over.

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2003

July

2003 Jul 3

Fatal Exception Error (Shut It Down! Shut It Down!)

At some point I may require some Haldol.

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August

2003 Aug 24

pool and blackjack

A dream about chance, wagers, and Charles Bronson.

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2009

February

2009 Feb 28

retrospect

In these silent moments, I wander my thoughts
the wrack and ruin of the years gone by
the tumult and the despair
the small victories, the trifling triumphs
in all this havoc, I marvel at
how Time consumes possibility
like a ravening beast, it rends apart Chance
rasping the meat off its bones,
reveling in blood and spent breath
and inevitability is what it excretes
Fate is the spoor of Time

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2010

April

2010 Apr 14

life? don't talk to me about life

The other day I was eating by myself at a restaurant and happened to overhear a heart-to-heart conversation between (two people who I assumed to be) a father and his teenage son. The father had (something like) this to say:

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