Muse
Yes, I’m using Twitter to maintain a token thread of activity. Yes, this is a “Golly, I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while, but you wouldn’t either if you had as many lesions on your fun parts as I do” post. Not wholly, but partially. Yes, it’s just memetic; you’ll find [...]
Why Puffing Out Your Chest is Always Puffing Out Your Chest
I was watching a French black & white movie tonight, and in the introductory scene, a young rebellious hipster poet assures his friend that he doesn’t want to become a famous poet. He wants to remain anonymous. I found this a curious statement.
On [...]
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu
The First Step
I’ve developed a crude toolbox of gimmicks and half-formed heuristics for my interaction with the world. I’ve raised my hands at some firmamental ghost(s); I’ve wondered if the trees weren’t telling me secrets they’ve kept in the deepest of their sweaty roots; [...]
Would that there were a curious boogie man of convenient construction, vile enough to be a lightning rod of our fears and angry rebukes, sweet enough to offer safe haven for the friends we won’t see anymore. A creature, in short, onto whose shoulders we can heap the vast coldness of reality in whatever [...]
A friend told me once about his friend the meteorologist. My friend asked his friend if meteorologists could predict weather better than is commonly thought, and the guy said, “Well, yeah, we could, if we could find a starting point.”
The planet is engulfed in a swirling game of tug of war, and there’s a sense [...]
When you relish the salty flavor of your post-nasal drip, it’s probably time to eat a sandwich or something.
Me, c. last Saturday
I’ve been sucked into a nearly overwrought discussion about, initially, Occam’s Razor, and thereafter what its use says about belief without evidence, and the like. There aren’t many people with whom I can carry on like this in-person, so I for one credit the current iteration of the internet a philosophical boon.
My most recent [...]
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