December 2008
35 posts
Forgetfulness
olderloverundercover:
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones. Long ago...
dreamache
hello-therelove:
Is this a word? Because, if it’s not, I submit that it should be. It would be used to describe that particular sense of longing one feels in the morning following a dream that has taken you some place, with someone, that you’d like to stay for a while longer; it’s that feeling in your chest when you realize it was all just a dream and you never really shared that experience...
dali time
a hammer and sickle looms on the horizon. blood drips from the sickle’s point and pools on the ground where an impaled cupid lays.
visit mom
I’ll visit mom in nyc 1/2 for epiphany. It’s an eastern orthodox thing. It’s a little early, but closest I could arrange with work.
Can I hear it from the ruthenians in the house?
hiiamblair:
Kill…me…now.
You may think it’s cruel, but I refuse.
The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain
olderloverundercover:
There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. He breathed its oxygen, Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table. It reminded him how he had needed A place to go to in his own direction, How he had recomposed the pines, Shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds, For the outlook that would be right, Where he would be complete in...
“There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only...”
– Richard Feynman
(via rlrr:livejamie:jmdj:sabrinamillis)
(via hiiamblair)
Voice always precedes touch,
A shout, a scream, a hiss,
A nervous reassurance, a meaningless invocation,
A whisper.
How many sounds do you hear
Before feeling echoes through life
With subtle, determining intensity?
“If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how...”
– Scott Adams (via rlrr)
reminiscence
Great Aunt Mary Walker, nee Tiddich, taking the subway down from her apartment in Yonkers to stay with us at the Elliott houses projects for Christmas. She’d sing songs in Slavic, bake more cookies than could possibly be eaten. Most of the cookies had what I think of as the holy trinity of East European baking: butter, cream cheese, sugar. None of that light sugar cookie stuff. This is...
http://hello-therelove.tumblr.com/post/66614195/kari-shma-49-minutes-until-christmas-in-my
Do happy things and be with people you want, or keep trying to find new ones. I’m slowly going through a frustrating divorce, still feel so out of place and awkward at 50, and am thankful for new friends and for the opportunities Chicago presents. Roll with it and enjoy the highs as much as you...
had to get out and about
You can’t pass on a 30 degree day after it’s been down around -5 and Xmas eve day added in. It sure got cold fast after 3, though.
Got sweetie Kiki pup to the vet in the morning and Dr. W. said it’s one of two fungi, one which will respond to antibiotics and will also go away completely in time and the other which the antiobiotics will kill. She’s also supposed to get...
good geography book for 5-yr
Anybody know of a good geography book for a 5 year old? I’ll work on this when I get to a faster connection. But if anybody knows of one and feels like sharing. This is for my godson in Chicago.
Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions →
frothyparadise:
(via rlrr)
Will definitely check this out later when I have a faster connection.
Watchasprettyasasong:
Vice President Cheney admits authorizing torture.
Meanwhile, back on Earth . . .: Words of... →
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S9_6SN4aMwk
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x211177
has another youtube link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RkfODFIHHHI
This floored me when I saw it on election eve.
Is imagination toxic?
I’m thinking about phases of life where people fantasize so much that they’re delusional or obsessive. Is it necessarily the case that psychoactives would be involved in the person’s past?
SPOILED →
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But you notice that, having been ceded the high ground, the cats have left the copious collection of knick-knacks alone…
SPOILED YUR DOIN IT RITE!
picture: The…
POLITICS IN ILLINOIS →
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Ok, this might be the best Blago funny so far…
POLITICS IN ILLINOIS: Where “Cell Number” on your business card has a slightly different meaning.
(Rod Blagojevich)
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double-edged razors
I just started using one this year. If you have a heavy beard and you want to have a smooth face there’s nothing better, other than a straight razor or maybe some chemical depilatory. They’re so easy to clean compared to disposables. You’ve got to relax, hurry up and slow down, and shave slower, which can be a plus in the a.m.
jimojimo : photos : Ken Derry Trump Tower... →
These are extraordinary photos of Chicago. http://hiiamblair.tumblr.com/ started me on the click through. This link’s direct.
wasaaaaaaaaaaaaaabi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve known for quite a while that I really like wasabi 1. Well, wasabi paste, which can contain mustard and horse radish as well as wasabi. It doesn’t effect my esophagus and tongue at all, goes straight to my sinuses and gives me a great head rush. This past Sunday my wife offered me her entire dollop on one piece of sushi and I snarfed it, just giving it a passing thought. Head...
Blagojevich -- Children's Memorial
FBI decided to go ahead to try to minimize chances Children’s Memorial would lose funding.
Illinois governor charged with public corruption -... →
This was just a matter of time. The FBI could have got him earlier, but just decided to wait to see how far things would go.
Home (The Word MVP Site) →
This site has geeky keyboard-based pointers for using Word. I like the Word 2007 blurb, particularly this sentence, “Many of the techniques advocated here do not work with the coming versions of Word.” There’s nothing like planned obsolescence to keep people on their toes.
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Diana Horowitz grew up here. Her Mom, Brenda has a link here.
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