The burning rose again in his chest. An internal fire of visions unknown to the world floated behind his eyes, a fire that showed only in his slightly moistened eyes and almost hunched posture. He heard her words and managed to respond legibly, without slurring or deprecation, but the visions continued to pass. Fleeting glimpses [...]
For some reason I tend to think of life as basically a hopeful place. Like, as long as you’re there, there is some chance of things being fundamentally OK. Like life is where we are and that it’s looking at us as though to say “yeah.” Like, if you look around you’ll notice all the [...]
I had a dog named mopsy. She was old and decrepit and generally falling apart at the seams. She lived with me for some 15 years. We’ve known that she was on the way out for a couple of years now, and for the most part have come to terms with it. In fact, we’ve [...]
It’s late and quodlibetor is extraordinarily tired and instead of doing the rational thing, he has spent the last three hours molding a life less lived, shaping something that is no more interesting for the effort. A life of pseudo-reality and pseudo-friendship. The distraction provided by this life totally engrosses him. Slowly but surely he [...]
somehow i am not certain when minimalism reaches pretention, or emotion bows to obfuscation. I know that i trip over that line all the time, (q.v. trxt 11-28-04) and on the rare instances where i am not actually straddling it it is because i am forgetting that people actually have to read this tripe (q.v. [...]
Earlier there was an earthquake. Not a big one. Not even two seconds long, nothing broke. But sometimes it feels good to be reminded that everything old, and stable, and really (truly) fundamental… is just as ridiculous and shaky as two flies fucking on top of your ice cream sandwich.
Sometimes i feel like the webs [...]
my dog is crying phlegm.
his breath comes in wheezes and he cannot stand.
every time i scratch his chest or back he starts to cough.
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