Posts under ‘musings’

Ganked from from Neil Gaiman’s blog, because he is much more skillful at this than I:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or [...]

There are times when you just have to face the facts of a situation, and cut someone loose.  It could be a friend, a relative, a co-worker; it could be that you’ve grown apart, that you never had that much in common in the first place, that you’ve grown weary of the one-sided nature of [...]

A few years ago, my brother emailed me an mp3 file about the different ways that word fuck can be used in the English language, as noun, verb, adjective. In the audio clip a man with with a very strong Indian accent discussed the word fuck in a very deadpan manner much to the delight [...]

today kind of reminds me of the last part of a cartoon my younger brother once sent me:

Well, that sucked indeed.
A family emergency with the in-laws hit today, a fairly big one - my mother-in-law suffered a major stroke. I spent most of the afternoon and evening thinking about that fateful time when the kids [...]

Deep breath.
Release.
Saturday was awful. No other way to phrase it. Really, there is no other way to describe a funeral for a young person. The Buddhist ceremony was long, and I lost track of how many times I cycled through grief and anger. Lost track of how many times my heart broke for her stricken [...]

I wrote this on the way home on Sunday. I did not intend to post it; I just wanted to get the words out of my head.  But it seems that this is what I want to say, rather than the usual kind of trip report.
From the plane, 12/14/08

I’m facing home. I’ve watched the scenery [...]

Believe me when I say, there is nothing quite like the feeling of waking up after a good night’s rest, sipping coffee, then glancing at the cell phone to realize it was on silent mode all night and you missed a Dial-A-Shot from the delightfully bendy and smoochable BWoP. Damn!
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Ran some errands with Keith this [...]

The meeble of the cat wanting food. The whirr of the coffee grinder. The whistle of the kettle just on the boil. The sound of downtempo chill from Groove Salad through the bedroom speakers. The rattle of the blind being raised.
These are the sounds of my morning. And today is a pretty good morning. I [...]

It wasn’t a bad beat that’s turned me off online poker for a while, but the realization (again) that it makes me a little crazy. And I don’t need the help. The hormones doing a nice job all on their own, thank you very much. Fucking middle age is killing me. If I’d known just [...]

Last night I had my first real nightmare since I was a kid.
I’ve had scary dreams, surreal and wierd wonders that haunt me all day. I awake from them puzzled, wondering what oddments lie in my subconcious self. They’re bizarre, yes, but I can usually pass them off as eating dairy products too close to [...]