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11.22.2004
7:48 PM >> More Sappy Earmarks

From 'Ape and Essence' by Aldous Huxley

...And we will talk, until thought's melody
Become too sweet for utterance, and it die
In words, to live again in looks, which dart
With thrilling tone into the voiceless heart,
Harmonizing silence without a sound.
Our breath shall intermix, our bosoms bound
And our veins beat together, and our lips
With other eloquence than words, eclipse
The soul that burns between them, and the wells
Which boil under our being's inmost cells,
The fountains of our deepest life, shall be
Confused in Passion's golden purity;
As mountain springs under the morning sun,
We shall become the same, we shall be one
Spirit within two frames, oh! wherefore two?

...That Light whose smile kindles the Universe
That Beauty in which all things work and move
That Benediction, which the eclipsing Curse
Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love,
Which through the web of being blindly wove
By man and beast and earth and air and sea,
Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of
The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me
Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.


 
11.21.2004
11:23 PM >> Baby Genius?

Less than a week outta da womb and the baby's already tanner than Mom.











 
11.20.2004
2:21 PM >> Life... I wonder... Will it take me under? I don't know.



My first niece ever, Danielle, has been born.
When she is all swaddled up, she reminds me of a catterpillar or some such eat-whilst-burrowing-through-the-ground type of insect.


 
11.18.2004
8:55 PM >> Two Earmarks

From 'Ape and Essence' by Aldous Huxley

...Sleeping, we cease to live that we may be lived (how blessedly!) by some nameless Other who takes this opportunity to restore the mind to sanity and bring healing to the abused and self-tormented body.

From breakfast to bedtime you may be doing everything in your power to outrage Nature and deny the fact of your Glassy Essence. But even the angriest ape at last grows weary of his tricks and has to sleep. And, while he sleeps, the indwelling Compassion preserves him, willy nilly, from the suicide which, in his waking hours, he has tried so frantically hard to commit. Then the sun rises again, and our ape wakes up once more to his own self and the freedom of his his personal will--to yet another day of trick playing or, if he chooses, to the beginnings of self-knowledge, to the first steps toward his liberation.

...Warm fragrance seems to fall from her light dress
And her loose hair; and where some heavy tress
The air of her own speed has disentwined,
The sweetness seems to satiate the faint wind;
And in the soul a wild odor felt
Beyond the sense, like fiery dews that melt
Into the bosom of a fozen bud.

See where she stands, a mortal shape indued
With love and life and light and deity,
And motion which may change, but never die,
And image of some bright Eternity,
A shadow of some golden dream; a Splendor
Leaving the third sphere pilotless; a tender
Reflection of the eternal Moon of Love


 
11.13.2004
10:49 AM >> Cappucino Bliss

Golly, Corporal, so much politics.

Alright, enough with the bad e-Gomer Pyle impersonations.

Last night I had QT's frozen Cappucino beverage. It was dannnnggggg good. I went in to have a hot cup of their Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate, but all the machines were being serviced by one of the staff. His method of servicing the machines involve banging the drink powder holders within the machine over and over to loosen the partcles. It's much the same process that people in offices use to extend the life of their printer toner cartridges because they can't read the directions well enough to be able to replace the toner when the warning comes up.

So the machines were down. I needed a fix. Right next to the hot beverage section were two perpetually spinning frozen drink stations. Had I never seen them before? They looked appetizing enough. Why had I never tried? hUm? But timing was right last night. The planets were aligned and such.

My choices were: frozen cappucino or a frozen steamed milk drink. I went for the capp. Awesome. And cheap. It is very much like Dunkin' Doughnut's Moo-Latta drink and I think DQ has a frosty coffee flavored ice creamy type drink. It was creamy. Sweet. And only costs $0.69 for a 10 or 12 ounce cup. That drink at the aforementioned places would cost over $3.00, no dought. So as far as flavor cost, it's a close battle, neck-and-neck, photo finish, whatever. But in terms of price QT knocks the other guys flat on their frozen steamers.

QT Frozen Cappucino: 7.9 out of 9 QT employees.


 
11.04.2004
2:43 AM >> WASF Pt. 3

From TBogg:

Four more years of American soldiers being used as cannon fodder.

Four more years of scientific decisions being made by people who believe in a ghost in the clouds.

Four more years of debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay off.

Four more years of racists and lunatics for judicial appointments

Four more years of looting the treasury and squandering it on corporate cronies.

Four more years of making enemies faster than we can kill them.

Four more years of fear and darkness and racism and hatred and stupidity and guns and bad country music.

I look at the big map and all of the red in flyover country and I feel like I've been locked in a room with the slow learners. We have become the country that pulls a dry cleaning bag over its head to play astronaut.


 
1:44 AM >> WASF Pt. 2



 
1:03 AM >> We are so fucked

I don’t think it is how Kerry managed to lose that is so depressing to us but rather the fact that we are now faced with four more years of the U.S. bullying the rest of the world, destroying almost all diplomatic relations (yes, I know, Britain is still our best bud—at least until Tony Blair gets the boot), letting the drug companies dictate our health care programs, underfunding education so as to fund our oil-based aggression across the globe, cutting taxes while raising spending on the aforementioned aggressions (cut your income but increase your spending, that is a sound fiscal policy), setting up our children to have to pay the bill being racked up right now, doing the sloppiest job ever of nation building in Iraq (those missing munitions were never proved to have disappeared before our invasion; most evidence points to us f-ing that up), raping and pillaging the environment in the name of corporate profits, setting people up for doomed retirements by privatizing social security, further erosion of our civil liberties, Christian values being shoved down our throats, a probable Constitutional amendment writing discrimination into law, sky-high gas prices due to the constant unrest in the Middle East, an even larger furthering of the gap between the two sides of America that is already the farthest apart it has ever been (if that’s even possible), and, last but not least, four more years of having to look at that smug, brainless A-holes goofy smirk as he sells America more B.S. and they eat it right up. And let’s not forget that this is Bush’s second term, so he will want to make his mark on history and doesn’t have to worry about reelection—the scariest combination I’ve ever dreamed of.


 
11.03.2004
6:07 AM >> Cinn Nasty Stick

OK, Dunkin Doughnuts has this nasty new item. It's some kind of cinnamon stick. I ordered it and the counter lady nuked it in the microwave. It tasted days old. And with each bite I thought that I was actually eating the wrapper. It was sick. I'll never eat it again. I should've gotten a doughnut or a muffin.


 
1:48 AM >> awwwwwwwww

It's so cute whenever the old people on the news refer to "the bloggers."


 
 
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