Of course, everyone knows it’s probably trouble – and you can tell from the look on the face of the liquor store clerk – when you’re buying a fifth of rum five minutes after the store opens. You need that rum, though. The day isn’t going to disappear itself. Pay in cash, exit quickly. Epiphany: [...]
Clicked Special:Random at Wikipedia.org and got this: Social semiotics can include the study of how people design and interpret meanings, the study of texts, and the study of how semiotic systems are shaped by social interests and ideologies, and how they are adapted as society changes. Structuralist semiotics in the tradition of Ferdinand de Saussure [...]
A culture that just uses a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, to be manipulated by whatever creative design the human can foist on that critter, will probably view individuals within its community, and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling type mentalities. [...]
Had a neighbor who stole my mail – unknown frequency, but the bastard stole both incoming and outgoing letters. First month’s rent check never made it to the landlord. One day he left a card – addressed to him, opened – in the mailbox. Apparently he felt guilty about his felonious ways… … me, I [...]
I enjoy Don Peck’s attempt at capturing the zeitgeist of the American empire’s decline – the article over at The Atlantic Online includes more than a few choice observations and anecdotal truisms for a generation losing its grasp on the American Dream and its alternately apathetic and unprepared antecedents: Some neighbors were at the Walmart [...]
$ Lie, kill, steal, fuck, work, beg, bargain, cheat, lust for it. Nature’s order reversed: what is green and dead consumes.
Had a couple requests for features which were conspicuously absent on this site (and even a few requests to be removed from the diabolical tar pit whose administration page remains partially incomplete) – here’s what’s new: Search – Now available from the navigation panel at the left, or you can always run my favorite search. [...]
In a candle-lighted chapel, each climbs into one of the austere wooden caskets laid side by side on the floor. Lying face up, their arms crossed over their chests, they close their eyes. And there they rest, for 10 excruciating minutes. “It’s a way to let go of certain things,” says Jung, a former insurance [...]
Warning: Bricolage. Here’s a dollar – spend it on food, ok? My god is my bottle-I do what I mustMy demons are shardsOf a god I couldn’t trust- Waste Memories of the psych ward. Ambiguous confessions to murder, daydreaming, or worse. Banish them all – pursue happiness against all reason, whatever it takes. via FuKung.net [...]
Over the course of reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde I’ve decided to create a Read-along category for posts wherein I will share passages from texts available at Project Gutenberg. What’s the point? Final summation? None. Just looking to provide a few tie-ins with whatever mind I have left (as I exsanguinate [...]
