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Insomnia #1637

Friday, November 14th, 2008

The sleepless nights are painful, though I need to catch up on my insomnia…
Insomnia: metonym for the clarity of perception which arrives when the brain gives up pursuits aetiologic and starts choking down unfiltered reality with willful abandon. Glutting on ideation which lacks the quality assurance of a well-rested perspective may result in paroxysms of [...]

Insomnia #1635

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Pay no attention to the spiders - that was not a spiderweb, you did not walk through it, there are not spiders in your hair and they are not building a nest.
This is not a universe of negation. Meaning does not exist outside of itself. You are not the one attaching meaning to this. You [...]

Animal Consciousness

Monday, October 13th, 2008

This is relevant to my interests.

[Animals] lack a symbolic identity and the self-consciousness that goes with it. They merely act and move reflexively as they are driven by their instincts. If they pause at all, it is only a physical pause; inside they are anonymous, and even their faces have no name. They live in [...]

Seeking

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

What is the soul of seeking?
In its heart of hearts, what is the seeker?
What is the act of seeking in relation to the one who seeks and that which is sought?

Nondescript Citizens

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

The Nondescript Citizens project began in 1999 and ended at some point in 2000. Fortunately, some materials survived.
Visit NondescriptCitizens.com to download “Community Agenda” in its entirety or check out The Proletariat Dream for the only pre-Operator Speaking spoken word which I recall performing (taped telephone calls should not count).

Insomnia #1611

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

This is how I start thinking after missing a few nights’ sleep.

No, Crystal, NO!

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Surrounding asbestos once was woodIntentions perhaps counterpoising those noble and goodA drunk tackles his woman in the streetConclusion: “Fuck this neighborhood”

Managed not to write anything for the past week, waiting for the hammer to come down with the thugged-out highschool dropouts who jumped me last weekend. Between the ASP baton I picked up and my [...]

Attempted Robbery + Assault = Felony

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Apologies if this post features poor grammar, word choice, or spelling. I just got mugged by a couple thugs down by the 7-11.
What happened?
I was walking up to the local 7-11 at around 1:10 AM. Some guy was yelling “Hey, your sister is hot” at a couple walking down the block. I figured “Hey, we’ve [...]

On Dealing with Manipulative People

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

A wise piece of general internet etiquette reads: “Do not feed the trolls.” One would do well to remember this…
… but what of the petty, manipulative people you meet in your everyday existence? What of the pathological liars, the drama queens, the shifty gossips, and the parasitic leeches who pass themselves off as salesmen?
I do [...]

Acquiring All Knowledge versus Specialized Knowledge

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

At some point in time in history it was possible for one man to know everything that the human race itself knew - one man may have been able, over the course of his life, to read everything ever written by humanity.
Now, with the advent of numerous languages and innumerable writers, it is simply impossible [...]