flux

hoohah and hoorah.

so, i've been back in portland for a while and feel pretty damn good about it. i've started moving in to my new place with help from that most valiant of stevedores. i got to catch a glimpse of the lovely Scylla in passing, and i'm exciting about settling down in the nest of comfort that i have built myself here....
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so, tomorrow i fly from atlanta, place of my nascence, sunny, happy, stormy home, locale of the ones i hold dear, tasty, greasy food capital of the union, to dreary, cold, wet, lonely portland, home of an abomination called "southern fried tofu" (and thusly turns great-grandma Essie in her grave).

and, strangely enough, i'm excited. what the hell is that?

i'll chalk it up to...
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flux0r on the sexiness of philosophy:
"because there's nothing hotter than fucking right after you've proven that your lover doesn't exist."

who is your favorite final fantasy 3/6 character and why?

poetry day, eh?
here's the beginnings of something. take it as ye will.
i wish that i had met you on the streets of barcelona
it's a little less hectic there than the bull-town...
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good girls run disk utility while they shower.

today, my best friend left for china, where he will be for a year. (sgsf people, this is brian who came to burrito night with me back in july). since the majority of the closest friends i've had have lived far away from me for most of our friendships, i feel prepared for the void. but it...
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NERD ALERT!

i got it with two of my best friends from high school, dave and mike. and we totally rocked out. and then we had a party to celebrate, and we found a full keg in a stairwell, but we didn't tap it. it was an interesting night and, most likely, my last party of the summer back here in the state of my...
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welp, i saw this bike is a pipe bomb last night. the venue was tiny and not air-conditioned. in the south, such things are teh death. but, me being me, and that meaning that i like it hot as Hell and twice as humid, i loved it. they were fucking amazing and fun and energetic. :dance dance:

tomorrow, i'm trucking back out to athens to...
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once, i got to look through a Wycliffe biblethe first to be made in english vernacular. to this day, that makes me tingle. it's 600 years older than i.

today, i'm going to a rare books show! hurrah!

update: welp, i'm back after a long day of drooling over a signed first edition of the man who sold the moon. it was an antique...
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amitabha here challenged me to a duel. so here you go. spur of the moment, take it as it is.

between heaves and sighs and mockingbird-cries

inchoate isotopes that we are,
thinking of God, State, and Ourselves
as pervasive and eternal as osmosis,
we are fooled. for Earth, the Universe,
in all Her glory is an entropic hag,
bending our bodies and our creations
into...
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...and obsessors, love. AVE AMOR! and flail about, y'know? glittery jumex-can icons of one another that receive candlelight and howls of redemptive passion. the devouring religion of romantic ecstasy is the only one worth my personal jihad.

and you can quote me on that. fux0r.

in celebration of poetry day, here is my favorite poem in the whole world.
this page has tarn's translation, which...
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thursday, i'm going to see this bike is a pipe bomb.
saturday, i'm going to get the crysknife. finally.

quick survey:
what should i get after the crysknife (see candid #1)?
a. the ginger set
b. lux et voluptas
c. left nipple kapowed
d. other kapowing
e. stop fuckin' up yr skinny carcass with more body mods and spend it on a plane ticket to...
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