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volkov:
I don't know. I never even learned to ride a bicycle until I was almost old enough to drive.
but I don't take the kinds of chances on a motorcycle that I do on a nonmotored bike. I understand what's at stake.
I push it every once in a while, but the thing with a motorcycle is...the speed...you have to crash into something or WANT to throw the bike over for it to go. they are designed to hold themselves up at speed and most have a good amount of leaway. if you learn and ride like you don't necesserily want to die...you should be fine.
I don't know about LA. the traffic is insane there. but it's also got good weather for all year riding and lane splitting is legal in CA, so traffic jams on the freeway won't have to get you down.
after I learned to ride I spent a couple weeks only on surface streets, not even major thouroughfares...just side streets. then a couple weeks more on the bigger streets before I got on the highway. and the thing is...other drivers aside...the highway is the safest place to ride.
I say give it a shot. if you take the MSF class you'll walk away with enough saddle time to decide if you really want to pursue it or not.
but I don't take the kinds of chances on a motorcycle that I do on a nonmotored bike. I understand what's at stake.
I push it every once in a while, but the thing with a motorcycle is...the speed...you have to crash into something or WANT to throw the bike over for it to go. they are designed to hold themselves up at speed and most have a good amount of leaway. if you learn and ride like you don't necesserily want to die...you should be fine.
I don't know about LA. the traffic is insane there. but it's also got good weather for all year riding and lane splitting is legal in CA, so traffic jams on the freeway won't have to get you down.
after I learned to ride I spent a couple weeks only on surface streets, not even major thouroughfares...just side streets. then a couple weeks more on the bigger streets before I got on the highway. and the thing is...other drivers aside...the highway is the safest place to ride.
I say give it a shot. if you take the MSF class you'll walk away with enough saddle time to decide if you really want to pursue it or not.
------inspired by Xip's essay------
i think i started because i was so drained of emotion and felt like i still had something dangerous, something poison in me which needed extraction.
i continued because i liked the scabs.
because i was cold and drunk and boring...somehow razors and pain and oozing made me interesting to myself. human, intricate and mortal.
because, later, i hated everything...
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i think i started because i was so drained of emotion and felt like i still had something dangerous, something poison in me which needed extraction.
i continued because i liked the scabs.
because i was cold and drunk and boring...somehow razors and pain and oozing made me interesting to myself. human, intricate and mortal.
because, later, i hated everything...
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reacher:
You have a career in pulp novels ma boy. You should publish some of that shit; people would buy it.
reacher:
i haven't a damn thing to complain about with my life at present, so why this unease, the malaise, this unsettling feeling of barely contained acrimony?
"Unforeseen joy never enters a sad heart without disturbing it."
--Violetta, in Verdi's La Traviata
"Unforeseen joy never enters a sad heart without disturbing it."
--Violetta, in Verdi's La Traviata
do you ever sort of wish you could wake up sometime else, someplace else, and as someone else? i'd settle for that, even if it wasn't as Tyler Durden.
i haven't a damn thing to complain about with my life at present, so why this unease, the malaise, this unsettling feeling of barely contained acrimony?
i haven't a damn thing to complain about with my life at present, so why this unease, the malaise, this unsettling feeling of barely contained acrimony?
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reacher:
Buck up, sad sack. Wanna trade lives for awhile? I'm starting a life exchange program. 
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volkov:
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zephyra:
journal
few things come even a little close to this mad, maddening love for my pirate, but hearing the smile in her voice when she's excited and twitterpated and giddy with hapPy feelings...well that comes in a close second.
finch:
sap 
there comes a time in every man's life when he is consumed by the calamitous desire to spend obscene amounts of hard-earned capital on an elegant, sleek, understated, immaculately tailored black suit.
accompany this with a straight-razor shave, a few bottles of embarrassingly expensive champagne, and a somewhat murky, half-suspected desire to explore this rising dark tide of ...something...
...a set of cold, stainless steel...
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accompany this with a straight-razor shave, a few bottles of embarrassingly expensive champagne, and a somewhat murky, half-suspected desire to explore this rising dark tide of ...something...
...a set of cold, stainless steel...
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arachnequarius:
then i am intrigued. 
roxxee:
Wow, that sounds completely awesome.
i drew little curly-cues in the bricks with me feets, sloshing my way under the thick green trees back to Ryan's place and humming under my breath, wishing i was piggy backing you. stumblefumble, i fell asleep on the selfsame couCh you and i had burgers and greasyfries on. Ms Cleo claimEd your spot, curled in the crook of my arm and shoulder...right where your...
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reacher:
Dreams have always been an escape for me. I was lucid at a very early age, before the term was even coined.
Doing formal research is a good idea, but I don't think I want to share what I've found, and will find with the world. There are some things I must keep for me. To be honest, I don't think it's ready for that, either.
Doing formal research is a good idea, but I don't think I want to share what I've found, and will find with the world. There are some things I must keep for me. To be honest, I don't think it's ready for that, either.
maurauder:
my computer and yahoo are having a disagreement of epic proportions. call me?
i feel as if there's some sort of gag, bitter and black, shoved in the mouth of what creativity i was previously able to draw upon. if i knew the how and why of it i'd certainly spare little time getting it fixed.
so, for the time being i'll just use pretty pictures and ripped lyrics in lieu of what i've seem to have, for...
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so, for the time being i'll just use pretty pictures and ripped lyrics in lieu of what i've seem to have, for...
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reacher:
Pfft. Pussy-whipped lil porch monkey. 
cheech:
Don't sweat yourself, piratelover.
If writing was easy, there wouldn't be 8 billion trillion shitty books, magazines, and lyrics all around us.
If writing was easy, there wouldn't be 8 billion trillion shitty books, magazines, and lyrics all around us.
Tool's idea about my future adopted home, Los Angeles:
nema
Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks
Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking...
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nema
Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks
Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking...
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wendy:
that song is nice to listen to when utterly shit-canned.
is the cheese feta? i hope so. it shouldn't be anything but. maybe colby-jack. but honestly, it should be feta.
is the cheese feta? i hope so. it shouldn't be anything but. maybe colby-jack. but honestly, it should be feta.
darklis:
That's my favorite song. 
I never fuck with a man's dream, especially when that dream is one I share. It's no secret why I tucked my tails and ran for engineering school as a wee lad. I was hiding from what I know I was meant to do. Still am. I hope that will change soon. So I understand, believe me.
i know that'll get your back up because i know you're all about pursuing things without hesitation, but some of us weren't born demi-gods, my friend.
You might be surprised about me. The things I write about that give you this impression, I write for myself, as a reminder of what I need to do, or should do, not what I have already done, for the most part. I am about pursuing things without hesitation, but that doesn't mean I am there yet myself.
Your writing "reads" very well, which is very important. It flows. Like a wordier Chuck Palahniuk, or perhaps a more visceral Alice Thompson. Whether you will ever will a pulitzer prize or not I'm unsure, but I truly think you could publish and probably make some money on this stuff. I think it would sell.
The good thing about writing is that it never dies. You have the rest of your life to find your fire, and so it doesn't hurt to build of a stockpile of words now, while you enjoy writing for writing's sake. Emily Dickinson is one of the most lauded poets in history, yet she never published a word of it while she was alive. It's an extreme example, but the point is; write now, because you can't not write, and how you share that with the world will unfold in due time.