one more night at the priz, then back here for a little bit of a nap (hopefully), thence to SLC, visit with some friends for a bit, thence to the airport--assuming things go according to itinerary I'll arrive at JFK around 6 wednesday morning.
anyone (of the female persuasion, please) wishing to hook up with me for any what-the-hell type erotic assignantions should respond below...
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4 days until NYC!!!!
just re-read this recently--
this man is my Hero
The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and sputtering; on every hand and far...
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this man is my Hero
The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and sputtering; on every hand and far...
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tororo:
There's no emoticon available for portraying anything resembling a "fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun"... too bad...
instead I'll use this one, which (with relative accuracy) symbolizes the way I'm cheering you with voice choked with happy emotion:
instead I'll use this one, which (with relative accuracy) symbolizes the way I'm cheering you with voice choked with happy emotion:
8 more days until NYC.
my itinerary is pretty much what it usually is on a trip--namely: get there. spend a good chunk of time just kinda wandering around, spend a lot more money than I intended to, come home.
I've tended, in the past, to spend a goodly amount of time in bookstores & bars, & I'm hoping this'll be a bit different, but...
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my itinerary is pretty much what it usually is on a trip--namely: get there. spend a good chunk of time just kinda wandering around, spend a lot more money than I intended to, come home.
I've tended, in the past, to spend a goodly amount of time in bookstores & bars, & I'm hoping this'll be a bit different, but...
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snag:
uhm....bring a warm jacket?
earplug6947:
take a picture of the huge and scary statue in front of the columbia law library?
an article from the local paper concerning an incident at the place where I work (the two-week lag between incident & story is pretty usual for this town)
(certain identifying details have been obscured. by me. so ha.)
(also, I am not, to quote Mr. Dave Barry, making this up.)
(also, the hamfisted & often incoherent prose of said periodical has been retained as printed):...
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(certain identifying details have been obscured. by me. so ha.)
(also, I am not, to quote Mr. Dave Barry, making this up.)
(also, the hamfisted & often incoherent prose of said periodical has been retained as printed):...
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ratsonjulia:
further note: "Multiple stab wounds":--over 100, the third of which has been determined as the fatal one.
tororo:
I hope you're sure having obscured enough identifying details...
nobody knows who may be reading posts on SG!
nobody knows who may be reading posts on SG!
can't think of anything to write today.
tororo:
The serial's present episode could -or couldn't- have been inspired by recent SG events.....
-hams
-hams
very, very happy right now.
barring any unforseen complications, I'll be in NYC in a little over 2 weeks.
(yes, I'm knocking on a bit of wood as I type that)
barring any unforseen complications, I'll be in NYC in a little over 2 weeks.
(yes, I'm knocking on a bit of wood as I type that)
tororo:
Dear ratsonjulia
Reading your yesterday entry made me think of small booklet (less than 100 pp) I have kept for months now next to my desk: it's called L'impensable, l'indicible, l'innommable ( the unthinkable, the unspeakable, the unnameable) by Michel Bounan. Bounan is a some sort of an outsider in the realm of French sociology. He writes very short and easily readable books (this is, mostly, what makes him such a black sheep) on such subjects as disinformation or the adequation of L.F. Cline's works with the times he lived in.
Most of the chapter entitled "the unspeakable" is about alexithymia. Quote: "P.E. Sifneos described 1973 a surprising new disease, he called alexithymie (greek a-lexi-thymia: "no word for naming the pain"). A perturbation of conscience causing " an unability to understand one's own emotions, to differentiate them, to name them": making them 'sufferings with no name'."
But the book is not about psychiatry nor psychology: the thesis it illustrates is, modern society and especially modern communication means ("today, reality as shown by media is but a gigantic fantasm made visible; the press has become the imagery system that makes visible a virtual object") cause individuals to become unable to keep in touch with their own emotions: "(...) suffering and anger becoming unthinkable things". Today's society becoming, so to say, a vast alexithymia production plant. (oh, and the book was first written in 1993: so, no mention of Afghanistan in it).
...... finally, to make it short, I don't think it's at all surprising to be embarassed, bewildered, confused, and having his throat tightened when having to talk about a subject that all media have clearly identified as one about wich all that could be said has still been said.
I was happy reading today that it's old news, and that your leave to NY is scheduled!
"New York, New Yooooork..."
--hamstersonjulia
Reading your yesterday entry made me think of small booklet (less than 100 pp) I have kept for months now next to my desk: it's called L'impensable, l'indicible, l'innommable ( the unthinkable, the unspeakable, the unnameable) by Michel Bounan. Bounan is a some sort of an outsider in the realm of French sociology. He writes very short and easily readable books (this is, mostly, what makes him such a black sheep) on such subjects as disinformation or the adequation of L.F. Cline's works with the times he lived in.
Most of the chapter entitled "the unspeakable" is about alexithymia. Quote: "P.E. Sifneos described 1973 a surprising new disease, he called alexithymie (greek a-lexi-thymia: "no word for naming the pain"). A perturbation of conscience causing " an unability to understand one's own emotions, to differentiate them, to name them": making them 'sufferings with no name'."
But the book is not about psychiatry nor psychology: the thesis it illustrates is, modern society and especially modern communication means ("today, reality as shown by media is but a gigantic fantasm made visible; the press has become the imagery system that makes visible a virtual object") cause individuals to become unable to keep in touch with their own emotions: "(...) suffering and anger becoming unthinkable things". Today's society becoming, so to say, a vast alexithymia production plant. (oh, and the book was first written in 1993: so, no mention of Afghanistan in it).
...... finally, to make it short, I don't think it's at all surprising to be embarassed, bewildered, confused, and having his throat tightened when having to talk about a subject that all media have clearly identified as one about wich all that could be said has still been said.
I was happy reading today that it's old news, and that your leave to NY is scheduled!
"New York, New Yooooork..."
--hamstersonjulia
brief, half-formed thought:
I can't talk about Afghanistan.
I mean, I physically can't talk about Afghanistan.
last night the subject came up at the prison with some co-workers (alright, I brought it up), & the same thing happened that's happened almost every other time it's come up.
& I don't know why, except that the whole subject bugs the living shit out of me, the...
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I can't talk about Afghanistan.
I mean, I physically can't talk about Afghanistan.
last night the subject came up at the prison with some co-workers (alright, I brought it up), & the same thing happened that's happened almost every other time it's come up.
& I don't know why, except that the whole subject bugs the living shit out of me, the...
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typed a whole bunch tonight about tonight & lost it.
dang.
anyway--some stuff that I came up with tonight with the typewriter going, beer nearby, WFUV (NYC) streaming & Weekly World News in my music stand:
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the arrogance of siamese twins
the shared synapses, blood vessels
grey matter overlapping grey matter
someplace in Singapore
where the lawyers are all siamese twins
& arrogant, the...
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dang.
anyway--some stuff that I came up with tonight with the typewriter going, beer nearby, WFUV (NYC) streaming & Weekly World News in my music stand:
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the arrogance of siamese twins
the shared synapses, blood vessels
grey matter overlapping grey matter
someplace in Singapore
where the lawyers are all siamese twins
& arrogant, the...
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tororo:
Oh well, the h hasn't gone in the right place.
Um.
Um.
tororo:
I made an attempt to write something vaguely serial-like in my journal.... an I realized how different it is to write silly things once in a while from attempting to write something with a special purpose in mind!
(note: if you find anything grammatically strange in it, it's not on purpose...)
As critic is much more easier than art, I'll give you my opinion about what you wrote using the " weekly world news + pack of beer" method: I adored it
My favorites being " karottenflotte bah". And 'the fucker". And "the arrogance of siamese twins ", especially these last lines I've found excellent, "& this retained, this vital-as-oxygen
arrogance".
And "the president..." And "HOW TO AVOID...." And maybe if "having stole the car" isn't listed with the favorites it's because there are many sayings in it that are unfamiliar to me and I'm not sure I uderstand. (and what's a bottle rocket?)
(note: if you find anything grammatically strange in it, it's not on purpose...)
As critic is much more easier than art, I'll give you my opinion about what you wrote using the " weekly world news + pack of beer" method: I adored it
My favorites being " karottenflotte bah". And 'the fucker". And "the arrogance of siamese twins ", especially these last lines I've found excellent, "& this retained, this vital-as-oxygen
arrogance".
And "the president..." And "HOW TO AVOID...." And maybe if "having stole the car" isn't listed with the favorites it's because there are many sayings in it that are unfamiliar to me and I'm not sure I uderstand. (and what's a bottle rocket?)
my friday night--had a long conversation with a friend in Wisconsin yesterday with whom things may be developing in an interesting direction (or were doing such, before she moved back to WI a few months ago) & she asked, nay, begged, for stories (it seems that most of the women I get involved with just want me for my gorgeous mind. dammit, don't they realize...
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a few things happened last night, but I need to go to sleep soon,--thus brevity--
first: I think maybe I should've quit the prison back in July--not for the immediately apparent reason that once the temperature starts to get really warm in August the inmates get a bit more irate & stabby, but because July, & the months immediately preceeding it, have nice short names...
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first: I think maybe I should've quit the prison back in July--not for the immediately apparent reason that once the temperature starts to get really warm in August the inmates get a bit more irate & stabby, but because July, & the months immediately preceeding it, have nice short names...
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tororo:
Thanks so much for the suggestions! And more thanks for including among these suggestions Miss Kristi Yamaguchi's come-back. I feel flatered having been chosen for bringing more facts about her to the public's knowledge.
But I have some candid questions:
- what are pixie stix ?
- what's the big eight-nine?
Remember the english language is still a rather mysterious thing to me.
Um. Interesting entry indeed. "more later".
--hams
PS. So you like seven-episode serials? I recommend you the one written by this newcomer to the site, tigersaint - an aspiring e-Shahrazad, apparently. Hope it could distract you from these household problems of yours.
But I have some candid questions:
- what are pixie stix ?
- what's the big eight-nine?
Remember the english language is still a rather mysterious thing to me.
Um. Interesting entry indeed. "more later".
--hams
PS. So you like seven-episode serials? I recommend you the one written by this newcomer to the site, tigersaint - an aspiring e-Shahrazad, apparently. Hope it could distract you from these household problems of yours.
alright, then--
back at work.
hopefully, going back to NYC (for a few days) at the end of this month.
currently have houseguest. torn between ingrained hospitality & really, really wanting houseguest to leave.
new year's was, well...something I'll be thinking about for a while. good things, bad things, scary things, hazy things..still chewing on it.
bought a guitar tuner.
aquired a new kitty.
blah....
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back at work.
hopefully, going back to NYC (for a few days) at the end of this month.
currently have houseguest. torn between ingrained hospitality & really, really wanting houseguest to leave.
new year's was, well...something I'll be thinking about for a while. good things, bad things, scary things, hazy things..still chewing on it.
bought a guitar tuner.
aquired a new kitty.
blah....
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tororo:
Happy chewing!
(and lots of other happy things, of course).
Uh-oh.... Is she your mom's kitty, you spoke of some weeks ago? or is it another one, bringing the population of the house to 5 kitties now? and you, and at least one guitar, I suppose... um.. in your own words, seems "the slots are filled".
(and lots of other happy things, of course).
Uh-oh.... Is she your mom's kitty, you spoke of some weeks ago? or is it another one, bringing the population of the house to 5 kitties now? and you, and at least one guitar, I suppose... um.. in your own words, seems "the slots are filled".