December 2008
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Check: I'm Still Alive.
The family has barely started arriving, and the Mystery Relative I was not supposed to know about is coming in tonight with everyone else. I used to think I would want to immediately leave and return to my solitary dwelling of paint and music and too many written and unwritten words, but now that I’m seeing the people I haven’t in so long, I’m starting to remember why I love...
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Forget Kodak Moments.
“Camera-maker Polaroid has filed for US Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid allegations of fraud by the founder of its parent group.”
I’m sorry, I don’t speak BBC News: my all-too-beloved Cambridge-based Polaroid camera company has been owned by Petters Group Worldwide for the past three years and unfortunately the head Goomba, Tom Petters, is being sought out for...
If there is anything you know you can do
you had better think again.
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Faux I.
My flow of thinking has been consistently interrupted by procrastination and the background noise of the television [which I never leave on or watch that much at all, but he who sits unfortunately in the adjoining room doesn’t understand the concept of focus] - except I momentarily have stopped working in disgusted awe because this has just come in:
Kraft now makes all-natural cheese.
May...
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I Am Not A Ghost For Nothing.
There is such a thing as having phantom limbs - when [after losing a limb, or not even being born with one] your body can still feel and sense it. For example, if you lost your left hand and your brain was convinced you hadn’t [and instead had a “phantom limb”] you may still feel the pressure on your finger of a ring that is too small - even though there would be no actual finger...
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Deck The Halls & Pack Your Bags.
I cannot fathom the thought of seeing family I haven’t seen in years. For almost an entire week. All in the same place. There is no way I can stay. Right now in my life, I have more work to get done than I have ever had, and that is because this work is going to futuristically-speaking pay my bills. I need to sit down and get it done. That won’t be possible this month. I’ll just...
STEP ONE:
Deep breaths.
Just because you think it’s true, doesn’t mean it’s actually true.
Quit thinking.
Replaying momentous occasions, hand-in-hand, will not put your hand in anyone’s hand.
Just accept.
What is has happened and what you need is just want.
Learn already.
I don’t think I ever will.
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Monday Muse XI
I don’t think it’s as...
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How Old Am I Really?
“…Then out came the Spider, with Finger so fine, To shew his Dexterity on the tight Line. From one Branch to another, his Cobwebs he slung, Then quick as an Arrow he darted along, But just in the Middle, — Oh! shocking to tell, From his Rope, in an Instant, poor Harlequin fell. Yet he touch’d not the Ground, but with Talons outspread, Hung suspended in Air, at the End of a...
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Trash is Treasure.
The other weekend, when I was out-of-state, I had picked up a secondhand copy of Live’s Throwing Copper album [where I could finally rip the latest Monday Muse from]. With that, I also picked up secondhand copies of albums by artists I’ve never heard of before: The Promise Ring, Adorable [a British band], and Huffamoose. These were all simply dated albums [a couple with their faded out...
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MONDAY MUSE X
This is probably the only song ever...