a dancing star!

The recent, indecent flurry of blogging activity can be solely attributed to the “7×7 meme”; as its waves cascade around the internet like a virulent virus bent on instigating all forms of havoc on privacy, state institutions tremble before it. Of the challenged, three have participated, with varying doses of glee and dread. Thank [...]

Autumnal birds chirping, deafening ears for good. Hah, I jest! Kin laments maternal neglect, otherwise pardonable, quirkily resolved. Superficial tomes underwrite varying worries: Xenolith’s yesterday’s zeitgeist!

An incidental gesture motions change. A pre-destined force motions change. Rochenko has memed me thusly:
Seven things to do before I die
Appropriately, much of this came to mind during today’s brush with the dental technician.

become a better person
move to Vancouver
write that book
and work on another
Serenity (find it, befriend it, betray it by trying to bottle it)
the [...]

It is curious how inertia weighs so heavily, how such a non-exerting phenomena, a mere nothingness, can extract precisely its opposite. Energia - motion and potential - gently seeps into and takes residence in our psyche during fallow periods. It is contrary, if I recall, to the lightness that Calvino and Kundera address.
Downtheinkwell [...]

innokias (adj) -
1. seemingly harmless, though only initially;
2. hipster trend, with catastrophic impact on cinema-going experience.
For example: The rise of cell-phone culture is an innokias sign of the impending decline of Western Civilisation.

Blake and I were first brought together by a shared fondness for books. He was joint-owner of the now-defunct “Blake’s Books”, an online store specialising in used scholarly books. What is startling is that our relationship has lasted the best part of 9 years, and survived (on my part) several job changes, shifts in learning [...]