Friday, November 29, 2013

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Much warmer than the real thing… #xokp...

Much warmer than the real thing… #xokp http://ift.tt/1hnF9Ry

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Don’t covet the driftwood cock. #xokp...

Don’t covet the driftwood cock.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

The light made a Celtic knot in my coffee. #xokp...

The light made a Celtic knot in my coffee.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Good to go. #xokp http://ift.tt/17MAgOs

Good to go.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

This early in the morning I can barely get past level one. #xokp...

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Monday, November 18, 2013

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

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Saturday, October 26, 2013

You can’t take the sky from me. #serenity #Firefly #xokp...

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"What do you hear Starbuck?" "Nothing but the rain,...

"What do you hear Starbuck?" "Nothing but the rain, sir."

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Friday, October 11, 2013

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Monday, September 16, 2013

Aw hell yeah! #xokp http://bit.ly/16zdRRQ

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Flowing to a standstill. #xokp http://bit.ly/15CUpyV

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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Spiderman! Save us! #xokp http://bit.ly/17wrbXb

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Monday, August 12, 2013

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

This goes to eleven #xokp http://bit.ly/1bneUoQ

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Friday, August 9, 2013

parabola-magazine: Helen KellerShe,In the dark,Found...

parabola-magazine:

Helen Keller

She,

In the dark,

Found light

Brighter than many ever see.

She,

Within herself,

Found loveliness,

Through the soul’s own mastery.

And now the world receives

From her dower:

The message of the strength

Of inner power.

—Langston Hughes

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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Watch for people crossing the street on their heads. #xokp...

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Guess who came to dessert? #xokp http://bit.ly/16SCdUd

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Out of SPACE—Out of TIME

"From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE—Out of TIME."

When I was a little kid I was obsessed with books about space. I loved picture books with diagrams, charts and maps. We had a huge atlas, so heavily cumbersome that we kept it under the couch. It had all types of terrestrial maps, but it also had star maps and maps of the solar system. I would spread it out on the living room floor and get lost in the pictures of distant worlds. Cleveland was as alien as Neptune to my 8 year old mind.

At some point I acquired a book about space travel, NASA and the like. I remember this quote. It was in the prologue. It resonated in such a way that my mind has reached back to it at random intervals since.

"From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE—Out of TIME."

At the time I could only loosely grasp the meaning. But it echoed.

Through space.

Through time.

Tonight I’m reading Joseph Campbell. He’s discussing comparative mythology, belief and the sublime. The ineffable, quintessence. Sublime. Echoes. Why does that quote still ring. The book is long gone. The quote is in my head. Is it Blake? Yeats? Google: “sublime through space time" aha: it’s Poe. Edgar Allan Poe. Twisted genius way too tapped into his own inner world to be able to handle this one.

A time capsule. A gift from a younger me. Time and space just folded over and I beheld some new dimension.

Sublime
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178357

Dream-Land

BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

By a route obscure and lonely,

Haunted by ill angels only,

Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,

On a black throne reigns upright,

I have reached these lands but newly

From an ultimate dim Thule—

From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,

Out of SPACE—Out of TIME.

Bottomless vales and boundless floods,

And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,

With forms that no man can discover

For the tears that drip all over;

Mountains toppling evermore

Into seas without a shore;

Seas that restlessly aspire,

Surging, unto skies of fire;

Lakes that endlessly outspread

Their lone waters—lone and dead,—

Their still waters—still and chilly

With the snows of the lolling lily.

By the lakes that thus outspread

Their lone waters, lone and dead,—

Their sad waters, sad and chilly

With the snows of the lolling lily,—

By the mountains—near the river

Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,—

By the grey woods,—by the swamp

Where the toad and the newt encamp,—

By the dismal tarns and pools

Where dwell the Ghouls,—

By each spot the most unholy—

In each nook most melancholy,—

There the traveller meets, aghast,

Sheeted Memories of the Past—

Shrouded forms that start and sigh

As they pass the wanderer by—

White-robed forms of friends long given,

In agony, to the Earth—and Heaven.

For the heart whose woes are legion

’T is a peaceful, soothing region—

For the spirit that walks in shadow

’T is—oh, ’t is an Eldorado!

But the traveller, travelling through it,

May not—dare not openly view it;

Never its mysteries are exposed

To the weak human eye unclosed;

So wills its King, who hath forbid

The uplifting of the fring'd lid;

And thus the sad Soul that here passes

Beholds it but through darkened glasses.

By a route obscure and lonely,

Haunted by ill angels only,

Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,

On a black throne reigns upright,

I have wandered home but newly

From this ultimate dim Thule.

Source: The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1946)

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

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travonfree: Pope gets up angrily “Bro, for the last time stop...

travonfree:

*Pope gets up angrily* “Bro, for the last time stop bumping my seat."

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

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The day after the day after tomorrow. #xokp...

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Monday, July 22, 2013

zenpencils: WHAT TEACHERS MAKE by Taylor Mali

zenpencils:

WHAT TEACHERS MAKE by Taylor Mali

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Friday, July 19, 2013

"You deal with your shit in Zen by sitting with it. By breathing right into it. You don’t try and..."

“You deal with your shit in Zen by sitting with it. By breathing right into it. You don’t try and ignore it with pleasant thoughts or lofty ideas, and you don’t try and bury it with solutions. You deal with it, you work with it, one breath at a time.”

- Steve Krieger, "Growing Ground” (via tricycle-tumbles)

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

On MLB, MVP, ALG and Cynical Contrivance

The MLB and FOXSports sure do love their storylines don’t they!? I mean who could write it better: Mariano Rivera, the patron saint of all that is right about baseball — representative of the pristine mythical non-PED game of games — earns the MVP in his final All Star Game appearance (across town at Citifield during his final season.) Oh, it’s the stuff that Disney films are made of. Cue the score…

When do you think they made that decision? I’m guessing app. 5 minutes after he announced that this would be his last season. Fox, Selig, BuckCarver, and everyone else sat around a table and said… “well, we gotta do this! What better way to show the purity and beauty of our game!" Every moment is too manufactured, too contrived for a thinking person to come to any other conclusion. What a way to take the casual fan’s mind off of the joke the sport has become.

I’m wondering what their contingency plan was…. what did Sandman have to do to not get the MVP. I’m guessing the following would have to happen:

Bean his own shortstop with a wild pitch

Pledge allegiance to al Qaeda over the PA

Strip naked

Douse himself with ultrahighproof bathtub gin

Set himself on fire

Smoke crack on the mound

If all of the above criteria were met, MLB and FoxSports would have to go with their backup plan — an honorable presentation to Derek Jeter (sure he’s not playing, but they’d be in panic mode at this point).

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