I leapt across three or four beds into your arms
Where I had hidden myself somewhere in your charm
Our golden handshake has been smashed into this shape.
It's taken magic to a primitive new place
Watch 'em run, although it's the minimum, heroic
We hunched together in one chair out on the deck
In snow that froze and fell down on the modern set
It looked as if I picked your name out of a hat
Next thing you know you are asleep in someone’s lap
Watch 'em run, although it's the minimum, heroic
We quit the room Quit so our thoughts could rest
Rest them, I'll never move?
That's when we grab a hold Of whatever it is we fell into
Lousy with your content
With what the majestic cannot find In business of your lives
The perception, it is wrong, mile after mile
The phantom taste drinking wine from your heels
We have arrived too late to play the bleeding heart show
The New Pornographers, The Bleeding Heart Show
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
from Poems, partly of rural live, in national English by William Barnes
A Winter Night.
It was a chilly winter's night;
And frost was glitt'ring on the ground,
And evening stars were twinkling bright;
And from the gloomy plain around
Came no sound,
But where, within the wood-girt tow'r,
The churchbell slowly struck the hour;
As if that all of human birth
Had risen to the final day,
And soaring from the wornout earth
Were called in hurry and dismay,
Far away;
And I alone of all mankind
Were left in loneliness behind.
...as presented in Google Books
A Winter Night.
It was a chilly winter's night;
And frost was glitt'ring on the ground,
And evening stars were twinkling bright;
And from the gloomy plain around
Came no sound,
But where, within the wood-girt tow'r,
The churchbell slowly struck the hour;
As if that all of human birth
Had risen to the final day,
And soaring from the wornout earth
Were called in hurry and dismay,
Far away;
And I alone of all mankind
Were left in loneliness behind.
...as presented in Google Books
Saturday, July 26, 2008
After watching, "The Signal"
Still Wondering (Some Questions)
Who I am.
Am I who I am or just who other people think I am?
Am I something permanent or do I (get to) invent something new, every day?
Do other people worry about these things, or just me?
Should it really matter?
If I don't do anything, I'm just who I am.
Okay.
I can live with that.
For now.
Who I am.
Am I who I am or just who other people think I am?
Am I something permanent or do I (get to) invent something new, every day?
Do other people worry about these things, or just me?
Should it really matter?
If I don't do anything, I'm just who I am.
Okay.
I can live with that.
For now.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
headless: Nate Frizzell - Sketch Theater (Mountain Goats/Aesop Rock remix of "Lovecraft In Brooklyn")
Monday, July 7, 2008
SE Amateur Radio Nets
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Comments?
Trends
1. The Asian economy, itself dominated by China, dominates the world marketplace. The United States slips into second place, accepting compromise after compromise.
2. America's middle class thins as more and more slip into lower class lives, driving the previous residents outside primary markets and economy. Seeking to maintain their grasp on what little wealth and power Asia permits them, the wealthy and political classes define more and more aspects of lower class life as criminal. Law enforcement public and private is the largest growth industry in the West.
3. Middle Eastern oil-based powers see alternate energy sources and dwindling oil supplies reducing their influence on world affairs and grow desperate. While some respond with increasing support of terrorism, others fight terrorism in support of Islamic religious values.
4. Water and Food overtake Oil as instigators of war. Robots, joined by members of the poorest classes, fight these wars, increasingly for mega-corporations rather than governments.
5. Technological innovations and public demand for unlimited access to data and knowledge and for security eliminate personal privacy.
Yes, I know William Gibson wrote much of this down in the 1980s.
1. The Asian economy, itself dominated by China, dominates the world marketplace. The United States slips into second place, accepting compromise after compromise.
2. America's middle class thins as more and more slip into lower class lives, driving the previous residents outside primary markets and economy. Seeking to maintain their grasp on what little wealth and power Asia permits them, the wealthy and political classes define more and more aspects of lower class life as criminal. Law enforcement public and private is the largest growth industry in the West.
3. Middle Eastern oil-based powers see alternate energy sources and dwindling oil supplies reducing their influence on world affairs and grow desperate. While some respond with increasing support of terrorism, others fight terrorism in support of Islamic religious values.
4. Water and Food overtake Oil as instigators of war. Robots, joined by members of the poorest classes, fight these wars, increasingly for mega-corporations rather than governments.
5. Technological innovations and public demand for unlimited access to data and knowledge and for security eliminate personal privacy.
Yes, I know William Gibson wrote much of this down in the 1980s.
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