in_light_of_recent_tragedies lycanthrope i think the video music awards shouldn't play thirty times in my house even when the TV's off. And they should go back to the 80's and retire words like millenium and human spirit. They throw away words like love. Don't just give back to the philosophers our hard earned momentary stays like Aha's "Take on Me." Fit history into that song. I've done it. It's satisfying. In light of recent tragedies- people should stop being cultural. Stop wearing condoms, i mean burqhas - i mean just stop being. In light of the fall, perhaps we shouldn't celebrate spring. Recent tragedies you know? like that whole thing before the big bang, and all the lonliness outside the universe. That's all the religions mean when they go on about virgins. And they do go on about virgins, and unicorns too sometimes. Less recent tragedies too though, the burning of Carthage. razed! great works and not so great works all smelled the same to those barbarians with their dull tongue hissing "smells like victory." And i heard the story, but who's ever died for math? Good thing we're better at building now. what else are we better at? I can't wait till we fill our potential! we can become so meaningful we're gone. It's a lot of work carrying out the universe's appearance of indecision - from bubble pop to snap to well we've only got probabilities so... full speed ahead? is slow down as big a fallacy? well it has to be testable! hmm dr. white gloves? what next? mmm scalpel mmm chapel mmm adam mmm atom. "we lost another one" "well we'll value it so much we'll learn from it" "the crying mother in the waiting room doesn't want a lecture doctor." "she's just doing what comes natural" "well then why lecture?!" "it comes naturally, listen, send her something personal like his heart, the rest we'll donate to humanity" . . . In light of recent tragedies, lovers please stop loving, poets please stoep doing that with words. from now on, one word will suffice. in light of recent tragedies, maybe we should see other people, go out for coffee every now and then because you make my judgments seem arbitrary and you know i hate it when you do that! let's not make this about boys and girls! you ask a guy how much sex he's had and was it his mom or his dad who told him to bring exponents into the answer? God? "worship me with lies" "my dick is .0000001 miles long and has homing capabilities as well as long range possibilities, also it gets cable" yowwww can i get a social norms catcall? gender stereotypes changin? boooooooo to that. ummm i mean...boo hoo...i'm sad too. in light of recent tragedies, shouldn't we listen to more techno? with all of it's monotonous excitements and emergent qualities untill it's all just too much information. like when my friend told me about the first time she squirted. thanks...i was saving that desensitization for my thirties. techno disco is it. did it suck when the sixties weren't the end of the world? when paradise coming meant only that each day was as difficult as it had been before. and i don't blame anyone who took the easy way out. there's so many new easy ways out. and you wouldn't even notice a war anymore, if it weren't for all the older folks who sit at home and play chess and think about each move for hours while listening to npr. it's easier to ask if it's worth it being a human it's easier to ask if we should seek truth unequivocally than it was for plato rex etc. etc. and it has new meaning. and the philosophers and scientists and artists are all like...well we knew it'd come to this... and they say go to the neighbors and ask if we could borrow some and they all say sugar at the same time. but everyone knows britney spears is the sugar queen. okay so you'd think it'd be harder to ask those questions. but you don't know how hurt i am. in light of recent tragedies, if a building should say, collapse beneath our feet, shouldn't we enjoy the ride, people pay for that feeling, but it's free without the parachute. see, you can leave the earth briefly, but it costs to get back on. in light of recent tragedies, shouldn't we become our enemies? shouldn't we hate ourselves? shouldn't we make an accident purposeful? like compassion is? 020906 ... eklektic my sister came to visit from chicago. from chicago...on the same night you didnt pick me. its ok. goodnight austin. 020906 ... reitoei you can now buy commemorative fill-in-the-blank's for only 10-100 times what it cost a chinese laborer to make. wear your generic, factory-made, tearful, enforced memories! stock up for yard sales! be proud to be an american! proud to be a slave to fear, commercialism, and paranoia. fight abstract nouns!! 020907 ... jane lycanthrope that was one of the most awesome pieces of writing i have ever read i just wanted to say thank you 020907 ... silentbob we lived through another day and its a good excuse to celebrate let's celebrate mediocrity, apathy, and entropy not only will the revolution be televised, it will also come with free t-shirts courtesy of whatever network wins it over. Fox. Abc. Nbc. Cnn. msnbc. MTV. i'd like my apocalypse gift wrapped please, in red shiny paper 020908 ... lycanthrope aww shucks. in light of recent tragedies we shouldn't give credit to individuals anymore. thanks though. hmm i wish i could add something though. after where it says from now on we'll only use one word. i think i'd put a line that says existence or something. or maybe that's too strong a plea for the overall plaintive laugh that is the rest of it. anyways. thanks. 020908 ... jane no problem...keep me updated 020909 ... u24 lycanthrope I came here via 'go', and unlike most times, when I scroll down and down from past to present, for some reason, your words caught my eye, and I read. Then, when I'd done reading, I scrolled down and saw that jane had already said what I wanted to, so, all I have left to say is, I second jane. 031104 ... marked . 031104 ... lycanthrope thanks. if i was confused then, it only worsens with each passing day, but we try to graph out our thoughts...i hope i helped. 031104 ... 24 I thought you'd left. (or perhaps you are a pseudonym?) hmm. 031104 ... stork daddy see...with more organization to this site...you'd know via all the aliases i've ever whatever'd on...that i'm also stork daddy, werewolf, knot meat, knot me, lobsterman, curious king george III, happy mom dolphin, knot me...am i leaving any out? in light of recent tragedies though, i think i need a new one. 031104 ... werewolf i've just cheapened this blathe 031104 ... king kong NINJA i'd say` 031104 ... book of eris i want this close and don't know why. 031104 ... oE i read this 031104 ... ClairE You ought to come here and kiss me right by the hip, following the curve, your lips against my skin. Touch is like eating, eyes are like clapping and jumping, your eyes on me is like laughing. Smiling is like kissing and the pillow is your_smell. Don't you see that the way your head bent into mine is what won't fall away? Don't you see the way the heart rises, chests rise and fall, time itself raises higher and higher? Don't make me sing you the explanation. 031219 ... celestias shadow lycanthrope, that was absolutely fucking amazing. I'm speechless. 040202 ... . wow 040414 ... egger (i just printed this the other day to keep it. and you say you don't know what to publish. silly storky.) 040415 ... marked . 060309 ... werewolf wow. i actually still feel the same way as i did when writing this. 060309 what's it to you? who go blather from