flux kyla summoning_song trees of valour, stones of wit; clouds cohere, and stars omit, where the words have disassembled, find the one whom luck resembled. ... (effectiveness not guaranteed despite cleverness of rhymed couplets) 040117 ... lotuseater did any of you watch that cartoon show AEon Flux? it was by peter chung. i loved that show. i own all of them on video. 040119 ... delial catching flies with her eyelashes longlimbed erotic dangerwoman; aeon flux rocked ass. 040119 ... trevor goodchild clean gloves hide dirty hands. and mine are dirtier than most. 040120 ... flux i should at some point acknowledge this post, but i've been too busy playing midnight_scrabble, night after night after night... 040121 ... crOwl right on. 060305 ... . . 060430 ... your turn soon to work on the blather_red_book! 071113 ... jane still need your address...? 071113 ... flux jai. sorry. i've been too busy to play with blather in a little while. thought i'd hear from you if it was time cuz i always post my email? send me a note and i'll write back. ~ 071113 ... jane hah, i've gotten so used to that being the wrong email for others... well i hope you don't mind waiting a bit, i am enjoying working on it. i will send you an email though. 071113 ... icle fun jane, please can you pass my spade, its next to your bucket. 071113 ... crOwl "he's from brooklyn," she said. "he's a bookworm?" he asked. 071213 ... PeeT is that really you? this flux? 5lowershop? where/how have you been? 130205 ... PeeT some men dream of fortunes others dream of cookies 130206 ... flux yus, twas me, i still come back here maybe like once a yearish. it's about that time that i need to partake the therapy of blathering into the void. 140705 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I like your blathernym. The word flux reminds me of ebb and flow - more in meaning than sound - plus fluctuate, which I always used to pronounce flunctuate. Flunk has a miserable meaning, failing floppily, but it sounds a lot nicer than the un-fructive first syllable "fluc," which is like f flicking into luck and saying "Fuck_you, luck, I'm majorly screwing up your euphony." 140728 ... e_o_i Also hello. 140728 ... flux /flʌks/ 140728 ... flux i've had a long-standing adversarial relationship w/ names, which i'm not going to go into in full at the moment. flux has been my tag in the meat world longer than it's been my online handle, but it's the only name of any kind i've ever really felt fit. and it's vague and general enough that i can incorporate all my other names up into its mythology without much work. 140728 ... flux (note: i ditched gmail years ago; write here if you want a valid contact) 140728 ... e_o_i Sure! - sorry for not bumping against this sooner. I've enjoyed reading snippets of your experience and thoughts. The wordplay I can relate to, though as for life-slices I've never been much of an ascetic or a hedonist. Hm. I guess to categorize you as either (or in flux between the two) based on snippets you've written here would be stupidly reductive, and you can laugh at me for suggesting that. Names. Labels. It's a little disappointing that people are supposed to have so few. I came up with "epitome of incomprehensibility" when I was 17, then stole the name Anna Livia Plurabelle for my dark side a couple years later when I realized I wasn't, actually, incomprehensible. It's tough to be a teenager and realize that everyone understands you. And the words in quimporto were muchly amusing. 140821 ... flux re: quimporto; like hakin_bey, i dream to live in a linguistic world in between chomsky and burroughs, where we're simultaneously aware of the form of language as well as how it can be warped and abused, for art and amusement and additional awareness. 140821 ... flux re: asceticism and hedonism, i'm glad you wrote those words, as it makes me stop and think. i once uttered "there's no such thing as too much moderation!" as i tried to take in some intoxicant, while intending to say the exact opposite. i failed in ingesting it though, proving my point (though to no one other than myself). more seriously, i'm reminded of siddhartha by herman hesse (which i hated when i read it), inasmuch as i feel the need to constantly push my boundaries for Something while trodding along the_path. 140821 ... flux immunity 140822 ... raze good to see you back around these red parts. 210208 ... raze i came here to say, "it's so good to see you here," and then i saw i said essentially the same thing the last time i saw you here. but that doesn't make it any less true. 220510 ... e_o_i *waves* I have Siddhartha now, but I haven't read it yet. I don't know if I'll like Hesse if he's too serious, but I loved the surreal subtle humour in The Glass Bead Game. It's funny, you're one person I could reasonably pin down as "oh, they know things about linguistics" years before I started formally studying it. 220511 ... flux oh, i loved the_glass_bead_game. i think my dislike of siddhartha is mostly based in reading a sub-par translation (it kept too much of the writing style of the original german - e.g. a run-on sentence with 7 commas, 3 semi colons and an em-dash). also reading it as an assignment vs. for fun (for academic decathlon). 240517 ... e_o_i It was the opposite for me with Heather O'Neill's Lullabies for Little Criminals: I read it unprompted and found it just okay; the second time, when it was required class reading, I loved it. But maybe that was just from noticing more things on a second reading. I still haven't gotten to Siddhartha. 240517 what's it to you? who go blather from