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February 20, 2010

keep on keeping on

I don't know about "always keep them guessing." I prefer "always keep them discovering."

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February 17, 2010

days in

The afternoon sun hitting the television so hard that I can barely make out what's onscreen is the world's welcome reminder that I should be outside.

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February 16, 2010

pulling teeth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge observed: "Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, And Hope without an object cannot live."

I've found that hope thrives on obstacles as much as it requires an object.

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February 14, 2010

spring romance

Few things lull me into a trance like air-conditioning in February.

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February 09, 2010

intuition, exhale

I know when I'm circling a truth because my breathing becomes shallow.

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February 07, 2010

g love

Google's Super Bowl spot has evoked cynicism in some parts; and while I'm no stranger to those parts, it evoked a couple other things for me: that scene in Vanilla Sky where Tom Cruise realizes, with a bit of Weltschmerz, that his life has become a lucid nightmare; and this passage from Bright Lights, Big City (which isn't nearly the pee-hole of a novel you may have been led to believe; that distinction belongs to Less Than Zero, a coke-sneeze it's sometimes unfairly lumped with):

"You imagine her as a child carrying a bucket of sand down to the beach. You see yourself watching from the bluff, through a time warp, saying: Someday I will meet this girl. You want to watch over her through the interval, protect her from the cruelty of schoolchildren and the careless lust of young men."

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February 05, 2010

etymology

It's not real just because you've given it a name. It's real when it does what its name says.

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February 02, 2010

self-evident

We are the evidence of what we are.

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February 01, 2010

calling it even

It's one of those neutrally buoyant Los Angeles afternoons where the air is the temperature of my thoughts and I'm not sure if the world's the dream or I'm the dream.

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