Flow my blog tears, THE JO-TEL said

At approximately 5:45am this morning (Sunday) I was torn from an otherwise sound sleep by a dogged idea riding roughshod through my drowsy mind. The idea had to do with Edward Hopper’s iconic painting Nighthhawks, which you are familiar with:

Well, the idea that, for some reason, was compelling enough to prevent me from sleeping [...]

“Cold Coffee”
One time nine years ago someone removed a
Card from my bank account it was really
I don’t know it was dumb the next morning
I ate cold coffee for breakfast and dinner
“We’re on to Steve Destruction”
Absent-mindedly Steve pretended like
Well he pretended like he was going to download that album but then he just
Turned in an essay [...]

…what if, sometime between now and the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Perry v. Schwarzenegger marriage case, California was able to pass a law amending the California Constitution to allow same-sex marriage? I’ll tell you what would happen: Let’s assume the Ninth Circuit affirms (that’s not an insignificant an assumption, of course), and then [...]

For our second anniversary, Patsy arranged a trip to a mystery destination. I was told that it was “far away” and that I was driving. Other than that, the only thing I knew about it was … well … that it was a hotel and the name of the hotel because Kristin accidentally [...]

Our friend Nick checks in from Germany, where apparently he’s turned into Anne Frank.
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germany is good so far. the germans are super nice! they’ve given me and some others our own nice area where we can all live together, and they even gave us awesome new jackets with this cool yellow [...]

I wish I had never figured out that you, spindley haired beast of your lair, had never truly known love. My mirrored shield didn’t even protect me from your armoured hubris and, as a result, you proved too snakey for me, your snakes just slithering there on your head like a perm. And I sat [...]

I was busy running all over talking to people
Drinking stuff with alcohol in it and listening to
Unhelpful static I understand that you’re
Looking for an experience akin to watching
Meet Me in St. Louis for the second time which
Was the first time you’d seen a pinstripe suit or
A leisurely dinner your desk has a can on it

-Shark

Courtesy of Shark…

Introductory Remarks: Wherein Nietzsche and Kant Are, of Course, Referenced
The case of the Latin cross in the Mojave National Preserve is an intriguing one. Personally, I do not like the cross as a symbol. To me, Jesus was a human man and one of the many self-proclaimed messiahs during his time who played [...]

I was on the BART last week, emerging from the trans-Bay tunnel en route to the East Bay when, listening to The National’s new album in my noise canceling headphones, I finally understood the implications of Nietzsche’s concept of the will to power. The basic concept– replacing Schopenhauer’s denial of the will to life with [...]