Posts Tagged ‘zeitgeist’
If you think a poet might be in it for the love of their own voice, you might be right. Which borrowed “causes” do you find the most offensive for bad writers, politicians, and other public figures to take up?
I thought I had lost everything when the market crashed, but I have not nearly lost enough. I spent a year afraid of the news. Every day turned another one of my investments into dust. So here I am; I would have to live for two hundred years to earn it all back. The impossibility [...]
You might already read Joey Comeau and Emily Horne’s webcomic, A Softer World. This is my little tribute to their work. Did you ever use a darkroom to develop photos? If I could wave a wand I might bring darkrooms back.
Have you ever spoken with someone, known someone, for a long time, only to discover it was mostly imaginary?
Have you ever wished you could feel through an airplane’s wings? Generally, do you feel like you are at a distance from the world? EDIT 1: It seems I have inadvertently drawn an optical illusion. You can see it as a portal (my intention), or as a roll of toilet paper against a pink background. [...]
I hear that one hundred thousand people pass through my metro stop every day. I stayed up last night trying to count that high. I counted for five hours and I only reached thirty-six thousand. I fell asleep as the sun was rising. I saw the dawn’s first joggers. I used to sleep with a [...]
I want to meet you without ever planning
by Somerled on August 17, 2008 at 2:09 pmI want to meet you without ever planning to meet, sit next to you on the subway and get off at the wrong stop. We’ll change our clothes, buy five dollar outfits and chase cats through alleys, steal the cameras of tourists to take pictures of graffiti, follow them back to their hotels to give [...]