Six O’Clock Vintage

Seek those images that constitute the wild, the lion and the virgin, the harlot and the child. Find in middle air an eagle on the wing, recognize the five that make the Muses sing. | W.B Yeats, Those Images

Surrealism and Squirrels

I was browsing through my site statistics for today when I noticed something remarkable. I've had some fairly interesting links to my site, but the following Referrer might quite possibly be the most hilariously random thing I've ever encountered. I had a link to my site from a yahoo search ...

Fake Plastic Guns

I just saw some random kid walk past through my front yard with a plastic gun grasped firmly in his right hand. He must be after some other plastic gun-toting neighbor-kid gangsters (or perhaps Indians). I don't think there are that many things better than a neighborhood plastic ...

drifting

Just in from sipping a cup of steaming chai and letting the cool night breeze caress my face. It's good to be alive and have a lyric echoing in my soul, for a chair and violins and Mr. Yeats himself gave themselves to me little more than an hour ago. I ...

All that’s best of dark and bright

Lord Byron has captured another soul. The following poem has been a favorite of mine for some time, but it took me a while (too long) to explore and indulge in more of Byron's beautiful lyrics. Don't make the same mistake, you can begin your exploration here. She Walks ...

Bob

jimi made several requests before he embarked on his great western adventure. One of them had to do with Bob. Bob ate a couple of rats about a month ago and is due for a bowel movement. jimi was hoping that Bob would do his business before ...

the sad, still music of humanity

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with a couple of Sunday morning band mates. Calling it a conversation may actually be a bit of an exaggeration, because the interaction was only maybe two minutes and then we had to go on stage. But nonetheless, I’ve been thinking about what we ...

The Centre Cannot Hold

I've been completely uninspired towards blogging as of late. I don't even feel like it now, so here's one of my favorite poems by Yeats: The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy ...

Sweat

All sorts of randomness waiting to come pouring out of the tips of my fingers. I ate some donut holls the other day and then rollerbladed and ran and biked every last one of them to death. It felt good. Then I donned some dirt-caked work gloves and pulled countless ...

September 17th 2008
Tags: Literature, Poetry

Phantastes - a brief review

After reading George MacDonald’s "Phantastes" it is clear to me why CS Lewis chose MacDonald to be his Virgil in "The Great Divorce."  "Phantastes" is truly one of the most remarkable works I have ever read.  Overflowing with rich imagery and lyrical finely measured prose (along with some superb longer ...
August 27th 2008
Tags: Photography, Politic
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Live at the DNC

Since Monday I've been hanging out downtown Denver and covering the DNC.  I've met some really cool people; in addition to bloggers and writers from Momocrats, JackandJill, Green Mountain Daily, Huffington Post and other places, I've had a chance to meet and talk briefly with Katie Couric, Senator Ken Salazar, ...
August 13th 2008
Tags: Asides

“You’re a Phony, a Big Fat Phony! Hey Everybody, He’s a Phony!”

I know that China is the home of iPhone rip-offs and lead-filled Colgate, but it appears that their duplicity and fakery  don't end with electronics and domestic household products. China admitted faking the opening fireworks of the Olympic Opening Ceremony as well as faking the voice of the cute little singer ...
August 6th 2008
Tags: Asides

Mountain Lion Drags Dog out of Owner’s Bedroom

Crazy story, this is a small front range town just southwest of the Denver area.  I go mountain biking in this area all the time. A mountain lion slunk into the master bedroom of an Idledale home early Monday, snatched a yellow Labrador retriever and vanished. Officers are hunting the mountain lion ...
July 14th 2008
Tags: Tech

iPhone Apps

I spent the weekend at a cabin in the mountains and so didn't get a chance to download the the latest iPhone software update until late Sunday evening.  After a frustrating flurrey of "restore, verify, restore" proceedings I finally was forced to delete by back up and do a full ...