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

sounds for the masses

I have sporadically recorded a good number of songs onto my iBook. Usually I would, with a cup of mint tea, sit down in front of the little hole that serves as a microphone, click the red recording button on Audacity (yes, its free) and carefully belt out one-take renditions ...

flicker

I found myself sitting in a state of near unconsciousness for much of my break earlier today. Zoned out and folded in a chair with one leg splayed out and my eyes fixated on the floor with a glazed-over stare. Occasionally thoughts would flicker through my mind like static on ...

fashion genius

Academics are strange birds. They generally have several eccentric views on obscure (or known) subjects that are either completely unknown to the majority of people, or are known but regarded as just plain weird. Along with their odd (in relation to the masses) mental behavior, they have another chief characteristic, ...

A free rock

I had an adventure last night. I am an alley-skulking, authority-wheedling, shortcut-taking rock star follower—and I am victorious. Shortly after filling up on mint tea, Matt, Garth and I piled into Garth’s ancient Volvo for our British rock crusade. Snow Patrol was playing down at the Newport and tickets were ...

hole-punched canopy

Last night was a beautiful evening. A dark, perfectly clear, hole-punched canopy to lean back and stare at, candles and fire that whispered warmly with the light breeze, and deep encouraging community and dialogue with a friend who will be leaving soon—all this propelled with the sweet force of apple ...

Deconstructive Scholasticism

From a state of bleary-eyed semi-coherence I write (from my couch) to you. I’m sick today. Anyhow, let us proceed: I’ve been reading a great deal of early modern English philosophy of late; heavy doses of Francis Bacon (Novum Organum), and Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan). This isn’t due to the ...

Symmetric

Things have finally started to slow down and get back to normal. I'm still not sleeping a great deal, but fortunately the coffee is still working (thank God that at least this drug is socially acceptable). I was kind of hoping that a rant would work its way into my ...

pow - er

The homosexual French genius, Michel Foucault, built a textual theory upon what he saw as the most fundemental thing in the world - the pursuit and possession of POWER. Of course, in the sphere of humanistic desires, his observations and arguments ring strikingly true; though perhaps he didn't quite recognize ...

vanishing evocations

I have passed through the academic valley of the shadow of death. It’s definitely good to be able to scratch things off the list; I feel free-er. One of the last things I read in one of my summer classes was a short story by James Baldwin entitled “Sonny’s Blues.” ...

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 ...
July 3rd 2008
Tags: Asides

The Fattest States in America

Another reason to move to Colorado, the home of lean, well-muscled and tan super people :)
June 30th 2008
Tags: Adventure, Stories

Flat Tires

I keep getting flat tires during my rides. In less than a month I've gotten two flats in remote sections of each ride's respective trail.  The first flat was on Three Sisters trail in Evergreen.  I somehow managed to rip a huge gash in my tube and found myself pedaling on ...