January 2010
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Yesterday I e-mailed Jared to tell him about this project I read about called the 24-Cram. It’s where a group of people, who are clearly and wonderfully insane, write and perform a 10 minute play…
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Thirds →
I took this photo over the Winter Break. It’s one of my favorites that I’ve taken all year - those lines between water, earth and sky, man between them all, seem like are a story in…
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What the Living Do
What the Living Do
Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some utensil probably fell down there. And the Drano won’t work but smells dangerous, and the crusty dishes have piled up waiting for the plumber I still haven’t called. This is the everyday we spoke of. It’s winter again: the sky’s a deep headstrong blue, and the sunlight pours through the...
This is just to say. . . →
This is just to say that even if it looks like I have a bottle of human blood on my desk, I do not. I won it in a contest on Geekadelphia. The bottle, that is. Not the blood. Of which…
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Allowable Blood Loss Calculator →
This is exactly what I needed for my story. Brilliant!
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What Angels Wear
Angels wear white.
Angels wear the blood red of martyrs. Angels wear the blue of a summer sky. Angels wear plum, amber and emerald . Angels wear wings on their shoulder blades, sharp golden wings to catch sunlight, to blind, to cut, to kill. Angels wear roman robes, angels wear blue jeans, angels wear fur.
Angels wear leather jackets and ride motorcycles. Angels wear pale diaphanous strips of...
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The Way Out of the Arms Race
Evolutionary Arms Race
In evolutionary biology, an evolutionary arms race is an evolutionary struggle between competing sets of co-evolving genes that develop adaptations and counter-adaptations against each other, resembling an arms race, which are also examples of positive feedback.[1] The co-evolving gene sets may be in different species, as in an evolutionary arms race between a predator...
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Stockholm Syndrome
In the final analysis, emotionally bonding with an abuser is actually a strategy for survival for victims of abuse and intimidation. The “Stockholm Syndrome” reaction in hostage and/or abuse situations is so well recognized at this time that police hostage negotiators no longer view it as unusual. In fact, it is often encouraged in crime situations as it improves the chances for...
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56 Days
Regulations in the United States allow people to donate whole blood once every 56 days.
A blood donation equals approximately one pint of blood. The average adult body has 10-12 pints. The vast majority of people will not feel any different because of the donation. A very small percentage may experience temporary dizziness, but some rest and fluids will help you feel better quickly. Your body...
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Lima Syndrome
An opposite version of Stockholm syndrome called “Lima syndrome” has been proposed, in which abductors develop sympathy for their hostages. It was named after an abduction at the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru in 1996, when members of a militant movement took hostage hundreds of people attending a party in the official residence of Japan’s ambassador. Within a few days, the...
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Failure Pile In A Joyful Bowl →
At the beginning of the month, I set out to write a short bit of fiction every day. I’ve utterly failed in this. Here’s how it went: Day one, I wrote a story. Day two, I wrote a story and a little…
New Years Resolutions
Now is usually about the time when people start to give up on some of their New Year’s resolutions. It’s because of this that many people don’t think that resolutions work - that people will eventually return to their old ways, and that it’s useless to make them.
Personally, I believe that a time of year when people examine their lives and consider what they’d like...
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Fuel
Poets, good poets, are the prose writers fuel. It’s the gas in our tank, the water in our mouths. It doesn’t matter if it’s dead dinosaurs or new sunlight, with power like that I can write for miles and miles.
Zoom. Zoom.
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Triptych →
I’ve submitted these three photos to a self portrait contest that is sponsored by “Artist’s Wanted”. I love each of these photos, and I could talk about them for days. I wanted to choose…
