i have run across a dear old friend on the sea of the internet. it looks like k aka body holliday is making music again. just ordered the cd…can’t wait…i’ll be stocking the mailman for days now. how i miss the days of hearing pumkins and kristian’s guitar in the room next door.

the last few days have been spent with the parents. funny to spend days in the environment i grew up in. at my own home, i have a futon that is about as comfy as a slab of concrete. here, it is waterbeds everywhere, baby. the beds o water feel so soft and cuddly when […]

i look forward to riding the train. musical headphones while the world passes by. for me, train rides are dream states that consist of my vision and sounds. fellow passengers are scenery that i rarely want to engage with. this train ride was vastly different, yet equally dream like. i parted from my usual self […]

was in the library briefly today..hanging out in the fluff section. i perused a classic on the short history of psych-omushrooms and a thrilling picture book of royal vacations. i got this short piece from one of them.
stace’s nine fundamentals of mystical experience:
experience of unity
experience of timelessness and spacelessness
sense of having encountered ultimate reality
feeling of […]

one year a ago today, march 20. i found myself at a war protest today. i cannot recall an experience such as this to date. consider: no tear gas + no damage to the city. admittedly, i did leave soon after the march. so, i cannot report for the events past nightfall. saw a schoolmate […]

it was a great evening. this movie playing at the baghdad tonight had folks lined down the street and a fiddler collecting cash for tunes on the corner. curly dark haired guy with beard dancing in line. after the show, many movie watchers ate at the cafe. it was my last night. many […]

florida, florida, whatever will we do with you, florida?
to add to the misery, linguists and computer geeks (potintially) drafted?

finals . trying . fortune cookie tonight said - keep your nose to the grindstone .
one giggle

tonight, watching a movie by michaelangelo antonioni (who’s name i surely misspelled all over the place). say that name out loud. right now. it’s beautiful…it just rolls and then drifts away. a professor once mentioned the movie in class (blow up). he said it was his favorite movie. i asked ray about it and he […]

a guy friend and i were looking for books at powell’s today. this guy approached us and asked if we wanted free hair cuts. now, usually i would not follow some  guy with bleachy streaked bangs through small streets and alleys, but i dug his shoes. the guy takes us to a fab spot in […]