zmey

“Here there be dragons.” Robert Redford ~ in Out of Africa ~ referencing cartographers’ expression for the edge of the known world I’ve been reading Greg Rucka and Michael Lark’s Lazarus for nearly 8 years now. The world created by Lark and Rucka can be seen as a possible out come to and allegory for […]

flux

A co-worker and I were discussing which of the ‘7 deadly sins’ applies most to each of us. To be clear, I am agnostic and M is an atheist leaning agnostic. Regardless, the discussion was entertaining. One of the two of us chose ‘wrath’ the other chose ‘pride’ For those of you who know me […]

connections

Apophenia ~ is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. via wikipedia My mind is a web of apopheniac non sequitur and I love it. I’m not sure most others do… I was binge watching my way through The Queen’s Gambit when this word, used by an irreverent reporter negatively in the show, […]

how

I’ve spent the past four years paying more attention to national news than I had in the 33 years prior. I am ashamed of this. It took a mystifying (but perhaps not actually so) cultural disaster to bring me out of the cocoon of psychological comfort I’d wriggled into. I am intentionally being vague, avoiding […]

saurus

A tangent this week. After carefully selecting a piece of a fossilized mosasaur tooth I desperately needed in my life, I’ve chosen to devote a post to three, in my opinion, under-appreciated prehistoric reptilians. /deinonychus I will forever be bitter that Michael Crichton, or his editors, chose to shift the name of this noble, intelligent […]

abar

“I know because she says over and over again that she doesn’t want a family yet it is clear through her actions that it is all that she wants.” ~Jon Osterman – in Watchmen 01.08 – A God Walks Into Abar I used to take the same Meyers Briggs personality test repeatedly to see how […]

frabjous

“‘And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’ He chortled in his joy.” ~ Jabberwocky ~ by Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking Glass As our nation steps out of the looking glass, it is my fervent hope we keep one eye steady on the […]

cosmic

right. I fantasize often about being the caretaker of an old wooden theater in the round somewhere deep in the U.K. There’d be a roll up bed hidden in the stage and unfurled nightly to sleep. I would soak in all the vibration, the intention, the stories of shows gone by in days, years, weeks, […]

again

The past few weeks make me wonder how much of the twists and turns I experience are outcomes of my obdurate tortoise approach to living. Is there determinism in tunnel – or more aptly ‘shell’ – vision? Are the cultural vacancies that lead us down rabbit – or more aptly ‘hare’ – holes of behavior […]

contrition

Without it… I wonder at the cultural contempt for apology, for admission, for acknowledgement of systemic horror and the role each of us plays in it. There is a four hundred year incessance of context for this feeling and I am prompted to quote from a novel written by a brilliant Italian: ‘…he persevered and […]