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we're a kiss away from being dangerous

0 comments Published 2.24.2008 by matt o.

'his knowledge and his logic were like acid, etching the glass of his perceptions which he thought so transparent; he was building his church-windows like the rest of us, but he did not know it.'

-- william t. vollmann, the rainbow stories

hope and change and hope and change and change and hope

0 comments Published 2.16.2008 by matt o.

did you ever see a llama
voting obama
down by the bay?

it had something to do with the rain

0 comments Published 2.07.2008 by matt o.

i've been telling people all day with that sarcastic way i have that it was nice being kept awake by booming, house-endangering thunder at two in the morning in early february, but in reality i was just scared. not of the storm but of something else i can't define. hazy lack of sleep combines with the sound of the thunder itself combines with janel moving around upstairs combines with the sound of rain and ice against my thin windows combines with it's a weeknight and laura's not here combines with the memory of the last time this was happening on an early and equally winter morning.

that morning i happened across some message board in an uncharacteristic computer-in-bed moment before the sun was even up and people were trading weather stories about the new england thunder phenomena in an exaggerated electronic version of 'how about this weather, right?' this guy in rhode island described it in this way that had me seeing the near-dawn landscapes all over the region and a lot of blissfully ignorant sleeping people in perfect little towns and villages that don't exist. strange weather for this time of year, he called it. i think i hate that guy. feeling lost in an unseasonal regional affliction i came to the conclusion that it'll be a terrible loss whenever i have to leave this house. the thunder wouldn't sound the same in another place.

equilibrium

0 comments Published 2.04.2008 by matt o.

jocelyn: 'it's not fair! if you're partners in class you should help each other. she wasn't doing anything!'

matt: 'she was my partner, though; why are you so upset about this?'

jocelyn: 'because i'm a libra! i like it when things balance out.'

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