July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
June 2010
2 posts
April 2010
6 posts
Fuck It, It's 2010
Two-thousand-nine was undoubtedly the most unpleasant year that I’ve had to face in my life. In order, I experienced a job loss and heartbreak, my mother was laid off, my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer, my father was threatened with a lay off, potential foreclosure, the death of my grandmother, denial of admission into school, further heartbreak, and as a result committed acts of...
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
2 posts
“For me, to be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside...”
– Orhan Pamuk: My Father’s Suitcase, Nobel Lecture; December 7th, 2006
January 2010
13 posts
Look Lively
Ten-twelve AM, the line at the grocery store. I thought this was supposed to be the Express lane? Fifteen items or less, lady. You look like you’re buying for a Firehouse. I wonder if birds have any idea—okay look, I don’t want to alarm you, so stay calm, but there is a girl looking in your direction. She’s at your three, and my God, she’s staring right at you. ...
An Attempt to Incite ______
I sit down and I try to write and nothing comes out. I am going through old things and am posting my favorites here in the hopes that maybe I can coerce some stimulating words into pouring out.
Some of these have been edited, and all of them now come with a brief italicized afterword.
The Way You Look When You Cross My Mind
I feel a little crazy when I think about you sometimes, because I know...
I just finished watching Black Dynamite, a blaxploitation parody released in October ‘09, and I liked it so much I made this animated gif to share so you can let people know they managed to push the wrong button.
Holy crap.
A to-scale model of our solar system. Touted as quite possibly the “longest page on the internet”.
http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/
Today’s date, 01-02-2010, is a palindrome; it...
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worldonfire:
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December 2009
11 posts
This Universe is NSFW →
hatred-and-powerchords:
Great photoblog, or the GREATEST PHOTOBLOG?
Sir, I would like you to know that I appreciate that immensely and hope that you are enjoying An Expanding Universe.
November 2009
9 posts
“The range of measured densities within our universe is staggeringly large. We...”
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson in the chapter On Being Dense from his book Death By Black Hole
What is it you want, Mary? What do you want?...