habitually probing generalist

He’s incommunicado
No comment to make
He’s saying nothing at all
Yeah but in the communique
You know he’s gonna come clean
…
[Communique - Dire Straits]
Seems I don’t have much to say anymore. We’ve all read of the death of blogging. The move to Friendfeed and Twitter. XYZ.
None of those are entirely true. I have plenty to say and a [...]

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when i look deep in your eyes, i swear i can see your soul
out of sight,
your deep dark secrets
ebb and flow like the tide
but all that i see
are infinite spectrums of possibility
when i look deep in your eyes, i swear i can reach your soul
i love the infinite distances
that exist between us.
with persistence, our reach
will [...]

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I went back through my posts of the last two months and there isn’t much explicit mention of the best distraction a boy could ask for. I think the first (and one of 2, maybe 3) explicit reference is in the post “Living room talk.” There are certainly several other references that were mostly for [...]

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2 views on the slipperiness of words:
Words are clumsy tools. And it is very easy to cut one’s fingers with them, and they need the closest attention in handling; but they are the only tools we have, and the imagination itself cannot work without them.
(Frankfurter 1947: 546) as quoted in Harris, R., & Hutton, C. [...]

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I got a quick IM from a friend the other night wondering how I was doing as I have been quiet lately.
Yes. Yes I have.
There are a lot of reasons for this. Some of it is lack of time to do all the things I’d like to. There are probably other reasons, too, in certain [...]

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Atlanta’s a distant memory
Montgomery a recent blur
and Tulsa burns on the desert floor
like a signal fire
I got Willie on the radio
a dozen things on my mind
and number one is fleshing out
these dreams of mine
Cowboy Junkies — 200 More Miles
A little over a week ago I wrote to a handful of those I consider myself [...]

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Today has been a fairly laid-back day. Considering.
I got up at 10-ish and have been on slow ever since. Pauline & Kathryn’s class was having a reading day and I decided to forego more Protégé work this evening in Allen’s class. We will be doing more next week.
So I have been giving myself a [...]

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Truthfully, I will not be addressing that directly as such. Much more oblique will be my comments.
But first some initial resources:

Martin Luther King Day at Wikipedia
High as the Listening Skies, Loud as the Rolling Sea at Ramblings by Laura Crossett.
Search Engines Commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day via Resource Shelf.

Five years ago today—well, it was [...]

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I went to Falls Church, Virginia to visit family and friends 20 – 29 December. I got home yesterday evening. Drove to Bloomington (1 hour) and flew through Detroit to Dulles and back again.
Going out of Bloomington vs. Champaign is about $150 cheaper round trip and parking is free, which is a substantial savings. BMI [...]

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Life. What the fuck is that anyway? How do we know if we’re living it?
Mama I’m strange
The thoughts and the wants are the locks on the back of my brain
Melissa Etheridge. “Mama I’m Strange.” breakdown.
Last week ended … weirdly. In a flattering way mind you, but nonetheless weirdly. One could do with more of (parts [...]

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