I’m going to use WordPress from now on, instead of LiveJournal. I will migrate all of my posts there over here shortly. In setting up Permalinks, I had to add the following line before the autogenerated .htaccess syntax: Options +FollowSymlinks as per this discussion on Permalink issues. References: .htaccess and WordPress
There’s a sick cow out on the streets tonight. I know because I can hear her sneezing. It sounds like a boxer cutting loose on a punching bag-sized whoopee cushion.
There’s the potential for something hidden like a blue egg deep under the lake. Down, down it drifts into the ancient crevasses, lower and lower it floats into the nameless abyss. Is there a murky beast who with half a gulp will make the fragile hope disappear? Its teeth would miss the hapless shell; it [...]
Stefan: “Who the FUCK is Zorba? I know a lot about Jesus and Buddha and Bodhissatva and Shankara, but I’ve never heard of Zorba. I think tomorrow I will use the Google machine.” [The Next Day] Stefan: “I have used the Google Machine to find the FUCKING word Zorba. And I find it.”
If creativity comes about when one drops the ego, becomes egoless, loses the self, then perhaps I should forget having Lasik eye surgery. As I’ve long observed, without my glasses, or my contacts, I become more of an artist. Nothing has too fine a point on it; everything is a blur of color, every object [...]