100% illumination

i am trying to be more measured with my reactions, and this is a good reminder. in fact i'm just going to hide out in my den and continue to be happy with small and simple, authentic experiences.

definitely need some more piscean advice. why evaluate everything? just make some art, fucking relax, hang out, write, watch let's scare jessica to death for the 4th time in a month and rewind/replay the raptly uncomfortable scene when emily's bony white hand caresses the trembling face of jessica, you know, do whatever.

close your eyes and watch

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here is the oldest known surviving photo of the moon. there were earlier daguerreotypes, but they were sadly lost in separate house fires the century before last. so there's just this. samuel humphrey took nine exposures one night in september, 1849. so this is a 161 year old harvest moon. i hope it was a good month, because e.a.poe died that october.



of course things have never been the same.

OH finally something good has happened in this dreadful-ass week:

chad ziemendorf / the chronicle

chad ziemendorf / the chronicle

michael macor / the chronicle

Fuck you, Prop 8.

Funny days when I read blurbs by the Terminator as well as Laura Bush and nod in agreement, but I suppose that goes to show how black and white the rights and the wrongs in this situation actually are.

Remember No Gays for a Day? Greatest op-ed of '08. So glad to see a close for such sentiments (in California), though, at least for now.

"No Gays for a Day will demonstrate what it would be like if -- as so much of the non-coastal U.S. seems to desire -- gays just disappeared. You may not even know who all your daily gays are, so there's no predicting the impact. "