Historia Crux

I'm indexing all my posts because I have no life.
Actually, that's not true, I've been wanting to do this for a while, if I really had no life, I'd have posted it before Saint Ajora's Day. It's basically here for those situations where any of us have to refer to older entries for any reason. Google isn't always reliable, you know.

Anyways, I am pleasantly surprised that Change could be posted.
And, yes, I technically posted it before Saint Ajora's Day, 2015, but I said that in midsummer of 2014, so, yeah. My point still stands.

There's no overwhelming need to read 03, 04, and all but the last dozen or so entries of 05. While I did do my best to only repost the stuff that was worth reposting, the truth is, things that seemed important in 2003 turned out to not be important and actually important things seemed irrelevant. There are threads that appear out of nowhere and/or go nowhere.

They tell us the internet is forever but this isn't true. There are three lost periods: the time I got my chocojournal hacked, the time in between the time I backed up my chocojournal on my hard drive and the Gamingforce Crash of 2006, and a few posts from the summer of 2007 I deleted for reasons unknown to 2016 me.

06 is kind of uneven.

If you're short on time and mostly care about animals, skip to 11.

Time and memory, frozen in crystal.
03:
04: cause
05: unveiling
06: change
07: awakening
08: acceptance
09: return
10:
11:
12:
13:
14:
15:
16: the paper over the cracks
17: some lies
18: requiem
19:

03

May 35th - in which someone tries to play Final Fantasy VII using a Dance Dance Revolution pad.
aestival solstice - in which orientation happens, I get oriented and meet people and watch videos that were probably made with power point and play foozeball and sleep and the wake up patrol comes, I get lost in the dorm, and we all go home.
remember: big bird died for our sins - In which I find a picture of a stuffed Big Bird nailed to a telephone pole and Gaf sends it to Fred Phelps.

a happy day in 2003 - in which I realize I'm focusing on the wrong things and that's why only 10 percent of the Backdated Zone is actually up, go to Casey's birthday party, where she plays guitar and Amanda dumps stuff on some guy, and the girl with blue hair had a noodle and knew how to use it.

Revenge of the Telephone Gnomes - in which I call a number, Ethan blames telephone gnomes with gnome-sized sledgehammers, or maybe they're gnomes wielding normal sized (to us) sledgehammers, and I think that either Lauren misheard or mixed up some digits or the Adjustment Bureau changed Amanda's phone number, because it certainly wasn't her pet bird's fault.

Look at me! I'm a college student! G'fa ha ha! - in which I begin at a college run by the Ancient Mystic Society of No Ashleys, Ashley (we're allowed to have one) talks about terrorist drills at her school, Heather chews on datura leaves and comes up with Trading Spaces with dancing crabs and dancing squirrels and then stops talking to me because she thinks I'm weird or something, and if she does, she's one to talk, Miss "chases geese and wanders about the woods dressed in Renaissance garb," and Tom solves the mystery of the campus center and commits seppuku with a frisbee.
Independence Day of South Ossetia (unrecognized) - in which Justin makes fun of the way his friend says "choco chip cookie."
Did You Know: - in which I post some facts.

national day of the people's republic of China - in which Chad thinks an arrow is a shining sperm of doom.
I was mooned - in which a carful of people moon people on the highway, at night.
The ides of October - in which I discover Pyre (Necro Cristi) by Lustmord and plan to have some fun with it.
world osteoporosis day - in which Kyra takes the last of the cafeteria's blue jello and I think that if I had psychic powers, I'd simply create jello from sporks and sunshine rather than boil their organs mentally.
Hari Sumpah Pemuda - in which Mr. Rogers tells me and anyone else reading Kyra's shirt that we are very special and I get lost in the library.
open gaming night - in which Chris tries to come up with something dumber than swordchucks, Darryl doesn't show up so we play Call of Cthulhu instead, and I watch a sunset.

all saint's day - in which Andrew wears a shirt that says COSTUME and Sean wraps a cape around his head.
soul consumption - in which I talk about inane rules and schedules at high schools in that place I went to high school in and Brockton and couches stealing our souls.
games from somethingawful - in which Chris plays Bomber King and Hydlide.
Hari Pahlawan - in which Chris tells me about the worstg game he's ever played and the three places where ideas come to him.
lab accidents - in which a cart is pushed with too much force, falls over, and the motion detector picks up a chaotic mess of lines, loops, and tangles of threads, Chris saves a screenshot of this happening but loses it in a future crash on Gamingforce.
fish - in which Joe explains bettas and their irrational hatred of any other fish that isn't a goldfish.
Lab Accidents - in which a cart goes flying and hits the window, the track falls over, and this is all recorded by a motion detector.

ziua marii uniri - in which James Pond goes to space, Carla thinks he looks like a crab or a turtle, and Chris and Troll face off regarding the position of Praetor of Earth.
the plot congeals - in which Joe and I discuss brain cells meeting one another in a void.
Ninja Baseball Batman - in which a game does not deliver what it promises.

I thought about posting a list of things I remember that 2003 me didn't think were significant enough to post in my old journal for one reason or another. Let me know if you want to see it.

04: cause

celebration of the new year - in which Alaina goes into cooking, Craig goes into filmmaking, and someone else goes into eating, Craig learns how to make ramen in a coffee maker and we are forced to subsist on macaroni, black cherry soda, and pretzels when the hobos and Craig's sisters arrive.
return to school - in which Elena contemplates a live webcam of the lounge and Andrew twists his head, CJ suggests that the physics students all go out into all go out into the woods and look for mushrooms before taking the Modern Physics exam.
the feast of maximum occupancy - in which the campus center smells like fish, and Immelman uses the term nuculate.
my name is joe and I work in a button factory - in which Andrew explains a song.
National Pie Day - in which Kevin compares Kyra to KOS-MOS from Xenosaga.
my newly discovered talent - in which I recognize a Siamese Dream CD from across the lounge, Chris downloads Little Red Hood, and I get long winded.
national monkey day - in which there are stuffed monkeys in the cafeteria that sing love songs.
here's my horoscope! - in which a newspaper states the overtly apparent about causality, and the campus center is deserted aside from people using the free fast internet and playing Magic the Gathering.

national robot day - in which the stuffed gorillas are replaced by dancing and singing robots
day of the virgin of suyapa - in which I bonk into a door while carrying the remnants of stir-fry and some jello
chinese new year - in which a feast is held between two of my classes and I wonder about Xinjiang's music and get pissy at a mouse.
Hey, kids, remember when Madagascar actually gave a shit about conservation? - in which I learn about aye-ayes and someone leaves her bag and coat on the chair and forbids anyone from even going near it, and disappears for ten minutes.
newspeak - in which Nick suggests making newspeak an official language because it's the only language with a dictionary that gets shorter every year.
renaldo.luigi.fxo.1 - in which Kevin says that basketballs are dinosaur eggs but Chris thinks dinosaur eggs are too small.
my big fat obnoxious fiancé - in which I wonder what reality shows are next.
why have I not seen this? - in which Immelman talked about the videos he made involving Two Face climbing stairs to the Joker's hideout and Poke and Balls.
Red Army Day - in which someone says he's going to build a robot army to counter my robot army.
um. - in which a guy walks by dressed in a bear suit and someone else tells the worst joke in the world.
strangers have the best candy - in which Darryl holds a game of evil candyland, which is basically just Candyland with a pedophile van you have to avoid and more drugs.

a journey to ankaa - in which Kyra goes somewhere for spring break and Chris suggests getting a device that can cut five-dimensionally even if it would create Spectres every time somebody used it and then plays Wait and See.
ant nebula - in which I type horribly, and someone uses the ant nebula to prove the existence of a god.
you know what would be cooler than a hearse that shoots fire? - in which Immelman comes up with a hearse that's on fire and shoots dead bodies.
Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship - in which I dream and Kevin has me listen to his joke band, Temple of the Apocalyptic Doomageddon.
wait and seeeeeeeeeee! - in which Encyclopedia Obscura fails to mention several points about Wait and See.
aggressive marketing - in which people offer chocolate in a completely unthreatening manner.
it's just too bad there weren't any crab dinosaurs - in which I list annoying crab monsters in video games.
sweet merciful zombie christ on a pogo stick - in which I see a picture of herpes, Chris says that if he had a cartridge of MC Kids, there'd be marshmallow fluff in it, and I wonder if the Professor and CosMc have something to do with one another.

immelman's guide to romance - in which Immelman suggests getting into Kyra's pants by eating green now and laters and showing her my green tongue.
there's more to life than wealth and power - in which Phil is transformed into the Incredible Hulk by the power of caffeine.
festivities - in which Springfest is held indoors and I win a fish keychain and a mole, and people play music in God's Toilet Bowl on a nicer day.
the great lemon war of 06 - in which Brendan starts a great lemon war and Casey hates on terrorism because That's My Bush was canceled, and Brendan sings the theme song inaccurately but it's better than the actual thing.

Roodmas - in which Josh and Chris duel with flour-filled balloons and my headphones act weird.
summer vacation is almost here - in which I play with kitties.

lobster ice cream - in which I am the only non-vegetarian to visit Maine without eating even a bite of lobster.
Feast of Kalimát - in which a nearby Thai restaurant has a Diddy Kong figurine.
Embryos in spaaaaaaaaace! - in which a nebula looks like a Cie'th embryo.

his holiness, mr. potato head - in which Jeff wants a t-shirt with a potato wearing a pope hat and Kevin creates DinoCore.
hey kids, remember when AcerBandit was actually funny instead of just stupid and annoying? - in which AcerBandit describes what our lives would be like if Willy Wonka taught physics.
autumnal equinox - in which drama happens but I decide I want no part in it, Rich plays a NES game based on Platoon, and I say nothing is beneath a company that made a Care Bears video game.

I just had the most awesomest idea ever. - in which I forget what my plan is but have some guesses and Kevin and Jeff think it's a good idea to see if dinosaur porn exists in the campus center computer lab.
armilustrium - in which Chris has a plan to make the chairs levitate.
maim a mime - in which this is a game that may or may not exist.
dumb things to ask at a job fair - in which Randall or George comes up with stupid questions to ask.
50 Cent, the Time Traveling Cyborg Rapper - in which Danimal says that 50 Cent should have a cyborg arm and face and he would fight crime.
scaring people in the lounge for fun and profit - in which Immelman plays racketball with a tray and scares some girl downstairs, and then plays pool, and meanwhile, I take the World's Doomiest Train to the Lord of the Rings exhibit.

i am the greatest prankster that lives - In which Lauren listens to Temple of the Apocalyptic Doomageddon and her ears ring.
Winter Lent - in which the horoscopes are taken over by corporate overlords.
Saint Cecilia's Day - in which I dream.

it's excerpts from stupid conversations time - in which Cata says that in Argentina, the Super Mario Bros. Super Show doesn't even try to sync their voices up, Mike says that Colonel Sanders runs a plantation in Vietnam, Chris describes the music in Bokuzuka Wars by knocking on the table.
fuzzy heroes and other things - in which it's open gaming night so Beth held a game of Stuffed Animals vs. Frogs vs. Action Figures and I eat Cape Verdean food and Shaylin does evil things with someone's computer.
Jesus Movies - in which Rich says that Mel Gibson should do a Mad Max/Waterworld crossover and Ian suggests more Jesus movies.

Also, about that title: the titular cause isn't mentioned at all. Here's what happened with her that didn't happen in Unveiling: she thought Comahon Q.Q. Comahon was very "freestyle," she sold fruit drinks, she disappeared to northern California for a year.

05: unveiling

the past few days - in which I get lost in the library, someone asks if we're dreaming and if the dreams are actually the real world, I threaten to turn green and big when I get mad, and I realize that Photobucket is actually a thing.

Chinese New Year - in which I reuse a title because in those days, I titled entries based around what the entries were actually about, except when I didn't, Beth asks if it's possible to be a eunuch and a concubine at the same time.
valentine's day - in which I tell a Chinese story and can't buy chocolate from Immleman because cards have replaced cash for me.
copscopsdonutsdonuts - in which Shaylin's brother writes a song about cops and donuts, someone draws Willy's Mother, Chris messes around with a numerical touchscreen and thinks he turned on the sprinklers.

Newroz - in which Stephanie makes up weird names and Immelman doesn't say "and the point is" once.
shaylin wants to join a cult - in which a cult does not have a spaceship to blisstonia but does believe in sex within marriage.
what fell on chicken little's head? - in which Casey says "bird poop" and Jen tells him to shut up.
this entry is about marshmallow peeps - in which Jen throws a pudding container at Eric.

decapitated cows - in which Moo Bella gives away squeezy cows as a promotional thing and someone impales their heads on pencils and sticks them in the ceiling.
international night and other fun stuff - in which Chris microwaves a schedule because it got wet, and I eat food and watch people dancing and playing drums.
in which chad is violated with a lightsaber - in which chad is violated with a lightsaber

springfest 2005 - in which the battle of the bands is actually really good, I challenge Immelman to a duel with stick thingies, and I fall for one of Carla's friends.
somebody jumped from the balcony yesterday - in which somebody uses paper streamers as a harness but they break and he falls and breaks his clavicus majorus.

michael jackson is a vampire - in which a bottle of pepsi gets stuck in the machine.
love day - in which the machines lie to me.

National Threatened Species Day - in which I update on a public computer for the first time since getting a G5 iMac and it feels weird to me.
International Literacy Day - in which Dopen says something stupid.
who volunteers for safety videos anyway? - in which we watch a video on lab safety and I am reminded of high school chemistry and people fucking things up in a dramatic and messy way.
fun with hot sauce - in which I volunteer to try some hot sauce and hiccup.
thaddeus' stupid wrestling thing - in which I am soaked from merely walking across the street from the science building, Immelman knocks his hat off with an umbrella, Thaddeus and Kevin suggest fights between ATM machines, Toad, ice cream, Raviolio, and a meatball or possibly the sun.
Dieciocho - in which Katie's fish dies.
battle pope's spiritual successor - in which Pope John Paul II shoots lasers out of his eyes.
incomplete love story - in which I use a song title as an entry title, Kristi is amazed by Astral Tears, and Thaddeus proposes tossing a flaming brick at some other guys, or maybe sonic warfare.
escaped mental patient drives around with a dead deer - in which someone does that, in an ambulance, dressed as a doctor.

(lost) - (lost)
apparently this happened - in which I play frisbee with Laurie, who wants to be a chimney sweep, a kite salesperson, and a one-person band all at the same time, and I meet Dawn, who likes my art and is a biology major, and I have a conversation about teleportation.
this is what happens when you write a crossword when hung over - in which I never deliver on my promise to scan a crossword someone who sucks at math did while late to psychology class and hung over.
snow - in which it snows in october and I explain the twelve days of wonky roms.

mike's movie idea - in which Mike proposes a movie involving zombie werebeasts and an incompetent voodoo lady.
listless - in which I bash the table with a plastic spoon and Chris gives me a brownie to smash my face into and I decide that the best way to decide who wins Tiang's love is a Team Battletoads Death Race of some sort followed by a race around Bridgewater in shopping carts.
waffles, we love you! - in which I decline to link to a waffle song because the original entry was posted on the anniversary of but one of very many uninteresting events and as such you probably don't even remember what you were doing on that day, but I'm happy because the waffle song got to my head.
crestfallen - in which I explain why I'm a mess in 2014 terms because the site that hosted all the Last Exile screenshots is dead in the ground, dead in the ground, just like Harry Truman.
i'm totally upset and downright horrified - in which someone desecrates Batman with bukkake and poop.
of time dilation - in which someone says Iowa is a place where the universe is denser and thus further back in time.
immelman thinks he's a pirate - in which Immelman thinks he's a prate and Chris gives me a DVD with silly anime and I learn that there is a dinosaur named after the great god Yama.
monkey chanting - in which Bryan introduces me to the joys of Indonesian guys sitting in circles and pretending to be monkeys and Rich shows me a picture in his history textbook.
NO DEATH - in which Rich starts a socialist group and we're all chairmen.
paper airplanes - in which Chris makes a giant airplane that fails to fly.
stupid analogies and xenosaga art - in which Immelman compares me to the Justice League and Tiang to Teen Titans and I'm like "what the fuck?"
goosebumps - in which Kevin, Jeff, and I reminisce on Goosebumps and Kid Pix.

zipang! - in which dolphins are trained to sing the Batman theme, Brendan and Nate squeak out the dolphin equivalent of "batman," and I make origami despite being horrible at it.
that's no moon. it's a potato! - in which Pwürg's site died, Scott and Brendan point at Immelman and say "bang!" and someone brings up Waffle Man.
all done! - in which I describe the autumn and late summer of 2005 in five minutes or less, and someone talks about giving socks to people and becoming a sock god of sorts.
the obligatory christmas entry - in which I describe my ideas for a Sonic game I had when I was a kid.
hello kitty - in which I play a clone of Balloon Fight
felix the cat - in which a wonky rom is surprisingly fun.
ristar - in which I play the best game of the Twelve Days, talk about writing with Ifrin, go to Cambridge.
bubba n' stix - in which I play what is either a very terrible game or a very terrible port of a somewhat enjoyable game.

"Unveiling" is because Ava Lilly told me to write more personal entries or something when I asked her what she thought of me (the posts in question no longer exist on the live internet or the Internet Archive), but then I realized the number of entries in Cause and Unveiling are more or less equal.
Though Cause favors the first third of the year while Unveiling favors the last third. So maybe she's on to something.

06: change

The Twelve Days of Wonky Roms - Dynamite Headdy - in which I play a very fun but very hard game, but have to skip parts of it to summarize it.
The Twelve Days Of Wonky Roms - Zool - in which I am frustrated and matters are made worse by Photobucket fucking something up or someone intruding upon my Photobucket account.
The Twelve Days of Wonky Roms - Toejam and Earl - in which I play a game I find overrated and rather annoying and find myself unable to get through it in a timely matter.
The Twelve Days Of Wonky Roms - Rockin' Kats - in which I play a game I've already played because I'm lazy and burnt out by Toejam and Earl
The Twelve Days Of Wonky Roms - Go Go Ackman! - in which Ackman fights wolves in fiber optic cloaking suits
The Twelve Days Of Wonky Roms - Penguin Monogatari - in which I play a game about fat penguins.
The Twelve Days Of Wonky Roms - Plok - in which I try to beat Plok in less than 18 hours and want to kill myself by the end.
The Twelve Days Of Wonky Roms - Bart's Nightmare - in which I play a terrible game and fail at it and am happy I don't have to do this for another year.
She's rich, she's beautiful, she has huge - in which I spend time at Dana's house watching Monty Python and drinking Dr. Pepper, Dana's teacher in high school pauses a movie at the wrong time, and watch an awesome scene from a movie that is essentially a worse version of Joe Dirt.
Of Battletoads and Unbirthdays and Gothbot - in which I bet enough money to buy a single pack of airline peanuts that Immelman has spaghetti on his clothes, a clock is broken, and I am right about Battletoads for all the wrong reasons.
I'm soaked - in which it's unseasonably warm but very rainy and I have to stand under the dryer.
Snowmans - in which Gamingforce goes down, but nothing really happens in my life anyway, and Derek builds a snowman which is given a penis and then tossed at a window.
of life force and immelman and kelsey grammar - in which the bosses in Life Force are easy, Immelman is not around, and Kelsey Grammar falls and Mike impersonates him.
Video game world map shapes revealed. - in which Asteroids happens on a torus.
what language are these songs? - in which I wonder about a song and try to beat Mario 3 as Frog Mario.

fragments of a world and the spaces between them - in which I struggle to remember what I posted in my chocojournal in the time period between backing it up and getting a livejournal.
... - in which I explain why out of seven hundred and fifty entries in my old journal, only about a hundred got posted, warn people not to expect anything as good as This Instant Eternal or A Happy Day in 2013.
Vagina Cookies - in which a club sells vagina cookies which taste like ass according to Chris and I feel obligated to create a livejournal just to talk about this, people reenact dune in the grassy area outside the cafeteria.
I found this on the InsertCredit forums - in which someone on InsertCredit has a taxonomy of rom hacks.
My friend gave me this link. - in which I am introverted or something.
I hope you're happy. - in which I update my deviantart page.
Lawn Gnomes! - in which the outdoor adventure club sells a lawn gnome that can illuminate things with sickly green gnome light.
Mr. Moo Moo! - in which they sell a gnome but replace it with a giant stuffed cow.
Mr. Moo Moo pt 2: The Legend Continues - in which we outline our plan for liberating Mr. Moo Moo, Count von Zeppelin saves the Titanic, and I post a tentative tracklist for Kathy.
The Crappiest Poll Ever - in which someone asks what fantasy race you want to be but neglects shapeshifters, which are the best thing ever.
I Love Little Pussy! - in which I post something that's a million times worse than what the name implies, and someone has the entire Little Markie CD on his website
Sonic crap version audio - in which someone posts the results of dicking around with Sonic's code.
Couch Wars Episode 2: Attack of the N00bs. - in which people spill drinks on Trumpet Kid, refuse to do Crap Music Week, Tiang makes no effort to communicate whatsoever.

Well, that was a lot of waiting for nothing. - in which Gamingforce is still down, Immelman pours pepper in his nose to see if would make him sneeze, and my screenshots of Hello Kitty Balloon Adventure or whatever is either lost in the same spacetime anomaly that devoured Sophia or raptured.
Gamingforce is back!!!!!!!!!!! - in which I snag userid 78 but who the fuck cares because there aren't any journals there.
GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!!!!!!!!! - in which I obtain 999 rings in Sonic 3's Ice Cap act 1 but only manage to snag 668 rings in Marble Garden's act 1.
Victoly! - in which I defeat Dark Erde Kaiser and it is spring break so nothing happens.
Well, that lasted a good 9 days. - in which Gamingforce is down.
The Truth Hurts - Yamamanama - in which you can ask me anything, or could, because it's in the deep past.
The Truth Hurts - Yamamanama: THE THREADTHE THREAD - in which I am asked silly questions and Tritoch says something funny.
Late nights, sour wine, and delirium - in which Immelman gives a terrible answer to the question "what do you think Batman would say to you?" that I think might be a metaphor for something.
Router Problems - in which my router is broken and I pass the time by watching Evangelion stop making sense.
New Router - in which I get a new router and pass the time before getting it by watching Evangelion.
This entry has an enraged marshmallow peep in it. - in which there is a peep on a bus.
This is a song entry. - in which I wonder about the oppressiveness of Uzbekistan and Ireland attempts to send a leprechaun into space which is ill advised but I love you anyway.
I am writing this from the school cafeteria - in which I am amazed by computer mouses that suck worse than my own and mistake some other guy for Immelman.
Another Uzbeki Song! - in which the Irish and the Africa are stripped from Uzbeki music and I post what's left.
Snakes On A Plane: The Musical! - in which Neil Cicarega does something amazing, Ryan and Kitty go on an IMDB safari, Revenge of the Cheerleaders is a movie that someone made, and it might just be the best cheerleader movie ever made.
Wait, there's MORE? - in which I wonder if Harriet the Spy even had stunts, Emily tries to embarrass Mandy.
An extremely odd music video - in which I am not turned into Tiang, Kathy walks through a wall, and the people of Select Button talk tori.
First Annual Cthulhu Picture Entry 120% Maxima!!! - in which I post pictures of elder gods.
Cambodian Psychedelia - A Musical Entry - in which my love affair with southeast asia's musical scene continues.
Late Nights and Cambodian Psychedelia
- in which I can't spell and am up late listening to music from Baten Kaitos Origins and Don Hertzfeldt videos.
The Long-awaited Cat Entry! Lots of pics and probably not 56k safe. - in which I post cats and cats and more cats.
Dengue Fever! - in which I rip Cambodian Psychedelia and compare Cambodia and Uganda.
"It's the internet" is no excuse to be an assbutt - in which I disguise song entries as drama entries and leave home until 9 PM doing what, I don't know.
Giant Centipede vs. Snake: FIGHT! - in which a centipede devours a mouse with his mighty mandibles, and I contemplate what the best dinosaur to ride is.
whine whine angst drama tails - in which I post a baby penguin.
Another day. - in which drama flares up and then dies out, I have trouble sleeping, play frisbee, e-mail Strongbad, and decline to post a mood because the song fits it just fine.
Well, that was quick. - in which I complete a torrent in less than 54 hours.
It's Unreadable Mess Time! - in which I contemplate sending the most horrible song in the world to people.
A lengthy discussion about snakes. On a plane. - in which I post an entire thread from Barbelith.
C for Cthulhu - in which Plush Cthulhu takes over the world.
This will either horrify you or make you burst out in laughter - in which a friend, let's call him Nicola, walks in on his grandmother naked with chocolate smeared all over her, a visiting lecturer gives a presentation in Wingdings.
Why did I think I had a test today? - in which someone leaves a walking stick in the hallway.
five separate musings. - in which someone wears a propellor hat, it snows, Google Translator has trouble with a Chinese word Corey said meant harmony, Ryan searches for flying spaghetti penis, and we determine that we're better off sending robots to Titan than men to the moon.
Cute Asian Pussy! - in which I post a picture of a cat in a box.
Snakes On An International Night - in which I fall in love with the 303s, mice starve themselves pressing a button that activates their pleasure center, I eat Italian food and watch people play bagpipes and yangqins.
Cambodia Rocks! - in which I find stuff from the 1960s.
You are figs. - in which someone accuses others of being figs, I buy a CD.
Neil Diamond Saves The Universe - in which Emily misinterprets a statement Immelman made, Chris discovers new music, and Brendan writes a screenplay.
cool as a moose - in which Cameron says he's cool.
Tokyo needs another Mothra attack - in which I suggest that giant monsters smash the Yasukuni Shrine and am nearly run over by a guy with rollerskates.
This is why China is better than Japan - in which China has pandas but Japan doesn't and frat boys ride around the campus center on rollerskates.
I have club everything! Give me more sympathy comments! - in which I freak out because I used .net instead of .com in a site, have Rich and Justine listen to Ozric Tentacles, and Mike claims that Mothra's power is eating clothes.
the fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth - in which I watch End of Evangelion and wonder what the point of Death and Rebirth was.
Happy Zombie Jesus Day!!!! - in which a guy who's name starts with T asks about easter.
Stuff ~ I don't need a witty title here. - in which I reflect on how much my life along with the internet will change five years hence, I blame Tiang for completely unrelated relationship problems, lie in bed and read Imajica.
pointless song lyric entry time! - in which I need filler somehow, and Chris rewards me for it with a wooden goblet filled with darkened water.
It's anthropology, not monkeypology. - in which T is for the way she takes my breath away, I is for the way I like it when she takes my breath away, N is for no one else takes my breath away, and A is for Asthma, that is a disease that takes people's breath away, also, Rich says anthropology and monkeypology are two different things, someone sends me a power metal version about a sadistic monorail, and dead babies are stapled to chickens.
Snakes (and pirates) on a Springfest - in which I get a sun airbrushed on my arm and Chris says it should be on her arm, Tina has a fish on her arm because sign of the corrupt or something, Immelman says something awkward about me and Tina, I meet a guy named Tim, my CD collection gets large, it's someone else's birthday, probably Shen but I don't know anymore, my brain sloshes around in my skull because I'm trying to twirl while bouncing with Tina, Immelman kisses a pirate.
Rugrats was a messed up show in retrospect - in which Tommy Pickles is abducted by aliums and Angelica becomes queen of a desert planet with the help of a space fish named George, a dibbik fights a monster with his klobbermeister, and a garbage truck demands sacrifices.
I HATE BALONEY! - in which I want to call someone and announce that I hate baloney and watch Angry Beavers episodes with Chris.
I'll be a superhero named Natural Selection - in which Cameron talks superheroes.
Solving the Myspace Image Problem - in which giant rats conquer Somerville.
I smell melon - in which melons explode in the Fatheads' face, I lament extinctions and never being able to get on a train in dreams.
Well, that was anticlimactic. - in which I consider talking to someone who isn't around instead of either reconciling with a friend or collapsing in an explosion of angst and anthropomorphic choo choo trains and Cameron debates whether snakes or cats are the most quantum animal.
The truth about Jane Fonda - in which someone who's probably mixing up North Vietnam and North Korea discovers Jane Fonda is in fact a robot.
I've been waiting over a year for this - in which City of Saints and Madmen is finally available in paperback.
Squids Squids Squids! - in which I post pictures of squids and Carla draws Vishnu wearing a birthday cake hat.
Vietnam: The Musical - in which someone eats an awesome birthday cake, and Rich, Maureen, and Eric discuss a musical based on the Vietnam War.
Prop Wars: The Trilogy Continues - in which I remove things from its context, explain what props do and don't do, and study for tests.
Attention Japanese and Chinese people. - in which I ask for translations from text in images and threaten to make them unloved if they don't help.
your liquid excrement is well APPRECIATED - in which I reminisce on graffiti at the School of the MFA, the Art Institute of Boston, and Braintree High School's science and art classrooms.
Morbo can't understand his teleprompter
- in which I watch Jurassic Bark.
I lost some time. It's always in the last place you look - in which I quote Delirium because nothing funny happened when I went food shopping.
Guess what I got! - in which I get a bag of deformed jellybeans, miss an exam, and dream about trains.
Bulgarian vocal music and imaginary fish. - in which various woman friends talk about the imaginary friends and pets they had as kids.
That One Word thread and an imaginary snail - in which Carla has an imaginary snail and people use single words to describe me, which is weird because I said that anyone who uses azn should have sandworm eggs hatch in their stomach, and justify not participating.
Only one more exam to go! (insert witty title here) - in which I have a test at 8 PM.
All done for the semester. - in which it's too cold for may.
if one day the trees could speak... - in which trees say mean things, gripe about crappy weather, and match Ozric Tentacles songs to Sonic levels.
Ok, time to break out the emergency weapon... - in which I make an entry consisting of "too too too wee" for science.
My scanner broke for some reason. - in which my scanner breaks.
Who would think a show about dolls... - in which I enjoy Rozen Maiden and use my Detective Kun Kun skills to find things.
Shouldn't you be making pancakes or something? - in which I waste my emergency weapon but can't remember the context.
SUNLIGHT! ~ Someone with a bigger persecution complex than Simply - in which I see the sun after 10 days of rain and blah.
Kitty cat entry version 2.01 - in which I realize I promised a cat entry but never delivered.
MORBO FEELS. And demands answers. - in which I play a rom hack and am knowledgeable about the game to the point where I notice no enemy placement is changed.
It's time for Creepy Evangelical Recordings! With hamsters. - in which a man and his ersatz Alvin sing for 23 minutes about the ten commandments.
Videogame Corner - Kirby Superstar (part 1) - in which Kirby eats a waddle doo and Charlie the Hamster yodels.
My router has been extremely unreliable today - in which I am disconnected from the internet repeatedly.
Videogaming Corner - Kirby Superstar (part 2 - Dynablade) - in which I'm tempted to play Ecco for a later event.
Kirby Superstar (part 3 - The Great Cave Offensive) - in which someone thinks Secret of Mana is Mario.
Kirby Superstar (Part 4 - The Revenge of Metaknight) - in which I wonder where AcerBandit is because he's ordinarily obsessed with Kirby to the point where I'm gleeful Abobo beat the shit out of him.
Those traffic cones never stood a chance - in which Laurie's brother draws a picture involving cannibal cows and cow juice, Ethan rants about golf and does Shaq Fu and hits traffic cones at 2 AM and Chris receives a copy of Turkish Star Wars.
The Fifth And Final Kirby Entry (Milky Way Wishes) - in which AcerBandit bans himself but I don't care enough to postpone my entry.
Michael Jackson vs. the Cookie Monster - in which someone mashes up songs, Cookie Monster hides cookies in galoshes under the pretense of reciting his poem, and I learn that galoshes do not taste good.
pr0n - in which Dr. Prawn is a doctor and a prawn, and I get cheesecake ice cream on my hand.
Ronald Reagan's secret plan to destroy Mars. - in which I defer titling entries to Chris for a day and post the lyrics to Angry Beavers songs.
Death by an extreme miscalculation while flossing - in which a bit of mango refused to leave my gums, someone from my school likes Ravi Shankar and apparently knows who Casey Desmond is, and Immelman shows up.
The dilemma of waffle apocalypse vs. a pancake on the top of a spear - in which I defer titling entries to Chris for a day.

I will put fried eggs up your armpits! - in which the air condition functions and Katelyn wants what I'm reading.
Morbo demands answers to the following questions - in which I ask people what kind of music they like.
Happy Meal Boxes Make Good Silly Hats - in which a kid wears a happy meal box on his head.
The title has been reduced to meaninglessness by crossposting - in which I search out and convert some music.
The Further Adventures of the Torture Squid - in which Kendra gives me some kissables because I gave her a dime for candy and she got two bags.
mushroom poetry - in which I post terrible poems.
Invitation to a Beheading - in which it rains.
A future mercifully free of robot-inflicted terror - in which someone debunks the robot apocalypse scenario.
Skeletor sings the YMCA song in Cantonese. - in which someone animates Skeletor.
The First Of Many Star Ocean Entries - in which I play Star Ocean
Star Ocean (part the second) - in which I play Star Ocean.
A collection of unrelated images and words - in which I post a poem, some pictures of dogs and guys with moons for heads.
Star Ocean - The Third Entry - in which I go through the most annoying dungeon in Star Ocean.
nananananananana nananananananana BATMAN - in which Batman fights Darth Vader and eats everything in sight, Mr. Freeze makes bad ice puns, Two-Face and the Riddler star in a shitty game, and Batman dresses up as a pirate, a samurai, and a viking.
Can someone explain this to me? - in which Blue Spheres acts screwy.
Communism is good, Christianity is stupid - in which I find a song my english teacher told me about in 10th grade.
Star Ocean - Entry The Fourth - in which I play Star Ocean.
Star Ocean - the Fifth Entry - in which a suffusion of drama causes people to stop reading my Star Ocean entries.
The Return Of The Torture Squid - in which I list Torture Squid books I want to read.
Squid wrestling for fun and profit. - in which nothing bad happens, a squid fights a sperm whale.
Luckee Cookie would appreciate this article - in which someone at the Dig hates geese and the Boston Herald puts too many puns in one article.
An unfortunate splotch - in which I stumble over words, dream, finish a book and start another, and someone watches The Simpsons and I reminisce about the time my friend who said to never forget her when I make the next Star Wars heard a doorbell and thought the telephone was ringing.
A string of thunderstorms - in which a storm is coming and Katie suggests that if I disappear, it means I was abducted by thunder monkeys.
Which is funnier, bananas or cheese? - in which a storm arrives and I unplug everything and someone compares Super Mario Bros. with the eightfold path.
Rats - in which rats do things
The Alphabet as Art (Arabic edition) ~ a rant - in which FOX repeats Simpsons episodes too much and I stumble upon some calligraphic art on Barbelith.
LoZ Temple Week (music within) - in which I dream
In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe (LoZ songs) - in which I post a dream I had in 2002.
LoZ Temple Week continues (and another song) - in which I post a dream I had in 2003, a song or ten, and a hundred year old French film.
Now for Ocarina of Time music - in which a thunderstorm keeps me awake.

Fire Temple music (complete with that chanting) - 3 rabites
- in which Chris describes a song as cybernetic ghosts giving trees pot and blowing smoke at monkeys drumming on various drums.
Seems I forgot some stuff. - in which I post the ending of Star Ocean.
Some music and stuff. - in which I compare the Shadow Temple with the Water Temple and Forest Temple.
No better way to celebrate the birth of your nation... - in which my dog hates fireworks, I post some dreams from 2003.
Yamamanama's Strategy Guide To Tales Of Phantasia - chapter I
I'm 22 years old today! - in which I postpone Tales of Phantasia because Chris gave me some Angry Beavers episodes and a Horse the Band album.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter II - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter III - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide Chapter IV - and lots of songs - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter V (and a few songs) - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter VI - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter VII (and a song, again) - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide chapter VIII - and lots of songs - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide Chapter IX - The Infamous Boat Scene - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide Chapter X - Cless vs. Alice - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide Chapter XI, and a song. - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide chapter XII and songs - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide chapter XIII - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide chapter XIV, and a song, and a rant. - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
The dinosaurs were mooned to death. - in which someone can't seem to grasp the magnitude of space and thinks the dinosaurs were literally mooned to death.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide chapter XV, and songs, as usual - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XVI - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XVII and Ethiopian music - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - chapter XVIII - and Kenyan music. - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XIX - and some songs - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XX - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
The first part applies to GFF readers only. - in which I ask people if their browsers are crashing, which is the very first piece of evidence that livejournal is superior to gamingforce, and promise to post more entries consisting of Sandman quotes and random stupidity from the rest of the internet.
A Dream of a Thousand Cats - in which I lament the lack of activity in my life, and compare the terribleness of stealing cakes and replacing them with frosted couch pillows, posting prematurely, and having 350 images on the same page, and compare Star Man's music to Mary Poppins on crack, making Laurie happy.
Tales of Phantasia strategy guide chapter XXI - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Ruby's dead? Oh. Oh wow. That means I get to drive. - in which I dream that reminds me of another dream from my distant past.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XXII - and gamelan music - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
I'm your worst nightmare — a pumpkin with a gun. - in which that makes a great title, but I'm only doing it because otherwise, smoke will come out of people's computers and they won't load the page because Gamingforce doesn't have a lj-cut feature.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XXIII - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Everyone, upload your favorite song. - in which I dream and wishingstar acquaints me with Delerium.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XXIV - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Let's listen to Filipino Music! - in which I post the only filipino songs that weren't recorded with a nintoaster.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide Chapter XXV-The Infamous Bath Scene - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
A mime gets flushed down the toilet! - in which Dagget breaks the toilet by flushing things.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XXVI - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Any view of things that is not strange is false. - in which the filler entries serve their purpose.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide Chapter XXVII - kind-of-alotta songs - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
You get what anyone gets; you get a lifetime - in which I go to see an orthodontist regarding wisdom teeth and have banana ice cream
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide Chapter XXVIII - kindofalotta songs - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Giant Enemy Crabs got into the domain name. - in which I have to use the super secret back door to get on Gamingforce.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide Chapter XXIX ~ super-lot-of songs - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
I don't know whether to hate this guy or be amused by him. - in which Kim Jong Il invents the potato.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide Chapter XXX ~ notalotta songs. - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
bumblebees on trampolines blow honey bubbles down - in which music in Xenosaga reminds me of Mars Lasar
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide Chapter XXXI - Angry Beavers - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Ahem, AcerBandit. - in which I give him the rom of Tales of Phantasia but really just want to break up the picture entries with non-picture entries.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XXXII and some music. - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Identify this language for me (It's probably something from Asia) - in which I ask a site filled with asiaphiles to identify the language it's in and despite them being fluent in Japanese they assume it is Japanese and not the Native American language it actually is.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XXXIII - and music
Heffer's a pretty pretty princess! - in which Heffer puts on a tutu and I do a thing about songs, even if some of them are mistitled or not really songs.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XXXIV - and a song - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Video Entry: Raccoons on a Space Shuttle - in which stuffed raccoons go into space because someone told them there was garbage there but get rabid and attack everyone.
Things George W. Bush Doesn't Care About. - in which I include YouTube videos after receiving no comments, but need more filler because people are still crashing.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XXXV - two songs - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Crazy Religious Fundamentalist Movie Reviews! - in which someone thinks Talledega Nights' mocking of Nascar is blasphemy, environmentalism is blasphemy, and World Trade Center didn't have enough hatemongering.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XXXVI - Radiohead B-Sides - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
An entry about Canadia - in which I post an image in a filler entry.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide - Chapter XXXVII - a few songs - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
This guy's artwork reminds me of Magi's
- in which Erik links me to pictures.
Tales of Phantasia Strategy Guide Chapter XXXVIII ~ The End ~ 3songs - in which I play Tales of Phantasia
Epilogue - Sunday Mourning - in which it's not sunday morning anywhere on the planet but I can't make wordplay out of sunday evening.
The 20 Best Songs You've Never Heard - part 1 of 3 - in which I list songs but am at a loss for words.
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak - in which I forget the context behind an entry, my dog vomits and destroys my appetite, and I think I see someone I knew but she was dressed in a hoodie and oversized sunglasses.
The Twenty Best Songs You've Never Heard - Entry 2 of 3 - in which I list songs and say nothing else.
Perhaps I should wait. ~ A recent dream - in which Hyde is setting up his shit at college and I think that he cares what I think.
The 20 Best Songs You've Never Heard - Entry 3 of 3. - in which I list awesome songs.
The Six Worst Songs I've Ever Heard - in which I list terrible songs.
Stuff I forgot to talk about earlier (3 more crappy songs) - in which Donald Duck sings Amazing Grace.
Why are the track names in Japanese? - in which a CD printed in London gives me Japanese tracknames.
in my past life, I was a dinosaurus rexus...or maybe a tree. or a bug. - in which Lauren is weird and DK64 is tedious.
Ever wonder what Alvin and the Chipmunks sound like... slowed down? - - in which I post a song that sounds like an accountant, a hot dog vendor, and a lunatic waiting for the bus in hell.
Jeff Vandermeer talks about SUVs - in which someone tries to fax my phone and the internet explodes as a result.
Squid. Squid. Squid. Squidmeerkat. - in which I pass the time by making the sound of a barnyard animal and everyone tries to guess what it is.
Too too too wee! ~ In which I upload a song that doesn't suck. - in which I break a string of entries on Gamingforce, break the mood there, and pass the time with Sonic.
I'm back! No, wait, I'm still gone! - in which I try to pass the time with ice cream, books, and Uninvited.
Well, it's SUPPOSED to be fixed ~ a banana song - in which I have a hard time uploading things.
Maybe you can interface with my ass. By biting it! - in which I snag a clip of Amy cursing out Bender and ask people what it means.

It works! ~ Asthmatic Kitty ~ a few songs - in which my internet is fixed.
Damn Dirty Apes! - in which I tell people to give up when their flash took less effort than Super Penis Brothers and Paris Hilton releases an album.
Someone threw up rainbow sprinkles in a maze and made a game. - - in which a band in Pepperell pretends Jimi Hendrix songs are theirs and I dream about fascist midgets.
I start classes tomorrow ~ songs for Amara - in which I talk about songs.
First Day Of Classes: The Status Report (and songs, but you knew that) - in which Maureen has her foot run over by a parade float, the cafeteria lacks computers, Tina wears a metal claw as a pendant, Kendra is intrigued by eye-bleeding backgrounds, someone comes up with zombie cats.
We are toebots! ploink. We are mighty! ploink. - in which I suspect Dana and Tiang are either testaments or the same person, but then just assume she's flushing things down the toilet, the cafeteria gets new computers, Dana suspects the Herald is hiring people to read other newspapers and write puns based on the articles, Dave interprets a drawing.
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times. - in which a store called Cool as a Moose is a real place and Alex dreams that trees talk about sunlight.
He's got a big banana! (a comic) - in which I post a comic but Imageshack devoured it and I have no idea where to find another version of it.
The Reconciliation - some songs - in which I guess Tiang doesn't hate me or something, Eric says something wonky to Tina, and the Herald thinks Saint Ajora's Day is too sacrosanct for bad puns.
Nothing to fear, nothing to doubt. - in which I am unable to have Immelman listen to a Thai-ified version of Day Tripper, I contemplate liberating stuffed piggies, Tina watches bad comedy routines.
Songs for my favoritest kitchen utensil - in which I post songs because Spatula wants them, happily eat ice cream in front of Tiang, walk away from WBIM's table with five CDs, a guy dresses as a chicken and walks around campus and I suggest that he should fight with the guy in the bear suit.
Chicken vs. Bear: FIGHT! ~ marmosets - in which I mistake something Rich said for marmoset.
Jimi Hendrix would love this song. - in which Chris Gabrieli does not take out his own garbage.
I have Xenosaga Episode III ~ with pictures - in which I play a video game and say that I wouldn't post a picture of a sandwich even if I had a camera.
Ahem, Infernal Monkey - in which I demand to know the location of the Caution Squid, but it's in his secret lair, which is so secret that even he doesn't know where it is.
"His name is Fig Newton" - in which a guy's name is Fig Newton.
It's Election Time Again! - in which the other candidates in the comic are bad because they support urinary tract infections
"What can Greek Life offer me?" - in which someone alters a poster extolling the virtues of joining a fraternity, Dana makes a bad pun about Thailand, and Brian tries to find out how far he could see from the top of Olympus Mons, but I accidentally do something in degrees rather than radians, or the other way around.
Let's listen to crazy Japanese psychedelia! - in which I fail to spell psychedelia properly, someone shows me her artwork.
Since you're curious (you post songs here too) - in which a massive stingray conspiracy is involved with the hindenburg, Kennedy, and the Loch Ness Monster.
I'm not pining for the fjords, it just seems that way - in which Katie talks about Mirrormask.
So, is this some weird parody or what? - in which Rich explains Deal or No Deal and leaves a half-eaten ear of corn in his backpack.
I literally cried while reading this. - in which they do not fear the eyespots, I offer a spanish lesson, offer habanero chips to Tiang and Immelman, and Kendra comes up with a super muffin.
English, please. - in which I ask people to make it clear what language videos are in so I don't waste two days downloading a video that turns out to be in Spanish.
Habanero chips + Elfen Lied = vivid dreams - in which I have an erotic dream.
Let's listen to music from the new Ghost in the Shell SAC thingus! - in which we do that.

Fun With Magnets - in which a woman tries to play slots on a computer and uses a magnet to try to drag down the seven, ruining her monitor.
Fun With a Rocket Engine - in which we discuss horror movie franchises going into space.
fun with steak - in which I link to an animated gif of steak warfare and Christine dreams about killer ewoks dressed as ghosts.
Fun with Iconoclasm - in which Dana refuses sympathy pudding and Thaddeus remarks on the surreality of arts awareness and poverty awareness at the same locale, and someone tries calling someone else via cellphone while Khakatay is doing some mad drumming action.
Fun With Mushrooms - in which I'm disappointed by a song and have a recurring dream.
The Dinosaurs Exploded! - in which someone thinks dino means explode, and that's not true, and I celebrate Lauren's birthday by linking to several Pete and Pete episodes.
things I find cute - in which I don't actually bother to list traits I find endearing in my preferred sex.
They say this here place is haunted. Yeah, but only by a ghost. - in which Nicole misremembers the plot to an Are You Afraid of the Dark episode and views Labyrinth as a tribute to David Bowie's crotch, someone laughs at the idea of Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd.
"What do you miss most about childhood?" - in which Carla asks that question.
Legends of the Hidden Temple - in which we talk about the silver monkey.
Merry Cthulhumas - in which I find a parody of holiday songs and base its placement on the time I noticed a christmas tree up in late September.
Massive Attack - in which Ceres wants Massive Attack.
A question for you people to answer ~ and more Massive Attack. - in which I wonder about alien music, I think it would be ethereal and twangy, and Chris thinks it would be extremely distorted and painful or involve lots of string instruments.
Could you imagine the Pope doing a jig? - in which Rich thinks the pope would rather cackle or shoot lightning.
This is quite possibly the worst name for a band. - in which someone thinks it's a good idea to call their band NO.
A Storm Of Wings - In which I introduce Tiang to Carla and Immelman and a snack machine mocks me.
some explanations are in order - in which I translate statements in moon language
The Hoegbotton Guide To Acquiring Props. - in which I satirize prop wars.
This guy is like the Cuckoo Clock in Hell. - in which a creationist has the occasional intelligent thought buried in his demented statements.
I need your help. - in which Rich reads about a trial and the fifteenth century's warped idea of justice.
Chipmunk Techno - in which someone listens to a techno remix of Alvin and the Chipmunks loud enough for everyone to hear, and someone else threatens to replace Nicole's cigarettes with candy cigarettes.
Paris Hilton is a hologram? - in which I have to compete with entries on GFF that consist of the word "wii" 423 times and someone wishes he could find the controls for Paris Hilton.
Cave Story - in which someone plays Cave Story and I decide to finally use the english patch I found.
This song is absolutely beautiful. - in which people toss army men from the balcony and Ryan eats a quesadilla.
Samurai Jesus and other stuff - in which Rich has the idea to dress up as samurai jesus and I describe my lack of costume as a superhero costume and Immelman doesn't get it.

Listen to my friend sing! - in which Casey sings, Mixel Pixel has an awesome web page with Bowser dancing and Birdo shooting eggs, and Rich thinks a song was a really long crescendo.
Some songs for you. - in which I link to things.
AliceNWondrland would hate this song, but Aardork might like it. - in which I link to a song about the fall of wonderland.
"Instant karma" always gets so lumpy. - in which someone suggests scrabble with formulae.
Give me shadow, put on my crown. - in which I have an idea to print out fake posters for a fake play and plaster them all over campus.
What did office monkeys do before the internet, anyway? - in which Kristi makes a facial expression at Matt.
black hole bird - in which I rope people into listening to a song.
disappointment - in which only Amara listens to a song I was trying to pressure everyone in to listening to and Blue seemed rather hurt by this.
Do you know what your own liver tastes like? - in which the joke is on Shin because I spent most of the day afterward having dinner with family.
Everything in its right place. - in which I wonder if I used that title before, Rich gives me a CD with no dinosaurs, and Aphex Twin reminds me of Veniss and rain and neon-lit future cityscapes and subways.
Yama's Mix CD side blue ~ download - in which I send a CD to the bitterly empty reaches of space, AKA Fitchburg.
Innocence, once lost, can never be regained. - in which said quote appears in a fortune cookie and I laugh.
Mix CD Side Crimson - in which GFF is down.
Ha! I mock your cheese danish and all it stands for! - in which Ethan discusses Dr Pepper and Timmy The Tooth.
You should see her floppy hat collection. - in which I dream I was fighting Ein Rugel.
and the blossoms had already begun to fall in her domain, becoming smudged and formless colors - in which Aphex Twin goes well with rain, and I dream of summer and wake up disappointed in november.
Change. Change. Change. Change... Change. Change. Chaaange. - in which I ask if people think I've changed and in what way, but nobody actually answers it and Spatula acts like a doofus.
Where is this vocal from? I'm assuming somewhere in Asia. - in which people in the past assume things about dinosaur bones and I post a song that sounds like a space-time anomaly recorded in some Tibetan place.

Reflections and Musings - in which I am entranced by strobe lights and rain on the windshield, someone imagines how hilarious it would be for someone to forget he had wheels in his shoes when going down the stairs, Carla comes up with great non sequiturs, someone is hit by a train, someone throws a traffic cone into a tree, Kramer says something racist, and someone invites everyone to his wake, where there will be a car battery and spring attached to his body.
Liturgical chants and Baka - in which I post Delerium.
Snow, Glass, Apples - in which I am apprehensive and instead post some Delerium, it snows and I post an appropriate picture.
Sledding in Iraq - in which Rich has way too much fun with coloring books.
I have more Uzbeki music! - in which I find Sevara Nazarkhan's homepage.
Duck in a spacesuit - in which i post a picture of Lavos.
Keep your friends close, keep your enemies in your pants. - in which Rich imagines Hitler in Thaddeus' pants and Katie says the only way to get a used bookstore to reject things is to draw Mr. Fluffywinkles in it.
"I think I'm a fire engine!" - in which someone at OMG Mall in Kingston makes a weird noise and I buy Weaveworld and somebody wonders if Twink sounds like an Autechre remix of Little Marcy.
more findings - in which people on drugs talk politics, and somebody makes the Arcade Fire sound good.
One more exam left - in which I am burnt out from E&M, a toxic blaze of insanity burns slowly slowly, and Jeff Vandermeer talks monkeys.
All done! ~ A mirror improves the ability to think. Silence recedes. - in which I quote Technolyze while watching it in the computer lab, take an exam, take a shower, and eat a salad and drink a pepsi.
Everyone, upload your favorite song. - in which I ask people to upload their favorite song for a second time, and forget to link to the specific people I lost due to selfishness, detachment, or alienation.
Come to me. I'll be your guardian angel. - in which I praise Technolyze's soundtrack.
Plush Cthulhu wishes you a Merry Christmas - in which I deliver brief summaries of the Twelve Days of Wonky Roms from past years.
The Twelve Days of Wonky Roms - Cocoron - in which I am most pleased by both cocoron and the fact that December 26th is the longest time I can go without hearing the all christmas format.
The Twelve Days Of Wonky Roms - Buster Busts Loose - in which I am most disappointed.
The Twelve Days of Wonky Roms - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - in which I reminisce about wasting my life playing Bubba 'n' Stix but find passwords for the last level but don't bother to beat the fucking game, play another game for like 4 seconds because Chris told me to and simply gank the screenshots from SomethingAwful.

07: awakening

the twelve days of wonky roms: fantasy zone - in which I play a game that I once got on cartridge for two dollars.
the twelve days of wonky roms: super fantasy zone - in which I have fun playing a genesis game with a SNES title.
treaties - in which I link to songs, put the Twelve Days of Wonky Roms on indefinite hiatus, and I think something specifically about blue.
so they combined shoegazing and post-rock - in which I obsess over Elf Fatima and The 303s.
the twelve days of wonky roms: the rest - in which I am burnt out and summarize some roms I played in a few paragraphs or less.
in which I return to school in biting cold - in which the windchill drops below subzero and I delay a Psycho Dream entry.
clive barker fever dreams - in which I dream about monsters and Rich dreams about beating up George W. Bush.
the fitchburg incidents - in which I wanted to use a title and did because Laurie cut a potato in half with a sword, set a cake on fire, and set off a smoke alarm by using too many candles, all in fitchburg, while in Bridgewater, I see Immelman and promise to upload some Vast for people to listen but back out of it with rumors flying about, someone steals a couch, I listen to Outhouse for the first time in ten years.
hey blue, where'd you run to now? - in which I link to Smashing Pumpkins b-sides.
This entry has music and in no way relates to the awards whatsoever. - in which I award people for having good taste in music.
yama, in love - in which I strike up a conversation about art and wonder why I used that title now and not some time in 2013, Katie wonders if it's possible to get Kristi angry, Carla attempts to cross pool with soccer, and neither Blue, nor Celes, nor Lia win best new member and I'm disappointed.

the twelve days of wonky roms: psycho dream - in which I play Psycho Dream and am dissatisfied with said writeup because Miyomi dared me to write a journal entry without referencing anything, though I did reference Daria but I don't think Miyomi read my journal at this point so it doesn't really matter.
yeah, definitely oxidized - in which the hot chocolate tastes oxidized, Miyomi deludes me into thinking I've worked things out with Hyde.
this soup sucks. put tater tots in it. - in which Matt thinks tater tots in soup would improve it while I disagree.
monkeys and video games - in which monkeys are not random.
it's gonna be a glorious day - in which Kate writes an essay about August 20, Colleen remembers the MCAS but not the SAT, Thaddeus writes an essay about If You Give A Mouse a Cookie and Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia, and gets an A for it.
meeeeeeeeerkat - in which I buy Little, Big and plan a mix CD.
that's it! I'm setting up a frogurt stand in Cydonia - in which I will not be outdone by North Koreans and their hotel.
my favorite female vocalists as of 2007 - in which I post songs, I forget a name, he talks about ogre choruses, and lament my lack of dreams caused by Thai food.
lily and jim - in which I recommend a video about blind dating expecting to cause a toxic blast of patheticness and muy estupido and Ceres thinks of her own relationship, Colleen dreams about being chased by Ronald Reagan, I dream about the feywood and post about Valentine's heart.
monkey pull lever, monkey get banana - in which I use a title from a Mastermind clone, Katie interrogates a clown and thinks about polka metal.
downloading a banana - in which I dare people to come up with a better title than that, I recommend carrying around a CD or iPod filled with Mega Man music to counter obnoxiously catchy songs, Chris and I discuss mans.

misprision of dreams - in which the Course of the Heart arrives, I tell everyone to tell Hyde he smells like lemons and rotting pears, I dream about Vietnam.
dragons, with body armor and uzis, swordfighting - in which I discover Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate and compare it to the Mega Man box art.
Terranigma Strategy Guide Chapter I - in which Spring Break happens and Katie comes up with Captain Paranoia, who goes around fighting random innocents he suspects are supervillains, and Kristi is disappointed by Mark Summers not sliming people on The Price is Right.
Terranigma Strategy Guide Chapter III - in which i play Terranigma
terranigma part IV - in which I dream about Acid Mothers Temple and play Terranigma, and get my wisdom teeth taken out.
i have a grudging respect for muse now - in which Muse reminds me of Ren and Stimpy.
if I had the mouse run over the keyboard and crap on it - in which Ethan shows up and we discuss bad bands with good names, and his computer sucks.
I will F=ma Muse - in which somebody writes a wikipedia entry about a professor I had, I discuss crappy bands, and I list band names.
depouillement - in which the guy who 'teaches' linear algebra says you can't turn off the sun but Katie wishes that wasn't true and I listen to the Chinese version of Sonic Youth.
the lords of illusionary success - in which I find Muse on the same CD as some good music, list horrible band names, and judge penne a la pesto by the standards of macaroni and cheese.
the city - in which I finish Weaveworld, Katie comes up with song titles.
the lord of the first operation - in which Matt wants to use a labelmaker to put his name on everything and Immelman combines a fancy suit and a fonzy jacket.
the hermetic feast - in which International Night 2007 happens and I listen to Christianity is Stupid on Good Friday, gain a new appreciation of Kirlian Shores when I skip through Muse tracks in a dark car, Katie casts quake on floating enemies in Final Fantasy VI and gets a game over for her efforts.
in which we wake - in which I bid a fond farewell to Gamingforce, but if it must be so, then so be it.
an epilogue ~ sunday mourning - in which I post something making sure it's morning in Boston, MA, fail to find the Korean equivalent of We Save Strawberries, and the easter bunny freezes to death.
there are two Ls in Lily - in which I correct your spelling.
Kenoma - in which I find myself extremely dissatisfied with Gamingforce when it's up, bleed from my eyes after reading some satire about george orwell or something, and Cam draws R2-D2.
the hermetic feast, with lily napkins - in which I start my own website because Gamingforce is perpetually down.
revenge of the space pandas - in which the Boston Herald is tasteless, Rich's friend makes up a rumor about Kristi falling over a midget, Rich comes up with a movie about Hitler clones, and the school theatre has a play about space pandas.
matt bellamy has an illegitimate child, the muppet Rizzo the Rat - in which I am unable to play a game in which you beat Matt Bellamy with a dead squirrel frozen in ice and the Mir space station, and Thaumogenesis causes the vengeful ghosts of Vietnamese children to drag Vajo Jr. to hell and blows up the GFF server.
attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion - in which I replace a half-assed retrospective on a site I wasn't planning on spending much time on due to changes for the worse in moderation, frequent downtimes, and a desire to spend more time with college friends with a reflection on why I was going to eventually walk away, and wonder how my relationship with miyomi would have been altered had I not been banned, Laurie joins the Brick Liberation Army and finds something I said about lily petals funny, flowers fall from trees, and I read Little, Big.
springfest 2007 - in which it rains on the unloved, I get several CDs, list hypothetical band names, Laurie offers to bring giraffes and bubble wands and silly string to people's houses.
he was like a cross between a dog and a bowling ball - in which Mike draws a bowling ball dog singing Lit, Matt showers with his clothes on, I offer to draw a facsimile but don't, insult Muse, and give Kristi a mix cd.
we can't let the squirrels learn mechanics - in which Cam says that squirrels might build acorn cannons and imitates the movie guys, petals fall from the trees, Rich mentions a guy with his femur sticking out.
bowling ball dog ice cream - in which Mike is in a fit of laughter because I mention ice cream flavors nobody's eaten and Matt draws a unicorn drinking a milkshake, Kristi as George Washington, Colleen as Ben Franklin, and me as a French person instead of an English/Irish/Italian/Hungarian person.
kenoma again - in which I try to use vbcode in livejournal and realize that all this careful planning and social positioning was for naught and I should have lived more for the moment.
halcyon days - in which I sendspace every comment in my chocolate chocobo journal aside from some unimportant ones in the last four entries or so, and they compress rather nicely into a 56 meg file.
olives and pancakes - in which I share barely-musical art music.
friends only - in which I tell Rydia to not bury this journal friends only posts amongst decade old entries where they will not be seen by anyone ever again.
Tritoch is a JERK - in which Setzer summons Tritoch on some fire-absorbing enemies and I list story ideas from a random generator.
Kenoma 3: THE REVENGE - in which I raze the dreaming killing as many mudkips as possible, annihilate Tritoch in Final Fantasy V.
burnt lily - in which Bean fails to properly send a topic on atease about Muse to Ava Lilly.
fallout - in which Bean has a collaborative writing project everyone fails at and I get bored instead of Ava Lilly beating Bean to a pulp with me sitting at a table.
i'm slightly wrong - in which I wonder if doing the right thing makes anyone happy.
you not only insult a good band, you insult Batman - in which Ava Lilly fails to spell her name properly.
theopneustia - in which Batman is already disgraced by Batman and Robin, Turd Burger listens to shit music, No. 4 is defined as two different things, and I watch Plan 9 from Outer Space and mutter in 13th century Italian.
epiphany - in which I ask something akin to a burning question, bean is sick or dead or something, and my entire being shifts in between two different planes of existence or locusts try to hijack my consciousness.
every web remained unbroken - in which I beat Final Fantasy IV and have a pop quiz about the game.
help me get revenge on crash landon - in which I ask people to nominate songs that are both noisy and difficult to enjoy without proper training and half-succeed.
see, yama, this is the kind of brilliance you come up with when nobody's around - in which I say brilliant things about Final Fantasy IV.
the blue anemone ontological association presents - in which I decline to do a survey because I'm pretty sure it was the same one I did two years before.
the blue anemone ontological association presents a FFIV strategy guide - in which someone makes a good FFIV guide and I fuck up a link.
to anyone from the philippines or planning to go there - in which I ask for a copy of Alyas: Batman en Robin.
stupid quiz from the Yellow Chocobo Stupidity Association - in which I fill out a quiz.
yama gets simpsonified - in which a site fails but makes me wait half an hour.
see my face transmogrified into different ethnicities and art styles - in which a site is nice enough to not make me wait half an hour to not work.
somethingawful's strategy guide - in which I gank a bunch of videos from somethingawful before they disappear in the eternal void of paywalls and other crap.
yr. fear, yr. apprehension, yr. distance, and yr. sorrow - in which I tell people to be honest with me but nobody gives a shit apparently.
i'd immerse you in flames - in which I rant about opacity but Amara doesn't listen, but thankfully I meet Morbo's Good Friend Alex and Matt takes a piano class.
autumn reached for her golden crown - in which I try and elicit a mix CD but only get half of one and Jill thinks it's a good idea to extort summonmaster and says that's not an asteroid, it's a potato.
where are monsters in dreams? - in which I post that story about the knife and men in black suits from Marathon ∞.
this is all your fault - in which Plarom, DarkWingedAngel, and Amara all decide they hate me and I consider not updating anymore, also, you end up missing the story about how I can't do anything right and when I do, it doesn't make up for the fact that I plugged my headphones into the wrong socket, and how I went to the MFA and SoletaAnna screamed at me for saying something to Miyomi when I clearly wasn't home, and how I went to a bunch of concerts over the summer, I'm pretty sure I posted about the Abduction from the Seraglio, but not about the trip to the MFA.
sprouticus is an intellectual thief - in which Sprouticus steals my idea to write a satirical something about the Gamingforce meet.
how does this even begin to make sense? - in which Xpander attacks me for trying to apologize to him, I meet Heather and discuss cake or death and meerkats.
>I'm impatient for the stars to change - in which Jill says people have too much time on their hands and don't deserve my friendship if they can't do simple math and only hate me because their friend does.
the beautiful season ends - in which people ignore me when I say hi or apologize to them but flip out when I ask about songs on a mix CD I want to make.
calluna and the search for LSD - in which I give Shayna a mix CD, discuss band names and where god may or may not be, things impossible to find, missing hours, and the soviet union.
recollections - in which I list butterfly genera and piss off Kara Mano Iru, using klein bottles as a metaphor.
saudade - in which I pry off the space bar of a school computer to write about how Kara Mano Iru sent me an IM kinda sorta explaining what's going on, and giving me hope about the whole situation.
transience blues - in which I talk to a girl about making her own klein bottle and don't learn her name afterwards.
now taking bets - in which I fill out a survey because I have nothing better to do.
it's winter again so we lit all the candles and pretended your room was a palace - in which I ask people to submit songs for a winter mix and fail miserably, wonder what would go on the White CD, wonder whether I should be commenting on someone's artwork and comparing it to a torrent that might be in poorly-translated Hmong.

08: acceptance

the most important thing you'll ever read. ever - in which I learn an important lesson about not downloading a song because it has a whimsical title.
tormenta de alas - in which I fill out a survey because I really have nothing better to do.
i'm not dead. Just resting. Or pining for the fjords. Or something - in which I rant about Battletoads.
immelman's quixotic quest - in which Jill impersonates Encephalon and Immleman goes on a quest to drink from every water fountain on campus and give them a rating from one to ten, and Dana says that people should finish what they start, even if it involves a wig and a dress.
to remind you that I am still alive - in which I end my month-long flu-related journaling hiatus and you miss something about a Modest Proposal and condom water balloons leading to bitumen of judea and the art of faking leprosy with the stuff with some added pigments and acid, and the grumpy snail and the battle of the minds, aka Merv Burger vs Denicalis, and I really don't get why because it's like beating Glass Joe in Punch-Out, with a game genie code that makes you invincible, the president adding the moon to the axis of evil after an advertising prank.
in power we entrust the love advocated - in which I post the first ever burning question
long live dada! howl! - in which I post poetry
feed me you've pretended if I were you - in which I expose four people to the Cocteau Twins, including someone name Liz.
karma police arrest this man he talks in math - in which I learn that a TI-89 can't solve the integral of tan x to the 1/2 dx and later take a walk and see chalk drawings of muffins and/or trees.
the first celestial adventure of mr. antipyrine, fire extinguisher - in which I post a poem.
It's the Shaggs of Mario music - in which I link to the Super Mario World music as performed by R2-D2 having a seizure.
ten sketches - in which my crack team of specially trained spider monkeys find things written by the hunewearl, Alex and Melissa offer their opinion on iguana names, Matt asks the cafeteria to put rice in burritos, people are amused by the Great Cake Adventure, I obtain some CDs, Emily talks Blaster Master, I feel underwhelmed, Miyomi thinks bad things happened but all that really happened is that I found out the origins of a giant enraged marshmallow peep, a bunch of guys run around with foam swords, there is an African music concert with too much feedback that keeps Matt from doing the crossword puzzle, and Sarah talks Star Wars.
lizzy always saves the day - in which I suggest spraying Hyde in the face with shaving cream, the geography club sells cookies that aren't international at all, and their globe has a spacetime rift from pole to pole running through Ukraine and Mozambique.
god was grounded for masturbating at a birthday party - in which someone writes that amongst Jurassic Park quotes and someone being very impressed that he knew where the line came from.
set's testicles! - in which katie uses that as the newest expletive, I don't last longer than Arthur does on the mechanical bull but I do get to say "yippie kay yay, you'll never guess where I've been" in a Zoidberg voice in its semiproper context, Dana plays against Brendan in scrabble, international night happens but the program is horribly wrong, Frankie thinks my art is like Giger's, Tony gives me dispatches from the Meerkat Wars, somebody says that we need to give boys names like Sara and Elizabeth before there's no boy names left and they'll all be named John.
another king's quest v design flaw - in which I find the most ridiculous flaw in a video game ever and wonder why it was left in because the only way I can see that being useful is during beta testing.
operations of the heart - in which Radio Nowhere proposes a screenplay that I'd totally see, I offer to eat my shoe if Miyomi is ever nice to me, and people say things.
swallowed by the god - in which I ask Dana to film a real life Bobby Neurotic, things that I thought only happen to Immelman happen to me, Harrison Farsheets talks of wolf masks and Paul Park talks of religion.
"kill him, bella" - in which I draw a facsimile of Matt's drawing of Victor, who should be saying "'ooooo" because he's metal.
you are my center when i spin away out of control on videotape - in which I'm not allowed to mess with McAdoc's video, and I discover a Rainbow Generator, and it was the one on Draac, not the one on Tektek or Glitter-Graphics.
the too-late springfest entry - in which Al imitates the Glow's vocalist, Laurie wonders why nobody rapped as Darth Vader (this is before Epic Rap Battles Of History), I win a beach ball because I let the Force guide a squeaky fish through a hole, Dan wanted to run through obstacle courses and hit people with a giant q-tip but at least it wasn't cold and wet, three people bring doggies, I try to explain things to Emily but she calls me selfless because I keep apologizing so suck it, I attempt to draw Liz's tattoo and fail, and notice that double rainbows invert the colors.
in dreams - in which the Champion of the Universe contest between Liz, JoJo and Melissa happens.
three body problem - in which I find the lyrics to Sultitan-Itan and Chris thinks my banana powers are returning to me, Liz has never played Sonic the Hedgehog, someone has a stress ball disaster, a guy walks around with a cross because he's in a film and not planning to storm the GLBTA room.
a week in Dream's life - in which I post stuff from The Sandman because Tina wanted me to.
gimme the mermaid - in which I post a video after Liz sings Under the Sea and Sarah suggests offering colored sand or chalk dust to people and claiming its candy, while Homer Badman collects dust.
if they used "loving kindness," that would be irony - in which I want to go to a godhatesfags rally wearing a Christianity is Stupid t-shirt.
done with exams - in which I remark on surreality and uncertainty.
a young man's journey to somerville - in which I visit the New Museum of Bad Art and come to terms with the end of my college career by chatting with a stranger about bad art I found in a desk because I had a class in a room occasionally used for saturday detention.
when the flower petals fall like snow - in which I wish I had a camera because that was probably the last nice spring I experienced as of 2014.
pablo picasso never got called an asshole - in which Gamingforce plans movie commentaries and an Ateaser sends me a mix CD.
the creation of the birds - in which I post a painting by Remedios Varo and a discussion about it with Laurie.
pleroma - in which I begin my FFIV guide.
misprision of dreams - in which I fill out a song survey and reuse an entry title.
n'aimez que moi - in which I yell at Rat and wish a happy birthday to Christina
"michael ashman" - in which I wonder why an awesome site wouldn't be up
oh, there it is - in which a site disappears and reappears.
dark rapture - in which people fail to fill out a survey
china's in the heart - in which I … whatever.
the facsimile - in which a reunion with a friend goes poorly, but probably mostly because it didn't actually happen and I don't even remember what I'm talking about.
number 17, hill park - in which Firefox goes rampant.
on the white downs - in which Pretty Patterns says that rarefied starlight makes purple and blue and green sparrows and Laurie suggests tying a camera to a sparrow's head
the place of the cure of the soul - in which I post random meaningless yi syllables
it always happens to someone else - in which I listen to too much Magnetic Fields and identify with 100,000 fireflies
the slave of god - in which I hate on the children of dictators
fatalité intériure - in which I finish the FFIV guide but don't even have a burning question.
I had no idea rednecks live in India - in which there are unfortunately named butterflies in India.
to absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists - in which I offer Adara Godfellas subtitled in Portuguese and think I'll take a chance and talk to Kara Mano Iru.
some poetry - in which Christina takes a photograph of some erotic poetry
there are heliconia in sonic 3 - in which I listen to a band called Heliconia and notice the flowers on Angel Island are themselves heliconia flowers.
quiz to sate you while more CT chapters are on the way - in which I fill out a survey because I have nothing else to talk about
change isn't always a bad thing - in which things with Kara go well enough.
a proposed solution to the energy crisis - in which I propose engines that run on refined stupidity.
obligations - in which I try and fail to fill out a survey
jesse helms is dead. also, he doesn't shoegaze - in which MC Hawking gets his wish.
pluvia - in which I turn 24 and find proof Tails is evil.
lumen - in which I list my thoughts to the day's playlist, meet a guy who thought I was still in high school and a woman with a tattoo of a tree.
was, is, and will be - in which someone from 4chan invites me to chat on AIM but I drive him away with butterfly genera
pluvia II - in which I wish a happy birthday to someone I will never talk to again and a very merry fuck you very much to a hunewearl I will never talk to, I hear Gershwin and Gospel and have nothing else to talk about.
the sky is falling in - in which I think the days of the Hunewearl Terror are over but they're not but Nuttyturnip says something profoundly stupid that and attention is deflected.
fierce brightness - in which I hear the Rite of Spring and a rat scurries around on the tracks.
attention: - in which I contemplate getting a new journal to avoid Encephalon but have nothing to actually talk about.
interlude, with opera - in which I consign a previous entry to the eternal void but it was nothing more than a quote by Scarletdeath that you can't officially find anywhere, then listen to operas about obsessive love and its consequences and overtures masquerading as opera and meet a man on the redline who says that friends don't let friends vote republican.
rain in the doorway - in which I post pictures of flowers and orchid mantises and feel manipulated.
"things are changing" - in which I dream about machines that can make people live forever in a simulated reality and decide I want to talk to Adara after reading Brief Lives and talking to a few more sympathetic people from Gamingforce.
bored, she makes little frogs - in which I am on Cape Cod and a rainbow projects itself onto the car window.
the other side of the sky - in which Miaou has a new album, a thunderclap sets off a car alarm and several dogs, a Japanese woman eats chocolate and barbecue potato chip ice cream and goes home to make ice cream flavored ice cream and meatloaf and little chocolate people with raspberry filling ice cream, and I forget to actually list the music played at said concert but the Internet Archive knows so suck it.
the things we do to be loved - in which Ceres regrets her role in driving Spatula off of GFF.
interlude, with andy warhol and pyotr tchaikovksy - in which Dubble calls me an Andy Warhol fucktard hipster and I wonder what worlds Andy Warhol is obscure in, then listen to some Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky in Boston, where Andy Warhol is not considered obscure.
interlude with sarah palin - in which Greykin is inactive but I go listen to symphonic dancing and someone from Gamingforce IMs me when I wasn't paying attention, John McCain finds the most incompetent running mate ever.
nested interludes - in which I list songs
have you got anything with a happy ending? - in which I see Verdi's Requiem on the esplanade and a man with one leg playing guitar at Downtown Crossing, lament the death of freedom and continue to forget everyone else who dies needlessly, and wonder if Adara lives in Galveston.
where all mazes meet - in which Gechmir puts my AIM screen name on OK Cupid and random pillocks think my name is Doran.
interlude: roses and october - in which it feels more like early september than early october, and I fill out a survey because I really have nothing better to do.
interlude: a rose among autumn leaves - in which a rose shows up amongst red and yellow leaves, I see a butterfly, and fill out a survey because I really have nothing better to do.
on Jorg Haider's death - in which Jorg Haider dies and fascists are sad but I am happy.
final fantasy vi ~ it begins, but since when have you cared about this? - in which I blame Civilization II for laziness
brains, a heart, a ride in a balloon - in which Philia offers to say hi to my friend in exchange for a patched ROM of Mother 3
sometimes I wish I had a dream library - in which I post in a survey about books.
and the blossoms had already begun to fall in her domain, becoming smudged and formless colors - in which I buy books and dream about things and am disappointed when they don't happen in reality.
on the 2008 election - in which I promise bonus content and am surprised by nice weather in November
morbo salutes our new president. may death come quickly to his enemies - in which a book is recommended to me.
portraits of final fantasy x - in which I rant about King's Quest and post concept art.
the beautiful season has ended - in which I buy a book and learn about a Batman musical and Silence of the Lambs musical.
I feel like Tristan Tzara - in which I make a poem out of song lyrics
ristar - in which I repost some old Twelve Days of Wonky Roms writeups.
plok - in which I repost some old Twelve Days of Wonky Roms writeups.
rediscovered jazz jackrabbit 2 - in which you don't get a rehash of twelve days of wonky roms.
another music thing - in which I list lyrics and have people guess them.
Cocoron - in which I repost some old Twelve Days of Wonky Roms writeups.
Buster Busts Loose - in which I repost some old Twelve Days of Wonky Roms writeups.
Fantasy Zone - in which I repost some old Twelve Days of Wonky Roms writeups.
psycho dream - in which I repost some old Twelve Days of Wonky Roms writeups.
have a good Xmas and beware of Robot Santa - in which I still haven't completely fell into my pattern of using short titles based on songs or short stories or book chapters, watch Wall-E and think that robots harvested their sperm and eggs for breeding purposes.
Merry Xmas from Cthulhu, Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Shub Niggurath, Nyarlathotep, and Ithaqua - in which I am the proud owner of a Cats Against War T-shirt.
hello kitty no ohanabatake - in which Hello Kitty starts a flower garden.
Bart vs. the Space Mutants - in which the heater is busted.
virtual bart - in which I suspect that George Wood was bribed to put in a good word about Virtual Bart, because I doubt anybody actually liked that game.
mr. bloopy saves the world - in which I play a weirdass beta rom and go to Christmas Revels thinking I'm going to cough one of my lungs out onto the stage.
socket - in which I play a game and have a sore throat and it hurts when I cough.


There are a metric fuckton of dead links. Let me know if you want me to do something about those. I don't think I can justify paying for hosting, but either a free webhost or formatting the guide and writeups for Livejournal is feasible. Just so you know.

ten sketches encapsulates the title. If you still don't get it, acceptance i about taking advantage of the life I have. This title makes equal sense in 2004-2005.

09: return

the twelve days of wonky roms: bubble & squeak - in which I fall ill and play Bubble and Squeak.
the twelve days of wonky roms: do-re-mi fantasy - in which I play a game that I enjoy playing, a snowy owl is sighted on Cape Cod, someone I kinda knew dies and I feel awkward about talking about that if the rest of the entry is about a light-hearted romp and a complaint about the weather.
the twelve days of wonky roms: majyuuou- in which I play a game with too many vowels and Asians hate the rest of the world and I am ultra-impressed by the fact that I found Cloud Atlas at a bookstore.
the twelve days of wonky roms: the magic school bus - in which I play The Magic School Bus while listening to Beautiful Lunar Landscape instead of the rather shitty Genesis music in the game.
i hope your heart keeps on beating for a long long time - in which the Pfhor hack the AI Ceres and it remakes the Bureau in its own image, Erin and I talk about reincarnation and bunnies, and Arthur writes a poem about wangstas.
the twelve days of wonky roms: sanrio cup pon pon volley - in whih Zeta played something I did and I play a Sanrio game.
sherlock holmes and the case of the erotic snow sculpture - in which someone builds two fat snow people naked and ready to fuck.
brilliance - in which Sully explains why you can't find your car or your socks and Kara is robbed by a little old lady in a motorized cart.
Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Hunewearl who mistook Orson Welles for George Orwell - in which Sherlock Holmes solves a case using deduction, my plan to invade with giraffes is delayed until the spring, and I tell Laurie about a sucky Magic School Bus video game.
the separation of the two-phased apple blossom - in which Al gets some books because a professor died, Google Earth is used for evil and for good, our right to privacy vanishes, the cafeteria reminds him of crayons.
i'm not the only person who doesn't see the appeal of Justice - in which I get into Boards of Canada, find out that Flying Saucer Attack did their own version of Sally Free and Easy, and Sarah notices that the flu virus is mutating too fast for our own good.
not every day's a victory - in which I print out questions for the purpose of subverting McAdoc procedures for creative and/or personal gain, wear a cats against war shirt and meet Fiona because of it and learn that Christina did not write an erotic poem in magnetic words, a guy dresses up as Dr. Wily dressed as a 70s variety show host.
excerpt from portraits of despair - in which I have little to say except for a quote from a Sandman comic.
of bad comics and the law of conservation of happiness - in which Phil and Al's Friend and I discuss bad comics and bad translations.
the twelve days of wonky roms: twinbee rainbow bell adventure - in which I recommend a video game, contemplate writing down notes and leaving them in places.
the excursions of ms. pinnata to the moon and the XV century - in which I hear an opera on the radio, find some clues regarding the whereabouts of Fiona including a jolly ranger and the worst ever impression of a british person, while Emily thinks I do have a bit of a British accent and Kara recommends a band with an M in it.
so musicians really Roger your Hammerstein - in which I watch The Great Cake Adventure and have to balance it out with Mono, Hiroshima, and Death Bed, discover a word that means both red and green at the same time, and Fíona is possessed by the vengeful spirit of Mary Poppins.
spring break! wooooooooo! - in which birds are singing and bees are trying to have sex with them, and I link to pictures of potato chip bags from Ireland and Japan.
remarks on an entry from april 21, 2006 - in which the tooth from Tooth Or Dare doesn't have a name and I accurately predict that Atlas Shrugged will suck moogle antenna.
to carla - in which I announce international night 2009 and tell Encephalon to stalk me if he sees this before the third phase of spring.
i have three words for you - in which someone mashes up Zelda music with rap, I wish to talk to someone when she's not around, and in an alternate dimension, come home thinking "I hope I don't run into fucking Miyomi. D'oh! Why are you here? Don't you have a life outside of mine?"
spring is the bitterest season of the year - in which I long for warmth.
what is the ocean but millions of drops of water? - in which I dream and decide to read Lord of Light.
go peel bananas with your feet - in which Shayna mocks Crash Landon for his inability to enjoy Lord of Light, I give a clue about my true name, and Laurie thinks Plarom sounds drunk and high and totally not british.
a momentous year for lesbians - in which Shayna recommends a book and I link to a Waiting For Godot text adventure.
the twelve days of wonky roms: sanrio carnival - in which I use FOX logic and post a Twelve Days of Wonky Roms entry in late March.
i found something more inane than the great cake adventure - in which Japan has a show about a girl who plays video games and fights evil with the power of magic panties.
cinnamon and lampyrines - in which Emily and I discuss childhood books, I give Shayna Ocarina of Rhyme and find The Year Of Our War.
international night 2009 - in which I smell toast in the campus center, discuss art, eat ice cream and laugh at Emily, propose that the Damn Hell Ass Kings turn bollywood music into Bristolian noise-folk, eat sushi and curried shrimp and mango rice and bulgogi and greek salad, and watch irish and cape verdean dancing and human pyramids.
jade, granite, opal, garnet, shale, iron ore, diamond - in which April 5th is a good day to be nice but april 6th is chilly and smells piscine, I lose a bookmark but should consider myself lucky.
the cradle of becoming and unbecoming - in which I watch a Uzbek animated adaption of There Will Come Soft Rains and discuss the merits and drawbacks of living in a completely automated world versus being blown to oblivion in a nuclear war, and also artwork and turtles and ye olde job faires.
and the moon be still as bright - in which Steve and I discuss the art of banana pancakes and random culinary concoctions.
Yes, I am aware of the irony of giving an album called Souvlaki to a vegetarian - in which I give Souvlaki to a vegetarian, point out that there is no Pink Floyd song called Dark Side of the Moon, and describe card games.
you're hearing things. I can't help you. Go see the eye guy instead - in which I read a chapter of Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate, think dogs are superior to cats, but cats are all right, aside from lolcats, which suck, and recommend a book to people.
INTERNAL ERROR 69105..... - in which I get pissy at bottomless pits in a Sonic hack and Tara and Chantel are amused by this, and recommend bureaucracy to people who are totally into getting married, people who thought they were but aren't and are getting divorced, people who need to change classes, and anyone who needed to get things straightened out, of which group I am the latter, after all, I am not one of Amy Chua's 8 master races, and neither are Tara and Chantel, in fact, they are pretty much what I am, with Czech in place of Hungarian.
red is a good color. it is the color of red things. - in which Tara likes good music.
coriander and ultramarine - in which I make a CD for Tara and Chantel, obtain a couple of EPs and albums, and spend a day at a concert on God's Toilet Bowl.
lassitude and languor - in which I am lethargic after a hot day of fun and oxidized onion dip.
fireworks and hurricanes - in which Madeleine wears a möbius strip on her head, Chantel doesn't have the bird flu but she does have a cat named Indiana Jones, and I feel like I was caught in an airstrike during my state of pleroma and feel overheated.
peregrinations - in which a song reminds me of Ecco the Dolphin and Palimpsest reminds me of the Course of the Heart, and Tara and Chantel recommend bands.
sherlock holmes and the case of homer's sugar pile (an indiana jones crossover) - in which I can't remember what the fuck I referenced, post a fortune, Scott wonders if the bee man speaks English in the Spanish dub (he doesn't), Steve can't remember which episode the sugar pile is in, I listen to music that Tara and Chantel like, and I recommend books.
verso: incipit liber de naturis bestiarium - in which Evan recommends a book, Sarah says there's nothing to see from the Burj Dubai, Chantel describes Crime and Punishment, Heather thinks an evil queen who hates cake would still choose cake over death, Steve and Nikki blow dandelion seeds and discuss success, Madeleine steals a bike, and we all say our goodbyes.
one morning in may - in which a chickadee hangs upsidedown, my dog sniffs the speaker while I play Ocarina of Time because he thinks there's a dog in the tv.
things which are full of grace - in which MisterShinra rips off my idea and I narrow down the suspects to people who are neither Evan nor Christina, and my clues include a fanfic where a hunewearl saves tails from a disease, someone wants movies to have both dinosaurs and robots.
the green wind - in which kids draw various characters having a presidential debate and building a helix to the moon.
it's spring, even if it doesn't feel like - in which Autosave cuts things off and I have to use dummy sentences, Cold Stone Creamery creates bizarre flavors for their ice cream.
inamorata - in which I find the most mindboggingly awful list of names, my cousin has ambitions in avant-garde music, spiders take over a people mover because it's easier to catch flies, I draw a cat, I discover the recipe for the worst fucking pizza ever, and I get annoyed by people who flush paper towels down the toilet when there's a sign telling them not to.
all at one point - in which I regret a statement I made about keytars always being awesome.
without colors - in which I buy books and spell words with numbers because it's late.
all I need is an excuse to use the word adultivity in real life - in which I go for a walk and see a robin's grave and a bicycle lawnmower.
our summer made her light escape into the beautiful - in which I find it hard to make a summer mix tape without summer
there is a christmas episode of the simpsons on right now - in which it is July.
the universe is always swallowing cats - in which I read As She Climbed Across The Table in a day, attempt to play Realmz, and go to a concert.
starlight and sunflowers - in which I think Michigan would make the perfect place for a post-apocalyptic film.
late night thoughts while listening to rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto - in which I see a butterfly, dream of Sigur Ros, walk 7 kilometers to hear a concerto and someone's crappiest version of the Hills are Alive.
the world would be a better place with more megaman tributes - in which I talk about Mega Man and the Durutti Column, someone lists everything he remembered from elementary school and I try and fail at the same, think about how time was so painfully big then and so painfully short now and go to a concert where the rain gods smile on us.
in much wisdom, there's much sorrow - in which I have a night at the opera.
blue skied an' clear - in which I read The Dragons of Babel and go to a concert.
flim kingston: we must be hot, we don't need a big ad or even correct spelling - in which Flim Fest happens and I describe a series of flims.
"an obscene phone call from Cthulhu" - in which Ted Kennedy dies and I lament people's inability to figure out that I'm not from California.
progress is a comfortable disease - in which I talk about Captain N, Firefox pisses me off, and I go to a concert to listen to music about nature and talk about overdevelopment and poor use of space.
das ist kein Stern. das ist eine Raumstation! - in which the summer concerts end with Brahms' German requiem and I inadvertently learn that TextEdit can spell check things in German.
of terrors and wonders, a retrospective - in which I reminisce about an art exhibit I saw in high school.
summer passed away quietly - in which I list songs and lyrics that make me think of summer.
see john galt. galt, john, galt! - in which somebody writes a parodic Objectivist primer and a remake of Stalker fails to surface.
don't lose sight of the good in this world - in which people who write movies have no sense of how big space is and I make James Thurber references and get giddy over the release of Finch and Girl.Echo.Suns.Veils.
lost autumn - in which it's too cold for october.
eastern europe's favorite cat and mouse team - in which I transcribe Worker and Parasite's cyrillic alphabet soup and give advice in Arabic.
I'm Idaho - in which Google's correction algorithm does the opposite of what is intended, October feels longer with anticipation.
Deviations, Superfixations, and Aberrations of the Heart - in which I feel crappy and talk about the Simpsons being overplayed.
that's hack work, not great art - in which I decline to share my erotic dreams, but share my Day of Lavos dream.
happy interstitial doldrums, everyone! - in which winter seems gigantic to me despite being the shortest season and I say that January is better than December because of christmas music, and propose a giant game of Risk in Dubai.
it is dark. you are likely to be eaten by a grue - in which vintage gaming causes dreams of middle school
double helixes up to heaven - in which someone thinks of Cyranose de Bergerac about a decade after the writers of Sesame Street do, a new planet is discovered and we lament our mortality.
distillation and sublimation - in which Ethan throws a party and we watch videos, and it feels as much like the end of an era as Verso: Incipit Liber de Naturis Bestiarium or the actual May 28, 2003.
where we're going, we don't need roads - in which the New Tens begin and instead of giving a retrospective, I post a conversation about school buses, and give that entry the perfect title.

Return is obvious, especially if you've already read Acceptance.

Also, I'm having a wonderful time with the HTML in this entry. Every time I fix something, something else becomes irreparable and invalid.

There, hopefully everything works properly.

10

want to get from here to there, a bike can take me anywhere - in which I ask everyone to listen to Freezepop, explain the lack of a Twelve Days of Wonky Roms, and give some random thoughts on Twilight Princess.
Maybe if I listen to Flying Saucer Attack, I can trick my body into thinking it's summer - in which I try to listen to aestival music to warm myself up.
A vote for Scott Brown is a vote for obnoxious chain e-mails - in which I find invisible rats slightly creepy but oddly hilarious.
snowflecked - in which Scott Brown is a senator but at least it won't last and healthcare wasn't really my concern anyway, Lovesliescrushing makes beautiful music, and the books I want won't be out for another hundred days.
wired for light - in which I am very thiankful that World War II was not fought by the Civilization II AI, although I could imagine an alternate universe where World War II had an Axis (same as the old one, minus India and Iraq, add the British Union of Fascists-led UK) and Allies (United States, Soviet Union, Ireland, India, Egypt, Poland, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia), which would be a complete and utter catastrofuck.
too much, too bright, too powerful - in which FOX overplays Simpsons episodes, someone mistakes my fiction for YuGiOh fanfiction, I make something in Gimp, give more random thoughts on Twilight Princess, and lament Asian scientologists.
A Wreath of Bright Stars - in which I find mcbpete himself while looking for someone from my past and devote my valentine's days to finding conversation hearts with wuv on them.
The logic board on my computer is borked - in which the logic board on my computer is borked and I am forced to update on an iMac G4.
قد يكون هناك سلام دائم من أجل أطفال العال - in which my computer is fixed, I lose a rant about Valentine's Day, a movie that is a romantic comedy and not a slasher, learn that deviantart is impossible on an ipod.
I had a witty title but it's no longer relevant- in which I think political blogs on Blogspot are incredibly fascistic, play Sonic CD but have trouble with the time traveling mechanics due to Sonic and his lead anklets.
A Sonic Poll, mainland Asian style - in which I hold an election where nobody votes, obtain a scanner that can only be used with image capture, and write about my taste in music over the years.
Départe - in which I realize that rock radio in the late nineties really sucked.
Fourteen Years In Music (1998-1999 edition) - in which I remember putting stuff on a tape and losing it and think that there was too much post-grunge and nu-metal on the radio in those days.
Reflections from a watery world - in which someone mistakes a Simpsons DVD for a croissandwich and Norwood is underwater.
Take a picture, it will last longer. - In which I recommend Henry Gale but definitely not Pitchshifter, and listen to Pale Saints despite the lack of nostalgia.
The Cellular Mongoose is the bane of existence. Also, it makes things crash. - in which ads cause browser failure, I list songs that make me think of high school era crushes.
Descent is a peculiar behavior - in which I list forgotten post-grunge bands and lament the demise of IUMA, Eugene Terreblanche is hacked to death and nobody mourns, and the Mormons give me ads in proto-l33t sp33k.
Fun With Cats - in which I tease cats with a laser pointer but fail to get my dog to do anything with it.
and I'll wake up obsolete - in which FOX clips punchlines to jokes from syndicated episodes of the Simpsons.
The Sound of Love Breaking Apart - in which I list bands worth listening to.
An early summer - in which Google gives me grief about not updating my browser and I talk about songs.
Everyone Will Eventually Leave You - in which a popup gets through the popup blocker but crashes the browser, I hate on black metal and NY Daily News commenters.
A virtue of the iron curtain - in which I claim that enforced lack of exposure to seventies schlock rock is a good thing, but save states in real life wouldn't be.
Slime is thicker than blood - In which I encounter a pirate at the Museum of Fine Arts, encounter a fellow with a piranha plant t-shirt on the Red Line, and discuss recipes for explosives using coriander and chicken feathers, and lament Israel's music scene.
The Atheist's Burden - in which I wake up too early, go to a cousin's graduation party, praise the sunsets, take the green line home and someone plays Pac Man on a touchscreen.
The human heart is capable of strange things - in which I think a song is glitching out when it's just an ad and snakes wear boots, apparently.
an infinite summer - in which I list songs, link to Bart the General, and eat chips left in onion dip.
An evening of fun and picking up after yourself - in which the ground zero mosque is secretly a space station, I take a train that said the next stop was JFK/UMass, walk across a bridge measured in smoots, list people who are allowed to take classes at MIT, suggest that homeless people should become economists, and finally arrive at a concert and see a double rainbow in the sky.
Shadow and Substance - in which I listen to Disconnect from Desire, Obama eats ice cream, a kid does the Batusi, someone who's been to the Czech Republic believes that they pick random Scrabble pieces out of a bag, and someone sings a song by Lady Gaga.
Ugh! I hate muscle men! Barefoot ones, to boot! - in which Uncle Ulty finds himself on Luna and thinks Rosa is cute, I list things that are better than Neon Bible and try to find out if Encephalon is still stalking me, and someone knows what is and isn't ironic.
Intermezzo - in which I engage in a conversation about A Canticle for Leibowitz on the Green Line, wonder why an ancient Egyptian sculptor even bothered to give his statue a penis if he was most likely wearing a kilt that rotted away, and find a trailer for a Terry Goodkind novel that's just World of Warcraft music and the cover zooming in.
It's time for Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse team!- in which I don't think that's Bach's most well-known work and get screwed over in King's Quest one fine day in 1991.
cloudless climes and starry skies - in which I go to a concert and offer a berry tart to anyone guessing when SwiftFoxyMarkArse 25 plays Homer the Great.
sunsets, i have seen too many without you - in which I find Homer The Great sped up in English and define the Royal Sampler, go to a concert.
white light messing with my mind - in which I got to the ICA to see things with human bones and mirrored infinities.
scherzo, with tyrannosaurus - in which Vox Day is deluded and I am pissed about waiting another year or two to read Aurorarama and The Dream of Perpetual Motion and then go to a concert.
Dawn of the Second Day (48 hours remain) - in which Earl threatens to barely miss Cape Cod and I see a woman with a pink plastic flamingo and a guy doing the need-to-pee dance on the Red Line.
Afternoon of A New Day - in which Jorg Haider makes a bible blaster and Earl is a dud.
the brightness of faraway life - in which I fail to find the worst sex scene ever written and Trade Martin writes a terrible song.
distant explosions - in which Lemmingtrail analyzes Burn a Koran Day and I want to burn Slayers: Dragon Cycle in protest.
i could almost disperse - in which I realize it takes time to make good art.
on the edges of each season - in which my platform is abortions for some, miniature american flags for others, and Palestinians paint a donkey.
how i imagine my hand holds yours- in which I cheat a little because 10 can be anything in any base, because it's ok because there are so many things I want to say to so many people.
the second in a sequence of glances and introductions - in which I only fill out half of a ten day post thing I stole from Christina, find Danimal mentioned on a Croatian site, request photoshopping of a McNaughton painting, find a potential way to break King's Quest V, and wonder how long numbers replacing letters has been passe for.
Te iubesc atât de mult eu nu pot titlu chiar şi această. - in which I list ways to win my heart an am drawn to Gonterman's art because it's so ugly.
the light that never goes out went out - in which I list things I am constantly thinking about.
fathom this young life - in which I regret things.
you, my luminary - in which I can't decide on five people important enough to list and I wonder when we'll see praise for Pol Pot.
apathy has its own momentum - in which fake people and amazon forum posters turn me off.
oh, and how it was stunning - in which I list my turn ons and wonder why there only three when there are more things I like than things I hate, realize I don't actually have a "type", think the solution to the Republican problem is to run for office on ridiculous platforms to draw the votes from the crazies.
entropy is the new black - in which I suggest the Codex Seraphinianus to everyone.
the stars are only smears - in which I can't find the context of pingas but do know that Evil Homer isn't from a halloween episode.
the last thing you explain before you die - in which I laughed at something on Encyclopedia Dramatica and feel dirty about that fact and await Flashback and its so bad it's goodness, learn that people in Moscow drive for the sake of driving despite awful traffic, and overhear a conversation about ice cream on the T.
bathing in brilliance - in which I list my influences and visit the new wing at the MFA, where someone said she'd wear gold Costa Rican bracelets if she were a superhero and someone talks about Fox picking some piddling codswallop to go after Obama for.
leaving everything in peace - in which my computer dies and I excise my hard drive and Cassandra suspects a conspiracy involving black friday.
moon scrap - in which I get a new computer and a guy wears xmas lights on his pants.
maoist revolution from a coffee shop patio - in which Meghan McCain loves Stereoelab and wants to overthrow capitalist society, and someone who's name may or may not be Adeline threatens to cry if there's a boot on her car.
buy me Bonestorm or go to hell.- in which I suggest Brackhage on SUV commercials, I hate on Vampire Weekend and lament the disappearance of older Simpsons episodes and listen to a song that sounds like a spasticated lawnmower with some cookie monster vocals.
tidings of madness and woe - in which I have Sonic Colors and my aunt messes up brownies.

11

all you see is red but all you feel is blue - in which I wonder if there were a million car commercials when I was younger, think that we've become so oversaturate in advertising that we tune it al out, compare Tom Kratman to random novels you find lying about in Avernum 3, and make dada poetry from spambot posts.
then and again - in which I post the best songs of 2010.
empty hum - in which I begin my sporking of The War In Heaven
adhered irreverence - in which it feels like a Martian summer.
dancing as terrorism - in which I am pissed off by songs and think Marine Le Pen might end the National Front.
one long blast - In which I complain about having to read The War In Heaven while snowed in and bored.
passing emptiness - in which Vox Day writes terrible prose
the street of a rainy, gray day - in which I have a poll and people answer it
abandoning power - in which it is so cold I can't feel my legs.
seeking power - in which I watch I Love Lisa and spork The War In Heaven
reachlessness - in which it is too warm to read Vox Day novels so I read Celestis and listen to Raidohead.
Go Go Gadget Guacamole! - in which there is a revolution in Libya and Vox Day thinks Summa Elvetica is the best thing ever written.
Antiquity's End - in which the internet is spooty and I read shitty evangelical propaganda.
Signs of Change - in which it is the closest thing to a first perfect day I saw, am thankful I don't have to read any battle scenes by Vox Day, and wonder if it's possible to embed the adhan in a blog comment.
artificial colours - in which Congress defunds NPR for ideological reasons and the crazy Mickey Lady uses the DMCA to suppress a video.
so much they cannot know - in which I can't improve my life by reading Vox Day novels.
soon to waver - in which we shut up sit down go with it and be happy because there's a pogrom on the horizon.
the melodies of our heartbeats slowing - in which I am overwhelmed by The War In Heaven's didacticism.
symtolomny - in which I wonder why support israel advertisements are on RevLeft, EgyptAir misplace Amman, and Vox Day writes terrible poetry.
In which Vox Day describes his descent into madness - in which vox day describes his descent into madness and I deliver what I promise.
when recounting futures, don't fail to mention me - In which Fox plays a classic-era Simpsons episode for the first time in over a year and I reminisce about when Lisa Simpson and I were the same age and dreams in which I eat blue marbly ice cream, and Pamela Geller calls for the suspension of the first amendment.
the light obtainable in spaces we share - in which I find a song, or rather, a cover of a song, and once again fail to understand the right wing.
scatterbrained by the sins of silence- in which Encyclopedia Dramatica says something stupid and I listen to the Belgrade Noise Society.
respond with revolution when we hear the word suffering - in which I solve the mystery of the fake mustache.
natatorial swings - in which I am not surprised but mildly disappointed that Socket didn't find himself in a bad video game art thread, am enchanted by a book and have a conversation about David Mitchell, want Hello Summer Goodbye because John C. Wright called it pretentious.
that uncomfortable pause between life and art - In which Prokofiev makes me think of Tales of the Leet and the Hill Man Morning Show hits a new low.
australis - in which I see an ad in Hebrew and want to record my dream music.
breeze of cherry petals - in which the cherry petals fall like snow and I brave the May chill and winds to bring you a crappy photo but it was the best I could do, someone else named Adara makes cool watercolors, Lego has a space mobster ship with Cthulhu in a pimp suit but no space pirates, and I enjoy pho.
Day of Jubilee - in which I post quotes from the Dragons of Babel.
The future isn't Caliphate, it's Chronopolis - in which Kratman gets a date wrong.
ascensionaires - in which I spork Caliphate.
hydra's heart - in which I have an easy time fighting Giacomo in Baten Kaitos, but Malpercio makes me say "fuck this, I want to play Chrono Cross," and war is prolonged indefinitely for economic reasons.
Chartreuse, Cobalt, Emerald, Malachite, Sap, Terre, Verdigris, And Viridian Green Leaves,Rain Stands - in which somebody builds a bicycle lawnmower and have an epiphany about Phil Hartman's voice.
chasing phantoms in one's dreams - in which there is a pointless infodump in Caliphate.
where ripples become waves - in which I dream and spork Caliphate.
Israel vs. the Martians - in which I notice that a Chrono Cross monster is called a beach bum and spork Caliphate and Israel attacks stars.
I can feel it more and more, in ten years, we'll have a war - in whichI finish reading and sporking Caliphate.
threatening skies - in which someone attempts to read A Desert Called Peace, I assume the Hill Man was on vacation, and compare a filmmaker to Vox Day.
breeze of roses - in which I am in disbelief at someone wanting to read Caliphate, Flashback is released and sells despite its sucktitude, and I lament the state of Islam in science fiction literature.
distorting truths to reach false assurances - In which the blogosphere fabricates a story about evil black people and claim the news is being suppressed by the politically correct establishment, and glass sculptures make me think of priapulids and molluscs and sea anemones and eldritch abominations; I find a dialogue between a quisling and a brain dead fool.
my ceiling is my cosmos - in which I blow up a small part of my country to celebrate its independence.
caught in an echo of time - in which I list songs I was obsessed with and want to punch Tails and Pothead the Porcupine.
Beware the wrath of Dr. Stinky-Poo - in which I read a defense of Road of the Patriarch and learn that scattered showers includes a half-hour of heavy downpour.
Of goat eyes and Final Fantasy - in which I learn that goat eyes are rectangular and that Final Fantasy VIII has a map of the Earth.
music for an automatic bronzing - in which Chrissy has a plush siamese cat named Sagwa and not Woof, the four seasons are reversed in Argentina and are a mural by Chagall and can be equated with Fennesz albums, and I return home lost in The Dream of Perpetual Motion.
destructive interference - In which I remark on how destructive interference is not a band name but should be, I listen to Indonesian music and Mozart's operas and read The Dream of Perpetual Motion, I talk about critic-o-matics and robot operas, I wonder why I have not and may never read a defense of Ayn Rand's prose.
"once you lose everything, you are free to do anything" - in which I quote from Fight Club and not from Muse, see a guy playing the bongos and see dissected records.
when we bleed, we bleed the same - in which Muse can't be wrong all the time, a hobbit kills a black man and nobody calls him a subhuman who needs to be sterilized, I wonder if it is possible to alter the past through popular misconception, contemplate the little John Hancock Building, someone asks me about a book, and I ask about Mondrian but only get a spambot.
As ever - in which i list rules for band names and describe music.
Now I'm Prune Tracy! Take that, dick face! - in which a hurricane is scheduled to hit the US, in New England, of all places, so I post lemmingtrail posts and a vague description of a concert.
final hours - in which time slows and there is a storm and kenny chesney is blamed
I haven't been moved like this since the Joy Luck Club - in which I want a book, read some other books while I don't have power, and see ballet.
Flame Man and Pharaoh Man hate 9-11 anniversaries. - in which I am sick and fucking tired of September 11 and listen to Korean shoegaze and remark about guys in tiger suits.
alone in this dark romantic night - in which bots are able to get angry when you call them bots and refuse to believe I watched a retsupurae, and can't search on VBulletin.
everything is a wave - in which I start reading Brave New World, lament the longass time between hardcovers and paperbacks, find something drawn by drow elves, and someone hates on Plok.
Even in the future, nothing works! - in which the internet is wonky and the computer that regulates temperature at the wildlife center is broken, and I list songs.
Dreams Alone Are Not Enough - in which I learn about lepidopteran reproductive systems and look forward to albums that haven't been released, think about gathering up good-in-the-ironic way posts from a forum that has fallen below a thousand active members, but realize the only ones worth saving are genuinely good ones and that the only bad ones worth saving have good responses.
The Human Bat vs. the Robot Gangster - in which I vow to read a book once it goes out of copyright even if I have to live forever and post a Simpsons-related dream someone had.
hello summer, goodbye - - in which raccoons fight over a mouse, Hank Williams Jr releases a song that sucks drow testicles, and Fox fucks up when scheduling Simpsons episodes.
a night in the lonesome October - in which Gallop bullies Penelope.
Vertraue mir. - in which it snows where I am not, a parrot imitates a phone and everyone is bewildered, Penelope the goat goes the other way to get a raspberry she didn't even eat.
prismatica - in which I find my own posts and search out bands because of them, but google doesn't cache them.
opal, jasper, agate, malachite, tourmaline, beryl, porphyry, sapphire, cinnabar, turquoise - in which I post lyrics I don't understand.
Stop throwing cigarette butts on the ground. Our cockroaches are getting cancer. - in which I post Temple of the Apocalyptic Doomageddon and tell everyone to listen to Lush and want to read Surfing Samurai Robots.
When hamsters and beanie babies attack! - in which a hamster bites the vet and a beanie baby monkey attacks me, Penelope stalks Gallop and plots headbutting, and a corn snake eats.
The Riders Travel Through The Heffalumps - in which the damn hell ass kings are a band and the Simpsons borrows an episode plot from a rather good fanscript.
amplified watercolors - in which my solution for posting bad satire involves the trash can and I think Ava Lilly though "WHAT THE FUCK AM I WRITING?" many times and I have a cunning plan.
down the up escalation - in which a band sucks and I help feed an owl.
Merry Christmas, you filthy animals! - in which I receive pens and an unplayable Wii game because Nintendo once again doesn't know what the fuck they're doing.
Voyage in the Heart - in which I see an Arabic music ensemble at an early modern era French Xmas concert, admire the night sky.

12

swollen with dreams - in which Gallop and Penelope eat pine needles and I find out the language in a Delerium song is Salishan and not Japanese, despite what people who claim to speak Japanese think and somebody has the best dream ever.
10,000 Clamps - in which I misread a song title and a t-shirt and realize winter will go on for so much longer, post a best of 2011 mix.
facing formlessness - in which I have more burning questions than things to talk about and think shitty harry potter fanfiction is the price we have to pay for free speech but sopa will not be used to suppress the blogosphere.
lost snow - in which I am bothered by january warmth and Lauren tells a story about beans.
fishy dreams and other reasons to delay my season of the red wolf ranting - in which Lauren nails a bracelet to the ceiling at the Wildlife Center and we discuss bad movies and I dream of a flooded world where everyone lives in floating villages and have dairy goats and I transform into a fish and the powers that be are keeping the technology level artificially low.
white magick's embrace - in which Lauren suggests books, I reminisce about Bruce Coville and the writer of a story says she was never able to trust moonlight.
Italians: Putting the fun in funeral since 1861. - in which Samantha wonders who vacuums funeral homes, Emily theorizes that nobody actually likes Nickelback, Lauren mixes frosting, Carolyn suggests taking glitched-out and defocused pictures of the Simpsons and give them parodic names, a wake is held, and we wake.
songs, ideas I forgot - in which I post an entry in the wrong order, comb over song lists and admit my taste in music wasn't so great when I was in high school, and don't post an explanation for just why I was listening to Nickelback.
star-crossed - in which Lauren finishes her stint at the wildlife center and I lament fate and my inability to show her the Fast Supper, which I post and demand that people listen to the communist Romanian anthem.
celebration for the grey days - in which breitbart dies and my coworker stumbles upon a secret cabal of flying squirrel smugglers, my dreams tell me to play Baten Kaitos.
clearblueskies - in which a golden pheasant escapes and ends up at the wildlife center and I wake up thinking that Lauren is trying to communicate with me via dreams because my mind was still adjusting from dream-logic to real world logic.
At Winter's End - in which it is warm so I expect babies but instead get dreams about shoegaze bands that don't exist.
the new springtime - in which there are not babies but I get a good shot of Falco, Penelope's eye, and the bracelet Lauren nailed to the ceiling.
Another Winter - in which there are babies and indonesian compilations.
all art has been contemporary - in which my cousin and I go to the MFA and check out contemporary art and Buddhist postmodernism despite all attempts by the International Robot Conspiracy.
negative swell - in which there are baby pictures and chair races.
mathematics of wonton burrito meals - in which Gallop and Penelope sleep and piss on an american flag towel, a member of stormfront kills people, and I consciously write a character like Rachel Corrie after being told one of my characters is like her.
approach me, and find me this way - in which it is warm and I lure Bling out with dandelion leaves because he's too heavy for me to lift.
glow and beginning - in which I post song lyrics and buy some books.
faint sights through shielded sunlight - in which tortoises duel and a parakeet squawks at some bunnies.
involuntary impromptu - in which I post animal pictures.
Paris Hilton vs. Mega Man - in which google does a poor job filtering out search results and the spambots baffle me and I find a disemboweled mouse.
Press Button, Receive Bacon - in which that is a thing and I post animal pictures and listen to a rabbit's heartbeat.
...just one more thing - in which I am amazed to find post-rock in a place as horrid as Sri Lanka, wonder what one group of Asian countries have in common that another group don't.
the wonder show of the universe - in which I post chalk nebulas and quotes salvaged from Miyomi's journal.
Good news, everybody! - in which I play Afterlife and bitch about how overcomplicated it is and how poorly explained everything is, I play Apples to Apples, Emily plays Candyland, IUMA comes back, it rains.
So Shrill, the Cry. - in which raccoons in the past climb up and run around in the air vents, turn on the sink and splash around, and are named Bert and Lisa three years before the Simpsons aired.
they fight and bite and fight and bite and fight - in which raccoons sleep in the sink and fight.
freedom from fear - in which the sky flips me off and the raccoons pose for pictures.
The moon's serene caress reveals a truth that no unknowing eye might see. - in which raccoons try to approach humans and grab their clothes and get dustpans waved in their face and I buy Aurorarama and Deathless
Perhaps no life at all began on this planet but it drifted here through the depths of space. - in which Vox Day likes Muse and I list songs I like and go to the Gardner museum because it's my fucking birthday and come home wanting to listen to Sephardic music because of an excessive amount of Aion and Portals of Grace.
verdant praise - in which baby birds are found.
dear diary: today a monster stole my muffin - in which a woman wears a t-shirt with that, I learn that Copland wrote choral music and campaigns songs, and I muse about what centaur angels listen to. Not Copland, probably. Something otherworldly and unmelodic.
allegory of immortality - in which the cicadas emerge, somebody brings a pet pig to be neutered, the raccoons get popsicles, I almost brain my damage moving a cabinet and Bianca almost pees herself.
the sugar festival - in which a door to misfortune in Timbuktu is opened and it rains so hard fish fall from the sky in Boston, and I listen to the stuff from the cancelled concert on Youtube instead, but I encounter Matt on the Red Line.
lumina real - in which a compilation is released, I post a quote about libertarians, harry makes an owl out of fruit.
TMA-1 - in which I post facts about sea invertebrates, a girl says we need a tardis but I think we'll do fine with a toaster, the Syrian revolution is stalled by the west's deep-seated fear of all things Muslim, and there is a noise at Park Street.
correlation states - in which Burma decides to take Israeli repression to insane fucking excess, Aff draws something terrible and jerks the gherkin to some elves, and I facepalm while looking up environmentalist themes in Final Fantasy.
eternity unpromised - in which I talk about the kefahuchi tract being a metaphor, meet an artist named Mandy and an aspiring scriptwriter name Allie and they tell me to never stop meeting art, Reshna tells me stories about raccoons, it rains, and I dream of environmentally degraded fairylands.
A Toothy Grin - in which I am overwhelmed with a lack of burning questions and titles, go to the MFA, and the Wildlife Center releases an opossum.
brilliant as the sun, wondrous as all creation - in which I forget the title I wanted, listen to opera, and talk about Kim Stanley Robinson.
I turn my back: there is a world elsewhere - in which I am out late to see Coriolanus, meet a woman who has cat playing cards who made snarky commentary about Ro Sham Beaux, and a woman who plays the fiddle
sunloop - in which I talk about Samuel Delany and Bulgarian vocal music.
Eternity through the stars - in which I discuss Klimt and animals and logarithmic spirals and artwork with some people who have been to the Wildlife Center, discuss seagulls with a woman with a William Blake tattoo, hate on Shania Twain, and meet a woman who had a chair made of old computer parts and a bunch of cats.
circumvolutions - in which I apologize to John Crowley for thinking of Rush Limbaugh, meet a man in an awesome and bewildering outfit, find a list of books and get pissed at the guy for being a shitty person with a copy of Yaleen and point out that I have awesome books he's never even heard of.
the rose show on the moon - in which I want to use a Signs of Life reference for the title but Amazon sucks and wants to promote the grillions of crappy "indie" novels they published and I suspect they're losing money on the legit novels, I meet an artist with green hair and take pictures and talk about fish and national geographic in the 70s and eviscerated mice and alien music and bad movies, and the raccoons help sweep their room.
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. - in which a woman plays acoustic guitar and I get a brief glimpse of her and wish I knew her name, meet a woman who likes chipmunks and thought we cooked and ate the animals we took in, meet a woman with rollerskates, see excerpts from Shakespeare plays and music inspired by Shakespeare.
the color of the summer sky - In which I take pictures of a red rainbow.
triceratops summer - in which I try to restore emotional equilibrium by watching the Room with closed-captioning, rage about a Christmas episode of the Simpsons in September, and post bad art.
palely loitering - in which someone on Talking Time plays Mega Man 4 on a dirty cartridge, a raccoon tries to reach the trash can, I discuss chinchillas and lagomorphs and blobfish, and rage on Fox.
summertime was nearly over - in which it is obvious that summer is ending and Sam teaches us that there are McDonalds in South Africa.
tea and guinea pigs - in which I learn that hawk shit smells terrible and ducks smell fishy and we name a guinea pig.
no enemy but time - In which a bunch of squirrels escape, an intern floods a room with Stations of the Tide level of water, and I dread asking Xpander how to contact Adara
the summer sweet, the winter wild - in which I post new Blue Skies and Paign songs and bird photographs I found on Wikipedia.
bats: the big bug scourge of the skies - in which I take pictures of bats, find pictures of things riding on the T, and praise Fairyland
abuse of power comes at no surprise - in which I post every little bit of praise I get as a middle finger to Drow, watch an owl get released into the woods, carve pumpkins, dream, and then walk a path of 500 pumpkins.
Onslaught - in which I play Majora's Mask while Sandee wreaks havoc, I wonder how it's possible to beat the game in one cycle, I suck at Honey and Darling's minigames but am awesome at Goron Racing, and buy several books, including one people bonded together over during a funeral.
tomorrow is a million years - In which I gripe about election ads and anticipate the election, meet an artist, watch a guinea pig get neutered, blow several interns' minds, and wish there was a story about a man who finds a copy of a TV guide from an alternate universe.
the killing fields - in which I think other titles are better, offer to give Jerusalem to the evangelicals, Penelope terrorizes the town of Weymouth, and City-Data shatters my psyche.
ghost-coloured - in which I post halloween decorations.
edge gliding - in which Penelope and Gallop make it hard to give them water, Christina spills water because I moved the faucet, we look at a surf scoter, and Christina learns of Anthony's sugar high.
information flow - in which I learn that interfamilial hybrids are rare but possible and involve domestic chickens most of the time, Vox Day releases a novel that I refuse to read, more movies need zombie dinosaurs, and Falco gets loose.
Cuckoo, Jug-jug, Pu-we, To-witta-wo! - in which I am unable to call an entry tyrannicide, Alyssa puts pool in the goose thing, and Dan Simmons has never heard of Fairyland.
only the end of the world again - in which Christina fails to make coffee properly but ends up with coffee-flavored hot chocolate and somebody makes a gif of the bear in the cart.
snapshots from the spambot plague - in which I post a story by a spambot, hate on bad renditions and want to read a book because Michael Z. Williamson hated it.

13

a landscape once uniformly white - in which i post a mix CD and the wildlife center gets a new bearded dragon and we all eat fla vor ice.
antifeminism considered as a eugenicist conspiracy - in which Christina wonders why we don't have hoverboards or a cure for cancer and I blame antifeminism, a novel is deferred to third party sellers by Amazon less than 365 days after publication and I blame self-publishing, the Soviet Union makes their own version of the Hobbit and I blame communism.
frost at midnight - in which I find every national anthem played at the same time and the results of a NES attempting to read part of the game's code as music, tell a tale of glo-stiks, and learn how to say "turkey" in ASL, which I forget afterwards, and that iguanas can sense menstruation, while Nina attempts to domesticate rabbit sperm.

love and sex among the chordates - in which Nina makes terrible coffee and wants a tree tattooed on her urinary bladder, Christina marches around the corridors eating dots and almost faints, I find a halloween mask and we discuss love and sex amongst various chordates
blackout - in which I lose power and make a handwritten livejournal entry about Talking Time, mergansers, loons, how Super Mario Bros on the game boy has too many blind jumps, and how time moves at different speeds for Christina and myself.
love bombing in which I post pictures of the grumpy swan, a loon, a merganser, and a bearded dragon.
Dish Nation isn't dead, alas. - in which I promise to paint something, didn't bring a camera even though we had an owl, a chinchilla gets neutered, and I didn't give a shit about the oscars.
the artistic touch - in which I find a drawing of a guy injecting sperm into his arm.

funeral march for a marionette, pavane for a dead cardinal - in which a hawk is released and I don't get any decent pictures, a cardinal dies, a screech owl is blind in one eye, a swan has lead poisoning, and I paint something because I promised Christina I would.
the tourist - in which I return home from New York City and talk about how much they love Subway there and how I'd rather eat Ethiopian food because I can eat Subway anywhere else in the human-inhabited world and about the prices of cans of coke at hotels and local quik-e-marts.
good news from the Vatican - in which the Vatican blows their chance to have a black Pope Lando II, I post a picture of a porcupine with me in the background, Nina makes up words, and Christina paints a lovely owl of paradise.
proclaimers - in which I post miscellaneous pictures from New York City and environs, mostly rock doves and menus and graffiti and subway station architecture, but the occasional lamp.
yama, half-devoured - in which nina teaches us about hypospadias and tells people not to touch her testicles.
poet and passions - in which I post pictures of New York City's architecture.
rumors of spring - in which I post Christina's artwork and a few photos of animals and learn that 'it's not you' means 'it's not you' and 'what the fuck do you want?' means 'hello'
palace - in which I spend time at the Met and take pictures of modern art and can't find Christina's World because that's not where Christina's World is.
the armory art convention of 2013 - in which easter is too early and outline the future of the New York entries.

the presence of your grace - in which I poke Christina in her nose, the porcupine comes back and his wound is sutured up, the squirrels have goop on their genitals to keep them from sucking them and Ian tests it out for himself, Salvador tries to climb out of his box, and I forget a burning question.
matings and majesty - in which I start with pictures from the second gallery at the Armory Show and explain my awesome plan.
a storm of wings - in which I celebrate Margaret Thatcher's death, rock dove formula smells appetizing because I had dental surgery and couldn't eat afterwards, Falco shits on the floor and Nina explains the components, and then tries to fly off and Christina catches a feather.
manoeuvres and massacre - in which I post a poem and the second batch of photos from the Armory Show.
moonrise - in which I post the last batch of Armory Show pictures.
tithes of mint and rue - in which I post osprey pictures, terry gets his grinding plates worn down, some volunteers get lost with Gallop, and Christina spills water trying to make cheese-flavored coffee.
not a rescue - in which the bomber looks like my uncle, we reach squirrel critical mass, Christina discusses social networking, and I try to find an obscure band and want to punch Wally Was His Name in the face.
spring tide - in which I get revenge on Wally Was His Name, print the Fast Supper for Nina, Nina calls things by the sound they make, and Christina talks about smurf dicks.

in the sway of desire - in which I hate on climate change but am otherwise giddy and smitten with someone, learn that Carmina Burana is actually a collection of drinking songs and love poetry, the wildlife center gets a treasure trove of crapola, a cormorant dies, Nina eats pasta and takes Mr. Light Bulb and a CD of sci-fi fantasy adventures in musical form, Christina gives Yolanda a new bath toy, a cat is sprayed with disinfectant, Nina, Christina, Sarah, and Ian prove that not everyone is a waste of adenine and guanine and cytosine and thymine, and we look at the inside of a hawk's bad eye, but seriously, fuck climate change
in another part of the forest - in which an osprey is released, mixing rust and watercolors doesn't work as well as I thought it would, Deviantart makes it harder to get views, and I fail in my mission.
thirteen facts about samurai - in which I see the Samurai exhibit at the MFA, somebody's dance attempts to ward off climate change, and I see a pirate.
the king of birds - in which I photograph a great horned owl, Leopold bites air, Devin wants a guard duck, and I wear a long-sleeved shirt even though it was 82 degrees out,
Nature Abhors a Vacuum and All Other Housework - in which I post bad art.
behold: ELECTRICITY! - in which I go to the MFA and describe artwork, promise to paint somebody, bond with a woman over J.M Coetzee, Bradley Denton, and Paul Park, an anonymous graffitist quotes Rumi, and realize I can't stand to look at Xenoblade for more than thirty seconds.
of ground, and ocean, and sky - in which I remember Troy McClure and nothing else happens.

The Wild Hunt - in which Christina tried to catch ducklings when she was ten, I catch a glimpse of a baby coyote, Priya brings the rain, and Hezbollah occupies Syria but can not control it.
convergences - in which I can find only a few songs by Curious Ritual, but nowhere to obtain it legally or otherwise, post a video of Skinky eating cockroaches, and suggest that China build a kilometer high tower.
integrations - promise to explain the context of titles, post descriptions of bad art by the MoBA and a few things I forgot about.
the Bloomsday Revolution - in which I post prematurely because the afternoon skies are as dark as twilight, watch Blade Runner after contemplating Voight-Kampff Empathy Tests for people who smile at me, learn that there are people in Asia who use a fork and knife to eat pizza, learn about sea turtles who swim around with their lungs exposed, and have a reptile party.
Celebration of the Summer Solstice - in which I get a twitter and wonder if I should accumulate followers before tweeting or accumulate followers by tweeting, realize I have no presence on DeviantArt but post a link there anyway because of Mandy and Melissa, and someone tells you not to read something.
the future is hope - in which I see Hamlet and someone wonders whether to beard or not to beard, Ophelia sings, the Cape is monotonous and dominated by gymnosperms and ferns, and Carolyn recommends movies.
Moonlit Madness - in which I write the descriptions of the paintings down but leave it in a secret place at the NEWC and try in vain to use the Facebook page, Christina holds her own reptile party with blackjack and hookers.

flowerchant and candlefire - in which I find a poem from a book I couldn't find, find out that the description I pieced together from google searches is the whole thing, spray the goats with a hose, Spyro attacks Ranger Smith during a repitle box social and I call him Ranger Rick instead, a fox is injured in a territorial dispute, a night heron has a spinal injury, and Christina calls a painting my best work to date.
Zombie Jamboree - in which I go to the Peabody-Essex museum and see Faberge eggs and pug statues.
A dog day - in which I turn 29, Jess eats a dog treat, and raccoons eat eggs.
a wet gala - in which an owl gets his eye removed, the Wildlife Center acquires an 85+ year old turtle, Christina takes Skinky outside, and I am filled with the desire to launch a hornets' nest at a Hezbollah rally.
the abyss stares back - in which I am summoned for jury duty, explain the process, and have nothing else to talk about and post a picture of Mr. Potato Head on the Moon.
all on a summer's night - in which I arrive at the MFA one day before a Koran exhibit opens, search flickr, have a conversation about ivory and mammoths and climate change and modified plants that produce ivory
old legends, decaying bonds - in which coyotes are transferred, a hawk is flight tested indoors, and China has weird ice cream.
Fire Zone Emerald - in which I recommend Light and lament the short lifespan of a book, meet a Greek woman with a cool t-shirt and pendant, a Polish woman who likes hedgehogs, hear music, and sweat like Roger Ebert
Sector Jade - in which I see a coconut used as a paperweight, and talk about Laos and South America and how Castro might be dead.
A change of climate - in which I see a Rat Pack influenced Two Gentlemen of Verona, talk about bad movies and beet salad and low-flying skittles, and meet the inventor of Thai basil ice cream.
crossing the wild - in which Skinky is taken outside, time moves slower in various situations, and Jessica thinks thai basil ice cream sounds good.
People's Artist - in which Emma and I discuss art, get a cool pin, learn a Malagasy phrase, lament Assad and praise Pakistan's music scene.
A Happy Day In 2013 - in which I see Jake Shimabukuro, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, Carlos Nuñez, Noe Socha, Red Baraat, Session Americana, and Angelique Kidjo in concert and think it didn't matter that Shannon couldn't come because I'd never find her in that crowd, dance for hours, and a nameless henna artist blows a cloud of bubbles
an orchestra of ghosts - in which I see a Jewish ensemble, Carlos Nuñez, the Boston Conservatory Broadway Revue, Alison Kraus, Luminarium Dance, and Professor Paddy-Whack's One Man Junk Band in concert, meet a woman with a So It Goes tattoo and have an unsettling dream.
Love Sickness - in which a goose is hand-raised, I recognize a woman from her tattoo, wonder how many people there are named Jess ____, Christina becomes the new Ian somewhere else and I get despondent even though she's happy because it means I might never see her again but bory bory ny tany, right?
tango interrupted - in which I see a concert by an orchestra and a Latin music ensemble and meet a woman who did a convincing raccoon noise.

faded glory - in which I go to Brockton and see mosaics, glass sculptures, wood carvings, Icarus reintegrating himself after flying too close to the sun, and a mechanical duck.
Christina Lost - in which Christina may or may not turn up wandering the woods of Maine in a few weeks a day older than she was the last time I saw her, somebody brings puppies, and I remember a conversation but not its context.
days of wonder - in which I see opera and DeviantArt does not make me a premium member for their anniversary and I can't confirm that all my viewers don't actually use deviantart.
paradise risen - in which I see mechanical sculptures that don't exist in gif form and holograms and a mechanical mouse built by Claude Shannon and want to build an orchestra of machines.
Heartbells - in which Salvador flips himself over twice, Dino eats like a real goose, and interns chase ducks.
the dead spaces - in which it is cold and a squirrel crosses a bridge.
our ecstatic days - in which I post art I see at the ICA and the announcer on the T is really excited to be there.
have not have - in which I post scans of my artwork, Rose does the ferret dance, and some ducks escape and the interns play a rousing game of Hide and Go Duck.
moonlight sonata - in which I dream about Christina, meet a woman with a halfmoon fleck in her sclera, and see Kiss Me, Kate, and the Prince of Birds struts past a security barrier and doesn't give a shit.
conditions of weightlessness - in which I go to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and educate a woman about the heist, hear rumors of a movie, see a tapestry of Cyrus the Great dressed in contemporary clothing, and see a woman with a pink-fro.
an ultimately fatal condition - in which we see a spider near the duck enclosure, ducks harass a goose, raccoons toss grapes, and Ian talks about rabies and the international museum of toilets.
Air - in which mist creeps over boston, and the Landmarks Orchestra plays a tribute to Martin Luther King's speech.
Lisa Frank stole my unicorn - in which someone plays the moon by wielding a cane.
heirs to all eternity - in which I see As You Like It and discuss the profanity of the ancients.

A New Moon in Virgo - in which Elysian summer turns to unseasonable winter and I crave a sandwich
my education - in which I dream and meet someone from Malaysia and talk about lizards and happiness and 1984.
a walk in summer - in which I take multiple photographs on multiple walks
goodbye bright summer - in which Shannon says something that gives me hope and I feel like all the warmth is long gone and dump rotten fruit in a crevasse.
a lingering scent of jasmine - in which it is warm again and I go to the MFA and see flutes and muslamic rayguns and 60s clothes and photographs from the Arab World.
bid time return - in which Zack invites me to his time travelers convention and Drow accuses me of stalking her by linking to someone who made an account on some website in 2004, also Itsy Bitsy sheds her skin.
primeval light - in which I see Gustav Mahler's 2nd symphony and a woman singing to herself outside of Braintree Station and take a trip on a lightless train car.
the worm shall feed sweetly - in which new interns arrive and Nina brings a chicken.

we are well organized - in which things that were meant for April happen in October but it's fine because it's actually warmer and dryer, and regret not seeing some musicians play.
autumn afternoon - in which I meet a Julianne who is not the Julianne I neglected to mention, assist in putting a splint on a canada goose, meet a cat who is not happy, an intern is bitch-slapped by waterfowl, and the weather machines are run by a mad artificial intelligence
youthful folly - in which I see The Magic Flute and some CoolGlobes and Confluence Mirrored.
making salt with sunshine - in which I meet the girls in Shel, three guys make Optimus Prime, a woman makes an observation about camel horses, and I bond with a woman over Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.
a song to keep us warm - in which I see Romeo and Juliet in Dorchester
faltering faith - in which I wonder about Xpander and Miyomi privately and the reptile room smells of vinegar acids
Bradbury Weather - in which I read Something Wicked This Way Comes, meet Miranda and Désireé, and we all carve pumpkins.
Arrivals - in which I expect to be barely on time but arrive late, Désireé shows me the tribal fish pumpkin she made, Jean performs unnecessary surgery, and I light pumpkins.
Pursuits - in which I mistake Désireé for Miranda, Julianne is dressed as a zombie raccoon, Désireé uses peanut butter as a code word for fire to keep people from panicking, Christina quotes Pinky and the Brain, Arianna is covered in spaghetti, and Lauren wears a raccoon tail.
Departures - in which I hear Russian music live and wonder why the Russian Empire and USSR have greater cultural outputs than the Russian Federation.
on whom the three fates smile - in which an intern shows me a photo of a lynx, the wildlife center does surgery on a hedgehog, and Stephanie declares war on a housefly.
you have burned bright - in which I link to photos.

three types of solitude - in which some school groups come to the wildlife center and learn about testudines, I paint a picture of Christina and Brody compares it to Clive Barker, and FOX fails to play Bart the Lover.
the dead ought sleep forever - in which I see the War Requiem and Sara/Sarah officially replaces Emily as a recurring name.
art in the war zone - in which I make more statements about She Who Tells A Story and bond with a hoopy frood and a kid who thinks that trains should be made of chocolate.
lo rez moon lit - in which it is warm and I can't help but be disappointed, a loon crash lands, box turtles have sex, and I find out someone I had a crush on is fanatically conservative and I can do a lot worse with my life.
phosphene violet - in which dentistry is performed, I lament winter, and post an awesome drawing, a photography cheat sheet I ganked from Christina, and several facts about reptiles.
a feast unearned - in which the ninja turtles dance to some goober, Rachel tells a story about Lauren eating nachos, and I reminisce about a book I never read and school days I scarcely remember.

silvery and starless - in which I see Sargent paintings and meet a painter and a multi-instrumentalist with one leg, wake up at four in the morning not lovesick about Sara, I swear.
fog and mist - in which a neutering is performed and I write about testicles
trespassing in love's furrows - in which a guinea pig has his feet soaking in epsom salts, I learn about birds and blood glucose levels, a goose attacks his reflection, and donuts attack smaller donuts.
Landing on the Moon - in which the moon is landed on, I regret title use, fall on my duff, examine geckos and pythons, learn about snake anatomy, and am witness to Waffle's theft of a toy and Brody's imitation of Jean.
winter war - in which South Sudan collapses on itself while I fall ill and Snap-Snap has scute surgery.
come to me not in winter's white - in which apples to apples is played
one lump or two - in which shame spirals cause isolation
requiem for devotion - in which I lose sleep due to lovesickness, spill hot chocolate, and resolve never to visit a place I can't get to with public transportation again.
all the tapestries of time - in which I look at a muscovy duck and his wounds and Colin Flaherty whips up a frenzy in the blogosphere.

14

the snow pageant - in which a snowy owl arrives at the wildlife center, a muscovy duck stares at a kiddy pool, and Maggie commissions a portrait.
silence - in which neuterings are performed and a snowy owl suffers renal disorder.
mercury - in which I take a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, eat a burrito, give a spanish lesson, and show off pictures of the snowy owl to a girl with a mohawk.
journey's end - in which I PM Adara and receive a response, muse about alternate universes in which this didn't happen, am fucking freezing.
mercury - in which I dream about failing to contact Sara, fail to send Maggie a portrait of her, detail my theory about Mark Zuckerberg's Land of Wind and Ghosts, and Zach finds a trapper keeper.
minotaur blues - in which I reminisce on middle school and Bosnia.

mercury - in which I see Daphnis et Chloé and other Ravel works, sketch people on the Red Line, and meet a woman who makes up stories about the people she encounters and a man who had to run back a mile to get his stuff at a restaurant once.
in the abode of the snows - in which it snows, I call a woman Jessie because of the brand of her jacket, meet a ferret and guinea pig, and watch a castration expecting a spaying.
on silent wings - in which the owl is not released, Kaz gets to know me and guts a dead guinea pig, and a grebe makes a strange noise.
the means of reproduction - in which a uterus is removed from a bunny and I give a tour showing off reptiles and the snowy owl to a woman born under the sign of the Impure.
angelophyta - in which I visit the Gardner Museum and draw people on the T, including a man who wants to go into voice acting.
smoke - in which the polar vortex returns, people bring rabbits to the wildlife center, Kaz thaws dead guinea pigs in the sink, I discuss dogs and memory with a more different Christina and learn an important lesson in the French language.

the heart - in which a rabbit's eye is removed and winter outstays its welcome.
this instant eternal - in which I meet three exchange students, visit the MFA, and meet Sarah on the way home.
contagion - in which a tumor is removed from a guinea pig and examined, rabbit blood is tested for antibodies, and I run into the problems of talking about multiple people named Sarah at the same time, which will get even worse if I bring up Sara too.
residues - in which I am locked inside the reptile room, find a drawing of zombies fighting giraffe-riding aliens, the wildlife center bids a fond farewell to the snowy owl and welcomes a pair of baby foxes and a muskrat.
hearts in antarctica - in which I do the Tina Moan, watch a pig get his balls removed, watch a fox get his morning meds and make fox noises, and discuss cat names.
oh, the wind and rain - in which the foxes play and sleep and I make animal sounds for the amusement of a tour group, a bunny is spayed.

the beginning of April or the end of March - in which Vox Day is featured in a Day By Day comic, I rant about facebook and Hydelloon, and it's poultry day at the Wildlife Center.
the sun always shines on tv - in which Nina eats ham and mustard despite not liking either, a man with an x-man shirt and a woman with purple hair bring their bunny to get her staples removed, a bottlecap lands on its top or on its side,
light exposed - in which I celebrate easter by watching Bob's Burgers with Emily, Samantha, Rachel, and Julia and Vox Day is nominated for a hugo award despite being a shit writer.
moonskin - in which Kaz watches a video of sloths fighting and provokes me into being like Bob Belcher, Rebecca brings a tortoise to the wildlife center and discusses capuchins and free art for low-income families, and someone says Vox Day's story is worse than Naruto fanfiction.
A great & terrible beauty - in which I discuss symphony formats via Mahler's 9th symphony, meet a man with a blue beard, and a woman plays guitar and sings at Park Street Station.
in the company of foxes - in which others suffer through Opera Vita Aeterna and I don't because I have neither a copy nor strange great sins to atone for, the wildlife center has a pack of foxes, and Nina makes bird noises.

things gone and still here- in which six foxes leave, replaced by a baby great horned owl and an adult screech owl, a guinea pig gets bladder stones taken out.
from wild spring air - in which the owlet leaves us, replaced by nothing of interest, and I learn why there aren't a bunch of antlers laying about.
where light and shade repose - in which I go to a chamber ensemble concert and settle on Au Bon Pain because everything else is mucho grande upscaleski and sketch someone who happened to be an art model, in reverse order.
dogs among the roses - in which I suggest that Katherine watch the holiday special during her Star Wars marathon, Faye finds a potato song, Nina paints and tells potato riddles, a frog has his cloaca put back in properly.
the sun at midnight- in which I learn about love and sex amongst the cats and post more fox pictures, Steve Sailer's wife embarrasses herself.
none of them are you - in which I see art and dance to salsa music but don't encounter Sarah on the way back.
unfocused rage - in which I awaken to emptiness, I discuss the merits of hating pickup artists instead of regressing into a dungheap of misogyny, I think I see Immelman.
a pursuit of miracles - in which I go to an animal shelter and play with a puppy, Chi-chi tells a story about raccoons, and I try in vain to find a George Turner quote about saying goodbye to the twentieth century.

at midnight, in the month of June - in which someone paints the Tater Day sign, having the moon orbit Mars and possess enough atmosphere for clearblueskes, Ian plays Dark Souls II and Lucahjin and Meowing Kittens play King's Quest V, Sam swings from the cage bars upsidedown, a chicken is looked at, and a turtle has his shell zip-tied together.
lost in the mushroom rain - in which I learn dog and cat facts.
tachycardia - in which a herring gull dies, Zach builds a potato launcher, the wildlife center tests their fire alarm, and Désireé shows up and talks art and Capgras' syndrome.
the hippogriff girl - in which gloves make Kristian think of catwoman and make me think of Calvin Crabs, Kristian explains her tattoo.
wavering radiant - in which I explain bands with Egypt-related names, a pig gets neutered, and the raccoons get toys to play with.
the edge of death- in which I watch a documentary about a girl who survived rabies and Paige and Kristian get portraits done.
my blooming colors - in which raccoons escape and interns have to traipse through the woods to find then, a turtle is tube fed, and Catherine makes a sign.
the cradle will fall - in which I oversleep after two days of undersleeping and visit an unknown and under-appreciated art museum with an ode to Sylvia Plath.

an ode to Yoshitaka Amano- in which I paint Sara and forbid those who don't like cats from viewing it, learn that Sodapop is male and Cream is female, restrain Penelope, and Nina makes raccoon noises.
the dance of the inheritors - in which I visit the Gardner Museum because it's my birthday and run into Zack, have a premonition, don't lose power but feel melancholy upon waking up.
tropical - in which Jessica returns and Tom and Nina show up, we walk goats and skinks, ISIS takes over Iraq.
rumors - in which I decide to purge my awkward feelings with an Archer marathon and Paige does not throw ham or béchamel at her boyfriend.
in the Zone- in which I visit the Kennedy museum.
a typical day - in which nothing happens.
ravished - in which I am filled with intense delight and overwhelmed with emotion and monkeys steal fruity alcoholic beverages, Kristian imitates a cat, a squirrel tries to get into a garbage bag in order to eat smartfood popcorn.
afternoon, don't end - in which I sketch people, Adrienne sketches a statue, Jamie Wyeth paints seagulls, and Carmina Burana is canceled due to rain.
a blot in the mirror - in which I can't find gloves that fit my giant truckasaurus hands, Tom and Nina disappear to that place that they go to when they play the Song of Double Time, a carcinoma is looked at, raccoons get distemper.
lofty swells - in which dogs stumble around wearing Elizabethan collars, I make a really awesome drawing of Skyla and watch Archer.
tango time - in which I lose my way, meet people with cool tattoos, and don't actually tango.
orange creamsickle - in which I go to the Cape Cod Museum of Art
summer morning, summer night - in which I volunteer at the Wildlife Center, a guy claims he saw Predator, which is crap because Predator is invisible and I desperately hope he only hunts in tropical jungles, draw Tomo, Beris, Jenisa, and Hannah, dance for hours, discuss art with Bridget and Megha, and run into Immelman at Quincy Center.
sibyls in stone- in which it rains on our concert and I use someone's hair to draw someone else's beard.
after midnight - in which someone brings her duck.
before morning in which we watch a video about radiology, look at pictures of mites.
une musique sans commencement ni fin - in which I feel ravished because Emma returned and we discussed extinct animals and madagascar and drumming and art and bumblebees and I think that I see Lindsey and we listen to music from France and I lose my pen and binge on Airiel and Lush on the way home.

prayers of a rain god - in which I look at World War I posters and jewelry from Sudan.
ultrablast - in which something dies in the medical corridor, Alec ropes Brigitte in one of his schemes, I draw portraits and Désireé shows me her art.
butterflies - in which an old Spay Waggin is sent to the Virgin Islands and I discuss places to stick your pulseoximeter.
rapt in the evening air - in which it fails to rain, I meet Gabriella waiting in line but sit with Emma, Emma and I do a portrait together, Gabriella, Lisa, and I walk through the Boston Common and ride the red line home, talking about art, music, cats, and island ecology.
time of ten suns - in which I see modern crafts and stop at the Wildlife Center to drop some donations off.
the counterforce - in which I visit an equine hospital and step inside a giant MRI.
Trouble in Tirana - in which I meet Amanda and Kim at a Shakespeare performance, Ann sings badly for charity, a woman eats fish 'n' chips.
the moon ascending - in which the hummingbird is released, I tell something to Désireé that I wanted to tell to Jessica, Nina eats something, I sit in on a crowd performance of Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, I do portraits for a group of people.
lunar triptych - in which iPads are mounted to tortoise shells, Kristian mixes up "cat" and "son" somehow.
In the Season of the Rains - in which Gabriella and Emma meet each other, we listen to polyphonic spirituals in a crowd of 315.
give more than you take - in which I post art on display at the ICA and watch belly dancing.
a line, a loop, a tangle of threads - in which due to delays and such I get to hear a really awesome band at Greenfest, a woman who is a melange of Asian nationalities writes in a journal and has cool tattoos, a woman wears a dress made out of photonegatives, dogs perform tricks, I play around in the Forest of Sound, a man cons others out of ice cubes, Sarah paints waterfront pictures.
listen to my heartbeat - in which I go to a concert, leave my sketchbook at home but find a notepad on the ground that I use, Erica and I amaze one another with our art.
lemon-limed lie - in which Nina and Tom return from the ether and the goats try to draw and quarter Tom, Brigitte has her last day at the wildlife center and does laundry.
just drive, she said - in which my summer classes end and Caitlin sees a woodchuck.
summer idyll - in which Emma proposes we make art together, takes a picture of my shirt, and we get separated in a huge crowd, I listen to music and am drawn by a Russian woman.
indian summer sundowner - in which there is a new moon in Virgo, we plan releases, and Brody mixes up civets with what I assume are eohippuses.
the interrupted measure - in which Emma receives a chess lesson, we draw something together, Emma, Gabriella, and I see half a concert, and I see Russell on the Red Line.
what is done in the darkness will be brought into the light - in which I see photographs and play with photosensitive paper and feathers.
continued in colour - in which I post the drawing Emma and I did together, Krissy shows me her sketchbook.

all the world against us - in which I showcase Crystal's artwork because the wildlife center is too quiet.
hyperconnectivity - in which Turkmenibashi names the wort month after himself, Jessica fails to see how dictatorships can survive, Nina quotes Kindergarden Cop.
end of summer - in which a swan, another swan, and a hummingbird are patients at the Wildlife Center and we prepare to say goodbye to the raccoons and coyotes, Catherine leaves us and we eat soup and sandwiches from Panera Gurpgork.
sunset prism - in which I encounter Kyra, mistake a random woman for Emma, Bashar al Assad steals from the MBTA to build giant gold statues of himself, I arrive late for Jazz Fest, dance and eat jambalaya, Layla shows off her pendant, a train is slow to arrive.
midnight eternal - in which a kestrel is attacked by a cooper's hawk with the biggest metaphorical balls ever, something bad happens in the janitor's closet, Jess and I sift through a salad of wilted vegetables.

reverent souls - in which the wildlife center receives a gannet and I receive a cold.
all tomorrow's parties - in which my cousin gets married on the coldest day since May prepared for an outdoor wedding and Emily talks about clowns and Rachel embraces her singleness.
in time of plague - in which I see La Traviata and a woman tells me I'll be the next Shel Silverstein.
bright matter - in which I fail to invite Emma to the Museum of Fine Arts but encounter Gabriella, see Goya paintings and Shinique Smith mixed medias, listen to a New Tens take on a 60s girl group, meet a woman who barks at people when she's angry and a woman with silver hair.
pride before a fall - in which I have to wear a coat while walking the dog, Curious Ritual gets a bandcamp, I listen to the Robot Knights in solidarity with a woman who was sent death threats by antifeminists, we look at a turtle to make sure it's indigenous and not invasive.
the sleep of reason - in which I carve Goya-inspired pumpkins and reach out to Astrid, Nina and I discuss the times we hear thunder in dreams and wonder if it really happened and mistake thunderclaps for bombs going off.
prowlers of the night - in which it stops raining in time for the actual Night of a Thousand Faces, Nina gets her revenge on a kid dressed as Spiderman, I meet Astrid and show many many people reptiles.
sunset path- in which we set up the spooky trail.
head in the clouds - in which dentistry is performed on a chinchilla and a kestrel gets his cast replaced.
authority ordained it - in which Gabriella invites me and Anne to see The Consul, I eat coconut milk pho and visit the MFA to see Greek art, we discuss movies and cats on the Red Line.

dying of the light - in which a turtle takes a trip through a harvesting combine.
Danger: Religion! - in which I rant about election results and decide not to post the video of Emma singing, mistake a stranger for an old friend, and watch a swan get put down for exploratory surgery.
the old ones go to rust - in which I listen to beautiful music for beautiful people with tragic tendencies, an exploratory surgery goes poorly, Spyro eats an earwig, a bunny mounts a cat and gets neutered as a result, a turtle's nails are painted, and I have a revelation.
the rain was once a cloud - in which it is a warm day sandwiched between unseasonably cold days, a goose is grumpy, a chinchilla gets his testicles removed, FOX threatens to drop itself from Fios, Nina hates on pedal sinks and cleans up.
Executions - in which Samantha delivers an impassioned rant regarding Ferguson, I compare and contrast Afghanistan's neighbors, the Mad Genius Club proposes various other crimes against humanity, Emily and Rachel discuss their school politics and forget the lyrics to Linda's thanksgiving carol, Emily demands an easy cure for nausea and hoverboards, and Rachel talks about the moment she stopped believing in ghosts.
at the maelstrom's edge - in which it is a mild day sandwiched between twin unseasonably cold ones and I assume it's December already, I visit the Goya exhibit, meet Kelsey, and finish my sketchbook.

and then there was one - in which Jess finishes her internship at the wildlife center on possibly the last perfect day of 2014, a rabbit is euthanized, a goose gets his wound debrided, a rock dove may or may not have a viral infection, a sparrow escapes, we make fun of Drow's artwork, and I make some notes to myself.
dark deliverance - in which the sunsets stop getting earlier and Nina brings her pet lungfish to the wildlife center.
a sacred oratorio - in which I see a 90 minute truncation of Händel's Messiah and meet a musician there along with an artist.
death by bespeaking - in which we discuss the naming curse and bats at the wildlife center, a woodcock without a name dies, Jacob, Brody, Courtney and I eat leftover donuts.
a moment of joy - in which Eyzwydopen's blog is purged from the internet, we clean paint, I decide to share one of Emma's songs with Asakiyume, I scrub the internet of personal information in the hopes that a blog gets purged for privacy reasons, which unfortunately doesn't happen.
noctilucence - in which The Santa Clause sequels are a thing, and I learn that the North Pole has no time zone.
on immortality and change - in which someone raises endangered tortoises, Keith quotes Monty Python, Zofia and I discuss Central America and its death squads and abortion bans.
indomitable will - in which I meet people with colorful hair and see Chinese erotic art.

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simplicity - in which a cockatoo poses at Falco, a volunteer tries to catch a mouse named K1 McGruff, a guinea pig gets bladder stones removed.
it was heaven sent - in which Emma does not live up to her ethnic stereotypes by hugging me twice but I live up to my ethnic stereotypes or at least half of them by telling winter to eat a big bowl of dicks.
dermatoglyphics - in which Jacob squirts bile or something while cutting up dead chicks.
wise blood - in which Emma is too busy to go to the MFA with me and I meet some Albanians and see a Klimt painting.
succor midst sorrow - in which Emma and her band perform their first ever concert which happened before the great Boston snowpocalypse of 2015 despite what she tells everyone and I am the first ever recipient of one of their CDs and then catch a bus while running to Porter before my body restores emotional equilibrium once the euphoria of dancing and goodbye hugs wear off and the cold and being stalked gets to me.
as blood - in which a rabbit is spayed on the eve of snowmageddon, and I post Emma's art.

as snow - in which I link to bands that Emma likes and we get way too much snow and I don't think I'm going to see the ground until May.
as ebony - in which I compare art by Emma to art by Molly Crabapple, a murre dies.
as holly - n which the wildlife center is inundated by murres, loons, and grebes, I clean kiddy pools and pick up grebes, do laundry, and recommend music.
amid timebound waves - in which Désirée and I discuss music and beauty standards while cleaning a tortoise enclosure, Zofia gives me advice.
encased in crystal - in which the ocean turns to grume, Emma covers her own song on guitar, I watch her and I watch her.

the waters stilled - in which I run out of cold weather music to listen to, a sign that winter has long outstayed its welcome, I dream about a poker game with the ISIS employees, discover that Papua New Guinea has the death penalty for sorcery murder, and post art by Huey.
after all the aching silence - in which I see the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a chorus of at least 150 and eight soloists perform Szymanowski's King Roger, the train crosses a frozen river, two women recite a poem, a man is dressed as the Joker, I have a "phrasing" moment
attempts to make time pass differently - In which I learn what a trust fall is, talk about languages with Jack and Emma, and comment on the Nazi manifesto and their blatant lack of Italy in their list of white nations.
abandoned cities - in which Emma asks people to fund her trip to Cyprus and make the world a better place through art but I'm disheartened that I was unable to help with it,
emotional signals are chemically encoded in tears - in Emma falls in love with someone else without knowing I was in love with her, we both decide to continue our friendship as normal, I meet a woman with green hair who felt kinda embarrassed she was listening to classical music but we talked too briefly, and I wondered if I'd see her again, I decide to pursue a relationship with my friend rather than following my friend's advice which involves moping around and feeling sorry for myself while waiting for the inevitable breakup.
il pleure (at the turn of the century) - in which I discuss my current state with Jack and Jean, Kaz plays fetch with a parrot.
echoes of the past - in which a woman reads to me as I draw her portrait, I see a Gandolfi organ and orchestra composition and Mahler's 6th symphony, and meet people who were at Bob's Burgers Live, and end everything regarding the past, present, and future on a positive note, even if I didn't burn bridges with Caitlin so much as forget where those bridges were in the first place, even if my friendship with Emma fizzled out by high summer, even if I am afraid that I wouldn't recognize Adrienne or the girl with green and strawberry blonde hair if I saw them.
distant misgivings - in which I talk about memory and impossible colors and Coach McGuirk's advice regarding women.

a little madness in the spring - in which I bring my sketchbook with me as Anime Boston is happening, see Japanese art, talk about woodblock prints with Alexandra and Italian and Cape Verdean with a man at Qdoba.
melting upwards - in which we walk Sophie and watch Bob's Burgers, I display my utter inability to remember names, and talk about the times we've mistook foreigners for locals and locals for foreigners.
hard to be a god - in which Courtney remembers me after 12 years, Amy says something that makes me feel bad for not talking to Emma, Désirée and Brody listen to Atlas Lab.
in the spring twilight - in which the wildlife center has a new volunteer named Emma, we talk about reptiles and idealism and traveling, I suggest that both Sam and Alex gave up a part of themselves to become good at music, we splint a woodcock's wing.
door slams in fourth world - in which I have to bring my winter coat back out, Emma gives us an update from Cyprus on her poorly-designed website but it doesn't matter how poorly the site is designed because the update is forever lost to the aether so talk to me if you want all the updates, and I mistake Arielle for Emma when I really want to talk about the situation in Cyprus with her.
as above, so below - in which I see colonial-era coins, bits of plaster, sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, photographs of post-tsunami Japan, and art looted by Nazis, meet a man with a collection of masks and kachinas and a woman with a maple leaf tattooed on her foot for an all-too-brief moment.
o dreams, o destinations - in which I dream, Emma wears Jasmine as a belt and shows me sculptures she did, we talk about music and art, and I learn that Cyprus has an internet cafe shortage.

spring strains - in which I play with dogs, sketch people with accents, and see Don Giovanni.
a shimmering sky - in which I make Emma's flakiness sound worse than it actually is, France grants itself surveillance powers, and we strew wood flakes along the nature trail.
the persistence of desire -in which I get a cold from Emma, the wildlife center gets baby owls, Zofia returns and mixes up the Emmas, we discuss relationships, and Shadowdancer Duskstar stumbles upon some old entries and comments and catalogues them.
The Anathēmata: a plague journal - in which I post a picture of lemurs eating a birthday cake, people at the wildlife center discuss their travel plans and get their portraits done, Shadowdancer Duskstar stalks me, I find better ways for Emma to meet Emma, Emma plays with snakes, The Fourth Republic of Madagascar eats a big jungly dick, and I make what I hope is the only comparison between Atlas Lab and Big Monster Fish Hook
sweetly the waves call to me - in which I dream, lament my inability to be in three places at once, and see art.

a service for the dead - in which Cody shares relationship advice, I feel like I go the blade runner route and Drow's followers and people stumbling upon that thread on Aff's Diary which is thankfully lost to the aether will have to contrast my humanity, where I fall in love with my friend, and Drow's single-mindedness, I meet a tetraracial woman, fail to find a book, Emma plays the song of double time and disappears, and there are at least 20 baby waterfowl.
Down to the River - in which I meet Alexa on the train, Alex sitting at a random table, Alexandra at an art gallery's booth, and Alexzandria selling her ceramics, and hear several really good bands play along with a cardboard puppet show
the sorrow of rain - in which it threatens to rain, I learn Harry's true name but since he's a human, I can't use it against him.
waiting for the summer - in which Brittney gives names to the wildlife center's resident animals despite the fact that they already have names and the mural goes on indefinite suspension.
cherryflavorburst - in which it is summer and I text notes about chameleon surgery while wearing gloves and have a conversation with Krissy about art.
vanillablue - in which I delay buying The Goblin Emperor but post some pictures anyway and conjecture on Facebook's reasons for changing the image urls.
cherrypop - in which I take photographs at the MIT museum, talk about Dali at the MFA, eat at Brookline Lunch even though Emma is no longer there, hear a conversation about Filipino cuisine.
lemondrop - in which I reveal my reasons for eating at Brookline Lunch because Emma no longer works there and Shadowdancer the Stalking Douchebag Duskstar accuses me of stalking Emma.

powderblue - in which I go to the museum of science to see butterflies and Pixar stuff and find a post about the two types of summer, neither of which seem to describe the first thirteen days of the summer of 2015, but one that I will remember as a dark summer.
bright stones and bones - in which it is my birthday, Zofia finds a fish head in a frozen mass of fish, ice, and chum, and I discuss recurring names of people in my life and the kinds of names I find memorable.
searching for friends - in which I fail to find Emma but find The Goblin Emperor and Station Eleven and admire art.
crushed by doubt - in which I hurt my abdomen, am almost peed on by a tortoise, and am incredibly nervous about seeing Gabriella two days later.
Boston melancholy - in which it rains and I don't see Gabriella but I do see a woman with blue hair and a back tattoo and discuss people's expressions with three women on the ride home, ironically making it one of the most exciting entries of the summer concert series, and realize I probably won't see Emma there.
an ending up of friends - in which I meet a doppleganger of Jessica and a blonde version of Gabriella and a dreadlocked version of Gabriella and two previous subjects, and explore rooms in the MFA I've never been in.
children of the revolution - in which I meet artists and jewelers and learn about bands from Emma and have a conversation that I swear I had on a previous summer's afternoon, possibly the same woman.
a low comedy - in which Shadowdancer Duskstar thinks Alex intervened in my friendship with Emma, and I discuss vampires and werewolves and rabies with Ayana, or maybe it was Chelsea.
bid them dance and bid them sing - in which I get lovesick over Gabriella and dance to offset that.
go starless in the night - in which I forget my pen, and hiccup during the last set.
hop skip and jump - in which I meet people with cool tattoos, a woman who looks like Shannon, and a woman who thinks that Christina Hoff Sommers is the worst, hear various performances, and learn about hedgehogs.
psychodrama - in which a thunderstorm causes me to lose sleep and I discuss the Judgment of Paris with Katie.
5:59 am - in which Julia shows me her paintings and I get whumped by Harry in Magic: The Gathering.
my endless sky - in which I meet Alison, a dancer, listen to Slowdive during a train journey, and hear the music from various 19th and 20th century ballets.
all at once - in which I see art and meet a woman with a dimetrodon pendant and a woman named Alisia and can't decide if I'm falling ill or just out of equilibrium.

future strife may be prevented now - in which I see a performance by The By And By and a performance of King Lear and try to fend off an encroaching cold with lots of lemonade ice cream and spicy chicken salads.
a culture of viruses - in which I spend an entire day at the wildlife center resting because my body can't make up its mind as to whether it feels better or just wants to piss my anima off.
Fly, thought, on golden wings - in which I see opera and set goals for myself that even I can fulfill.
tiny bright spark - in which my throat improves but I itch like fuck.
fantasies, fables, and faraway places - in which I hear music from faraway places, music based on fantasies, and music based on fables, meet a woman with a banjo who looks and dresses a bit like Gabriella and a woman with a googly eye on the back of her hat so that tigers will not sneak up on her while she sleeps.
little dreams in glass and metal - in which I post art I saw at the Fuller Craft Museum.
the swan troika - in which a swan oinks like a pig at me and Katie has an awesome idea.
to answer and resound - in which I hear music and discuss the whiteness of Armenians and Portuguese, and discuss the Lathe of Heaven with someone who picked up a Norwegian accent from summer camps.
unguarded future - in which I fall in love with Gretch's music, offer horoscopes to people going to a Pokemon tournament, and meet a Nepali woman who keeps handwritten journals.
a distant glimmer - in which I meet cosplayers and people with tattoos and musicians and a woman named Emma who just happens to know Magaggie.
radiance - in which Grace Morrison is wonderfully quirky and I hear various musicians and bands play, including a Greek ensemble, and the Sad Puppies get trounced in the Hugo Awards.
we are the dreamers of dreams - in which Emma starts keeping a dream journal but does not deign to share it with the world, but I share a dream I had about Norway becoming a Belarus-style dictatorship and a dream about purple fal'Cie.
lay down your weary tune - in which I see A Midsummer Night's Dream with the incidental music performed by an orchestra, Chelsea and I discuss art and the Simpsons and Bob's Burgers.
fate and freedom - in which I reflect on fading summer and fading friendships and share opinions on bands.

emergent evolution - in which I meet some women who know their shit about animals and wander the Harvard Museum of Natural History, contemplate eating at the place Emma works but realize I have no idea just where the fuck that place is.
The Doomherald -in which it's quiet at the wildlife center so we talk about aye-ayes and x-ray a turtle.
lights eternal - in which I check out some of Emma's work on display at Boston's city hall meet a woman who looks like Emma and we sit together at a concert and talk about art and cartoons.
after many a summer dies the swan - in which there are rumors that Kate is sick so I hold a Rick and Morty marathon to restore emotional equilibrium, Shadowdancer Duskstar goes full Nazi, some deaths occur at the wildlife center, and ISIS releases a kill list that includes places nobody has ever heard of.
full moon, empty heart - in which the boston hemp fest and the beantown jazz festival coincide and I meet and sketch a lot of interesting people as a result of this but Kate vanishes.
hereafter, and after - in which I dream about living in an old mansion and it's quiet at the wildlife center and out of the blue too is saved.

as if all time had stopped - in which I post scans of my first book of train portraits so people can observe how I've become more confident and developed my own style.
life is elsewhere - in which I see a production of La boheme set in 1968 Paris.
slightly less sunshine - in which Holly talks about the time she brought an ornate box turtle to the wildlife center and I think she's talking about George, a seagull gets some necrotic bone removed, and I rescue a spider.
objects in flux - in which I have a dream about being stuck on an endless and lonely train journey with nothing to read but Sparrowind and a textbook by Mr. Goldenfold, I meet a woman with a Siamese Dream tattoo and check out art and interact with a performance artist who was getting her hair done like one of the masks, and then go to a concert and meet a guitarist and a woman who is just barely a musician.
words unspoken - in which I neglect to say things I want to Rebecca, see paintings in a coffeehouse, see Othello, and have a conversation about pizza on the way home.
voices in an empty room - in which the quietest day yet occurs at the wildlife center so I play with Zack's new dog.
everyday life in future times - in which the Back to the Future trilogy is entirely set within the past, I carve Bob Belcher's visage into a pumpkin.
illusion - in which Kim shows up at Night of a Thousand Faces with her pet tegu and I wonder if I really did recall a detail about her life or just think I did, Kira carves the interns into a pumpkin but neglects Jacob and Zofia, somebody forgets to make spaghetti for the victim of unnecessary surgery to throw around.
disillusion - in which I describe the spooky trail, Désirée is deemed too scary for it and tells me about the time a coyote tried to scale the walls of the raptor enclosure, Tiffany recommends bands, and an identitarian stabs two people at a school in Sweden.
ending is better than mending - in which I post images of pumpkins and explain why I won't be attending any more of Atlas Lab's concerts in 2015.

borrowed lives - in which the raccoons leave us and Bethany talks about dinosaurs.
unknown color - in which I am unable to look up stuff on the endocrine system.
phantom and a rose - in which I engage in conversations about time travel, the nature of time, alternate realities, colors, and dopplegangers.
to this we've come - in which Tyler finds a woolly bear and x-rays a turtle and Breitbart says something profoundly insensitive as if in an attempt to outdo something insensitive Partisan Girl said.
aftermath, and after - in which I have dreams, buy books, read about people filling hollow bullets with mercury, Tyler shows off the animals in med ward, and a cockatoo tosses hats.
the human agent - in which Rachel tells me about the Japanese attitude towards tattoos and Russian pop culture and white people who look similar, I try to compare the two versions of Wake Up Slow but find out that Emma in her infinite wisdom made the video private and suggest either throwing a shoe and/or powdered mnar stones at her or entering her dreams and the dreams of people she dreams about until they find Scary Terry.
conspiracy theories - in which I visit the museum of fine arts, post some thoughts on the passage of time, and everyone has to get off the train before I can sketch them.
for your own safety - in which Shadowdancer decides to embrace a conspiracy theory instead of ignoring a mass shooting, people tell stories about cockatoos, and Courtney messes with Jean's phone.

war damage - in which I dream, muse about the democratic party trying to siphon away voters from Trump, dream, point out that the far right is not codependent on terrorism but is in fact codependent on the mainstream right, dream, help animals, and link to Atlas Lab's new video because the song's good even though the video isn't.
black and white - in which the curse of the twelve days of wonky roms falls upon me in the form of relationship drama, I realize that Mobile Book Fair is stuck in the past, the changing of the interns happens and a cat has a hematoma drained, and I totally blank on some stories I was going to tell.
finding beauty - in which I post scans from the train sketchbook so my viewers can see how the color of the paper changes as the sun sets and realize how many promises I made throughout the year that I never fulfilled.
the great escape - in which a hawk escapes from the flight pen, Spyro finds himself in the laundry room, the right wing creates some outrage regarding third rate banh mi.
control/alt/delete - in which I talk to various relatives about various things, mostly art, cartoons, and politics.
till the stars fall from the sky - in which the wildlife center is calm before the storms so I play with rats and help soak reptiles.

16: the paper over the cracks

cloudsilvered drag- in which Sully and I make new years resolutions and I post art of deer and gogolshoks.
organs - in which I participate in my first necropsy, the Refrigerator Gang cleans the upstairs kitchen, and Jacob pulls feathers from a hawk.
anyone can make a mistake - in which Nicole wonders how she'll be remembered at the wildlife center, we receive a dovekie and fail to draw blood from it, and Matt and Eden take apart a dead chicken.
surfacing - in which the MFA holds an open house and showcases children's homages to Martin Luther King, Marilyn reads from a book as Emily and I draw her and I draw Emily, people eat pizza on the train, a dog learns how to be a service dog, I learn new ways of spelling Chantelle.
snowfall - in which Tiffany shows up again and holds a swan rodeo, a duck half-assedly bites Tyler, and we x-ray a bunny.
making the most of it - in which Emma doesn't show up to a reception showcasing her art and I am actually somewhat relieved, I visit the Museum of Fine Arts, sketch a Peruvian woman, see art by a Lithuanian and a Chinese, and eat food from Pakistan while failing to find food from Thailand or the Arab world.

another man's treasure - in which Jack compares a bobwhite to a pile of straw, we receive a mourning dove and a broad-shouldered hawk, we look at a rabbit's leg and clean out all the nasty stuff, and a woman finds a vintage book in the trash.
tumbling dice - in which I meet a woman with blue-green hair and a woman reading catch-22 on the way into boston, learn that even when I order the cheapest thing on the menu even when I'm not the one paying, meet a woman with purple hair and desperately need to pee on the way back.
an infinite blast of icy air - in which I meet a woman and her hedgehog and a parrot named Sam who sings along with the radio.
wrack and ruin - in which I spend Valentine's Day feeling like Jack Torrance, Spyro escapes, Tiffany mimics a bobwhite, I debate whether or not to go to an Atlas Lab album release.
healing the rifts - in which I am a welcomed guest, if not a sought out guest at Atlas Lab's concert, meet people with colorful hair and run into Chelsea on the way, and eat papaya salad.
the fog mutters - in which Bling receives an honorary doctorate, someone finds Spyro where his presence is least expected, Puff lays eggs, someone sneaks a turtle into our turtle pond, Matt feeds turtles worms, and I edit healing the rifts about twenty times.
a mad tea party - in which I can't decide if Trump is awful because David Duke and Vox Day endorse him or if he's awful because The Mad Genius Club doesn't endorse him, although it's probably the former because they're against Trump for all the reasons, Larry Correia and his followers fuck off of twitter and there is much rejoicing, Cherokee surnames remind me of Italian surnames, baby squirrels and an adult raccoon with his head stuck in a jar arrive at the wildlife center, and Tiffany looks at blood.

the mercy of sound - in which I go into Boston and don't encounter anyone with unnaturally colored hair and hear a Ravel operetta.
England Calling - in which Tiffany, Michael, and I discuss dystopia as a society run by Donald Trump and why fascism took hold in some places but not in others.
hope's reach - in which there is a shuffling of schedules due to spring break, Airiel releases a new song and I wonder what's going on with lovesliescrushing and July Skies, someone tries to start a torrent for Big Monster Fish Hook and wonder if people who are a bit more anal about ratios even bother torrenting obscure material, and a screech owl tries to eat his perch.
triangle of tragedy - in which Boston has an unreally yellow sky, a woman is really happy to be drawn, I see Werther and meet a woman who painted a rainbow flower on the way back, discuss Dune and Paula Volsky and The Black Company with Amanda.
paying for the past - in which waterfowl feed on three hundred years worth of lead sinkers and bullets, the squirrels' eyes open, and an undin halcyon Priya carries around with her reacts to her sadness.
the magic kingdom - in which Rachel talks about sheltered valedictorians and watches terrible anime, the word "disneyfied" slips through in Fairyland, and Sam wears a Minnie Mouse headband.
lost children - in which Jacob suspects that a goose tried to steal a child and that's why he had few wounds and I learn what blue jays and grackles eat.

pastoral drone - in which Scathiel locks himself in Heaven, I use "lol" for the first time in 10 years, hear Mahler's first symphony and Beethoven's fourth concerto, someone asks which we preferred, and a mouse scurries among the train tracks.
sundered earth - in which spring sadness overwhelms me, some animals return to the wild and we clean cages for the new squirrels, a tree falls over, and Gabrielle rescues a squirrel.
rays of ashen light - in which Amy or Alianna almost runs over a squirrel, a parakeet regurgitates because of a crop infection, a mallard lays an egg, and the x-ray machine stops working.
dry and disconsolate - in which enrichment floods, I am tasked to gather cockroaches, Jack and Matt find a turkey egg, and Tiffany posts a picture of the worst jacuzzi ever.
the lost way - in which I offer no new insights on Mahler's ninth symphony and run into Gabriella and a Pekingese dog.
swimming with eels - in which I forget just how little I've eaten that week, visit the Institute of Contemporary Art, discuss the Lebanese civil war and the Axis with a writer, discuss the expansion of the universe, meet a singer who was checking out #techstyle and Picasso at the MFA, and some kids have a duel with balloon swords.
distance and mortality - in which PAX East and Japanfest happen as I go to see Verdi's requiem and some Picasso works at the MFA, I meet a woman who volunteers at the Pennsylvania equivalent of the New England Wildlife Center, and Willow, Lynne, Toby, Ronan, and Ren integrate me and Aisha into their circle of friends.
bird claustrophobia - in which we get our first baby opossums of the season, cut up community mice, and administer oxytocin to an eggbound turtle.
modern luminescence - in which I detail my visit to the MFA.

journey's rest - in which the rain gods grant my wish and postpone the Mayfair, seagull cuisine stinks.
footfalls of the past - in which two birds fly at my face and I realize that all the initial reactions to the Columbine shooting are forever lost to the aether.
cherry blossoms on the river of souls - in which the starving time is unending, Hannah tells a tale of seagulls, Tiffany is unable to leave the wildlife center behind, we talk about people who share our names, and I feed chicks to hawks because they don't have the coke can physique of a rat and they're far easier to dismember.
sparks in everything - in which I see art, pet dogs, buy books, and ninja-edit.
flicker and die - in which a whole bunch of new interns show up.
the fairy queen - in which Jackie can't make it to the MFA and I decline to ask Emma because I know there's no way she'll get a message in time, disabled and homeless artists show off their stuff, and sleeping with the windows open messes up my sleep cycle.

spring festival: happiness, anger, love, sorrow, joy - in which I assume and miss the sculpture race despite getting to Cambridge earlier than last time, Dana likens my art to people of New York and wishes I would include little vignettes about them, meet people with interesting tattoos, have a reunion with Alexandra, and be a percussionist.
the heart of a mouse - in which a chipmunk and a squirrel escape and we replace yogurt cups with meow mix cups.
a small rush into exile - in which an owl self-releases.
this is your wake-up call - in which I run into Kerri at a concert in Cambridge, buy books, and meet a man who does pop-culture inspired parodies of famous paintings.
nothing has changed but everything - in which Ryan and Jackie dye their hair.
going through changes - in which the wildlife center obtains a gray fox and red fox, Kendall discusses vegetarianism, Britain flakes out of the European Union

and on with a new journey - in which I buy books and listen to one half of a traditional Celtic group and a full Afro-Celti-funk band and meet a woman who believes in red hair and leftism until judgement.
We played some open chords and rejoiced, for the Earth had circled the sun yet another year - in which I list my musical listening habits.
paradise is a walled garden - in which I make a statement that is true in the literal sense but not in the metaphorical sense and it's even more relevant as fake news has come to the forefront.
spike train - in which I miss performance art by two Indonesians but get to meet a woman who is probably part magpie and a woman with a death's head moth tattoo.
natural defenses - in which Facebook has a fit whenever I try to look at the main page and so they spam me with e-mails so I decide that it's actually less of a hassle to load the main page every day, Sarah and Emily wonder what God was thinking with various animals that don't include the depths of the ocean.
songs of earth and sky - in which Tán Dùn writes a Cantus Arcticus for New England and the 21st century and Michael Gandolfi channels John Adams, I draw a macaw and see Fruit Tree.
an episode of stardust - in which Sundog lacks roots, being from space and all, but everyone else shows theirs off.
passage of earth - in which a woman eats an entire watermelon in front of me, someone turns an old phone box into art, Margaret Moody puts on a puppet show about a badger meeting some faeries, The By & By uses a new instrumentation, Amy Kucharik and friends play at the same time as the Sharq Arab Ensemble and so I finally get my hands on Cunning Folk, I wonder how I learned about Funeral Advantage in the first place, I meet Princess Leia the dog, Emily Garfield paints maps of imaginary cities, and Esmé plays with a hula hoop.
the language of moths - in which Michael and I discuss cryptids and Jack finally posts pictures of the gray fox.
summer suite - in which someone brings her cat to a concert and Ruth and I discuss art.
a blasted pink - in which I visit a lesser-known art gallery.
dragonfly pinkyfuzz - in which interns make smoothies for the raccoons, Jack doesn't take pictures of chimney swifts, a gull dies and we take it apart.
chimes of freedom - in which Napalm Man kills da wabbit, I speculate that Manon Lescaut is set in a future wracked by climate change, the program writers mix up Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, the latter who is emphatically not an anti-semite.
love's labours - in which a performance of Love's Labour's Lost is held and I encounter Keytar Bear and check out Brattle Books and lament how Amazon changed literature in the white nationalists' favor.
the liquid moderne - in which an art event is held on the greenway and I get to hear Nora Borealis play, discuss singlehood and summertime with Stella, cults and pokemons and Hamlet meeting Faust and why the Financial District shuts down with Rachel, cartoon dogs with Calli, Anna, and Evelyn, play with bubbles and motion sensors, and everything is beautiful.

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in) - in which we take apart a dead goose and pass the heart around and the grey fox gets to live with other foxes.
heart sounds & bruits - in which I see a genderflipped performance of Cymbeline interrupted by the chattering of house finches and make someone's day with a portrait of her but can not remember who she reminds me of and who she possibly could be.
Light Emitting Proteins - in which I meet duplicates of people I know, someone compares coprolites to ice cream for Fred Flintstone, and I speculate on what In A Dark Dark Wood should be about.
pond scum - in which many interns say farewell, I remove a drowned sparrow from the goats' water, someone finds Snap-Snap in the freezer.
for a better future - in which Gonzalo Grau writes a piece with some young Boston musicians based around the four classical elements, and Honk joins in on In The Hall of the Mountain King.
machine dreams - in which I give a dog a belly rub and check out a bookstore in Central Square, take some pictures with a zoom camera and build a stack of cups and play around with a musical pinball machine, and meet Russell on the way home where we discuss how Facebook serves the same function that AOL did, that is to say, it's a frontend for viewing the web.
disappearing acts - in which Jack doesn't take any pictures of the oystercatcher.
the end of the dance, the beginning - in which I meet a violinist and a woman who still remembers the old station names, Alex tells a story about cats, and see Greek, Armenian, and Latin American dancing.
in search of vanished blood - in which I run into Gabriella at the ICA.
prayer & wish - in which Bulldog plays a show unrelated to Greenfest, two drummers are away for a wedding possibly involving two drummers getting married, and I discuss animals, languages, and former Soviet republics with Molly and Marisa.
will & choice - in which I go to Greenfest armed with a plan and a sketchbook and dance myself exhausted.
back & reverse - in which I see various bands, a Peruvian dance troupe, The Sacred Tai Kwan Leap Fighting Martial Art Organization, and lego robots.
memory & hope - in which I encounter Skyla at the wildlife center, bake cookies, and name an irreparably fucked up goose.
a lingering incandescence - in which it's warm despite summer winding down, a woman is impressed that I recognized her tattoos, a concert with a theme of discovery is performed.
dust to dust - in which Gamingforce finally goes to the great server farm in the sky, I vow to buy Laurie Penny's new novella and ask others to do the same, a series of excerpts from operas set in Seville are performed, and Aniya draws Rick and Mortified Simpsons characters.
learning to live with it - in which Shae melts crayons to make art, Donald Trump starts his own line of medical gloves that are way too small for my giant Lana Kane hands, and Tiffany cuts up rats.

partings and promises - in which the orange line starts to show its age, a woman who looks like Hannah draws things, and the Boys from Syracuse is performed with its original score.
coda late summer - in which Julianne returns and would rather have a machine that transmogrifies objects into pizza or ice cream instead of a machine that transmogrifies objects into carrots.
rainmaker cometh - in which we learn that raccoons do not like celery.
enantiodromic zones - in which Jazz Fest serves as an asylum from the rest of the world.
silk and pearls- in which Gabriella and I see Carmen and equinox sunsets seem to last forever.
hope of the future - in which Julianne leaves but Colleen arrives.

uneasy feelings - in which I am threatened by a nasty hurricane and clean some cages and Colleen does not deign to show up before I leave.
from anxiety to impatience - in which Hurricane Mateus Palamecia decides to fuck with Florida instead, I go to the art museum but for not enough time, and see a Spanish opera with Gabriella, and run into people from the past.
the medium is not the message - in which I pay another visit to the MFA and hear a Guatemalan chorus and a relatively normal Erwin Schulhoff work, and meet a woman who would rather die than vote for Donald Trump.
remembrance of things future - in which a merlin dies.
blood is good for the soull - in which a duck tries to protect his food from the mirror duck, Matt brings a dead turtle and reminisces about a prank, while I lament my inability to find the name of a book and Google's inability to be useful.
I hide in the sky - in which a finch escapes and hides in the ceiling and we carve pumpkins.
in the forest evil - in which someone writes Polish words on the whiteboard, Julianne and I show reptiles to people, and Kim and her steampunk friend show up with tegus.
out of the darkness - in which I think that a Victoria's Secret Agent would make a great Halloween costume, we get excited over slugs on a pumpkin, and Thomas dresses as a shark and screams hilarious things at the trail's exit.
astral violet - in which the finch gets loose again right before release, Tiffany visits Vermont and finds naught but cold and boredom, and someone tries to steal a dreamcatcher.

tension in the air - in which an election happens
nothing but grief - in which Trump wins the presidential election and Ashley and I are despondent about it.
lamenting to the moon - in which I visit the MFA and discuss politics with twins who sing in a choir and wear safety pins on their jackets.
the things I want to tell you - in which Facebook fails to inform me about Emma's art therapy session and free hugs, I say I'll eat a rat if Trump is a good president and am so confident that he won't be that I post it on the Internet Archive, and we get a barred owl.
a cartographic analysis of the dream state - in which Leah and I discuss art and owls, Zack and I discuss dreaming, and the wildlife center receives many birds and a few snapping turtles.
brief lives indeed - in which I find out my friend was killed in an accident and find myself in yet another love triangle.
bonds of friendship - in which Ashley and I discuss loss, the state of the world, black friday, our need for a nationwide public transit system that would employ 80% of our population, cats, and pizza.

as autumn passes away - in which I eat Vietnamese food and hope that the America of multiculturalism survives the next four or even eight or Bhunivelze forbid sixteen years intact, get so excited over a book that I lose control over my hands and throw it to the floor, and see a performance of The Tempest with a woman Prospero.
dreaming of atonement - in which I don't get to say a final goodbye to Colleen and lose a friend of a friend in a fire.
the eleventh hour - in which Tiffany tells a tale of Standing Rock, I visit the MFA, hear Bach's Christmas Cantata part V, and Gabriella and I discuss loss, the state of the world, our need for a nationwide public transit system that would employ 80% percent of our population, cats, the depths of the ocean, alternate realities, safety pins, and trains.
into the mouth of the lion - in which I listen to music from The Shining because it's too cold for Christmas music.
a dream shared by two - in which my internet plotzes so I spend the day playing the original Legend of Zelda, Sam does not go on any political rants and Holly speculates on the future supreme court.
as if it would have a universal and memorable ending - in which 2016 ends with a whimper and 2017 begins with apprehension and the thought of Scott Cortez being a Muslim.

17: some lies

in a snowy season - in which a barred owl kicks Tiffany, we release some animals and learn about animals that modify their ecosystem, and Lucy and Signe discuss which type of jawless fish would make a better pet.
cupid, draw back your bow - in which I discuss the relative merits of the common cold vs the norovirus, snow falls on Priya, and Jack fails to tell the difference between a male and female merganser.
all farewells are sudden - in which Leah leaves my life and I am despondent.
sea change, with monsters - in which I march for Ashley, Holly, and Leah.
teeth dreams - in which the animals don't look great.
otherworldly resonances - in which I hypothesize about the existences of alternate worlds, hear rumors on the death of Assad and fake news on a shooter really being Moroccan and meet someone who's tumblr I read in person and her rats.

daydreaming - in which I post scans of a sketchbook and discuss love, growing up, time, cats, music then vs music now, and plans for the assassination of Marine le Pen.
to see the invisible man - in which I post scans of a sketchbook and think the two halves of winter were switched, Ashley sleeps too much and I sleep too little.
quiet of the night - in which Ashley is scatterbrained and recommends bands that I fail to listen to and I have Malaysian food and see Massenet's Cendrillon and an Andean guitarist.
an arrow through time - in which I procure some books, Ashley recommends various bands and anime and we discuss the cuisine of southeast Asia and far-right movements in Europe and clothing with elephant motifs, various driveways turn into skating rinks, One-Eye fails to get vertical lift and Clamp in Wonderland fails to live up to my lofty expectations.
one of her paths - in which Tiffany tells me that it was in fact One-Eye who got released, while the salamander goes to a better place and we get a goose who is suffering from organophosphate poisoning.
everything that rises must converge - in which I eat Thai food, take the train, procure Thai food, visit the ICA, step in a snowbank, take a wobbly train, and take a train that reversed itself, all on an unseasonably warm February day.
return of a comrade - in which I encounter Chantel at the desk of a small art gallery and I update her on my life because I know Tara would appreciate it.
as time stood vexingly still - in which I discuss the differences between abyssopelagic black and hadeopelagic black and the lifespan of hedgehogs.

the sun is but a morning star - in which Facebook fails to stymie my friendship with Emma and I type "A s" before realizing my mistake, snow melts despite being far below freezing, and I discuss hypothetical pre-Venera Venuses.
days of atonement - in which Gabriella and I hear Durufle's requiem and a motet by Palestrina and poke around Harvard Books without Ashley.
i've been here - in which I go bowling and the bad animation makes Taylor feel confused and infuriated.
hewn from nature - in which I tell a story about bowling shoes and my policy on ninja editing, wish Ashley a happy birthday, and change the water in a turtle pool.
voices from corona borealis - in which I meet a woman with blue hair and a man who speaks Mayan, discover the Sargent murals and admire the Grail murals and the Muses.
a little bird told me - in which I stop counting down to the vernal equinox even though it remained cold and I listen to Tori Amos non-stop and it gets harder and harder to tell the difference between the far right and mainstream conservatives.
mixed skies - in which someone gives a turkey a true name, killing him, a butterfly finds itself in enrichment, and I reach the point in Steins;Gate in which it stops being funny.

deliquescence - in which Emily, TJ, and I clean the fridge at the wildlife center, Margo eats Jolly Rancher popsicles, Emily discusses Washington D.C, and Ashley is more withdrawn than usual and I mistakenly blame spring sadness.
sunrise in aries - in which a turkey's blood fails to cooperate with the lead testing kit, and Jen makes lunch in a pot and eats it before rounds even began.
humanity's tale - in which I remain optimistic, both about humanity and about not getting sick from Jack.
the air stirs - in which Photoshop becomes subscription based.
traces of the beast - in which I explain dog color receptors to a kid, we get some fledgeling birds.
refugees and pilgrims - in which Emma holds an ambient concert, I meet many people named Hannah, a boy from Somalia is eager to be drawn.
among strangers - in which there is a protest in Boston and my sign idea doesn't make sense there, a requiem is performed, and I make Amber feel better with a drawing.
where words fail, music speaks - in which Box of Birds performs on the common and I see an obscure Mozart opera.
business as usual - in which TJ and I speculate on how seriously the Flat Earth Society takes themselves and Margo talks about Moana.
in trouble again - in which I pick a title that relates to Trouble in Tirana not knowing that I would see Twelfth Night again by the end of the year, and an octet performs songs of Shakespeare.
the rich drown in wine - in which Gabriella and I go to an opera and I eat a dish of rapi greens, garlic, pignoli nuts, sundried tomatoes, and currants in capellini, and she gets a salad and risotto.
dirty work - in which the wildlife center has a baby weasel and I get annoyed with Facebook's aggressive user retention methods and learn that squirting oranges and pineapples on fish negates the horrible odors.
transcendence - in which I compare Stalinist Russia and Conservative-Libertarian America's attitude towards the arts, meet someone who reminds me of Ashley and people who were dressed for a 90s-themed bar crawl.
Archive Style - in which I arrive late to a Mayfair on the nicest possible day that week but early enough to catch Noble Dust's full set, buy Celestis for Ashley and begin my troubles, wish I had some Fruit Brute cereal so I can increase the temperature by 17 degrees, people recreate art in chalk, the Russians and Ecuadorians fail to suborn French elections.
disillusioned by the actual - in which I don't bother to learn names, Margo forgets that she can use her boyfriend as a human shield during a potential Purge or zombie apocalypse and blows bubbles.
a world bathed in sunlight - in which I give Laci Green a few weeks before dismissing her as a lost cause and Margo dyes her hair.
elsewhere/here - in which I identify with a hedgehog puppet, someone paints The Scream with Kevin McCallister, the Harvard Art Museum reconstructs a Philosophy Chamber, I obtain some books and don't let Ashley have them and then deface something about kek with stuff about zerg and tell Stephanie about people who wear winter clothing when it's warm and shorts when the windchill drops below subzero.
where soft rains fell - in which Ashley heads off to Europe but not before Danielle tells her a story about otters and I attempt to explain the Aouzou Strip and Toyota War to her, and mistakenly attribute her even worse withdrawnness to the stress of traveling by air and not tesseract or arbiter recall and the stress of car problems.
an idyll for the misbegotten - in which it is unseasonably cold, a libertarian fascist stabs three people on a train in Portland, I find an Arab restaurant which comes at no surprise, and see a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in which Mustardseed is an old-fashioned box of mustard with a face and mustache and Dana is in the audience although I do not actually realize it.
communing with the rain - in which I have a cuteness overload from seeing a weasel, Jacob doesn't bother learning names when the Aggies show up.

monster beach - in which a sculpture race is held, artists draw monsters in a river, Sophie performs the overworld music from the Legend of Zelda on an accordion, google search robots accuse Kevin Harris of being involved with Columbine, I encounter Dana from last year.
lost hope - in which I mistake Jill for Ananya and mistake Ananya for a Hungarian or Hebrew name, a crazy swan lady wants to euthanize all the great blue herons even though they were here first, I listen to Tori Amos and become disillusioned with Laci Green and despondent over Ashley.
dispatches from the revolution - in which a Pride parade, a dance party, and a Shakespeare-themed concert are held on the same day, I meet Jessica who says she sees me a lot, and I suggest sending a Pepe rally to somewhere like Pepperell that isn't Pepperell, like perhaps Mount Ashley or Kyrgyzstan.
she's not there - in which orphaned gray foxes and lead-poisoned waterfowl show up, Greg identifies a night heron, and a baby owl is given to another nest.
mysteries abound - in which I learn that respected newspapers were openly racist, sexist, and classist and wonder just how much things have changed, attempt the World War II scenario as the Spanish Republic, eat a garlic burger while listening to some Argentine musicians play, and get flipped off.
clean is better - in which I draw pictures of horseshoe crabs, someone brings a decapitated nestling and we feed Falco, Brian's dad fails to cook lobster properly, a raccoon dunks his banana in poop before eating it.
my life in paper - in which I remember that I had a bunch of sketchbook pages already photographed but they failed to upload properly.
proud music of the storm - in which I take a detour to the MFA because there's an art of sound installation at a nearby Orange Line station, wonder what the last country to allow same-sex marriage will be, meet a woman with a heron tattoo who thought I was saying hi to her and her corgi, see an opera, and run around trying to find dinner.
slow red - in which Taylor has no idea who Captain Planet is, the night heron lives another day, and I learn about red blood cells.
a taste of the divine - in which a whirlpool spins clockwise and I get lost on the way to Chili Duck and finally get to hear Aliya Cycon play.

the tailor's cut - in which the MIT museum is virtually unchanged since my last visit, the smell of an Indian market makes me happy and hungry, I buy a book with the caveat that if I have it with a different title, I'll attempt to pass it on to Ashley.
atomic fireball (blasted) - in which the Davis Museum is completely transformed since my last visit.
fireworks and memories - in which I try to watch an impromptu fireworks show behind trees and post thoughts on my listening habits for the year.
summer thoughts - in which Jack posts a picture of a goose instead of a picture of a night heron.
God Prefers Gothic - in which it pours rain and I use a thick pen to draw a man who called Snowpiercer "Arctic Train," a woman with tattoos of Boba Fett, and a Michael Jackson impersonator, see some Latin jazz in the Boston Public Library, and Ashley goes by Ashley Fairchild in real life but Ashley Evans-Fairchild online.
in the dark - in which the lights go out across Harvard's campus and I discover a note by Ashley and meet a woman who knows someone who interns at the wildlife center, a woman who gets songs in Swahili stuck in her head, a woman with beautiful tattoos, and a dog named Lana.
for all the dreamers - in which Cassandra writes a poem for me and I explain Irish pronunciation and the Voyage of the Basset, I participate in a collaborative comic about a snake, a bear, and a pancake, learn words in Nahuatl and fail to learn what exactly Hassaleh means, meet people with beautiful tattoos, and hear amazing music with a "voice" theme.
music for a summer evening - in which Gabriella brings a friend along for a concert of aestival music.
radio RX-1 - in which I get sidetracked by art depicting the Trojan War on my way to get a shawarma.
ouroboros festival - in which it is Figment and I meet a troupe of dancers and my lab partner from physics and a woman who gave away free cupcakes.
slipped into sleep - in which Jack uses a game boy camera to take a picture of the night heron.
what rough beast slouches - in which I compare Nuremberg to Lille in an unfavorable way although there are places in France that are worse than Lille and most of them are where Occitan was spoken but no longer, Gabriella takes the extra copy of Celestis that has been burdening me, and I meet a pug named Darth Vader and a woman from Saudi Arabia with impeccable tastes in music.
a midsummer's night - in which a man juggles with swords and the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company uses Dead Can Dance as the soundtrack to Romeo and Juliet.
they also feed - in which an egg plops out of the back end of a chick.

the replica of the soul - in which Ashley and I have a falling out and I can't concentrate on anything because of that and she might have just been stressed out because all her stuff ended up in Ashgabat or South Georgia but probably not, a man from New Delhi describes public transit there.
inside a hollow heart - in which Penelope's eulogy aches, Shelby sees the creepiest thing she's ever seen, a heron dies so there will be no more baby deliveries, and I bring up rails, a possible premonition of the future.
a calling from beyond time - in which I find sumac, a dog named Han shows up, Gabriella tells me a story about her cat getting skunked, Christopher Wilkins says that Boston has become even more diverse since he started his career as conductor, and a group performs a lushly orchestrated pop song about their self-identity.
your shadow on a cloud - in which a man plays violin in the Gardner Museum's courtyard and art installations produce sounds.
mystery by moonlight - in which I meet people with beautiful tattoos and beautifully colored hair and beautiful jewelry, see an art installation of found objects, run into Box of Birds again, Julia Mark sings whimsical songs about static electricity, crescent moons, people on TV, and the end of the world, Lainie Marsh sings about fracking,
the power and the passion - in which an alt-righter runs down a woman with his car, I meet a woman dressed in Ivalician Gothic style and people dressed as comic book characters and many frenchies and shih-tzus, and hear songs about women with eyes the color of almonds and hammers and the Vietnam War and superheroes and rain in Noelle's heart and social justice and try Haitian food.
will to fight - in which I fail to spell Darragh's name, resolve to finally finish watching Steins;Gate, meet several shih-tzus and people from all over the world and a guy named Drew who likes to make art and a woman named Victoria who is half-blonde half-brunette.
not quite alone in the dream quarter - in which Taylor finds a snail and I learn that wallabies are friendlier than kangaroos and a frog-right rally is planned.
Jupiter and Beyond The Infinite - in which the Longwood Symphony Orchestra doesn't make lengthy writeups on the works of music they play so I have to do that for them and Danielle schleps off to New York and does not eat steamed hams because she's in Syracuse, not Albany.
a temporary embarrassment in spacetime - in which I post a wildlife center entry because the one for the ICA overwhelmed me.
sun splashed - in which a woman with snake and rose and bird-woman tattoos calls my artwork dope and check out art by a guy who emigrated from Jamaica and just recently became a citizen, wonder if there's any way to tell if images won't upload to imgur and come to the conclusion that there isn't a blacklist because I can still gank images from Facebook.
time cures nothing - in which I state something I already knew, overhear some conversations.
the melodics of madness - in which Hamlet's father is murdered most foully and Cassie speculates on Ashley.
tyrannicide - in which Julius Caesar is murdered and I ride the train from Alewife to Braintree.
Stirring Them Up as the Keeper of a Menagerie His Wild Beasts - in which the wildlife center gets a new goat
everywhere and no place - in which Ashley seems for a moment friendlier but it is but an illusion, a string ensemble plays in place of the Landmarks Orchestra, and I meet an art teacher.

by moonlight - in which Emma dumps paint on canvases and then paints around the splatters, gives a question and answer session, and speculates on Ashley.
the fruits of friendship - in which I tell Sydney Hardin about Vagrant Story because she has the most Vagrant Story name ever, hear an acoustic version of Atlas Lab and realize I have their songs memorized, hear Molly Pinto Madigan and Mint Green.
hieratic reflections - in which the chimney swifts were released and we share culinary disasters.
of revenge and regret - in which a Mad Genius laments the lack of a drive for revenge but Holly and I are fine with this.
a view from a height - in which Jose brings rains but not fierce winds, I spend an hour looking at Japanese woodblock prints, Ariel is proud that I asked about The Tempest and not The Little Mermaid.
seeing stars - in which Greg and Katrina rescue a dog, Jessica gets a dog, and Zack brings Ziggy around.
meeting you - in which it rains on jazz fest and I am strangely ok with this and a glob of rain water falls on my sketchbook, and Josh is pleased with his mighty jawline.

not to mention jack - in which they Len-proof the enclosure.
stories for children - in which Gabriella and I see an opera in which a child throws a tantrum and is tormented by anthropomorphic household objects and animals and a staged cantata, I find a bag of Indian snack mix they had at Trader Joes back when I was in middle school, I meet a woman with a tattoo of the Bride of Frankenstein, whose name means mandarin orange in Turkish.
no place any more - in which I visibly and obviously stress out Ashley and realize that things will never be the same between us.
stochastic fancy - in which Gabriella and I see Tosca.
dirty reality - in which it rains and the seagull's dinner ferments.
because change was the ocean and we lived by her mercy - in which Neogaf goes through changes and not good changes but on the other hand, the Escapist might shut down and the Amazon Forums are gone, and I realize that 'no place any more' makes more sense for this post.
loathing and fear - in which Ashley is uncomfortable in my presence and I decide instead to wait for her to approach me but doubt that she ever will, Shorty the dog takes on the role of receptionist at the wildlife center, and I attempt to make a Bob Belcher pumpkin.
magic night - in which I meet Lindsay and we guard the spider jack-o-lantern and discuss Final Fantasy and the Legend of Zelda and Mario and Until Dawn until she goes to the bathroom and gets lost, Maggie is way too harsh on Ashley, at least three people named Emily show up, and a guy dressed as a rave walks through the pumpkin trail.
in judgment of ghosts - in which I mistake Lisa Simpson for an albino Statue of Liberty.
the thoughts of the rain - in which I see a jazz oratorio performed, people on the train are dressed in costumes, and I try Persian food.

source decay - in which the pumpkins grow fungus, someone in a supermarket mistakes seagulls for bald eagles, and the shop sells dog christmas ornaments.
reusable universes - in which a Diwali celebration takes place at the Worcester Art Museum.
their undeniable empty obsession of superiority - in which an ape spits on a man, I discuss what music I plan on listening to in December, and a peregrine falcon dies before its picture ends up on the wildlife center's facebook page.
nothing will change - in which Jack learns about delayed posting on Facebook, there is a fragile peace with Ashley, Hitler proves that he's not more rational than Pol Pot by targeting people who speak Esperanto and people named Sara, and Emily contemplates getting rid of the dank.
feeling blood building up - in which I deface some swastika graffiti with Yugoslav Partisans slogans and far-left symbolism, find a Sonic fanfic in which a hedgehog is described as 16 years old, try to upload some pictures to imgur.
victimless crimes - in which I play Apples and Apples with my cousins and am entirely unsurprised to find out that Roph from Gamingforce is an anime right douchebag.
keeping traumain which Sapir details her experiences with sexist tech dudebros, a razorbill is brought to the wildlife center, and Robert Mugabe resigns as El Presidente of Zimbabwe.

across the border - in which a performance of Twelfth Night is held and I sum it up, but fail to find weather stats for Leskoviku or even Frashër, and rank the zodiac signs in Rand McNally.
for a place in the sky - in which a deer noshes on a pumpkin while I walk my dog, spend five minutes looking for my camera, and go back to take a picture of him, Saleh is assassinated, Emily has her first non-sad lunch, laments the Trump presidency and imitates razorbills.
taking in the trash - in which I learn that there are diets listed for deer and I'm not entirely sure why, net neutrality is dismantled, Emily sings Christmas songs and imitates razorbills.
an empty vessel - in which the wildlife center has a lot of geese and hawks.
things that are beautiful and transient - in which ice storms befall central Massachusetts, I plan on calling every cat I meet Ashley when it's not their name, Ashley shows more emotion than I've ever seen from her and a day later, I am happy to see her for the first time since April, and Sam gloats about the death of the Incels subreddit.
memories of happier days - in which I post drawings despite Robert Mugabe being alive and Ashley not being any more pleasant to be around than she usually is.
the alcubiere break - in which there is an exhibit of Georgia O'Keeffe, an exhibit with an illuminated laser-cut iron cube, an exhibit with light and mathematics at the Peabody Essex Museum.
memories last longer than dreams - in which I have intense dreams, Rachel is unable to contact Leah, and Gabriella brings her family to a Boston Baroque free community concert.

18: requiem

snowangel whiteout - in which 2018 begins with fragile peace and hilarious conversations.
Everyone's a VIP to Someone - in which a chihuahua rides the train, the world is turned into a mirrored morass of rivers and trench foot and there's a really amazing exhibit at the MFA.
dreary ends of days in and out - in which sexual assault feels normal but the reactions are too positive.
The Finest Qualities of Our Nature Like the Bloom on Fruits Can Be Preserved - in which coach buses are used to get people between Braintree and North Quincy and I hear Mahler's 3rd Symphony.
21st century blues - in which I tell of my plan to see if spiders really will evolve to the size of double decker buses on the moon.
Leaves Expanded May Be Prevailing Blue Mixed With Yellow of the Sand - in which flowers are arranged as homages to works of art.
tomorrow forever - in which the flow of time grinds to a halt because it's the day before Avernum 3: Ruined World comes out.

elegy for Lenin - in which I blame Avernum 3: Ruined World for my lack of pictures although I don't think it matters, Kelly talks about dogs and Will talks about his tendency to doodle on things without noticing, and Dmitri Shostakovich writes a symphony in the loosest sense of the word.
who by fire - in which Emily sorts mice.
anytime soon - in which I don't share actual photographs because I don't want people stalking Ashley to get at me nor do I want people stalking Ashley for their own reasons and getting me caught in the crossfire, but expect people to believe that they are, in fact, terrible, and think that airports are further proof we live in a cyberpunk dystopia without any of the cool stuff about cyberpunk.
light and dark wage war - in which I sum up the plot of the Magic Flute and Google fucks up their site even more.
the see-not gate - in which an exhibit of art in the age of the internet is held.
shoot the moon - in which it is a beautiful day despite the sun rising in Pisces, and so we have lunch outside and Christine asks us questions and tells us of her edicts if she ever became supreme ruler of Earth and plots to assassinate the moon.
destruction and rebirth - in which I do something that does not get me any closer to fulfilling my new years resolution but does make me feel temporarily better and hear a parallel concert to the one I went to a few years ago, see a coyote crossing the street, get The Ballad of Guiteau stuck in my head, recommend Tori Amos to someone named Anastasia, hear a symphony by Tchaikovsky and a concerto by Prokofiev, and meet a woman who’s parent comes from a village that was once in Czechoslovakia, and then part of Hungary, and then part of Ukraine, a man dressed as a cow, and a woman who writes poetry who was learning magic tricks.
which way home - in which I am grateful for winter because one of the dryers gave up the ghost and learn that each group of volunteers have their own names for the turtles and give Emily tips on street fighting, frog memes and racism won’t win over the next generation to come of age and start voting, Christine gives nicknames to people.

shelter from the storm - in which the lights flicker and I go to bed early, Jack posts a picture of the mink and is probably eaten by langoliers or something, Christine discusses travel plans, Italy holds an election and it’s a complete fiasco where, ultimately, the fascists and the bernie-bros with no coherent policy and no idea how to govern form a coalition, I wonder about Dr. Who but have no idea to start because I don’t talk to The Wise Vivi or Ashley anymore, and Michael and I discuss Goosebumps.
the truncated tree - in which I meet an artist with rings of moonstone and smoky quartz, a woman with hat-stealing ferrets, hear a Greek ensemble play at the MFA and a series of opera excerpts at the NEC, and AnimeBoston forgets that Easter is a thing.
where weary riders rest - in which I discuss my favorite fictional religious texts, post a murre and merganser picture, and Emily proposes putting Donald Trump in a giant slingshot.
clinging to dread - in which I discuss Freedom House and their generous rankings of Eastern European countries, and Christine talks about animals she can eat because she doesn’t like them.
the hunt begins - in which baby squirrels arrive and Erica names her pet Ashley even if it’s a snake and not a cat.

a falling star is a rock from outer space - in which an abandoned space station falls into the ocean and I see Pelléas et Mélisande and meet AnimeBoston people because apparently everyone forgot that Easter is a thing.
running late - in which Emily’s cat sheds and she wonders just where all that fur comes from, I have multiple hiccup attacks and recommend Trader Joe’s only to people with access to time machines and then realize I haven’t set foot inside a Trader Joe’s for three years as of posting this index.
of spirits voices ecstatic - in which I go to a concert of leider where descriptions are provided and a concert of leider where they are not, and try an Iranian dish of chicken and sour cherries.
limited spectrum - in which Erica is a better Jack than Jack is.
it's bad for me - in which I read and review an anthology of pro-Trump science fiction stories, most of which are people sitting around and talking about when Trump made America great again.
spring-fire - in which Emily demonstrates the sound a tripping gull makes and I have to replace my computer but it was dying anyway.
in an unseen place - in which I see the Dream of Gerontius and I admit how old it was before I realized that Christianity even has denominations.
nocturnal sounds (the awakening) - in which Gabriella and I see an opera based on the art of Edward Hopper and I sit near people who were very obviously unfamiliar with Ethiopian cuisine.
complicated and stupid - in which I read the free preview of Aff’s Diary and decide I really don’t need to read the rest of it and compare DoonySilmae’s resident wildlife with the monsters from Shadow Hearts and Final Fantasy VII, and meanwhile, an incel drives his van into a crowd and Democratic Underground pushes it under the rug when they find out that he wasn’t a Muslim.
rose from a dead hand - in which flowers are arranged to match with artworks at the MFA, Gabriella introduces me to her friend she met in an Italian class, and three operas are performed.
winds marbled edge - in which the sora goes to the great superquiet room in the sky about a week from being released.

nuptials - in which a performance of Much Ado About Nothing is held so I don’t have to go back to 1999 Gallipolis, Ohio, I meet someone who once performed in Much Ado About Nothing, and Lily reads my t-shirt, which has a line from Much Ado About Nothing.
ascension day - in which yet another Emily shows up at the wildlife center, I attempt to play an EV Nova port of the Frozen Heart, and have to edit parts of it and have no idea how Martin Turner meant for a mission to be completed, and still can’t find online reactions to Columbine as it happened.
pastorale - in which a raven shows up at the wildlife center and I wonder if Allen Gregory or Million Dollar EXTREEEEME is worse.
a walk amongst the raindrops - in which Pauli’s no longer has a public restroom and I blame Aung San Suu Kyi and other narcostates and see a performance of Trouble in Tahiti, which isn’t set in Tahiti at all.
reconstruction / afterthought - in which I dream of Ashley and the Magellanic Confederacy, play Xenoblade on an emulator so I can actually read the text and try to work out the location of every Starbucks in Boston.
with more air than words - in which the MFA has an exhibition comparing and contrasting Klimt and Schiele and I talk about a MC Escher phase I went through.

random acts of downward causation - in which I compare a passage about webcomics and injokes that aren’t really jokes to Gamingforce and their many terrible injokes and wonder how they’ve lasted this long and conclude that it’s just set to withdraw money from his bank account whenever the domain needs to be renewed, encounter Holly and update her on Ashley, and go to a concert, where it rains and I run into Mary and Devon and I discuss Africa and names and languages.
the algebra of need - in which Libertarians declare that gender essentialism is an important platform, Michael looks at speedruns of Donkey Kong 64 in which the player skips the entire game, Christine makes a hammock for a squirrel and it uses it as a trampoline.
darers and dreamers - in which a pride parade and a dance event happen and Jenny Olivia Johnson releases the entirety of Glass Heart.
dream images (love-death music) - in which some weasels are released, a raccoon gets a banana cannoli which is really just banana mush in the cardboard tube that once held toilet paper, and I blame Rubbercat for the bar rag episode.
the business of life is the acquisition of memories - in which Sally discovers that it’s quicker to use the Red Line, I pet a cat and encounter Kerri, Emma, and the guy everyone mistakes for Peaches at a concert.
and many a summer sleeps - in which June is unseasonably cold, Erica dyes her hair, and Len breaks her horn.
cascade failure - in which a bunch of center-right people declare themselves the arbiters of social norms, Julia hears Jason at the wildlife center, I become busy, encounter Kyra and assume she disappeared into a spacetime anomaly because I think that Belias and Chaos can be ranked above Mateus, and Justice Kennedy resigns in hopes that he’ll be replaced by a new Scalia who’s under 50 years old.
aerogel - in which I learn that CharlieCard machines only take 20 coins at a time and lament that I can not put an indefinite amount in, eat two exceptionally delicious tacos, and see sculptures at the MIT museum.

a slower dusk - in which Jacob refuses to play Bart’s Nightmare again and I can totally see where he’s coming from, Julia makes blueberry popcorn for the raccoons.
the venture capital - in which I talk about the music I’ve been listening to for the past year and about how it’s been falling into a pattern and how the world becoming more and more authoritarian and populist is hurting music scenes and how San Francisco’s music scene suffers from tech capitalism.
a lapse of misrepresented time - in which I watch a Bob’s Burgers episode and forget it’s from the current season and beat Xenoblade.
beauty and wonder - in which I wander about looking for Thai food and find an art gallery, hear a Venezuelan music ensemble, and am intrigued by a comic book.
after the rain of roses - in which Josh Knowles plays with Ruby Rose Fox, some bunnies hang out in the Monk’s Garden while people search for giant gems to win gem pouches of fake plastic crystals.
stealing the show - in which Mary has to work, people stamp things with carved raw potatoes, Serena and Megan start a rock business with prices that can be beat.
primeval sounds - in which the most famous band Fox and Friends can book for their summer concert series is Three Doors Down and we discuss remakes of The Last Jedi in which everything is a porg and Jar-Jar is a sith lord.
starlit - in which I find a book and hear The Planets and a work for girls’ choir, orchestra, Ghanaian drumming ensemble, and pop band.
night of the electric insects - in which Ashley returns from Londinium, and I see artworks related to the amorous exploits of Casanova, who is totally a real person and not a fictional character like I thought.
a game of cards - in which Renée invites me to play card games and we see Richard III.
tropical - a red-shouldered hawk shows up completely and irreparably fucked up and some interns paint a raccoon red.
an echo of the lightning - in which yet another monsoon day causes a concert to be canceled and I wonder just what a suite from Bernstein’s mass consists of.
summer night - in which a performance of Henry IV Part 1 is held and two kids have a conversation about Disney princesses and fruits.
the beautiful one is here - in which Figment is held and I see a bunch of people I met last year, and I don't say that Ashley is the only person who'd mess with my iPod in this way, I say she's the only person who is capable of messing it in that way.
violet eyelinger - in which our raven gets a new house and likes foods that are red, the wildlife center gets some new animals, and I dream about replicant uprisings and find myself temporarily out of touch with politics.

pavana lachrymae - in which Verdi’s Requiem is performed where I learn that meowing is an all-purpose cat sound.
some strange desire - in which I find Indonesian coins and later discuss travel and world cuisine.
the magic circle of infinity (moto perpetuo) - in which the rains are so intense that they had to cancel Greenfest.
blood at the butterfly ball - in which I encounter Taylor, Caitlin discusses the difference between faces and hands, and three guys have a dance-off.
stilled life - in which there is a Turkish movie in which Captain America fights an evil Spider-Man.
wanderer-fantasy - in which I feel I have to interact with Ashley to appease the rain gods but have not done enough because the concert was canceled midway through, and don’t want to be struck by lightning because that would be humiliating.
past-memory - in which the Gardner Museum conjures up a new spin-the-wheel game and despite the presence of Josh Knowles and his electric violin, I have Bells For Her stuck in my head.
violence and vision - in which the ICA has an exhibition of art by black women done between 1960 and 1989 and an artist from Harlem who drapes fabric over invisible heads and made a sculpture that transforms your voice into white noise.
screams of the wounded - in which we play with sugar gliders, Ashley is around and it rains and Tulsi Gabbard is reelected but I have a good day, and I cut my fingernail on the next day.
what's yours is brine - in which I touch a moon snail and songs of the sea are performed.
the heartland of corruption - in which the cormorants suffer a plague.
dreams of gold and silver - in which I deface a QANON sticker and see dances performed with live orchestration.
organic beings of a different character - in which I leave my pen at home but gank one from some people with surveys and see that dog named Lana.
time was - in which a cosplay event and a jazz festival are held.
the hero never dies - in which I meet a woman with a l’Cie brand tattooed on her arm and see a Shakespeare play.
the dark backward and abysm of time - in which Bella, Christine, and Zack return to the wildlife center
dust and sunlight - in which Gabriella doesn’t brave the 98F humid weather and I see Russian and Georgian music without her.
in a bright day, in a time of war - in which excerpts from operas are performed in the Boston Public Library.

boundary waves - in which the bus has air conditioning on full power even though it’s not a hot and humid day, I see As The Sparrow and a few other bands, get a burrito, see fireworks, and talk video games and tattoos with Grace.
the abyss of time - in which Hurricane Florence can’t decide where the fuck it’s going.
the edge of summer - in which someone else named Leah nopes out of California because of the spiders and I discuss World War I.
we were comrades once - in which my Playstation 3 controller stops working and I can’t talk to Ashley about it even though she also has a PS3, I see art and meet a performance photographer and a woman with a stag ring.
agents of fortune - in which I encounter Adrienne at Jazz Fest and ask Megan about what it’s like to major in political science because Ashley isn’t talking to me.

world winding down - in which the center right wants to nominate Kavanaugh even if he is a rapist or maybe because he’s a rapist.
music of shadows - in which Kate begins her annual reread of The Lord of the Rings, I see Winnie the Pooh sketches and decide that Owl is barred, and get a big sloppy kiss from a dog.
madness - in which we have a brief respite from the cloud cover, a gannet shows up and a kingfisher is released, we compare politicians to Star Wars and Final Fantasy characters.
at the first sign of frost - in which Final Fantasy IV has a tiny world in its design documents.
the best of all possible worlds - in which I conclude that this isn’t, see an opera based on Candide, have a conversation with a different Leah about how everything is too expensive and how people believe their own conspiracy theories, and witness someone getting on a bus heading to Quincy Adams before finally realizing he was supposed to go to Ashmont.
cold stars watch us - in which something attacks a flying squirrel and we carve pumpkins.
rapture - in which we only hold a single Night of a Thousand Faces because of yet another rainstorm and we put peanut butter on a barred owl.
sadly, the future is no longer what it was - in which the people of the Dan Simmons forum lament the true victims of the synagogue shooting, Republicans declare that all crimes are equal, and interns eat leftover Chinese.

Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cadenza Apocalittica) - in which I see Macbeth and meet a collie-doberman mix and see way more of Ashley than I like but somebody makes up for it by spilling coffee on her.
the autumn elegy - in which a bald eagle shows up at the wildlife center and dies, and I speculate on the results of a future election and hospitals don’t have enough money to hire nurses because they’re too busy campaigning and lament how little the rest of 2018 has to offer.
a mortal coldness - in which a second eagle along with a saw-whet owl shows up, the autumn rains are the new autumn dry, and I order a new controller and pray to the gods of transshipment and electronics, which I suppose is a role that should go to Lindzei.
drifting time misplaced - in which Thanksgiving is too cold and I can’t be in the Christmas spirit because of that and yet listen to Tori Amos and Vanessa Carlton and Emily goes on a rant about capitalism.
night-spell - in which someone dumps a bearded dragon and I find Forbidden Thoughts and an incredibly shitty NPC song.

quiet dusk coming early - in which I play through all of the official Realmz scenarios and talk about its D&D roots, while very little happens at the wildlife center
the last stage of sleep - in which the Pajamas Media propaganda machine fails to save James Alex Fields from prison and I learn that baby puffins are called pufflings.
in the deep and dark hours of the night - in which Realmz scenarios improve over time, find White Dragon overly difficult but only because I’m severely underleveled, and I am more tired when I sleep well.
the end is where we start from. a new beginning always begins with an end. - in which Ashley is gone and things will be easier with her gone but I’ll definitely miss her and everyone who isn’t Laci Green deserves some kind of happy ending, even if it isn’t necessarily happy for them and the world is still a mess, my cousins and I watch Home Alone after failing to get through an animated version of A Christmas Carol and the claymation special Emily’s cat was watching.
nowhere and everywhere at the same time - in which the ICA has an exhibit of performance art that you get to perform in.
the way ahead feels lonely - in which I theorize about the worst songs of the year all being “NPC Song” and hear a concert of concertos.

19

crucifixus - in which I connect Italian Fascism and neoconservatism, wonder what Gamingforce would think of everything that’s happened, someone celebrates their birthday, and we discuss Tupac and the rest of the Funky Bunch.
glimpses of hope in trying times - in which I come to the conclusion that real life is in fact as absurd as the Simpsons, it’s just absurd in different ways, and I watch a movie with Dean Cain that isn’t even in his top five worst movies.
in our time - in which I see art and hear pastoral music and requiems inappropriate for the current season and Molly remembers me from the last time I drew her.
ashen like the sky - in which Kiwi Farms supports Tulsi in order to sow chaos.
lost causes - in which I visit the Peabody Essex Museum before the class 3 killstorm arrives and am surprised by Nello’s continued existence in the year 2019.
where darkness spreads - in which the streets are covered in ice so I decline a visit to the MFA, meet a chameleon and true fire skink, and three ferrets.
no rest for the wicked - in which Julia eats a sandwich and Greg gets a new pupper.


before the dark - in which two owls are released and a goose succumbs to lead poisoning while Larry Correia and friends attempt a love bombing campaign to someone oblivious.
the hours pass - in which I compare Mozart and Shakespeare.
spiral-galaxy - in which I rant about the latest Freedom House report and learn about Julia’s cats.
into witchgrass and milkweed - in which winter has changed since I was in college, someone archives what.cd but now I can't find it, Sarah Hoyt says something profoundly sexist and stupid, and I see sculptures and paintings at the Edward M. Kennedy institute.
illusion of movement - in which the wildlife center obtains some echinoderms and I meet guinea pigs named Rick and Morty.
symmetry - in which I see the Botticelli exhibit at the Gardner museum but miss a Nepalese sarangi player and American guitarist.
Perhaps the Wildest Sound That Is Ever Heard Here Making the Woods Ring Far and Wide - in which I screw myself in the Half Truth Realmz scenario and Christabel tells us tales of raccoons.

remaining stretches - in which I ask people about bones, TJ plans to make prison wine no matter how disgusting it might taste, I somehow defeat the Dark Magus Sisters in FFX despite making a major blunder, and Tim Pool proposes a large-scale Democratic Underground jury system to replace human moderation, which would result in a massively inefficient system at best and at worst, allow the toxic elements in a community to drive out any opposition and take control.
heirs of an empire long passed away - in which I am too distracted by my bladder to chat with people, see an opera about Nero, and blame track work for time being out of joint.
bleak spaces - in which ordinary sour candy doesn’t impress Daniela and we look for snakes in the ceiling.
proteus - in which Myspace admits to baleeting their music, I hear songs of leaving Ireland and explanations of why the psychedelic movement faltered, and see a baby bat.
never, and again - in which an artist talks about becoming an artist and being a student, members of the Mad Genius Club advocate genocide and think the deep state faked an actual shooting, and I can’t find a godawful cover with Google’s help.
passing through, passing away - in which I hear a Mahler symphony in Plymouth, eat Thai food and learn that there is at least one TV station devoted to golf, and walk past a chapel called New Hope, where their sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped them conjure up the stolen data tapes or given them clairvoyance enough to find the Rebels’ hidden fortress.

elsewhere is a negative mirror - in which people eat food and check out animals, Veronica and Michael talk about how Google does evil things so we don’t have to make shit up.
chain of events - in which I beat Mithril Vault by exploiting Cloud of Cleavers and the dumb AI because they expect you to powerlevel from 16 after beating White Dragon to 29, and praise its premise, the wildlife center receives its first batches of baby raccoons of the year, and I remark that cuisine is getting less diverse even in places that are getting more diverse, but can’t blame Trump for it.
the acolyte's burden - in which Emily discusses zodiac compatibility, someone holds a lecture about the rise of fascism, and I see a double feature of opera with Gabriella.
the weight of vengeance - in which we have a lot of animals in boarding, Notre Dame catches fire and the fascists and radical centrists and religious conservatives unite in taking advantage of it and falling for their own conspiracy theories, and I desire to live in a cyberpunk dystopia where I can get bionic limbs or maybe a set of gills from a black market surgeon.
walking in a mist - in which I get angry at Chick-Fil-A for strong-arming Boloco instead of taking over an empty location that pretends that it still has Noon’s Mediterranean in it and meet people with ethnic names.
prelude to the tragedy - in which I see an opera about the romance between Helen and Paris and have Venezuelan food but first have to deal with a medical emergency in which I’d have gotten to my destination earlier had I just waited at JFK/UMass, but at least meet Steven, who has blue hair, and Ashley, who has pink hair and is red-hot in quantum mechanics, submolecular biology, and TV theme songs.
destroyer of illusions - in which Amazon sells a book few people have heard of for a very large number of dollars and I decline to buy it, not only because I don’t have the money but because I suspect a scam, find a taxonomy of political identities, the right gets up in arms about Mortal Kombat yet again, and we get an osprey and a swan.
rains lit by neon - in which Mahler’s 5th symphony is paired with Charles Ives’ Third Symphony instead of a concerto or the Emperor Waltz.
status quo ante - in which there are flowers at the MFA and I make the mistake of going there on Members Night, in which time is scarce and everyone there wants to see the flowers.
what the winds & days may bring- in which foxes and bunnies show up, a squirrel gets released, I wonder why nobody’s ever made jazz with medieval or renaissance instruments, Tritoch has a conversation with a spambot, Styphon cleans up, and Hydelloon and Denicalis holds his one hundred millionth unattended stream.


mad shadows - in which we are in fact living in a cyberpunk future and I make an addendum about how surveillance in America is done by corporations like Facebook and social control is done by people on sites like Kiwi Farms.
echoes from time's garden - in which I am happy about the Mayfair getting delayed.
a fleeting glimpse - in which an osprey shows up, Denmark elects a true populist government and the weather forecast for the Mayfair settles on something.
events in a high wind - in which it rains on the first two sets at the Mayfair but at least Arc Iris gets to play, which is the sole reason I am there, and the chalk art is all ruined and naught but ghosts remain.
fatalities - in which I propose that Kano play a game of knifey-spooney with his victims before ripping out their hearts and fail to remember more than five people’s names.
hello, stranger - in which I meet someone who recognized me but I do not think to ask where she went to college.

exiles - in which Mary shows up at the Cambridge River Arts Festival which this year is not at a river to do a Mermaid Promenade and I buy Armistice for only a dollarydoo and a quarter.
remembering days of yore - in which I fail to remember anyone’s name, some raccoons are moved outside, and I lament the existence of a movie called Psycho Wedding Crasher that does not have any killing in it and say that one day I’ll post my thoughts on every song played regularly on WAAF when I still listened, no matter how many Creed and Limp Bizkit songs I’d have to listen to, but not now, when I have wistful piano pop and wistful guitar pop and 20th century choral music to listen to instead.
with every brilliant hue - in which a pride parade is held and a dance event is held and someone buys Amnesty from Harvard Books before I get the chance to.
while my heart is still bleeding - in which Karen dissects a pregnant guinea pig.
we love our rotting industrial dystopia - in which the MBTA suffers a cascade failure and Lyft takes advantage in the only way they know how, that is to say, by gouging, my meal is unexpected but still delicious, and I conclude that climate change has happened in a way completely unlike Gold Fame Citrus and am unable to suspend my disbelief unlike with Nier because it never rains in Nier but there’s also no sun, and Google tries to convince me I am going crazy but it backfires.
bound in darkness - in which Amazon is so preoccupied with whether they can sell expired Trader Joe’s products that they never stopped to consider if they should, Karen cuts up another pregnant guinea pig, Sara celebrates her birthday by seeing a basking shark and some whales, and we release animals and learn about fatherhood.
a taste of the divine - in which I eat an empanada, a shrimp taco, and a bowl of raspberry lime sorbet, meet a woman who is making art from old books, it rains for ten minutes and the sound crew nopes on out of there, fucking up the entire schedule at Make Music, and discuss cats and McDonalge with Isabelle.
the reinvention of war - in which I conclude that Trump’s base is indifferent towards war as long as refugees are barred, praise Jurassic Park’s special effects, and show people around the wildlife center.
last exit to fairyland - in which I find the MIT museum transformed, I get the wrong but still delicious type of wrap at Aleppo Palace, and meet two actors on the train ride home.

forest hymn - in which the TERFs are planning to stay at home or vote third party in the next presidential election because they want to punish others but can’t bring themselves to actually vote Trump.
summer rain - in which I occasionally deviate from “jazz, boston music, and new albums by already-known bands” in my listening habits.
moments in golden light - in which Stewart sings about how you shouldn’t deforest the moon, if only there were forests there in the first place.
be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain - in which Emma recommends Tatte, because if there’s one thing Israelis are really good at, it’s food.
body horror - in which I feel like I am surrounded by the shadow of a lich and see paintings of rotting corpses and then go get a curry chicken roti because I’m desensitized to gore, Ross Perot dies and I’m bewildered that anyone who calls themselves left, even Democratic Underground, which trends white and old and well-off, is mourning him.
future's bright - in which I meet plenty of dogs and meet a woman with reptilian and arthropod tattoos and learn that I really don’t need as much chili oil as I put in, a train collides with a shard of time and I meet a woman with a dog and a woman with a carved wooden board.
death comes home - in which Abby gives her price for eating raccoon cuisine, does the Safety Dance but not Magic Dance.
a corruption of moonlight - in which the rains fall and we’re moved indoors and people don’t shut the fuck up during the intro music and Leroy Anderson’s summer skies seems as appropriate as Frank Sinatra’s Summer Wind in Blade Runner 2049, I hear people speaking in Japanese and watching videos subtitled in Turkish.
a change in the weather - in which a wet summer is more aptly described as a summer with no more than the usual number of wet days but a lot more wetness on those days.
after the flood - in which it rains quite intensely and I find Ammonite by Nicola Griffith and the Tall Chair Brigade discovers the phalanx formation.
the green country - in which a performance of Cymbeline happens and I meet tattooed people.
feast of lights - in which I run into old friends at Figment, both regulars and passersby.
terra incognita - in which I journey to lands unknown to hear a BLO concert and buy Thai food and The Lathe of Heaven in those lands and discuss art with Rachel, who is definitely pansexual and therefore prefers warm colors, and most likely Jewish.
flies and spiders - in which Emma lets a spider live because she’s just hanging out near Valley and I learn that there is a D&D campaign setting in an environmentally degraded fairyland.

the burden of other people's thoughts - in which it rains despite low chances and so I don’t see Gabriella but do get to see the Archer season finale, and I meet people with tattoos
from the painter's hand - in which I suspect that right-wing killers are targeting people to shift demographics in their favor and meet people with tattoos.
we burn our eyes to see the light - in which Caitlin makes a mess, Emma eats cookie dough, and I listen to music in preparation for rain-related disappointment.
a million sparks - in which a haiku contest is held, it rains despite the chance dropping to 20%, they are miraculously able to secure a rain location, and I meet a woman who studies flute.
voices in the dark - in which I compare The Lathe of Heaven with a Goosebumps book with a similar premise but a much much worse execution, learn that the Simpsons actually do see Carmen in Russian because it was the only recording they could get the rights to, and speculate that Tool’s next album will have a red version of Fear Inoculum’s cover.
a mirror seen in mist and pearl - in which the Landmarks Orchestra puts on an Antarctica-themed symphony in summer to show up the BSO holding pastoral symphonies in the winter but we get some horribly unpleasant moist and cool weather anyway.
in the air - in which Gentle Temper and Brigit Smith play outside Faneuil Hall and I take advantage of Piperi being open, and Greenfest relocates to somewhere more green, and I meet someone who was born on July 6 and was excited to ride the Orange Line for the first time in ever.
in the wind - in which I miscalculate how long it takes me to get from Braintree to Aquarium, discover the many uses of ginger beer, and demand that Bashar al-Assad pay for the Red-Blue connector but make good connections anyway.
upon us - in which I meet dogs and musicians.
as lethargic as time - in which 4chan falls for their own manufactured outrage and Joshua Mooooooon spends thousands of dollars keeping his asshole website for jerks up and I read The Butterfly Revolution.
ghost songs - in which I determine that the weather is a way to balance out the serendipity I’ve been having because Ashley isn’t around to be a counterweight anymore, and the Monastery of Madness gets its hands into the US government.
less is a bore - in which artists reject minimalism, David Koch dies, and my food leaks and I have to put lavender and yarrow in my bag.
misplaced in time - in which I meet an artist and a few actors, see art about time and a performance of Measure For Measure.
the library of dreams - in which I discover the Internet Archive’s motherlode of out of print books.
beyond the wasteland - in which I describe how to get Fallout 2 running on Virtual Box and speculate on Windows’ success and see various sailor’s valentines and paintings.
conceptions of celestial space - in which I run into Allisandra and meet her friends, meet a woman with Greek tattooing and a woman with tattoos of the planets and a woman who was at the Fuzztival, hear excerpts from the BLO’s latest season, and meet a woman from Bulgaria and a woman reading the Outsiders prepared to be sad because I thought she’d be born after I last read that book.

sere - in which Nicole is overwhelmed with admissions and I play through Fallout.
live for the future, long for the past - in which it rains far too much for September and delays a concert but it still wasn’t as bad as the Mayfair even if they did have the biggest beer garden I’ve ever seen.
lizard people from deep time - in which Tilly and Cleo scream and Alice Walker writes a poem comparable to one of the D- Poems of Jeremy Bloom.
inheritors - in which I have recurring dreams about the end of the world, Hempfest happens as I go to the Harvard art museums, and learn that I’m better off saving images I want to my hard drive and uploading them instead of giving imgur the urls of things that should have a permanent home.
the golden afternoons - in which apparently the same spambots from 2008 are around signing up on various forums and putting “man” in their biographies, the Free Speech Brigade doesn’t actually believe in Free Speech, and we discuss leveling systems in rpgs and come to the conclusion that Xenoblade has the worst even when games that scale enemy levels to your own and Final Fantasy II exist.
taming the moon - in which a Local Music Festival is held.

delusions - in which Gray talks about art assignments and sharks, a tattooed woman brings in a young red squirrel, and I give my thoughts on Hyperion and Ilium.
dust and ashes - in which I learn about an rpg called deadEarth and want to start a gaming session where we just make characters and try to navigate all the junk sites, and meanwhile, Pam Uphoff releases the 46th book in a series because she thinks she’s exempt from Wharfinger’s Law because she was never good to begin with.
red land, black land - in which Instagram forces me to login to view people’s pages but don’t have to rely on Instagram for things, the MFA celebrates Indigenous People’s Day, and see art by women and art of ancient Nubia, meet Asia who is not actually named after the continent.
blue is the color of... - in which I visit the New England Aquarium for the first time since elementary school and touch a ray, meet Harp and Ava and ask if this is Final Space.
autumntime - in which Lebanon erupts in protests which is good because Lebanon is a shit country by design and the rest of the world is invested in keeping Lebanon a shit country, and Rebecca brings up Girl, Interrupted because Harry was eating rotisserie chicken.
the dark voice - in which 1200 pumpkins line the wildlife center’s nature trail and Olivia doesn’t notice any wood frogs.
blackness burning - in which I get candy from Colombia and Kim shows off tegus.
flesh rags - in which Bling bursts through a potted plant like the Kool Aid Man, Christabel gets a kitty, a Virginia rail is released, and Gamingforce has an actual conversation.

i’ll leave a light on - in which I try to listen to Kanye West and find it very lacking, Michael tries to compare it to various NPC Songs, Olivia is the last intern left for now and eats oats, and Brad Torgersen tries to argue that the left took over Star Trek of all things.
with the changing of the leaves - in which I attempt to play Sword Dream but really don’t want to play it in one sitting, the makers of Tempus Irae discuss alien architecture and design, the MFA shows off modern art with five themes.
to the place between the twilight and the dawn - in which the NEC performs opera scenes and Brian misreads it as scones.
memories of green - in which Blade Runner is now in the past and instead of replicants, we get a Kanye West opera about Nebuchadnezzar.
memories live longer than dreams - in which I don’t have to pay for my journey in to see Postcard From Morocco, where I meet Sophia and Marina and Gummy but do have to pay on the way out.
better morphosis - in which I meet an axolotl.
dark hours - in which Muffin is too deaf to fear and Snowy knows no fear, we play Apples to Apples, and I learn that rabies in Oregon Trail II is a thing.
the tangent universe - in which I dream about Ashley and I restarting our lives but in a different way, a woman loves when an artwork’s title is just a description, I try something called Coke Raspberry Magic and am not sure how it differs from regular raspberry coke, and encounter a woman who looks like Emma.

stark raven mad - in which I go on the Internet Archive’s few political threads from Gamingforce and confirm that diet racism has always been around, it was just in the form of neoconservatism rather than isolationism, Riley says that rotten bananas smell worse than guinea pig, and Harry bites Fizz.
ensurance trap - in which we eat pie and release a dovekie.
the world after autumn - in which the Hoydens and Hoyts become even more unhinged, which is quite impressive, and I see a raccoon go under anesthesia
empty beyond beyond beyond - in which Suzanne and Abby discuss travelling.
time and ebb - in which Emily taunts Muffin with a piece of chocolate in hopes that she won’t care about it anymore, Dorothy plays the Elegy of Emptiness and leaves her effigy behind, and we fill out quizzes about your daemon from His Dark Materials and Sam looks forward to family, friends, and impeachment.
pigmentary disturbances - in which the Strand Theatre’s interior and exterior temperatures are in balance, a building is covered in collages, I see hope in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia and despair in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and China.