Reflections and Musings

Sorry, I'm VERY late.
cancer
I like when it's raining and the blue* strobe lights on a police car mix with the red taillights of passing cars and it's like two star clusters converging with the colors mixing and making various violets.

*It's Martyn Bates' favorite color, I bet. I have the lyrics for some of them lying around.
Among the Blue Flowers and the Yellow
Blue Distance
Transience Blues
Inky Blue Sky
Brilliant Blue
Farlands Blue
China Blue Vision

Speaking of Martyn, these are from the new album.
Antipathy Whisper
Ebbing All The Years

This Texhnolyze stuff works for gray days, rain or no.
Purity of Blade and Sentimentality
Delusional Overture
There's another one in Miyomi's comments for the second entry, but I don't feel like grabbing it right now and sticking it here, so go there, you lazy bastards.

Shoes
Some guy in my math class: I think it would be really funny if someone forgot they had the little wheel out when going down the stairs.

In Which a Wake is Held
Overheard in a conversation: I'm going to set up a car battery to my body and have it sit up whenever people kneel down. And you're all invited to my wake.

I really hope I outlive this guy.

Phantom of the Disco
Carla always comes up with such great non-sequitors. Once, she was talking about shoes, and she said "It's like a sewer for your feet," an excellent advertizing slogan. Almost as great as "shoes that make you fall down stairs," or those radium boots in Treasure Master (going by a video on YouTube, it's not a good game at all. It's to video games what "i has a shuvel" is to humor, or what I Will Bleed For You is to music). I'm serious. RADIUM BOOTS. They're the first weapon you get. The only way they would make a good weapon is if you disguised the radium boots as someone's robot boots and then waited until their hair fell out and their organs failed and they died a painful death.

MUSTARD FIGHT!
Kendra's friend was toying around with a packet of mustard, possibly in order to squeeze it on her friend and/or evil arch-nemesis, and got it on herself. How karmic.

Daylight Savings Time
Eric's sleep schedule is out of whack from it. Mine is too. Rich said that they should do away with it, but also that someone wants to implement it to save energy or something. I don't know, I think not having it get dark at 4:30 in the afternoon would save a bit of energy.

tabula rasa
Rich is working on a story, and said he's coming along very slowly, partially because he's gone through seperate revisions, and said he needed to delete characters, and isn't happy about that. I said that the first part of my own story was in the process of revising, and when I started, my characters were pretty much blank slates.

He asked if I had major female characters and that he didn't think it would be easy to be satisfied with them. I said the two that I've focused on the most are female, and that a lot of the differences are social and class distinctions have a lot to do with it. A lot like how many differences between ethnicities are really based on socioeconomic status. Take Koreans in America and Koreans in Japan. I found this on Barbelith.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nicholas Kristof In the U.S., for example, ethnic Koreans are academic stars. But in Japan, ethnic Koreans languish in an underclass, often doing poorly in schools and becoming involved in the yakuza mafia. One lesson may be that if you discriminate against a minority and repeatedly shove its members off the social escalator, then you create pathologies of self-doubt that can become self-sustaining.

Then we talked about how I was pronouncing Japanese names horribly, horribly wrong because Japanese doesn't have dipthongs. I don't know how we got into that. Probably via translating words into different languages.

Kramer's a racist
Brendan said that it's a huge publicity stunt to... um.. make him lose his reputation. I asked how Mel Gibson was doing. He's making Apocalypto. Casey said it's about a man. Dana said it was about how the Jews destroyed the Maya, and if that was true, Casey would totally see it, just because it would be ridiculously funny. Sort of like Stephen Colbert, except he takes himself seriously.

cones
Someone threw traffic cones in the trees near the auditorium, campus center, and science building. Contemplate what motivates someone to pick up traffic cones and spend a half hour of his life throwing them so they catch on tree branches. I guess a few throws and walking around campus with one on your head could be fun.

choo choo
Someone was walking around on some train tracks, got hit, and died. My guess is he was suicidal because neither I nor a person I struck up a conversation with who was on the train when it happened can figure out what someone was doing on train tracks and didn't get the hell out when he heard the train coming. I never got her name. Perhaps she just smiles or waves or jingles little silver bells.

Speaking of jingling little silver bells, it is the last day of November and I wore a t-shirt and khaki pants. Tomorrow is the first day of December and, going by the weather, I will be wearing a t-shirt again.

Mushrooms on Crack
Why would anyone think that Hyde isn't allowed in here? The reason he isn't here is because the moment he walks a meter, lightning strikes him and kills him. And he's too busy dealing with zombies and hopping brain things and hoping that bird poop doesn't kill him.