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take out the dashes and google it.

DO IT.

he may be the only man alive to be banned from wikipedia twice.

]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/10572429/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/10572429/ Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:05:32 PST less than usual, in fact.

trip or treat was awesome,
and no less than 6 wonderful djs came to spin
(go fucking figure!)
including the ever-wonderful Space City Disco.

...and then i got really sick.
saturday evening etie was a dear and took me
to the hospital to see about my newly-discovered
near-inability to swallow liquids and rather unpleasant
difficulties with the old respiration.

GOOD NEWS: not eppiglottitis (big surprise there)
BAD NEWS: nothing to do about it except to good old
standby, HIGH DOSES OF NARCOTICS AND ENSURE

up until las night i had incredible difficulty swallowing
anything, and kept having drugged-up dreams about
drinking wonderful, dewy-glassed ice water. mmmm.

...so i've been pottering about the house feeling really
old and trying to think of ways to get myself to stomach
any more ensure. I am also now able to make sounds
above an urgent, scratchy whisper, approaching in tenor
and form the mating calls of adolescent geese.
OH GOOD.

]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/10438485/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/10438485/ Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:38:11 PDT those of you who should be there
know who you are.
hit me up.

]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/8535409/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/8535409/ Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:34:50 PDT she spent her last days drinking ensure and bailey's and eating chocolate bunnies to bad late-night TV. SWEET!! that's how i want to go! she was just really chill about the whole thing, so when she died i felt more comforted than anything. DAMN MY GRANDMA IS BETTER THAN YOURS. yes. still better. EVEN IN DEATH.

funeral is monday, i'll be home from MI as planned.

PROPS TO GRANDMA. YOU ROCK! <3<3<3 ]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/8181956/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/8181956/ Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:16:03 PST ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/6825931/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/6825931/ Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:01:07 PDT
1. graduated
2. family called to say that they were selling the house and could i please comeget my stuff/find somewhere to live?
3. homeless
4. visiting family at new home in Norway
5. getting emergency surgery in Norway. (aside: don't get surgery in Norway if at all avoidable. they kinda decided not to bother getting the anaesthetics before hand, so i had to undergo surgery without it, and then just get drugged afterward.)
6. coming back to houston/homelessness
7. ex-marine i was living with... um... well, it kinda got real bad.
8. Etienne and i form the Amazing Homeless Duo and sleep on other people's sofas.
9. LOTS of drunken Halo on Xbox Live ]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/4214220/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/4214220/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 17:11:57 PST
yeah, i know... i didn't really expect any. ]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/3777048/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/3777048/ Sun, 07 Nov 2004 14:04:36 PST
but i do have my own minnesota kid now. woo! ]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/3450161/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/3450161/ Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:48:46 PDT
"serving his country and looking oh-so-good doing it!"
[link]

"your intimate knowledge of inane animal trivia causes me to find myself inexorably drawn to you with the subconscious desire to procreate. yield to my groin longings, oh ye king of animal facts!"
[link]

but oh how that snoopy man of mystery intrigues me!
[link]

"why should you consent to having sex with me? I CAN JUGGLE!!!"
[link]

photoshopped? i'd like to think so.
[link] ]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/3435560/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/3435560/ Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:21:23 PDT onion layers accumulate
creating a soft blur effect,
a comfortable buffer.
this phenomenon has been shown
(all in controlled clinical trials)
to create a cunning illusion -
although the cunning was, perhaps,
more on the part of the subconscious minds
of a thousand worn-out rats -
and illusion (as we said) of reality
as if this solidarity,
this almost-completely-opaque skin
was, in fact, representative of fact
and not simply a pleasant obstruction,
a comfortable tarnish.
illusions nonwithstanding,
when winter rains come to wash away fall leaves,
when buddha stops sucking in his belly
and the panes are pushed aside,
the black night air is still there.
humid and insistent.
just how it always was.
the default.
and you know what?
somewhere in this is a comfort
more profound than comfort,
a knowledge
beyond thoughts and facts,
a letting go of time
and the illusion of procession.
when all is pulled away, what is left?
i have no name for it, but it is here.
and this is good. ]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/3391941/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/3391941/ Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:22:39 PDT ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/3220353/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/3220353/ Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:57:11 PDT
capitalism is the only socioeconomic system based on individual freedom and the basic principle that man profits from his own effort (that being a combination of physical and mental effort) and that an individual has absolute rights to the fruits of his labor, and the rights to trade that created wealth with anyone else for goods or services on a volutary basis.

consumerism is a system in which peoples' lives are not aimed at producing, but at consuming. production or theft is just an unfortunate requirement in order to CONSUME.

fuck socialism, fuck antitrust, fuck forced altruism... and FUCK the "common good."

[any guesses at what i've been reading?] ]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/2704279/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/2704279/ Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:25:05 PDT
so i'm in CA at the moment, and have been for about two weeks now. Ostensibly i've been looking at colleges (all the standard suspects: harvey mudd, caltech, cal poly, ucsc, etc...) but a lot of time has been spent walking on the shore looking at the bits of sealife washed in with the debris from the last storm and scrambling up and down the seaside cliffs along highway one. now for the funny part...

so last monday, i managed to give myself a chemical burn that completely removed the conjunctiva (the outer layer of the cornea) on my left eye and did almost as thorough a job on my right. fun! so after two or so (i don't really remember) days of laying in bed with pressure bandages on, i start being able to see a little bit. so i get two kinds of special eye drops from the opthamologist, and by about thursday my right eye is just fine. when i go in for a check up on friday, however, i have the joy of discovering that i've managed to contract a rather nasty viral infection (shingles) in my left eye. go me. so now i've got the most expensive eyedrops yet (about $4 a drop) and i seem to be making some progress.

on a happier note, while wandering around the disgustingly gorgeous UCSC campus, i made the pleasand acquaintance of a Richard Hughey who sat and talked with my for a bit more than an hour about the bioinformatics program there. Mmmmm! Think i may have found my next step. Caltech has obvious draws, but can't really compete with UCSC as far as bioinformatics goes. Now i just need to find $40K per year worth of scholarships... ]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/2111767/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/2111767/ Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:18:00 PST not being able to get this on the screen
i never have
this one same stumbling block

trying to get across that intangible residue
of time and place
distance travelled
the footsprints in the sand that seem so close to the parking lot you left
but it feels like a long way
every little bit of everything
that happens
and goes away
but leaves a mark
a subtle one that build up over time
gradual wear
this slow buildup - like the residue on handrails and statues
most often not even of things important
just things

fuck
i can't even get close to it in words. ]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/1969513/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/1969513/ Sun, 07 Mar 2004 16:54:27 PST still, the emphasis needs to go on the "shit" part.
[link]

and please... if you shouldn't go there, don't. you know who you are. ]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/1938250/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/1938250/ Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:10:23 PST [link]) is open for voting. go now, and vote. ]]> ~syslinkdown http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/1926572/ http://syslinkdown.deviantart.com/journal/1926572/ Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:05:44 PST ~syslinkdown