http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net taking dancing lessons from god. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:41:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en well, it took me just over a month, but i've finished infinite jest. i read the last 300+ pages in two days. partly because i wanted to be done with the book so i could move on and read something (frankly) more cheerful (the book remains funny throughout, but cheerful, ... http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2010/03/end-notes/ so in the past year or so since i have broken open (that is what it felt like, a little bit) w/r/t everything in the whole entire world being totally fucked (y'know more or less, but as derrick jensen says, "we are SO fucked. life is SO good") i have ... http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2010/03/people-are-people/ http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2010/02/some-mandalas/ i had a dream about dfw on sunday night. i can't remember the details, but we were roommates. i wish i could remember! maybe it will come to me. i remember thinking in the dream, "this sure is interesting, to be dreaming about dfw." later, after the thing happened that ... http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2010/02/mapping-happiness/ that handsome fella hangs around our apartment building. the other day i was cleaning with the windows open (60 degrees and blue skies outside!) and he wanted to come inside and hang out. yeah i take these photos every spring, the first cherry blossoms; they just about kill me with ... http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2010/02/early-spring/ infinite jest: Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. (page 175) 'Well suppose'---Pemulis can just make out Lyle---'Suppose I were to give you a key ring with ten keys. With, no, a hundred keys, and I were to tell you that one of these ... http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2010/02/in-which-i-practice-writing-about-books/ i am reading infinite jest, which i bought sometime in high school when i got it into my head that the kind of person i wanted to be was the kind of person who read david foster wallace. i was very much involved in self-creation at the time. i stayed ... http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2010/02/infinite-jest/ http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2010/02/changing/ two excerpts from always coming home, by ursula k. le guin (who is one of my very favorite writers)-- . "I had always liked potting more than any other skill, but with sheep, goats, and a good loom, it seemed that weaving was there to do; so I did it. I took ... http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2010/02/what-is-given/ same disclaimer applies-- these are pretty much straight from my notes, with no further research done (and i am interested in researching some of these things further, eventually). any inaccuracies are probably my fault, and i’m not too concerned about them right now. probably don’t quote me (or any of the ... http://glow.whyiamnotdying.net/2010/01/permaculture-notes-food-forests-cities/