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Do you like my hat? , originally uploaded by Theorris . Happy Halloween every bloody!

Fortune , originally uploaded by Theorris . Is that really a fortune? Come on, fortunes are supposed to tell you something about the future, right, not some inane statement about personality traits. Wow, I guess I just proved that fortune wrong.

Favorite , originally uploaded by Theorris .

Oh Shadow! , originally uploaded by Theorris .

Wine grapes Pinot noir/Cabernet sauvignon 19th Century British Novelists George Elliott/Anthony Trollope 20th Century British Novelists D.H. Lawrence/Iris Murdoch 20th Century Poets T.S. Elliot/Theodore Roethke Philosophy Post-structuralism/Existentialism Cocktails Mojito/Standard Martini Distillations of philosophies "Be all you can be"/"Know thyself" Alcoholic authors F. Scott Fitzgerald/Dorothy Parker 70's Album Rockers Pink Floyd/Yes Politics Ronald Reagan/Jimmy Carter Farming Round-Up[TM]/Manure Pets Dogs/Fish Stravinsky Musical Compositions Rite of Spring /L'Histoire du Soldat 20th Century Minimalist Composers Phillip Glass/Steve Reich Opera Nixon in China/Girl from the Golden West Cars Saab/Ford Renaissance Despots Henry VIII/Cosimo D'Medici Fraternal Organizations Lions/Elks Jazz Basketball Andrei Kirilinko/Devon Williams Basketball Coaches Phil Jackson/Don Nelson SLC Intersections 9th & 9th/21st 11th Walkable Communities The Avenues/Sugarhou...

It is snowing.

Hieronymous Bosch yam fritter things with black cod , originally uploaded by Theorris .

A non-blogger and Dr. Write , originally uploaded by Theorris .

Middlebrow , originally uploaded by Theorris .

Counterintuitive, Hightouch, and other non-blogging types , originally uploaded by Theorris .

Assertively Unhip & The Biker , originally uploaded by Theorris .

Your grandpa's Chevy! , originally uploaded by Theorris . Ready to roll, beyotches!

In case of Emergency, Malibu! , originally uploaded by Theorris . Boy this rental car really does make me feel like I'm cruising down the Coastal Highway. Ah the plush plastic interior. Why do you think GM put the emergency flasher button so close to the name plate? Note how the 80s-computerific lettering leans into the wind.

In Utah you get about 3 weeks of the year where you can actually wear a light jacket and not freeze your ass off or (on the other end of the specturm) burn it up:  1.5 weeks in the spring and 1.5 weeks in the fall. It is twenty-seven-freaking-degrees outside my people.  Twenty-seven-freaking-degrees. Man it is great.

This dude has obviously never read Kafka's "A Hunger Artist:" A bearded and hollow-cheeked Agasi Vartanyan finished what he said was his 50th day without food, climbing out of plastic cube on the banks of the Neva River outside of St Petersburg - and promptly berating reporters. "I feel offended because my efforts did not attract much attention,' the 46-year-old said. 'Only local media wrote about it." ( IOL: Skinny man claims new world record ) Soon they will find his cage seemingly empty, and bury him straw and all. Everyone has forgotten the hunger artist. They will replace him with a leopard which "furnished almost to the bursting point with all that it needed, seemed to carry freedom around with it too; somewhere in his jaws it seemed to lurk; and the joy of life streamed with such ardent passion from his throat that for the onlookers it was not easy to stand the shock of it" (Kafka, "A Hunger Artist"). They will stand it an...

Outcasts , originally uploaded by Theorris . This shit is all gone. How the fuck did I end up with "My Lady's House Plants" anyway? I remember the 70s crap and Return of the Native is a spare copy (sadly that paper back was a remnant of high school) and 2001 is another double copy. There are some religious texts that I have no idea why I have hung on to and some pretty stupid yard sale grabs being thrown out. My sadest desertion, however, has to be the operation manual for Stephen Wolfram's Mathematica. It was given to me by some very good friends back in the day and I recall have quite a time actually enjoying mathematics for once in my life playing with the program. (It is at the very bottom of the stack on the right.) Sundee morning update: Just about done with the whole library. The outcast pile has grown considerably.

Witness: So am I intellectually skeptical of the rather awkwardly seated discussion, or just pining for the cute blonde girl I had a crush on who has the book we were discussing so elaborately displayed on her desk? (Note: I was not in the second class, but you Utah alumni will recognize OSH in all its 80's glory!) I think I still have that shirt, by the way. My hair was 20 years before its time too.

Because I was so pissed off at not being able to find a book the other week, I have started on the Great Library Reorganization of 2006. I have chosen the most arbitrary of organization systems: alphabetization by author's last name. I would prefer a more esoteric system (such as by subject matter) but screw that, I'm going for arbitrary order in my booky universe. Some of the shelf pairings are amusing. I will amuse you with them when I get the gumption. (I'm only bout a 1/8th way through the library, I think.) I've also diligently been entering the books into the librarything goobersmack.

"Dance my moneky! Dance!" , originally uploaded by Theorris . I doubt that Snowbird was intending for people to think the organ grinder had hired a little person to do the dancing.

New Beck ( The Information ): 3 listens so far. (And another fantuckingtastic Beckian website and album design that lets you make your own via stickers that come with the CD. Man what a life it must be in Beck Inc. town.) New The Decemberists ( The Crane Wife ): 5 listens so far (And a rather status quo website and album design, save the cool stickers I picked up at Orion's 4 weeks ago, and man what a life it must be in The Decemberists Inc. right now). Is a review in order? Three observations: Are they antiwar? What is the influence of Yes on The Decemberists? Why does Beck eschew album rock influences? Will there be a remix? For some reason I'm listening to Wilco Summerteeth at the moment. Perhaps it is a pallet cleanser.

Found sometime in July at 2300 East 2200 South, SLC, UT.

I just received the Utah Voter Information Pamphlet. On page 63 you can find instructions on how to operate the new voting machines. The pamphlet has amusing screen shots: Jack Nicholson as "Commisioner of" something and Lucille Ball as Minister of Comic Relief. Toni Morrison (the author) is also listed. I might note that the voter is shown casting her ballot for Jack.

Quite so But even the leaves Have time to grow Flush against hot Summer wind And then yellow And then die Crinkled on hard Concrete

Taxicab love You said our love was like a bus on route But the bus driver suffered a heart attack And now we're careening out of control About to slam into a Geo Metro Driven by Death himself--black clad, Chalky white grin from ear to ear (If he had ears beneath that itchy Cool cowl) but death has no ears to hear The screams of helpless passengers Or eyes to see that he is driving Straight into the out-of-control city Bus of our love Your analogy made me sad Because I'd paid full fare But you got on with your Student pass I brace myself for impact But you’ve already popped The emergency escape hatch And bailed, shoulder rolling To safety I knew we should Have just taken a cab.

over and over and over and over and over like a monkey with a miniature cymbal the joy of repetition really is in you under and under and under and under and under the smell of repetition really is on you and when i feel this way i really am with you ( Hotchip , "Over and Over") Super cool. You should hear the song.

Did Trainspotting really come out 10 years ago? Did I really just nod off in front of my computer? Shouting Shouting Shouting Mega Mega White Thing Come on Come on Come on

King Darius of Persia had the following text inscribed on his tomb: This indeed my capability: that my body is strong. As a fighter of battles I am a good fighter of battles. When ever with my judgment in a place I determine whether I behold or do not behold an enemy, both with understanding and with judgment, then I think prior to panic, when I see an enemy as when I do not see one. I am skilled both in hands and in feet. As a horseman, I am a good horseman. As a bowman, I am a good bowman, both on foot and on horseback. As a spearman, I am a good spearman, both on foot and on horseback. These skills that Ahuramazda set down upon me, and which I am strong enough to bear, by the will of Ahuramazda, what was done by me, with these skills I did, which Ahuramazda set down upon me. O man, vigorously make you known of what sort I am, and of what sort my skillfulnesses, and of what sort my superiority. Let not that seem false to you, which has been heard by your ears. Listen to what is said ...