Four days worth in one convenient package! Day 1 The Real Africa I was sitting in the van with Kitema, our man-about-town and driver extraordinaire, while the gang was in getting their money changed. I mentioned to him, that the norm was security checks and compound setups at all the buildings. “This is the REAL…
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Doodling toward a new avatar
I spent a very pleasant half-hour doodling today. I’ve noticed that a few of my fellow Tweeps are using self-portrait doodles as their avatar images, and decided to explore the idea myself. My results are, however amusing to me, not much in the way of representing me. Nosferatu!
Alan of Venus: Sasquatch
I got it. Mr. Sasquatch is cruising through the leafy magnificence of his forest home, on the planet Venus. It is raining. It rains a lot on Venus. Have you seen satellite footage of the weather there? It is never. Ending. Rain. If you’ve never even seen a photo of the terrain on Venus —…
A terrible children’s story
Squishy Slippers Bernard the alligator behaved like a human male. A very bad human male with alligator-like tendencies to unpredictable bursts of brutal violence. It was autumn in the swamp. Autumn had never come to the swamp before, or it had never come for as long as Bernard could recall. The memory capacity of his…
Icebreaker
Icebreaker, pt 2 – The serious attempt. “Evaluating the Speaker He who opens his mouth to utter a series of tumbling syllables and grunted utterings opens his vocal performance to critique by all sentient artichokes in present company. When Glen says that it is important to evaluate in a manner that motivates the speaker to…
Two Hundred Seventy Three.
The Brahmin Unnabha asked Venerable Ananda: “What is the aim of living the holy life under the recluse Gotama?” “It is for the sake of abandoning desire.” “Is there a way, a practice by which to abandon this desire?” “There is a way – it is by means of the psychic powers of desire, energy,…
When in doubt
Add a weird drawing instead of a post full of words and then add some half-baked words that don’t go along with it. Sure, why not?
Anger
I have a problem with anger in that I’m not entirely sure what to do with it. I don’t think that I am what most would consider to be an angry person, but I do experience anger just like everybody else on this crazy planet. Here’s the thing. More often than not, I experience my…
footprints of the buddha
I’ve been thinking a lot about my quest for a “western buddha” – a meditation tool that is most understandable from a contemporary and western point of view. From every culture that buddhism has touched over the millennia, a distinctive iconography has emerged. The basics of the buddha have remained but the style and the…
Tang continues
The next day. Henderson was dialing the phone. Somewhere behind us a howl shuddered through the superstructure of the imaginary idea we were trapped in. “Tang!” Tang didn’t answer. His avatar was dim and small. The tiny Tang was crouching and scratching his left ankle continually. It was a cycling loop. “He’s linkdead.” Timbot was…