i ride the city’s veins
glaze-eyed and mildly organic
pulsing through channels of metal blood.
our red lights burn insincere, glowing
bright duplicity in tiled tunnel dusk.
Oh, world wide web – I used to like the internet. Do you remember that? Liking it? I remember when I wasn’t just there, drifting. Instant messaging was something I looked forward to in order to stay in touch with good friends. Now it sits there as a reminder of all the people I know, [...]
We’re always getting stuck in ruts—bad habits which keep us from being effective at what we really want to accomplish.
After watching a few, I am inclined to say that these indie/media-culture flicks (which can be easily identified by their hand-drawn credits, hand-held camerawork, funny little music montages, and characters with Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer-ish names), could in fact be watched in a foreign language with very little damage to the plot, such as it is. But [...]
“Do you believe them?” we hear a man ask Fox Mulder. The latter is kneeling between pews; and he is alone, we discover, when the camera pans out to reveal his solitary credence amid emptiness. Light shines dimly through stained glass, but over him, not on him. The screen darkens. “I want to believe,” says [...]
It’s that time of year again. Quite possibly the best holiday ever invented, Thanksgiving is a holiday dedicated to eating, and eating, and eating, with a cool-down period of weeks of turkey sandwiches and chilled leftover pie. But wait! say alert readers: Thanksgiving isn’t just about food! It’s about friends, family, community, and, well, giving [...]
Things are not always as they seem, and the world is full of shadows. What few lights we have are weak and flickering, and our eyes will always strain to make out what is in front of us.
Time was that you couldn’t watch a stretch of late-night television without seeing a cheerful ad for Chemistry.com or Match.com. And maybe that time is still now, but I wouldn’t know, because I do not own a television. All of these ads had one thing in common: the implied guarantee that providing your picture, some [...]