Hanging around too many conservative people, but I feel I have no choice in the matter.

Tags: intel, intel sponsors of tomorrow, lifestyle challenges, writer's block

This is a quiet house.
No music plays here.
No declarations of love are given.
Only the sound of the spinning world,
That will stop the curling ocean with a buzz.

Why expect anything more from it?
The floors creak with memory,
The beams sink and can't hold the weight,
It waits for its dead owner to knock on the door
But that noise never comes.

Its future uncertain, either bulldozer or silence,
Either the strict pound of hammers
Or the crushing blow of nothingness
Despite its years of service
Hugging families in its hands.

It attended it all, yet wasn't seen
Its walls invisible and its heart oak
Aching to find a touch to its wallpaper
Arching to find heaven, as rats run
Garbage is all that it now knows.

It is a quiet house.
No yelling of children in the yard.
Material possessions lie about
Discarded, like youth, once adored
The groan of the floorboads
Asks me to stay for a while and be warmed.

So I do.
I sit and wonder the architecture
Of a dream gone wrong.

Tags: poetry, writing

How many people here have been to Comic Con?

Or any Cons for that matter?

Did you have a good time?

I want to change my answer to goats.  Not goatskin, but living goats, hopefully grafted into the skin somehow.

Tags: fashion forward, intel, intel sponsors of tomorrow, writer's block

Clothes.

Tags: fashion forward, intel, intel sponsors of tomorrow, writer's block

 I don't get it.  I have extremely great news, but no one to tell it to. 

I've been too busy to put my thoughts down in anything but my actual pen and paper book...yes, how primitive is that?

Anyway,  so California is now issuing IOUs to people because they don't have any money to pay them.

And this is happening too:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31693419/ns/travel-news

So when is CA going to collapse into chaotic nastiness, causing me to move where it is north and cool?  Ah, the Motherland.  I miss the north. Maybe this is a gentle push to get the hell out of dodge.

When I do get out of here, I get to go to Arizona.  It's 105 there.  Can someone shoot me?  I feel best at a nice 50-60 degrees.  I can handle 70. 75 is pushing it.  By the time 80 comes around, I feel like I might explode.

Been learning a lot of sunscreen tips since I have to work outside somedays.  It's been fun though.

It is really hard when you want to share a certain thought with someone else, yet you can't talk to the person anymore. Whatever the reason, whomever didn't want to.

I've lived whole lifetimes with people.  I sit up at night, rummaging through my past memories.  I wonder if other people do this to or maybe others just live in the present and care nothing for romantic notions of what has been.

Well, Room 666. Which isn't a movie.  It's film makers in 1982 talking about how the cinema is dying.   Like Herzog saying that in the future we will order food from computers and do banking via video.    It's highly recommended. 

So other than that, The Gospel of St. Matthew by Pier Paolo Pasolini. He was an up person!  But really, his vision of the Virgin Mary is very magnificent.

Those are on video though, the last movie I saw in a theater was The Hangover.  That should balance things out nicely.

Tags: writer's block

<p><em> Your result for The Steampunk Style Test... </em></p><h3>The Ragamuffin</h3><p>32% Elegant, 28% Technological, 23% Historical, 32% Adventurous and 77% Playful!</p><p style="text-align:center"><img src="http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/0x0/0x0/0/17625804105117021677.jpeg" width="392" height="704" /></p><div><p>You are the Ragamuffin, the embodiment of steampunk playfulness. Chances are, you approach the genre from a much more casual and lighthearted standpoint than most other fans. To you, there is always an element of play inherent in the genre, and you may very well enjoy fashion as much for the opportunity to dress up as for the style itself. You probably wear goggles as an accessory, and rarely as actual eye-protection. Your outfits are likely to incorporate a lot of brown or cream, and combine large boots, Victorian corsets or vests, aviator caps or bowler hats, and gypsy skirts or slacks, simply because you like them all.</p> <p> </p> <p>Try our other Steampunk test <a href="http://gdfalksen.livejournal.com/1340.html">here</a>.</p></div><p><a href="http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-steampunk-style-test"> Take The Steampunk Style Test</a> at <a href="http://www.helloquizzy.com/"><b style="color:#131313"><span style="color:#ac000c">H</span>ello<span style="color:#ac000c">Q</span>uizzy</b></a></p>


I don't really get steampunk. To me, it is sort of like gothic Victorian dressing via the early 90's when cyberpunk brought goggles and space guns into the scene. There is a lot of use of the word "fan". To me, liking to dress a certain way doesn't make me a fan of anything and even reading a steampunk book or seeing a movie with steampunk elements in it, doesn't give me the sense of "fandom" other people have.

I am not sure if it is the internet or what, but it seems people have to put things more and more into boxes. They have to make outfits and get judgement from others, instead of just having fun.

From this, I get I am an elegant prankster or something? Or maybe I don't take myself seriously enough anymore to dress up goth, steampunk, etc, most of my time. I like subcultural stuff because I want to get away from the annoying rules of society, not just join up with a microcosm of mainsteam culture. I want to feel free when I escape the mundane, not fall into another frying pan that judges people on their looks or how cool they can be.