Introducing my new favorite fish, the ocean sunfish (mola mola).

“The ocean sunfish has an average length of 1.8 meters (5.9 ft), and an average weight of 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb), although individuals up to 3.3 meters (10.8 ft) in length 4.2 m (14 feet) across the fins and weighing up to 2,300 kilograms (5,100 lb) have been observed.” (from wikipedia)

This is what the babies look like:

They are big enough to crush humans when fully grown, and are, apparently, sometimes dried and thrown around like huge Frisbees in certain cultures. <3

Wikipedia entry
Video explanation

DontWorryImNoOne (7:59:31 PM): Indistinguishable is a lovely word.
vampire punch (8:00:09 PM): i preffer ineffable
vampire punch (8:00:26 PM): the guish bothers me
vampire punch (8:00:29 PM): guish guish guish
DontWorryImNoOne (8:00:35 PM): I love guish.
vampire punch (8:00:42 PM): guish guish guish
DontWorryImNoOne (8:00:44 PM): I like gush.
DontWorryImNoOne (8:00:46 PM): And gish.
DontWorryImNoOne (8:00:56 PM): Giush looks ugly.
DontWorryImNoOne (8:01:00 PM): guish looks fine.
vampire punch (8:01:09 PM): makes me think of abortions for some reason
DontWorryImNoOne (8:01:15 PM): what’s not to like?
vampire punch (8:01:23 PM): your right, i like it now
vampire punch (8:01:28 PM): guish guish

/lonely

I just came across this essay by George Saunders explaining a brand of moral determinism which I’ve been considering for the longest. Give it a read, and keep in mind what he says towards the end about the chickens. It’s not about excusing people for their crimes, or stripping people of their accomplishments. It’s more, I think, about realizing that nobody asked to be born in the first place… which isn’t as negative as it sounds, I swear.

Or maybe it is, I don’t know.

Here’s some of the assigned readings from the contemporary poetry course I took in my last semester (which, by the way, just ended). They are .pdf files, and you’ll have to rotate some of them in order to read comfortably.

Rita Dove – Parsley

“we lie down screaming as rain punches through
and we come up green.”

Chris McCreary – Poe In Philadelphia

“Poe eschews the art house in favor of American Pie 2. Bravo,
Poe intones after a fart joke, Bravisimo. Poe is pelted with
Milk Duds, dissolves into his seat, leaving in his place an
empty bucket of popcorn and a tiny origami swan.”

Semezdin Mehmedinovic – Nine Alexandrias

“But given the kind of agitation I feel
when I think of what I used to simply take as mine
I plainly lack the gift of
Dividing memories of home from the house itself”

Noah Eli Gordon – The Area of Sound Called Subtone

“a solitary drop of rain contained in an icicle:
a single cancerous cell & every grain of sand, realigned
until a footprint appears.”

Karen Weiser – Eight Positive Trees

“How many times I have noticed
My heart a dead metaphor
Cut up and dumped in the frozen lake”

FUCK IT

FUCKEN THING SUCKS

autumn. I’m not sure if it’s now just localized in my house, since the doors and windows are shut and I haven’t been out all day, but yesterday it was cold and rainy and it felt September, like the beginning of school, which is funny cause I just so happen to be graduating soon, my last exam being tomorrow, and my ceremony being on the 22nd, and the my bachelor’s degree being issued officially i dunno when, which all makes me wanna curl up in bed and not move, which is what i do when the cold begins to show up usually. But what I’m saying is my feet are cold, because of the localized weather in my room.

My room is a mess, here are two (2) webcam shots to testify. I haven’t living in my room though, I’ve been living in autumn, and on noise and pictures from the computer box.

I like that one because it makes me think of Constantine the Great, and that whole myth about the cross appearing in the sky (“by this sign you shall conquer”). I imagine those kids as genetically engineered disaster agents. Justice, the band, uses the cross as a sort of band logo, which is equally cool. Their love for branding and iconography is also displayed in two of their other videos, which are also excellent.

I love the first one especially. Those glimmering, shiny logos from way back always did seem a little magical, despite the nasty feeling I still get from saying that about a marketing tool. Artificiality and commercialism gets me hot lately, because it’s hard to say anything is artificial anymore. It’s all in how you use it. But it might just be because I’m avoiding IRL and making excuses for not doing anything. Most likely it’s both, one excuse informs the other, both ways.

I keep changing what my favorite season is. It used to be winter way back, then it was autumn, then, for a while, spring. I feel like saying it’s autumn again, simply because of this lovely false whether in my room (which might just be real whether, i don’t know, still haven’t gone and checked). I think I might’ve just outgrown favorites though.

edit may 27: these videos keep going offline, so if your reading this from the future and their not working i apologize.

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