<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410</id><updated>2024-09-07T04:34:45.062-07:00</updated><category term="mckenna"/><category term="snow"/><category term="alan rickman"/><category term="boyfriend"/><category term="camp"/><category term="celebrities"/><category term="cinema"/><category term="community center"/><category term="cousins"/><category term="easter"/><category term="fake arms"/><category term="fake legs"/><category term="fish"/><category term="flood"/><category term="friends"/><category term="home"/><category term="libertarians"/><category term="mom"/><category term="murder"/><category term="nintendo"/><category term="ocean"/><category term="period"/><category term="salt"/><category term="strawberry bread"/><category term="suffocating"/><category term="the solar system"/><category term="washington"/><title type='text'>nocturnal transmissions</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>ntrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05268747623549395081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPXjqAM7wZ0GPyGbLNIkC5nPVuDgI64oAsFRT1sImfpvsg54ImbTT5HbPn7p3k1KHjq_qZVSx0gY5tcEPgKKhJ5uii9My4XtYroetBF5FZfq9jt4M3TDkkpGMAD4ZegI/s220/59onfire.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>19</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-8462283791024702853</id><published>2018-10-16T20:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2018-10-16T20:11:44.080-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="period"/><title type='text'>Oldie but goodie</title><content type='html'>March 30, 2005 via livejournal&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;i fell asleep today when i came home and had a dream that there was a website much like weather.com that would predict your period. instead of entering your zip code you had to enter your social security number and it gave you a 10 day forecast. it was really cool.&lt;/i&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/8462283791024702853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2018/10/oldie-but-goodie.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/8462283791024702853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/8462283791024702853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2018/10/oldie-but-goodie.html' title='Oldie but goodie'/><author><name>ntrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05268747623549395081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPXjqAM7wZ0GPyGbLNIkC5nPVuDgI64oAsFRT1sImfpvsg54ImbTT5HbPn7p3k1KHjq_qZVSx0gY5tcEPgKKhJ5uii9My4XtYroetBF5FZfq9jt4M3TDkkpGMAD4ZegI/s220/59onfire.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-5500317765861467432</id><published>2010-08-10T20:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-10T20:21:46.739-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="celebrities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cousins"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="home"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="mckenna"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="mom"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="snow"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="strawberry bread"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="the solar system"/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;&quot;&gt;I lived with my mom and sister but in what was basically the house of the family I used to babysit for with a few modifications. It was still a brownstone, but we had a fancy, multi-level balcony in the back, and in the front we had a crumbling set of granite steps leading from the sidewalk up to the front window, so deteriorated they were almost a sheer drop (this was in addition to the stoop). We had a huge scrubbed-wood island in the kitchen, and the living room was full of slouchy plaid chairs. The whole place was extremely lived-in looking, with kid stuff around even though Soph and I were (I think) in high school. Sister and I also shared a room upstairs, which was totally messy and had flannel bedspreads and books and papers everywhere. It was the kind of house I always wanted as a child. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the beginning of the dream it was snowing and sister and I were outside, sliding around on the front steps, which were covered in super thick snow. A man came up to us to ask for directions because he was lost and it was Terence McKenna. I&#39;m not sure if we were in New York or Maine, or neither. Terence was walking in the snow, and we asked him to come inside. He ended up (not sure how this happened) out in front playing in the snow with us. Sister was a little young to have any kind of real conversation, but he started asking me about school, and I realized I had already graduated from college, because I started talking about my English degree and expressing doubts about academia. Then we started talking about languages, and I explained that I had taken many (Latin, Japanese, Spanish, Hebrew, German in the dream) but didn&#39;t know any. He seemed to think this was a good sign. I was very, very happy because we seemed to be hitting it off, even though I can&#39;t really remember anything else we talked about. I was most just honored that he showed interest in me. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyway, Terence hung around for a while. After we finished basically pelting each other with snowballs, we went inside and drew pictures together. Sister and I drew one picture together, of the solar system in marker, with the sun wearing sunglasses and each planet labeled in big swirly letters. Terence loved it, and he walked around the kitchen determinedly trying to find a place to hang it up. He finally pinned it to the wall in the hallway leading to the stairs. I knew he especially wanted my mom to see and appreciate it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He eventually left, but the next night was new years eve and my mom was throwing a big new years party, so he promised to come back. I had the sense that the next night would be even more magical, and cement our budding bond. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the second part of the dream, it was new years eve and all the guests started arriving. My mom had arranged some kind of intense &quot;tribal&quot;-themed game in which everyone made these offensive costumes out of paper bags/newspaper/feathers/&lt;wbr&gt;sticks/whatever they could find and then divided into teams of 5 or 6 people. I don&#39;t know what the goal was, but I remember looking out the window and they were all in the back yard, discussing strategies. Some of my friends were there, one of them was drawing on a white board while her mom looked on, almost nude and covered in war paint. Relatives were there too. Then my mom&#39;s friend Beth arrived and brought with her this guy who was supposedly my cousin, who was in a wheelchair. His very frail body was bent into fetal position, and he didn&#39;t have great use of his hands, so I helped carry him inside, where a bunch of people were crowded around watching a science show on a flat-screen tv that had suddenly appeared in the kitchen. My cousin also had a little boy with him, who was some kind of caretaker/friend/sidekick. I set them up in a big comfy chair, and asked if they were hungry, which they were, so I went to get them two pieces of toast on this special strawberry-flavored bread we had. I also wanted to get them some blueberries, but when I opened the bag all the blueberries turned out to be miniature peaches. I tried to separate the two kinds of fruit for ages, but everything kept slipping and falling onto the floor, and lots of the blueberries were rotten or had this weird white mold on. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Finally, I brought them the snack, and then my mom came in and asked me why I wasn&#39;t playing. I told her I was waiting for Terence. When she asked who Terence was, I described in the most basic terms, and she freaked out that a celebrity was coming to the party. Suddenly, the game was disbanded, and people came swarming into the house. All these guests lined up against the wall around the front door, many of them whipping out huge cameras to catch a glimpse of the coming &quot;celebrity.&quot; I tried to break them up, but no one would listen to me. It was snowing hard now, and I went to get my phone to call Anna, because I suddenly realized that it was her birthday and she was about to be getting out of a body dynamics class so I should call her (it was around 11 pm). I had hoped that I could go out with her after the party, but since Terence wasn&#39;t there yet I was obviously at least going to wait for him. I had left my cell phone in the pocket of my snow jacket, and it took me a little while to find my coat in the packed closet. When I found my cell in the pocket for some reason it wasn&#39;t working, and I started to get anxious. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Suddenly there was a big commotion by the door and this young-ish, dark haired man walked in, shouting that he was Terence McKenna. All the guests started to scream and take pictures, and I ran over and explained that this man was definitely NOT Terence, disgusted that everyone was throwing a fit over someone they couldn&#39;t even recognize. Finally, I decided I should call Terence. I took my cell phone upstairs, where it started working again. Terence answered, and apologized for not coming but that he had forgotten about another commitment so he wouldn&#39;t make it. He said he would try and send me a letter. I knew then that I had falsely assumed he was actually interested in me, at least to the point of friendship,. For some reason, I blurted out what was going on with the relatives waiting for him, but trying to make light of it. He didn&#39;t say anything, he was just silent. I knew that I shouldn&#39;t have said anything. I got off the phone, and checked for messages from Natalie and Anna, but no one had called me even though it was after midnight. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I broke up the party of disappointed viewers by telling them he wasn&#39;t coming, and then went outside on the sidewalk. Our house was on a hill, and as I looked down I saw Anna and Natalie trudging up in the snow. Anna was wearing a gaudier version of her pink birthday dress, and Natalie was wearing a green and white polka-dot bathing suit, which was completely see-through and had a kind of flowy train hanging off the butt. I shouted down to them, why the fuck hadn&#39;t they called me. One of them yelled back sarcastically that it would have been nice for &lt;i&gt;me&lt;/i&gt; to come celebrate with &lt;i&gt;them&lt;/i&gt;, and I was even angrier at their assumption that I would call when they&#39;d known I&#39;d had to be at this family party. I also felt extremely stupid at this point for thinking that Terence would show up, and I remember thinking that I wouldn&#39;t have been angry at missing Anna&#39;s birthday if Terence had been at the party. As it was, I&#39;d just been stood up by everyone. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anna and Nat came inside, although I was treating them a little coldly, hoping they would apologize for not calling me. I wasn&#39;t too angry though, really I just wanted to go out and have a good time and was putting on more of a show of anger than anything else. We went upstairs to my room so I could change. Taped to my door was a note and it was from Brian (another cousin), thanking us for his graduation present, which was apparently (according to his note) a remote-controlled toy mummy that could shoot green ooze. The note was written in marker on a folded piece of computer paper, and it was full of sex jokes. I threw it onto my sister&#39;s bed, pissed off because of course I&#39;d thought it might be from Terence. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/5500317765861467432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2010/08/waiting-for-terence.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/5500317765861467432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/5500317765861467432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2010/08/waiting-for-terence.html' title=''/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-3110091779819416340</id><published>2010-04-18T11:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T12:33:39.034-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="alan rickman"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="camp"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="flood"/><title type='text'>When I Flooded Camp</title><content type='html'>I&#39;ve only had one actual Dream Journal and unfortunately there are only 5 dreams in it, because I got irritated when the bewilderingly perforated pages kept falling out. Yesterday I found it collecting dust in the back of my closet, and this is my favorite entry, dated March 22, 2003: &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;First, I was at a play where Alan Rickman was signing autographs. I got one, but my dog ate it. Then I was at some kind of summer camp. It was all very flat and in the center was a hill with a main house, which was a very tall, multi-level, pagoda-like structure. Each level had a wrap-around balcony. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When I got to camp, I found that Alan Rickman was my counselor, and he was very upset because he had to share a tent with 6 other counselors. He was also angry because the new main camp house had been built directly over a freshwater spring that had been there when he was a camper. He showed me two spigots under the building, a red one and a black one. He turned the handle of the black spigot, and nothing happened. Then he turned the handle of the red one and a little burbling spring rose out of the ground (not out of the spigot). When he turned it off the water disappeared. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I went back later and, intending to help him, I turned on both spigots. Water started spurting out. Cabins began to flood, but I couldn&#39;t turn off the red spigot. We all had to go to the balcony of the camp house and watch as camp disappeared underwater. The camp director was very upset--somehow he knew I was the culprit. Then I had to walk around school and apologize to everyone for flooding summer camp.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/3110091779819416340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2010/04/when-i-flooded-camp.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/3110091779819416340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/3110091779819416340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2010/04/when-i-flooded-camp.html' title='When I Flooded Camp'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-6657985201833302988</id><published>2010-04-15T12:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T12:13:21.915-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A dream from a while ago</title><content type='html'>This is in response to Dasher&#39;s latest post. It&#39;s an old dream and a little fuzzy. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As a freshman or sophomore in high school, I had a dream that Joyce Li asked me to bring her some Legos the next day at school. I don&#39;t remember which Legos they were, but they were very specific and rare pieces which I happened to have, I think parts of an alien space ship or something. When I woke up the next morning, I had a vague memory of this and frantically searched for those pieces in my gigantic Lego tub, put them in a ziplock bag, and brought them to school. It took me until I caught up with Joyce to give her the Legos that I realized she had looked a little different in the dream, and – Aha! – that it had in fact been a dream. I made no mention of the Legos and smiled an awkward &quot;Hello&quot; instead.  &lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/6657985201833302988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2010/04/dream-from-while-ago.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/6657985201833302988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/6657985201833302988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2010/04/dream-from-while-ago.html' title='A dream from a while ago'/><author><name>Mastergreens</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15368095093843713914</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-1877344359404244035</id><published>2010-04-14T22:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T22:13:24.415-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Last night I dreamed that I opened the fridge and saw a carton of eggs hidden away behind their usual storage spot. I didn&#39;t know it was a dream until this morning when I fancied an omelet and looked for the eggs in that spot. They weren&#39;t there because no one bought eggs this weekend. That&#39;s when I realized that I only have two kinds of dreams-- the incredibly twisted type or the unbearably boring ones--neither of which should really be shared. It&#39;s probably why I haven&#39;t posted on here until now. That or the fact that my dad&#39;s definition of a nightcap is half a glass of Scotch, and I can&#39;t really drink whiskey without rambling in one medium or another.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/1877344359404244035/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2010/04/last-night-i-dreamed-that-i-opened.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/1877344359404244035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/1877344359404244035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2010/04/last-night-i-dreamed-that-i-opened.html' title=''/><author><name>Dasher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16840998578211241597</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-6969414355326892560</id><published>2010-03-13T17:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-13T17:05:13.268-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A brief one that only Natalie can relate to:</title><content type='html'>I dreamt that I was going up the escalators at Hunter and as the third floor came into view,&amp;nbsp; I saw a random stranger and thought to myself: &quot;this guy has pneumonia.&quot; As I walked past more strangers, I had the ability to distinguish those who had been previously diagnosed with pneumonia.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/6969414355326892560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2010/03/brief-one-that-only-natalie-can-relate.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/6969414355326892560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/6969414355326892560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2010/03/brief-one-that-only-natalie-can-relate.html' title='A brief one that only Natalie can relate to:'/><author><name>Yacki</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00806399922503867640</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-9197601409795173273</id><published>2009-07-11T09:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-11T09:32:45.973-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="friends"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nintendo"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="washington"/><title type='text'>Shigeru Miyamoto</title><content type='html'>I stepped into a stairwell and a series of portals appeared before me, all leading to various locations in Bellingham, Washington. I&#39;ve never been there, so my mental image was really janky. I went through one and walked down a road, with an electric post on my lefthand side. After about a mile, I found Nintendo&#39;s headquarters, which was a building surrounded by a moat and huge vegetable gardens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I checked out the area and dove into the moat, gathering golden coins (arranged in a circle on an underwater platform, of course). Though I tried to take a nap in a secluded corner of the garden (it was evening), Shigeru Miyamoto kicked me out. I remember thinking that he was cool, but an asshole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went back to the stairwell and got my friend Margie, who&#39;s from Bellingham, to walk through another portal with me. We couldn&#39;t find Nintendo, so we ended up at my friend Andrew&#39;s house (he actually lives in that town too). After distracting Margie, Andrew and I started having sex (?!). Luckily, I woke up.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/9197601409795173273/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/07/shigeru-miyamoto.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/9197601409795173273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/9197601409795173273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/07/shigeru-miyamoto.html' title='Shigeru Miyamoto'/><author><name>s-lay</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01749855388526786790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs11e9WcV0bH78fRyuJvzrIRccUyp4YzslbkvX9n0gg38mJXuU-LpTmsIHyA0VwxaRAWH2TcUqW38Im0XV1UN_q5QjpLOY443iHmVMI4oABCnHXh6Zy0FKGYZuN2YRtg/s220/baby.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-6193019735618422690</id><published>2009-06-14T13:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-14T15:35:18.359-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lucid dream failure</title><content type='html'>After returning home from a very long day involving a very long bike trip, I showered and plopped into bed. Within a few minutes of closing my eyes I was in a white hallway of a house with a small flying lizard creature with sparse blue, red, and yellow feathers. I furrowed my brow and thought deeply about the situation. This was probably not real. At that moment I realized I was in a dream, and since I knew I was in a dream, I could take control and do whatever I wanted. This was very exciting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first order of business was to investigate the lizard. I reached into my pocket and got a piece of maple candy to feed to it. The lizard was very disturbed by this and tried to fly away, slamming into the walls. I sprinted after it so it would not escape into the living room. It was now shrieking in a tone slightly deeper than one might expect from such a small lizard creature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In one final leap I brought my hands together around it, but just as I was about guffaw in victory, the lizard turned into a thick purple cloud. I woke up.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/6193019735618422690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/06/lucid-dream-failure.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/6193019735618422690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/6193019735618422690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/06/lucid-dream-failure.html' title='Lucid dream failure'/><author><name>ntrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05268747623549395081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPXjqAM7wZ0GPyGbLNIkC5nPVuDgI64oAsFRT1sImfpvsg54ImbTT5HbPn7p3k1KHjq_qZVSx0gY5tcEPgKKhJ5uii9My4XtYroetBF5FZfq9jt4M3TDkkpGMAD4ZegI/s220/59onfire.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-530962057851628693</id><published>2009-05-23T23:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-24T00:06:32.840-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dinner with Raymond Carver</title><content type='html'>I was sitting down for a meal at a rectangular table in a diner with what may have been a group of literary dignitaries, although the only person I recognized was Raymond Carver, who was quietly eating across from me. The food had already been served and the men were poking fun at vegetarians as they enjoyed their meaty meals. I told them I was a vegetaerian, but didn&#39;t feel like explaining myself at the moment so I left it at that. Someone asked if I believed in god and I told them I was an aetheist. Carver set down his burger and looked at me.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&quot;Do you think saying that makes you brave,&quot; he asked and I said no.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There was an uneasy silence that I eventually broke by asking if everyone at the table--all older white men--was Christian, either Catholic or Protestant. Everyone but Carver nodded or said yes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&quot;Not me,&quot; he said. &quot;I&#39;m an aetheist.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After we were done eating two waitresses came over to bus the table. One of them, a Guyanese woman in her late 40s who was dressed like a 16 year old Hot Topic employee, began swooning about something. When our bill was brought, Carver reminded me that Yacki&#39;s sister, Sumi, had left us her bag so we could pay for her food. He went through her bag and pulled out a credit card from her wallet, but I told him not to worry about it, I would cover it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When I went to throw in my money I counted the pot to ensure we had enough for a decent tip and found that someone had paid in Euros. Suddenly I realized that it was the 1950s and it was understandable that people would pay in foreign currency. In a disconnected world pre-globalization you couldn&#39;t expect everyone to have the same currency. (Nevermind that the Euro wasn&#39;t created &#39;til 1999.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Besides the American dollars and Euros, someone had also decided to pay with three playing cards.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Arv&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rough-draught.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;rough-draught.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/530962057851628693/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/05/dinner-with-raymond-carver.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/530962057851628693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/530962057851628693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/05/dinner-with-raymond-carver.html' title='Dinner with Raymond Carver'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-7072987164134931997</id><published>2009-05-12T09:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-12T10:25:01.719-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Now that I think about it, we must have been inside one of those tech rooms at Stuy. Natalie and I are sitting in the back and Natalie is sleepy. She puts her head down while I flip through magazines -- literally, just flipping because I am actually peeping at my ex-boyfriend who is canoodling this round little asian girl. The girl is wearing this large black t-shirt with a long checklist. My favorite one was, &quot;he f*cks to his ex-gf&#39;s picture.&quot; oh yes, he does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, it&#39;s getting late so Natalie and I head out. We get into a taxi but we&#39;re not moving and no one says anything. We sit there in silence for ten minutes until I really had to pee. So I went back inside, peed, and came running back out to see Natalie looking around, terrified. For some reason, between the time I left to pee and came back, Natalie&#39;s hair exploded into this voluminous fro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The taxi guy finally asks where we are going and starts moving. We were driving for awhile, heading into Queens, but the taxi guy decides its okay to abandon us by a highway with a motorized wheelchair. Natalie is really sleepy and groggy now.  So I had to go find someone who could tell me how to get back to Bayside. Fortunately, that was easy. A woman tells me that I had to make a left from where we were, keep going until we saw the dinosaur, make a right at the dinosaur until we came up to a sandy flight of stairs and I would be able to recognize my way home from there. She offered me a ride, but I insisted that I wanted to drive the wheelchair and claimed I had done it billions of times. So I strap into the wheelchair, tie Natalie to the back, and I drive the wheelchair down the highway towards the dinosaur. It would have sucked if my battery operated wheelchair just stopped in the middle of the highway. Luckily, I see the dinosaur, so I make a right and I&#39;m all excited because the sandy flight of stairs is up ahead. I don&#39;t really know why there is so much sand but thank god it was there because as soon as I unstrapped Natalie from the wheelchair, her limp body falls to the ground and she face-plants into the sand. But even then, Natalie won&#39;t get up and insists on sleeping there.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/7072987164134931997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/05/now-that-i-think-about-it-we-must-have.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/7072987164134931997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/7072987164134931997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/05/now-that-i-think-about-it-we-must-have.html' title=''/><author><name>liana marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17536845696603306804</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-2656623224556271663</id><published>2009-04-22T12:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T12:52:25.484-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dream-honey</title><content type='html'>I found a jar of &quot;unfiltered honey&quot; in my kitchen. A warning label told me that I should be wary of bee parts, particularly stingers, and remove them before consumption. Now, in real life I hate honey. I can do without a bunch of pollen suspended in a ton of bee saliva. I do not like the taste or the smell or anything else about it. But something compelled me to eat this dream-honey. I got out a piece of bread and poured some out over it. Compared to real honey, dream-honey is less viscous, lighter in color, and has small grainy brown pieces of I-don&#39;t-know-what in it. With no bee parts in sight I took a bite of the sandwich. And it was delicious. It didn&#39;t have that weird bee saliva smell or taste. It was just like eating a bunch of sweet wildflowers or something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a similar dream when I was a young kid about the most perfect beverage in the world. I remember living in Manhattan Beach when I had it, so I must have been between 5 and 8 years old. In my dream, the most perfect beverage in the world appeared before me. It was pale blue, sweet, and tasted vaguely of something delicious plus artificial fruit flavor. Last summer at the University of Chicago food court I spotted the dream beverage in real life. The only difference was that it was carbonated, whereas my dream beverage was not because I hated carbonated drinks back then. Carbonation is not a problem for me these days, though. It was one of those &quot;democracy&quot; Mountain Dews called Revolution and I don&#39;t think it won. I only ever had one bottle. Maybe fifteen years from now I will find my unfiltered honey somewhere.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/2656623224556271663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/04/dream-honey.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/2656623224556271663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/2656623224556271663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/04/dream-honey.html' title='Dream-honey'/><author><name>ntrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05268747623549395081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPXjqAM7wZ0GPyGbLNIkC5nPVuDgI64oAsFRT1sImfpvsg54ImbTT5HbPn7p3k1KHjq_qZVSx0gY5tcEPgKKhJ5uii9My4XtYroetBF5FZfq9jt4M3TDkkpGMAD4ZegI/s220/59onfire.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-6846630636390011260</id><published>2009-04-15T12:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T14:28:07.980-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ghosts of bicycles past</title><content type='html'>I was in a hurry to get somewhere in Manhattan and I had to take my bike to get there. Normally it takes an hour or more for me to bike to the city but this time it was something like 20 minutes. I got my bike out of the basement and paused for a minute on the street. Instead of my Lemond bike, Orville, it was the too-small blue road bike I found at Binghamton on the grass one day in early spring. The brakes hardly worked, the wheels badly needed to be trued, but I was in a hurry! I threw my bag into the oversized basket in front (a new addition since I saw the bike last) and was off. On the way there the bike slowly transformed back into Orville. Midway through the transition I noticed that I was riding the old red Kabuki I bought for $25 at the bike shop on Brighton that was going out of business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, which looked more like the Verazanno Bridge that day. Everything was glowing the way it does after a thunderstorm. My destination turned out to be a weird coffee shop on the corner of a broad empty street downtown. Inside a 60 year old man was speaking at a podium about something very boring. There were three girls with short brown hair at a bench carved into the wall on the far side of the place. I carefully stepped through people seated on the floor listening to the man and sat down with them. I don&#39;t remember what we talked about, or what I did after that until the next morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I woke up at my house with the intent of making the same trip. I got Orville out of the basement. This time it was mostly the right bike except it was a fixed gear without any brakes. The Brooklyn Bridge was still the Verazzano Bridge. Everything was still glowing. Orville stubbornly remained a fixed gear bike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only one of the girls was at the coffee shop that day. As I sat down with her a metal buckle on my bag hit her head. She forced me to &quot;kiss it to make it feel better&quot;. I pretended to be nonchalant and friendly about it but I was uncomfortable with this. Her two friends arrived in a white van outside. They honked for us to come out and we did. I started unchaining my bike from the pole. They offered to drive me home. I should have taken them up on it because my ride home was now mysteriously 3 times longer than it should have been, but I said no. I started to pedal away.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/6846630636390011260/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/04/ghosts-of-bicycles-past.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/6846630636390011260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/6846630636390011260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/04/ghosts-of-bicycles-past.html' title='Ghosts of bicycles past'/><author><name>ntrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05268747623549395081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPXjqAM7wZ0GPyGbLNIkC5nPVuDgI64oAsFRT1sImfpvsg54ImbTT5HbPn7p3k1KHjq_qZVSx0gY5tcEPgKKhJ5uii9My4XtYroetBF5FZfq9jt4M3TDkkpGMAD4ZegI/s220/59onfire.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-7214330842128587941</id><published>2009-03-29T13:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T13:36:25.349-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="boyfriend"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cinema"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="easter"/><title type='text'>Easter with the Reeces</title><content type='html'>I was all set to go to my boyfriend&#39;s family&#39;s Easter celebration at his grandfather&#39;s house, and we were waiting for his mom to pick us up on a grassy street corner. However, when she got there they left without me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somehow I made it to our destination by hitchhiking. A colorful cast of characters, presumably his relatives, were gathering in the distance in the courtyard of a manor similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://images.absoluteastronomy.com/images/encyclopediaimages/l/la/last_year_marienbad.jpg&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; featured in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054632/&quot;&gt;Last Year in Marienbad&lt;/a&gt;. My dream took a cinematic turn, and the camera switched to closeups of them taking group photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, I awkwardly wandered around a meadow and found myself standing underneath a tree with a PA speaker in its branches. The speaker was transmitting salsa music to no one in particular. Then my boyfriend and his mother finally showed up.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/7214330842128587941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/easter-with-reeces.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/7214330842128587941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/7214330842128587941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/easter-with-reeces.html' title='Easter with the Reeces'/><author><name>s-lay</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01749855388526786790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs11e9WcV0bH78fRyuJvzrIRccUyp4YzslbkvX9n0gg38mJXuU-LpTmsIHyA0VwxaRAWH2TcUqW38Im0XV1UN_q5QjpLOY443iHmVMI4oABCnHXh6Zy0FKGYZuN2YRtg/s220/baby.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-6047739063392168730</id><published>2009-03-13T20:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-13T20:37:47.895-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Typical Embarrassing Situation</title><content type='html'>I bought a yellow and teal bikini with a high-waisted bottom part. I thought I looked totally bangin&#39; but apparently no one else did because they made fun of me, especially Arjun. Only Vincent sided with me, but I suspect it was because I bought him a beige cellphone earlier in the dream.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/6047739063392168730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-bought-yellow-and-teal-bikini-with.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/6047739063392168730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/6047739063392168730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-bought-yellow-and-teal-bikini-with.html' title='Typical Embarrassing Situation'/><author><name>ntrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05268747623549395081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPXjqAM7wZ0GPyGbLNIkC5nPVuDgI64oAsFRT1sImfpvsg54ImbTT5HbPn7p3k1KHjq_qZVSx0gY5tcEPgKKhJ5uii9My4XtYroetBF5FZfq9jt4M3TDkkpGMAD4ZegI/s220/59onfire.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-5174309931691664265</id><published>2009-03-12T11:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-12T12:08:13.085-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Television vision</title><content type='html'>I can only see a television screen. Any area outside the square of vision is black. I am watching a woman being dragged out of her house and strapped to a table with wheels. The table is tied to an ambulance, it is very white. The camera taking the video is clearly from of a chopper, as it is high and to the left of the scene; it is very shaky. It zooms in on her face; she is a white woman, late thirty&#39;s, looks plain, looks normal, maybe she is a school nurse. She is crying, red faced, hyperventilating. The ambulance begins to move and the camera follows the table as it is pulled by the ambulance.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The voices begin discussing the alien ants embedded in her brain. I realize they are news casters. They have a scientist discussing how they will begin to remove the ants. Either they can go longways across the top of the head, opening the skull and picking the ants out one at a time. Or they can saw from top to bottom. Opening the face like elevator doors, and allowing the ants to flow out with the blood. The camera zooms in closer on her face, the tears are streaming and the look of terror is total. I watch her slowly her breathing becomes shallow and fast. She grabs her throat and begins gasping. She dies on shaky copter cam, terrified, crying, and breathless from the insects in her head. The camera doesn&#39;t move away, which you would think it would. It just shows her lifeless, dragging behind the ambulance on a table with wheels.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I got up and drank three beers, showered and smoked a cigarette.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/5174309931691664265/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/television-vision.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/5174309931691664265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/5174309931691664265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/television-vision.html' title='Television vision'/><author><name>Dreleth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107691896612093629</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-4228515755539057176</id><published>2009-03-11T16:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T17:06:03.212-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Heist</title><content type='html'>The beginning is hazy, but the first thing I remember is my friend trying to get a contract to steal something extra from a place he was already supposed to rob. The original contract was to steal only one item from a bar/gaming parlor, and this was his first contract of the sort, but he was already making side deals. Later, I was inside the bar having a beer and scouting out the place. A taller me came out of another room with a pool cue and told me to get up. I was surprised to find that I was almost too drunk to walk. Taller me grabbed me by the arm and led me into the other room where he watched me line up pool shots on one of those side tables that are kind of high up at bars. The pool balls could have been in a giant ash tray. I felt really bad about being drunk and how it was effecting my motor skills. Later I was distracted by a sort of ghetto fellow who did not speak very clearly. He told me he wrote on his resume that he does not drink alcohol due to the fact that he took amphetamines (which he mispronounced badly) at the age of fourteen and mumbled something about his father. I was going to tell him that he doesn&#39;t have to not drink and he definitely shouldn&#39;t put it on his resume, but I was overcome with tiredness. I found myself in a bed, very big and thick, but also shaped like a couch. I was woken up by a girl skipping in slow motion calling my name. She rolled me off the couch and I landed on my back. With huge, flowing, pillowy sheets surrounding me, she dives in and starts kissing me upside down so that her chin touches my nose. She kept asking &quot;Who is your special friend? Am I your special friend?&quot; For some reason I could not grab her. She leaves and taller me comes in and tells me I&#39;ve botched the robbery, even though the friend I set this up with didn&#39;t even show up. He was very upset that I allowed lust to override my previous engagements. Later in the dream, I saw a bunch of people standing behind a high wall so only their heads were showing. They would stare at each other and then turn to me with clockwork regularity. I stole a pack of cigarettes from a pair of pants lying on a nearby bed, but returned it to the owner.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/4228515755539057176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/heist.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/4228515755539057176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/4228515755539057176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/heist.html' title='The Heist'/><author><name>Olek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17048849556218014693</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYhbuNeMfjcETv8EczcauHvvdjWb6vcPw9kI3KSKLRy95-eXtRkLfJ8sq4tAQq2lSzBZdkvRze02PNPlu1fbfDjhHfuNsnk2PTi-BfmSOEDVUumQFhDidl66guhkzbbl4/s220/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-4381297596181566346</id><published>2009-03-05T13:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T12:30:21.859-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="community center"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fake arms"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fake legs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="libertarians"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="murder"/><title type='text'>Disorder at the Libertarian Community Center</title><content type='html'>I alternated between being a 19 year old girl with wavy blond hair and a 19 year old corn fed kid with a buzz cut. Both of these people worked at a libertarian community center (???), which is basically a place that feeds and shelters the needy while indoctrinating them. It also handles campaigning stuff during election time. Most of the details on this are blurry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was some kind of very intense drama going on between the staff here. Most of what I remember from the dream was that as I was going back and forth from the perspective of the girl and the boy, they had been murdering other staff and sometimes each other. This was all somehow sequentially sound, as these things often are in dreams. In one instance the girl and the boy were out picking up food for the center with some other staff. It was late out and the boy opened the sunroof to the car to stand up. I was the girl in this scene and I was driving. When we pulled into the center parking lot the boy slumped over and we realized that he was dead. In the next scene I was the boy and somehow back to life. I was freaking out on the girl for having murdered me. She didn&#39;t know what I was talking about and was very scared of me. I went into a room and started to write something on a whiteboard in the dark. Then I switched to being the girl, and followed him into the room. Light was coming in from the hallway and I could see that the boy, who was writing on the board, had a pair of fake legs coming out from under his shirt (in addition to his normal legs). They were wearing women&#39;s jeans and had the same shoes I did. A fake set of arms were also sticking out from his t-shirt&#39;s arm holes. They had on the same shirt that I did. Apparently this was very bad news because I was terrified. The last thing I remember was him slowly turning his head around to give me a cold look.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/4381297596181566346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-alternated-between-being-19-year-old.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/4381297596181566346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/4381297596181566346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-alternated-between-being-19-year-old.html' title='Disorder at the Libertarian Community Center'/><author><name>ntrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05268747623549395081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPXjqAM7wZ0GPyGbLNIkC5nPVuDgI64oAsFRT1sImfpvsg54ImbTT5HbPn7p3k1KHjq_qZVSx0gY5tcEPgKKhJ5uii9My4XtYroetBF5FZfq9jt4M3TDkkpGMAD4ZegI/s220/59onfire.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-9109324080390582027</id><published>2009-03-04T12:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T11:49:43.536-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="salt"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="snow"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="suffocating"/><title type='text'>A few nights ago</title><content type='html'>On the next block over from my house is an abandoned storefront that I had never noticed. It was snowing outside and I was with some nondescript friends. We followed another group of people inside, and came upon an endless expanse that looked a lot like that &lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/chiarap/337114892/&quot;&gt;salt lake in Bolivia&lt;/a&gt;. We were under a big marquee near the door we came through. The floor was made of coarse salt, covered in a thin layer of water that reflected the cloudy sky. Not far from the perimeter of the awning, in every direction, there was 5 feet of salty snow on the ground as far as I could see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The air was very thin here. My friend gave me a good explanation for why this was but I can&#39;t remember it now. The people we followed in plus some others were there too, but no one could make it very far out past the snow. I gave it a try myself. As soon as I got waist deep I felt like I was suffocating. My ears were ringing. I fell to my knees and grabbed at the snow. It didn&#39;t feel cold but melted in my hands.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/9109324080390582027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/few-nights-ago.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/9109324080390582027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/9109324080390582027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/few-nights-ago.html' title='A few nights ago'/><author><name>ntrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05268747623549395081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPXjqAM7wZ0GPyGbLNIkC5nPVuDgI64oAsFRT1sImfpvsg54ImbTT5HbPn7p3k1KHjq_qZVSx0gY5tcEPgKKhJ5uii9My4XtYroetBF5FZfq9jt4M3TDkkpGMAD4ZegI/s220/59onfire.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426130951379696410.post-1569044325743656618</id><published>2009-03-04T12:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T12:17:15.774-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fish"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="mckenna"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ocean"/><title type='text'>Why I&amp;#39;m trying this</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;We each must become like fishermen, and go out onto the dark ocean of mind, and let your nets down into that sea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;And what you&#39;re after is not some behemoth that will tear through your nets, foul them, and drag you and your little boat into the abyss. Nor are what we looking for a bunch of sardines, that can slip through your net and disappear, ideas like &#39;have you ever noticed that your little finger exactly fits your nostril&#39; and stuff like that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;What we are looking for are middle-sized ideas that are not so small that they are trivial, and not so large that they are incomprehensible, but middle-sized ideas that we can wrestle into our boat and take back to the folks on shore, and have fish dinner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;And everyone of us, this is what we should be looking for. It’s not for your elucidation, it’s not part of your self-directed psychotherapy; you are an explorer, and you represent our species. And the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;And so, to whatever degree, any one of us can bring back a small piece of the picture, and contribute it to the building of the new paradigm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Our good friend Terence McKenna&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This place will likely be teeming with sardines, but I hope to bag some snapper, and maybe a tuna or halibut too.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/feeds/1569044325743656618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-i-trying-this.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/1569044325743656618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3426130951379696410/posts/default/1569044325743656618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ssabaculus.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-i-trying-this.html' title='Why I&amp;#39;m trying this'/><author><name>ntrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05268747623549395081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPXjqAM7wZ0GPyGbLNIkC5nPVuDgI64oAsFRT1sImfpvsg54ImbTT5HbPn7p3k1KHjq_qZVSx0gY5tcEPgKKhJ5uii9My4XtYroetBF5FZfq9jt4M3TDkkpGMAD4ZegI/s220/59onfire.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>