http://lewdcognoscenti.com Tempering the laughter of the damned. The truth about optimism. The cynic engages the Buddha in reincarnating coversation. Stuff like that. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:54:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, this post is so deeply overdue, it's a good-damn thing no one reads this page anymore anyway. Which is sad, but the fault does of course lie with those of us who are supposed to be supplying content for the silly thing. Regardless, I have now set my silly, ... http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/576 i always get a little nervous when things are this clear, when the manic energy has burned away the dissenting elements and that clean, high, tone is the only thing you can hear should things be this obvious? http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/575 and then this... http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/574 sometimes i write these e-mails and by the time i'm done with them, well the internet needs garbage like this . . . . -begin e-mail- alright, so i'm eight days into this nonsense of trying to write a book in a month and a problem that i'd never bothered to ... http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/573 ok, so i just want to make beautiful things . . . oh yeah, and have people appreciate them. i mean, without an outside viewpoint, can anything be truly beautiful? maybe it can, but i'm not interested in entertaining only myself, i want to share beauty with anyone who will ... http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/572 Every once in awhile I find myself reading a book that is just so impossibly true that it depresses the hell out me and compels me to continue reading non-stop thru the day until my eyes are strained, my nerves frayed, and my sense of indignation has been brought back ... http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/571 So I'm out and about, hanging out with plant last night; standing in his backyard talking about the strange sort of stuff the cognoscenti tend to talk about, watching kids run about, assembling bicycles . . . you know, the usual. Anyway, I'm standing there looking at a radio-flyer tricycle, ... http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/568 i'll be leaving soon i'll have gone to find myself at least this time i know what i am looking for before it was only knowing that i needed... ...something it is only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything so i am going to go into the woods with one intention i ... http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/564 I love this stuff. http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/563 how do you help the dead? do the dead need our help? more to the point, do the dead need our loose change? Last night my friend and I went out on a beer run to the local market, and as we're standing in line, I notice this container on the counter. It ... http://lewdcognoscenti.com/archives/562