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State: Michigan
Birthday: 10/24/1970
Gender: Male
Interests: ale, avocados, baseball, brewing, beatles, c s lewis, cosmos, dylan, daylight, eggs, eno, gardens, great lakes, harmony, human behavior, jubilee, jamborie, lillyma, lord's supper, storms, stones, tommorow, tom waits,
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| crunch time.
school is about to start and my financial aid is still up in the air. occ is having me send a letter to an appeal committee because i do not have a satisfactory completion rate of classes because of withdraws. back in the early 1990s, i attended occ and withdrew from some classes for reasons such as marriage and honeymoon, birth of child & being young and dumb. i've been married almost seventeen years now and held down the same job for almost the same amount of time and understand better about commitment, goals, time management and etc. i hope they have mercy.
from 1970's moondance lp, every track is strong.
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| although some think that i am a meteorologist, i am not really one. but i don't need one to tell the weather. i don't need a computer. or a weather balloon. or a groundhog. or an aching corn. i have something even better . . . my hair. i can tell you the weather just by looking at my hair. in the winter, a bit limp. a fair, clear, cool day, curls. but these last few days with heat, humidity and red folks with pointed tails and pitchforks - straight up fro, just like oscar gamble, pictured below.
back to the "dark age" in astronomy. it refers to a large missing gap of time between the origins of the universe and the emergence of stars and galaxies. astronomers reason that the origins of the universe had a white hot blizzard of subatomic particles which gradually cooled and electrons and protons joined to form huge swirls of hydrogen. then the universe went black as a pervasive light-absorbing fog filled space. this is called the dark age and astronomers have almost no grasp of what happened during this time. what they do know is that the universe underwent a huge transition during that time. in went primordial gas, out came carbon, o2 and the stuff we are made of. maybe this mystery age is part of the mystery of creation. genesis hints at an earth undergoing a change - from formless and void (an existing body) to being filled with life. maybe science and "religion" aren't so far apart.
from his first solo album, astral weeks, in 1968.
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| i fashoned a keyboard from ingredients in the dirt of my backyard. i dug down a bit until i found plastic ore, which i promptly smelted and formed into a keyboard shape. i dug considerably deeper, discarding very large fossils and treasure chests, until i came across raw copper for the wiring. so far, so good.
even more amazing is the star gazing that caltech has been doing (yes, i know . . . october is a space loser). astronomers at caltech, using gravitational lensing, claim that they have spied the most distant galaxies ever seen - stars bursting into existence 13.2 billion years ago. let's stop there for a moment. light travels at 186,000 miles per second. traveling at light speed would get you to the sun in 8 seconds, the nearest star in 4 years, across our galaxy in 100,000 years and the nearest galaxy in 2 million years. that means the light these geeks witnessed from those early, distant stars happened 13.2 billion years ago, if light speed is a constant. they believe that these findings may be close to the origins of the universe . . . pushing back toward what astronomers call "the dark age", a time shortly after the beginning. i'll talk about this next time . . . maybe to van morrison.
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| my.spacebar.is.jacked...everything.will.now.read.like.a.telegram...my.quotation.marks.do.not.work.either.
this.will.take.some.getting.use.to,especially.when.i.have.to.quote.someone...
my.fifth.child.snuck.to.the.computer.with.a.bowl.of.cereal...she.spilled.the.processed.grains.and.homo.milk.on.the.keyboard.
we.now.have.four.children...
in.the.news,louisiana.became.the.last.state.to.ban.cockfighting...up.till.then,it.was.a.legal.sport,errr.twisted.gambling.outlet.
amazing.it.took.until.2007.to.outlaw.a.sport.that.involves.strapping.razor.blades.to.a.roosters.foot,piss.him.off,and.put.him.in.a
ring.with.another.twisted,tormented,mentally.ill.bird,to.see.who.will.survive.
while.barbarick.and.stupid,not.everyone.is.pleased.with.the.ban...here.is.a.response.via.email...
dear.october,
we.are.dissapointed.in.louisianas.desicion.to.ban.cockfighting...
regards,
poachers,voodoo.priests,&colonel.sanders
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| last that i heard, this plant, errr, guy had no weapon. therefore, it is not a robbery . . . he wanted money, asked for it and got it. he is not unlike you or me . . . except he was dressed up as a tree and had the acorns to go for what he wanted. another thing, this term "disguise" is misleading. it presupposes ill intent. it assumes he was going to hide in the park among the oaks and beech to try and escape the authorities. did it ever occur that he may have been merely expressing heritage? native americans dressed as animals. my kids dressed as chicken hunters or nudists. perhaps his people were loggers or orchard keepers. maybe he loves woodpeckers and was trying to attract one. anyway, keep an open mind about the situation.
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