Hi!

I have words to share, so please enjoy!

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the sea and the stars match

each other

...look

...for

...look

while the wind spins between

and casually interrupts

...with a fluff

...of friendly cloud

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I dream of walking on power lines

Traversing the black lines drawn on the sky

Like a painted circus performer

With an extended painted smile

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Proper syntax is a good thing!

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A warning: I can be rather bad about updating, but I generally get around to putting up new material. Eventually. Life, and laziness, gets in the way sometimes.

Warning #2: I tend to ramble and have a long-term memory capacity similar to that of an elderly cat.

Th-three: I'm high on life, so seek sanity elsewhere!

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Here's a list of stuff I enjoy and hence recommend, including books, movies, anime, manga, comedians, etc. (new titles are added as I encounter or remember them, not in order of preference):

Anime/manga: Natsume Yuuijinchou, Mushishi, Soul Eater, lain, Silver Diamond, Fullmetal Alchemist, Loveless, Kyou Kara Maou, Kuroshitsuji, Pandora Hearts, 1/2 Prince, Death Note, D.Gray-Man, Fairy Tail, Hayate the Combat Butler, Koori no Mamono no Monogatari, Bleach, Naruto, Deadman Wonderland, Sketchbook, The World God Only Knows, Bartender, Lost+Brain, Yami no Matsuei, Medaka Box, +Anima, Wild Life, Mirai Nikki, Darker Than Black, Kimi ni Todoke, Jackals, Alive!, Chii's Sweet Home, Othello, Akagami no Shirayukihime, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Zettai Karen Children, Ouran High School Host Club, Nabari no Ou, Devil May Cry, Claymore, Asklepios, Great Teacher Onizuka, Fruits Basket, Witch Hunter Robin, Hikaru no Go, Demon Diary, Utahime, Superior, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Witch Hunter, Arago, Kokoro ni Hana wo, Saijou no Meii, Yasashii Ryuu no Koroshikata, Gakuen Heaven, Jinjuu Houretsuden, Princess Princess, Akuma to Love Song, Skyhigh Karma, Apple, Heart no Kuni no Alice, Livingstone, Five, Dokuhime, di(e)ce, Hibiki's Magic, Trigun, Olimpos, Shiroi Kumo, Mukashi no Hanashi, Lonesome Eden, One Piece, One Fine Day, Fetish, Keppeki Shounen Kanzenin Soubi, Variante, Tamashi no Futago , Asterisk, Dawn Tsumetai Te...

Books/movies/televison: Coraline, Mythbusters, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Artemis Fowl, most of what's written by Tamora Pierce (especially The Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens quartets), Terry Pratchett books (especially Night Watch, Witches Abroad, and Small Gods), Tender Morsels, Think Again, Pan's Labyrinth, Miyazaki Hayao movies, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Family Guy, House M.D., Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Incredibles, 9, Corpse Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas Up, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Despicable Me, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Spaceballs, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Scrubs, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, CSI, Monk, Static Shock, Teen Titans, Primeval, Doctor Who, Futurama, South Park, Princess Bride, Dragon Heart, How to Train Your Dragon, The Social Network, Megamind, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Day After Tomorrow, White Oleander...

Webcomics: xkcd, Digger a softer world, Questionable Content, Cyanide and Happiness, KinokoFry, pictures for sad children, Weird Fishes, Shrub Monkeys, SMBC...

Comedians: Eddie Izzard, Lewis Black, Mitch Hedberg, Richard Jeni, Pablo Francisco, Dave Chapelle, Ron White...

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Some exquisite poetry from the collection Think Again:

What I Want

I've objected and complained

But it hasn't done any good—

I don't want to be explained

I want to be understood.

:zzzt:

My Mind

My mind's awash in misconceptions,

ditherings, and failed connections

But now and then a new thought blooms,

straight out of all that greenery—

The mind's no mere machinery—

It's more than it itself presumes.

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To end, a few of my favorite quotes:

"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size…" -Mark Twain

"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are only intersecting monologues." -Dame Rebecca West

"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." -George Bernard Shaw

"Good! Good! Good! You're wrong, but you're wrong in an interesting way!" -Robert L. Birmingham

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere." -Groucho Marx

"Forget about religion, forget about shame, pretend that you’re alone now…" –“Pretend That You’re Alone”, Keane

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -Martin Luther King Jr.

"There is not a thin line between love and hate. There is—in fact—a Great Wall of China with armed sentries posted every 20 feet between love and hate." –House [1-03]

"Dying people lie too. Wish they'd worked less, been nicer, opened orphanages for kittens. If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite." –House [2-07]

"It is with words as with sunbeams: the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." –Robert Southey (1774-1843)

"The best advice I can give you is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others." -Unknown

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright

"Twang him into a tree!" -Eddie Izzard