MILK / WHISKERS

Nanami the Kitten: [nuzzling Nobu the cat's belly] Got milk? Nobu the Cat: Dude! WTF?! Nanami the Kitten: [persistently] Got milk??? Nobu the Cat: [resignedly flopping on his side ] Whatever. * * * Heartichoke to Nanami the Kitten: Hey, where did all your whiskers go? Why don’t you have any whiskers? Nobu! Did you [...]

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LIKE DIGGING STONES OUT OF THE GROUND

In the sixth night of Natsume Soseki’s Ten Nights’ Dreams, Unkei the Sculptor is carving a Nio, a temple guardian, in front of spectators. Unkei’s sculpting technique is diffident, offhand, unconcerned, yet exquisitely confident. The dreamer wonders how Unkei does this, and is told that Unkei merely digs out the Nio that’s been buried all [...]

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BUCKSHOT

1. My internet has been quixotically fritzy for the past 3-4 days, and I can’t quite isolate the problem. At first I thought it was an Airport/Time Capsule problem, but then I moved directly to ethernet, and I’m still regularly disconnecting. So now I’m wondering if the cable connect is being disturbed while the side [...]

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ESTRANGEMENT

Oh, this poor ghost town of a blog! Inhospitable to the trolling of search-engine spiders who simply shriveled up and died clinging to a rusted meta-tag. Even the virtual tumbleweeds stopped rolling through months and months ago. Even outlaw spambots stopped hiding out here. Mostly I’ve been traveling all over the place. Pinging and ricocheting [...]

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