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flamingsword* So I have now seen Episode 1 Season 1 of Leverage. Where can I get more of this?
* I have been thinking through the logistics of insanity, and how chaos theory applies to repeated iterations of the impossible. Perhaps something is not possible when you begin working towards it, but will be by the time you get there (re: our current president is black). In this way some kinds of insanity have real world applications as far as invention, scientific discovery, and social progress. Because the initial conditions of the repeated experiments are constantly changing, each repetition has different chances of success.
* Love's Baby Soft is pedophile-attractant perfume. I may have to make a frightening Loli outfit to celebrate finding this gem hiding out in my bathroom. There may be pigtails involved. You have been warned.
* Subculture is the proving ground for dominant-paradigm social policy in the same way that State courts are proving grounds for what becomes federal policy. We're beta-testing new behaviors and shaking the bugs out, so that the majority of our culture can keep to the stable, already-tried ways of relating. People can be as conservative as they like, but what is normal for us now will be a social norm in 50 years. Think back: Beatniks, rock n' roll, hippies: their radical new habits and practices have become our own. Deliberate minimalism, ecological awareness, activism as a lifestyle, the refusal of racism implied by listening to 'black' music: these things used to exist only in outcasts, not in people who swam in the mainstream.
*Some nights, especially when I can't sleep, I feel unstoppable. I feel like pain is just a condition like breathing and is equally invisible, like every action I take every day will echo through my entire life, like the shadows of what we have been are cast forward onto the future by the light of our former potential selves, obscuring the narrowing field of what we can become in the moving dimness. Only the choices we passed by are brightly lit, and in the gloom ahead lies our eventual fate.
*Why do I only get metaphorical when I hurt? Stupid stomach pain. Stupid insomnia.
ETA: Unfinished sentences are also what happens when I can't sleep. Fixed now.
* I have been thinking through the logistics of insanity, and how chaos theory applies to repeated iterations of the impossible. Perhaps something is not possible when you begin working towards it, but will be by the time you get there (re: our current president is black). In this way some kinds of insanity have real world applications as far as invention, scientific discovery, and social progress. Because the initial conditions of the repeated experiments are constantly changing, each repetition has different chances of success.
* Love's Baby Soft is pedophile-attractant perfume. I may have to make a frightening Loli outfit to celebrate finding this gem hiding out in my bathroom. There may be pigtails involved. You have been warned.
* Subculture is the proving ground for dominant-paradigm social policy in the same way that State courts are proving grounds for what becomes federal policy. We're beta-testing new behaviors and shaking the bugs out, so that the majority of our culture can keep to the stable, already-tried ways of relating. People can be as conservative as they like, but what is normal for us now will be a social norm in 50 years. Think back: Beatniks, rock n' roll, hippies: their radical new habits and practices have become our own. Deliberate minimalism, ecological awareness, activism as a lifestyle, the refusal of racism implied by listening to 'black' music: these things used to exist only in outcasts, not in people who swam in the mainstream.
*Some nights, especially when I can't sleep, I feel unstoppable. I feel like pain is just a condition like breathing and is equally invisible, like every action I take every day will echo through my entire life, like the shadows of what we have been are cast forward onto the future by the light of our former potential selves, obscuring the narrowing field of what we can become in the moving dimness. Only the choices we passed by are brightly lit, and in the gloom ahead lies our eventual fate.
*Why do I only get metaphorical when I hurt? Stupid stomach pain. Stupid insomnia.
ETA: Unfinished sentences are also what happens when I can't sleep. Fixed now.
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Date: 2009-07-10 08:14 am (UTC)Very interesting thoughts! I especially like the thought about subculture, and I wish I was awake enough to appreciate your chaos theory more.
Hope to see you guys a week from tomorrow night/tonight!
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Date: 2009-07-10 02:03 pm (UTC)DUDE. I wore Baby Soft to church and on special occasions from when I was six until I was about thirteen.
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:05 pm (UTC)This says disturbing things to me about your former religion. JSYK.
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-10 04:23 pm (UTC)http://www.stuckinthe70s.com/images/tb0476babysoft.jpg <-- Marketing to pedophiles? Indeed.
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:32 pm (UTC)That is a...very scary ad. I mean, even leaving aside the pedophilia, I think she might try to eat my kidneys.
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:36 pm (UTC)Have you checked your mail recently? You should have a yellow envelope coming in . . .
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:58 pm (UTC)It isn't here yet unless someone forgot to give it to me (sadly, always possible.)
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Date: 2009-07-10 04:55 pm (UTC)