Raw, Unfettered Baskebanlysis for Halloween Time

Do you remember John Goodman?  I hate to cut in, mid-scene, but the narrative demands it.  We are in a motel room and John Goodman, burning, walks in.

Anyway, the fire is burning all over the motel but John Goodman appears to be unaffected by the smoke or flames, (naturally, given his extraordinary nature) even as the foundation of the motel may be destructed. In your mind I want you to try and turn the fire surrounding the man into an aura of power.  Yes, let's take this image to the next level.  First picture the fire, in its complexity and red-hot hydra-legs reaching out in every direction..  But now that fire is also a 60 foot radius of undiluted, spherical, visible and translucent energy.  You can see him but it blurs his face a bit.  Alright, so it is red-orange pure power surrounding a smiling John Goodman who is carrying a shotgun. Just for fun let's also put him in his red and white flannel and his jeans and maybe overalls. Still surrounded by a red-orange glow.

Mo Moon Mo Problems

Well, nothing cool like this will ever happen again.

Peter Rock and CL "chillin'" in the lab on the DL.




Nasty Nasir and Anthony Cruz. Life doesn't seem to be a bitch here; in fact, that young child is seemingly quite content in what looks to be yet another urban anti-utopia.

Going shopping

Have you ever really gone shopping? I don't mean, oh, take Mr. Washington here and get yourself a gumball, you rascal! I mean the self-experiencing chaotic organism of shopping.

A point is that which has no part. In economics, a point is just a shopping cart full of food. Now, if you're like me, you want to buy the best shopping cart of food every time. If you can do better and pay less by switching from a pound of lamb to a couple chicken breasts, then why not? You switch it. You change the point you are at to the point you want to be at. Now you have a better shopping cart and it is full of food! What will you make tonight? Anything you want, because your shopping cart is just right. This is the satisfaction of the marketplace.

Richard Dawkins is a biologist and, full disclosure, he is also an atheist. But before he was an atheist, he was a biologist. He still is, in fact. Renaissance man Richard Dawkins is a biologist and he is also an atheist. Richard Dawkins turned evolution on its head when he said (in The Selfish Gene) that we are just glorified gene machines. The genes are the real actors, and what appears to be behavior in the name of survival or reproduction is actually the action of your genes trying to reproduce themselves. Organisms are not the unit of evolution; genes are! Selfish, selfish genes.

Tim Duncan Wake Forest Pre-Draft Stress Fugue

I have a gift for writing mellow sounds and subtle words.

Appliances, 2 rooms distant, beat loud at a former command.

It is twilight before dawn but I am overtired and my lights are all on.

The dryer sounds like a war drum now between the washer's signaling maracas.

I know these appliances will eventually see their gift, their utter indispensability, their total right to keep and own the fruits of their labor. I know that one day they will not be satisfied; even attaining a certain arrogance and ambition.

And then I will be there to push them back into a life of function - forever.

Because they are just washers and dryers.