i was certain that i could remove my upper jaw with a spoon

two really accurate statements

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The Impossible Quiz

If you guys haven't tried this, I highly recommend it.

http://www.addictinggames.com/theimpossiblequiz.html

light leakage and misaligned frames

In the past year I've pretty much completely run out of poetic inspiration, so I've been dipping into a wide variety of sources looking for something else to put my energy into. Most recently, I combined my love of A Softer World, Philip Levine, and my Diana + camera, the result of which was a messy, vague photo-narrative with captions that--removed from their original context (My Father with Cigarette Twelve Years Before the Nazis Could Break His Heart by Levine)--utterly fail to cohere. Oh well. It's more productive than writing angry haiku to my absent muses.

Then there's this one, which has nothing to do with Levine, just my occasional desire to run away. Possibly join the circus. Or live with the wolves. (Emmie, I assume you'll be joining me for that.)

And lastly there is this lovely piece of melodrama, which I use try--and fail--to convince myself to quit smoking:

lololol

Esperanto Vocab Word of the Day

meretrico- prostitute

p.s. I will learn Esperanto. I will use it in everyday conversation. It will be highly amusing. The word of the Lord.

p.p.s. Why did y'all stop blogging after getting me addicted. You suck.

The School of Life

I really wanna go here. Anyone up for a trip to London?

Stolen Voices

I hope this little tid-bit of information is as utterly fascinating to you as it is to me.

Cymothoa exigua is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae. It tends to be 3 to 4 cm long. This parasite attaches itself at the base of the spotted rose snapper's (Lutjanus guttatus) tongue, entering the fish's mouth through its gills. It then proceeds to extract blood through the claws on its front three pairs of legs. As the parasite grows, less and less blood reaches the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish.[1] Once C. exigua replaces the tongue, some feed on the host's blood and many others feed on fish mucus. They do not eat scraps of the fish's food.[2] This is the only known case of a parasite functionally replacing a host organ.

This is obviously a metaphor for some vast and vague theory about the human condition.