at four in the morning, it makes sense from here

There's a full moon
Smiling down on Lucknow
And she is singing her old songs to me
A distant train plays the drum
The crickets sing along
And the dogs are barking down in the street

v. v. nifty

A bunch of people (professional thinkers of one sort or another) discuss something they used to believe, but don't believe anymore; or something they didn't used to believe that now they do.


(link reft from the also nifty Existence is Wonderful)

my favorite answer so far

( scandalously lifted wholesale from edge.org )

it doesn't take much

The wind is blowing very very hard, and the song that just came up on iTunes is called "Moonlight in Vermont", and suddenly I want to go crosscountry skiing from my house to my aunt's, and then curl up in front of her wood stove while listening to the CBC. (Nevermind that the my-house in question doesn't belong to anyone I know any more. It's the principle of the thing.)

carnivory

My meal for today is beef AND lamb AND chicken (and falafel) in one ginormous pita. Gnam gnam gnam gnam.

beer fairy?

Over the years, I've come to find a lot of things and people on my porch. Friends, family, dead animals left lovingly by pets, and lots and lots of boxes (most containing books). But today marks the first time I've come home to a six-pack. Sam Adams Winter Ale. Should the beer fairy read my livejournal, the Aviary thanks you!