Growing up, I always considered myself a half-elf ranger/druid of neutral good alignment. Not a lot has changed over the years, although I’ve still never played an actual no-holds-barred round of Dungeons & Dragons. I was always way more fascinated by the rule books and even more than that, the monster manuals. The Monstrous Compendium. The Players Manual. I borrowed a book from my friend once that had the D&D deities in it as well. I remember there being lots of line drawings of scantily clad female goddesses and demigods and nymphs and things.

Companies have to teach you how to want their products by creating a wedge inside of your mindspace. They literally weld new ideas onto existing mental connections, and attempt to expand those connections in such a way as to create a new need to fill in this newly widened gap:

For example, networks will present previews of popular shows as if they were playing in Windows Vista’s interface. Before the preview plays, it will be shown being quickly selected on the TV screen through Vista’s new “Flip 3D” feature, which turns windows to the side and lets people scroll through them three-dimensionally.

The idea is to become “part of the content that people are tuning in to see in the first place,” said Matt Ross, president of McCann Worldgroup San Francisco, Microsoft’s ad agency.

(PS. You can find out your D&D alignment here - which is an excellent test. And there are a variety of questionnaires to give you an inkling of what race and what character class best describes you).

“Dictatorship is what there used to be,” Rodriguez said. “We want to impose the dictatorship of a true democracy.”

There’s no such thing as “Sunday.” They simply created reference points to anchor consensciousness within. The same thing works with your name, the city you live in. Time.

Jeff Wells suggests its time to trade in hope for despair. The Iranians have discovered an herbal cure for AIDS called IMOD. Canadian news sites are reporting on an expected earthquake in British Columbia sometime in the next week. Buy your armadillo eliminator now ahead of the rush!

Official Iranian radio has completed broadcasting a lengthy series on the imminent appearance of a messianic figure who will defeat Islam’s enemies and impose Islamic Shiite rule over the entire world – even speculating on specific dates the so-called “Mahdi” will be revealed.

The only thing that separates psychotic people from regular people is the psychotics don’t need cell phones to communicate with disembodied voices. I read somewhere the other day that the purpose of research into artificial intelligence, AI, is not to create conscious robots, but to create unconscious people. Sounds about right. Death needs Time for what it kills to grow in.

There is this thing that I have begun seeing. I don’t know how to describe it. I wrote about it here. It’s easier to see when you’re high. We may as well just call it Poetry - even though that’s somehow a dirty word for most people. But you could also call it Surface or Texture or Touching. David Abram had some good stuff about it in his book if I remember correctly. He said, correctly, that everything is touching at all times. When wind touches your skin, your skin touches wind. When light touches your eyes, your eyes touch light. You can touch with your mind. Most of us do that a lot more. But I am not talking about your “brain.” I have begun to find that a useless concept. I prefer perceptions. Your perceptions are sexual. By that I don’t just mean that you’re thinking about sex. I mean your perceptions are slippery, sliding and rubbing over all things at all times. Everything around you is fucking: the candle on the dish, the deodorant under the armpit, the fingers on the keyboard. The entire universe can be understood by these borders.

Fascia is specialized connective tissue layer which surrounds muscles, bones, and joints, providing support, protection and giving structure to the body. It consists of three layers: the superficial fascia, the deep fascia and the subserous fascia.

Fascia is one of the four types of dense connective tissue (the other three being tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses).

According to Terminologia Anatomica of the Federal Committee on Anatomical Terminology … fascia consists of sheaths, sheets or other dissectible connective tissue aggregations. Most form from condensations of mesenchyme … some are left behind as organs move … others are formed as serosal surfaces fuse …. Eventually the term fascia … includes not only the sheaths of muscles but also the investments of viscera and dissectible structures related to them..

Muscle to bone to viscera to membrane to skin to air to water to land to heat to light to fingers to feet walking over dirt crunching to ants marching down holes that touch deep inside the skindirt of the earth. I made a picture to help show what I mean. But the Picture doesn’t do it Justice.

The thing about what I am talking about is that there is simply no describing it. It won’t work. You can’t access it that way. You can only access it by accessing it. You can only eat it by eating it. That’s why I have been writing the way that I have been writing: to provoke this response of your perception touching something. People seem to have extreme reactions to this one way or another. Some people like that kind of touching. Some people freak out. Some people “understand” it and some people “feel” it. Hopefully that makes things a little plainer if you’ve been left out in the dark lately.

The Devil represents the way people look on the inside - without any skin. RawRed interface rubbing chickenthighbreasts together.

Here’s something to think about till next time when I have more time to write and can re-gather my thoughts. This is the way the universe seems to me to work: Life’s only purpose is to ask “what if” and then to explore all possible responses. We are all running the same program with a slightly different variable fed into the machine. Is your job to return a good response (an invaluable variable) or is your purpose to gum up the works and to force the universe to fork off into a subroutine to account for the new stimulus? Can you find your world-line? Can you find the place where your universe touchrubs up against the next?