Well, if you do the silence thing you get to experience the orchestra of the universe. Some of the most beautiful stuff you’ve ever heard. It’s as if the universe is softly humming directly into your brain. But it’s the humming of atoms spinning, of quarks playing airy violins and superstrings slowly vibrating bass lines. [...]
***Warning – Includes questionable content and imagery*** There she is, lying on the bed, the fruits of two weeks of work. Two weeks of bullshit, really. Two weeks of listening to her ramble on about her job as a veterinarian assistant in some startup mom-and-pop humanitarian effort. A last ditch effort for mom and pop [...]
Swimming in Parking Lots (Revised) July is the hottest month. Maybe not for any averages in the record books, but to me it is. I will forever equate July with scorching temperatures, sweat-soaked shirts, bone-dry infields and yellow outfields, peeling red-hot skin and rubber-green basketball courts waving in the heat currents. I’ll also remember it [...]
A chartreuse jellybean, the size of a small egg, sat nestled firmly within a Jack Daniels shot glass. A veiny hand, dotted with liver spots resembling ground sausage on a meat-lovers pizza, quietly slipped its bony fingers around the small glass and lifted it into the early morning air. Quickly following were a pair of [...]
Lighted I’m 21. Clueless. Only green. Not even alcohol really. I’m browsing the internet one frigid, purple-tinged winter evening and come across a website promoting a legal psychedelic. I’m intrigued. Legal? Why? I don’t order the material from the site. I order the plant. I’m gonna grow it. It shows up at my doorstep a [...]