apparently aristotle thought that the brain was just a massive cooling system, to regulate all that hot explosive emotion of the heart.  if we’re talking about the brain as the post-sorted and filtered consciousness part of the brain then yeah, that makes sense.

speaking of cooling systems, my car no longer has one.

yesterday, when watching a video of african parrots speaking, a friend mentioned that feral cats don’t meow in nature…cats are natural imitators, they shape shift their language for the ones they are around, in an attempt at empathy and understanding.  so the mewing is just what humans sound like to them, compared to other species.  so the next time a cat is meowing, remember that she is not just talking to herself, she is speaking with you in mind, like you would choose the native language of a particular person in the room whom you wanted to hear you.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)

are two of me writing this?

passed out yesterday for a catnap and dreamed of a dark green dress tied up very tightly into various knots.  voice said to my questioning eyes “it’s a lover’s gown.”

also today on the ride back into town there were horse chestnut trees and that made me remember i think there were large ones in the front of my parents’ house when they first moved upstate from yonkers, and that made me remember the row of evergreens in the back that are now gone, and also the one that sat directly behind the house where the deck is now, and t(a) and i used to play house in it, we had it set up with a kitchen, living room, we literally lived there, though normally didn’t sleep there, at least not at night.  and that made me think of trees growing up through a dilapidated house, so instead of a tree house having a full, healthy tree bursting up through an impaled shoddy house.  and that made me want to draw them, but i went for a walk with t(e) instead.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. -William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry (b. 1928)

to not buy cigs. 

would you really stay so long?

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)

entropy is only a problem in a closed system.

“woofner offers no solution, only live with your demon as peacefully as possible, make fewer demands, be satisfied with less results, above all, strive constantly to be here.”

demon box was my favorite story out of keesey’s collection of stories with the same title.