Noble Dust

I once made an EP of 2 minute electronic tracks made with a free synthesizer app on my iphone recorded from the iphone into a microphone into my compu...

Yes, the Hamlet comparison is apt. I would also throw The Stalker (seen in my profile pic), from Tarkovsky's film Stalker in that mix, although he lac...

It's quite good, although I think I might have connected with it more emotionally when I was younger. There are some truly profound insights, however....

Ha! You're as bird-brained as me. I saw you post that in the Pop Philosophy thread; don't think you got off scott free. Takes one to know one.

Sorry to jump in without reading everything, but “in the zone” is something I can hopefully comment on. With us creatives, the Achilles heel is discip...

Very well put. I’m not even a film guy and I love Tarkovsky. It’s like moving sculpture or something. Mirror is very much a dream logic sketch. Barely...

Yes, I love Stalker. Hard to put into words. Mirror is also up there for me with Tarkovsky.

Perhaps you'll eventually devolve into a dinosaur.

@"Jamal" has changed his profile picture for the first time in 7 years and I don't know how to feel.

Great post, but while the Kazakhs might, us civilized Americans stick to squirrel and endangered species like bison.

Yes, it’s a sort of euphemism to remove ourselves from what we’re eating. We don’t eat pulled pig, for instance.

It's also weird that Brits use the French "aubergine" while us common sense Americans call it like we see it: eggplant. Not to mention your use of the...

My visual short term memory is almost non existent. I'll walk by a block in the city that I walk past semi-regularly and see that they tore a building...

Ah yes, like real cocaine in coca-cola. They just don't make things like they used to. Coffee and cigarettes is indeed a magical combination, but only...

Damn, I love lemon-pepper wings. Serve them with a side of mac salad and collards and I'm done. I done sound like a raaill southun bwoa don't I?

Thank you. I have plenty more. The main difference between my stories and @"Hanover"'s is that mine are true.

I just did my taxes to the tune of Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon (it's Friday; close enough). The government is sending me money, so all is well in t...

It's simple; I eat black pepper by the ladle-full. Thus I can never have enough and am never satiated. I bet you don't eat lemons by the bucket-full. ...

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One of today's eggs was perfectly jammy, while the other was in a transitional state between jammy and fully ossified. I would describe it's runniness...

Kitchens are such great places to make healthy and wholesome meals. I love to flail my arms and hands, i.e. limbs, around and create tasty concoctions...

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Supposedly if you put the taiters in a cheese cloth and squeeze out the moisture you can hash them just fine. I like hash as a verb. I’m going to come...

So much pressure. I just started reading Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse. :groan: I needed a break from absurd otherworldliness, and figured existential c...

In other words, a must-read.

I had to dig, since I enjoyed Roadside Picnic but didn’t respond much to the description of Hard To Be a God, their other most well known novel. Snail...

Oh I've never even bothered trying. It's a treat when I eat out for breakfast.

Poached is actually my favorite preparation, being a fancy boy. Eggs Benedict is my favorite breakfast meal. With hash browns, coffee, and orange juic...

I get what you're saying, but this suggests to me that a purpose is always a conscious decision made, which I disagree with. I could have said "uncons...

Have you actually been a soccer mom this whole time? What model of minivan do you drive?

I used to eat scrambled eggs everyday because they were cheap, but I got so sick of them I found them revolting. It took awhile, but I can eat them in...

Besides the skyr and coffee, today's breakfast consisted of two over-medium eggs. This has been my recent breakfast revelation; as much as I love over...

I accept your description of your personal experience in that I trust you're being honest about it. But are you not of the persuasion that there are o...

I agree. It brings up the psychology of philosophical investigation and self-examination, which, ironically, seems often unexamined. With respect @"T ...

Good one.

Yes indeed.

My recommendation is to leave the wine out on the counter top, preferably in the summer with no air conditioning, for roughly 5 days.

I agree.

I was a kid when I had it, so I thought it was awesome. I'll take the free bagel as always, though. Thanks.

I've had squirrel. It tastes like dirty chicken.

I don't think I've had a scone since college. I do, however, occasionally score free croissants from the bagel shop next to my job. I just wish they'd...

Interesting. I think we have fundamentally different structures of experience. Then again, maybe you're just more well-adjusted while my neuroses dict...

I do love a big American breakfast, which might consist of, for instance, eggs, bacon, hash browns, toast, and maybe a "side" of giant pancakes, which...

I just finished The Snail On The Slope by The Strugatsky brothers. I disliked it at first, but found it very rewarding and challenging by the end. Def...

I'm not suggesting that philosophy or Taoism be used as self-help, but I think there's an implicit suggestion in the concept of self-examination that ...

A typical boring breakfast of Skyr and strong black coffee, followed by a second breakfast of the dregs of my container of mixed nuts. I love the bran...

Why examine oneself if not to improve oneself?

Meal prepped lunch salads for the week consist of mixed super greens, red cabbage, cherry tomatoes, orange bell pepper, shallot, feta cheese, and cann...

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You mean wicked smaht.