May 2012
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Seeing the Sun in a New Light
The Sun. The proud possessor of 99.9% of all the matter in our Solar System. The 348.6 yottawatt-lightbulb that illuminates our and the other neighboring planets. And, for at least a couple weeks in June and July, the infuriating source of sleep-interrupting light, that rises in the exact wrong angle in the sky, at the exact wrong time of morning, shooting blinding daggers through the exact wrong...
July 2011
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Close Encounters of the Historical Kind Part 4:...
[BIG FLASH] Me: Hi Mr. Poe! It is so great to meet you! I’ve imagined this moment in my mind so many times, you would not believe! I’m a huge admirer of your work! And I really don’t mean to bother you, but…uh…Mr. Poe? Poe: [Remains sitting at desk, unmoving; Head lays on top of hands]. Me: [Pats his shoulder lightly] Mr. Poe? [Again] Mr. Poe? [Starts...
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Neanderthals, and Humans, and Hybrids, Oh My!!
What comes to mind when you hear the word “Cave Man?” 1. The Geico commericals? 2. The soulful creatures who created beautiful cave art depicting human and animal figures? 3. Grunting men in shaggy hair fighting off T-Rex’s with spears? (Yeah, I know, that one is totally off, but tell that to Hollywood). 4. The dillemma of there having been at least two kinds of “Cave...
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Lucy's Airlines
There was this sweet little memory that popped into my head the other day (which is really convenient for the purposes of this blog). I used to have my own constellation! Or rather, there was a random set of stars that I used to see all the time in the night sky which I called my own. Of course you can tell by the blog title what the constellation was called (informally): “Lucy’s...
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Close Encounters of the Historical Kind Part 3:...
[BIG FLASH]
Me: Ah hello, Mr. Lamarck, hello! Oh this, this is a real pleasure! You probably won’t believe this, but I was so captivated by your Aquired Characteristics theory in high school Biology. [Looks down bashfully] I more or less flunked, but man, your theory stayed with me! I remember, I used to attribute my runner’s legs to my dad having competed in his college...
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Sensory Discrepancy
Close your eyes. Now open them. You’re remembering one of the best days of your life as a child at a theme park, and it was great, even if you and your family didn’t arrive as early as you would’ve liked. Your mom and dad took turns holding the camera throughout the day as you and your siblings ran amuck and wreaked havoc and all the great stuff memories are made of. You...
June 2011
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Close Encounters of the Historical Kind Part 2:...
[BIG FLASH] Me: Oh! It…is…such…an…honor! I admire you so much, like really! I read a huge biography about you by Antonia Fraser that changed my life! Man, I even wrote a term paper that semester titled, “Mary, Queen of Hearts.” [Looks down bashfully] Corny, I know, but you’re so… Mary: Excusez-moi, qui - qui vous est? [Rises slowly from...
ohdedewo asked: You think you're better than me?
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Living Language Part 2
I’ve always imagined what it would be like to have lived for centuries and to have witnessed the fluxes and changes, even births, of the world’s languages. To have known something that is extinct while it was still alive. Or to have been around for the beginning of something so old it seems like it just always…was. While I haven’t quite tackled the necessary steps to...
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Close Encounters of the Historical Kind Part 1:...
[BIG FLASH]
Me: Oh my gosh, oh wow, Your Grace, I am a huge devotee! I can’t believe I’m actually meeting you in person! I know almost everything about you, like you don’t even know. [Bashfully looks down] I must admit…I had a major crush on you for a few years. Oh, look at me gushing, and I’m talking a mile a minute, it’s just that…
Philip: Con...
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Morphoexpressionism
Have you ever laughed to the point of crying? While you were at an assembly in middle school because a friend whispered the funniest thing you’d ever heard in you ear? And in the middle of trying to staunch your tears and stop your shoulders from trembling you peed a little in your pants? “No,” you reply? That’s cool. Have I? you ask spitefully…Well, no...
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Living Language
I took two Linguistics classes in college. Now, if anyone knows anything, they’d know that this automatically makes me an expert. Right? Right. Now that that’s out of the way, I’ve always had an interest in the evolution of…things. But the evolution of language in particular is a whole other machine . Most of us can recall learning, or passively hearing about, the...
ohdedewo asked: "Who is this person who speaks to me as though I needed his advice?.."
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Thoughts On St-St-Stuttering
Close your eyes. Now open them. You’re sitting in your high school Guidance Counselor’s office for the first time. You play with your fingers while she plays with a bunch of papers and files on her desk. She looks up and smiles, “How are you? I’m Miss [insert name]. Now what’s your last name, dear, so we can get started?” Oh no, here it comes. You...
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A Sixth Sense?
I often wonder about memory. Both the act of remembering something and then just memory itself. It’s such a huge thing to wrap your mind around [inadvertent pun]. Madeline L’Engle once said that said memory is a sixth sense. In a way it’s true. But I mean, it just gets you thinking, what is memory? What is it made of?
And you could ask the same of the other five senses. ...
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Morphosensism
There’s this new theory on which I’ve been doing some research. It’s about the first four senses (not counting the sense of memory) and how in extreme circumstances they all bleed into the fifth sense of feel/touch. Granted, this “research” is more than a little tentative. Hell, I don’t even own an off-white lab coat and a pair of 1950’s-styled...
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Dairy Dairy, Quite Contrary
My sister brought up an interesting topic of discussion the other day. We were talking about milk and cheese; how cheese and other dairy products are made from milk, etc. etc. and all that other insanely interesting stuff (we were bored - stick with me here). So afterward, I started going over some popular sources for milk and cheese: cow milk, goat milk, rat milk…yes.
But there was one...
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ohdedewo asked: You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You-only-moved-the-headstones! Why? *Why*?
ohdedewo asked: Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?
May 2011
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Me, Me, Me...and Me too.
Hello, my name is Lucy and I am an anomaly. I invented procrastination and the Cirque du Soleil. I am scared of the dark, heights, and fifth grade teachers. My shyness and my personality are arch enemies; yet they co-exist making me the awkward person that I am. I once had a crush on Edgar Allen Poe and an apartment building - no, no, you read that correctly. Most of the time I am a hopeless...
