It moves

I just unfriended close to 40 people on Facebook.  That's a significant amount for my account, about 25% of my friends.  The criteria for selection was easy: if I had no interaction with them in over a year they were gone.  If I enjoyed their posts but didn't have any personal interaction with them they stayed.  There were a few nostalgic ones that slipped through too, even though I really had no meaningful interaction with them in any way. 

This is all part of a larger program I've initiated in my life.  It involves a reorientation toward real things and people, things I can touch and talk to, things that have a face, or cast shadows.  Of course I'm not cutting off the virtual completely.  This is in fact impossible- as Zizek has said: "Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction."  I'm simply scaling back on a particular mode of the virtual.  Its truths are still present for those who have ears to hear... I've simply heard another sound.

Gabriel's Oboe

Rainy nights

"Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant."  Heidegger

How Big Is the Universe?

All rights belong to the Guardian and Newton.

Remember

War is a necessary evil.

Toasting and consignment

Come let us share this golden elixir and speak of our adventures, sitting long into the night as the autumn rain falls cold outside our warm company. This round is on me..

The Unbearable Weight