The Negative Zone

great articel about comics


"We 1970s kids couldn't have been issued a clearer message: we'd missed the party."

okay i remember

just a sort of update- got two out of three things mostly done. the third thing now is 50 anatomical drawings. Whoo. i'm a big procrastinator. but thats how i get other stuff done. putting off the big things. i'm just going to do as many as i can with th time i have left. he's a good teacher and won't flunk me for inclompleteness. and i've showed up for class almost every day which is more than i can say for some.

heres his website. look at his stuff, it's great and we're really lucky to be learning from him.Vince Perez

that's what i'm doing pretty much all day today. gotta go to class in the evening and then come home and work some more. might blog an all-nighter, but i hope not.

slowing down time

doing it again. Just one more day till everything is due. Time is going slowly anyway but i just helped it along.

oh yeah, like i was talking about before, about liking to time things? remember?

Songs! songs are a great way to time things. especially mp3s where you can see exaclty how long a song is. sometimes ill load up a ten minute song, because i want to do something for only ten minutes. Sometimes i'll load up a bunch of songs totaling approximately a half hour or an hour. Then when it repeats i know about how much time has passed.

so anyway, to get back to what i was talking about before-what was it?

corned beef and cabbage

real easy, you just get one of those briskets in the bag at almost any supermarket, a head of cabbage and some cloves of garlic. Throw them all in the biggest pot you have, put in water to cover it all and cook the hell out of it. For hours. it's easy, you don't really have to watch it, just check to see the water doesn't all boil away, add more if it gets low.

You'll have food for a week. You'll be sick of it. but it's pretty good. What i had for dinner.

the time sense

lately i've found myself just obsessed with time.

How much do i have? When is this going to happen? it seems to be going fast, it seems to be going slow. Look how much of it has passed. oh wow is it still only 8:24?

i love using electronic timers. i like to have a real, concrete sense of time passing. An anchor to my time sense. A little lifeline that snaps you back into the regular flow. Speaking of timers, my food in in the microwave. i'll be right back. it beeped, but i don't know how long ago. See? i set it for 1 minute.

i just thought of a great name for a band: 'scream of consciousness' Cool, huh? i'm gonna go put it on MEMEHOSE and then continue eating dinner.

probably this wierdness is becauseof finals. i really do have until Wednesday to turn in three projects. Been staying up late working on stuff. So my time sense will already be a little skewed.

now the interesting think about cannabis is the time distortion effect- the warping of your time sense. Now this seems al little random usually, but- what if you could control it?

i remember- i wanted to mention that i've been using it to extend time in order to get more work done. perceptually at least. having mentioned it, i'll stop procrastinating and get to work.

boondoggle and pork

interesting discussion

also i just like to say 'boondoggle and pork'.

Piss-Soaked God's Eye

oh yeah

happy 4/20 everybody!

sometimes it seems to me that we do things better now than in the past. We have all this stuff.

but you know...

People in the past just did things harder. If they wanted to eat, they ordered everything on the menu. They wanted to drink, they drank. People were on cocaine or morphine all the time. Laudanum, all that shit.

to trick the brain/new taste sensations

In future, food scientists might use their understanding of how the brain reacts to food to design novel products, such as (drinks that taste cold even when at room temperature), says Zald. "You might be able to trick the brain," he says, to conjure up new taste sensations.

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040329/040329-19.html

What would an entirely new taste and texture sensation be like?

This is great. Exploring and pushing the limits of human experience. This is what philosophy and religion should be doing. But science is doing it instead.

On most hallucinogens, you can make things move if you stare at em for a bit

excellent discussion about mental effects of hallucinogens as well as effects of market forces on drug prices:

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/32226

of course, i'm still going

This is what Burning Man is now

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