That´s one of the things I love, is that, as far as it´s always seemed to me from how you express and explain things, you just see and think so much and just so, almost in every way precisely what I would have thought, too (and when not, still with such... right-ness about everything), and it´s always seemed to me that you get it all across perfectly -clearly and with energy and excited but at the same time thoughtful and sincere about what you´re saying- and anyhow  things really are that dense and connected and fast in the mind and so why not talk how your brain goes?

The more I trust you, the more you let me down

That settles it

Al Green will always make me think of you.

now we know how the two-headed cat works

Or maybe I should just chalk it up to our sharing-a-brain thing…

So happy and sad and proud of myself and sad…

The Baby already has all the stuff I was going to get him.

Well, except the Iĉiro jersey.

And now this awesome, giant, perfectly sized box I got to ship it all in is going to go to waste…

On why they’re known as Mutant Turtles and not Ninja Turtles in Japan

“Fuck it, nigga; our whole country’s ninjas.”

I want ariadnæ’s parents to meet my parents but I want Speedbump to be a part of my family.

No quiero envejecernos así

Tonight while watching “The Simpsons” I kept calling Lisa by Speedbump’s name (I kept screaming at the TV ’cause I was concerned about her future)

The worst thing I’ve ever heard of

Trunk ’n treat

Saw “The Descendents” last night (not about the band). Dreamt about hearing Speed Bump’s husband tell me how it was easier to wine and dine a prostitute than deal with her… Tried to get her, then, to go talk to him when he got home, felt like she’d been so worn down she wasn’t making a real effort. But I pushed her to, but I saw he wasn’t really taking any interest in what she was doing, either. One of us was drawing a picture.

If he’s willing to go to counseling he’s at least willing to try. I wish Speed Bump would see that and genuinely do the same thing. But she’s holding a part of her heart back.

The dream also involved watching a college softball team at a mall in Orange County, being dressed up in Giants gear possibly at a Mariners (?) game, and the family of the Spanish-language announcer.

I just want to scream, “Hello!
My god, it’s been so long
Never dreamed you’d return
But now, here you are
And here I am”

Sage advice

Once it was mentioned to the Prophet (pbuh) about two women who found difficulty in fasting. The Prophet (pbuh) called those women and asked them to vomit in separate bowls, when fresh meat and blood was found in the vomit of those women. The Prophet (pbuh) said that these women did backbiting. One of the adverse effects of sin while fasting is it becomes very difficult to fast. The one who fasts embracing taqwa won’t even feel like he is fasting. The fasting will trouble a person to the extent he dirties his eyes and tongue.
Allahu alam

Who’s “loathe to admit it?” I’m not the only one saying capitalism is fundmentally incompatible with democracy, for years.

It would be nice, I think, once, to imagine that she was taken away from me by some malevolent force in this awful age, but I know the truth of that: she went away, simply, because I wasn’t enough back then, because those were the days before I yearned for anything…

It’s weird that it doesn’t really seem that weird that I haven’t talked to my brother in almost a year.

Another Therria dream. This time it didn’t even start out as one—it was about finding an office/place and then the bridge exploding from a perspective where it’s not really in real life, but then somehow I was trying to show her how much I’d missed her + get us to make up.

Pretentious, but that’s why he’s so good

God is just out my back door, yet I choose not to visit. I would rather sit alone and scheme on how to be remembered, on what more that I can do here to cement the evidence that I once walked these roads with you. It is a futile exercise. I know it is, and yet I persist.

It’s nice to be reminded—even though that was why I made the decision, and was pretty sure it was the right one—of this every now and then.

At a deeper level, Islam lags because it failed to offer a way to institutionalize free inquiry. That, in turn, is attributable to its failure to reconcile faith and reason. In this respect, Islamic societies have fared worse not just than the West but also than many societies of Asia. With a couple of exceptions, every country in the Middle Eastern parts of the Muslim world has been ruled by an autocrat, a radical Islamic sect, or a tribal chieftain. Islam has no tradition of separating politics and religion.

The decline of Islam and the rise of Christianity was a development that was and remains deeply humiliating for Muslims. Since Islam tended to ascribe its political power to its theological superiority over other faiths, its fading as a worldly power raised profound questions about where a wrong turn was made.

It is really an unfortunate coincidence of our monotheistic heritage that we labour under the delusion that “all religions say basically the same thing.”