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cognitive dissidence from the liminal trenches of guerrilla hermeneutics (wherein the myth of icarus is not a fable warning against hubris, but rather a tale about the need to build better wings)

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Drop by and say hello. And don't forget thew Ubik.

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Bali Blue Moon

There is a Hindu Balinese philosophical idea called “Tri Hita Karana” (“three of the harmony”),…

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Congo Kivu

This morning, outside, it has been raining most of the night and the humidity is as high as…

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Brazil Daterra Bruzzi

It’s 6 am Sunday morning in North Carolina and I am drinking a Brazilian coffee and reading the…

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Currently Serving:

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Caffeinated Koan

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…

A six and a half foot tall Sikh walks into an espresso bar.

He is garbed in full spiritual regalia;

ceremonial dagger in his belt sash,

pendant talisman of The Buddha around his neck,

gleaming white robes and…

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The Goddess of Democracy. Tiananmen Square, 1989.

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June 4, 1989

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Nietzsche Kitty, I-VII.

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Umberto Octo is an Cephalopoda semiotician, sepia artist, philosopher, literary critic, and entheogenist. Best known for the coralsnapping novel The Spill of the Ink, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in cephalopods, biblical analysis, medieval metaphysics, and sepia theory. Further novels include the esoteric Cousteau's Apparatus and The Island Lay Dreaming. Octo's critical nonfiction includes The Role of the Swimmer: Explorations in the Semiotics of Ocean Undercurrents, Deimatics and Gaudy Deimatics, Eight Swims in the Marvelous Coral, and the satirical How to Travel with a Cuttlefish & Other Essays.

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You best go in the kitchen and fix me Cthulhu pot pie!

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Does Floyd's /Meddle/ sound like we're stoned because we were when we listened to it, or did we listen to it stoned because it sounds like that?

The Mayor of Awesometown (2013, but the year is virtually incidental in this matter)

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To peace! What would we get out of war with Serbia? We'd lose the lives of young men and we'd spend money better used elsewhere. And what would we gain, for heaven's sake? Some plum trees and goat pastures full of droppings, and a bunch of rebellious killers.

Franz Ferdinand (February 1913)

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Y'know who's an awesome music sound mixer? Me. But don't take my word for it, have yer own ears decide with this little 27ish minute tasty sample from a live piece I did for an end of semester party. It features a remix of Mogwai/Kronos Quartet's /The Fountain/ (plus a Fire Witch, some Dancing Puppets, Catfood, and an I-Beam that goes on right into Sundown).