burn it down

the video/audio feed to black rock city is back and if the connection stays for a minute or two i’m about to watch a tiny, grainy man burn. it’s like watching events on mars. i love it.

a note on style and trauma

although my use of lower case in the subject lines of these posts is a dorky stylistic affectation, my current use of lower case in the message of the post is because i’m typing one-handed. i’ve got this big honkin’ chunk of black hardware on my right arm that makes me look like a super-villain. [...]

obama responds to science debate questions

i’ve mentioned before the attempt to get the presidential candidates to publicly debate issues regarding science and technology, since this is so vitally important. both have refused. on the other hand, both have agreed to answer 14 questions put to them by the science debate organizers. barack obama recently provided his responses (none from mccain [...]

first hell, then psychedelia

i’ll sleep in the basement bed. that was my thinking when scot brought me home the second night after my surgery. that way i won’t have to climb up into my usual bed and i can protect my arm easier, and it’s close to the floor so if i roll out of bed there will [...]

flaming roads

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin’ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
These particularly abstruse Dylan lyrics make a little more sense when I think of Burning Man, but they still leave lots to fill in, which is only right.
What a surprise to me–when so much in my life [...]

down to the bones

When I next post here, if all goes well, I’ll have a newly reconstructed elbow. I may be part machine, part humanoid. I’m fortunate to have a surgical team with a great reputation. One of the team wrote her doctoral thesis on my particular injury.
Meanwhile Maggie is undergoing bone-repair surgery as I type this. [...]

bone vs. pavement II: winner takes all

I didn’t realize how nasty this would get. Saw an orthopedic doc today. The bone had come out of its joint again. Got a huge injection of lidocaine into the elbow. Then he called in an assistant doctor and I knew there would trouble (the second guy will restrain you if you try to run [...]

bone vs. pavement: we have a winner!

Pavement wins every time. My elbow took it in the shorts to save the rest of me from harm. I had traveled less than 1/4 mile on my way to work when I cut a corner too close on my bike, hit the curb, and suddenly found myself going down and slamming into the concrete. [...]