http://metamorphosism.com/ en-us 2008-05-15T08:45:39+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002640.html Two whales walked into a bar last night. The fish was a bit nervous, and the krill was a bit loud (who knew glockenspiel was a LOUD instrument? My ears were still ringing this morning) and the mermaid got blisters... Mig 2008-05-15T08:45:39+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002639.html Man: So anyway I'm really tired because I couldn't fall asleep all night. College student: Why not? Woman: You shouldn't take hot baths at night. Man: Well, you did, and you slept fine. College student: What bath did you take?... Mig 2008-05-13T06:50:42+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002638.html It is May so my car is covered with pollen. Driving around, I think this is what it would feel like to be a varroa jacobsoni, a relatively benign honeybee parasite, if varroa jacobsoni drove the bee and found... Mig 2008-05-09T06:48:23+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002637.html I dreamed I was participating in the first rehearsal of my composition. The other musicians were all there, the conductor was there. We discussed the music, my intentions with it and how everyone was to play. Then we sat down... Mig 2008-05-07T06:50:45+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002636.html Chris was kind enough to host the mp3 for me since I was unable to figure out how to get it onto my own server. You can download it as a zip file here (about 10 MB). Warning: lots of... Mig 2008-05-07T03:36:42+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002635.html Survived the orchestra camp and the first concert. Food was better this year. The concert went okay. Looking forward to the rest of them - we have three more this month. Beta also enjoyed the orchestra. The people are nice.... Mig 2008-05-05T14:28:15+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002633.html Beta and I went to Galway about ten years ago (it was in October) to see a man about a harp, beginning what we did not know at the time would be a series of travels in the name... Mig 2008-04-25T08:37:38+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002632.html Skates are cartilaginous fish. They belong to the Rajidae family, controlling half the casinos in Las Vegas. Skates are bottom-dwelling, all the way down to the abyssal zone. So black is the skate's favorite color. The common skate, Dipturus... Mig 2008-04-24T06:52:05+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002631.html There I sat, on the overstuffed, too-low, stained, green chair ("Donated to the United Nations by the Government of Hungary") in the lounge on the fourth floor, squinting to read my laptop in the glare coming in through the window... Mig 2008-04-23T07:31:24+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002629.html "You have a choice," I said. "Sigur Ros or Nine Inch Nails." "Nine Inch Nails," Gamma said. It rained hard yesterday. My wife called me at work and said the road near our village was closed due to a mudslide.... Mig 2008-04-23T07:04:31+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002628.html There are a bunch of old trees outside my office window. It was warm this morning so the window is open. It just got windy. The sound the wind makes I have heard before. Waiting for a train one humid... Mig 2008-04-21T13:29:05+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002625.html My favorite Alan Watts story is about a teacher whose student asks him, so if everything is an illusion, then that elephant is an illusion too? And the teacher says, yes, that's right. So to prove his faith in his... Mig 2008-04-11T06:58:27+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002624.html Drivers are so uptight lately. Honking and gesturing. I've been noticing this since Monday, when I started taking muscle relaxants for my back again.* They've been harshing my mellow at work, too. My supervisor has been all, like, do this,... Mig 2008-04-10T06:52:36+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002623.html Yeah, fuck you too, jerk Where'd you learn to drive, asshole? The crescent moon smiles Otherwise, whatever. There was something I'd been meaning to say but then Heath Ledger, who lives in my lower back now, told me to take... Mig 2008-04-08T07:22:47+00:00 http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002622.html That's like about the only Led Zeppelin lyric I can actually understand. I was lecturing to Gamma about The Immigrant Song on the way to school yesterday, and watched in the mirror as she rolled her eyes. She gave me... Mig 2008-04-04T09:07:06+00:00