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Phil

Isotope on water's edge

About Me

Rows of crimson, rapture every parallel and this, they have called us—into the echo’s hour.

My Interests

Reading, Writing, Fishing and Football. Trips to the Country. Poetics. Underground Secret Societies and Beer.

I'd like to meet:

Fellow writers and readers, beer buddies and football fans.
You Are Barney
You could have been an intellectual leader...

Instead, your whole life is an homage to beer

You will be remembered for: your beautiful singing voice and your burps

Your life philosophy: "There's nothing like beer to give you that inflated sense of self-esteem." The Simpsons Personality Test
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Music:

Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Big Band, some pump, pump, pump dance music, classical, country--Pink Floyd, The Who, Cat Stevens, Lynard Skynard, James Taylor, John Denver, Kansas, Nina Simone, Queen, Frank Sinatra, The Andrews Sisters, Jack Johnson, Depeche Mode, Live, Bond

Television:

Old school Doctor Who

Books:

John Kennedy Tool’s, A Confederacy of Dunces; The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck; Italo Calvino’s, Cosmicomics, and If on a Winters Night a Traveler; Herman Hesse’s, Damien and Siddhartha, Jorge Luis Borges, Carver, Morrison and Pynchon; Sherwood Anderson’s, Weinberg Ohio; Roethke, Dickinson, Thomas and Tichborne; The Color Purple, Of Human Bondage, and Slaughterhouse-55; Tennessee Williams, Faulkner, Orwell, Kafka, Capote, Joyce.

My Blog

Chidiock Tichborne and Two Thoughts on Death

Chidiock Tichborne and Two Thoughts on Death A work in progress              On September 20, 1586, twenty-eight year old Chidiock Tichborne was ...
Posted by Phil on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:12:00 PST

Euthyphro's Fallacy

To define piety, whether Socrates believed in its sanctified etymology or not, is to examine the very essence of inner-faith and question the unknown.  After reading Euthyphro, I feel angry. ...
Posted by Phil on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:30:00 PST

"Nature herself has imprinted upon the minds of all, the highest ideals of God." --Cicero

I recently walked out into my fathers rose garden.  It was a warm, mild evening and the sun was setting from behind the alleyway.  Rays of red and yellow filtered up from a chain of trees,...
Posted by Phil on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:53:00 PST