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Challie

About Me

i don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

My Interests

looking good at all times

I'd like to meet:

a fortune teller or a genie. anyone who will make my life easier really.

Music:

BOB DYLAN, leonard cohen, lou reed, tom waits, nirvana, the velvet underground, wire, white stripes, the clash, meat puppets, beatles, stevie ray vaughan, leo kottke, the band, paul simon, (the good elvis) elvis costello, rem, tom petty, and CARDIAC PARTY

My Blog

mind games

socrates is humanhumans are mortaltherefore socrates is mortalothers are mortali yam not an othertherefore i yam immortal
Posted by Challie on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:56:00 PST

hell is other people

hell is other peopletheir inescapable incisivenessdemands eternal prostrationlest ye be judged immodestbut balanced alongside boldnesslest ye be judged weakeveryone counts himselfand herself a go...
Posted by Challie on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:28:00 PST

disassembling religion

i walked in on someone praying the other day and i asked why he was talking to himself.  he said he was praying.  i repeated my question. god is necessarily anthropomorphized.  god...
Posted by Challie on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:45:00 PST

relativity

there is a sickness running rampantly among us and it’s relativity for certain people certain established truths do not apply even if they apply them to everyone else why then does relativity no...
Posted by Challie on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:00:00 PST

my personal speculative philosophy

Hegel's philosophy hinges on our ability to recognize ourselves in an 'other.'  My body is an 'other.'  A pencil is an 'other.' But I exist in both somehow.  The pencil exists in my hea...
Posted by Challie on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:07:00 PST

animal - human - god --- and choice!

God grants me life But as an animal God grant me courage To act differently  Better hopefully Than even a God at times Who holds stakes in wars And picks sides on battlefields If I am found On s...
Posted by Challie on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:26:00 PST

the subject line cannot be blank

writing is at first simply an admission that the subject of your words-strung-together is important to you.  you don't write about something on your own volition if that something doesn't concern...
Posted by Challie on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:46:00 PST

restaurant life

when you can't think positive.  it's good to think negative.  you won't hurt friends with honesty.  or english teachers.  if i am sad i am also happy as not-happy.  sometimes ...
Posted by Challie on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:19:00 PST

freedom re-envisioned

i yam free!  i just lifted specific fingers to form a sentence.  then they came crashing down on the correct keys.  unequivocally acts of volition unless there is no will which is ...
Posted by Challie on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:58:00 PST

God Doesn’t Give a Shit

"O Lord Most High, Creator of the Cosmos, Spinner of Galaxies, Soul of Electromagnetic Waves, Inhaler and Exhaler of Inconceivable Volumes of Vacuum, Spitter of Fire and Rock, Trifler with Millenia - ...
Posted by Challie on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:00:00 PST