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About Me

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum--even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of debate." --From 'The Common Good', Noam Chomsky"She looked back and saw that the bull, his head lowered, was racing toward her. She remained perfectly still, not in fright, but in a freezing unbelief. She stared at the violent black streak bounding toward her as if she had no sense of distance, as if she could not decide at once what his intention was, and the bull had buried his head in her lap, like a wild tormented lover, before her expression changed. One of his horns sank until it pierced her heart and the other curved around her side and held her in an unbreakable grip. She continued to stare straight ahead but the entire scene in front of her had changed--the tree line was a dark wound in a world that was nothing but sky--and she had the look of a person whose sight has been suddenly restored but who finds the light unbearable." From 'Greenleaf,' Flannery O'Connor

My Interests

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Music:

All the very fine lyrics and music of 'The Notorious Bettie Page' & 'The Velvet Goldmine'

Movies:

The Amateurs (w/ Jeff Bridges and others. William Fichtner rocks my world), The Zero Effect, Melinda and Melinda, The Hustler, Black Snake Moan, Whale Rider, Brick, Coming to America, The Rage in Placid Lake, A Rage in Harlem, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Thank You For Smoking, Roll Bounce, Kinky Boots, The Have and the Have Nots, L.A. Confidential, Miller's Crossing, Pootie Tang

Television:

is Static.

Books:

Jitterbug Perfume, T.Robbins

Heroes:

trickster

My Blog

Chapter 3, Ghost Story

That night the moon was hoisted by the sinking sun as a scrappy flag of surrender. Again a sultry day had given into a gloomy dusk. I drowsed after ...
Posted by V'Rani on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:06:00 PST

ZERO MAY BE EGG-SHAPED

Eggs do not keep place for empty spaceWithin numbers, nor nothing-- Bread yeasty and risen has been pressed within the parameters of some glum zero-sum game--crumbs and crusts once broken upon irregul...
Posted by V'Rani on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:05:00 PST

UNTRIED RIND, UNTASTED JUICE, UNTESTED SEED

Fruit swells, punctuates--leaks and declines--now bitter, sour, brittle, steeped for least possible leftover fiber of sweet original plump muscle--brew for contemplative nights in the chilly...
Posted by V'Rani on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:54:00 PST

In Which the Narrative Shifts Perspective

Ghost Story, Part 2 "The Cabin and the Lake" I headed out for Robert's cabin early on a Friday morning. It was late summer and I drove with all the windows down, bl...
Posted by V'Rani on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:05:00 PST

Episode 4

The first thing I thought when I stepped into my office was that the rug had seen better days. When it was new it had been a rich dark brown--now it was f...
Posted by V'Rani on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:17:00 PST

Wherein I marry a ghost story to a dirty joke

Ghost Story, Part 1, "The Warning" My friend David once stayed a weekend up at the cabin of his friend Robert's. Well, when Robert handed o...
Posted by V'Rani on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:10:00 PST

Close / Near / Far

Close and I chop wood carry water, sketch tree-houses assemble sandwiches soups whatnot snacks paint murals in the home, make laughter of life Near is in the neighborhood sacred overlapping avenu...
Posted by V'Rani on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:16:00 PST

Riddles

Will any of them and I ever know eachother for lovers? Maybe imagination takes reign, it does a lot lately, because when the fever's upon me I believe I can see through the ...
Posted by V'Rani on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:28:00 PST

Episode Three

For the last twenty minutes or so I'd been sharing a few feet of counter space at the Miss Lafayette, sitting next to someone who'd been described as the 'fittest Toe-pop in t...
Posted by V'Rani on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:30:00 PST

Episode Two

Overheard: "...well, shit, it's not like I don't like long blond hair, but, I mean, and when you think about he's got that whole people-want-shit-as-soon-as-they-can't-have-it belief system, whi...
Posted by V'Rani on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:01:00 PST