hey! words.
IN WHICH THE HERO EXPOSES MOTIVE
Posted by Erik Frey Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:23:00 GMT
It was a few years ago that I first became fascinated by anything that had the property of being epic. I found heroes everywhere in classic literature, in popular culture, even among my workmates; there was a narrative playing out that involved exploring undersea rifts in the Pacific, or perhaps simply swashbuckling one’s way through an onslaught of IT paperwork. Whatever the task, it was something that seemed worthwhile, that produced a strong, satisfying narrative, and I placed great value in that. Applied to myself, the voice in my head became the narrative, and in the vacuum of perception, I was the protagonist in my own story. It was a kind of realization.
Read More...DAY -9: Miami
Posted by Erik Frey Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:03:00 GMT
While I was looking for boots at a local outdoor store, a short, wife-beater-clad fellow sidled up and offered me $100 in gift cards in exchange for 80 bucks cash. I asked him why he wanted to get rid of the gift cards and he explained that he’d won them in a raffle, but didn’t like the outdoors much. Predictably, I asked him why he didn’t like the outdoors. He smiled, revealing a hearty row of gold, and said, “I guess I’m just so busy, you know, not that much time…” which seemed vague, but hey, I’ve gotten worse responses in the realm of asking complete strangers probing personal questions. I thought it over for a moment,
Read More...HUMAN INTERACTION
Posted by Erik Frey Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:17:00 GMT
the physics of human interaction ain’t easy.
it’s kinda like real physics – they start off teaching you one thing, and then a couple years later they tell you “okay, everything we told you was sorta WRONG - look at it this way instead.” and you clamor and strut, high on your own disillusion – you put B where A once was, and this works fine until C comes along. and this can continue for a number of cycles before you begin to suspect something is awry.
back when i was a knee-high kindergartener, i remember my dad taking me aside and quietly delivering this commandment:
Read More...SUGAR WAFERS
Posted by Erik Frey Tue, 21 Dec 2004 04:55:00 GMT
i’m eating some vanilla sugar wafers, and they are hell of such as good, particularly from an architectural standpoint.
first off, they’re sold in large plastic-wrapped bricks, five wafers wide, two deep. the plastic wrapping unseals at either end, making it easy to pull out two at a time, and then eat each stick individually.
but eating a wafer stick whole is a crass and undignified act, as will soon be made evident. let us delve deeper into the structure of the vanilla wafer:
Read More...CHARACTER
Posted by Erik Frey Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:50:00 GMT
we replace our contexts with other contexts, sometimes more narrow and well-defined. sometimes more broad. with these upcoming changes in my life, it’s inevitable my context becomes more broad, and i’m just trying to figure out when, how, and why it might later become more narrow.
the only way to profoundly impact the world around you (unless you’re like, da vinci) is to become very narrow and precise in your world-view, and charge ahead in one thing. at least, that’s how it is in the sciences. and i feel a little ambivalent about that. the ambivalence was bound to happen, i’m sure.
Read More...THE LAST TEMPTATION - II
Posted by Erik Frey Sun, 06 Jun 2004 04:01:00 GMT
i can only attribute so much of last week and this weekend to divine providence. and i can really only focus on certain parts. but that’s how memory works – looping over itself in the space behind your eyes, allowing light through sort of distorted, kaleidescopic, folding.
after san diego, i got an email from eric “dude, let’s go on a canoe trip!”. where? somewhere with water? ok! the next morning we had a canoe on the jeep and we were driving to taos.
Read More...THE LAST TEMPTATION - I
Posted by Erik Frey Wed, 02 Jun 2004 04:02:00 GMT
i can only attribute so much of last week and this weekend to divine providence. the rest pours over – or maybe it just clumps and settles to the bottom, so i can process it on my own time. we’ll see.
Read More...PRIMARY GENITALIA
Posted by Erik Frey Mon, 26 Apr 2004 04:02:00 GMT
to take advantage of one of the last free weekends i’m going to have for a while, eric and i carted our way out to the mountains. eric found an old map of the logging roads in the jemez wilderness, and noticed that one of them came within a quarter mile of the san antonio hot springs, which was especially nice because the main trail to the hot springs is closed for another month or so, till the last of the snow melts.
Read More...EXPLAINING THE UNIVERSE
Posted by Erik Frey Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:20:00 GMT
i had a very nice conversation tonight. this is going to sound very strange out of context, but it was a little lightbulb in my head. so here's to posterity:i think many organized religions believe in something artificial, outside the universe (the supernatural), in order to explain it and describe it. their argument has two tiers, two contexts, the second being incomplete and inconsistent: Read More...
THE BLACK CANYON
Posted by Erik Frey Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:30:00 GMT
lots to think about. alternatively, lots to let sit at the bottom of the barrel, collecting sediment, clogging up the injectors.
taking i-40 across arizona was uneventful. i stood on a corner in winslow, arizona, and it really wasn’t such a fine sight to see.
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