Damek.

I have been a blue salmon
I have been a wild dog
I have been a cautious stag
I have been a deer on the mountain
and a stump of a tree on a shovel
I have been an axe in the hand
A pin in a pair of tongs
A stallion in stud
A bull in anger
A grain in the growing
I have [...]

I just finished reading Axis by Robert Charles Wilson. This is a pretty good review that I agree with.
It’s a sequel to Spin, which was surprisingly complex and exciting. Wikipedia tells me there’s another sequel to be published, perhaps Axis suffers slightly from being a semi-detached “middle book of a trilogy” - those often have [...]

As I sit at home with my damaged knee up on a pillow, sipping a little rum, eating some chili, waiting for the time to leave for a couple hours evening after-work work, listening to a child’s playful yells outside that unfortunately sound eerily like a cat in heat (or is it the other way [...]

You know, it’s funny. Every once in a while I get sucked into reading that craigslist missed connections section for a few days. It really is like a little reality show. I even think of making stuff up for it once in a while… but never post any of my ideas because, well, what’s the [...]

Perhaps as an antidote to the previous post, or maybe in harmony with it, I offer up this. Holy cow I love Douglas Adams. I need to re-read and read more of him, too. Here are two quotes you can find on wikiquote’s Douglas Adams page:
The world is a thing of utter [...]