Total Eclipse

I think this image adequately depicts all layers of affective, cognitive, and behavioural aspects of life during wartime. All credit and copyright and whatever (c) Charles Schulz (RIP).

For the past day or so I’ve been scouring the net for information on the current grim meathook state of affairs. I’ve been reading both Israeli and Lebanese independant blogs and webzines. I find it fascinating. Some Lebanese blogs have been getting comments in the hundreds. Surpringly, for the most part, discourse has been heated, [...]

Tel-Aviv is a truly magical place. Go 30 miles to one direction and you have bombings. Go 30 miles to another direction and you have misery. Go 30 miles to yet another direction and you have both misery and bombings. The last direction is the sea, and that’s where most Tel-Avivi people chose to spend [...]

born Alisa Zinov’evna Rosenbaum (1905 – 1982) “I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.“

I am a foreigner everywhere. Current events make me sick to my stomach. I really do try and avoid any contact with mainstream media, because it has this nauseating effect on me. I get my news from boingboing and Fortean Times and that’s usually enough. But once in a while, I get this masochistic urge [...]

Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) “I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.“

Alan Mathison Turing (June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954) “Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.“

pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950) “Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.“

School is out for summer. Well, technically, it’s only really out for me about mid-September. Either way, pretty exciting stuff. I hope this means I’ll have a little more time to write here, as I’ve been meaning to write more, and I constantly have little threads of ideas, but I end up not developing them [...]

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”