[Mekashef]'s diary

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Written about Tuesday 2006-11-14
Written: (6586 days ago)

Fun with plot holes: I stumbled on these while looking up music videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqKQuJFxz_A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDE4_p_fz6Q&mode=related&search=

874282  Link to this entry 
Written about Monday 2006-11-13
Written: (6587 days ago)

Oremus


Let us end in fire what began in vain
& burn what relentless ochres, dull
blues & shaded pillars remain
on the canvas, & with white ashes
paint a great skull & bones
on Night's black surfaces, & watch
as the oracle of a morning wind
plays with the sultry thing.

Let us for now take pride in what is left
of sin, lest we find tomorrow a future dressed
in rags, & -- blessed with the contrition
of reserve -- our conscience sag even beneath
our recollection. We get what we deserve,
yes, & deserve what we earn
when in complete honesty we promise
to learn by doing, & in doing learn naught.

It was a tragedy, we thought, that besotted
witches took (from the nest of a rook)
the soul of our dearly departèd brethren
which they brought back again
ere it was even dead: twice the soul & none
the dying. Oh, but it longed for the grave!

Let us end in fire what began in vain
& from the pulpit cry a lament for
Gomorrah, for Sodom – for Babel of Yore.
Though we build the tower twice higher than before
it could never be so tall as we first intended --
& all the wide Heaven waits there untenanted
as the Word resounds hollow in the perennial bore.

873883  Link to this entry 
Written about Sunday 2006-11-12
Written: (6588 days ago)

We are sending this to Daily Poem - because, selfishly, we like being read. Also it's cathartic.

Questions - a song


While the grammar rends asunder
will my number still remain
part of your mental congestion
on defeated westbound trains?
While the chimneys – brazen, bloated -
cough up the flood of their pains
when your memory lashes at you
will you turn to me again?

I was not so innocent & those murders were real;
I don't need your sympathy to tell me how I feel.

When you found your inner sanctum
laid to waste by ghosts & dreams
did you probe your disposition?
Is it truly what it seems?
While I do suppose they noticed
all the mismatched colour schemes
could they weigh you down to ask you
what those flights of fancy mean?

We are all so broken it's a wonder we still try.
I wish I could walk your ways but I'm too old to fly.

While the letters rot unopened
on my windowsill I think
Is your number finally up?
Is your boat so hard to sink?
Did I ask too many questions?
Have my rhyme & reason failed?
Won't they weigh you down a little?
Will you run to me again?
Will you run to me again?
Will you run to me again?
873036  Link to this entry 
Written about Friday 2006-11-10
Written: (6590 days ago)

We are featured! Heartfelt thanks to all the delightful people in charge of this service. We are eternally grateful!

872162  Link to this entry 
Written about Tuesday 2006-11-07
Written: (6592 days ago)

Yippee! We won the poetry competition!


Now back to work...
870641  Link to this entry 
Written about Friday 2006-11-03
Written: (6597 days ago)

Contributing to the spread of a ridiculous meme, or showing off to all the cool kids?

Chosen band: Bush (X)
1. Are you male or female?: Testosterone
2. Describe yourself: Alien
3. How do some people feel about you?: A Tendency to Start Fires
4. How do you feel about yourself?: Headful of Ghosts
5. Describe your family?: The People That We Love
6. Where would you rather be?: Out of This World
7. Describe what you want to be: Jesus Online
8. Describe how you live: Everything Zen
9. Describe how you love: The Disease of Dancing Cats
10. Describe what you hate: Bomb

867015  Link to this entry 
Written about Tuesday 2006-10-24
Written: (6606 days ago)

This is what happens when a camera comes into our possession:
Feud of the Anathemas


864418  Link to this entry 
Written about Tuesday 2006-10-17
Written: (6614 days ago)
Next in thread: 864483

So every now & then we feel like hitting the "random house" button a few dozen times.

We don't recommend it. It's extremely depressing.

Was life much better before sliced bread?

863775  Link to this entry 
Written about Sunday 2006-10-15
Written: (6616 days ago)
Next in thread: 864576

This is our entry for the Halloween Poetry Competition, which we've divided in two uneven parts for the contest. We do not think it is very likely that we will win, but we want to participate to all the Samhain festivities. We will likely illustrate both parts of the poem for the Halloween Art Competition -- which again, we will not likely win, but participation keeps this community interesting.

The Black Canopy of Fears: The King of Underbed & the Duke of the Closet


With my children eyes I have seen
on the black canopy of fears --
where dark forms still somehow careen
despite the passing of the years --

there was the King of Underbed
whose crown of rotten, stinking lead
sent out the fumes of evil dreams
to foul the night with broken screams

of pallid Furies, wretchèd Fates
& children lost between the gates
of here-&-now & hereafter,
like owls screeching in the rafters.

With my children eyes I have seen
on the black canopy of fears --
where dark forms still somehow careen
despite the passing of the years --

There was the Duke of the Closet
whose eyes were rubies deeply set
inside two wells of fire bright-
ly gleaming all through the night.

& he was like a Ghost of yore
a frame of bones decked with offal,
loose sinews & clotted with gore,
bereft of skin to hide it all!

With my children eyes I have seen
these, on that canopy of fears.
Still dark forms there somehow careen
despite the passing of the years.

Happy Simchat Torah everyone! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simchat_Torah)
859025  Link to this entry 
Written about Monday 2006-10-02
Written: (6628 days ago)

So we survived a sizeable audience, & came out of the Granada relatively unscathed (although the benefits of the experience have yet to manifest themselves).

We are tired & behind on all of our assignments, but still have this altruistic urge to educate, & therefore we direct you to these articles on Yom Kippur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur
http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday4.htm

Shalom!

855048  Link to this entry 
Written about Thursday 2006-09-21
Written: (6640 days ago)

We've been told to assert our presence in the blogosphere once more -- this is good transitory ground, is it not?

There's something about music theory which we find impossibly unappealing; namely, that it takes aeons to piece together, & that the end result is infrequently consistent with initial expectations.

If Walter Benjamin had studied music theory at the university level, certainly he would have had something clever to say about it in the Arcades Project, & the Intelligentsia would be eternally grateful because, really -- if it's in the Arcades Project it doesn't need further extrapolation.

"Ô rage, ô désespoir!
Ô jeunesse ennemie!"

848858  Link to this entry 
Written about Monday 2006-09-04
Written: (6657 days ago)

We know that hundreds of Elftowners have already expressed such feelings in their diary -- & yet, regardless of our dislike of sheepishness, we cannot help but say:

The Crocodile Hunter will be direly missed.

846868  Link to this entry 
Written about Thursday 2006-08-31
Written: (6661 days ago)

Fighting supernatural evil is a great way to bond with friends & family. I'm sure it's very therapeutic.

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Written about Friday 2006-08-25
Written: (6667 days ago)

Are we getting sick of that dragonhame quiz already?

We have trouble believing that a mighty & terrible Wyrm inhabits the heart of every little puny human. Also it occurs to us that Dragonhame has its very own community, & that those who wish to show off their inner dragon can do so there.

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Written about Wednesday 2006-08-23
Written: (6669 days ago)
Next in thread: 842925

It's fun working with people who are not morons.

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Written about Thursday 2006-08-17
Written: (6675 days ago)

So here we were, happily hacking zombies to bits, when our friend calls & says he's been hit by a silver Taurus.

Our august person does not handle the sight of blood very well, but we have been able to keep that phobia in check masterfully. The trick, we think, is to consider every experience apart from its meaning.

We were able to resume the carnage for a shamefully large part of the day. We are now a 15th level Necromancer, on our way to destroy Andariel.

837955  Link to this entry 
Written about Sunday 2006-08-13
Written: (6679 days ago)

We find this to be rather extremely cool: http://www.h-r-z.hr/index_en.asp?news=290

837794  Link to this entry 
Written about Sunday 2006-08-13
Written: (6679 days ago)

So today we made the grave mistake of purchasing a used copy of Diablo II & our intellectual quotient has been significantly reduced as a result. Considering we're already a sixth-level Necromancer upon his third quest, the distraction shouldn't last exceedingly long.

835398  Link to this entry 
Written about Monday 2006-08-07
Written: (6685 days ago)

Why is it that we've programmed complex interactive web interfaces, & presently we are incapable of writing valid PseudoHTML?

Perhaps because it's 1:00 AM. We shall see tomorrow...

835082  Link to this entry 
Written about Sunday 2006-08-06
Written: (6686 days ago)

A very odd, but frabjous, day -- with many old friends & new strangers, & completely unexpected things.

Boy, we sure wish we had a host for our website about now.

*sigh*

Bats fly noiselessly. Not gracefully, but noiselessly - something like scraps of paper borne on the evening breeze. Their movement has nothing of the blithe fleetness of birds; rather, it is indecisive & awkward, tracing eldritch patterns, black against black, backtracking, jumping, jolting.

The shadowy incarnations of unpredictability.

824627  Link to this entry 
Written about Saturday 2006-07-15
Written: (6708 days ago)

All ye people of the cloth: join the Ancient & Mystical Heterodox Order of St-Elmo.

C'mon. I'll give you Kool-Aid...

Order of St-Elmo

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