BRAIN CRAMP!

"Coop, ya think too much."

- Twin Peaks

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Ok, this is the stuff that churns around in my head and periodically spews out. No quality guarantee - the good, the weird, the ugly all get equal time.

A note that may help explain some internal context - many of these were originally posted to a mailing list called VOID. More were posted to a list created in March 2001 called STILL. There are many other mailing lists, some gone and some still existant, that have included a significant portion of what I consider my community (two of which are ELBOWS and SUSPECTS). I mention them directly or by inference in some of these pieces.

So, from most recent to eldest...

• a fine thing - 27 April 2003

• The Ceolacanth - 8 February 2003

• Listen up you sex fiends! - 19 January 2003

• I'm really getting tired of those commercials... - 20 December 2002

• still riding the nostalgia sled - 11 December 2002

• splitting hairs - 11 December 2002

• a matter of time - 10 December 2002

• Feghoot forever - 13 November 2002

• warning - contains 60's kitsch - 8 November 2002

• urban blight - 7 November 2002

• Programmable Water - 25 October 2002

• teachers - 21 October 2002

• economic downturn increases attention costs - 1 October 2002

• Separated by a common language - 27 September 2002

• nine eleven - 11 September 2002

• experimentation on the human animal - 27 August 2002

• termination project - 26 August 2002

• theory, practice, theory, practice, cha cha cha - 17 August 2002

• strange dream - 18 July 2002

• BSotD - 18 July 2002

• the music of politics - 10 July 2002 (updated 4 September 2002)

• a comfort list - 29 May 2002

• everything that rises must converge - 28 March 2002

• tragic brain waves - 14 Dec 2001

• just one of those days - 25 Oct 2001

• putting the "cult" in "culture" - 1 August 2001

• OUTDOOR WORLD - 23 March 2001

• MAGNOLIA THUNDER PUSSY: "A Brief Story with No Point and Little Redeeming Value" - 15 January 2001

• Multi-dimensionality - 12 December 2000

• Dream of Heaven's Machines - 8 December 2000

• Abject Lesson - 16 November 2000

• Honor - 10 November 2000

• prepare to meet your doom - 2 October 2000

• The context of your nightmares - 23 August 2000

• bemoaning the stateful brain - 21 August 2000

• hella cool book - 16 August 2000

• aitch-eee-double-hockey-sticks - 1 August 2000

• team-building exercise - 28 June 2000

• under pressure - 26 June 2000

• testing humanity - 18 May 2000

• modern challenges - 1 May 2000

• gyrations - 3 April 2000

• bless - 22 March 2000

• *yawn* [jawcrack] "ow!" - 21 February 2000

• blistering papercuttery with a lemon juice chaser - 2 February 2000

• MY book - 17 January 2000

• The Mechanics of Desire - 18 October 1999

• Appearances - 2 September 1999

• graffiti - 16 August 1999

• causation vs. correlation - 23 July 1999

• Gen-DAR the Barbie-Arian - 19 July 1999

• motherhood - 15 July 1999

• nerd thoughts - 24 June 1999

• mama never told me there'd be a maze like this - 18 May 1999

• search engine sorrows - 12 May 1999

• The Biggest Song Virus Ever - 28 April 1999

• nuts and bolts - 19 April 1999

• lemonade - 14 April 1999

• this is why they pay me the big bucks - 2 April 1999

• Paranoia II (see below for background) - 15 March 1999

• The Monster - 18 January 1999

• My new favorite TLA - 23 November 1998

• Paranoia - 20 November 1998

• GreenGenes AKA Detachable Penis - 29 October 1998

• Putrid: A Story About Rot - July 1998

• Thanks For The Memories - 13 July 1998

• priests and poets - 22 May 1997

• That which sustains us... - 30 January 1997

• ...there are more things in heaven and earth... - 2 October 1996

• Novacaine For The Soul - 8 September 1996

• Embryonic Internet - 26 August 1996

• On the human beast... - 23 August 1996

• Lost Words - 17 August 1996

• Bad Brie - 18 April 1994

• Bleach - 28 March 1994

• Run - 18 March 1994

• Void - 28 February 1994

• Meet the Muppets - 28 January 1994

• Close Enough To Count - 26 January 1994

• Historical Sex - 24 January 1994

• Lethal Cleavage - 27 September 1993