March 2012
18 posts
February 2012
16 posts
ayahuasca: a brutal metaphysical hazing →
from the incomparable brandon joyce
a sampling of kids at the atwater village farmer's...
1. a boy named zeus
2. a girl named charlie with some kind of food moustache and distended belly. she asked me to feel her fairy wings
3. a girl getting mike tyson-style tribal tattoo face paint
the holy grail in transplantation
Some scientists speak of attaining “chimerism,” named for the mythical Chimera, which Homer described as “a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle.” If the Chimera’s easy hybridism could be clinically attained, then organs could be exchanged among patients without a biological price. People could be rebuilt like...
Absolute power is a joy forever
A thing of beauty corrupts absolutely