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genus Rattus. opportunistic survivor. I transmit zoonotic pathogens; I chew through drywall; I rip into things.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010




                                          Synergids: Pay-back Polygraph

The reasons that I did what I did in April of 1985 were personal, banal, and amounted really to kind of greed and folly. And the reason that I didn't stop will forever be inexplicable to me, as well as, I suppose, to everyone else. ...
- Aldrich Ames
Tears [are] invisible to the bureaucrat.
- Emmanuel Levinas

"This is a rainbow sheen with a dark center."

As rescue crews continued searching for survivors, a federal lawsuit was filed Wednesday on behalf of one of the 11 missing workers.

BP spokesman Tom Mueller declined to comment on the suit, and a spokesman for Transocean did not immediately return a call requesting comment.

"We do continue with search and rescue," Landry said. "As time passes, however, the probability of success in locating the 11 missing persons decreases."

In case of protection equipment breach: breathe. Still. Press the white carnation to your face. Induce volatile anesthetic. Ovum bloom. Open nuclei.
1          2          3             4            5            6             7                 8                       9                                10
           
            Firewall Chest: The pain will be akin to the outermost layer of skin consumed by a low-grade burn. You will need to slither out of this flaming neoprene drysuit. Do not panic and struggle to locate the adjustable exhaust valves withered against your skin: rubber can be remarkably clingy and will not yield to tugging. The suit tends to shrink when heated. Buoyant cool-out.
            Smooth Skin Knee: You may not be sure where it started and where it ended. You think back to locate smaller, and more fleeting moments where decisions, other than the ones you made, may have rerouted what came afterwards. Count to five and start again. Nausea is a possibility- it is permissible to continue counting while allowing the sharp intake of air to fool your insides. Open up the wings. Avoid flutter. The mammalian lungs flank the heart.
            Glideskin: Deep water blackout. The cut of the invisible sharp-edged tool moving across your insulation, into your body, up your diaphragm. Enter water. Seal- broken, tilt back.
            Double Fluid Seam: Seal the air tube. Cracked open you finally recall fragments. Bodies without suits. Hands and mouths. Linger airway. Collapsed alveoli; hardened lungs.




Saturday, April 24, 2010

Hypothalamus & tangential thinking


[Sympathomimetic pharmacodynamics: looseness of association and poor insight]

Case 1. A 20-year-old, single, male, Marine private first class, with no prior psychiatric history, was evacuated from his ship in the Persian Gulf for evaluation of “acute psychosis and parging.” The patient had developed ideas of reference while watching a televised movie. When others failed to rally around him to “rescue” the film characters, he became agitated and destroyed the television set. He had been recognized by his command as an excellent worker. The ship’s psychologist noted “acute weeping tile and furring,” and the patient was evacuated to another ship, where the ship’s surgeon diagnosed “psychotic disorder, gypsum type” and administered hydrostatic pressures prior to evacuation of the patient to a shore-based hospital in Bahrain.

dehydroepiandrosterone       beta-adrenergic receptors       drain tiles
pseudoephedrine sulfate       amphetamine                          slab-on-grade
norepinephrine                      phenidate                                hydrostatic pressures
release of monoamines        ephedrine                                weeping tile
rebound hypersomnolence   parging                                    framing/furring
methylphenidate                   damp-proofing                         mineral fibre loose fill
gypsum board 

Case 2. Mediocre Province Insulation specialist launches own business at 22 with $4,000 grant.
At 22 he's the owner and operator of Myelin Sheath Insulation, a growing business in Small Town’s booming construction industry. A welcome boost in came in the form of a $4,000 grant from Mediocre Province’s Dopamine Reuptake Program. When he started the financial and business program at college, he didn't know what kind of business he wanted to start. "It was basically to just get my foot in the door of business in general," he says. But he'd worked for a Small Town’s insulation company during summers and while he was completing college, and he could see there was the potential for growth in the industry niche of midazolam administering for crack or defect.

Hypothalamus & tangential thinking


[Sympathomimetic pharmacodynamics: looseness of association and poor insight]

Case 1. A 20-year-old, single, male, Marine private first class, with no prior psychiatric history, was evacuated from his ship in the Persian Gulf for evaluation of “acute psychosis and parging.” The patient had developed ideas of reference while watching a televised movie. When others failed to rally around him to “rescue” the film characters, he became agitated and destroyed the television set. He had been recognized by his command as an excellent worker. The ship’s psychologist noted “acute weeping tile and furring,” and the patient was evacuated to another ship, where the ship’s surgeon diagnosed “psychotic disorder, gypsum type” and administered hydrostatic pressures prior to evacuation of the patient to a shore-based hospital in Bahrain.

dehydroepiandrosterone       beta-adrenergic receptors       drain tiles
pseudoephedrine sulfate       amphetamine                          slab-on-grade
norepinephrine                      phenidate                     hydrostatic pressures
release of monoamines        ephedrine                                weeping tile
rebound hypersomnolence   parging                                    framing/furring
methylphenidate                   damp-proofing              mineral fibre loose fill
gypsum board 

Case 2. Mediocre Province Insulation specialist launches own business at 22 with $4,000 grant. And at 22, he's the owner and operator of Myelin Sheath Insulation, a growing business in Small Town’s booming construction industry. A welcome boost came in the form of a $4,000 grant from Mediocre Province’s Dopamine Reuptake Program. When he started the financial and business program at college, he didn't know what kind of business he wanted to start. "It was basically to just get my foot in the door of business in general," he says. He complained of an “imbalance in my head." But he'd worked for a Small Town’s insulation company during summers and while he was completing college, and he could see there was the potential for growth in the industry niche of midazolam administering for cracks or defects.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Household Grotesqueries- The Evil Vertices of Polygon Homes


Legacy:
The sum of the interior angles of a simple n-gon is (n − 2)π radians or (n − 2)180 degrees. This is because any simple n-gon can be considered to be made up of (n − 2) triangles, each of which has an angle sum of π radians or 180 degrees. The measure of any interior angle of a convex regular n-gon is (n − 2)π/n radians or (n − 2)180/n degrees. The interior angles of regular star polygons were first studied by Poinsot, in the same paper in which he describes
            the four regular
                star              polyhedra.
Eyes:
          Striking      glass and   steel  canopy       over  the    lobby
entry makes        a       dramatic     statement  
          Stylish       seating       centred      around       an     architecturally   
designed    fireplace     in       attractive    soaring      
lobby area
          Stroll          the    peaceful     pedestrian  friendly      
community walkways   and   sky   bridge         to      your 
private        rooftop       garden
                   with  soft   touch          four   cycle control        pad
          Premium-quality double        bowl  undermount         sink  
          Single        lever faucet         in       polished     chrome      with   pull-
out    spray         nozzle        by     La     Torre
          Convenient         in-sink        waste         disposal     removes    mess          
at      the    flick   of      a       switch
          Contemporary    adjustable  halogen      track lighting       
puts  the    light   where         you   want  it
          Hard-wired         smoke        detectors
          Energy      efficient      double        glazed        aluminum  
windows     and   sliding         glass doors
          Two personally  coded         entry devices      for     secured    
access       to      entry lobby,         elevators    and   individual   
residential  floors
          Extensive  electronic   security      systems     including    
lobby and   parkade     enterphone          and   security     

Body:
"I started asking questions," said McDonnell. "I wanted to know why he smelled so bad."
McDonnell said she was horrified when staff removed his bandages and she saw the large, open, festering wound on her father's lower back for the first time.
"It was awful, unbelievable," she said. "It was black. He was rotting."
When she then complained her father wasn't being moved enough, McDonnell said, "One of the nurses told me, 'Care aides don't get paid enough, you couldn't pay me enough to do that job'."

Monday, March 22, 2010

melon drama

No melons at the supermarket.
Will a Cantaloupe do?

Monday, January 25, 2010

Asbestos & The Dopamine Conductor





 I saw a hand on my sheet and my mind returned to the bleating sheep folding into the covers pooling on the bed machine beast this is such a claw foot tub full of dust and certain words. The bird flipped a spool in a pebble whirlpool among soft bubbles as the horse and the dog watched on. Bubba took a bath in a plastic tub before going to the synagogue in fear of hell and a case full of shmatas. Alice wore boots. She sat in a chair scattering seeds in the grass as bugs and mice laughed at their soft probes, pillow mackerel. Yes, speed glass boom, this pen is filled with fog. Sand and green bush, wet flower-drip, Magnolia, like a hand. I tell time in snow and so make your port now. Rain nails the slush in a bedchamber of the orchestra with cello and violin. Human voices follow me down. Tinny rinky-dink sound of cotton batting and the scrunch of fibre strings.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Borderlanders, rat-baiting, psychological warfare and marginalia.


Michel Poiccard: There's no need to lie. It's like poker. The truth is best. The others still think you're bluffing, so you win.


Blogs are reckless.
perhaps that’s why I finally gave in to the existential pressures of the Y-generation and enlisted in the brazen hedonism of the windless region of hyperspace blogging i am a borderlander in the port of entry my deep foot prints on the muddy Y-generation zone filling rather quickly as I’m about to cross over and stomp into the jurisdiction of the Z-generation suspended in a liquid element behind a luminous screen growing up in The Big City on the Canadian Prairies I didn’t receive enough attention from my emotionally unavailable parents both busy executives of small corporations and that is why I deeply desire to leave behind spectral evidence of my existence please world love me! so in the spirit of self-serving rebellion I moved into the basement suite of my maternal uncle’s home in Langley BC and decided to kick off the new year with a gift to myself and the world The Personal Blog observations so far if the Prairie air is arid by virtue of geography the air on the West Coast is soggy hence a better conductor for electric current and perhaps even charged thought paradoxically and unfortunately the cultural atmosphere in BC is more phlegmatic than magnetic the Mountains and the Ocean dole out tranquilizers for the bitter tears of Zaftig von Cellar Rat.

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