Petals on a wet black bough

2003: how my cup runneth over. 2004: take it or leave it. Following a somewhat disappointing year for CDs, I think 2005 will have some truly excellent releases, at least from the current pillars of the musical pool. Opeth: after a baby for lead singer Mikael and a new wife for guitarist Peter, Opeth are [...]

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§462 · December 13, 2004 · 2 comments · Tags:


When he finally drifted into an uneasy sleep, he did so with a feeling of shame and unworthiness gnawing at his insides. A collage of jumbled images coalesced in his mind’s eye. He saw himself at the helm of Bucephalus [a tractor -Ed.] driving a terrified pack of naked and enslaved Bakerites across a plateau. [...]

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§461 · December 12, 2004 · 2 comments ·


a secret smuggles just a bit of daylight from the midnight hour, where bits of shattered velvet sun reside in carvéd hollows, despairing. strung like spools of thread, an almost-light drapes across boughs of coniferæ, —spared by god from deciduity— necks craned to watch the leaping star spring into a nestled pose, belying that there [...]

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§438 · December 11, 2004 · (No comments) · Tags:


Mozilla was formed from the ashes of Netscape. When the browser went open-source in the late 90s, the Mozilla Foundation used it as a basis for their Mozilla Browser, which in turned spawned the Firefox that we all know and love. Now Netscape is being revitalized (AOL owns it now), but based upon the Mozilla [...]

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§459 · December 10, 2004 · 3 comments · Tags: ,


LONDON, England (Reuters) — A group of Christian protesters in Scotland has called on police to prosecute a theater company for blasphemy because it is putting on a play about a gay Jesus… “Jesus Christ is being portrayed here as a foul-mouthed, drunken, promiscuous homosexual and that is an insult to my faith,” Green told [...]

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§457 · December 10, 2004 · 1 comment · Tags: ,


It’s that time again, when the media become choked with retrospectives and lists commemorating the best, worst, and otherwise extreme of the passing year. I’ve decided to take advantage of the saturated market and pen my own, that of a Top Ten Albums list. It’s difficult for me to decide upon the best CDs of [...]

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§455 · December 9, 2004 · 6 comments · Tags: