Lila Prime

 I: "Every online lecture is like a seance: Steve, can you hear me? --- give me a sign!" Z: "This two-minute hazard distracti...

 I forgot to write attributions so here are some more-scrambled-than-usual quotes: "Thank you! You've been sucked into the trap alo...

These have accumulated for awhile and I might've missed some as there is currently a "scratch notebook" infestation throughout...

Inexplicably, people keep talking around me and my brain keeps latching on to the strange ways they arrange words and ideas. K: "96% of...

I jotted down many quotes in this time interval, because every. single. social. interaction. now feels deeply meaningful and like a carefull...

Months of persistent nagging, often several times a day , was insufficient this time. Most of the class defaulted and failed to submit any s...

I dreamed last night that I came across A. and his (dream) wife and their (dream) newborn baby sitting on a park bench. (In a dream park. I...

I got picked up from the airport, complete with roses and Eeyore, "the most sympathetic balloon." ("Princess Jasmine isn...

Months of persistent nagging from various Harvard offices have yielded results. I wrote my 5-year reunion summary of myself. Apparently th...

I received a postcard from penpal M. featuring a giant squid puppet, seen here at an incomplete stage: It was built by Les Machines de l...

On my desk this afternoon, I found: The note reads (in an unsteady hand), Greetings from under the sea! I am not too good at writing I hear...

Any number of players can play Dictionary . When it is player i 's turn, she picks a word from the OED that no player knows. All playe...

I staged my birthday party as an exchange of sorts, wherein I lured people to my apartment with promises of cake. In return, I asked that e...

Over the weekend A1 and I had the opportunity to talk with A2. (They are numbered for the sake of clarity; my identity-protecting initial s...

I spent the [Canadian invented holiday] weekend at a suburban wedding. I was an auxiliary guest, in the same way that Pluto is a planet: or...

K.'s very kind parents have a profusion of cucumbers. In the global cucumber market graph, they are a source. Luckily, just a short di...

A. gave me this fantastic book cover. It's a were... leopard? It's amazing. I want to write a story that goes with this cover, in...

There were mutant cherries at PPPCon. Each came with a conjoined twin: And another color-highlighted photo of fruit: This post's theme ...

We sallied forth to Medieval Times this evening, and were duly apportioned to quaff our meals whilst championing the blue knight (Don Alber...

J. and I baked for G.'s π day party. a vegetable quiche a vegan raspberry pie a pumpkin pie with gingerbread crust (with additional dig...