After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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Yeah, I saved a copy of that one also. One of Scott’s better ones.
There was a great short video a couple of years ago, “The Boyfriend that didn’t use Social Media” (or something like that). She’s talking to her girlfriends about the new guy she’s going out with; he’s funny, and good looking, has a job, they have a lot of interests in common. But! He doesn’t use social media.
So for one thing, she can’t snoop into his social history because (online) he doesn’t have one.
One of friends is having trouble grasping the concept and asks “But how does he send you pictures of his dick?” (John-that’s a thing?) The girl replied, “I’ve only seen his dick, when I see his … dick”.
All, “Ew!”.
Follow up, I put this onto the OT at Instapundit last night and an hour later someone flagged it as Spam and got it deleted by the commenting engine.
Really? This offended some little cupcake?
Came by to see if there were any follow up comments to my second comment and my second comment is gone???
Anywho, I posted this cartoon last night on Instapundit and someone didn’t like it, reported it as s,Pa,m and it’s gone.
Why? Didn’t seem that controversial to me.
The quirks of the spam catcher are many and mighty. I try to check things over but sometimes it takes me a long time to get around to it.
Ah! The second comment had the word s P / M in it. I found that on Disqus using that word triggers the (you know what filter) also.