http://www.equivocality.net the world is a complex and beautiful place Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:48:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've finally imported all of my (10,000 odd) travel photos into Lightroom and I'm starting to organize, tag, color correct, and most importantly of all, select which ones I want to assemble for a show. At a remove of months or years, I'm definitely seeing new aspects to my work. ... http://www.equivocality.net/sahara-himalaya/ If I got the offer I would go instantly. I'd pack up everything and nothing and leave next week, or probably tomorrow. Even if I could never come back. Maybe especially if I couldn't. I want to see the Solar System that badly. Yeah, the technology, the adventure, the leap into ... http://www.equivocality.net/quiet-night-on-mars/ What I do in my Wednesday and Friday morning aerial class is mostly sucking. These are the sort of classes you take if you want to be an aerialist, a trapeze artist or something. Accordingly, my Russian instructor has made me hurt. She's thoroughly professional, but isn't known for being ... http://www.equivocality.net/actually-joining-the-circus-a-rhapsody-on-sucking/ When I began Equivocality in 2005, I didn't know what I was doing, just that I wanted to publicly share some of my writing. A lot of things have happened since then; I went traveling (again), I started the Writer's Travel Scholarship, I began to write fiction. Equivocality has become ... http://www.equivocality.net/new-blog-jonathanstraycom/ eyes summing over when will you take my measure? please integrate me http://www.equivocality.net/oh-calculus/ Ka-thump. Ka-thump. Ka-thump-thump. … ! Bang. Ka-thump. Ka-thump. It's an instant of, not fear exactly, but something that dissipates like a wave through your body. Your heart is still beating. It was just an ... http://www.equivocality.net/heartbeat/ No, but what if? What if we've been going about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence all wrong? Why do we expect anyone anywhere to be sending messages to a random little yellow dwarf star? I think no one's sending us messages for the same reason that we're not sending any ... http://www.equivocality.net/interesting-thought-of-the-day-the-galactic-internet-is-out-there/ Supposed to be out yesterday, I know, but I just got back from India, and I have to read all these damn entries. Which I thank you all for submitting. Hang tight. The winner will be announced Soon, I promise. http://www.equivocality.net/writers-travel-scholarship-winner-is-coming-really/ Varanasi is perhaps what I thought I might find in India. The ghats (wharves) are— well. Hindus and painted faces and temples and cows and signs painted on the narrow alleyways, and elaborate lacy (Moghul influenced?) architecture, and stone streets, and everywhere filth and garbage and exuberance. Walking along the ... http://www.equivocality.net/myth-and-missing/ My god, it's like lace reaching into the sky! I mean, I'd seen pictures, but this, actually standing here in Durbar Square, Katmandu, watching the pagodas silhouette the dawn-- it's a fairy tale. This place can't be real. Here, let's climb the steps. Oh. There's graffiti at the top. The ... http://www.equivocality.net/chrome-graffiti-on-the-temple-walls/