Friday, September 01, 2006

SEVEN WITH ONE BLOW!

At work today, I smashed a fly with the swatter only I did not kill it. I only maimed its wing and I watched it feverishly fail on my desk trying to escape. I felt guilt seep in, I tried to push it into the trash, only I missed and I watched as it twisted and buzzed on the floor by my feet. I put my face down over it and watched it writhe violently, subtlety, and then just to a murmur and then not at all. Just when I thought it was over, its body darted forwards, its wing sticking out sideways and it started to move around a bit as if its wing wasn’t broken. “Dare I step on it?” I think- end it all with one fell stomp and go back to my work- or do I let it go to crawl away and die…
… It is just a fly and they do not live for too long, you know. Once its time is up that is it and its suffering and toiling as a fly is over. No one likes flies, which is why there are fly swatters.
I still do not like to hit them, though I do and when I do, I feel terrible. Do flies feel pain? What we have figured out is that we feel pain and we can associate the smashed flies’ body, as it is jumping and failing around, to be performing in the same motions as that of a human when its body is crushed, smashed, or maimed. The pain we feel for the fly is just our reaction, our observation and association that with all mortal blows comes pain.

It was rather easy to get the fly- I remember when I was a kid and swatting them took a fast hand and a good eye, today I can get them all on my lunch hour.

@ Friday, September 01, 2006

ALL ABOUT ANNK!

I am a painter, I eat, sleep, talk. I slack, I do housework. I write stories, I watch TV, use the computer.
I hail from Milton, my friends are from Milton. We live, we drink coffee, we sleep in little beds.

We are just like you only maybe not as close.

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MY LOVELIST

I love...
apple juice, cookies, warm summer mornings, books, cotton fibers, pastel coffee mugs, holidays, flowers, French,  rainy days, fresh laundry smell.

I also love playing Earthbound!

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MY  HATELIST

People who smell like pea soup.


HOW TO GET AN ANNK

- I like flowers. Girls like flowers.

- I like comic books- ones with crazy stories in them. That is a sure win.

- I need spray paint... to umm... decorate. Girls are totally into that decorating crap.

- I have my eyes on Leonard Cohen's new book of poems.

- I like video games so make sure you buy lots of tokens for the arcade at the theater.

Recently bought CD:
The Breeders Last Splash- Third time buying this album and this time is for keeps!


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