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Catherine-J's Blog


    • the sunset limited

      I came here to discover things of interest, something profound.  Profundities aside, does anything spoken every truly transcend the uncanny nature of repetition?  Is there anything new or is everything simply a retelling of an old and faithful ... | Read More

    • fort sumter

      so i live in south carolina now.    It's not bad, but I miss the super cold weather, and NYC (only cause it's like the greatest city ever).  I think I might start playing again, but nothing serious.  There are simply not enough hours during t... | Read More

    • i don't know why

      i have returned.  unto a limited capacity i devote myself.   chess no longer satisfies.  i apologize to those whom i owed service to.  i express my condolences to those who have worried during my abscence. eventually, sociality does govern a... | Read More

    • the dollhouse

      I had a dream the other night.  I was part of a system, an institution.  In this facility we were constantly tested.  Those who tested well were put into accelerated programs.  The normal tests were done in rooms lit with gold lighting.  The ... | Read More

    • (none)

      ever notice how in english the words 'now' and 'know' have a special relationship?   and is comparing the how the two are spoken literally a primer for the pronunciation of the silent 'k' in american english?   or simply a dialectic subtext? | Read More

    • Ani Difranco is my Goddess

      In my lifetime i've played guitar (self-taught) for 12 years, piano for 22 years on and off, and dabbled in every other instrument i can get my hands on, but my 3 favorite guitarists are... in this order  Django Reinhardt, James Hendrix (Paratroo... | Read More

    • Chess.com motion sickness

      Hello my name is Catherine, and i'm a chessaholic.  i know the consequences of playing too much chess, but never dreamed that motion-sickness could be one of them. Although i will admit that this may be the most fun way to be sick that i've ever... | Read More

    • audiophile

      an awkward sort of rippling kinda wintry peaking power she looked into the gazes harrowing judgemental sour searing melting melding molding meshing monstrous cowards standing down against the wind and frozen pellet showers of.....      Â... | Read More

    • dot dot dot

      it's the early morning oranges that seem a little pink.  An ochre kinda pumpkin crowning bluish-gray sort of wink.  an immediate source of windblown tumblewed stationary phallangecal waverings skyward, stretching into dawns newly revealed under... | Read More

    • Stimulus package

      Hey people, I'd just like to give a shout out to republican senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (the senators from Maine, my home state, the first state to every have two female senators), for crossing party lines on the presidentially propo... | Read More