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"Under the white clouds, snow is falling. You can't see the white clouds, or the snow. Or the cold, or the white glow of the earth. A solitary man glides downhill on his skis. The snow is falling. It falls until the man disappears back into the landscape. My friend Serge, who's one of my oldest friends, has bought a painting. It's a canvas about five feet by four. It represents a man who moves across a space then disappears." Art, Y.Reza  1. Art is what you make of it. You construct your own interpretation - if you find something worthy of being deemed 'meaningful', then it becomes art to you.  2. What does it matter anyway? Our lives are given to us then rudely taken away in a moment, like a man who moves across a space then disappears. Our tiny little lives look the same from afar anyway, homogenous, indistinct, indistinguishable - a blank canvas. Who but we to formulate some sort of meaning for the little speck of existence we share.  3. It...

I hope you and your children cease to exist

Once again, another battle scheduled for the day. It will be a largely boring affair, with one side feeling much more perturbed than the other. One is programmed to win, the other is destined to let lose. Hello, mosquito. Savage flighty mother of young prickly demons. Softly you maneuver your god-damned way around my space, you gesture and gestate, seeking me out. You are there, but I cannot see you. In my anger I stand, legs shoulder width apart and await you. My binocular vision fails me eventually, but I continue to try, time and time again. You black and white, sick bitch. Who gives you the right to take from me? Who told you you could make yourself at home at the place I sleep? The place I'm supposed to find my inner peace and what-not. I wish to rest: to lie down my head and burrito myself into my blanket, but I'm afraid you'll kiss me on the cheek. Make me a oily, ugly Pikachu with one red dot instead of two. Oh god help me. Oh if... if... If I were Pikachu...