http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ attempts at greatness negate themselves. en Vox Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:21:50 +1000 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/ghost.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(john.) http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/ghost.html?_c=feed-rss http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/ghost.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:21:50 +1000 i wake up because i feel like somebody is watching me. she is standing away from the foot of my bed with her arms by her side. she does not glow, instead she is revealed in shifting partiality as patterns of light that do not exist move across her... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/ghost.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398b269610004011016347338860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> riceboy sleeps start your journey now my lord http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/tracks.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(john.) http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/tracks.html?_c=feed-rss http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/tracks.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:01:15 +1000 three men sit in worn velvet armchairs, still dressed in fluorescent orange jackets and cargo pants crusty with paint. they drink beer and smoke, their conversation is loud enough to make a few others uncomfortable, and their voices are toned by t... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/tracks.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398b26961000401101668d323860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> privacy motif telephone http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/walking-stoner-meets-happy-family.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(john.) http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/walking-stoner-meets-happy-family.html?_c=feed-rss http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/walking-stoner-meets-happy-family.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:01:42 +1100 at two in the morning, getting home on foot. eyes are very red, bushfire moons. strangers converge on me at intersection, reveal familiar faces. shrugging away as he reaches out to pat me on the shoulder, walking again. 'are you sure you'll ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/walking-stoner-meets-happy-family.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398b2696100040110180de88b860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> in up flames http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/snakeskin.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(john.) http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/snakeskin.html?_c=feed-rss http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/snakeskin.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:02:03 +1100 driving at night on main roads with no police everybody starts to speed. they have these tense little races with each other, overtaking at ninety kilometers an hour in an eighty zone. walking at night there is a compulsion to appear slightly da... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/snakeskin.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398b269610004011016330ef0860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> christmas to fundamental http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/spider.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(john.) http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/spider.html?_c=feed-rss http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/spider.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:35:04 +1100 when i was a little kid somebody showed me the skin that a tarantula had shed. offered to let me hold it. i didn't because i was too scared that the husk would come alive in my hand and bite my wrist. half awake one morning i drank a cup of coff... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/spider.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398b2696100040110180d9259860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> myself talking about http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/berardino.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(john.) http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/berardino.html?_c=feed-rss http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/berardino.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:17:31 +1100 when i was a kid i borrowed one of those choose your path horror stories from the library at school. my nonno picked me up that day and took my brother and i to glenferrie road, because my brother had his grading for taekwondo. while he was doing ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/berardino.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398b269610004011016330b5e860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> tags commas with http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/make-yourself-at-home.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(john.) http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/make-yourself-at-home.html?_c=feed-rss http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/make-yourself-at-home.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:26:32 +1100 i subscribed on wednesday. - two days later the first parcel arrived. i came home from work and carried it to my kitchen table. the kettle was boiling as i tore it open. contents are a box (glossy white cardboard, blue corporate insignia).... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398b269610004011015e42ede860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/viva-1.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(john.) http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/viva-1.html?_c=feed-rss http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/viva-1.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:28:54 +1000 i'd wandered past the shops for some of the morning, looking into the windows, feeling people brush past me. i went into the pharmacy through the sliding glass doors past larger than life testimonials of dieters and personal trainers. the girl at... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/viva-1.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398b26961000400fa969bbdb80002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> metaphysics dawn le moribond! http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/earth-conclusion-eye-witness-accounts-of-the-end-of-the-world.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(john.) http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/earth-conclusion-eye-witness-accounts-of-the-end-of-the-world.html?_c=feed-rss http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/earth-conclusion-eye-witness-accounts-of-the-end-of-the-world.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 15 May 2008 14:59:06 +1000 [the last thing i saw was a flock of sparrows sitting in a tree. feeling gravity shudder and swirl about them, they took flight with the spirals of golden autumn leaves, wings beating in the thinning atmosphere. and their last cries came to me di... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/earth-conclusion-eye-witness-accounts-of-the-end-of-the-world.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398b26961000400fae8b9756b000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> college duck power points http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/roadkill.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(john.) http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/roadkill.html?_c=feed-rss http://visitingfriends.vox.com/library/post/roadkill.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:27:10 +1000 so, it was last night, i don't know about you, but my area had a blackout. i'm driving with my family in the car, all the streetlights are out, the houses, everything is pitch black, except for two steady streams of light, one white, the other red... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398b26961000400e398ec77db0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> shuffle half nelson are you a teenager?