Tom Hite

I was about to walk out the door on the way to trivia when I received a call from “No Caller ID.” I picked up.

“Tom.”

“…Yes?”

“I’ve been sifting through my emails all afternoon… can you tell me why I’m looking at a picture of a ten-headed creature with your face all over it?”

I couldn’t tell if she was more bemused or annoyed, but I…[Read more]

@theladyj

Short answer: as much as you feel safe sharing.

Long answer: Every game is a game of information. The thing about sharing memories and interpretations of events from our perspective is that it forces us to narrativize them into a form that is consumable to someone who wasn’t there – this is extremely valuable, and one of the things that makes the…[Read more]

@taysavestheday – Thanks for bringing this up. The weird thing about soundwaves is that because we can’t see them, we tend to place them in the same category as other invisible things, and because we measure them in frequencies, they often get lumped in with the EMF spectrum (not that you’ve done this, but it just triggered the idea). Soundwaves…[Read more]

@tomhite

Good idea, @buz – here’s a list minus the columns, but retaining the numbered correlation between screen-name and…[Read more]

Also, Dear Microsoft Word: how very dare you call out “magotes” as a non-word. It’s 2017; don’t be such a head-ass.

Of names, it seems, the meaning goes quite deep;
a pug named Hamlet can’t unnoticed go.
Shakespearean themes are mounting up so steep
that o’er the edge we’re oft inclined to go…

Our Noah and his Sarah we know well
(or is it *her* from whom *he* draws his breath?);
Ambition’s road – a path that leads to hell –
they follow Lord and Lady of…[Read more]

How appropriate that my first response to seeing this FB post was to silently click “share.” When we see words that capture what we know to be true, we want to point at them, and shout “that!” – and is it not a more honest response to pick up and hoist them at others wholesale than to cobble them into what we think they are saying, thus inevitably…[Read more]

@izryn – “ultimate version of us, flawless, perfect, and better than us originals in every sense?”

We have a lot of binary oppositions going on: shadow/light, sin/perfection, winner/loser… your comment brings up a crucial point.

What would be the “ultimate version” of you? How would you know? We’ve all been indoctrinated by a world that…[Read more]

Point of uncertainty and resultant question: if the forum is the game board, then what specifically in the Red Door thread was deemed sufficiently threatening to require its removal? Is it possible to say? Will that information be remediated by moderators and reinstated in its proper context? Are we to utterly disregard all phenomena that…[Read more]

@hazelverse – Nicely pointed out! It’s interesting, the idea of “personality,” and it’s a phrase we use casually without much exploration… but what does it really mean? A related term, and one which we seem more often to encounter, is “persona.” What is the difference between these two, though? I’m tempted to go with something like…[Read more]

@birdiesrunamok – This definitely resonates with some hanging pieces of information… I know @thecontroller warned against connecting dots haphazardly, but there are some details that haven’t been mentioned in a while that your comment reminded me of:
1) That video from the OOA with Sabrina, clearly at her “present” age being dated from 1975.
2)…[Read more]

@macbethinabathtub – “track penetration” #phrasing #lust #deepstructure