The story that disappeared on the earth.

Some truly awesome machinima.

11 May 2009

Just deleted the last of of World of Warcraft characters today. A level 80 pally I have had for years.

Yep, those who know their gear, know this is an old shot of her, but still my favorite.

The game was just too easy an escape from doing all the things I could be doing with my life. I don't really need to be living in other people's fantasy worlds when I have so many of my own. This way there is no going back.

It still hurts though.

Amazing the emotional attachments we can develop to such ephemeral things.

I'm going to crawl under the covers and cry some more.

News of the Weird

Everyone now and then you find an obit for someone you really wish you could have known. If for no other reason, because they were truly alive while they lived.

A Lost Artist, A Lost Art

Nagi Noda, 1973-2008

Slightly more distressing because she did all this awesome stuff and is nearly a decade younger than me. I am both saddened and humbled. Or at least made to feel a little pathetic.

Some Links:

• Tokyo Mango
• Creativity Online

My personal favorite music video of hers, from Halcali, and how I first found her work. (As a side note, no wonder I couldn't find ハリカリ online after getting back to the States ... I kept putting that extra "i" in there ... oh well.)

Standing Down

The last of the old guard has fallen
And though other troops martial to stand in their stead
It is not the same somehow.
It never was, really.

Three in one year. I am worn to a nub.

Mr. Fripp: 1988-2008
Not a bad run for a little street urchin.