x-rated neurotica

you know how little kids close their eyes and think that being unable to see their surroundings makes them invisible? walking directly into the sun as a grown-ass adult provides that same sensation. maybe it's just me.  

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they're finally building structures that give back- that reflect their surroundings instead of sucking them into a stony 80s black hole. 

the property planning sites on seattle.gov show the different height zoning and potential daylight impact of various neighborhoods, as well as a welter of proposed and glassily angular buildings all apparently designed by the same architecture classes. it's mindsucky as fuck if you're into nerdy shit like that. 

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a sinister storm approaches from the north and glares passive-aggressively at 12th Ave. 

hot leafless ampersand weather. 

I actually obeyed the signs and touched nothing. 

I was reading at night and looked up and my own reflection startled me. 

"all intellectual improvement arises from leisure." Samuel Johnson