It seems I have fallen behind again. Oh my.
Yesterday afternoon, I witnessed a very beautiful scene while going about my usual business. I wanted to take a picture, but I didn't have my camera with me, so I tried to capture the scene in a few words. Not very well-written words, mind you, and not the thousand words a picture would have superseded, but it's the best I can offer.
There is more, of course--there's always more! But I still lack the skill with words to do the tale further justice. I would write a novel about it, if I could write a novel. Since I cannot, the plight of two other lovers, both very dear to me, will have to wait until a later date to be immortalized in print (or even mortalized in naughts and ones). Why couldn't the internet have waited to take fruit until I was older? I may be able to make a worthwhile contribution to the net in words some day, when I have grown enough to know a few things about life and verse, but now there isn't much I can offer.
The previous paragraph would have ended with a link to Torrez.org, and the brilliant passages once housed there, but Andre Torrez has taken all of his writings down, and the site is almost bare now. Blast it all. At least the secret society still remains...

In other news, while flipping through the LiveJournal interest pages, an array of oddities appeared before me, all related to my home state of South Dakota. Many obeservations to be drawn from the intermingling of an aggregate of 700,000 technophobes with one of the most ubiquitous services on the triple-double-u:

• Joan, Jesse, Matt M, I, and a few others have been a Rapid City consortium of sorts on that site, so I suppose it makes sense that a parallel SooFoo web should exist, complete with stragglers from the debate/emo and orch communities there. SDSU also represents with a large contingent appearing through the eyes of this user. None of this surprised me, but it delights me that others like me from my homeland exist.
• What does surprise me, however, is the Spooncat! conspiracy, and that it comes not out of R-ville, but Sioux Falls. Eee! Eee!
• On the topic of surprises, what is the meaning of the Akron, Ohio connection?
• And of course, Jesus rocks. But you knew that already.

So passes South Dakota into the 21st century.
That's all for tonight, I think. I was going to type all of this up last night, but I'm kind of glad I didn't, because I would have had to come back and change the link to the Almost Square Piece of Cardboard auction that eBay finally delisted today, less than six hours from completion. Luckily, it was mirrored, hence the link. My favorite bid retraction (gone now): "I changed my mind when I realized what I needed was an almost round piece of cardboard."