Hmm. This katamari feels mostly earworm-ish.

Memo to self: Don't play We <3 Katamari just before going to bed.
Correction: Don't play the bird and elephant's level of We <3 Katamari just before going to bed.
No, wait: Don't play the bird and elephant's level several times in a row because you want to break 1000m and roll up the Petronas Towers and St. Basil's Cathedral, hidden way off across the world map, just before going to bed.
Also: Don't repeatedly play the bird and elephant's level and continuously insist on Katamari On The Swing as your background music because the Japanese Tom Jones cracks your shit up. Just before going to bed.

Nine hours later, the song is still in my head. OKAY MISTER SUNSHINE!


but I did learn that once you reach 1000m on that level, your view goes up beyond the usual sky, the screen begins to turn cloudy white, and the background music begins to change to the gentle happy cloud music. But I still didn't make it back to the damn Petronas Towers though.

keep the lasagna flying

Robert Anton Wilson has defied medical experts and left his body at approximately 4:50 AM "on binary date 01/11. All Hail Eris!"

Paralyzed after severe post-polio syndrome and a damaging fall, confined to his bed and under 24-hour hospice care since June, Wilson left a farewell message on January 6:

Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.

Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.

In October, when various online appeals generated enough funds to pay his health care costs, he wrote this:

Dear Friends, my God, what can I say. I am dumbfounded, flabbergasted, and totally stunned by the charity and compassion that has poured in here the last three days.
To steal from Jack Benny, "I do not deserve this, but I also have severe leg problems and I don't deserve them either."

Because he was a kind man as well as a funny one, Benny was beloved. I find it hard to believe that I am equally beloved and especially that I deserve such love.

Whoever you are, wherever you are, know that my love is with you.

You have all reminded me that despite George W. Bush and all his cohorts, there is still a lot of beautiful kindness in the world.

That he was beloved is true. Additionally, the last sentence is true. Perhaps we would do well to not forget that.



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