Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Milo Pragmatic's LiveJournal:

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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003
4:20 pm	Back in January 1999, I took on a daunting task: coming up with words for our famous National Song. ( additional words ) Sadly, our Song still lacks lyrics. 8 posts : add a post
Tuesday, December 31st, 2002
1:33 am	For this forthcoming start of an annual quantity of days, I am going to form a vow, a holiday vow. Or mayhaps two such vows. First, I will post to my LJ a minimum of fifty-two occasions. I think always on Sundays. I am taking your input for my additional vow. What do you think? 6 posts : add a post
Monday, September 30th, 2002
4:59 pm	So, this is what's up: I was dating Kim, but it wasn't working out, so it got shut down. And it turns out, our old way of acting as a pair, prior to our dating, it isn't practical now. A thing stands in our midst, holding us apart. Most folks call it an injunction. Current Mood: thoughtful Current Music: Rush: Fly By Night 2 posts : add a post
Thursday, September 5th, 2002
11:11 am	An acorn grows into a mighty oak. A boy grows into a mighty man. A girl grows into a mighty woman. A calf grows into a mighty cow. A moth grows into a mighty Mothra. 1 post : add a post
Monday, September 2nd, 2002
7:12 am	It only thaws in spring. It only looks ugly from within; from without, it's not so bad. It only costs a dollar fifty to watch Lucas' folly. It only lasts for an hour or two It only dulls your pain for an hour or two. It only wants six words to say it's all past, with nothing to look forward to. It only dawns on you how much it'll hurt as it starts hurting. It only rains day in, day out. It only hurts for month upon month. It only stops... I don't know if it stops. (Thanks, pbmath, for your prodding asking what was up.) Current Music: Liquid Pig add a post
Friday, June 21st, 2002
3:57 pm	Sorry for going so long without posting. I took up a hobby, which is a distraction from writing. I now proudly own my own catamaran: two-foot long, with radio control. Kim bought a sub, and I'm not talking about a sandwich. 5 posts : add a post
Thursday, June 6th, 2002
12:04 am	A quiz going around: List six things you wouldn't do for millions of dollars, billions of dollars, for any amount at all. 1. Kill a baby 2. Pick up a hard drug addiction 3. Allot my soul to Satan 4. Go back to school 5. Commit hara-kiri 6. Fuck your mom add a post
Saturday, June 1st, 2002
5:12 pm	Kim is visiting today for our Tom Hanks marathon. So far, Splash (with Daryl Hannah and John Candy), Big, Nothing in Common, and Apollo 13 down. Bill Paxton was suprisingly good in Apollo 13. Still to go: That Thing You Do!, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Cast Away. add a post
Monday, May 27th, 2002
3:10 pm	My opinion on important things out in our big old world: This suicidal bombing stuff is just awful. Iraq sucks. I don't think Bush won fair and round. Global warming is bad. Squashing of our rights by corporations is annoying. Gun control wouldn't hurt. Now that I'm pointing it all out this way, fixing it is automatic just by you all looking at it, right? Current Mood: optimistic Current Music: Rush: Vapor Trail add a post
Sunday, May 26th, 2002
7:22 am	Borrowing this schtick from journals out and about: 101 things about Milo: 1. I was born in North Carolina; 2. my mom was a Catholic, 3. my pop was an alcoholic, 4. my SOS was a cry wanting an assist, 5. but a tot is all I can drink right now. 6. I did most of a stint at Harvard-- 7. my major was astronomy-- 8. but I quit school as a junior 9, owing to a fight I got into with a physics instructor 10. about if gravity would hurt if I took my hands off him in mid-air. ( click for additional tidbits ) Current Mood: quizzical Current Music: Bob Dylan: Hard Rain 2 posts : add a post
Saturday, May 25th, 2002
5:29 am	I just saw an odd thing. A gigantic light at a location I should not spy a light. I think it was a UFO. add a post
Saturday, May 18th, 2002
4:15 pm	"Now that that's out of my way..." Oops, I forgot which post would show first in most lists. Chronology is confusing. add a post
4:14 pm	Now that that's out of my way, I can talk about important things. I was at a music shop on Friday and I ran into an old pal from high school, Johnathan Livingston. It turns out that John's now living in Santa Clara, which isn't too far at all, so I'm hoping I can pop in on him now and again. I was hoping to talk a bit right away, but John had to fly. Also, I lost my job as a crossing guard. It's not so bad; my boss was a tyrant, and goddamn I couldn't stand such work anyway--why didn't anybody warn that it would imply constantly coping with kids?! Oh my god, what a fucking circus that was. Thankfully, it was only for two hours a day; I'm still working at my main job, managing a Dunkin' Donuts. Current Mood: moody Current Music: Marillion: Fugazi add a post
3:54 pm	try again Sorry to go so long without posting; I had a crash as I was writing this on Monday, and it took until now that I was up to trying again. So it is actually about Monday, not today. I'm curiously nostalgic right now, but I don't know why. At this instant I'm thinking about how Kim and I would hang out in North Carolina way back. In fact, I'm now thinking of a particular night that Kim had a party. Aunt Cassandra (Kim's mom) had a swimming pool, so this party was outdoors as usual. (If nobody was around, Kim and I would occasionally skinny-dip, but on this night, Kim had on a bikini and I a pair of swim trunks.) Kim and I got to talking about philosophy: nihilism, sophism, ontology, dualism, and I don't know what all. Kim was trying to claim that good actions brought about a social situation that could only turn participants to improving things in that community. I had a cynical outlook: such actions didn't do any good past that instant. I can't avoid thinking it was an important discussion, but I don't know why I think that; it was a fairly typical discussion for us. It didn't go to any conclusion, but it also had no acrimony. Current Mood: nostalgic Current Music: Pink Floyd: Animals 2 posts : add a post
Sunday, May 12th, 2002
11:53 pm	lyrics I'm writing a song. This is just a small bit of it: I would climb a mighty mountain I would swim a Scottish Loch I would do a cautious countin' Of how many things you stock I would throw coins in a fountain I would put my skis in hock Rob a bank that my account's in So I could say: girl, you rock Current Mood: giddy Current Music: Salivation Army: Smash and Grab add a post
Saturday, May 11th, 2002
2:45 am	a quiz I can't wrap my brain around most quiz-journal-posts that go by, so I'm making up my own: List a famous man or woman who is most similar to or typical of you for that group: 1. authors   Rudyard Kipling 2. journalists   Bob Woodward 3. authors of classical music compositions   Franz Liszt 4. Fab Four   Ringo Starr 5. living actors   Don Knotts 6. non-living actors   Jim Backus 7. 007 actors   Timothy Dalton 8. criminals   Tonya Harding 9. judicial branch   Sandra Day O'Connor 10. living US top dogs   Bill Clinton 11. non-living US top dogs   Abraham Lincoln 12. living musicians   Bryan Adams 13. not-living musicians   Kurt Cobain 14. fictional, from film   Craig Schwartz 15. fictional, from TV   Jonas Grumby 16. fictional, from cartoons   Scooby-Doo 17. fictional, from comic books   Nick Fury 18. fictional, from mythology   Pygmalion 19. Tonight Show hosts   Johnny Carson 20. martyrs   Joan of Arc add a post
Sunday, May 5th, 2002
2:45 am	I saw Panic Room tonight (last night?), at an actual film-displaying location with popcorn and air-conditioning and all that. It was no Fight Club. It had that wacky long moving shot thing in which our filmic POV runs down shafts and through gaps in railings--too much of that. Acting was good as far as it could go. Script was ok for plot, but not much for portrayals, for giving actors anything to dig into. Kim thought it was fabulous. add a post
Friday, May 3rd, 2002
5:03 pm	Kim wants to drop by tonight. I'm not in much of a mood to do anything, so all I'm planning is hanging out in my living room, watching a DVD (I'm thinking Groundhog Day or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). I don't know why I'm so awkward around Kim now. Back in North Carolina, Kim and I got along grandly. Pals, buds. A lot in common, so both of us doing things was not just occasional: hanging out in bars, tripping on mushrooms, going duckpin bowling, visiting strip clubs. It was thirty months ago that my moving to San Francisco did stop us hanging around. But now, Kim is also in San Francisco (as of January). So I don't know why I'm so cautious about it. add a post
Thursday, May 2nd, 2002
10:37 pm	I'm thinking about pursuing a buddhist philosophy. I worry too much about things I want, and no doubt this puts an unhappy bias in my mind. But it's not obligatory for things to go this way. I could stop wanting so much--stop making my mood climb and fall as things satisfy or disappoint. Also, I'm amazingly hungry for a Girl Scout Samoa. Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Marillion: Clutching At Straws 4 posts : add a post
1:18 am	an actual transcript of a visit Good morning. I'm doing ok, thanks. And you? Good, good. Can I supply you with anything? Food, drink, pot? No? You don't mind if I dig in, though, do you? I'm thoroughly hungry--my last opportunity for munching was prior to matins. So, what can I do for you? Sorry, I don't know much about crosswords or cryptograms. I don't think I can do anything about such a situation. No, I also don't know about robot combat programming. I don't think I can do you a bit of good. That's a possibility, but I think it's a suboptimal solution, don't you? What if you put it on a stationary train at a platform? That way you could talk about involuntary pulmonary contractions without worrying about it showing up on any spy tools. Oh, what? Must you go so soon? You only just sat down. Mmm, if you must, you must. Thanks. It was good to sit with you for a bit, anyway. Don't wait so long to call if you want to do this again. Just pick it up and dial. Current Mood: calm Current Music: King Crimson: ConstruKction of Light 1 post : add a post