In the Cube

I learned something new today, though not really that useful. Dai Kaiju Eiga means "Giant monster film" in Japanese. It came to refer to the style of filmmaking that the Toho company used in the Godzilla films. The last one I saw, Godzilla 2000, was really well-done. Must be tough coming up with new monsters for Godzilla to fight all the time, but the films manage not to disappoint. In other random news today, I came across a website devoted to Phi. It's an irrational number, like pi (a decimal that does not end and does not repeat itself) and, strangely enough, pops up in all kinds of places, like geometry and the human body. It's considered by some to be proof of the existence of God. But I suppose that depends on how you look at it- one way to see it is that it was something imposed on an otherwise chaotic state. Another is to see it as evidence that the world posesses an underlying and fundamental order. I think that if there is a pattern, however, either way it's proof of some order in the world. The website is http://goldennumber.net . And be sure to check out phi calculated to 20,000 places.

The Road to Nowhere

Somewhere outside of Pittsburgh

Steel mills rising skeletal against

evening's red sky

The two of us

Found ourselves in

the middle of nowhere,

Four lanes wide and

Luminous

We had set out in

search of our American Dream-

A total waste of time

As streetlights begin to

wink on, banishing the dark, I

look over-you're asleep

Empty coffee cups on the

dash mark our progress,

Together we

push on,

Feels like I'm

knocking on the Devil's door

Tomorrow is a new

day; just a memory

Night finds us

still in limbo, gas gauge

exit ramps

tell us we're not there yet

But where else

would we be?