Bound to Mara's Yoke

Perceiving constancy in the inconstant,
        pleasure in the stressful,
        self in what's not-self,
        attractiveness in the unattractive,
beings, destroyed by wrong-view,
go mad, out of their minds.
Bound to Mara's yoke,
from the yoke they find no rest.
(Vipallasa Sutta)

The walk home this evening was like something out of the X-Files: lots of rain and fog and possibly a conspiracy in progress. On the whole, I quite enjoyed myself.

Apropos of very little, here's Mike Doughty talking about why he has such resentment towards Soul Coughing.