PARABOLICAL GRAFFITI

Are you supposed to be dead?

For some weird-ass reason livin' out your afterlife in Nutbar LA?

JOIN THE FRIGGIN' CLUB.

No, for serious. We're startin' a club. The Los Angeles Zombie Brigade: Too Stubborn To Just Lie Down Already.

We got t-shirts! And pie!*

( NOW IMPROVED WITH A PICTURE OF WHAT THE SHIRTS LOOK LIKE MORE OR LESS )

HELLO? AM I USING THIS COMPLOOTER PROPERLY?

Thank you for telling me I died, everyone. It was very considerate of you. I can't believe you would keep something like that from me. What have I done to any of you that would make you want to keep such important news from me?

I've let the Hyperion for now. I guess I just couldn't stay around knowing that you might know other things that I don't that could affect me in the long run. I didn't want to say anything right away.. Just in case you had realized I had gone and wanted to know why. Which you didn't. It's fine, really. I can understand why no one would notice my disappearance. I haven't made much of a huge impression.

Um.. yeah. I basically just needed to get that off my chest. It's kind of big to find out from Princess Azula of all people someone that you had passed away in another world. Yeah.. Stay safe!

I'm not getting the point in diet soda. Why even bother drinking any if it doesn't even taste good? I like flavor. Diet drinks? None whatsoever. It's a mockery of what sugary goodness like cola should be. And do you know what else I don't get? Those people that you go out to eat with that order the biggest most fattening meal ever, and then they say, "Oh, and I'd also like a diet coke with that". Why? Why would you do that? If you're gonna pig out on food, then what's the big with not drinking real soda? Sheesh. Some people.

Amazing. I never knew darkness could last so long. I'd like to know who did this, and don't give me that BS reason of "Oh, the stars are a bit out of orbit, perfectly natural, it'll be fine" excuse. Not that I'm complaining, this way I don't have to look at unattractive people. I think I'll like it here.

My name is Damien Thorn. I have a company.. Thorn Industries. Maybe I can manage to set up a branch here. But I'll see how that goes. Fun first. Speaking of, what do you all do for that around here?

Happy Valentines Day for tomorrow, is it? I didn't even know it existed but I went to the store and there were pretty heart balloons everywhere. I asked the man what they were for and he laughed at me until he realized I actually was being serious. It sounds like a lovely day, really. Does anyone want to be my Valentine? I was just wondering - everyone seems to be getting into the whole swing of it.

I can't help but think that perhaps I should be fixing this. Maybe if I died.. would that fix the problem? Will the moon be better again and leave the sun alone?

I think my heart is trying to leave my chest. Allah, I hurt.



It feels strange, having time to pray properly again. Before, I was lucky to get in the three most essential prayers, and most religious observances were quite impossible (besides zakat and sawm, of course, because it isn't difficult to be charitable or go hungry). I never liked practicing while in one of the colonies, anyway; it isn't the same as being on earth where you can really face Mecca. To be honest, though, I haven't been a very good Muslim in a long time. It's hard to, when you're fighting a war that hasn't been sanctioned by your faith.


I have to believe that I won't be condemned for this. I'm doing what's right. Why else would I have been cursed to be able to feel others' pain, if it isn't to help those people?

Now that I know I'm allowed to use the kitchen at the hotel, I've made some delicious bacon and eggs.

Did you know that bacon in German is called 'Speck' which is entirely different than the English meaning of that word. Eggs are Eier. In German, we always capitalize nouns -which gave me a lot of trouble with English lessons when I was little. I knew what nouns were in English as well as German - I just used to write my English sentences capitalizing the nouns out of habit.

In German, were I inviting you to breakfast, I would ask - Möchten Sie Eier mit Speck? which means 'Would you like eggs with bacon?' Which, you know- if you're at the Hyperion and you've nothing better to do than to eat breakfast foods at a non breakfast time with a former Nazi with me - come and have some!

I've just been shopping for music. To keep my mind off things. I bought a John Lennon CD because everyone says he's brilliant so I just had to. He was brilliant. It's rather wow. Has anybody ever told you that you have great music?

[filtered from King Henry VIII;]

For heaven's sake, please don't tell him what he gets up to later in his life. He's already a bit fragile. And show a little respect---he is a king, and he's used to his title. Otherwise, I'll be mean and send you nightmares.

[/filtered]

Well, the Lovers' Butterflies have already come in handy once. And Alpha has decided to re-stock the shop alphabetically to practice his English.

While I'm doing this, I may as well also make the rooms above my shop available to anyone who needs a place to sleep for a few days. There's room enough for a few people.

blasted computer. the inventions here baffle me.

This is positively absurd! I do not understand the state of this...nation. How can a body function without a leader that was born into the position? How can you trust someone who did not grow up in the heart of the lands, immersed in the proper documentation and surrounded by those who govern, to ensure a country's safety? I hear this is supposedly the grandest, most powerful nation on Earth. Oh, how much the New World has changed...in my time, it was only barely discovered - a vast, savage place filled with heathens who hoarded their undeserving riches.

And what is this House of Windsor? Who is this Queen Elizabeth II? Since when did a woman hold the right to rule England suo jure? This makes no sense. England - at least my England - would never expect a female to rule. More importantly, what happened to my Dynasty? Why isn't there a Tudor sitting upon the English throne?

i failed. i didn't produce a legitimate male heir.

I just want to go home, now. I miss my tribe, my family. I feel like one of those puzzles you can get. And you lose a piece, a vital piece. The piece that makes up an eye or something and the person on the puzzle looks hollow without it. I feel like my home is that piece, and I'm a different piece. Like a piece that belongs to the outside that you keep desperately trying to stuff into the bit where the eye goes because hey, you want to finish off your puzzle. You didn't spend $29.95 just to have a missing eye and a piece on the outside that doesn't fit.

I'm rambling. And I know I'm probably not the only one with these similar thoughts. I just don't know who to talk to.

It's my birthday today. I only just remembered. I'm seventeen, now.

I'm pretty sure a drug deal just went bad in the apartment next to mine. I think I should move. Or something.

Anyone want to go do something, I'm bored and sick of studying.

...what do you mean the world is spinning!?

Why does everyone keep calling me dude? What the hell is a dude?

What on Earth is a whirlygig? I overheard someone say it. It sounds kind of exciting. Whirlygig..
How do you people come up with these names

And why is Sokka being weird with me?

Y'know this is just perfect. First everyone goes and gets themselves captured by the Fire Nation and now I'm stuck in some psycho land with these metallic monsters that have delusions of being Earth Kingdom tanks and people with pink hair. Pink hair. That's not natural! Pink is not a hair color. It's a feather color and last time I checked, feathers were a no-go with humans. Not even airbenders have feathers.

The only plus side to this crazy place is hot dogs. I don't know what their made out of and I don't care. They're meat, they're tasty, and they weren't made by Haru. That, in turn, makes them so awesome.

Oh, and this computer thing? Is like...magic or something. This chick sitting next to me claims it's a machine, but machines do not have moving pictures or clicky things named after one half of an animal. Not buying it.

I just realized I hate this computer thing. It's made out of...I don't even know what it's made of. Once I figured that I wouldn't be able to use it on my own I had to...convince someone to teach me. According to them I have to use a program to make the computer speak to me so I know what's written. So complicated.

Hey Twinkletoes, I hope you missed me.

Pardon me, but everybody seems to be mentioning "TV".
Is it a disease? Because when I went for a walk not too long ago I overheard a young man saying his grandmother died of TB and that it was a very painful for her. It sounded like such an unpleasant end.
I can't imagine why anybody would want to watch a disease..