Controlled Chaos

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I learned a new word.  It’s in the Mars Volta song “Televators,” and the wikipedia entry on it is intriguing.

Witnesses: Slain Groom Involved in Spat

You know when you’re sick, how your mind does crazy things.  Well, last night, I kept dreaming of the name Gescard Isnora.  I had no idea why, and for a while I was thinking it would be a good pen name for someone.  Every time I was conscious, I would think of the name (which drove me crazy, in that sick-repetitive way).  Well, it turns out that I know the name for a reason: he is one of the two officers being charged with Manslaughter in the death of Sean Bell.  I guess it got tucked deep back in my subconscious, and somehow pulled up to memory.  Weird…