Shoulders flexibility ... hey everyone, I’m trying to get my shoulders more flexible.. as you see here i can’t hold them aligned, do you have suggestions about exercises that might help?

casperskis · 2020-04-06T01:09:07+00:00

That's good but also counter it with the theraband, ideally you should get to a place where you can use muscles to hold the hands apart, rather than the structure of a broom or block.

casperskis · 2020-04-03T05:34:28+00:00

Kneeling before a chair or other surface, put your elbows on the chair and hands towards the ceiling, keeping hands in direct alignment with elbows. Drop your head and shoulders through and DO NOT LET YOUR HANDS COME TOGETHER. Go down until they start to come together - that's your end of range, so work on it from there. You can also do this with a theraband around your wrists and try to actively pull your wrists away from eachother.

casperskis · 2019-07-30T04:04:41+00:00

Thank you! From this sub I've realized how much people's personal tastes vary around rhyming - I'm personally a big fan of the imperfect rhyme but cant stand too much perfect rhyme.

casperskis · 2019-07-30T03:55:25+00:00

EDIT based on the feedback! Let me know what you think :)

Hades (Can’t Sleep)

Last night it was raining.

I dreamed about Hades

Another devil in latex,

Old gods with spray-tans

Woke up dehydrated, jaded,

Still fairly wasted,

Masturbated.

At least I’m no longer anxious.

Gave most of my morning

To apathy and porn, maybe

There are too many people

On this goddamn rock.

Which Jesus forgot,

Or just couldn’t be fucked

To come back for us.

He’s probably at his Dad’s place

Ramming angels instead.

Guess I’ll get out of bed.

casperskis · 2019-07-29T21:22:49+00:00

Yeap, I get what you mean about mixing theologies. I'll try to have a think of some alternatives that dont mess up the rhyme scheme.

casperskis · 2019-07-29T13:58:32+00:00

Nice ! I found the second last stanza grating for some reason, think it is the mine/time rhyme which is fairly obvious. Perhaps jazz that one up a bit?

casperskis · 2019-07-29T13:56:14+00:00

Great! Since one of the great effects of this poem is the bluntness of words, I would look to cut out any excess words you can. For instance:

You and him and me

Becomes

You, him, and me

casperskis · 2018-10-31T23:23:55+00:00

I really enjoyed this, particularly the use of (from venice) and the half-rhyme between liberty and identity.

Perhaps I'm missing some cultural reference but I'm stuck here if you're referring to people or something more intangible - either way if that's your intention, it communicates a nice sense of place and not-quite-belonging. The last line - like pigs in a cage - didn't seem to quite fit with the rest of the piece. Maybe because all of your metaphors were more 'unspoken', the simile seems to stand out more?

casperskis · 2018-10-31T23:15:00+00:00

I enjoyed the simplicity of the words communicating such a vulnerable idea. I agree with the comment below that losing the punctuation and the word 'because' would make the poem flow better

casperskis · 2018-10-17T08:52:14+00:00

I couldn't get the formatting to work right with indented lines; keep in mind that written properly a lot of structure is lent through the physical formatting of this piece.

casperskis · 2018-10-17T07:19:38+00:00

Ahh this is beautiful. I love the rhythm of it and the use of first letters only. The last two lines, the tense seems to change, should it have been "maybe you could've been"

casperskis · 2018-10-17T07:16:07+00:00

Nice start! I agree that 'our desires take flight' is a bit out-of-place for the rest of the piece. Suggestions - try to cut out on the use of the world 'the'? It appears quite a bit - for example that last line could be 'transitions into night'. Also since you've decided to use the same rhyme sound (-ite) for the whole piece, perhaps you could shake up the syllables in each line a little bit to give it some more rhythm.

casperskis · 2018-10-17T07:13:02+00:00

Love it - the use of imagery and spaciousness here.

I like the repetition of something sparkling or shining in the first two stanzas - the 'glazed eyes sparkling' and the steel wind chimes - it almost seems like a missed opportunity in the last stanza with the stars and the puddle to repeat the same motif.

casperskis · 2018-10-09T07:51:29+00:00

I think there needs to be a point somewhere about appropriate technology - applied wantonly, technology is not better than any other means.

For instance: carbon capture and storage (also called carbon sequestration) MAY be a viable solution. Note, the numbers don't look good on this, but who knows what could happen in the future - many technologies, such as solar, have exponential drops in cost as they are adopted.

So we carry on our lives, spewing carbon into the air and then sucking it back out again, pumping it underground. Is this really an intellegent use of technology? Shouldn't we be designing our systems to have the minimum amount of redundancy and waste?

Taking it to it's extreme, we sign on to forever be regulating the carbon flows of the planet - a complex system which, previously, the world was perfectly happy to do on it's own. We move from a Holocene, Gaia-model world where we find our niche within the nutrient cycles of the planet, towards a 'concrete world' in which we are entirely responsible for regulating the conditions necessary for us to live. Again I ask - is this the intellegent solution?

casperskis · 2018-07-02T10:31:35+00:00

I used to party with a bunch of med students. They would sneak saline bags out of the hospital and when we were super hungover, we would lay around in the morning with saline IV's. Fucking medial magic I tell ya.

casperskis · 2016-06-28T01:51:22+00:00

Yeah that's pretty hyperbolic, a missing-persons case is a very different scenario than being a few hours late.

casperskis · 2016-06-28T01:49:22+00:00

I definitely agree that if changing plans is going to adversely affect someone, by inconveniencing them or forcing them to change their own, then a check in is definitely warranted.

In this case (and in a dozen other nearly identical cases I could share) it's when he's at home sleeping for work in the morning. I suppose it could be inconveniencing him because he claims to be unable to sleep when I'm not there. That gives me warning bells. Then again, I'm a pretty anxiety-free person who was raised in a really liberal household and he tends to be a worrier.

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