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What happens when you're not paying attention.

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"Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution -- these can lift at a colossal humbug -- push it a little -- weaken it a little over the course of a century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
-Mark Twain

Fun trivia fact: I don't organize my friends list - it's still in the order of who signed on to Myspace first. It's a form of protest against the kind of high-school mentality of "who's your best friend". I haven't even met some of those people.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


People who take more pictures of me, because I need to have a rotating stock of them, damnit.

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My Blog

Go back to whitewashing, Pat.

    Here's a little fairy tale crafted by old-school rock and roll singer Pat Boone, who became famous providing a white face and country twang to Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti':Once upon a time, i...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Something to be thankful for ...

    Last night's movie was Darren Aranofsky's "The Fountain", the central theme of which is the protagonist's crusade against death;  death in general, and the looming death of his...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:21:00 GMT

The end of an era ...

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Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:56:00 GMT

The Golden Calf ...

Oh, this is just too much.In a scene straight out of the Ten Commandments, a group of Christian fundamentalists prayed in front of a larger-than life statue of a bull on Wall Street, for an end to the...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:10:00 GMT

Skepticism

I think, when someone next asks me what I believe in, that I'll answer: "I'm a skeptic."It neatly encompasses what I do believe - in the virtue of questioning the world around us and questioning ourse...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:13:00 GMT

Letters to people you’ll never really meet ...

Dear snarky vegetarian behind the counter at lunch:I respect your position on what you choose to eat.  I have several vegetarian and vegan friends.  If you're especially passionate about it,...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:08:00 GMT

Disbelief

This one's for Jeffrey.In recent months, I've heard a number of people put forth the idea that a secular world-view is as much an act of faith as anything we'd call a religion.I'm pretty sure that the...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:06:00 GMT

I’m scared ...

    I wasn't really happy with the Heidelberg Project shoot on the 20th ... the day was thoroughly overcast, and the lighting at sunset really didn't work with the bright pastels over a...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:05:00 GMT

Rushkoff on BoINGBoING

    Okay, normally I hate to just repost something that comes from BB, but Douglas Rushkoff is guestblogging there, and wrote a really insightful (if a bit geeky) piece:The current cult...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:33:00 GMT

Spin

    One of the researchers I've followed closely over the years, Paul Ekman, who's noted for his work in the field of how facial expressions relate to emotion and communication (and for...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:20:00 GMT