More totally uplifting news |
Cindy Sheehan says shes taking leave of her public role as anti-war crusader. Quoted today in the Times:"This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am g...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 11:12:00 GMT |
All the great writers are dead. |
Recently Thompson, now Vonnegut. Of the writers who are full of piss-and-vinegar (my favorite type), there's no one left. (Henry Miller was/is my personal favorite.) So, as a fitting epitaph, a quo...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:26:00 GMT |
Another great quote... |
By the late Susan Sontag, a few years ago when addressing students at Vassar College:"Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay att...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:52:00 GMT |
Why is the world so stupid? |
Fucking why? Sometimes I think I'm the only one with my head screwed on straight and I know for a fact my head ain't straight. Fuck!!!!!
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:22:00 GMT |
Fading memories, not so fading |
Just recently I got a group email from Amir, the publisher of Beautiful/Decay, with a questionnaire about treehouses for a personal art project he's working on. It had three or four questions asking ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:09:00 GMT |
Happy Happy Joy Joy |
I won't write about the disaffected upper class and how their lives just aren't... quite... so. I won't write about artists that don't make their own art. I won't write about musicians that make mus...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:12:00 GMT |
When people look at you... |
...look at them and try to know what they're feeling. We as human beings are endowed with a subconscious sense of discernment. It's something that we don't use that often, but we all have it. Peopl...
Posted by on Sun, 14 May 2006 01:17:00 GMT |
Next best quote |
Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's Magazine and one of the few people I actually look up to in this life, in the May issue quotes J.M.Keynes (?). Lapham talks about how badly the current discourse in t...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:41:00 GMT |
Best quote yet... |
Scene: B'way & 23rd. Fairly well dressed, white, middle-aged woman responding to her husband's unheard comment...
"Polite? In New York City? The man was driving a Mercedes Benz!&...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:57:00 GMT |
Fate is a furious thing |
I don't believe in fate per se, but there are different paths you take in life and sometimes those paths lead you where you didn't expect. You are free to diverge from any course you take at any time...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:04:00 GMT |
