The O Man |
A few quotes from Obama"We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force. In the past, it has been movements for freedom from within tyrannical r... Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:55:00 GMT |
a poem |
MEDITATIONS AT LAGUNITASRobert Haas All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking. The idea, for example, that each particular erases the luminous clarity o... Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:43:00 GMT |
On Blondes |
A favorite California writer, Raymond Chandler, on different types of blondes:There are blondes and there are blondes and it is almost a joke word nowadays. All blondes have their points, except perha... Posted by on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:25:00 GMT |
Eric! |
I don't really see what people see in this Natalie Portman kid. A lot of people are obsessed over her, right? Like my friend Eric. So this is for you--some stuff you might not have seen. Her first aud... Posted by on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:18:00 GMT |
I thought we were an autonomous collective... |
I adore this. Always will. I can still picture that clever Justine reciting it from memory. Her postition now is that it was just a trick--a gimmick, she called it rather-- designed to amuse her paren... Posted by on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:52:00 GMT |
Dangerous Sensations |
"Great writers are either husbands or lovers. Some writers supply the solid virtues of a husband: reliability, intelligibility, generosity, decency. There are other writers in whom one prizes the gift... Posted by on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:10:00 GMT |
I Too Am a Bit Untamed....walt's world |
(Thanks E, and I can wish this was mine, but of course it's excerpts from Walt Whitman)There was never any more inception than there is now,Nor any more youth or age than there is now,And will never b... Posted by on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:07:00 GMT |
The Last Taboo |
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens,something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the productof diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't thecourage to l... Posted by on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:06:00 GMT |