“The beat of the ocean makes time pile up rather than forging straight ahead.”
-Barabara Dimmick in Ploughshares
what a ship is, what a ship really is…
February 18, 2009from the creator of the Obama icon
February 4, 2009“Indifference is the enemy of art.”
-Shepherd Fairey
In fact, pickled ginger is delicious
January 8, 2009“I make it a rule to try everything. Don’t you think it would be very annoying if you tasted ginger for the first time on your deathbed, and found you never liked anything so much?”
-Miss Allan in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out
BSBS? (Buddhist Sounding Bull Shit)…
January 2, 2009“You can’t see my bubble and I can’t see yours; all we see of each other is a speck, like the wick in the middle of that flame. The flame goes about with us everywhere; it’s not ourselves exactly, but what we feel; the world is short, or people mainly; all kinds of people.”
“A nice streaky bubble yours must be!”
“And supposing my bubble could run into some one else’s bubble–”
“And they both burst?”
“Then–then–then–it would be an e-nor-mous world.”
-Hewet and Hurst in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out
for the love of distraction
January 2, 2009“You know I can never work without a kettle on the hob. As often as not, I don’t drink tea, but I must feel that I can if I want to.”
-Richard Ambrose in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out
Ethics
January 2, 2009“How much rather would one be a murderer than a bore.”
-Mrs. Dalloway in Virginia Woolf
batmannnn
January 2, 2009“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.”
-the Joker in The Dark Knight
Tom Cruise on Scientology-tee hee
December 17, 2008“There’s nothing better than going out there and fighting the fight, and then suddenly you see, poofghsla, things are better.” -Tom Cruise
The Multiple Selves
December 13, 2008“In short, if there is a community of computers inside my head, there had better be someone in charge, and it had better be me.”
-Jerry Fodor
the lowest paying job award goes to….
November 22, 2008“Satan is the babysitter of hell”.
-Kyle in medieval lit.
