A girl sitting ( Read more... )

p.s. life is a grand gaeity of circuses and lullabies, except when it's nothing but white-washed hallways strewn with red tape and urine stains. How's life for you?

How can I feel so empty and so full at the same time ( Read more... )

The following is an essay by Anna Quindlen, the Pulitzer Prize winning ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite like staying up past all hours of the night because you slept in and then took a nap. I haven't checked my e-mail in ages. Sorting through 103 new mail's at 3am and wavering between anxiety attacks and bouts of elation certainly can't be healthy ( Read more... )

otiose \OH-shee-ohs; OH-tee-\, adjective:

1. Ineffective; futile.
2. Being at leisure; lazy; indolent; idle.
3. Of no use.

http://www.peacecouncil.net/Events.htm

STEPHEN COLBERT: NEW AMERICAN HERO
Don Hazen, AlterNet
When Colbert turned up the heat on Washington's elite, he
revealed the big split between those basking in power and
those fighting for change.
http://www.alternet.org/story/36067/

At the end, all but rubbing his hands with cupidity, Rockefeller declares he will now promote abstract art--it's better for business.
-- Stuart Klawans, "Rock in a Hard Place", The Nation, December 27, 1999

The moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
-- Shakespeare, Timon of Athens