i'm gonna be MIA all weekend and i just finished Crime & Punishment, so here's a doublay parting shot:

"Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad conciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men, I think, must feel great sorrow in this world."

--C & P, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, p. 264

Bud:  "Man.  I hated that kid.  I probably still would."

Me:  "How can you hate someone with cancer?"

Bud:  "Oh, whatever.  He survived."

--uttered over a pitcher of PBR at Elsie's by Bud Fisher.   On the subject of kids we went to high school with.

last Thursday, i went to the Walker to see two Andy Warhol films, "Haircut No. 1" and "Eat." "Haircut" i could really take or leave, which is how i feel about most of Warhol's art, in all honesty, but "Eat" i am still thinking about almost a week later.  the film was 39 minutes long, and i could have watched this man:


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"I like it when people lie!  Lying is man's only privilege over all other organisms."

--Fyodor Dostoyevksy, Crime & Punishment, p. 202

no one has been saying anything interesting lately, so thist week's quote of the week is a slice of self-love that i happened to think of as i was perusing my facebook friends list today:

MTM: "You have hot friends."

Me: "Of course I have hot friends. I am a stone fox."

"Gangsters love taggin'."

--the locker across the hall from my classroom at work.

sorry about the Incubus ref, but it is totally appropriate for the following public service announcement:

"We now know that every particle has an antiparticle, with which it can annihilate...There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles.  However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands!  You would both vanish in a ( Read more... )

Greed:Low

Gluttony:Low

Wrath:Medium

Sloth:Low

Envy:Very Low

Lust:High

Pride:Medium

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i found this quiz to be surprisingly accurate. though i thought i might be a bit more wrath or pride...ummm...full.

i saw two movies this week, Brokeback Mountain and King Kong. besides the fact that the enormous gorilla has muscles and does not wear a shirt in King Kong and Jake Gyllenhaal has muscles and is often not wearing a shirt in Brokeback, you would not think that the two movies had anything in common. but surprisingly, i found myself feeling an ( Read more... )

"I'm so adorable.  No one can be mad at me.  Believe me, I've tried.  The more that I'm an ass to people, the more they hold me dear."

--shey_shaw , my brother, on his favorite subject: himself.

that pizza was delish.  oh yeah.  i just wrote delish.