-
Bring On the Dancing Horses
Just wanted to tell both the people who still use LJ that I'll be away for the weekend and won't be trying to keep up with the amazing people who are on my f-list. So please know that I hope you are not eaten by grues. I will endeavor to do the same.
When I post the mood as "chipper," the implied meaning is like "wood chipper," no?Bloody Kisses ( Read more... ) -
Wall Street's Wild Ride (April 12, 2000)
I've just always loved this person on the street response from The Onion:
The Dow and Nasdaq have been extremely volatile of late, plunging one minute and soaring the next. What do you think of all the wild fluctuations on Wall Street?
"The dip was just a brief aberration. In fact, we can look forward to 30, 40 years of steady growth, until the world ( Read more... ) -
Encyclopedia Imitating Art
"At sixteen, Clairmont was a lively, voluptuous brunette with a good singing voice and a hunger for recognition."
It's always disorienting when Wikipedia entries take on the tone of what they're discussing.
I feel like I've already read the Gothic novel that started with this sentence. Or maybe I'll use it as the first line of a long-off memoir.
( ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Mark Twain on Tolerance:
All the talk about tolerance, in anything or anywhere, is plainly a
gentle lie. It does not exist. It is in no man's heart; but it unconsciously,
and by moss-grown inherited habit, drivels and slobbers from all men's
lips.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank and that settles
it. ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles ( Read more... ) -
Scarlett Johansson Leak
I normally don't wade into celeb scandals of the moment, but the Internet seems to be on fire with this one--so I'm chiming in ( Read more... ) -
note to self
Please do your work, at least something ( Read more... ) -
I am certain I am doing this wrong, on multiple levels.
1) If you could speak to any one species of animal, which would you choose?
Homo sapiens.
2) What is your favorite element?
Parsimonious, abstemious, and underwater.
3) If you could have any sort of wings, what would they look like?
Invisible reflecting patent leather.
4) What was your favorite movie during elementary school?
Slayer, "Reign in ( Read more... ) -
...the museums we carry around inside us...
"Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true ( Read more... )
Click to view