The Gods of the Copybook Headings
by Rudyard Kipling
(written in 1919)
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

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Livejournal has been rendered useless to me. Yet, I still can't build up the nerve to delete it.

Sometimes, I overdraw my bank account. It happens more than it should, but not too frequently, and usually when it rains it pours ( Read more... )

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so, I can't imagine a better book to end the Harry Potter series

I'm sad that there won't be anything new to read again, but it was a great way to go out...nonstop action, and a relatively satisfying ending

I do believe that it is high time that I made a brief stop during my insomnia to document an encounter I had just the other day with a man by the name of Charles.

Charles is a current music professor/teacher, and I didn't have the slightest inclination as to ask where. He "dabbled" in philosophy classes when he was younger, claims to be qualified ( Read more... )

Palahniuk's new book "Rant" is amazing so far, and so is this brief passage from it (among many others) about the power of myth, development, and imagination:

By first believing in Santa Claus, then the Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy, Rant Casey [our absent protagonist] was recognizing that those myths are more than pretty stories and ( Read more... )

meh, mediocre grades for a mediocre semester:

Intro Information Highway: A-
Honors American Literature II: A
Western Civ Since 1648: B
Writing Presentn Telecom: B
Introduction to Postproduction: B

If the words of my parents are fulfilled, and I come into possession of both a Mac Book Pro, and the necessary software (hopefully a Final Cut Studio package) at the hands of a loan (I'm probably going to be up shit creek without a paddle in a few years), then I damn well am going to need some people to make some movies with. Just keep that in mind ( Read more... )