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From the About Page at Scurvy Boy:
At that time my Dad made a pretty good living as a pirate so Mom really didn’t have a choice. She did eventually take some correspondence courses, it did take longer than usual due to our wanderings but she did manage to get an Associate’s Degree in TV/VCR repair (which was even more impressive in light of the fact that our boat had neither a TV or VCR).
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The Surrealist Compliment Generator says,
“Certainly your trout are more proseperous to vacuum than the flying coachmen of Czar Nicholai!”
How hoopy.
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This article, The Images That Won’t Let Us Go, is painfully true. The Challenger explosion seems like nothing to me now. This is just so much. You don’t even need to say it. Everyone knows. Everyone in the country, in the world probably … You can just say, “Did you know anyone there?” Or, “Have you heard anything else?” You don’t have to say, “the World Trade Center,” or, “the Pentagon.” What else could you mean? Is there anything else? Did anything else happen this week?
While I was riding around Boston with my dad the week before last, we started talking about one of my favorite Hemingway lines:
“The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college,”
(from A Farewell to Arms).
At WorldNewYork I just read:
“I tried to read this morning’s newspaper this afternoon, but the pre-bombing news seemed irrelevant, like news from twenty years ago.”
This Sunday seems like it’s happening to someone else. It feels as if I am not who I was last week. Has the world changed? Have I? Who is this person that I am now? It’s very odd. Last Monday there was so much … I don’t know … So much stuff that seemed so important then just really, honestly doesn’t seem to matter. It sounds hokey … cheese … but it’s true.
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Gainesville Sun columnist Pat Dooley asks, “Why don’t we let colleges play football every day?” I’m all for it. I certainly agree with his statement,
“Football each day, every day. That’s my motto.”
Last week I caught a college game on a Wednesday night and I almost fainted from joy. I couldn’t even tell you who was playing. It was awesome. Last night I watched Oklahoma State play Southern Mississippi at 2 am PST and I was thrilled. I missed the first 53 minutes of the game, but oh, man, I was pulling for Pogi and his men to overcome their 4-turnover evening with that last second drive …
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I’ve a few good reasons for drinking
And one just entered my head
If a man can’t drink when he’s living
How the hell can he drink when he’s dead?
- seen on a t-shirt for McSwiggin’s Pub, “where there are no strangers, only friends yet to meet”
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Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy’s arm behind his back. Now who’s asking the questions?
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If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don’t think I’d call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp’s gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.
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“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.” - Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.” - Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)
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I was searching for a quote by Robert Kennedy. I remember seeing it on a billboard in Boston several years ago. It was one of those things that for some reason - the air, the moment, the sky, something - has always stayed on the edge of my thoughts. Whenever I am wandering, wondering what is happening, or how, or why, or feeling lost or worried or confused or desperate, this quote floats into my head. It was something like,
Some men look at what is and ask, ‘Why?’ I choose to look at what could be and ask, “Why not?”
It just seems very powerful to me, this concept. Hope.
So I thought about it this morning and I decided to see if I could find the exact quote on the web. I found a few variations and most were accompanied by a note that Kennedy was paraphrasing Shaw.
Too much ado?
Without further, here are a few other good ones:
- “The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.”
- “Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
- “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
- “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
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Update: My boss visited my cubicle a few minutes ago and said, “I don’t understand. You’re still working. I have not been working all day!”
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“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” -
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“We are a disenchanted generation, and we don’t even care enough to be hippies.” -
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