April 2009
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for...”
– The Dalai Lama (via)
March 2009
Washed Out.
I was at CVS yesterday, making some prints to put in my picture window, and was pretty amazed by the high quality of the prints that were coming out of the machine. Being the vocal person I am, I voiced my amazement out loud.
The CVS employee behind me added:
“Yeah, they’re of great quality, but the best part of it is that they’re washable.”
Huh?
“Yeah,...
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no...”
– Jane Austen (via)
Haven’t written a spoken word piece (heck,...
Theater
Improv night:
where you and I both
practice
telling each other lies
— the more outrageous they are,
the more believable they seem —
in order to
create
a barely-plausible scene
where we go from being
simply stage hands
on each others bodies
to seasoned actors
in a sizzle reel.
“Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the...”
– Joseph Brodsky
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
– Charlie Brown (via)
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “the world is a fine place and worth fighting...”
– Se7en
Watch
It’s hard to step away from something you enjoy so much, even if it is for a short while.
I enjoy sharing my thoughts and stories here, but I’ve got to take a quick break to get a few other things done. So I’m stepping away for the rest of March. Reluctantly.
In the meantime, I wanted to say thank you.
Thanks to all of you for giving me feedback, for making me feel like the...
Troooth.
The Bill Hinton speaks the truth::
If you like someone, tell them. Whats the worse thing that could happen?
If you miss someone, tell them. There is a good chance that they miss you too.
Open up to everyone, it would be a much better place. Repressed emotions are not something you should be doing. It floods out at some point in time, so might as well do it in your own controlled...
WatchWhoa. What a visually stunning film.
“What would it hurt for us to carve out a little space where someone who sees the...”
– A heartfelt and touching story on The Bronze Medal
“I play major league baseball. It may not be under what the contract was that the...”
– Randy Wolf, my new fav person in the MLB (via)
I don't want to be rich,
but if I have to be rich in order to build a secret oak-paneled downtown library where my pals and I can eat chicken salad sandwiches, drink whiskey, and make poop jokes, then fine, I will get rich.
Scott Simpson (via)
WatchThis bookmarklet has changed my life. Well, at least the way I read things online.
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy,...”
– Dalai Lama (via)
“If our eyes are always looking for weakness, we begin to lose the intuition to...”
– Storyteller Jay O’Callahan (via)
Shane Koyczan: Afraid
From the piece:
Maybe,...
Wired.
A selected list of the names of the wireless networks that show up when searching for a connection at my apartment:
Burgundy
denpar
DrinksBeersAllTheTime
Castle von Internet
Trojan Stallions
Isotopes
NOTFREE
JungleJuice
Kirsten2
LaylaO
Can’t Touch This
Wakka Wakka
TheJiggles
And then there’s mine, which is predictably named:
Smile A Little
You can probably guess...
Pocket change. →
A search for an old man’s son reminds me that when you have a goal, there’s nothing that can come in your way as long as you believe in the kindness of strangers.
“As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further and further toward...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via)
“Even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are here for a fraction of...”
– Minister in Synecdoche, New York (via)
