Category Archives: quotes

Do Be Do Be Do

May 1, 2013 – 7:47 pm

“To be is to do”-Socrates “To do is to be”-Sartre “Do Be Do Be Do”-Sinatra “Yaba Daba Doo!”-Fred Flintstone

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Knock Knock It’s Henry At The Door

April 23, 2013 – 8:57 pm

I was listening to Michael Pollan on NPR talking about how nobody cooks anymore. I was cooking chicken and mashed potatoes for dinner. I still cook. It’s not three-star, but it’s better than Chinese take-out. My friend Emily Armstrong said, “I make smothered pork chops, oat bran apple muffins, and five pounds of mashed potatoes.” [...]

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Aurora Borealis – Jack London

April 13, 2013 – 6:57 pm

“With the Aurora Borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading [...]

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Dominoes With A Chicken

April 11, 2013 – 8:21 pm

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?” ― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

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Air Command Mentality

February 14, 2013 – 8:27 am

President Obama supported the drone war in his State of the Union Speech. A vast majority of American public back the continuation of GW Bush’s air attacks against reputed Islamic militants in Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to prevent another 9/11, despite the collateral civilian killings and the fact that the White House has condoned the [...]

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