September 2009
91 posts
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.”
– Mark Twain (via laurishly)
The speech Safire wrote for Nixon if Apollo 11... →
“If Shakespeare returned to the earth to-morrow, and if it were found that his...”
– George Orwell - via Reason Magazine
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Some Sort Of Sombrero Quarantine →
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Watchif I had to choose one gameplay video of somebody playing video games to show why I like playing video games, this is it.
Look Into My Eye... →
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“Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay”
– Robert Browning
Virus Sculptures From Old Computer Parts by... →
10 Dirty Little Restaurant Secrets →
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Reason 2 Why House is Great:
In other shows, the hero learns something at the end of the episode. House usually learns something by the end of the episode, but 1) the audience isn’t sure that House learned anything, 2) House doesn’t let anybody know he learned something, 3) the people who are supposed to think he learned something think he learned, 4) the people who know him know he didn’t learn anything but...
"If We Can't Stop It, We Can't Stop Anything" →
'What You're Left With Is Libertarianism' →
quote, and a nice summation by Mr. Gutfeld: On the left, you have people who want to dictate your behavior under the guise of tolerance. Unless you disagree with them. Then the tolerance goes out the window. Which kind of negates the whole idea of tolerance. That’s the politically correct moralizing. Then when you become a conservative, the other kind of moralizing comes from religion. But if you...
“I spend about 85% of my waking hours suppressing the urge to cry ‘oh god, you’re...”
– Matthew Baldwin (via merlin)
I reenact my adolescence - late at night, feeling a bit lost, a bit behind, a little lonely. I’m listening to the Beatles and feeling connected to the greater human consciousness, to a million kids like me, older in years but with problems that dovetail and intersect at loneliness, connectedness, creation and death.
The Beatles are us, are everything.
it is not dying
it is not dying
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“Yeah! I know you, I’m wearing your tube socks!”
– Michael J. Nelson, upon meeting Joel Robinson, Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episode 1 Season 10, “Soultaker”
Shower Guys →
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How Weekend Projects Can Free Your Inner Rock Star... →
“He’s not even the best drummer in the Beatles.”
– John Lennon, upon being asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world (apocryphal?)
Harrison Ford On INDY 5: "I'll Be Very Happy To... →
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