Thu 7 Apr 2011
Happy birthday, Donna Rae!
Posted by PJ under birthdays, mom
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90 years beautiful!
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Thu 7 Apr 2011
A matter of degree
Posted by PJ under belief, quote of the day, tricksters
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Random quote of the day:
“Everyone has beliefs, and everyone has areas of gullibility. Beliefs are complex; they are not all or none things; they can be ambiguous and unstable. Sometimes they are vigorously espoused and then quickly abandoned.”
—George P. Hansen, Trickster and the Paranormal
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 6 Apr 2011
Cover my cover
Posted by PJ under blood geek, covers, poll
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You can leave a comment here, or take the poll on my Livejournal blog.
Picture this: a long shot of a carnival, all brightly lit against the darkness, glowing in the background. A tall, well-built man with auburn hair stands in the foreground with his back to “the camera.” He wears a white 30s-vintage shirt and black gaberdine pants with suspenders. Perhaps he wears a bowler hat, perhaps a fedora. In one hand, he holds a hammer; in the other, he holds a rose. No wait, he holds the hammer and the rose in the same hand. Then what’s the other hand doing? And a bowler? Seriously? Fedoras? Aren’t those too Indiana Jones? Oh wait, this is a period piece set in the 30s? Maybe that might make a difference…
What’s he holding and wearing?
- I like the hammer in one hand, the rose in the other.
- I like the hammer and the rose in one hand. You don’t need the other hand to be doing anything.
- I don’t mind bowlers.
- I like fedoras better.
- Haven’t fedoras been done to death?
- Bowlers make me think of Laurel and Hardy.
- Bowlers make me think of Magritte.
- But seriously, the hammer in one hand, the rose in the other.
- I ain’t kidding: the hammer and rose in one hand.
- Something else which I’ll talk about in the comments.
Wed 6 Apr 2011
The apparition of these faces
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, reality
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Random quote of the day:
“Reality in our century is not something to be faced.”
—Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 5 Apr 2011
Marxism
Posted by PJ under politics, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
—Groucho Marx
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 4 Apr 2011
Peace out
Posted by PJ under peace, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“A peaceful man does more good than a learned man.”
—Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 2, Chapter 3
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Sat 2 Apr 2011
A new phalanx of poetry
Posted by PJ under my poetry, poetry
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has marched onto my website and conquered the natives.
Fri 1 Apr 2011
Not lost, but disunited
Posted by PJ under nature, quote of the day, transformation
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Random quote of the day:
“Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.”
—Anaxagoras, (450 B.C.), quoted by Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics
Which reminds me of this famous bit from Lucretius (yes, I am inflicting poetry on you):
No single thing abides; but all things flow.
Fragment to fragment clings—the things thus grow
Until we know and name them. By degrees
They melt, and are no more the things we know.
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift
I see the suns, I see the systems lift
Their forms; and even the systems and the suns
Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
You too, oh earth—your empires, lands, and seas—
Least with your stars, of all the galaxies,
Globed from the drift like these, like these you too
Shalt go. You are going, hour by hour, like these.
Nothing abides. The seas in delicate haze
Go off; those mooned sands forsake their place;
And where they are, shall other seas in turn
Mow with their scythes of whiteness other bays…
The seeds that once were we take flight and fly,
Winnowed to earth, or whirled along the sky,
Not lost but disunited. Life lives on.
It is the lives, the lives, the lives, that die.
They go beyond recapture and recall,
Lost in the all—indissoluble All:—
Gone like the rainbow from the fountain’s foam,
Gone like the spindrift shuddering down the squall.
Flakes of the water, on the waters cease!
Soul of the body, melt and sleep like these.
Atoms to atoms—weariness to rest—
Ashes to ashes—hopes and fears to peace!
—from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus (89 BC)
(tr. William Ellery Leonard)
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
