Thu 28 Jun 2012
What the stakes truly are
Posted by PJ under politics, society, video
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Completely awesome. NSFW language. Aaron Sorkin, Jeff Daniels, HBO’s The Newsroom.
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Thu 28 Jun 2012
Take a number
Posted by PJ under death, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“The death rate will be one per person for the foreseeable future.”
—Dr. Francis Collins, The Language of God
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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 27 Jun 2012
Things I thought about blogging but didn’t have the energy for
Posted by PJ under blogging, lists, titles, writing
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I’ve started several blogs over the past weeks, even got quite far on some of them, but then I’ll get interrupted, or the tone is somehow off and I need to think some more, or yet another Life Thing comes up and I don’t get them posted. So instead I’m posting a list of titles. Heighth of laziness, yes I know, yadda yadda. Some of these may get finished some day, but the wackyosity that is my life these days doesn’t allow me to predict when.
- When is an instinct an instinct and when is it a kangaroo?
- The League of Anti-Whining Enforcement
- Journey around my room – The Ice Blue Madonna
- Momentary angels
- For Zilznia in her big, comfy chair
- No-Code me, please
- Love, and other fragile-enduring things
- Poll: How do you eat your muffins? (no sexual pun intended)
- Book review: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
- Oh right, this is a novel not a novella
- Jung and the active imagination
Wed 27 Jun 2012
Empty shell
Posted by PJ under finishing, novels, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:
“Every book is a purge. At the end of it one is empty…like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in.”
—Daphne Du Maurier, National Geographic, Vol. 120, December 1961
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Tue 26 Jun 2012
I must post, too
Posted by PJ under dancing, video
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You’ve seen this elsewhere, I’m sure, but I LOVE these videos and just had to join in.
Tue 26 Jun 2012
The butterfly’s dream
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, spirituality
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Random quote of the day:
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
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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 25 Jun 2012
A dusting of memory
Posted by PJ under memories, quote of the day, the dead
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Random quote of the day:
“When people die they leave behind tiny deposits, like dust or ash, littering the lives of those who have to carry on. Impossible to wipe a house clean. Memories dwelled in cobweb places behind wardrobes and between cupboards; they hid behind radiators; they lurked on shelves; like slivers of shattered glass, they waited for their moment to lodge deep in any vulnerable expanse of passing skin.”
—Graham Joyce, Requiem
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Wed 20 Jun 2012
“The statues walked from the hills”
Posted by PJ under archaeology, mysteries, video
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Whenever Easter Islanders were asked how the immense moai statues were transported from the mountains to the seashore, they always told researchers that the statues walked. Well, maybe they did.
Here’s the article that goes with the video.
Wed 20 Jun 2012
Freedom
Posted by PJ under courage and fear, freedom, hope, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
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“I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free.”
—epitaph of Nikos Kazantzakis, adapted from his book, The Saviors of God
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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 19 Jun 2012
The ladies
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sex, truth
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Random quote of the day:
“No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.”
—Mark Twain, “A Double-Barreled Detective Storyâ€
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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.
