06:40 pm - Shrooms? Saw these at NYRF in Sterling Forest several weeks ago. When I returned Mary Jo and the Cah were gone. Um, I mean the mushrooms were missing. Does any reader >ahem< Urbpan >ahem< recognize these?
Yes, I recognize PI as well. I didn't step into it...
01:19 pm - Only IN Case of Fire... Owl: Trouble with you is you don’t use your brains... I’m usin’ mine constant!
Churchy: I uses mine only in case of fire.
Owl: From now on I’m dedicatin’ myself to thinkin’ for others... I’ll put my extra brain power to work... Charge big fees for formin’ opinions, decidin’ when to sneeze, etc., for busy executives.
Pogo: You’ll be too busy to think for your own self.
Owl: Hah! I’ll hire a research service for that... They’ll poll the pulse of all that’s fraught an’ give me the averages.
Pogo: Only thing I don’t get is why don’t he do his own thinkin’?
Churchy: How can he afford it at his prices?... He can get it done much cheaper on the outside.
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines — not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master’s call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.
— Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
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It is a rotten world
Artful politicians are its bane
Its saving grace is
the
Artlessness of the young
And the wonders of the sky.
— Epitaph, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria
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So, if this were indeed my Final Hour, these would be my words to you. I would not claim to pass on any secret of life, for there is none, or any wisdom except the passionate plea of caring … Try to feel, in your heart’s core, the reality of others. This is the most painful thing in the world, probably, and the most necessary. In times of personal adversity, know that you are not alone. Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all of your fellow humans everywhere in the world. Know that your commitment is above all to life itself.
— Margaret Laurence [but see her wiki page]
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He had that rare weird electricity about him — that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving “normally.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, _Fear and Loathing ’72_
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11:59 am - I have just reset security on this LJ While the journal itself is Public, I have reset all entries to friends-only, because it's a backdoor for "journal/guestbook/forum spammers". There may be an occasional public entry here, but if you want the good stuff, you'll have to be friended. Sorry, I'm tired of deleting many dozens of "UGG boots" comments.
