Random late-night post

Up too late, drinking coffee and thinking. Thinking about eating a jumbo carrot cake cupcake.

Words of Wisdom

'"You know nothing, because if you knew anything, you wouldn't be making everyone around you uncomfortable." Uh-oh, I thought. This isn't good.'
- From Robert Krulwich's commencement speech at the College of the Atlantic

Song 1: Doug Aitken

Seen in Baltimore

I have a feeling that this man knows the answers to life's secrets.

Nude Beaches - Too Much?

I was admiring a friend's pictures, one of which was of a sign advertising a nude beach, and I was reminded of a quote from Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - I wrote it down upon reading it because it was funny:

(On considering a nude beach for recreation)

“I step over to the bearded man, out of Toph’s earshot, and try to get the lowdown.

‘So like, are kids allowed down there?’

‘Of course.’

‘But, is it like...weird?’

‘Weird? What about it would be weird?’

‘You know, for a little kid? Is it too much?’

‘Too much of what? Of the human body?’ He says it in a way that’s meant to make me seem like the freak, he Mr. Natural and me some kind of clothes fascist.

‘Never mind,’ I say. Stupid beach - probably just a bunch of naked guys with beads, bony and pale.”

By the Time it Gets Dark

Moment of Zen

a moment of zen on a blustery day

(October 16, 2010)