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Saturday, December 22, 2007

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:05:28 GMT

"There are or might be moments when I am jealous of those capable of faith. I would love to believe, when a loved one dies, that he or she is going to a better place and that we'll meet again some day. What a lovely, comforting thought. Would that it were true, or that I could believe it. But I don't--and it makes this life and every moment in it more valuable to me. [...] Dawkins points out that we're all atheists. We don't believe in Amon-re, Zeus, Thor, Apollo, Odin, etc., etc., etc. He just goes one god further."

- Amazon.com reviewer

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:01:59 GMT

La porte que quelqu'un a ouverte
La porte que quelqu'un a refermée
La chaise où quelqu'un s'est assis
Le chat que quelqu'un a caressé
Le fruit que quelqu'un a mordu
La lettre que quelqu'un a lue
La chaise que quelqu'un a renversée
La porte que quelqu'un a ouverte
La route où quelqu'un court encore
Le bois que quelqu'un traverse
La rivière où quelqu'un se jette
L'hôpital où quelqu'un est mort.

--Jacques Prévert

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:02:50 GMT

http://youtube.com/watch?v=p_sz33ytHH4

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:02:05 GMT

Heisenberg gets pulled over for speeding.
"Do you know how fast you were going?" asks the cop.
"No," replies Heisenberg. "But I know exactly where I am!"

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:41:54 GMT

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- Will Rogers

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:12:03 GMT

Back in California soon!

Monday, July 09, 2007

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:18:25 GMT

It figures that in this day and age, even a goddess can get fired.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/04goddess.html?th&emc=th

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:15:07 GMT

"I consult my religion, I consult my reading of the Constitution, I consult my views of what I think are important in a pluralistic society, and the reality that we have to respect the fact that there are people that are equally as religious, equally as moral that make a different decision about this. And should government put them in jail?"

- Rudolph Giuliani

Monday, June 25, 2007

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:21:47 GMT

Lowest Landing Ever

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2037500780

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:21:40 GMT

"I really try not to pay attention to reviews good or bad. You can't work as a creative artist and be influenced by reviews - it's as dangerous as trying to write for an audience. I don't try to make music accessible, I simply write music I would want to hear and have other people hear as well."
- Lowell Liebermann

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An unsympathetic Dallas reviewer brushed off Liebermann's unabashedly tuneful Second as "excruciatingly conventional." Retorts the composer: "That's like criticizing a novelist because his grammar is correct."