Monday, August 23, 2010
Bicycle
Last night I spent two hours riding my bike through random side-streets and alley-ways. I think I'll do that more often.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Dead Inspiration #2
People are so much more inspiring once they're dead...
"The best way to contradict yourself is to let yourself speak."
RIP Sebastian Horsley, timeless dandy of the underworld. You are Inspiration.
<3
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Climate Science
"The human population can deal with the climate change problem, but if climate change is to deal with the human population problem, then we're in trouble."
--some biologist on the radio
--some biologist on the radio
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Rationality + Perspective
Isn't it odd how the strangest self-defeating behaviours seem perfectly sensible at certain moments in time.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Wit
a quote, on John Dunne's Death Be Not Proud, from a stimulating play/movie adaptation.
In the edition you chose, this profoundly simple meaning is sacrificed to hysterical punctuation:Not semicolons.
" And Death", capital D...
"shall be no more;" semi-colon.
"Death," capital D, comma...
"thou shalt die!", exclamation mark.
If you go in for this sort of thing, I suggest you take up Shakespeare.
Gardner's edition of the Holy Sonnets returns to the Westmoreland manuscript.
Not for sentimental reasons, I assure you, but because Helen Gardner is a scholar.
It reads:
" And death shall be no more," comma...
"Death thou shalt die."
Nothing but a breath, a comma, separates life from life everlasting.
Very simple, really.
With the original punctuation restored, death is no longer something to act out on a stage with exclamation marks.
It is a comma. A pause.
In this way, the uncompromising way, one learns something from the poem, wouldn't you say?
Life, death, soul, God...
past, present.
Not insuperable barriers.
Just a comma.
Labels:
death,
Death Be Not Proud,
John Donne,
life,
quote,
wisdom,
Wit
Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
I want to practice viola!
ballses why did i have to fall on my roller blades and fuck up my hand –_–
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
teakettlecrud
My teapot leaves droppings.
It's one of those heavy-ass expensive Japanese iron tea-pots that are awesome cool-looking and keep my tea warm for ages. It leaves some kind of black residue behind when I make tea, which is probably killing me slowly.
Am I going to die?
*sip*
Tah!
It's one of those heavy-ass expensive Japanese iron tea-pots that are awesome cool-looking and keep my tea warm for ages. It leaves some kind of black residue behind when I make tea, which is probably killing me slowly.
Am I going to die?
*sip*
Tah!
Labels:
antioxidants,
green tea,
health,
iron teapot,
oolong,
raw buckwheat wildflower honey,
vegan,
お茶
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