Some people take Discordianism the same as religion.
They can’t live harmoniously with others, which means
they don’t get along with me. It’s a stupid battle of wills.
“A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.”
Quotation from Ferdinand Foch
Sometimes I feel like sticking my fingers
in my ear and singing Nah nah nahhhhh.
“Eloquence is heard, poetry is overheard. Eloquence
supposes an audience; the peculiarity of poetry appears
to us to lie in the poet’s utter unconsciousness of a listener.”
Quotation from John Stuart Mill, Thoughts on Poetry and Its Varieties
Anything given from the heart is nice. A silver skull ring,
thrift shop jeans, a handmade card or a school year in
Italy, it’s the thought that counts. Don’t disappoint me.
Claudia Schiffer’s Christmas Wish List
Carolina Lange Crochet e Tear
“Life will show you masks that are worth all of your carnivals.”
Quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life
“Tragedy and comedy are, indeed, but two masks worn by the same
character alternately, depending on the exigencies of the moment;
that is, depending upon which mask best represents him in such a way
as successfully to reduce the unacceptable tensions of his ambience.”
Quotation from David L. Hall, Eros and Irony: A Prelude to Philosophical Anarchism
Not being allowed to do something challenges me.
I prefer to make my own boundaries, rather than
exist in a pre-defined environment. I like being in
control of my destiny. I’d be a bad communist.
“Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules.”
Quotation from Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms
Once we have exhausted ourselves, we collapse to form black holes.
No light escapes our intense gravity. Material attracted to a black hole
gains our enormous energy and radiates before being swallowed into
the center of the universe, where it becomes Life in a different form.
“What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning!”
Quotation from Charlie Chaplin in Limelight.
We’re going to do it anyway, publicly or otherwise.
Getting Your Freak On
Something presses in the back of my head.
I can’t pinpoint what it is. My neck muscles
tense. I can’t focus. I’m lightheaded. Aren’t
these classic symptoms of being in love? Shit.
“LOVE is a breach in the walls, a broken gate,
Where that comes in that shall not go again;
Love sells the proud heart’s citadel to Fate.
They have known shame, who love unloved. Even then,
When two mouths, thirsty each for each, find slaking,
And agony’s forgot, and hushed the crying
Of credulous hearts, in heaven—such are but taking
Their own poor dreams within their arms, and lying
Each in his lonely night, each with a ghost.
Some share that night. But they know love grows colder,
Grows false and dull, that was sweet lies at most.
Astonishment is no more in hand or shoulder,
But darkens, and dies out from kiss to kiss.
All this is love; and all love is but this.”
Poem by Rupert Brooke, Love
I have mild Triskaidekaphobia.
I avoid the number thirteen
when conveniently possible.
When I am empty, please dispose
of me in an improper container.
“The base of all artistic genius is the power of
conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing
way, of putting a happy world of its own creation
in place of the meaner world of common days…”
Quotation by Walter Pater, Winckelmann
Dictate your own path without fear and self-criticism.
“I have a box containing angst, pain, and self-loathing.
I wear it on my head like a sort of diving bell, so I can breathe…”
Quotation from Hamster’s Box of Angst, Pain, and Self-Loathing
“My fear… is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”
Quotation by Franz Kafka, in a Letter to Milena Jesenská
As job responsibility increases, the percentage of women
in those positions decreases. Why are only 13% of
applicants for store managers women? That’s discouraging.
Apply for a WalMart Career Here.
Read about the Lawsuit- Dukes v. Wal-Mart, Case No. 04-16688 (9th Cir. Feb. 6, 2007) (PDF File)
Basically, don’t talk until you bring me coffee.
“I had black coffee and apple pie with a slice of melted yellow
cheese. I think that was a good selection. Betsy had coffee
and a fruit salad dish. She could have had anything she wanted.”
Quotation from Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) in Taxi Driver
War is failed diplomacy and causes ill-will wherever it goes.
“The next war will be a war in which people, not armies, will suffer and
our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the
women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the
double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and
knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?”
Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted in Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
The Boards of sophisticated financial companies such
as Merrill Lynch and Citigroup should have known the
downside when they allowed their CEOs to transfer
the risks of derivatives trading onto their company’s
balance sheets. They should all be held accountable.
November 19th is World Toilet Day.
Attend the World Toilet College or
make plans to attend next year’s
World Toilet Summit. Click Here.
The toilet doubles as a recovery room.
One word: Antibacterial Wipes.
I’ve decided to carry them
with me in my bag always.
Is that being weird?
For the amount of toilet paper stolen
each year, one would think a thriving
black market for it exists somewhere.
What is the source of Hope? Do we create it ourselves?
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism.
It is not the conviction that something will turn
out well, but the certainty that something makes
sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
Quotation from Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace
I was tagged by my friend Kalai. It’s a game bloggers play. Here are the rules-
1. You have to post these rules before you give the facts.
2. You must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name.
If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had.
3. At the end of your blog post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag.
Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
So I have to tag three others: I tag Bettina, Golf Widow and Callie. These are three very different writers who blog deliciously!
What does it take to stand out? A compelling cohesiveness,
with each aspect of the self complimenting
the same logical conclusion – the conviction of you.
“One of my mottos is flaunt what you’ve got left.”
Cybill Sheperd
