My name is Sera, and I’m a chocoholic.
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M’s and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.
Quotation from Dave Barry
No matter how carefully you prepare, Black Swan events, by definition, will still occur. Gotcha.
Ten Principles for a Black Swan-Proof World (FooledByRandomness.com) What is fragile should break early while it is still small.
I went to the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit at the de Young museum yesterday.
Within a yard of the doorway, stretching as far as one could see and blocking the entrance to the chamber, stood what to all appearances was a solid wall of gold. For the moment there was no clue as to its meaning, so as quickly as I dared I set to work to widen the hole.
Quotation from Howard Carter, on entering King Tut’s burial chamber
Wasted, a song by Angus & Julia Stone (YouTube.com) I’m wasted. I’m so wasted on you.
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
Quotation from Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook
Pheromones: Potential Participants in your Sex Life (CNN.com)
If toast always lands butter-side down and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
Quotation from comedian Steven Wright
Five Second Helpings (Snopes.com)
Tutorial: How to Make Skittles Vodka (MixThatDrink.com)
Sex Drive 101: Do you think courteous drivers make better lovers?
My favorite use of condoms was in ‘Montana Sky,’ when Tess goes to seduce Nate at his desk and he’s kind of like, ‘Well, you know, I’m not prepared,’ and she pulls out like twenty of them, and he doesn’t know whether to be flattered or afraid.
Nora Roberts, as quoted in The New Yorker magazine
I am the very pink of courtesy.
Quotation from William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (Reuters)
Apollo 11: One Small Step (NASA)
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead.
Quotation from Susan Catherine
Rule #355: Neither be a Genki Girl nor a Mopey One.
With the lights out, it’s less dangerous.
Here we are now, entertain us.
I feel stupid and contagious.
Here we are now, entertain us:
A mulatto, an albino,
A mosquito,
My libido, a denial.
Lyrics by Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself— anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: Facecrime.
Quotation from George Orwell, 1984
“So you want to give her your chain?” the Slaver asked.
“No,” the customer replied. “I don’t want to buy the slave to keep her in chains. I want her for a companion.”
She called to me as I passed her by.
Lady of the night looked in my eyes.
She said, I been through some changes
But one thing always stays the same:
Without love, theres nothing without love.
Lyrics by Bon Jovi, Without Love
It wasn’t a coup! It wasn’t a coup! Here, in front of Honduras and the entire world, I guarantee we will have free elections, as soon as we decide when.
Quotation from Roberto Micheletti, Interim President of Honduras
Elaine: Hey, I didn’t even use one.
Seinfeld: I thought you said sex was imminent.
Elaine: Yeah, it was, but then I couldn’t decide if he was really sponge worthy.
Seinfeld: Sponge worthy?
Elaine: Yeah, Jerry. I have to conserve these sponges.
Seinfeld: But you like this guy. Isn’t that what the sponges are for?
Elaine: Yes, before they went off the market. I mean, now I’ve got to re-evaluate my whole screening process. I can’t afford to waste any of them.
Quotation from Seinfeld, The Sponge
Do you think someone with wandering eyes also has a wandering heart?
Oh yes I forgot to mention now that I’ve got your attention
I did not want you to see me this way.
Lyrics from Soul Asylum, Wandering Eyes
What’s left to think about that 6.5 billion other people haven’t already thunk?
Stuff White People Like: Bob Marley, Facebook, Bumper Stickers, Bottled Water, Whole Foods, Sushi, Gifted Children, Netflix, Juno, and Coffee.
People who think they don’t photograph well have nobody to blame other than themselves. There is an art to looking good in front of the camera. That is why models are told to practice their poses in front of a mirror. Practice makes perfect.
The queen was the most beautiful woman in all the land, and very proud of her beauty. She had a mirror, which she stood in front of every morning, and asked:
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?
And the mirror always said:
You, my queen, are fairest of all.
And then she knew for certain that no one in the world was more beautiful than she.
Quotation from Wilhelm Grimm, Little Snow White
“Love Conquers All” is written above the door. Omnia Vincit Amor. The phrase is taken from Virgil’s Eclogues. This comes from the belief that without Love, everything is meaningless. But is it possible to love pain? Would loving pain conquer it?
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
Quotation from Jim Morrison
Embrace of Pain (Starwars Wiki) “The device could induce so much pain that it was capable of turning even the most noble Jedi to the dark side of the Force.”
P.S. Happy Independence Day, America!
Why do politicians make the worst decisions?
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford: Mistress is ‘soul mate,’ but I want to fall back in love with wife (New York Daily News)
I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light – but hey, that would be going into sexual details…
Quotation from Governor Mark Sanford, written in an email to his “soulmate” Maria Belen Chapur
He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids.
Quotation from Jenny Sanford, on her husband’s mysterious “disappearance”