What can I say? I like screaming. It’s almost Christmas. I have always liked Christmas.
He would never let us go. We were his belly slaves.
Quotation from Harlan Ellison, I have No Mouth And I Must Scream
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Quotation from Iris Murdoch
We spent a few days in Reno, Nevada. It seems a shabbier version of Las Vegas– a few casinos surrounded by pawn shops, tattoo parlors, wedding chapels and budget motels. Despite the recession, there are some signs of urban renewal. They have a new downtown ballpark and a Triple-A level baseball team. The Riverwalk District, not far from the casinos, offers theaters, restaurants and events like Art and Wine Walks. Reno, which proudly proclaims itself as “The Biggest Little City in the World,” has potential.
I decided to take more classes this fall. I’ll learn to create webpages using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets. Wish me luck.
Not everything is fixable. I don’t now which is worse- knowing something can’t be fixed, or knowing it can be fixed and doing nothing about it. Either way, it translates into feelings of uselessness and inadequacy. And why is it so easy to put off important things until tomorrow, when fixing them today would be much less painless.
“Procrastination” Tales Of Mere Existence (YouTube)
Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.
Quotation from Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Quotation from William James
Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you’re pouring or drinking.
Quotation from Bill Cosby
A lonely lake, a lonely shore,
A lone pine leaning on the moon;
All night the water-beating wings
Of a solitary loon.
With mournful wail from dusk to dawn
She gibbered at the taunting stars—
A hermit-soul gone raving mad
And beating at her bars.
Poem by Lew Sarett, The Loon
“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
Girls just know this stuff: Keep your knees together. Don’t get drunk (in public). Dress with respect. Remember to write thank-yous.
“The Recently Deflowered Girl” – Illustrated by Edward Gorey (Joey deVilla’s Personal Blog) You say: Come to think of it, even ordinary lichee nuts make me dizzy.
In Gorean mythology it is said that there was once a war between men and women and that the women lost, and that the Priest-Kings, not wishing the women to be killed, made them beautiful, but as the price of this gift decreed that they, and their daughters, to the end of time, would be the slaves of men.
Quotation from John Norman, Dancer of Gor
It’s no crime to be poor. But persistent poverty
and oppression causes despair and hopelessness.
The United Nations Childrens Fund (unicef.org)
The State of the World’s Children 2007 (unicef.org) (pdf)
“Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave… In
failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
Quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not,
as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a
set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied, but written off as trash.
Quotation from John Berger, In Keeping a Rendezvous
The one thing I asked was “Please don’t leave me hanging.”
She said, “Don’t give up on me, I’ll be back.”
She’s been gone 28 days…