Wednesday, March 28, 2001
posted at 4:11 PM
"Journalism is not a trade that attracts a lot of slick people; none
of the Calvin Klein crowd or international jet-set types. The sun will
set in a blazing red sky to the east of Casablanca before a journalist
appears on the cover of People magazine." -- Hunter S. Thompson
posted at 4:04 PM
"I have sinned against the wisdom of the creator and, justly, I
have been punished. I wanted to improve his work because, in
my blindness, I believed that a link in the astonishing chain of
laws that govern and constantly renew life on the surface of the
Earth had been forgotten. It seemed to me that weak and
insignificant man had to redress this oversight."
--------Justus von Liebig, inventor of chemical agriculture, when
looking back on his life and work. From: Agrikulturchemie, 8. Auflage,
1865.
posted at 2:00 PM
Monday, March 26, 2001
The world at night.
posted at 9:28 PM
"I met her in 7 minutes. I found myself surprised by how much one can surmise in such a short time."
Speed Dating
posted at 7:54 PM
Sunday, March 25, 2001
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posted at 4:08 PM
Thursday, March 22, 2001
posted at 12:42 PM
looooond: i'm ok w/ that. thanks for all your efforts. it reminds me of when i worked at the swedish furniture store, and my first task in the morning, after warming my bosses milk first to put in his gevalia coffee , was to hit redial to secure him a tee-time at the public golf course. it's annoying.
posted at 12:30 PM
What follows id a headline from today's NYT. I practically pooped in my pants.
"Study Optimistic on Safer Land Mines, but Says Push Is Needed."
S T R E N G T H T H R O U G H F A I L U R E
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"We have inserted our products and services into the
lifestyles of our customers. People depend on them to
manage their everyday lives and for those who want to be
relieved of their unrelenting boredom, we tell stories."
-----Gerald M. Levin, Time-Warner C.E.O.
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"All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for
good cause is self-justifying - a good in itself. Rebellion
transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour."
-----Edward Abbey
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S T R E N G T H T H R O U G H F A I L U R E
posted at 11:41 AM
Wednesday, March 21, 2001
You read this right?
Signs of the Apocolypse continue:
1) Earthquakes (3 in El Salvador, 1 in India, 1 in Seattle in a six week period)
2) Catholic Priests raping Nuns.
3) Eastern Europe on the verge of all out war.
4) Bush ends environmental regulations for the next four years
5) Economy continues to reel.
6) Mad Cow has traversed the Atlantic
7) Read this:
Survivors turned to cannibalism
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By Susannah A. Nesmith
March 21, 2001 | BARAHONA, Dominican Republic (AP) --
Survivors of a nightmarish shipwreck stayed alive by
eating the bodies of fellow voyagers who died during a
three-week ordeal, a Dominican migrant said. more...
posted at 3:54 PM
Noise level in my "office" is driving me bananas today. Surrounded by blazing idiots. I'd like to personally escort these pigskins into the endzone, if you know what I mean. -- Strength Through Failure
posted at 1:52 PM
Tuesday, March 20, 2001
In short, at the top of the meritocratic ladder we have in America a generation of
students who are extraordinarily bright, morally earnest, and incredibly industrious. They like to study and socialize in groups. They create and join organizations with great enthusiasm. They are responsible, safety-conscious, and mature. They feel no compelling need to rebel—not even a hint of one. They not only defer to authority; they admire it. "Alienation" is a word one almost never hears from them. They regard the universe as beneficent, orderly, and meaningful. At the schools and colleges where the next leadership class is being bred, one finds not angry revolutionaries, despondent slackers, or dark cynics but the Organization Kid.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/04/brooks-p1.htm
posted at 2:57 PM
Monday, March 19, 2001
I just walked right past Jerry Orbach. "Law & Order" has taken over
a five-block radius (as is their wont) around my building, and the
man was heading from the star truck to the shoot. Had a big cup of
steaming coffee in his hand, as did I. -- Strength Through Failure
posted at 8:10 PM
Sorry to report that the wrestling is "women-only. There were definitely some cute girls tossing around in underroos-lookin panties and stuff, but for the most part, there one thick older woman who dominated the ring for most of the eve. Oh, and a catfight broke out at the bar.. It was highly disturbing -- this butch woman grabbed a pretty brunette and threw her onto the mat. They were not dressed for wrestling like the others, they were in shoes and street clothes. The butch woman grabbed the other by the hair and started slamming her head into the mat. The she pulled her back, and smacked her in the face -- REALLY LOUD. Someone else broke it up. It turned out they were girlfriends. It was really INSANE.
Er, anyhow, hows your sister?
-- AllnStrtt
posted at 8:02 PM
Saturday, March 17, 2001
John Swinton, the former chief of staff of the "New York Times," called by his peers, "the dean of his profession", was asked in 1953 to give a toast before the New York Press Club. He responded with the following statement:
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.
"I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
"The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; To lie outright; To pervert; To vilify; To fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and or lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
posted at 1:08 PM
Friday, March 16, 2001
An old guy in the stairwell.
posted at 5:46 PM
