June 2009
14 posts
Ray Bradbury, bro.... what?
From a New York Times interview:
“The Internet is a big distraction.” “Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,” he said. “They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.’ “Libraries raised me.”
“I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I...
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How Did This Happen?
How did the calendar pages tear so fast? How is tomorrow July and yesterday May? When ambition is new things slow to crawl. Then the preparedness stops and the slowness withdraws. They say North Korea has missiles that will soon fly to Hawaii. “They.” Spies. Diplomats. Analysts. I guess we all take the fight against fortuitousness lightly. The excuses are vast but the focus is...
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Orlando Mayor Challenges Los Angeles Mayor
Buddy Dyer, Mayor of Orlando, sent a tongue-in-cheek letter to the LA mayor outlining a multi-level bet. The letter is hokey on the surface, but there are a few inside jokes that make it funny enough to post.
In it, Dyer pokes fun at arena sponsorships. Orlando’s arena is sponsored by Amway, the fifty year old company infamous for giving the entire world a masters in multi-level...
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“Here’s what’s going to happen: I’m going to read this and...”
– Opening to Shane Carruth’s “Primer” …a movie with a solid opening and a strong ending
Anthony of Green Gables
Her: How's the aloe workin' out?
Me: Finally got the scent off. My hands feel like a 19th century Victorian woman's.
Her: Decomposed?