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Nothing is more revealing than movement. All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is…
JUNE 18,1990. This is a project I’m not working on. The Porno King of the Pacific Northwest liked my style, so he hired me to come over to his bunkered office in SE Portland and drink whiskey and shoot the shit about a movie he wanted to make. I was supposed to write the script….
“Critical Race Theory” = Willie Horton. – Barker Ajax On October 26, 1974, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Horton and two accomplices robbed Joseph Fournier, a white 17-year-old gas station attendant, and then fatally stabbed Fournier 19 times after he had cooperated by handing over all of the money in the cash register. His body was stuffed in…
There is no way this winter is ever going to end as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don’t see any other way out. He’s got to be stopped. And I have to stop him. – Phil Connors [What follows is Happy Groundhog’s Day 2021. My prediction last year was on point….
Vital lives are about action. You can’t feel warmth unless you create it, can’t feel delight until you play, can’t know serendipity unless you risk. – Joan Erickson Back in the day, the old man was hired to provide security on a, how should I put this, oh, yeah, an organic farm in the foothills of…
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight. – George Sheehan My second favorite running magazine in the world is Mystical Miles in Holland. New…
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.”― John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-By Overcast. Cloudy. Gray. I filled the gas tank in case there’s a war….
Even after the capitulation it was generally accepted as a fact by the population that the quislings were mainly recruited among psychopaths and intellectually deficient persons. – From the Cambridge English Corpus quis·ling/ˈkwizliNG/ noun 1.a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country. Synonyms: apostate, backstabber, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, Judas, recreant, serpent, snake, traitor, turncoat. Vidkun Quisling Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (/ˈkwɪzlɪŋ/, Norwegian: [ˈvɪ̂dkʉn ˈkvɪ̂slɪŋ]; 18…
He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. – Gabriel García Márquez An informed guide to the pandemic, with the latest developments and expert advice about prevention and treatment. Or not….
To understand a phenomenon, we need to make sure we understand the shape of its curve. By assuming we know how a curve continues beyond what we see, we will draw the wrong conclusions and come up with the wrong solutions. – Hans Rosling Over 22% of U.S. Supreme Court Justices have been credibly accused of…