Friday, November 13, 2009

Kayfabe

I attended a taping of that show The Doctors a couple of weeks ago. It might air sometime the following week or next next week.
If I learned anything at all from it, it was that cameramen are the coolest people in da biz. They would talk and laugh about the audience members and occasionally do "action shots," which they seemed to be really into, and then go right back to making fun of the audience. Man. They would even have candies on the cameras that they'd be eating throughout the show. The one closest to me gave me a snickers bar because I asked him if he'd ever seen Eye for an Eye. The actors were douches. No one gives love to the cameramen (and -women) and I intend to change that through a series of strongly worded open letters sent to my local newspaper and congresswoman.


Wednesday, November 11, 2009

"The Dao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand."
Laozi

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Carl Sagan

"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world."
Miyamoto Musashi

"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."
GK Chesterton

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
GK Chesterton

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink, when they wake up that's as good as they'll feel all day"
 Frank Sinatra

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
Ayn Rand

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty."
Oscar Wilde