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 CURATE'S EGG

 Bishop: "I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones"; 
Curate: "Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!"
"True Humility" by George du Maurier, originally published in Punch, 1895.

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"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway." --Mother Teresa

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Friday was weird
I got 15 tickets to the Jose Luis Sin Censura show.
Went to the Huntington Library Gardens...
swaying back and forth in the breeze helps plants grow sturdier stems

  Then I cut my hair

hello, goodbye, and to remember with affection.

Seattle was cool. Boregon was hipster nation, therefore/despite that I'm going back in the summer, probably for a longer stay.

nah

 

a relatively unedited email exchange

Cheeky Student: The first concert I attended was the 20 year anniversary of The Bouncing Souls; my work schedule did not permit any more appropriate concerts.The only proof of attendance I have is the strip of paper on my right wrist.
May I still turn that [thing on my wrist] in?
I am aware that I will be penalized for the nature of the concert and my generally cheeky demeanor.


Ms. Attractive Piano Instructor: [I love you,] so you will only get marked down because it's an unapproved concert, but overall, it's not that many points docked. Make sure you include a list of all of the songs played in the concert and the program will not be necessary.
And, the comments are entertaining. But, don't include the cheeky stuff in your concert critique or research papers. Scholarly writing does not bode well for that. In the written reflections, it is fine.

Pick your own adventure!
A. "Good thing I've been practicing fingering those scales!"
B. "No, you are fine." <-
C. "I don't know no languages."
D. "I guess this one is going to the El Monte Station..."

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.

"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

Here's one for Geocities

"What happened to the days when people made websites dedicated to other people?"

-Miles Espinoza

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