"I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try." ~ Roger Ebert

Friday | 5 April 2013 | 10:06 AM 
Buffalo Bill 's by e e cummings
Buffalo Bill's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death

Friday | 5 April 2013 | 09:39 AM 
"To me, copyright and intellectual property are some of the real determining issues of this new century. I think they are euphemisms for control." ~ Barbara Kruger

Wednesday | 3 April 2013 | 10:45 AM 
Who would have thought a book about a math conundrum could be so utterly charming and compelling? Recommended.

Wednesday | 3 April 2013 | 10:45 AM 
"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process." ~ Vincent van Gogh

Thursday | 28 March 2013 | 02:44 PM 
Born this day
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Tuesday | 26 March 2013 | 04:19 PM 

Giovanni Strazza, The Veiled Virgin
Tuesday | 19 March 2013 | 03:57 PM 
Died this day
Roll the Dice by Bukowski
if you’re going to try, go all the way.
otherwise, don’t even start.
if you’re going to try, go all the
way. this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.
go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your endurance, of
how much you really want to do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the
worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.
if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like that.
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with fire.
do it, do it, do it.
do it.
all the way
all the way.
you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter,
it’s the only good fight
there is.

Saturday | 9 March 2013 | 03:33 PM 
15% by Richard Brautigan
she tries to get things
out of men
that she can't get
because she's not
15% prettier
Thursday | 7 March 2013 | 02:47 PM 
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (Meditation XVII) by John Donne
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
Thursday | 7 March 2013 | 11:32 AM 
Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass, Passages, 1990
Thursday | 7 March 2013 | 11:20 AM 