Quotes

A collection of quotes that I’ve found interesting at one point or another over the years.

Thunk drinking

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I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here.

— Graffitti on a bar restroom stall wall, as relayed to me by my co-worker Karen

Working for da man

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I wish I had the guts and thought I could afford to make the vow that Jonathon does here:

I vow never again to work for someone else’s riches. I am independent being, free to grow rich or die poor using my mind and the thousand bucks I’ve got in the bank. I refuse to be a slave to the shirt-and-tie drones of Ford or any other Fortune 500 company, now and forever.

I just need a little more assurance that I’ll be able to pay rent next month. Still, it’s a goal to work towards.

Tattoos

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Found here on GreenFairy:

Is the reason I get pulled around by men when my tattoos are visible because they are shocked into defensive aggression by someone obviously not trying to meet their standards of attractiveness? After all, women are supposed to dress for men not for themselves. Nothing is worn, nothing about a woman’s body is adorned the way it is for reasons of personal aesthetics, it’s done to attract men. Everyone knows that. So when someone doesn’t do that, can it be taken as a personal insult, a provocation worthy of violence?

True patriots

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True patriots do not blindly accept all that comes from Washington D.C., Juneau, etc., regardless (nor, for that matter, rejects regardless). True patriots work toward the mending of flaws, putting self-control on our government, and making sure our laws are ones of liberty.

— John Hanscom

Ollie North

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If memory serves, Ollie North used to amuse himself by drawing up various scenarios for martial law — and if the thought of that doesn’t set off a screaming gibbering fit of paranoia in at least some small part of your brain, then we might as well just toss in the towel right now, just forget all this nonsense about the rule of law and representative democracy and just go ahead and coronate King George Junior the Second as our Supreme Leader and Beloved Enlightened Commander and be done with it.

— Tom Tomorrow

New blog name

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I just stumbled across a nifty quote on the web, and it inspired me to change the title of my blog. I’d been just calling it the ‘Wudiblog’ for lack of a better idea. However, I’ve just retitled it to be ‘The Long Letter’. Here’s the quote that inspired the switch:

Please excuse such a long letter — I didn’t have time to write a short one.

— Pascal

As someone who, like my dad, has a tendency to say in 50 words what can be said in 5, I thought it was fairly fitting. This won’t really change anything major around the site in any way, no address changes or such. Just something I wanted to do.

Britney Spears

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[Britney Spears] is progressively wearing less and less at an alarming rate. It won’t be long until she’s dancing around bare ass nude at Arena football halftime shows while dousing her naked gyrating body in Pepsi.

— Brian Lawrence, discussing the new Britney Spears movie on the HTF