Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
A collection of quotes that I’ve found interesting at one point or another over the years.
Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on.
(via Kottke)
iTunes: “Blue” by LaTour from the album Big Hard Disk Vol. 1 (1992, 7:33).
Today would be a good day for an earthquake. Or at least, it would fit into my schedule nicely.
iTunes: “Discotheque (DM Deep Extended Club)” by U2 from the album Discotheque (1997, 10:06).
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
iTunes: “Mickey (Killa Klub Dub)” by Basil, Toni from the album Mickey (1999, 6:04).
I’d rather be shot than vote for Bush at gunpoint. After all, I can recover from a gunshot wound in, say, a couple months. Voting for Bush, well, that takes four years.
— Phil, via IM tonight
He never asked me to ‘pull his finger’ in bed…
CURTIS You made a controversial movie about Catholicism, “Dogma.” What did you think about “The Passion of the Christ”?
SMITH I haven’t seen it yet. I think it’s funny, though, that people bring it up and ask me, “What do you think of the controversy?” I’m like, “What controversy?” The dude made a movie about Jesus in a country that’s largely Christian — a very traditional movie — and it’s made over \$200 million in two weeks. There ain’t no controversy, people. That’s a hit. They took one or two Jewish leaders in the beginning and said, “This may be construed as anti-Semitic,” and then spun it into a must-see movie for hard-core Christians. You’ve got to go see it if you love Jesus. I wish to God I had thought to do that when I was making “Dogma.”
From a recent New York Times article promoting Jersey Girl.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
(Or…)
Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.
(found on How to write unmaintainable code, which is a thing of beauty in itself — even as a non-programmer I was catching enough to literally laugh out loud.)
From Neil Gaiman, after admitting that while he is equally at home on Macs or Windows computers, he is still primarily a PC user…
When I tell Mac people this, they smile their secret smile. They know that after we die, we go to a special place, and that those who used Macs will be raised on high, where they can sip their cappucinos and look down and see the virus-infected writhings and screamings of those who used PCs, as the damned Windows users are forever bombarded with boiling projectile vomit from the thousand-foot high screaming thing that used to be Bill Gates.
But I’m sure even the damned people down in the mud will be laughing up whatever’s left of their sleeves at those of us who secretly like fountain pens best.
iTunes: “They’re Coming to Take Me Away” by Lard from the album Last Temptation of Reid, The (1990, 8:28).
I was listening to “Sunday Edition” on the way to church. There was a story about President Bush’s appearance on “Meet The Press.” GWB wanted voters, when they go to the polls in Nov, to remember he is a “wartime President.”
There is a dark joke in Courthouses about a man who killed both his parents, then asked the judge to go easy on him as he is an orphan.
Yes, we were attacked on 9/11, but not by Iraq. My sisters and brothers in the military are being killed daily. GWB would not be a “wartime President” if he had not declared war, and gotten us into this unjust and immoral mess.
I hope voters do remember the war in Nov, but aslso the reasons GWB is a “wartime President.”
— Dad
jeanniecool: pedometer measures how many children you touch inappropriately…?
— jeanniecool on [#joiito]
iTunes: “Bad Luck” by Social Distortion from the album Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell (1992, 4:26).