January 2012
6 posts
“Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live,
To see the miscreants feel the...”
– Robert Burns (Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac)
“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human...”
– H.G. Wells
“The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it...”
– Emma Goldman
December 2011
2 posts
“It is not my aim to be consistent with what I have said, but to be consistent...”
– Mahatma Ganhdi
November 2011
4 posts
“It’s legal” is what people say when they don’t have ethics. The law is there to...”
– James Murphy of LCD Sound System to ticket scalpers
October 2011
6 posts
“You can beat the problems of life much easier if you have met hardship”
– José Manuel Fuente
September 2011
4 posts
“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social...”
– Margaret Mead
June 2011
1 post
“Why is it, everybody, from the fucking fish and chip shop to a magazine ends up...”
– Garry Cobain (FSOL)
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
2 posts
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn’t a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your...”
– William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
11 posts
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning...
Phantom Limb by The Shins
So, when they tap our Monday heads, To zombie-walk in our stead, This town seems hardly worth our time, and we’ll no longer memorize or rhyme, Too far along in our climb, Stepping over what now towers to the sky, With no connection.
When going on holiday with his wife a cat-owner leaves his cat with the neighbour. After a couple of weeks he comes back and the neighbour meets him at the front door and says “You cat’s dead”. “Well you could have broken it to me a bit more gently” he replies. “Like how?” the neighbour says. “I don’t know…maybe ‘Bad news I’m...
“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were...”
– H. Jackson Brown Jnr
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
4 posts
“The face forgives the mirror”
– Tom Waits
November 2010
22 posts
The Eyes of Beauty by Charles Baudelaire
You are a sky of autumn, pale and rose; But all the sea of sadness in my blood Surges, and ebbing, leaves my lips morose, Salt with the memory of the bitter flood. In vain your hand glides my faint bosom o’er, That which you seek, beloved, is desecrate By woman’s tooth and talon; ah, no more Seek in me for a heart which those dogs ate. It is a ruin where the jackals rest, And rend...
The Dance of Death by Charles Baudelaire
Carrying bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves, Proud of her height as when she lived, she moves With all the careless and high-stepping grace, And the extravagant courtesan’s thin face.
Was slimmer waist e’er in a ball-room wooed? Her floating robe, in royal amplitude, Falls in deep folds around a dry foot, shod With a bright flower-like shoe that gems the sod.
The swarms that...
