Frankola: If it doesn't make you blind, it'll make you happy.
Ok, last rant for the day. Then I'm FINISHED writing for the weekend!
There is a scientific study showing that there polar ice is melting during the summer. This is ice that didn't normally used to melt. Now the permafrost is melt, no longer being permanant. And the countries that conducted this study are predicting iceless summers in the polar regions with in fifty years... why, because of global warming.
The Kyoto treaty, that would force countries to keep down emission levels, was not signed by the U.S. because "it would hurt the economy".
Well that's great, I like a good ecomnomy, but what happens in twenty years when fishermans wharf or down town manhattan are sitting under ten feet of water (or thirty, or ninety, I dunno).
IF the warming continues... well, those places that sit on the coast are pretty much screwed, and you can forget about Holand.
There is alot of alarm in the scientific community... though I'm sure the general population will ignore it.
Now that I'm done with my rant, I probably will.
Frankola: It's the hair that gives it that extra kick!
Is it too much to ask that people that come into the book store actually be literate?
We have signs with the pricing up all over the store, but no one ever notices them.
We have the LDS area clearly marked, yet I don't know how many morons walk in a circle right by it on a daily basis, only to come ask me where it is.
Sure we have alot of books, but seriously there are alot of places (like the Merrill library) that have more. But How many students come in and appear completely flabergasted by the store, and are too intimidated to look for anything. But will spend several hours in the merrill library looking for some obscure text?
And no, I'm not an expert on books. Experts are folks with degrees in library sciences who have been dealing with books for decades. I know a bit, but my knowledge is pale in comparison to others. NONE of which seem to work in a book store here in the valley.
And If I help you, if I bend over backwards for you to help you look for a book, don't walk out empty handed, pissed off at me due to the price.
IT'S NOT MY FAULT!!
I'm not the owner, I'm not the one who initially set the prices.
And, if you're reasonable I may even knock a buck or two off the price, with the owners blessing.
All you have to do is be nice. You wonder why I'm in a bad mood... it's because of assholes like you.
That is why I'm in a bad mood.
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Ok, I'm agravated. I'm pissed. I'm... dare I say it: Disgruntled.
The films here in the valley are a poor fair at best.
There are several that have been here for weeks ad nosium and, as far as I can tell are only drawing a limited amount of people, while there are others that are playing on three screens here in the valley. THREE SCREENS!!
The Incredibles was an enjoyable movie, but it wasn't selling out opening night, why continue to have it on three screens?
If it wasn't selling out on three screens opening weekend, chances are it still isn't.
And "Napoleon Dynamite". How many of you have heard of this film?
It's a little film made up in Preston that took away some prizes at Sundance.
Though I hear it's great, I haven't seen it, and you know what: I have no stinkin' desire too.
It's working on it's sixth month here in the valley.
SIX GODDAMN MONTHS!!
Why?
Sure it's great and all, but I'm pretty sure anybody who's going to see it has already seen it.
I'm sure happy the kid is so successful, but I don't see the reason to keep it in theatres.
I'm sick of all the goddamn fluff that this valley pulls in.
I walk through blockbuster seeing film after film that I'd never even heard of, because the theatre's here didn't try to get them, or didn't qualify to get them.
The art cinema's great, but when I have to go there to see a movie that is mainstream everywhere else in the country really pisses me off.
I'm hoping "Kinsey" comes here, if it does, it will probably be at the art cinema.. perhaps I'll be the only one there, like Tom and I was for Shawn of the Dead.
I hope that 'Finding Neverland" makes it. Oh I'm sure it will, if they can give up one of the six theatre's that have "the incredibles" and "the polar express" on it.
Well, I think I'll hit blockbuster tonight, maybe see one of those movies we probably should have gotten, but didn't.
The sun is coming up over the mountains to the east of me right now, casting it's light through the grey sheet that lay over the valley.
It's friday, that's good.
I have auditions tomorrow morning, for one acts. I'm pleased to say that I want the director's to fight over me.
I want them all to want me for thier show, though I know that will not be the case. At least, maybe, two or three of them will.
Sounds, rather snobbish of me doesn't it?
I have to say, it's a good feeling to be wanted, particularly if its more than one person that does the wanting...
Then next week, Saturday again, more audtions.
I like to act, it's like a drug, all art is really.
Music, writing... soothes me. Calms me.
Eases my mind.
Ahhh... art.
I'm listening to the crackle of the hot water heater now.
It's filling up from another tenants shower.
I haven't showered yet.. I will soon enough though.
It's friday, and I've no plans... maybe I'll see a movie... or maybe I'll just stay in.
Maybe I'll have a vision of the future, or the past... or perhaps, I'll see the here and now.
Which do you think will be more frightening?
“A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher
“Idiot, noun. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.”
-- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), The Devil's Dictionary
“Much of human perception is based not on information flowing into the brain from the outside world but what the brain, based on previous experience, expects to happen next.”
-- Sandra Blakeslee
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
-- Martin Buber
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965),
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing… [and] rain without thunder and lightning.”
-- Frederick Douglass, in Blassingame, The Clarion Voice
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
-- Thomas A. Edison
“The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.”
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“We will discover the nature of our own particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.”
-- Shakti Gawain
“The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.”
-- Gunter Grass
“The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.”
-- Alan Patrick Herbert
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
-- Alan Kay
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
-- John F. Kennedy
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1928-1968)
“I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already been invented by the philosophers, the vagabonds, the dispersed of this earth, long before the Spanish ships got there. Those whom we call Americans have only rented it for a time. If they behave badly, we can discover another 'America'. The contract can be cancelled at any time.”
-- Sergio Leone on the idea of 'America'
“Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by makebelieve.”
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
“When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue -- you sell him a whole new life.”
-- Christopher Morley
“Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever.”
-- George Orwell
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
-- George Orwell
“The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.”
-- Fritz Perls
“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
-- Austin Phelps
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
-- Plato
“Life must be lived as play.”
-- Plato
“The idea of God stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception. We know nothing about the nature of God.”
-- Edgar Allen Poe
“If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: 'The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!'”
-- Ayn Rand, spoken by: Hank Rearden, Atlas Shrugged
“The book you don't read can't help.”
-- Jim Rohn
“Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.”
-- Bertrand Russell
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
-- Bertrand Russell
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
-- Bertrand Russell
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
-- Bertrand Russell
“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.”
-- Bertrand Russell, A Debate on the Existence of God
“What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!”
-- William Shakespeare, spoken by Hamlet, Hamlet,(Act II, scene ii)
“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
“Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.”
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
“No sooner had Jesus knocked over the
“Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
-- Michael Valentine Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
“A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.”
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
-- Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
“If you want to be happy, be.”
-- Leo Tolstoy
“Let us endeavour to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
-- Mark Twain
“Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.”
-- Mark Twain
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. ”
-- Booker T. Washington
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
-- Booker T. Washington
“If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.”
-- Alfred North Whitehead
“No, try not, do or do not, there is no try.”
-- Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard - reaching for the highest that is in us - becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
-- Zig Ziglar
