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Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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Reading someone else's blog has 'all the sparkle of a second mortgage.'* They're really diaries written by amateurs and rarely rise to the level of mildly interesting to anyone not directly involved in the action or emotion or moral described. Even relatives must fight off the impulse to turn the page or click onwards in an optimistic, but futile hope, of a literary promised land.
Forty years? Not enough time to find one. Stick to the classics and give up your wanderings in an empty desert.
If your life were really interesting someone else would have written about it**..
“Unremarkable lives should go unremarked upon, the way God intended,”***
*Dick Cavett's phrase.
**Fran Lebowitz'
***.Neil Genzlinger, NY Times Book Review
Reading someone else's blog has 'all the sparkle of a second mortgage.'* They're really diaries written by amateurs and rarely rise to the level of mildly interesting to anyone not directly involved in the action or emotion or moral described. Even relatives must fight off the impulse to turn the page or click onwards in an optimistic, but futile hope, of a literary promised land.
Forty years? Not enough time to find one. Stick to the classics and give up your wanderings in an empty desert.
If your life were really interesting someone else would have written about it**..
“Unremarkable lives should go unremarked upon, the way God intended,”***
*Dick Cavett's phrase.
**Fran Lebowitz'
***.Neil Genzlinger, NY Times Book Review
Friday, April 15, 2011
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
Is there honor among thieves? Some thieves would wholeheartedly say yes. Some would lie and say yes. While others would say no. When asking about honor among thieves, one also has to ask about the rules. Criminals break every rule when it suits them. If there is a buck to be made, the rules need to be broken like a safe filled with money or a glass shopping window showcasing expensive diamonds. When gangsters are breaking every rule in the book, lying, cheating, stealing, and murdering, how can one expect such men to uphold a code of honor? A code of silence? After a life of crime, isn’t that code just another rule that is meant to be broken?
Is there honor among thieves? Some thieves would wholeheartedly say yes. Some would lie and say yes. While others would say no. When asking about honor among thieves, one also has to ask about the rules. Criminals break every rule when it suits them. If there is a buck to be made, the rules need to be broken like a safe filled with money or a glass shopping window showcasing expensive diamonds. When gangsters are breaking every rule in the book, lying, cheating, stealing, and murdering, how can one expect such men to uphold a code of honor? A code of silence? After a life of crime, isn’t that code just another rule that is meant to be broken?
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
- Today, Father, is Father's Day
- And we're giving you a tie
- It's not much we know
- It is just our way of showing you
- We think you're a regular guy
- You say that it was nice of us to bother
- But it really was a pleasure to fuss
- For according to our mother
- You're our father
- And that's good enough for us
- Yes, that's good enough for us.
- Harry Ruby
Friday, April 08, 2011
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An Oxford Don meets an old student and asks him what he's been up to --the student tells him that he's working on a doctoral dissertation about the survival of the class system in the U.S. The Professor expresses surprise and says, "I didn't think that there was a class system in the United States."
"Nobody does," the student replies, "that's how it survives."
An Oxford Don meets an old student and asks him what he's been up to --the student tells him that he's working on a doctoral dissertation about the survival of the class system in the U.S. The Professor expresses surprise and says, "I didn't think that there was a class system in the United States."
"Nobody does," the student replies, "that's how it survives."
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
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