A place for me to work stuff out and to post things that interest me.
Most of us can, if we choose,
make this world either a palace or a prison.
~Lord Avebury
I choose a palace.
~TKF
Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,
the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish,
in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,
but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won.
It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand
The democratic society's mythology of equality with its
attendant erasure of difference is an impossibility
in an actual, lived sense.
Therefore, according to this view, this
imaginary erasure cannot achieve an
actual democracy, because a sense of
community can only come with the recognition of difference.
~Slavoj Zizek, as paraphrased by Catherine M. Soussloff
Links!
A brand new link! Check it out!
deviantART
I thought the place was very cool. Oh, and all you Alias fans, you can find a very nice wallpaper there--
or rather, here--and a gorgeous Evanescence one, too!
Watcher's Diary
Slayage; The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies
Convert just about anything
Comes in really handy when you want to convert fahrenheit to celcius and vice versa!
Links to 100s of free calculators online
Everything from your due date to how much a house payment would be to a regular calculator
Reference Guide to Chicago Manual of Style
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac
Quotation Search Engine
Complete HTML True Color Chart
Epicurious Recipes
Inn Recipes; Recipes for all Occasions
JobStar-Resumes & Cover Letters Advice
Overstock.com: Up to 80% off most items
Ediblenature.com
Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About
(Trust me--you'll be laughing outloud!)
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Beyond the Invisible
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The tale of the world is like a tree.
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Sturdily rooted in the past, the tale's branches spread out through the days that come. The many stories that make up its substance
unfold from bud to leaf to dry memory and back again, event connecting event like the threadwork of a spider's web, so that each creature of the world plays its part, understanding only aspects of the overall narrative, and perceiving, each with its particular talents, only glimpses
of the Great Mystery that underlies it all.
~Charles de Lint, Moonheart
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Monday, June 13, 2005
This is too cool!
When I was a freshman at University of Kentucky, I was in a survey art history class. That's the type where you're supposed to sail through a couple of milleniums of art history and still absorb something of importance. The only thing I really absorbed was that Jansen, the editor of the textbook we used, said that the Celts, the Germans, and other such groups of people, had no civilization because they didn't build monuments and they didn't use written language. No civilization, in this case, also meant they had no real culture, either. Apparently, they were just groups of people that wandered about, eating, sleeping, procreating, and killing, with no thought of religion, beauty, art...hell, from the way Jansen puts it, they didn't have much thought, period.
I said it at the time and it bears repeating....
BULLSHIT
I always thought that was arbitrary and elitist. He certainly couldn't provide any proof of that belief, other than, "I can't find any proof that I'm wrong, so therefore it doesn't exist."
Uh huh...
I wonder if this is proof that all civilization, culture, and art didn't spring out of Egypt and Greece
And even if it isn't one of the people/tribes I listed above, it certainly indicates that somebody was doing a little more than subsisting... And I'm maybe a little tickled to see that purple-prosed, long-winded, close-minded, poor-writing-and-worse-editing idiot get his theories shot down yet again, even if he is dead. (who me? BITTER?? I had to read that crap!).
4:39 PM
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