Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will
Nelson Mandela
Click images for desktop size: "La" by Boris Vallejo I think Obama has let us all down. There's no change and no hope. Somehow he turned into a Republican. There's no defense for his retracting the EPA rule that would...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Words mean exactly what I want them to mean
Humpty Dumpty via Lewis Carrol
Click images for desktop size: "Route 163" by Kuba Klewaniec Just finished re-reading Steinbeck's, "The Grapes of Wrath". Great book, great story. What's crazy is that a rare masterpiece of a book was actually made into a masterpiece of a...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Whiskeyman's my friend, he's with me nearly all the time
John Entwistle
Click images for desktop size: "Skulls" by Unknown I've been re-reading Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451". I may have to "revaluate Bradbury. I always remembered him as a high school type writer. The kind of guy who appealed to nerdy pimply...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Baby, please don't reincarnate me. I just want to live on in your loving memory
Jet City
Click images for desktop size: "Children's Poems" by Maxfield Parrish Life has evolved into wake up, shit, shower, shampoo, shave and feed the dog. And I am not unhappy. Lot of that has to do with things like, next weekend...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death
Ivan Tourgueniev
Click images for desktop size: "Houston Interfirst Plaza" I was examining my body in the mirror. Inspecting my scars. Not the scars that needed stitches or emotional scars, but the marks the ravages have laid on me. First one I...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Fate loves the fearless
James Russell Lowell
Click images for desktop size: "Love Memories" by Alicia De Fritas My job has been legislated away! This has never happened to me before. Its kind of interesting in a Chinese way. (The worst Chinese curse is, "May you have...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Be obscure clearly
E. B. White
Click images for desktop size: "Attack!" by Lavakillu I've had to turn off comments on the site. I was getting about 3,000 spam comments a day. I don't have time and energy to write. Burning off some of that to...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:I've seen the future; it looks like yesterday
Click images for desktop size: "Fairy Tale Land" by Monica Corduneau "I've never said this to a white man before. I love you." I don't get nervous about things being said to me like that. It was a customer as...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:When foolish men stand at the top the people under them suffer needlessly
Shinoro Honrio
Click images for desktop size: "Chain" by KRM Photo I saw the space station in the sky tonight. It was cool. The humidity has cast a haze of the stars and made them feel soft and distant but the light...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it
Clarence Darrow
Click images for desktop size: "Division" by Robert Randtoul I was feeling somewhat better. Up at 4:00. Just over 3 hours of sleep but no where as bad as I've been feeling until . . . I set my pills...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Does it run in your blood to betray the ones you love
Papa Roach
Click images for desktop size: "Engineer's Libido" by Unknown I'm really getting bugged by how much Obama is disappointing me. I viewed the guy as the lesser evil, I didn't really support him any other way and yet I am...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it
Edward de Bono
Click images for desktop size: "Night and Day" by Michael Parkes On Tuesday for some reason I decided to wash my phone. In the washing machine with my jeans. I don't understand why I next decided to dry it in...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Only the mediocre are always at their best
Jean Giraudoux
Click images for desktop size: "Death Rattle Comics 4" by Unknown I feel like an aged tiger today. A leery tiger waiting for the hunter he hears in the grass. You know how in bad slasher movies there's that moment...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Pair up in threes
Joe DiMaggio
Click images for desktop size: "Moon Dreams" by Yana Foltice My friend and I were talking this weekend. We were talking about governments and my grief at getting some documents. She said, "The government is there to make my life...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Whoever is happy will make others happy too
Anne Frank
Click images for desktop size: "Paper Planes" by Mach2Moo I've been trying to, well needing to more than trying to, gather together some legal documents. I got one that really miffed me to get. I don't think anyone, especially a...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:The look of a country changes to the looks of the people it admires
Larry McMurtry
Click images for desktop size: "Evolution" by Luis Royo I went to make our appointments at the hair dressers yesterday. They're closed. As in out of business. Just goes to show you can't make a living giving a good seven...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else
Umberto Eco
Click images for desktop size: "Mars" by Frank Cho There was nearly 5 inches of snow yesterday. Yow! It finally stopped about 3:30 so armed with my trusted shovel and accompanied by three trouble shooting dogs I attacked. Shoveled snow...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time
Abraham Lincoln
Click images for desktop size: "Erotic Opera" by Alex Varenne I wasn't very overwhelmed with the inauguration speech. Somehow it reminded me of a my old physics professor berating the class for doing so poorly on an exam that he...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Flattery is like chewing gum; enjoy it but don't swallow it
Hank Ketcham
Click images for desktop size: "Dolph" by Richard Mohler Joe Paterno, head coach at Penn State, was once offered a coaching job in the NFL. He was offered something near 4 million dollars a year. He turned it down saying,...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change
Confucius
Click images for desktop size: "Conference At Night" by Edward Hopper Its cold today. Minus 14! In Centigrade that's a scary sounding -26! Its not that bad. I was in in minus 17 once. In Chicago. Back there for my...
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