• True love is your soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another.
  • Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin
  • Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. - Michael Caine
  • The family - the dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. - Dodie Smith
  • I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, The slow result of life's decay, to be once more a little child, for one bright summer day. - Lewis Carroll
  • The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. - Author Unknown
  • There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm ...
feb 10 2010 ∞
feb 12 2010 +
  • sans
  • hooped/hoop/hoop ya'll/hoopla
  • dejected
  • pernicious
  • concave
  • masticate, mastication, masticating
  • aplomb
  • moxie
feb 5 2010 ∞
apr 24 2010 +
  • Band Of Horses - The Funeral
  • Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
  • Lady Gaga - Speechless
  • T.I. & Justin Timberlake - Dead and Gone
  • David Bowie - Space Oddity
  • David Bowie - Lady Stardust
  • Elton John - The Last Song
  • Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
  • Pink Floyd - The Trial (& really the entire Wall album)
  • Adam Lambert - Broken Open
  • Lykke Li - Tonight
  • Counting Crows - Round Here
  • Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
  • Alcest - Printemps Emeraude
  • The Four Seasons - Who Loves You
  • Elvis - Separate Ways
  • Blue October - Come In Closer
  • Emily West - Blue Sky
feb 1 2010 ∞
apr 24 2010 +
  • Even Depew, however, did not foresee the true magnitude of the forces that were converging on Burnham and Root. At this moment he and they saw the challenge in its two most fundamental dimensions, time and money, and these were stark enough. Only Poe could have dreamed the rest.
  • Events and people captured his attention the way moving objects caught the notice of an amphibian: first a machinelike registration of proximity, next a calculation of worth, and last a decision to act or remain motionless.
feb 17 2010 ∞
feb 17 2010 +
  • Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (currently reading)
  • Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt - Anne Rice
  • The Prestige - Christopher Priest
  • The Painted Veil
feb 4 2010 ∞
feb 15 2010 +
  • Florida
  • Illinois
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
apr 7 2010 ∞
apr 7 2010 +
  • I witnessed the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis (May 14, 2010 - Cocoa Beach, Florida)
  • finding someone dead (April 18, 2002)
  • an earthquake (February 10, 2010 - Illinois)
  • a royal flush 1st time at the poker table (odds are 1 in 649,740)
feb 10 2010 ∞
may 26 2010 +
  • not fresh the page before I save the extensive list I just typed....
  • get 4 A's spring semester (ha)
feb 4 2010 ∞
may 26 2010 +