Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'. Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no ...

From Geneen Roth's blog: I have learned that... when things fall apart on a personal level—when I am at the edge of what I think I can tolerate–it is almost always a harbinger of unimaginable expansion and ultimate benevolence if I am willing to be with the pain of it... If I am willing to pay close attention and keep breathing quietly, rather than spiraling into fear and ...

TRANSCRIPT (in case you have youtube blocked at work like me, or are too lazy to play the youtube clip, or when the youtube clip inevitably gets removed because NBC doesn't understand the nature of the internet)

Me: Put some shorts on. Heather: I don't own any shorts. Nobody is allowed to see my hairy legs but you. Me: ... Heather: And the doctor. Me: ah Heather: ...but I shave for the doctor.

"Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody's telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club... and kiss my ass!" ---Kurt Vonnegut

“If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” —W.C. Fields

Tonight my fortune cookie seemed to perfectly sum up what sounded like a bible lesson with a ploy to sell more asian food: "He who eats the last lettuce wrap shall be the least hungry." Indeed.

I sent a package to a friend, who comments as 'Graypawn' on this site. Upon receiving said package (full of cd mixes), He sends the following text: "I have the child!" That sent me back a little bit. Back to Harding Grad dorm, renting movies and wasting time. Seconds before General Kael screamed those words, I did my best to scream them first...you ...