You have to be always drunk.That’s all there is to it–it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of timethat breaks your back and bends you to the earth,you have to be continually drunk. But on what?Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk… – be drunk, charles baudelaire …
But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:‘O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. ‘In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is,Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. ‘In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away,And Time will have his fancy …
three-hundred and sixty-five days. another year older, a new one about to begin. so let’s take a look at 2002′s resolutions and see just how i did: 1. i will eat no more fast food.done. i didn’t darken the door or visit the drive-thru of any krystal, burger king, steak & shake or hardees. within …
i’ve uploaded some photos from last week’s visit to hilton head island. now, you might think that the winter is a strange time to head to the beach… and you’d be right. but the holiday was grand, the weather was cooperative, the nephews were fascinating and some of the images are rather stunning. especially the …
you would have to be living under a rock to miss today’s top headline. and we’ve got all kinds of pundits from the far left to the wayout right, some of them are hailing the arrival of our new clone-savvy overlords and many more are decrying it as the end of human dignity as we …
and to all, a good morning.
you don’t talk about ring club. The mountain we’re standing on won’t be here in ten minutes. You take a 98 percent concentration of a fuming portion of a dark lord’s power and add it to molten gold. Then, pour the gold into a mold in the shape of a ring. Take it out of …
and i don’t like star wars. those are freddie mercury’s words, lifted from bicycle race by queen. i always used to wonder about that line, or half of it anyway. i mean, how could anybody not like star wars? it was simply the greatest film of my kidhood, hands down. nothing even came close to …
you might know that john ronald reuel tolkien, esteemed author of lord of the rings, was a professor of english lit and language at oxford. his gift for linguistics had landed him an earlier job with the oxford english dictionary, and he all but admitted that he wrote the tales of middle-earth primarily as a …
i’ll be awake through the hour and on into a few more. somebody has to cover the late night shift, even on an eve like this one, so perhaps the quiet of this empty-ish office will lead to an inspiration or two. in the meantime, consider the year-old words from a midnight mass led by …
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