currently reading
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
scrapbooth
One must be choosy.
“ She really inspires me. Not that I’m going to DO anything about it, but I’m inspired.
F.B.
“ Finding death sucks. But being with someone dying is an honour.
SN, in a nurses’ discussion of their professional presence during births and deaths
“ I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation they didn’t bring on themselves. In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.
Keith Bardwell, ignorant parish justice of the peace who’s made the news for refusing marriage license to an interracial couple.
Breathtaking pumpkin carving, posted to Flickr by MuddyRabbit.
“ I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
currently reading
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
“ If we are going to be empowered by interactivity, cinema is DEAD. Sitting in the dark, a crowd staring in the same direction at a parallelogram of light, missing 270ยบ of the world behind you, sitting absolutely still for a feature length narrative, which is now about 120 minutes. Who in bed last night SLEEPING stayed in the same position for 120 minutes?
Peter Greenaway (slight paraphrasing per my notes)
