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May 24, 2010, 3:09pm
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April 28, 2010, 9:40pm
I tend to think that what fame has done is to replace the sea as the element of choice of adventure for young people. If you were a dashing young man in the 19th century you would probably have wanted to run away to sea, just as in the 20th century you might decide that you want to runaway and form a pop band. The difference is that in the 19th century, before running away to sea, you would have had at least some understanding of the element that you were dealing with and would have perhaps, say, learned to swim.
The thing is that there is no manual for how to cope with fame. So you’ll get some, otherwise likeable young person, who has done one good comic book, one good film, one good record, suddenly told that they are a genius, who believes it and who runs out laughing and splashing into the billows of celebrity, and whose heroin-sodden corpse is washed up a few weeks later in the shallows of the tabloids.
—Alan Moore
March 10, 2010, 8:52am
Superman is a dick.
Poor robots…
February 12, 2010, 9:11am
Buy now!
Samhain
One of the four primary holidays in the Celtic calendar, celebrating the end of the harvest with bonfires and festivals.
Generally believed to be a time when the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead is thin; a time of migration between this world and the other.
After this, then winter.
October 31, 2009, 5:19pm
Anybody want to guess what it was about this magazine spread from the October issue of Family Fun that inspired me to write a Letter To The Editor?
Anyone?
Here’s my letter:
To Whom It May Concern,
In the October issue of the “Family Fun” magazine there is a two page spread of Halloween costumes, featuring a male African American child with a “target” design on his chest. This costume and photograph is also featured on your website here: http://jas.familyfun.go.com/crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=12268
When I saw the photo spread in the issue my first response was one of amazement and disgust. The level of editorial insensitivity and stupidity represented in this photo is astounding.
The situation for many African American youth today is fraught with violence — both in stereotypical media cliche as well as in the reality many face due to poverty, inner city crime, and racial discrimination.
Given this, representing an African American young man as a human target is in supremely bad taste, to say the least.
In addition, this country elected an African American president last November, and he has received an unprecedented level of death threats due to his race and cultural background.
I cannot help but wonder if anyone involved in the production of your magazine even considered either of these issues when preparing, photographing, laying out, or proofing the feature. You certainly had ample opportunity to do so.
Regardless as to whether it was ignorance, insensitivity, or oversight, I remain amazed and disgusted.
The October issue came with a note reminding me that it was my last issue. You can be certain that I have no plans to renew.
T.M. Camp
September 28, 2009, 10:26am
“In solitude I used to wander about the garden, alternately collecting birds’ eggs and meditating on the flight of time. If I may judge by my own recollections, the important and formative impressions of childhood rise to consciousness only in fugitive moments in the midst of childish occupations, and are never mentioned to adults. I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.”
August 03, 2009, 11:14am
“To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise…Let him take a course of chymistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.”
July 21, 2009, 11:53am
“We enjoy warmth because we have been cold.
We appreciate light because we have been in darkness.
By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sorrow.”
— David L. Weatherford (via brokenmachine)
Reblogged from itsonlythewind.
July 21, 2009, 9:22am
“Once you have established a belief, the phenomenon adjusts its manifestations to support that belief and thereby escalate it.”
July 08, 2009, 10:57am
How Much Do I Owe?
About $430 buck, actually — which seems to be much lower than the average. I will say this, I did rack up at least one or two of the big ticket items. I’m not bragging, just saying.
What’s all this about, you ask? Check here for the rules.
June 17, 2009, 8:33am
