Musing

Even More Proof Than I'm An Ass or Surprised? You Shouldn't Be It amuses me to see how people get to this site. The most amusing readers are usually the ones that come here because a search engine decided I would fit the criteria for which these readers were searching.* Try this one: http://www.ask.com/web?q=Why%20I%20Hate%20whiney%20people&qsrc=1&o=10513 I came up fourth on that search at ask.com. Too funny. In other news, my undergraduate classes ended today. My first wife moved away forever, but not before giving me last year's birthday present. I was extremely saddened by a scary movie. I calmed the wind in my graduation/Jesus robe (see Mt 8: 23-27 for more details). I made koolaid with sugar that I bought in August 2002. I had my picture taken with 5 of the most important people that have been a part of my education here. It was a long day. Somebody told me today that she was sure that I was ready to leave. However, Brilliant Reader, I'm sure you...

By the Way or If You Don't Get the Irony By Then End of the Post, You Wasted Your Time Stop coming here looking for a leaked torrent to RHCP's new album. It's not here. It never will be. If you love them so much, buy it. Don't be a dick. Or a dick-ette, as the case may be.

Your Quote of the Month or Nothing Clever To Put in This Line, Sorry One of the best paragraphs thus far in Mark Helprin's "Winter's Tale": The oddest thing about the elite - of which, I suppose, I am now one - is that they rule so...daintily. The great mass of people, in which one finds brave soldiers, firebrands, geniuses, and inspired mechanics, is paralyzed in the face of these human delicacies with their garden parties, their unprotected estates, their inebriated stumbles, their pastel clothing, and their disempowering obsession with disempowering things. When a workingman moves among them, he is most amazed: amazed at how small they make him feel, amazed at their frailty, amazed that they are yet invincible, amazed that he, a bull, is ruled by a butterfly.