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Medusa's Quesion du jour (the year of the horse edition!)
Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
I often wish that I had done drugs in the '70s. At least there'd be a reason for the flashbacks. - Rick the Runesinger
Blood and Country
Tribe of my Tribe
Clan of my Clan
Kin of my Kin
Blood of my Blood
For the Yule was upon them, the Yule; and they quaffed from the skulls of the slain,
And shouted loud oaths in hoarse wit, and long quaffing swore laughing again.
Stephen King. He would keep my story basically the same, but embellish it to make it cooler.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
-Erik Erikson
Which song, when heard always takes you back to your childhood?
Honky Tonk Man by Hank Snow. I apparently used to sing the bit, "Daddy come home" repeatedly, when I was little, waiting for my dad to come in off the road.
You Can't be a Beacon by Donna Fargo takes me back to happiness in it's purest, innocent and most amazing form.
As does Counting Flowers On the Wall by the Statler Brothers, with the additional memory of playing cards with my mom.
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." - Ayn Rand
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." - Mark Twain
"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing." - Johnny Depp
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