QUOTE OF THE DAY

"You can't sing anymore, you can't dance anymore, you can't drive anymore -- but you can still write,"

- Anne Porter

When AUTHORS Attack . . .

 

The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

by Emily Temple.

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”

 - William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”

 - Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Drawing upon modern Catholic social thought and the work of Thomas Aquinas’ political thinking, the goal of law and political authority is to serve, enhance, and protect the common good of society ...  It is perhaps ironic – or tragic – that the common good is the one element that seems to be missing from the current national debate.


Some of the more extreme elements seem entirely willing to let the whole system come to a crashing halt rather than think about long-term solutions that seek to protect the common good of all involved.

- Thomas Bushlack

Ahhhhhh

"No One Will Cry Mercy Like Her."

 

it was a dream

    by Lucille Clifton

in which my greater self
rose up before me
accusing me of my life
with her extra finger
whirling in a gyre of rage
at what my days had come to.
what,
i pleaded with her, could i do,
oh what could i have done?
and she twisted her wild hair
and sparked her wild eyes
and screamed as long as
i could hear her 
This.  This.  This.

from: The Book of Light. Copyright 1992.

Quote Gerald Stern.

COOL CATS!

from:

Bodega Cats Keeping Cool

Photo by Liat Leshem.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

I've thought a lot about this since yesterday. I've stewed over it. Rued over it. And as drunkenly ridiculous as this may sound, I think America needs groups like the Westboro Baptist Church to crop up every once in a while.

Why? Because they show us the wrong way to live. They show us what hate really looks like, thereby solidifying many of our beliefs in true justice, love, tolerance, and equality.

So thank you, WBC, for being such major jackasses!

And remember kiddies, if the Westboro Baptist Church hates you, that must mean you're doing something right!

-  Danielle B, Jezebel.

I REALLY Am At A Loss For Words

(Via White Whine)

This actually reminds me of the story my mom told about taking her Head Start kids on their first trip to a farm. It was a wonderful educational day for urban kids, and they saw lambys, and duckys, and chickys, and piggys. 

They also got the chance to have some wholesome milk, fresh from the cow. 

Needless to say, they freaked. 

To them, milk came from the store, in cartons. "THAT WAS GROSS!"  

Many swore off milk altogether once assured that, yes, this is actually where their milk really originated.