November 2011
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I've discovered a curious thing.....
I’ve discovered, because it’s in my face every day, that pleasure and pain are just exactly the same thing, the only difference between them being context and perception. What I mean is, the nerves don’t know the difference; it’s what happens when the brain gets the impulses from the nerves that determines what is painful, and what is pleasurable. And how the brain...
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Take a look at this: http://www.ehow.com/how_5786350_art-patron.html
I’d also check out the Cue Art Foundation. Thanks, Lividia! That’s an idea worth looking into, for sure. Contacting Cue Art Foundation sounds like a plan. And having a wealthy patron can’t hurt much. :)
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“When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that...”
– Mark Twain “Christian Science” (1909)
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“On this Thanksgiving Day, as I wait for the hour of Turkey Devouration, I am...”
– Mad Jimbeau
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“Staying young and fit, forever, is what we expect.
Getting old and feeling our...”
– Mad Jimbeau
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“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science,...”
– Chuck Eastom
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“Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am...”
– Oscar Wilde, in The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
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“Sentimentality and superstition have I none. Nor any patience for supernatural...”
– Mad Jimbeau
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“No man is an island entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a...”
– John Donne
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Anonymous asked: Not only do I like your blog (haha I found it) but I also am OBSESSED with you secretly. Ok here we go.. I got this idea from a Tumblr spam I got once lol.. I think you like me too and you were always too shy to admit it :3 go to crushmatches(dót)com (wtf it wont let me link regular) and make an account there. Then look up the profile 'gottagetme19' (me obviously) I left body...
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“The future will not be be what we have imagined yesterday, but what we will...”
– Mad Jimbeau
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Happy 236th Birthday to my glorious Marine Corps!
Every November 10th, I like to raise a glass to the Corps of Marines, with this toast, in honor of its founding, 236 years ago today: “The wonderful love of a beautiful maid, The love of a staunch true man, The love of a baby, unafraid, Have existed since time began. …But the greatest of loves, The quintessence of loves. even greater than that of a mother, Is the tender, passionate,...
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Please stand by whilst things go on behind the...
Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.
(He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.)
Horace, Ars Poetica, XXX
Jimbeau has ridden astride the ridge-backed boar in search of the sylvan dolphin, carrying his paintbrush like a lance. He will return in a nonce, with the painterly goods. Wait here, and please ignore the weird noises (things are happening, just out of sight).
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“Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude;
How is it I extract...”
– Walt Whitman “Song of Myself” (stanza 20)
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“There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic,...”
– Ellen Willis, “Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life” (1979), Beginning To See the Light: Pieces of a Decade (1981)
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