December 2011
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“In respectful mourning for the year now dying, I shall maintain radio silence...”
– Jimbeau
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“Standing still to check the time, I watch as time marches on without me; running...”
– Mad Jimbeau
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Happy Festivus
It is Christmas again, proof that Time circles us like a hungry beast. I have weathered many Christmases, and what I know best about them is that some were full of light and warmth, while some were cold, lonely, and far from Love. I hope you are enjoying the Holidays, in whatever manner you choose. If you are fortunate, be happy for that, and if you are not so lucky now, know that Time is a...
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“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe you need the society as...”
– Marshall McLuhan
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A Small Misunderstanding
On tiny hooves the bounding soys frolic in their green pastures,
Til the herdboy brings them into the corral to await the
Milkmaids, they of slender hands and full, round bottoms.
I like soy milk on my cornflakes, while my cook prefers it
In her coffee; it makes the coffee’s color match her skin, precisely.
The soy is a mammal, for it gives milk,
And, as a mammal, it must then also be...
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“Of all the schools of patience and lucidity, creation is the most effective. It...”
– Camus
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
– Adlai Stevenson in a speech in Detroit, Michigan (7 October 1952)
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I could paint endlessly...
I could paint endlessly for all the years left to me and never wonder even once just what I should paint. Ideas are what dilettantes talk about to avoid actually painting. Ideas are what come when I am looking at a painting I have done, years after I have done it. Ideas are something related to the work which inspires them only in the way a shadow is related to the object which throws the...
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“Do you think I’m a lunatic?
Only my eyes are crazy.
And sometimes my...”
– Mad Jimbeau
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“I’m for mystery, not interpretive answers. … The answer is never the...”
– Ken Kesey
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An old man with a beard like God, or Santa Claus,...
I’m not here to help you make sense of the world. No. On the contrary, I am here to convince you that there is no sense but nonsense. There is no Plan, no Reason, no Why. There is just the huge confusing mess you find yourself entangled in. And you my young friend, are intimately connected to, and indeed, identical with, that huge confusing mess. You were not born into this world; you...
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“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no...”
– Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays (1950) Chapter 7: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, p. 136
“If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“I never say everything I’m thinking, tell everything I know
Or give my...”
– Mad Jimbeau
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“It sometimes takes weeks, or months, or even years to painstakingly construct a...”
– Mad Jimbeau
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