Friday, September 29, 2006

End of blog

I have been considering ending this blog. I don't do much with it, and everything it contains is saved elsewhere. What is the point of the thing, anyway? No one reads it...

Monday, September 18, 2006

When Insults Had Class

Yes, this was a forward worth republishing. From my friend in Atlanta!


"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... If you have one."
- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill & "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... If there is one." - Winston Churchill, in reply

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
- Winston Churchill (about Clement Atlee)

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the
dictionary."
- William Faulkner (to Ernest Hemingway) & "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" - Ernest Hemingway (to William Faulkner)

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson

"He had delusions of adequacy."
- Walter Kerr

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx


"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
- Thomas Brackett Reed

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
- Oscar Wilde



Friday, September 15, 2006

Working for myself

Yeah, I am self-employed now. These days it means I spend a lot of time going - IS it NOON already!?! However, I am working to stave off those "early working for myself blues" by setting some goals and seriously pursuing them.
Namely, studying for the exam which will be on September 30th and starting a community garden. You can read about it at Coon Rapids Garden (there is a link to the right).
I have spent enough time complaining about not feeling like part of a community, now I am going to do something about it.
Also, there is a wasp caught in my window, between the screen and the glass. I can't get it out and it has been there a while...I am really starting to feel bad about it. I guess that is my goal for this hour.
If only it weren't a wasp!