Saturday, 3 September 2011
Friday, 2 September 2011
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Monday, 29 August 2011
Sunday, 28 August 2011
Lost Cause
The value of a college education
is not the learning of many facts
but the training of the mind to think.
— Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein
Saturday, 27 August 2011
The Nurture Of Nature
Intelligence is inherited to the same extent that stupidity is.
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T-Shirt Slogans
Friday, 26 August 2011
The Emotional Subtext Of Music
Anything too silly to be said can be sung.
— George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, act II
— George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, act II
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Kenneth Clark
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
One More Mystery Explained

I wonder where that fish has gone?
You did love it so,
you treated it like a son.
And it went... where-ever I... did go.
Is it in the cupboard?
Wouldn't you like to know!
It is a most elusive fish.
That went where-ever I did go.
Oh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
A fish, a fish, a fishy OOOOH!
Oh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
That went wherever I... did go!
— Monty Python 'The Meaning Of Life'
Labels:
Absurdism,
Cinema,
Michæl Leunig,
Monty Python,
Painting,
Poems,
Riddles
Monday, 22 August 2011
Absurd, Farcical & Tragic
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.
— Peter Greenaway
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Peter Greenaway
Sunday, 21 August 2011
Saturday, 20 August 2011
Friday, 19 August 2011
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Parthian Shot
Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua.
[The only good language is a dead language.]
Labels:
Self-Reference,
T-Shirt Slogans
Wednesday, 17 August 2011
US
No one likes us — I don't know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around, even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens
We give them money — but are they grateful?
No, they're spiteful and they're hateful
They don't respect us — so let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them
Asia's crowded and Europe's too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada's too cold
And South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one left to blame us
We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin', too
Boom goes London and boom Paris
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We'll set everybody free
You'll wear a Japanese kimono babe
And there'll be Italian shoes for me
They all hate us anyhow
So let's drop the big one now
Let's drop the big one now
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around, even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens
We give them money — but are they grateful?
No, they're spiteful and they're hateful
They don't respect us — so let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them
Asia's crowded and Europe's too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada's too cold
And South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one left to blame us
We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin', too
Boom goes London and boom Paris
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We'll set everybody free
You'll wear a Japanese kimono babe
And there'll be Italian shoes for me
They all hate us anyhow
So let's drop the big one now
Let's drop the big one now
— Randy Newman 'Political Science'
Labels:
Lyrics
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Monday, 15 August 2011
Sunday, 14 August 2011
Saturday, 13 August 2011
Being & Having
I am dead if I lack desire
I lack desire because
I think I possess
I think I possess because
I do not try to give
Trying to give,
You see that you have nothing
Seeing you have nothing,
You try to give of yourself
Trying to give of yourself,
You see you are nothing
Seeing you are nothing,
You desire to become
In desiring to become,
You begin...to live
I lack desire because
I think I possess
I think I possess because
I do not try to give
Trying to give,
You see that you have nothing
Seeing you have nothing,
You try to give of yourself
Trying to give of yourself,
You see you are nothing
Seeing you are nothing,
You desire to become
In desiring to become,
You begin...to live
— Doug Anderson
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Doug Anderson,
Poems
Friday, 12 August 2011
When In Ancient Rome, Do As The Ancient Romans Do
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.
[In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags.]
[In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags.]
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T-Shirt Slogans
Thursday, 11 August 2011
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Sunday, 7 August 2011
Friday, 5 August 2011
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
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