Sunday
Alfred Nobel patents dynamite (November 25, 1867
[Johnny saw some dynamite
Couldn't understand it quite
But curiosity never pays
It rained Johnny for seven days.]
{Alfred Nobel patents dynamite (November 25, 1867)}
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Saturday
The Origin of Species ~~Charles Darwin
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| Charles Darwin as a young man, probably subsequent to the Galápagos visit (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The Origin of Species
~~Charles Darwin
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Thursday
Full List | All-TIME 100 Novels | TIME.com
Full List | All-TIME 100 Novels | TIME.com:
"All-TIME 100 Novels
Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME."
"All-TIME 100 Novels
Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME."
THANKSGIVING PRAYER by WILLIAM BURROUGHS
WILLIAM BURROUGHS’ THANKSGIVING PRAYER
Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts.
Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.
Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.
Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.
Thanks for the KKK.
For nigger-killin’ lawmen, feelin’ their notches.
For decent church-goin’ women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.
Thanks for “Kill a Queer for Christ” stickers.
Thanks for laboratory AIDS.
Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs.
Thanks for a country where nobody’s allowed to mind the own business.
Thanks for a nation of finks.
Yes, thanks for all the memories—all right let’s see your arms!
You always were a headache and you always were a bore.
Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.
Saturday
Mad magazine turns 60; still crazy after all these years - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
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| mad_magazine_dec_1957 (Photo credit: Douglas Coulter) |
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| The first issue of Mad. Art by Harvey Kurtzman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| Alfred E. Neuman (Photo credit: Thomas Hawk) |
"Mad continues on despite the fact that there’s a lot more satire and cultural criticism out there today (called the Internet). Happy birthday, Alfred E. Neumann, we never forgot the life lesson you taught us: What? Me worry?"
Sunday
DIANA KRALL LYRICS - Cry Me A River
DIANA KRALL LYRICS - Cry Me A River:
"Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you"
"Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you"
Phantom Noise by Brian Turner
Phantom Noise
by Brian Turner
There is this ringing hum this
bullet-borne language ringing
shell-fall and static this late-night
ringing of threadwork and carpet ringing
hiss and steam this wing-beat
of rotors and tanks broken
bodies ringing in steel humming these
voices of dust these years ringing
rifles in Babylon rifles in Sumer
ringing these children their gravestones
and candy their limbs gone missing their
static-borne television their ringing
this eardrum this rifled symphonic this
ringing of midnight in gunpowder and oil this
brake pad gone useless this muzzle-flash singing this
threading of bullets in muscle and bone this ringing
hum this ringing hum this
ringing
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Thursday
The Blue Moon Review
The Blue Moon Review: "THE NEWS FROM MARS
" . . . the diaspora of human civilization is bound to go on
and out, as it always has done in the process of setting new
frontiers."
--Gerald K. O'Neill"
" . . . the diaspora of human civilization is bound to go on
and out, as it always has done in the process of setting new
frontiers."
--Gerald K. O'Neill"
Wednesday
Monday
Quotes About Politics (1460 quotes)
Quotes About Politics (1460 quotes):
"“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”
― David Foster Wallace, Up, Simba!"
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"“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”
― David Foster Wallace, Up, Simba!"
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| Evey Hammond (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Evey Hammond: [voiceover] Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot...
But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like?
We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them...
but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it...
ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love...
And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man...
A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget.
~~from Alan Moore's V for Vendetta
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Athanasius, Underground | The Public Domain Review
Athanasius, Underground | The Public Domain Review:
"ATHANASIUS, UNDERGROUND
With his enormous range of scholarly pursuits the 17th century polymath Athanasius Kircher has been hailed as the last Renaissance man and “the master of hundred arts”. John Glassie looks at one of Kircher’s great masterworks Mundus Subterraneus and how it was inspired by a subterranean adventure Kircher himself made into the bowl of Vesuvius."
"ATHANASIUS, UNDERGROUND
With his enormous range of scholarly pursuits the 17th century polymath Athanasius Kircher has been hailed as the last Renaissance man and “the master of hundred arts”. John Glassie looks at one of Kircher’s great masterworks Mundus Subterraneus and how it was inspired by a subterranean adventure Kircher himself made into the bowl of Vesuvius."
Sunday
Written Inc.
Written Inc.:
""There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
Kurt Vonnegut "
""There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
Kurt Vonnegut "
Thursday
National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month: "What is NaNoWriMo?
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing on November 1. The goal is to write a 50,000 word, (approximately 175 page) novel by 11:59:59, November 30."
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing on November 1. The goal is to write a 50,000 word, (approximately 175 page) novel by 11:59:59, November 30."
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