Cool... I've heard Barry mention the band, but never heard this much about it before. Must pass this on to Mr.P, who will be interested, too. Thanks.
Sure thing...excuse me while I dress my wounds...it's been a bloody day at the A2K corral.
With the parrot, y'mean, or have you ventured into politics this morning? My sympathies, if so. I must admit, I'm enjoying my new reputation as a mean bitch.
It's so much more interesting than that sweet library lady (and likely more accurate).
Yeah, you busted through the saloon doors with both Colts blazing. Mr P's gonna have his hands full tonight.
Well, my "mean" posts were a couple of days ago, so he's been busy all weekend.
As somebody once said, "Up with this sh!t I will not put." And as one of my kids said, "Don't make me use my words on you."
"To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail."
Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
<Hi Olga... Ugly Pants Night sounds hilarious.>
<Nice description of Dubya>
"The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
<Thanks... and they say that Freud is out-of-date.>
"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943)
Ha! Common mistake. Extremely appropriate quote for the interesting times we live in!
I love that quote. And the name, Stephen Vincent Benet, is another reminder of how I, when, 18 ?, thought of all sorts of people as long dead, dead as doornails. It has taken me decades to get a grip to understand how much like me and us people were in, say, 1906, or 1833, or 1630, or earlier.
And now composers and writers of all sorts that I thought of as long gone, weren't.... long gone. "Long" changes.....
<eyup -- thanks Olga -- v.true words, Osso>
"War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement."
- James Madison (1751-1836)
"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"I have studied the dreams of 300 Palestinian children from ages 10-12 and I would say that 15 percent of them dream of being suicide bombers."
Shafiq Masalha, clinical psychologist at Tel Aviv University
