The great Jazz guitarist Jim Hall to one of his students:
"Don't just do something, stand there!"
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
I just came in from listening to the night. Now I'm ready to dream. Goodnight all.
Nice, thanks you two.
"Listening to the night." <beautiful>
Having seen Ray three times in the last three days, Panz, I have a new appreciation for those fellas who just stand there.
For today:
"I still have folders of hate mail from third-graders." - Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, commenting on public reaction to the museum's decision to withdraw Pluto from the planetary exhibit.
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it."
-- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Wow. That's a real think-maker.
<Mr.P tries to either make you think or make you laugh.>
"The Constitution is not what the Supreme Court says it is."
- Phyllis Schlafly (1924- ), urging the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy at a rally organized by the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration.
I saw that in an article posted in a Politics thread and just about laughed out loud.
She needs to go back in the kitchen, I think. Glad you laughed.
"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later."
Mitch Hedberg (1968-2005)
A funny man is gone....
From Mr "Deadpan"
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Steven Wright
snicker... he's so funny...
I'd love to go to one of his shows.
"No man in this land suffers from poverty unless it be more than his fault - unless it be his sin."
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
(Ed. note: ...probably from his kickoff speech for the 'Just Say No to Poverty' campaign.)
Sounds like a mean, grumpy, out of touch old man to me, Piffka!
Even if this was said a long time ago!
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
Funny how many Puritans there still are in this country. Good thing I stay away as I don't like to swear at people who don't appreciate a good swear word.
Diane wrote:Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
I LOVE that, Diane!
Wouldn't it be just terrible for these grim folk if there was a happiness epidemic!
msolga wrote:Sounds like a mean, grumpy, out of touch old man to me, Piffka!
Even if this was said a long time ago!
Exactly right, Olga. Mr.P doesn't agree with this... he thinks it is the fundamental attitude of this administration.
I like Diane's quote, too. Mencken is the man.
"Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy."
- Black Elk (1863-1950), describing the vision he experienced when he was nine years old, in which he was transported to what is now Harney Peak in the Black Hills of Dakota.
Piffka, that, to me, is religion in its most positive form.
Thank you for Black Elk, he will be with me today in the garden.
Mr.P is sitting here so I read that out, Diane. He chuckled & said, "Good, me too."
