"I'd love to remind all you Tesla drivers that I warned you 17 years ago that no good would come of your buying choice, but you didn't listen."
Jeremy Clarkson, professional gobshite.
gold in your eye by Charles Bukowski
I got into my BMW and drove down to my bank to pick up my American Express Gold Card.
told the girl at the desk what I
wanted.
you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she
said.
yes, you want some
I.d.?”
oh no, we know you...”
I slipped the card into my wallet
went back to the parking lot
got into the BMW (paid for, straight
cash)
and decided to drive down to the liquor store
for a case of fine
wine.
on the way, I further decided to write a poem
about the whole thing: the BMW, the bank, the
Gold Card
just to piss off the
critics
the writers
the readers
who much preferred the old poems about me
sleeping on park benches while
freezing and dying of cheap wine and
malnutrition.
this poem is for those who think that
a man can only be a creative
genius
at the very
edge
even though they never had the
guts to
try it.
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
Zora Neale Hurston, I think
Asked "How does it feel to be the best guitar player?" Jimi Hendricks replied, "Ask Roy Clark."
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
~Doug Larson
“The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not the man who holds such-and-such views but the man who has sound reasons for what he believes and yet does not believe it dogmatically. And opinions held for sound reasons have less emotional unity than the opinions of dogmatists because reason is non-party, favouring now one side and now another.
That is what people find so unpleasant about it.”
— Bertrand Russell,
"You can't strike a match on butter."
Leon Trotsky.
"There are days when I am haunted by a feeling that is blacker than the blackest melancholy. I have a contempt for humanity. I despise the people I have been fated to call my
contemporaries. I feel suffocated by their filthy breath."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." — Harper Lee
I'm not going to work for peace anymore. There isn't going to be any peace.
Bob Dylan
“At 30, I used to exercise to look good. At the age of 50 to be fit At 70 not to be padded in a bed. At 80 to be able to live without assistance. Now at 99 I do it out of pure defiance. ”
Dick Van Dyke
"And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness." --Mahmoud Darwish
“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.”
~Salman Rushdie
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
Carl Jung
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
"It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out."
--Neem Karoli Baba
“We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution — real girls’ talk.”
Nina Simone died on this day in 2003. A celebrated musician, prominent civil rights activist, and radical, Simone brought revolutionary praxis to her music.
Under the influence of great fear, almost everybody becomes superstitious.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity towards those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Fear generates impulses of cruelty, and therefore promotes such superstitious beliefs as seem to justify cruelty.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
~Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
