Still here?

I havn’t posted for a while. I have been getting myself in to other trouble.
I am not over posting but it seemed like everyone was blogging so I thought I would give the world a break from my thoughts.
Meanwhile back at the GFC, a lot of my friends are starting to struggle. One has just [...]

Here’s one for an interesting google search

If you like surfing up oddities then here is one.
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The Pilo Family Circus Review From Shelf Monkey Blogkey

The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliot – review

The Pilo Family Circus
by Will Elliott
Underland Press, 2009

Who here hates clowns? Raise your hand if you find their frantic capering less hilarious and more creepy, their makeup less laugh-inducing and more terrifying. And what’s with that car, endlessly vomiting forth all manner of the greasepaint monkeys?

Not for [...]

Insanity

Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.
Thanks Mark

Beyond the war hero

Beyond the war hero
Bernard-Henri Levy embarks on an adventure of anti-Nazi dialectics. First stop: Tom Cruise

The release of “Operation Valkyrie” first in the Unites States and Germany and now in France is without question a good thing. Because it’s always a pleasure to see the world honour its heroes. Riveting as it is however, this [...]

The black marketeers of Bahnhof Zoo

The black marketeers of Bahnhof Zoo
Karl Schlögel looks at the molecular movements that brought down the Berlin Wall.

Looking at “historical moments” renders everything else invisible. The brilliant light radiating from such moments blinds or at least desensitises us to other things that may have happened. One need only look in the newspapers from 1988 and [...]

Zizek, The Symbolic Order

Zizek, The Symbolic Order
dtomolson Mar 28, 2009 6:40 AM
The Symbolic Order is the realm of language, signs, culture, and law. It includes official institutions such as schools, political parties, and Churches; as well as quasi-official institutions like codified and non-codified social norms, i.e. handshakes, winks etc. The Symbolic Order is a chain of signs that is [...]

Get Well Soon

To my friend Jillybean, get well soon!
I am sure that leon misses you.
Bummer about the Chaplain actually doing what they do.

Let me ride on the Wall Of Death

Wall Of Death
Written by Richard Thompson
Let me ride on the Wall Of Death one more time
Let me ride on the Wall Of Death one more time
You can waste your time on the other rides
This is the nearest to being alive
Oh let me take my chances on the Wall Of Death
You can go with the crazy [...]

Here’s a thought

Since the start of my blog page there has been a small but dedicated group of  follower. I was thinking for a collective name rather than use a term like “dear reader” I was thinking a name like Hupomaniacs may be appropriate.
What do you think…. Be Nice

Thought for the day

“To be is to do”–Socrates.
“To do is to be”–Jean-Paul Sartre.
“Do be do be do”–Frank Sinatra.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Laughter and tears are both responses [...]

Love this Photo

My Favorite Rhyme

As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today.
I wish, I wish he’d stay away. 
by Hughes Mearns (1875 – 1965)

Thought for the Day

If pigs can fly then why can’t I?

Thought for today

Plus on apprend a connaître l’homme, plus on apprend a estimer le chien.
Joussenel