A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. – Leo Tolstoy
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Month: January 2016
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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. – Carter Burwell
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow. – Vladimir Nabokov
by Kenneth Patchen
As we are so wonderfully done with each other
We can walk into our separate sleep
On floors of music where the milkwhite cloak of childhood lies
O my lady, my fairest dear, my sweetest, loveliest one
Your lips have splashed my dull house with the speech of flowers
My hands are hallowed where they touched over your
soft curving.
It is good to be weary from that brilliant work
It is being God to feel your breathing under me
A waterglass on the bureau fills with morning . . .
Don’t let anyone in to wake us.
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.- Edvard Munch
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Watched A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. You’ll often hear it billed as an “Iranian”movie, but it’s not really. Amirpour is an Iranian-American, which is not the same thing. The movie is in Farsi, and the setting does look like it could be Iran, but it’s really California.
It’s a good movie. A good vampire movie. Not much of a plot, and in places doesn’t make a lot of sense. It does have a really great sense of poetic style, really reminiscence of the early Jarmusch films, but without the humor. Amirpour says she’s not a Jarmusch fan, which is very odd. Her movie suggests she is.
Food Equivalency: Kabob at a nice place
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. – W. H. Auden
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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? – Chuck Palahniuk
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One Paragraph Movie Review – Martian
Very predictable, but mildly entertaining. Many better ways to spend your time, but if you’re really tired or something, you could do worse.
Food equivalency: McDonald’s Fish Fillet
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John Adams – David McCullough
I’ve read several of McCullough’s books – The Great Bridge, Truman, Johnstown Flood. Always enjoyed them. I’ve been struggling a bit with this one. I don’t think it’s the book, I think I’m just tired of the subject. I just finished a biography of George Mason and another of George Washington, so the information is getting repetitive.
Few tidbits about the book……
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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. – Ann Frank
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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? – Logan P. Smith
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Courage can’t see around corners but goes around them anyway. – Mignon McLaughlin
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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. – Martin Luther King
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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. – Satchel Paige